Blinking several times, as if just now realizing what he was doing, the blond offered a shrug.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about how you look much nicer with your hair down," he replied honestly. His words caused another reaction in Toki, who felt herself feeling a bit flush again. It wasn't that he was complimenting her. Before she had put up the charade of pretending to be Sagi, men had complimented her all the time and it hadn't bothered her than.
No, the reason she was feeling flustered was because of how unassuming his tone was. It was like he wasn't actually complimenting her and just stating an honest opinion.
"W-Whatever," Toki huffed, turning her head to the side a bit in a poor attempt to hide her blush. Not that it was needed. Naruto didn't seem to be paying attention to it anyways. Shaking her head, she decided to try and finally get down to business and discover why the blond was here. "Now why don't you tell me why you're here, and be quick about it!"
"Alright, alright, yeesh," Naruto grumbled. "You need to learn to relax, Hime." When Toki just glared at him, the blond Uzumaki sighed. "The reason I'm here is because –"
Before Naruto could even begin to give out his explanation, which he felt was pretty damn important seeing how it could mean the difference between sending an innocent man to the gallows (so to speak) and letting him live, the shoji screen door was practically slammed off it's hinges as a soldier rushed into the room with little heed for the current situation.
"Sagi-Sama! I bring you urgent news! We just found – eh?"
The random soldier who had barged into the room looked between Toki, who thankfully had her hair hidden and now looked like her brother, Naruto, who was just looking confused, and the bed that looked like it had taken a heavy beating.
"S-Sagi-Sama!" The soldier squeaked, his voice ricing several decibels. His face was turning red too. Obviously, he had come to an entirely wrong conclusion about what was happening in his Daimyo's bed quarters. "I-I had no idea you were into that kind of thing!"
At the man's words, Toki found herself groaning. This was just what she needed, someone believing that she was gay and they had just interrupted her with her male lover. Why was this happening to her now? All she wanted to do was get revenge on the bastard who killed her father and brother. Was that too much to ask?
"Well," Naruto chuckled a bit. He sounded more amused by the whole situation than offended. Bastard. "This is kind of an awkward situation."
"Shut up," Toki snapped, before whirling on the hapless guard. "And you! This isn't what it looks like!"
"Ah... um... oh, of, of course," the man stuttered. He seemed to still be trying to come to grips with the fact that his Daimyo might be gay if he weren't actually a she in disguise. Not that he knew that. Hence the coming to grips part.
"You said you had important news," Naruto pressed, causing Toki to blink. That's right. He had come barging in saying he had urgent news.
"What did you want to tell me?" she asked, her voice sounding very much like her deceased brother's now that she was with someone who didn't know her true identity.
"Ah! That's right!" The man snapped back into focus as he was reminded of the urgent news he had to give his leader. He cast a suspicious glance over at the blond, who merely waved at him with a cheerful smile.
"You can trust him," Toki said, sighing a bit as she realized there likely wasn't much she could do to make him leave anyways. "This is the ninja from Konoha that was responsible for apprehending Chomei."
"Right," the guard still didn't seem sure of what to think, but at least was game enough to just ignore the awkward situation for now in favor of delivering that news he had considered urgent enough to barge into his Daimyo's bed quarters were. "We just found Chishima. He was washed up on the shore of the river and it looks like he was severely injured. He's being treated as we speak."
"What!?" Toki almost slipped out of her Sagi persona at the news. Her friend was injured? When? How? "Take me to him!"
"Of course, Sagi-Sama!" the guard snapped off a salute and began exiting the bed chamber. Toki moved to follow, only pausing when she saw Naruto come up along side of her.
"I'm coming too," Naruto said, his face surprisingly serious. "I have some information you're going to need to hear. I'm pretty sure I know who attacked Chishima."
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