Dragonfly

Her odd gaze had been centered around the guild hall this morning, licking her slender sharp nailed fingers free of the slight blood from a raw piece of pork she had eaten this morning. Not eating dehydrated food nor having anyone to inform her she could not eat her food raw? Was amazing, and had been ever since she ran away, and of course since she never got any adverse affects from her mostly raw meat diet? She never considered changing it whatsoever, especially since it meant she had no need for the dreaded element called fire when she ate raw! Anyway's, she had heading to pick her own job for the day, when she spotted a child that resembled Marschel and the Guildmaster, holding a simple job request and read it over his shoulder, before offering to come with him.

That was how they ended up here, that here being sitting in the living area of some old ladies house, finally done listening to her request involving cats. "So where do you want to go first?" she had really just come as supervision despite the fact she was not very mature herself, what being the run away she was.

Ruminal wasn't having a very good morning, all he wanted to do was read his books and maybe practice his drawing a little bit later in the day but he was told by both his parents that he should go out and see the world and experience it first hand then read about it. As a result Ruminal went to see the job board and see what job would be suitable for him to do a job with one or both his parents. Was then Jiyu snuck up on him and scared the hell out of him. She offered to go out on a job with him but Ruminal didn't want to have it cause he wasn't really interested in meeting new people. Unfortunately his parents didn't see eye to eye with his thoughts on the matter and forced him to do so anyway saying it will be a good experience for him.

After sometime later Ruminal was sitting in a living room with Jiyu and the lady who set up the job poster to fine her cat. After listening to an extended conversation about her many cats the two finally went out to find her missing cat. "So where do you want to go first?" Jiyu asked. Truthfully Ruminal didn't know, he hasn't been in this world for very long and most the time he spent it on the island where their guild is. "I don't know." He answered. Honestly he didn't read to much about cats outside that they can be quick and clever or fat and lazy.

This little boy was so quite the whole time they were getting ready, setting out and listening to the old lady talk much more than she actually needed to! The little boy was mature, and she looked at him, wondering if her little sibling would have been like that, wondering what the tyke would be like period. However? That was something she would never know, because she would never be able to go back to peace village where her little sling would be growing up peacefully, likely never knowing it had an older sister who had run away.

"Want to check the port near by water sources first? I think cats like fish." the female honestly had never much gotten along with the cats in her home village, just the canines. Cats? had hated her and the other animals had feared her for some reason. Pushing the ideals away from her bblack covered head, she twirled one of her orange bang pieces and smiled down at him, before silently waiting for the childs response. After all she was an escort here more than anything else.

"Want to check near by water sources first? I think cats like fish." Jiyu asked. It was true that cat's like fish and that would be a good place to start. "Sure." Ruminal answered. He was acting a little more quiet than usual and kept his gaze mostly focused on the ground. Maybe it was be cause the village they were in was full of people, he isn't a very big fan of crowds so maybe the lake or whatever they were heading to will have less people around. After walking for like five minutes they arrived at a rather large lake with canoes and small docks and some people fishing here and there. It wasn't very crowed and Ruminal was relieved to see that. He began to scan the area for any signs of the cat, just by looking a round he couldn't find anything of use. Ruminal was no tracker even though he's read about how to but most of that kind of stuff comes from experience rather than reading. After scanning the area he decided to have a look around where people were fishing and see if anyone had seen a cat recently. One man said a cat was here about an hour ago and he gave him on of the small fish he caught then it ran off into the forest. After hearing this Ruminal went to find Jiyu and let you know what he has found out. "Well that's what the old man by the lake said. This is just perfect... That cat could be anywhere by now."

Jiyu was happy just to be the one slated to be supervisor of something, instead of the one being escorted because she was so new. Thought? Babysitting had never really been her thing, and she did not see this as such, it was simply a mission with a much younger guild member. Another way for her to have fun, but this time she had to keep the fun PG, not PG-13, just PG, which meant for most of the mission her sweater had actually been partly buttoned up. However when they got closer to the water and the scents of it, she opened the sweater, stretching her arms above her head. One of her abilities was clearly active, because she could smell someone near by had not showered today.

It was some time before the kid found anything.

From what she had seen of Ruminal, the fact he was asking other people about things, well was impressive. Considering he was tryng so hard? The female figured she could put slightly more effort into doing their mission. "So we know it's around here right?" stretching her slender and toned arms above her head once more, the bikini top clad woman smirked. Honestly she had intended to leave every single thing to him on his own at first, but he was working so hard, she found it endearing. Thus Kazehime something she would never do it the boys father was around, not because it was bad, but because she had next to no control over the ability, and it made her seem more like a dog than she normally did. "I think I can find it for you, if you can keep a secret Ruminal."

With a rather devious smirk, she sniffed the air deeply, having known her ability was active she decided to actually do some tracking with it. Glancing at the kid, she motioned him to follow her, visibly sniffing every few seconds, sometimes bending down to catch the trail better. Finally Jiyu knew they were getting close, when they found the skeleton of a fish, which the feline had likely eaten, she pointed to it, before moving to proceed down the wooded path.

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After explaining everything to Jiyu, Ruminal began thinking of how to approach their current dilemma. He figured their best option was to have him transform into his wolf form and try to catch the cat's scent somewhere and follow it but Jiyu had another idea. "I think I can find it for you, if you can keep a secret Ruminal." She said. Ruminal would look over in a mix of confusion and interest and say "Okay?" With a smirk she began to sniff the air deeply but for what reason Ruminal was unsure. It could have been many different reason, she was calming her self down getting ready for what she really wants to do or what seemed most likely to Ruminal was that she too could sniff out the cat just like he was about to do but without him having to take the time to transform. This turn of events was to his liking considering he doesn't like to transform into his wolf form very much and tends to keep it as a traveling form when alone. But the question that rang in his head... Why does she want to keep this a secret? Ruminal just ignored it for now and made a note to bring it up later when the job was done and they were on their way home.

After a few seconds Jiyu motioned to Ruminal to follow her and confirmed his suspicion of what she was trying to do. She diffidently was tracking the cat by smelling it out. Some time had passed sense they left the lake and eventually they found a skeleton of a fish lying on the ground. Ruminal took a closer look at it and deduced that it hasn't been lying there for very long. "This was diffidently resent. Maybe 15 or 20 minutes ago." He said. Ruminal scanned the area again to see if he could possibly spot it somewhere nearby. Figuring what he does know about cats, this one would probably be looking for a place to sleep off his meal by now so it couldn't have gotten to far or maybe it waited till it got back to the village. "I have to say that wasn't bad although if you would have waited a few more minutes I would have told you that I can transform into a wolf like mom can and sniffed it out myself. Personally I think it was better that you did, can't say i'm really a fan of my wolf form."

Jiyu was going to be rather, greatly, disappointed in her rash nature once she discovered he would have just transformed if she kept her mouth shut. Honestly? Kids were rather big mouthed sometimes, harder to trust than adults, and she'd never hear the end of it, about how dog like she was, if the boys father found out about this. Of course her canine traits were caused by actually unknowingly being half dog demon, one who had yet to awaken her demon blood for the first time but still carried some dormant passive abilities that basically controlled themselves since she had no conscious idea of them. Jiyu would just wish she had shut up if she knew! Suddenly he mentioned the wolf form he had, and kazehime tried her best not to let any anger take took, it was not the child's fault she acted swiftly. Thought if she was dealing with his father? She'd have lost her temper without second thought, but with kids it was slightly different.

Odd colored eyes focused on the deceased fish as she suffocated the angry temper she had become quiet prone to in the past two years, heck prone to since her mothers death. They just had to find the feline, than she could calm herself better, smiling down at the boy, and hopping if he picked up her sudden spike in angry emotion at all, he would not think it was at him. If anything? Kazehime was upset with herself. However emotions shrugged off "let's see if you can find it from here. I'll go back to following you and aiding since we're clearly close." plus her nose was starting to fade back to normal, scents becoming less keen, thus she really could not track the feline any further. Hopefully he would transform or have some other way of finding the feline.

Ruminal was focused on the task at hand, constantly scanning the area to see if he can't see the cat anywhere nearby. After a few minutes he couldn't find it anywhere so there was only one option left. Sense Jiyu decided to go back to supporting rather than taking the lead, Ruminal transformed into his wolf form and started sniffing around the area where the fish bones where to see if he can't get the cat's sent. His wolf from had silver colored hair just like the hair he had on his head and his body had the same red circle like patterns as his kimono had. About a minute passed and Ruminal was able to find its scent, it didn't leave to long ago so it was defiantly nearby. He followed the trail of the cats scent for a couple of minutes until he reached a dead end. They were somewhere just outside of the Beanstalk Village, the beanstalk in the center of the village was in clear view above the tree line.

Ruminal transformed back in order to say "Its close, the cat's scent ends here so it has to be nearby." Considering where the cats scent ended which was just at the base of this tall tree it must have climbed up in order to keep itself safe from predators while it slept. Looking around the tree Ruminal finally spotted the cat on the third lowest tree branch fast asleep. "There it is." Ruminal said softly in order to not wake the cat up. Last thing they need right now is for it to freak out and run away. Ruminal started to carefully and as quietly as he could, climb up the tree to get to the cat. It took him a few minute but he finally made it and the cat was still fast asleep. "Now how to approach this..." He thought. Ruminal made sure his footing was fine before reaching an arm out towards the cat and attempted to scratch it behind its ears. If he could wake it up calmly rather than trying to grab it and freak it out this would go a lot smoother. As he did so the cat slowly began to wake up and began to purr. "Come on little guy, your owner is worried sick. Its time to go home." He said as he tried to reach his arm around the cat's belly in order to pick it up so he can start climbing back down. After everything was said and done the three of them made there way back to the cat's owner who was thrilled to see her cat again. She paid what she promised to the two mages and they began to head out for home. Once they were far enough away from any eavesdroppers Ruminal asked Jiyu "So how come you wanted to keep that ability of yours a secret?"