One Last, Real Bath [Day 6, Early Morning, Open]

[Ichiro Yakusoku]

The Badger shrugs. "We'll get the details eventually. Could all just be a misunderstandin' I 'spose. Though if ya ask me, if it is the Maha-Laka or whatever in Jigoku they call'em deserves a swift kick to his nether regions."

[Bayushi Nobuyoshi]

Nobuyoshi shrugs.

"Perhaps Ichiro-san, but it may be difficult to discipline a child when he has an army behind him." Nobuyoshi offers. "Though I can certainly imagine you trying. Perhaps things will calm down in the next few days, but I won't plan on it."

[Ichiro Yakusoku]

"Ain't my place to do it. Let one of his advisors take'em behind the woodshed... or whatever they have instead of woodsheds 'round 'ere," she too offers a slight shrug. "Nah, I don' see it calmin' down either. If anythin', its bound to get crazier. Kinda surprised the damn place ain't already on fire, the way some people keep talkin'."

[Bayushi Nobuyoshi]

Nobuyoshi shrugs.

"Still, I doubt we'll be leaving soon." he offers, non-committed.

[Togashi Kazuma]

"Where the sparrow nests, there will be the eggs." I say, enjoying the heat. It's something my sensei used to say. Perhaps it has use in this situation, perhaps not. Still, he words are oddly comforting to me. I hope the Scorpion is wrong. I don't want to be here anymore. I already feel the ocean calling me.

[Bayushi Nobuyoshi]

The masked Scorpion takes a long look at the Togashi.

"Are you the sparrow, or the one hunting eggs, Togashi-san?" he asks, without further explanation.

[Togashi Kazuma]

"I've always been fond of eggs, Bayushi-san." I say with a small smile. Sometimes before the strike, even the hunter can become the hunted. It's always good to keep a second eye out, even at the end." I'm actually enjoying this, even without training. Perhaps it is nice to relax in a bath sometimes, usually I just wash and have done with it. I don't remember the last time I just soaked.

[Bayushi Nobuyoshi]

Nobuyoshi looks over to the Togashi, considering his features, at least those above water.

"Sometimes, Togashi-san." Nobuyoshi offers. "Sometimes they simply distract you from what is before you."

[Ichiro Yakusoku]

Yakusoku listens to the exchange between the Scorpion and Dragon, leaning her head back and closing her eyes. She'd never been much for all that philosophical crap and this was no different. If not for her mind lingering on the offense the barbarians had offered earlier in the morning, she knew this exchange would put her to sleep. Well, it plus the warm, comfortable water anyway.