The thornless rose ((Kiki*Tsukiakara)) **mature**

“Is this everybody” Tsukiakara asked in curiosity. (sorry for short post)

((its ok)) Kikisu shook her head. "Most are at work. My cousin inori is home though, besides the servants." she had someone get her when the food arrived. "Dig in."

Even though she said dig in Tsukiakara tried to use the best table manners he could. “So what do they do? Work wise I mean” Tsukiakara asked tiring to start another conversation.

"Administration mostly. We also have a trading company that is run by family members." she said with a smile. Inori came in and sat down.

"Hi Kikisu-sama." she yawned and brushed her blue hair from her face.

Tsukiakara noticed the new person enter the room. He didn’t know how to introduce himself (again) so he decided to continue the conversation. “A training company? That sounds cool. What do you usually sell?”

"Many things. Its like a general goods trade. We keep small villages supplied with all they need." inori replied for Kikisu.

"True. We also specialize in sword crafting."

“The missions I’m usually assigned to escorting caverns of goods. Most of the time they're full of high caliber ninja tools and so escorts are usually needed. One of them might have been yours, who know?” Tsukiakara said eating another bite of food.

"Yeah maybe." Kikisu agreed. "So inori how's the bead work going?" she asked.

"Oh I've almost finished the order."

"Inori here is one of our skilled craftsmen. They usually work in the shops but she asked to stay home." Kikisu shrugged. "As long as the work gets done."

“I know a few things about weapon crafting. Would you like me to help with anything? It’s the least I could do for giving me such a nice meal.” Tsukiakara offered.

"Oh, no I don't work with blades. Kikisu-sama mentioned how I make bead art." Inori said shyly. "But would you like to see it?"

Kikisu laughed. "She is our best in years, 'though she would never admit it." At this Inori turned bright red.

“Sure I would love too.” Tsukiakara said. Seeing some bead art seemed fun. He took the last bite of the food that was presented to him.

When they were finished, Kikisu sent Musashi and Rhianna to play, and look Inori and Tsukiakara to where Inori was working. All around were beautiful works of art done in beads. "These are samples of my work." Inori said looking around. "And over here is what I'm working on.

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“Wow! These are amazing!” Tsukiakara remarked. He loved how to color fit perfectly in each piece. “How did you make them?” He asked curious on how they were created.

"That my dear is a trade secret. But its mainly about knowing where to place it and how tight to make the strings." Inori smiled at how impressed he was. "This one has taken a while to create, but its almost done."

“I understand” He said about the trade secret thing. He was only allowed to tell family members how to make his special swords so he knew how it was like. “How long do you usually stay up here working on them?” Tsukiakara asked.

"How ever long it takes me to finish. But i work all day on projects." she said, picking up a smaller piece. "This look a week." she Inori sat it down.

Tsukiakara was amazed. If this smaller piece took a week then he was afraid to ask how long the bigger pieces took. But at least that explained how he didn’t see her in the village. “Have you gotten out much? I know a few nice places in town. Maybe we could…” He was now starting to blush as well now. He couldn’t believe he just asked that.

"Oh uhh how about after I finish this? And no i used to live somewhere else. I just recently moved here." she put down the small piece and picked up the other one. "I'm almost done."

“Sure that’s fine.” He said. If want she said was true and she recently moved into town then she probably didn’t getting into the evacuation ordeal which was kind of a relief (it was pretty bad). “I think I’ll see how those kid are doing. It was by entertaining that 6 year old that I got to come here for lunch.” He explained, “Have fun working on your piece” he said then leaving the room. He closed the door behind him so that he could maybe get rid of his blush.

She ran out and said "Be back here at 6." and went back into the room. Inori giggled and then went to work.

Tsukiakara went to another room where he heard the children playing. Hopefully his blush was gone so that they didn’t read him like a book. He wondered what game they were playing and so he watched for a little bit.

Rhianna was playing with wooden blocks and Musashi was reading a children's book. "Oh hi Sama." he said. "Why is your face red? Did you get caught doing something?"

“Ummm.” Tsukiakara got redder trying to think up of a lie but his mind came up blank. “It’s nothing. What book are you reading?” He asked trying to change the subject quickly.

"Its about a fox that is stalking a snake." he smiled. "Its a new one that Akai-kun got me." Rhianna came over and said "I miss daddy."

“Where’s your daddy, at work or something?” Tsukiakara said. He then saw the pile of blocks. “What are you making?” He also asked.