And it's me that I am spying on...

[Yuki]

Yuki's eyebrow raised above his dark glasses. "I'm not familiar with the family, so I'm affraid I'm not much of a help there."

Yuki's stance shifted slightly uncomforablely. "Listen... I respect you... So I'll try to live up to this..." He looked at her again. "Should I stay out of there... For now?"

[kumar]

Lenore considered the question for a moment. "It's not really my place to say. I'd have to ask her. The place is rightfully hers."

[Yuki]

Yuki had to consider this statement for a little while as well. He couldn't see how a safety zone of the village could belong to any one of the ninjas in it... If anyone, he thought that 'deed' for lack of a better term would fall to the Hokage...

"She's laid claim to Konoha's escape tunnels?" he finally asked, not comprehending it...

[kumar]

lenore blinked, genuinely taken aback by the question. "I... I don't think we're talking about the same place. Those tunnells run above... so, no one's been down.... lower than that?" She asked.

[Yuki]

The most subtle hint of a smile creased Yuki's lips. Now he was getting some information. "Well... You said twenty years. There's quite a few people in this village that have been here for more than twenty years..."

[kumar]

"I'm not too worried about more than. I'm worried about less than." Lenore replied, tartly responding to the annoying grin on Yuki's face.

[Yuki]

Yuki nodded. "Not one of my old patroling regions. Sorry I can't help with much more than that..." Things were suddenly falling into place for him, and he knew quite a few other resources now that he could find his own answers...

"So... On the topic of my own investigation... I'll play nice. I won't go down till I have... her... permission..."

[kumar]

Lenore eyed Yuki warily. "Believe me, I know already what's down there. It's a giant complex."

[Yuki]

Yuki noticed she was still holding the glass and picked up his own again. "To distractions," he said a little more enthusiastic than the last time and didn't wait for her to chink glasses and downed his drink. He loved these kind of puzzles. Tangible puzzles. Puzzels with answers...

[kumar]

Lenore did not return the toast, but downed her little glass, anyway. Surprised at the drink, she casually held the glass away from herself and raised an eyebrow at it, but said nothing, and in quick work, turned her attention back to Yuki. "You cannot find it." She supplied cryptically.

[Yuki]

Yuki smiled, that annoying little smile a little wider... "Is that a challenge or a statement," he said, more as a joke than anything, since he already said he'd stay out for now...

[kumar]

"Statement." Lenore said simply. "But if you'd like, you could take it as a challenge... the entryways are sealed by earth jutsus tailored to read a certain type of earth jutsu. A family Jutsu. Not likely you're going to find a way around that." Lenore walked to where Yuki had set his glass, and set hers right beside it. She turned to face him and looked up into his glasses, and made a point with her eyes, then she wandered back out into the room with all the training equipment.
"Show me something amusing." She demanded gently.

[Yuki]

Yuki shook his head. She thought that jutsus and seals meant anything to him... They existed on this world, not the other. But he'd leave it at that. "Ever go skating?" he asked. Clearly, there was no skating rink in this place. And of all the equiptment on the walls, skates were not amoung them...

[kumar]

Lenore looked at Yuki, then down at her dress, then back at Yuki. "I didn't konw treats came in the form of ice with berry sauce. Am I wearing clothing that suggests my people konw how to do anything with ice? Other than melt it, I mean?"

[Yuki]

"That's what I figured," he said jovially. He walked to the pool and formed a few quick hand seals. Opening his mouth and seeming to silently scream at the swimming pool, it quickly froze over. Yuki looked down at his feet next and repeated the gesture, freezing small blades onto the souls of his feet. He stepped out onto the ice and then looked back at Lenore. "Care to try?" he asked...