"Thank you folks give my assistant and I a few minutes of a break!" Shimo gave another bow spun around on one foot and told his 'assistant' "I am Shimo Rai." Looking at the sun dropping he packed up all the juggling equipment he came with in a piece of burlap but left the torches and pikes out. "So what's your name?" Shimo asked the assistant.


(OOC: sorry it's so short but don't have much to go off of ATM :P))

"The name's Heero Kuroka. Im kind of new here too, I was just looking around. How bout you? All of a sudden the youth was full of energy. He looked around and scratched his head. "I wonder what they have to eat around here." he thought as his stomach growled.

Kantaro was walking around the market, looking for some cheap armor in case he found a more dangerous mission in the future, and noticed a fairly large crowd. Drawing closer, he found his cousin and another unfamiliar ninja doing some kind of street act. Curious, the sand ninja settled into the crowd to watch the performance.

Shimo thought a bit and pointed one direction "There's a good little barbecue place over that way." He pointed another direction "There is a noodle shop over there." He pointed a third direction "and over there is a fruit stand." Pausing a moment Shimo pulled out a few ryo out of his can and handed it to Heero "While you're getting some food find some for me too."

With the evening settling in Shimo picked up some fire poi and lit them on fire giving them an easy twirl forwards and backwards back and forth in a lazy x-pattern. Nothing to vigorous or complex for now just performing as people passed. "Hey there Kantaro how ya doin?" Shimo asked wwhen he spotted his cousin before whirling one poi one way and and other the opposite direction.

Kantaro approached his cosin and fell into step beside him. "Oh, pretty well. Just looking around at the market." He paused to buy some roasted nuts from a street vendor and offered some to his older cousin. "Nice show there. I'll bet a lot of that comes in useful during fighting, eh?"

Rikuto was simply walking around the market in an attempt to stop his boredom. He had his eyes focused on the ground and only on occasion did he look up. Eventually, he heard a loud murmur from a distance. Being a combination of curious and bored, he decided to go off and see what was happening. As he rounded the corner, he could see a fair amount of people crowded about and watching what seemed to be a street act. He heard a familiar voice and went up to join the crowd. Pushing past a few people, he could see that it was Shimo in the middle with another person. He grinned slightly when he found out who it was.

There was no hesitation, as soon as Heero heard the word "barbecue" his mouth started to water. He disappeared quickly following his noes to his favorite food. " I wonder who that guy with him is? " He thought for a spit second. Sure enough though his stomach growled and reminded him of more important things, like food for instance. "better hurry!" e thought as he got in line for the food. About five minutes later the food was already and he went to join the other two. He was almost there when his stomach made a more forceful demand, enough to be heard. He stopped right in the middle of the street and opened his part of the food order. After he had had a few bites then he continued to the rest of them.

The flaming poi (basically a ball of fire on a chain) circled around Shimo's body giving a nice steady woosh sound. Cantering his head left then right he replied to Kantaro "I do use some juggling in my style." Another swish of the poi and they began to crisscross in front of him in a nice easy circle "Just not this one here." Shimo grinned and started making one ball of fire follow the other as they arched in a figure eight across his body.

Looking at Heero speed off so quickly Shimo wondered if he heard any thing about getting more food.


Grabbing both poi in one of his hands Shimo swung them in on hand and waved at Riku, "Hey buddy how's that ocarina playing coming along?" He asked just keeping an easy rhythm keeping the chains taut in a nice show that people can just pas by and enjoy.

Kantaro glanced at the two who were approaching his cousin. "Are these friends of yours?" He asked curiously. One of them looked vaguely familiar, but he didn't really recognize either one. But if they were friends, or perhaps team mates, of his cousin, he was willing to meet them.

Heero returned, already a mouth full of food when he got there. He had not noticed the other person much there but was so concentrated on his feeding frenzy he said nothing. He swallowed his food then looked up, food sauce was all over his face and it looked right comical. He got a towel out of the bag and wiped his face off then cocking his head to one side. "Ummm..I ..umm hi." he managed to get out, his previous shyness back in full swing with meeting the new person. He quickly handed the rest of the food to Shimo. "I um..gotta go.." he said looking nervous.