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And now for something completely different…
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Why did treaties always have to include marrying two poor saps who wanted nothing to do with each other?
Why did treaties always have to ruin the lives of people who wanted nothing to do with the stupid things?
How had this happened to him?
Why, Kami, did it have to be him?
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"You are aware that I detest your guts to hellfire and back, correct?" asked the young woman, who sat on an enormous black stallion, who snorted, as though affirming the snarled words. Her father, a man in his mid forties, leaned heavily on the wooden fence a few feet away from her, his head itching to fall comically into his hands. Sighing, he looked up, his brown eyes, which matched his hair, meeting the black glass of his daughter's sunglasses.
"It's the best we can do, Kazumi." He said plaintively. His daughter was a strong willed and fierce tempered young woman, prone to stubbornness, and his wife had been the ONLY one who had been able to talk any sense into the girl. Now, he was praying to ANY god that was listening that she didn't blow the whole treaty up in their faces, especially after all of the trouble they had gone through to get this far.
The girl snorted, in strange imitation of the horse, then turned the temperamental creature and clicked her tongue, urging him into a trot. The great black wolf that had been lying in the grass beside it rose to her feet, loping lazily after them, even as, with a shriek, an enormous blue-grey peregrine, easily the size of an eagle, rose from a nearby tree and joined the small group.
Shin Kawada sighed in exasperation, watching as his daughter and her strange guardians disappeared from view.
He didn't seem to notice the black butterfly perched gracefully on his shoulder.
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"Excuse me?" Shino stared at his father, even though it really wasn't obvious, given that both of them wear wearing dark glasses, but the tone of his voice was enough to show his disbelieving anger.
His father rolled his eyes behind his own sunglasses, glad, for the first time, that they were there, though they made reading his son slightly on the difficult side. However, he knew Shino enough to tell when he was mad. And boy, was he mad. Not just mad, fuming, if the look he might not be giving his father behind his glasses was any indication.
He sighed.
This was not going well.
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"It's bad enough that I'm being married to some loser from Leaf, but you want to take the WHOLE FREAKING FAMILY ALONG FOR THE WEDDING???!!!!!" Kazumi shrieked, towering over her father's much shorter and smaller form in her indignant anger. Shin was trying his best not to cower, but was failing miserably at the withering look his daughter was boring through his head.
"Now, Kazu, lets be reasonable…" he began, trying to placate her, but she wouldn't hear it. Instead, the slamming of her bedroom door reverberated throughout the house for several moments before Shin realized that his daughter had just removed herself from his presence.
He sighed, slumping into a chair, head in hands. His sister, a slim woman, with several smaller kids of her own, all of which were in bed already, came to stand beside him, a soothing hand on his shoulder.
"What do I do now?" he asked, raising hopeless eyes to the younger woman.
She smiled wryly.
"What else is there to do?" she asked.
"Leave as soon as possible." He said.
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Shino was sulking. For the first time in his relatively short life, he was actually sulking. Hinata stared at his father as he explained why her and Kiba's teammate was currently locked in his room, bugs buzzing around the door angrily whenever anyone came near.
"Wait, who is he being married to, again?" Kiba asked, sipping the tea that they had been offered, Akamaru slurping water from a nearby bowl. Shino's dad shook his head in exasperation.
"She's a young noblewoman from hiding in Grass. Their marriage will seal the treaty that Konoha just signed with her country, as the treaty itself is slightly on the shaky side. Anyway, I had hoped that Shino wouldn't take this too hard, but, well, you've seen for yourself how well it went down with him." He finished, shrugging in dejected hopelessness.
"When is she coming?" asked Hinata.
"Within the month." Said Shino's father, raising his head to look at the Hyuuga heir.
"They are to be wed by May."
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The caravan was of considerable size, considering that there was only one family traveling within it. However, as every aunt, uncle, and cousin had been invited to the Head Family's eldest child's wedding, there were at least twelve horse drawn wagons making their way over the border of the land of fire.
However, the most elaborate carriage, which was situated towards the front of the procession, was empty. It's supposed occupant, said Head Family's eldest child, was several hundred feet off the trail, ahead of the caravan, her dark glasses flashing in the scarce patches of light filtering in through the forest trees. The great black wolf still padded beside her, the eagle sized peregrine falcon perched easily on her shoulder, even as the black stallion beneath her plodded along almost silently over the fallen leaves.
She turned to catch a glimpse of the caravan through the trees, making its slow way down the forest path. She sighed.
"You two can go hunt, I'll be fine with Jet." She said. The peregrine blinked her bright yellow rimmed eyes, then took flight with a loud screech. The wolf tilted her head up towards the girl, then also disappeared, melting into the dappled forest underbrush as easily as a ghost.
Kazumi Kawada growled in low frustration as she looked back at the caravan again. Her father could be a real pain in the ass.
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