43 Exploring the Festival (1/2)

As I walk out I take a look at my hand and see that it is almost fully healed, and just in case I go and take a look at all of my clothes to see if there is any blood on me, since this is my last button up I would rather not get it dirty, especially with blood which is hard to get out of something once it stains. After seeing that everything is okay I pat myself down to put the whole event with Esdeath behind me and try to focus on having fun.

I walk out to the front of the group, ”Okay, I'll still give you guys some money to spend on stuff that you want for yourselves, but since we're going as a group now, if you run out of money let me know and I'll see about buying it for you. Try not to get too out of hand, I may have a lot of money but it isn't infinite.” Everyone nods, so I clap my hands, ”Good, so where to first? I know a stand that has some sweets that we can all go try out~!”

Hearing the word sweets I can see Darkness's eyes light up, that's right, she's the girliest girl here right now, so sweets probably enticed her a lot. I mean I can tell Tsunade want's some too, but she's hiding it well. Olivier... I can't tell anything with her, I mean there's a reason I got fucking stabbed. I won't put it against her though, Esdeath however, I will. At least until I change her personality. Because fuck you Esdeath.

Ezio seems indifferent about it, so I take the group of Tsunade, Ezio, Darkness, and Olivier along with me to where the Orphans had set their booth up at. Along the way there were a lot more booths than I though there were, some street games were there that I hadn't seen before, it was something where, with a kunai supplied to you, you had to hit a tiny leaf off a stick, sounds easy, but if you leave a single scratch then it doesn't count, it also has to be the whole leaf, stem included.

Each try was 5 ryo, so I gave it a few tries and was unsuccessful. I moved aside since throwing weapons weren't my strong suit, but almost immediately after I left, the man screamed, causing me to turn around and saw the leaf on the ground, a kunai in the board behind it, and Ezio scratching his beard and looking at the man fiercely, ”Shall I tell everyone your trick or shall you pay me the money?” The man quickly hands Ezio 200 ryo that he had earned, causing Ezio to nod, ”Grazie.”

When he caught up to me I looked at him, ”What was that about?”

He laughed and responded, ”That weapon was ridiculously off weight, I had been practicing with these, Kunai, as they are called, in my free time, and I noticed that the best ones that are consistently accurate have the same exact feeling to them. However I also trained myself with the defected ones so that no matter what I could be accurate with them. That is why I did so well.” What a diligent trainer! No wonder he was once the leader, or at least one of the leaders, of the assassins. Fucking legend. He even let the guy continue, newfound respect for him.

I laugh a bit and keep walking down the street, every so often we'll stop at a stand, one of the more interesting ones that we had stopped by was one that had some really beautiful jewelry on it. I went up and looked at them all and saw a gorgeous black ring with gold etched into it, it looked amazing and I wanted to ask the woman running the stall something, ”Excuse me, I was looking at the designs and was wondering if it would be able to request a design? At a later date of course since it would be hard to do it now given how busy it is.”

She blinks for a minute and thinks, ”Maybe, if you can stop by our shop in... 2 days time the smith that works on this for us should be in, he is currently taking time off since his daughter was just born a month ago.” I nod and thank her for her time, then go back to looking at the jewelry.

Should I get some for everyone? Well I would have to include Alucard and Ezio as well. Well if I get something stylish then I think it will be alright, let's think of their usual color schemes...

Darkness- Yellow and white with red highlights. Also some black.

Olivier- Blue, lots of it actually, with some white, yellow, and black. The yellow is since she's blonde.

Esdeath- Blue, white/grey, and black.

Ezio-Fuck his costume changes so much. Grey? Something silver? Fuck I'll just get him something that looks manly

Alucard- Red, but knowing him he'd say something so I'll get him an upside down cross made. That should get him a laugh.

Tsunade- Green, yellow. Some grey and black.

Wow, these guys are hard to shop for, I look around and see an emerald necklace that is perfect for Tsunade, so I go and hand it to the lady to keep a hold of. If you're wondering why I am doing this now, well I went and sent everyone to nearby stalls~ I've got plotting time to myself, heheh.

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While looking through the jewelry I saw a small and simple ring with a ruby in it and inset in a thin gold band, this seems perfect for Darkness so I add it to the pile. Hm, lets see. There are a couple Sapphire ones that I can choose from for Olivier, hm, I think that I'll go and get a necklace for her as well, it is one that actually was cut to look like a rose is on the surface of it, and I think it fits her pretty well actually.

For Ezio... I'll get him one of these plain black bands with some gold etched into it, and Alucard, well black goes with everything right? I'll get him one with some silver in it. Last but not least... Esdeath. If you think I won't get her one you're dead wrong. She will be fine once I fix that awful personality of hers, well hopefully I make it better. Hm, there is this simple Sapphire ring with a black band around it. Yeah that will be good for her, since I shouldn't spend too much on her, she is on punishment after all.

I hand the last of the items over to the lady who's eyes light up after seeing how much it is that I'm buying, after thinking and adding everything up for about 5 minutes she goes and tells me the price, so I pay about 10k Ryo, I let her keep the change since honestly, I don't want to make her go and count even more. It was enough of a pain.

I smile as I turn around and put everything into my storage to surprise everyone with later. I go to everyone and grab them, Ezio was flirting with some older, or rather, mature women, when I found him, Darkness was going to a dunk tank for what I can only assume to be to volunteer instead of try to throw a kunai, Tsunade was talking with Olivier as they both held bags in their arms. I asked them if they wanted to to carry them, and I only got permission after I promised not to look inside, that just makes me more curious you know right?

We kept going about like this until it got to be about 11:40 or so and we all started feeling hungry, so I decided to treat everyone to something before we went and got desert. I let everyone have a vote, and all of the bastards agreed on ramen. Are they college students? I mean I remember the feeling, but uh, you know other foods exist right? My words fell on deaf ears as every single person here wanted ramen, specifically Ichiraku ramen.

I sighed and we walked around for about 10 minutes to where their stall was only to see it empty, when I walked past the flaps I saw teiuchi there cleaning a bowl so I asked him if he was open, when I asked him what was wrong he just told me everyone is busy with the festival. Everyone sat down at the counter and started naming off what they wanted, I decided to go and get the usual since well, everything else sounds odd. Like who puts some butter in ramen? It sounds so odd.

After about 15 minutes he served us our ramen since some people started getting there about 5 minutes after we did, making him slow down a good bit. Everyone seemed hungry and finished it within 10 minutes of getting it, I however was slow going apparently, and just decided to chug it down. As I was dying I passed him a few hundred Ryu since I knew he was still growing his business, and before he could go and deny it I walked off and smiled, waving at him.