Menu for Yuki no Chaya (snow teahouse) is =

Oolong tea
Jasmine tea
Cinnamon tea
Tea with honey
Green tea
Black tea
Orange Spiced tea
Coffee
Hot chocolate (rare treat)
Cinnamon Orange Spiced tea
Ginger tea
Apple tea
Chammomile tea
Inspiration Tea (Peppermint & Rose Petals)
little tea biscuits

...and of course the sake..

*pausing immediately, the door collided into her back and sent her stumbling forward*...So she wasnt in trouble...for once...*worry shedding off her like feathers she eyed the woman silently before moving towards her* Sake fiend...*grumbling quietly she eyed the room for a waitress but found none. Picking up a few of the bottles with a sigh, she clutched the full bottle in her hand and eyed it carefully* You sure as hell dont need anymore you fish...*setting the bottle behind the counter, she tossed the empties aside and sat with the woman, arms crossed and waiting*

Ame felt pretty damn groggy.. and the sensation of not having a dream was eirily familliar. Though she couldn't quite remember... Damn Deja vü...

Her head was pounding, her limbs ached everywhere. Fact, she felt like she fought in some bar fight and lost...

Slowly opening her eyes, the woman moaned.. where was she this time..

"My head hurts..." Ame started, more towards herself...

*glancing over at the woman quietly, she responded sorely* Thats what you get for keeping me out of your plans....*eyeing the woman carefully she wondered if she should gather her worries back onto her shoulders* Whats wrong with you Ame...

"Alotta things..." Ame first muttered.. In truth, she was deperately happy to hear the voice of Obsid in response.. but it was a slow reaction yet to happen. "My head hurts like I was sake bindging for 2 weeks. And I don't remember anything of what's going on.."

Finally glanced up slowly towards her friend. Before suddenly if not dramatically wrapping out hands to hug her. Breaths heavily for a moment with her head in Obsid's shoulder before raising it to look the woman in the eyes.. "Where've You Been, Dammit!?" She glanced around the teahouse before looking down at her feet.. "I let Oke Borrow my sword so I wouldn't kill anybody.. and.. and.." She slowly bent down to pick up something to show to Obsid... Shook the item at Obsid< "I Got A Hat!"

*mouth open to object and chastise the woman, she closed it slowly as the woman leaned into her shoulder. Patting the womans head gently she bit her lip and tried to remain upset* Well there were enough bottles here to keep you drunk for awhile, but not for two weeks...*looking down at the woman, she sighed and shook her head and the loud hat* its....hurting my eyes...

Ame blinked first, looking at the hat with a sad look.. "But.. that Sasha Russian guy bought it for me... " She puts it on, the hat in turn flops over her eyes... Ame mutters a curse and pushes the rim up..

Then winces... The baikokudo of a woman glanced lip-bitingly as a small sliver of a cut seemed to spontaniously open on her hand. Perhaps she hurt herself previous to Obsid's arrival..

* twisting her lips in thought she tilted her head slightly and decided to amuse the woman* It looks better when its on...*leaning forward slightly she eyed the cut and looked up at the woman* What are you falling apart on me now? *grumbling and shaking her head she stood up and went into the back where her voice echoed to the woman* Dont you think about getting anymore cuts....youre not around me more than a minute and already Im bandaging you.....I dont know what youll do without me someday...

Ame watched Obsid walk off, in turn kissing her cut hand to the point of having her hat fall back over her eyes..

Cursed off, fixed the hat, looked around the teahouse.. People entered and barely any looked in her direction... It bothered her. What was so different about her now that she was wearing loose headwear?

*setting her supplies on the table she stood, hands on her hips, looking down on the woman as if she were a child who spilled something* show me the hand woman....

Ame looked up to Obsid with puppydog eyes... Slowly, regretfully stretching out her now bloodsmeared hand with hopes of not being bopped over the head.

While she let Obsid do her work, the woman muttered something of two conversations.. "I've been collecting bandits since we last talked... wanna see them?" and "... why are there too many damn people here..."

*patching up the womans hand carefully she raised an eyebrow and the thought of bandits gathered together, much less by the sake woman* well I wanna see who Im gonna be fighting with of course...*casting her gaze around the room she shrugged a shoulder lightly and set the hand down * theres nothing better to do in this damn town...

Ame started towards hte doorway, before stopping.. Now that she was more awake, more alert of her surroundings, the woman noticed something incredibly wrong. The voice that plagued her mind deep within rips through the walls she attempted to hard to put up around it, piercing her thoughts with visions and temptations so cruel and unpleasent as to set her off in the wrong direction of mentality.

Her hands tensed - a few small cuts opening up on them though as of hte moment unnoticable.. She shivered...

Amethyst knew, more than ever, that she had to find that Sasha fool Now. Less she accidentally kill her friend in some brutal loss of herself.

So, with only a minimal choked warning, "Gomen Obsid, stay here.. Gotta do something quick first now. Right now. I gotta go" She runs out of the teahouse without another solid word.

*mouth open in protest, she slammed her fist on the table and collapsed forward upon it* Damn that woman....damn her to hell....*smirking reluctantly she sighed, her warm breath leaving a mark across the table* I doubt she would mind it much...*eyes growing blurred she closed them temporarily and drifted off*

*Aki walked into the tea house and quickly ordered two bottles of sake, one for Haya and one for himself. He then sat down at a table and waited for Haya to join him.*
*He smiled to himself. Haya was walking into the trap perfectly. Earlier at the fortress, he'd ordered one of his men to stay at the tea house and wait around for them, weither that meant for a few hours or a few days. He also told him what to say and when to say it, hopefully the man remembered.*

Hayate walked into the teahouse and slowly followed Aki. The ronin didnt bother looking around for anything. Also, Hayate was in the teahouse earlier....but he didnt mind. Sake was sake, and sake was good. Hayate sat down at the table, and ordered some sake.

*The waitress came by with the sake. Aki openned up the bottle and took a long swig. He took a small glance over to a man wearing a hooded cloak, and smiled mentaly to himself. Now he just needed to get Haya on the subject of finding people from these other wars.*
Found anyone to fight Moritsune, yet? From what I hear, Ame has a few bandits, who can help.

Hayate sat down, leaned back and sipped some sake. He slowly raised an eyebrow, hearing about Amethyst. Then the ronin nodded, and almost smiled to himself.

"ah...so we are getting an army....thats good..."

Supposively, though I'm not sure we can trust Ame to be able to lead them. Besides, a small group of bandits isn't going to be enough to fight Mori, we need more people than that. *He then took another swig, waiting for his subbordinate to finally pipe up.*
*The man in the hooded cloak got up and walked over to their table. He spoke very quietly* I couldn't help, but over hear the conversation... you're after Moritsune, right?

Hayate, while drinking his sake, also drank into the words of Aki. The ronin was listening very carefully....knowing and agreeing with the concern he had with Ame. Hayate knew the woman was unstable, not by her fault. Mugatou's drugs ran through her body....

Thats when a man in a cloak approached the two. Hayate raised a brow, and slowly replied.

"...hai."

*The man in the cloak did a sigh of relef. He sat down at the table and spoke quietly.* I'm glad I found you then. I have been trying to find those who would fight against Moritsune. Would you two be interested in joining us?

Hayate, being his usual cold self, leaned back slightly. The ronin was looking for allies...but even that he still had a hard time trusting complete strangers. Hayate looked over to Aki, then looked over to the cloaked man.

"...who exactly are you? If I may ask that...." Hayate stared at the man with a piercing stare.

My name is Shimensoka, I was once part of the Tora no Dojo, but... that asshole Moritsune came and destroyed it! Only three of us servived and have been trying to fight back against him since...
*Aki smiled, the man was doing a great job of acting, he was going to reward him for this.*

Hayate's stare slowly went away. He looked into his sake bottle, nodding to himself and to the man slowly. Remembering the tragedy of Tora no dojo.

"Tora no....aye....I've heard about them. I come from Hebbi no dojo, which suffered a same fate....."

Hayate looked at Aki. Wanting his opinion.

"....what do you think?"

Sounds like we finally found someone to help us. *He was smiling, though he wanted to grin at the genius of his own plan.*
*Shimensoka looked at the two.* So you will help us? *Sounding very hopeful.*

Hayate nodded slowly to Aki again. Then the ronin slowly leaned up forward, tipping his straw hat to Shimensoka.

"yosh....now we shall all be considered nakama for now. We'll work together to bring down Mortisune...."

Though he did not show any signs of it, Hayate was happy. Happy to have found more allies....

*Shimensoka smiled at the two.* Hai, would you like to see the army we've gotten together? *He sounded excited*
*Aki took a swig of sake and smiled* Sure, why not?

Hayate was suprised. An army had already been gathered....how great. This would save Hayate alot of trouble, of having to gather one himself....
It seemed too good to be true, but it was indeed true. Hayate smiled as well.

"An army...you've gathered one already...? Very nice....." The ronin noticed there was a little bit of sake left in his bottle. He drank it, finishing it off. Slowly Hayate stood.

"I would very much like to see this army...."

Finally, we're going to kill that bastard Moritsune. *Aki took another long swig, set the bottle down, and stood up.* Well, what are you waiting for, let's go. *he smiled*
*Shimensoka stood up and spoke quietly* We have been hiding in the woods for awhile now, so far it seems we haven't been noticed by Moritsune's army. Anyway, follow me, I'll show you were they are. Try to stay out of sight though, we don't want anyone to see us.
*Aki had to keep from grinning again. He'd had one other person watching part of this, the man had already left though, to go tell the other generals to get ready.*

Hayate nodded. They were smart...knowing how to keep out of sight.

"in this situation, it is best to do that....now please....lead the way." Hayate got up and slowly walked with the two other men to the forest. Finally...an army. Perhaps, even in this bleak world, there was still a small ray of hope to fight against Moritsune. This made Hayate feel good, if only for a few moments.

*Aki walked into the tea house. Grumbling under his breath about Ame and her stubbornness. He sat down at the bar next to some random guy and ordered a bottle of sake. A few people noticed him and knew that he'd become a general now, not wanting to mess with him, they ran off.*

The random guy, of course, didn't. He sat there drinking a small cup of tea - being that this was a teahouse. Mysterious as he was, the man looked to be an adventurer by the heavy cloak over his shoulders. His robes looked dirtied up, but nice. His cowhide gloves, and pouches fit his older strong and firm look.

A frightened waitress served Aki the large bottle of sake and ran off. Which only served to suffer Zatsu in excitement. Truthfully, betraying to his calm firm look, he was in sheer enthusiasm at having Akisu enter. The very smell of this strangly clothed theif praised his happiness, which was something to the effect of moderate sweat, metal of steel variety, grime, and alcohal. He must be on some new adventure that Zatsu had to write about.. But It HAD to be him, the purple hair, the mutter about whom had to be Amethyst (which also raised his hopes knowing that she was alive somewhere as well), the halbred... No, that wasn't right...

While Akisu presumably consumed himself in sake, Zatsu muttered out in a firm groutted voice, "Where's the Halbred, Akisu" Looking more towards his tea than the man beside him.

*He took a swig of sake, then turned to the man who had asked him the question. The man looked like an wanderer of some sort. He smelled of sweat, leather, and ink.* Who the hell are you? And what do you want to know about my halberd for?
*Though it was an interesting question. Where was his halberd? He couldn't quite remember.*

Gladly for Kakite Zatsu, he looked like one to carry many sharp objects under his robe, even if that's completely false.. The only weapon on him right now was the quill pen, and dammit all Zatsu wasn't going to break that if his life depended on it..

The answer was predicted. After all, this was Akisu he supposedly heard so much about, if not planned so many things for. And while Zat was in absolute entertainment with the thoughts about what adventure the theif was in now, he still kept his cool. Perfect was the mood of the moment. Voices of those still in this teahouse were hushed, the candles that lit if not gave warmth to the room bickered as wind whistlingly strained into the room through a partially open window on the opposing wall. Zatsu couldn't spare to scare Akisu away now.

"It's trademark of you..." He responded, still calm, still firm in his voice. He raised a large hand, flat, and came down on the barcounter quietly with it occupied thereafter for a breif thump when the gloved hand eventually hit. "AxeTheifAkisu, I think the nickname was"

*Pause* Where the hell did you get a name like that? Axe thief.... it's not an axe, it's a halberd. And I have no idea where it is right now and I don't care either. *He took a swig of sake and gave the man another look over.* If you know so much about me why aren't you running? Or at least protecting your money purse? -_^

A sigh was relinquished from Zatsu.. He glanced heavily at his tea, "I was never fond of the name either. For precisely the same reason. People should find a large difference between a halbred and an axe" he nodded firmly to himself before taking a sip of tea... Gave a moment or three to answer Aki's next few questions. Giving a few white lies in the process that sounded fairily believible for his present bodyfeatures and overall look, "While I have plenty of reasons to fear you, I know you of all people have the wisdom to know that I could if persuaded take your face in my hand, ram it into the barcounter a handful of times, and force you to down the rest of your drink with broken teeth and a fractured skull while, with my other hand, beat your stomach into a massive ooze." He left a pause in there to let Aki take in the graphic images of that, "I'm well armed, outweigh you two to one, and make sure to remain completely sober. That.. And I have no currency on me" cleared his throat politely before asking a presently hiding waitress around the corner of the kitchen door for more tea. Some shuffling was heard in the kitchen thereafter.

Turning to face the theif, he extended a hand, "Kakite Zatsu. Friends call me Zatsu, You may call me Zatsu... I am a writer, a novelist..."

*He watched the man perform the actions he was describing, then sniffed. Like he would have been able to do that. He took another swig of sake and gave a glare to the man.*
A writer? What do you write about? And where do you hear these names for me from? I've yet to hear that one... -.-

He smiled, talking with Akisu wasn't as bad as Okesa Gingistune described. This kid didn't even looked to be one. Fact he looked mid 17. That's a healthy age. And hardly one to be considered a child.

Instead of telling the man straight out a few more of the unpleasent Akisu nicknames, he just said where he got them from, "A handful of bountyhunters come up with these names. And Plenty of tales about the evil acts you've done. Though I'd hardly say they're as bad as what I've heard a certain general and his henchmen in this town have secretively committed."

One his new tea was delivered, he answered before blowing on it, "I write about interesting people and the things they do. For example, Okesa Gingitsune, Moritsune and Hayate Ubushingai, Jade Kyozoku, Reiji Izuma, and Akisu Yoru Toushin" Took a sip and gave a rather satisfied look, "I love oolong tea.."

Hehe, so you write about me and the other people in this town? Interesting enough, you forgot a name in there, Amethyst is one of the more famous people here. She always had a bigger bounty on her head than I did. Though I don't have one anymore, so I won't complain. *He took another swig of sake.*

Was fairily surprised that Akisu of ALL people in this world didn't catch that. But let that pass for later record. Maybe him and his siblings weren't as close as previously known. Opened and closed his mouth a few times, as if not sure what to say in this moment - though that, in itself, is also an act. .He knew exactly everything he should and would say. "Yes, I heard much about her as well. Always in a fighting rage, close to death, and whathaveyou. At the moment her story doesn't seem nearly as interesting as yours."

Took a sip of the tea in a greatfulness of its' presence. It was almost as if Akisu wanted the novel of Zatsu's to devert from him.. But that just wasn't possible.. "I was extrmely curious. Your clothing is more of a generals than a theif's and your change of weapon seem new. Where has your life been taking you as of late"