Pleading Eyes

A Shinobi Village You Say?

Percy scratched his check nervously as he looked at Shusuke, "Percy Jackson. Butsuma also didn't warn me about this meeting till just moments again, sorry if my presence bothers you. Do you want me to leave?"

Shusuke shook his head slowly, all the while keeping his sharp eyes trained on Percy, "No, it's fine. Quite troublesome, but fine."

Butsuma smiled as he watched the two men converse amongst themselves quietly as they walked towards the large building in front of them.

If only his sons could forget about him this easily instead of yapping his old ears off.

Shusuke continued asking casual questions as he watched each and every one of Percy's reactions, the man having captured his attention after Shusuke had felt the tremendous and quite terrifying power the man was unconsciously excluding from miles away as it was.

And when he had felt Butsuma's embarrassingly small chakra signiture compared to the monstrous power his companion was emitting, he had all but felt his heart skip a beat as he hurried to meet both males.

He had been expecting the worse, never would he have imagined that a young but scarred male was walking peacefully alongside Butsuma as the latter caught sight of him and smiled in greeting.

Not once did the man open his eyes and yet he had tensed the closer Shusuke had come, he must have extraordinary sensing abilities if he had felt him from that far.

After all Shusuke had been but a tiny dot in the distance when Butsuma had saw him, war trained eyes catching sight of him immediately.

He was wary of the man and yet the longer he spent in his presence, he felt himself slowly relaxing and he knew instantly that the man beside him was dangerous, impossibly dangerous.

If he could get two clan heads to be so relaxed around him so soon after having just met then this man would either be an irreplaceable asset to the shinobi village Butsuma and him had been talking about creating.

But if he turned out to be an enemy....

He'd be the end of them all.

Shusuke wished he'd never have to see the day where this young man became an enemy.

And yet Shusuke knew he wouldn't have to worry as he saw the man laugh at something he said, no sane enemy would laugh so freely, so genuinely in front of another possible enemy.

He wouldn't mind playing a game of shogi with this man.

"Looks like we're finally here...how troublesome."

Shusuke sighed tiredly as he grabbed a cigarette out of nowhere, lighting it with a bit of fire from his fingertip, it might not be his personal affinity but it was one of the few he had managed to master.

It was troublesome but worth it during battle.

As the trio of men walked into the large building two of the members had agreed to meet at, Percy stared in wonder at the architecture of the complex building, Annabeth would have liked to see this.

Instantly Percy's happy mood plummeted to Tartarus as his expression soured.

This is no time be thinking about ghosts.

He had to focus.

"Where are we?"

Shusuke frowned and looked at Butsuma for answers as he blew a large puff of smoke out from his mouth.

Butsuma ignored the urge to shrug as he stared back at the Nara, the was no way in hell he would admit that he had given the younger male no information as to where exactly they were meeting the Nara head.