[Sunagakure] Amakajiba

"Ugh..." For several moments, Youko remained utterly silent. Then, without so much as a response or a warning, he vanished in a flash. His return was roughly a full minute later, at which point he appeared by the forge again. He had donned a new pair of hakama, as well as his typical top. "I guess I had a dinner break planned. I can probably finish a new scythe that'll outlast his roughness if I add a bit of time to my night." With that said, the white-haired man reached into the basket to retrieve any random bento he first touched, being in no state to be picky about what he consumed. He wasn't quite sure why so much food had been brought, but he wasn't one to question much of anything at the time being.

Her husband soon disappeared in a flash without a word; Benihime was left to ponder whether or not she'd be taking her meal alone, in the full minute he was gone. But when Youko returned he was almost fully dressed with new pants having apparently thought over what the red haired woman had to say. He came back with a sentence or two in mind. A smile came to Benihime's face as she realized she would not be taking this meal alone and as such she opened up the bento's she'd chosen and with a pair of chopsticks in hand began picking various items from each to eat. After a few happy bites were taken she paused her meal to explain what the earlier mess in the village had been. As her second in command, Youko might have actually needed this information for some reason or another. "So, that mess in the village earlier, was Usui trying to kill me. He apparently really wanted Mikunichi to be Kazekage... and that was how he planned to do it. He used the Inquisitor's Son, talked him into thinking it was a mission to kill me, probably figuring I wouldn't kill a kid." she said with a nod. "Aiko and Hakudoshi got themselves captured on purpose, Aiko wanted to figure out what was going on, Hakudoshi was with her and she thought it'd be an interesting bit of training for him." She finished as she grabbed a small dumpling dipping it into soy sauce. "Usui, Yagi and Toda ended up being in on it, so they were all executed with the approval of the rest of the council." she concluded about her general day. Leaving space for more explanations, since there was still the large matter of what their son was presently capable of.

After Youko popped open his own bento, he retrieved a pair of chopsticks from within the box. From there, he first began eating various suchi pieces with wasabi from one end of the packaged meal, hearing out what Benihime had to say about the day's earlier ordeal. All things considered, Youko was never a fan of Usui, or the other individuals listed; nor were they members of his fan club. He did, however, recall doing some work for one of them some weeks prior. "They must have been hard up for money. I happen to have filled an order for those guys, big enough to equip a task force, a few weeks back," he said between bites. "So, did you kill the son?"

Benihime continued dipping various dumplings into sauces she hadn't tasted in a while. It was then revealed by Youko that he'd been the one to make the order which likely went to equip the task force charged with killing her. "Hmm, Aiko fought a guy with a kusarigama... and I assumed you made the tanto for the Higuchi boy as well." she said noting the ability of the man and even praising it. "I knew that work was a bit good for the run of the mill, mercenary type." She commented before taking another bite, the words spoken next by Youko made the small woman choke. She wondered why he bothered ask such a question, it'd been quite a while since she'd killed any children, in fact, she'd sworn off the practice after the last time. "Of course not. He was upset thinking I'd mind broken his dad. But... since I don't like leaving stuff undone the first thing I did when I arrived back was wake up Higuchi the Older. When I explained the situation he seemed to rethink his murderous intentions. He's a good kid, I remember him before he was old enough to do anything scary. I wouldn't kill him over being manipulated." The Kazekage explained. It really wasn't in her nature to kill anyone she considered a child.

"There was a special order for a tanto, yeah. They must have been really confident in their mercenaries' abilities. I don't know why; even the Kumo-nin was only a low-tier Jounin. If they were going to use my equipment, they could have just paid Akatsuki to wield them. They would have at least been able to." Moving right along, Benihime had apparently refrained from killing the young male who'd been tricked into targeting her for assassination. This was in line with her normal methods, but the white-haired man thought it to be a matter worth checking. "Sou ka. By the way, I ate the Kumo-nin's chakra."

Benihime thought about the power of the given mercenaries, and given this had a rather singular conclusion for why they were the strength they were. "If Toda is the one who made the order, then it was done that way in case something went wrong after all of us were dispatched. Technically speaking we are the strongest in the village, if they hired someone capable of easily taking us out, with no real trickery and mostly force. Then they'd be left to deal with them. Toda is...." she paused. taking a bite. "Was a bit too much of a coward to want to deal with that outcome. After all, they were just trying to replace me with their choice. Fat lot of good that would have done them, if they'd succeeded only to find out he didn't want the fuckin' job." She said, at least retaining enough of her logic training and memory of the Elder Council members to be able to piece together why their plan had formed that way. "All of the weapons were abandoned in the old ruins. Aiko might have taken the kusarigama though, you know how she likes her prize wall." She said of the young kunoichi who was a trophy taker for reasons that redhead hadn't begun to fathom. She kept on eating soon finding an end to multiple bento but move along to dessert based bento as well.

As she found her next course, it seemed that Youko had indeed tested out what the power of her moon did for him, and it gave her great pause. "You...ate his chakra. Do you still have it?" She asked, thinking it a valid question. Again she wasn't quite sure how this power worked, and thus the testing had been necessary.

"That's stupid. Look what going cheap and manageable got them? Their lackeys were beaten, and they're dead. It's a lose-lose situation," Youko said once he came to the end of his sushi portion. Then, as he moved on to the rice, he addressed the likelihood of Aiko keeping the kusarigama he made as a trophy from the battle. "Had I known that, I would have made it look better. No matter. She'll have a hell of a trophy one day," he stated. At last, there was an inquiry directed toward the nature of Benihime's dojutsu. He found it to be a very interesting thing, and to explain the occurrence, he placed his bento next to him on the workbench. "Yes and no. It's mine now; all of it. I took what I could see to test, and I drained him dry when I understood it completely. It seems like I could have done the same in reverse, or even taken myself out of the equation entirely. I guess I should do my job, huh..." As he spoke, Youko looked to his left wrist, which once again held the orange moon Benihime had placed there earlier this day. "Rozan Sennin, when he passed the Dragon Power on to me, told me that I would likely be creating a new moon... but I haven't done it yet." As he spoke, Youko's left arm began to exude a misty, blue chakra which occasionally pulsed outward, as if radiating an even greater power from within itself. "A name. A proper fusion of Oborozuki, and your natural latent abilities. These are the things required to create a new form of Oborozuki. I haven't done either thing fully yet, but I think I can access just enough of the power to do it." With that said, Youko raised his arm, placing his left forefinger just over the bridge of Benihime's nose. The moons in his eyes glowed a very light tint of blue, and he seemed to split the chakras within the woman's body, separating her original Kekkei Genkai fully from the Oborozuki. Afterwards, he not only forced them back together, but molded them into a single, orange shroud to encase Benihime before fading into her being. "Oborozuki: Harvest!"

"I never said it was a good plan," she said of the scheme hatched up by the fallen elders. She personally had no idea why the girl had a trophy habit, it was apparently something she'd done even in her younger childhood. Still, she managed a chuckle for the girl's habit, and Youko's mention that he would have made the weapon look better if he knew she would be taking it.

As their conversation progressed, it appeared that Youko had to stop eating to fully explain how her version of his Kekkei Genkai worked. At the news that he simply possessed the chakra of another person she was stunned. Before she could say anything though, Youko mentioned needing to do his job. She looked at him a bit strangely as he went on to explain that the Rozan Sage had told him he would need to make a new moon and she was confused by what such a thing would properly mean. A question was on the horizon for the lass, but soon enough the man was exuding a calming blue mist right over the bridge of her nose, separating her parts and then forcing them into an orange shroud which would encompass her person. It was the final sealing of her own moon, which she'd been told would happen whenever Youko managed to do it. The feeling of her moon fading into herself was interesting, and all the while she maintained the ability to feel chakra. And this chakra he emitted was one she'd felt before, it felt calm like cool water and it was amazing. "Ara, the Moonman said the moon wasn't finished yet, but that it wasn't his place to do it. This power is a bit freaky." she mentioned. But she still felt utterly comfortable in this moment. "I'm glad I gave that to you. I am not sure it wouldn't have taken me a really long time to figure out most of that on my own. Well, I also just noticed something kind of important." she said reaching up to tap her own forehead and finding the seal of the blood moon she'd made was still there, and now visible with a little chakra. "I accidentally made these a bit strong. I meant for them to be one time use... if you don't want yours I'll take it off ya'. I know it is probably a bit annoying."

"I was right then," Youko said, looking at the seal on his wrist once more. The Kekkei Genkai had faded from his eyes during his use of the cursed seal, but when that happened, the orange moon returned to him. He had expected it to disappear after using its power, but it seemed to instead be restoring itself, as if it were his own chakra. "It's like having a second source of chakra that I can access like my own. I think it's worth keeping. I might want something else in my repertoire later," he said, simultaneously producing black lightning-nature chakra in the very same hand he held out. "I don't know if I mentioned, but the properties of the chakra are absorbed as well."

"Hm-huh. Gomen, I wasn't really thinking about it when I made them. Seals like this require more concentration. They ended up a bit like the Yin seals, because they were the easiest things to compare it to." The redhead finished speaking. But in realizing that Youko planned to keep the extra chakra anyways because he liked the potential diversity to his repertoire, she only smiled. "Fine keep it then." She said only to watch his extended hand showcase the ability to use the properties of the nature transformation it held. "Oooh, that's pretty cool." She thought with her eyes active, she swiped a little off the top and rolled it into a ball. "I did this earlier and stunned a kid with is own lightning. Hm, it is all yours though, definitely feels like you." She said apparently amused with it. Speaking of children there was a rather important thing going by the way side.

"OH! I just remembered, did ya' know Hakudoshi can teleport? In a way very different from the Hiraishin..."