Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-34754862-20170630233851/@comment-28929139-20170702031547

Kideme needed a moment to breathe. Everything had happened so fast yet at the same time seemed to drag on, and her heart was pounding like a kakko drum the whole time. She knew that she could very well die a most painful, unceremonious death in these exams in general, but to be eaten before she could even start? Add degrading and embarrassing to the description. But! She had survived what she suspected to be the first of many attacks she would experience in the next three days.



Drowning in the reeling void that was her mind, she was so completely lost in thought from putting up another ant to watch for them, she nearly jumped when Zaiko spoke. Reality came crashing back around her and she faced him with a half smile, the other half more pensive. “Ehehehe, I hope we don’t find either, but I am nervous…...but….Nothing really… but we are going to be adding a gambling den to the teahouse. It was Tiatsu’s idea but he’s paying for it. Otherwise, the usual.” Kideme had not seen Zaiko since their little adventure  and she did truthfully feel responsible for him getting hurt. They shouldn’t have ever gone to that house...but they did. Ever since then, Kideme has been hesitant to seek him out, since the few times she had, Luster had been there to turn her away. She’s tried apologizing many times and even offered to donate money to the family for the damages but nothing seemed to work. Luster was a very stern woman and though Kideme was absolutely certain the woman was having an affair with Daddy Zaiko, she acted like Zaiko’s mother in a way. That being said, Kideme was pretty certain that she was cut off for as long as Luster was in the picture.



“How have things been-HEY!” She yelped when Zaiko very shamelessly dug into the front of her top and she instinctively swatted his hand away while folding an arm over her chest. The necklace he gave her was certainly there though and she held the little pendant between her fingers while smiling at him. “I love it. It’s like having my first friend with me still.” It still touched her heart that Zaiko would do something so sweet for her, so when he brought up the Cain incident, her smile faded and she dropped her hand. “I know….but I’m sorry I couldn’t save you in time...” She looked up at him, suddenly feeling a bit nervous with him now standing so close. Kideme felt...weird, but saved by the exams, something caught Zaiko’s eye.



She moved to look ahead, reperforming her jutsu to see through the eyes of the ant again since she broke focus. With her naked eye and the second vision through the black ant, she couldn’t see that far ahead and looked back to Zaiko now. “What is it?