This is a nice feeling.

Did he or did he not dig his own grave?

Izuna has kept his guard up all through the travel, he wasn't going to trust some Samurais so easily, honours or not, he doesn't want his situation to worsen and with his luck this past few weeks he doesn't want to take any chances. But so far nothing has happened, he has been waiting for the slip in their act of a bunch of goofballs, yet so far the only thing even remotely threatening to happen is when that guy who obviously seems to be the leader of the trio, trips onto something and the sound of something cracked can be heard.

"Shinpachi are you ok -aru?" The Kagura girl asked, concerned. 'Shinpachi...?' But then the 'real Shinpachi shouts from behind.

"The heck are you sprouting about, Kagura-chan! That's my specs! Not me!"

The two of them are now fighting over the thing called 'specs' or whatever it is. The only thing on his mind was that these people are really weird. Nonetheless, that was not what he was most weirded out about. It was the guy who tripped over. Izuna was so shocked that he stopped and angled his face in his general direction- when he was sure that it was that guy- open-mouthed since this was the man whose presence was on par with his Nii-sama, not to mention that he kinda reminded him of someone he did not want to remember and so if he did his very best to ignore the man then no one said anything about his odd behaviour. Not to mention he is blind.

He was getting exhausted and it frustrated him to no end. He was still too weak from his time as a prisoner, not to bring up the fact that he is heavily panting, and is sure, he was the reason the guy with the hilarious chakra has stopped and told them they will stop for the night. Even though he was met with weak protests from both his companions, Izuna's gut feelings told that it was more out of habit than anything else. Also, he doesn't know what he should be feeling about this, angry because he is still a capable Shinobi yet also thankful for their generosity?

He doesn't say anything, for the time being, too bone-weary from the short walk, just felt his way through both his hands and found himself a nice spot to settle down for the night. Nothing special, just a place beneath the tree, cause he's not confident enough that he would be able to climb the tree he is leaning against, and by the feel of it the tree is quite tall. He was just about to enter in slumber when he felt someone approach him, he stiffens, ready to try to leap on his feet, but was stopped by a soft,

"It's me Kagura -aru." He relaxed a bit but not by much, however, he was shocked when he felt something pressed against his palm, it was... Sukonbu and some wild fruits, by the smell and textures. He was speechless, like sure they had helped him escape the prison but this? Now he honestly doesn't know what to feel about them.

"Sorry, but we don't have anything else to offer." She said a bit sheepishly, Izuna snapped his head towards her or so he thinks, sorry? What was she apologizing to him?

"Why are you sorry?" And he knows that if his voice was not so hoarse and hurts every time he so much as open them, he would have a squeak. But she just goes on uninterrupted,

"I mean, we had money a couple of days ago but Gin-chan thought that it would be fun to lose all our this month's earnings on gambling -aru." The last part said with more heat in her words. Gin-chan must be the leader guy, but he has also heard Shinpachi-san call him Gin-san, accordingly his name must have a Gin in it. Well, at least now he got a name to associate him with, he can't just go around and think of him as 'the guy' or 'the guy with the hilarious chakra or the one he mentioned just now, instead what comes out of his mouth is,

"Are you telling me that you all came all the way from the Land of Iron to gamble?" He queried.

"Yup!" She voiced it as if it was normal and safe for people to come and go from country to country during this era, and that also for something as ludicrous as gambling. Izuna doesn't know what to say after that, he doesn't want to be rude to his rescuers, but at the same time, he doesn't want to be more than in speaking terms. Kagura-san must have seemed to notice his inner turmoils, and said,