Hidan and I were in our new disguises, pleased with our progress. We had found where Jinji Homanaka's house was. It was a spacious estate that had built in training grounds. Apparently, that was where he tamed the beasts. When we got to his estate, there were three guards outside. We walked cautiously to them and I asked "May I see Master Jinji?"

The tallest one looked at me with a strange look. "Does Master Jinji know you are coming today?"

I shook my head. "I didn't know there had to be an appointment." The soldier was stoic. I looked at Hidan. He was glaring at the soldiers. "I think that if we came all this way, Akami breaking his wrist on the way, we should be allowed in and see Master Jinji! You will let us see him NOW!"

The tallest soldier fidgeted slightly. I don't think he liked being yelled at by a girl. One of the other soldiers spoke up, "You need an appointment in order to see Master Jinji. He is a very busy man and will not, I repeat, will not talk to random people that come in to learn to be a tamer."

I dragged Hidan away just as he was about to start yelling again. He pouted on the way back to the inn. His pout grew when I wouldn't let him go look at the weapon store. There was a giant scythe, much more attractive than his own, in the window. I was going to let him look, but when I saw the price, I decided it was best to steer clear of it.

When we got back to the inn, the sun was blazing overhead. We went into our room and sat down, remembering the inn we were at last time. This room was much more decorated than the last. There was a large painting on the wall of a scene with three girls running in kimonos, cranes flying overhead. Also, there was a beautiful pond filled to the brim with coy fish just outside our room.

"What are we gonna do now?" Hidan, back as himself, sat on a chair and crossed his arms. As I transformed back to myself, I said, "I dunno. I guess we could always make an appointment."

"Why don't we just break in during the night and kill them all? It would make everything a lot easier." I snorted, resulting in a Hidan on top of me. "What, you don't like my idea? You should know by now that I need my ritual to survive. I need blood in order to live forever!"

"Yeah, we all know." I started pushing him off, but stopped halfway. He gave me a confused look and I answered by bringing him into a hot, steamy, wet kiss. That kiss turned into a make-out session. I rolled over to be on top sometime during it.

Suddenly, I felt a hand grope me. I jumped up in surprise. Hidan gave me a look. So much for needing blood to survive. It looked more like he needs something much more hot.

I teased him a bit, feeling a hardness press against my thigh uncomfortably. This went on for another twenty minutes before I stood up, leaving a very excited Hidan on the ground. When he finally realized I had gotten up, his pouting began. "Why'd you get up? It's the perfect day to do it again!"

I gave him a look and then rolled my eyes. He grumbled before getting up and going into the bathroom. I knew exactly what he was doing. My thoughts were confirmed when a loud moan of relief came from it. Unless he was going number two, I think it was obvious what he had been doing. "Don't forget to clean it up!"

I transformed into Akami again before he could yell at me and went to find someway to schedule an appointment. I went all throughout the town, asking tons of people, but none of them seemed to know how. They had never been allowed to see him. This particular fact made the picture much more clear as to why Leader-sama would want to kill him.

Finally, just when I was about to give up, someone stopped me. He was probably in his eighty's, had a long cane, was hunched over like there was no tomorrow, and had crisp, long white hair. "Are you the one who wanted to see Jinji-sama?"

I nodded, and he let out a laugh. "I remember when I went to see him a few years ago about a boar on my land. Those guards of his wouldn't let me in to tell him about it. They claimed they would let him know about it, but I don't trust anyone except the person I need to talk to. I left and came back later. The guards were even more against me going in. I think they thought I was some sort of stalker or something."

"Anyway, I ended up going to the ninja council and telling them some funny business was going on in that place. They went to go talk to Jinji-sama. They came back not to much later and told me they were gonna start letting people in with appointments only. I guess it was an improvement, but at a large cost. A couple of days later, a ninja's body was found over by the lake over there," He pointed to the right to a rather large lake.

"The only way to make an appointment is to go to the council and write an official letter, signed by the whole council, about why you should be allowed in. Good luck with getting their signatures!" The old man laughed again before walking off. I shut my eyes for a second before opening them and leaving for the ninja council building.

This particular building only held around twenty ninja, all of whom were on the council. They dealt with the problems of this village and the surrounding three villages.

I went in and found the front desk. A middle aged women was sitting there, sorting through a large stack of papers. She didn't seem to happy. She looked up to see me and said, "Third floor for Yamama Hourinsa, second floor for council, bathrooms are down the left hallway."

She started with her paperwork again. When I didn't move, she looked up again and said, "What do you need? I'm kinda busy right now."

Her attitude did not impress me. "I need the paper to send a letter to Jinji Homanaka in order to see him."

She shut right up and opened her desk. She found the right picture after an extensive amount of rummaging. "You fill out the letter and then go to the ninja council room on the second floor. There's a room over there to fill it out, if you want to do it today. I wouldn't suggest putting on there that you want to learn about training beasts. He definitely won't see you. My husband tried to, but was turned down."

I felt my eyebrows go up slightly. "Is that so..." I went over to the room and sat down in a very comfortable couch. I grabbed a pen from the table and thought for a while. How was I supposed to try to get in there now?

About an hour went by before I finally finished the letter. I was satisfied by what I had put down. Now, all I needed to do was get the council to sign it.

I left the room and went to the second floor and looked around for the right room that had the council. When I found it, I eagerly went inside. I didn't understand why I was suddenly excited for something like this. It wasn't even that interesting.

The room was filled with twenty ninja. They all wore the standard jonin wear. The only one who was any different was the one in the middle. He had a bright bright headband on with a strange symbol on it. It almost looked like a tree, but it didn't at the same time.

"Have you come with a filled letter in order to see Jinji Homanaka?" the one in the middle said. I nodded and brought the letter to him. He read it over and then handed it to the next person. They all read it, each moment getting more and more tense. When the last one finally read it, the one with the headband looked directly at me. "Were you the one who saved the young girl a day or two ago?"

Once again, I nodded. He smiled. "Thank you for saving my daughter. We will all sign this letter. You will have the chance to potentially see Jinji Homanaka, the beast tamer."

So incredibly sorry for the very long wait! There are only gonna be two chapters left. I hope nobody will be upset about that. Unless you give me an amazing idea, there are only two more chapters. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed!