Kurogane Renkon(Iron Lotus Root), Shimazu Clan Gym

Es looked back at her friend, blinking a bit before nodding. The woman was nice, although her trust only extended so far as she could throw her. She wasn´t going to trust anyone so soon... except Kageo and, maybe, Lambda.
"It was... but what do we do now?"

Sumina had brought water back for the two, holding two wooden cups in hand, while her tail set the water back on the far off counter, it was a brief look at what of her physiology was different from most beastkin. If merely the length of her tail, she'd heard cries from the other room, battle cries of the students in practice. "I wish not to intrude on your plans if you have any, but you can stay for a time, you are the guests of the Shimazu Clan." it was a suggestion that came just before she'd realized that her son had returned. "Oh? it seems my son has taken over the class...well good, its about time he got here."

Lambda looked at Es and smiled a little "Well she did offer to let us stay for awhile, so we shouldnt be rude and decline." she had trust issues herself but she could somewhat trust those who helped her, she looked at Es's face trying to gauge how she was feeling about the situation but was getting nothing. She took the water from the beastkin and smiled a little "Thank you, if its okay we could stay for awhile?" she needed time for her warp to charge again.

Es nodded a little bit to Lambda, staying here might not be the worst thing. She could use a bit of rest and relaxation after this rather troublesome day...
"Yes, i think that might be a nice thing. I`ll take everything better than the Red Light District."
She stuck close to Lambda by now, feeling she could trust her a little more than before... somehow, nearly being raped alongside her was an experience that taught her to trust the follow Murakumo... not to mention that it was Es´s fault that they ended up there.

Sumina gave Lambda and Es a firm nod, she would not have had it any other way. She was actually, quite glad that they'd offered to remain within the company. She'd had felt better given that she could look after these two unfortunate young women. "Good, you are certainly most welcome here." for the moment, Sumina tried to consider whether or not her son should serve them goods.

"If you two would like, I can have my son bring you food. We would have some in the other end of the gym." she had not mentioned it was linked to their house, but of course that little bit of information wasn't necessary right? She would be happy to see they ate, had plenty to drink, and were looked after.

Lambda petted the girls back a little and smiled "I agree, we could use a rest after that experience....lets never go there again." she gestured for Es to sit down beside her as she tried to relax a little, she was glad the Es had loosened up a little and she was glad that she herself didnt have to keep up appearances. She looked at Sumina and nodded "Well thank you, if its not too much trouble." the woman was likeable at least and wondered what her son was like.

Es nodded in agreement as well. "It was a bit exhausting... so some food might be nice. Should we go rest a little first, Lambda?" She looked up to Lambda, despite their height difference being mere milimeters.

Lambda nodded at Es gently "Rest sounds good, is there any place that we can slep Sumina?" she looked to the beastkin with a tilt of her herad.

Sumina gave a soft nod, well they did have some extra rooms in the house, she could have her son show them. "Yes, if you two will wait right here, I'll go have my son, Kinjou, show you inside our extra rooms. I'll take over teaching the class so he can." it was simple enough, as she gave them two a soft nod, she headed out to the main gym, in the next room and once sliding the door closed; she'd come upon her son. Gently patting his shoulder, while giving her son a one armed hug, she'd whispered to him they had guests and to show them to the extra rooms. "Alright, now! The Phoenix wings divide, show it to me, now!" her shout had commanded the class and while Kinjou started towards the backroom, he'd wondered why his mother was having him do it, couldn't she?

While he'd been unaware of the guests being women, it was once he'd entered the room that he caught sight of them. At first he was taken aback, but only for a moment, while he took a small breath and shut his eyes to focus himself. He'd stepped over to them and bowed deeply in greeting to them. "Hello guests, I am Kinjou Shimazu, my mother has instructed me to escort you to the rooms where you may rest. Right this way, if you please?" he'd offered a gentle smile, while a little pink rested in his cheeks. Did they have to be pretty? He wasn't terribly thrown off, but his composure was lacking it seemed.

Es hid slightly behind Lambda as Kinjou entered- although he seemed nice, she knew not to trust strangers... oddly enough he seemed to flush his cheeks as soon as he saw them... it seemed like Sumina told the truth, he was rather shy. Holding Lambdas hand tightly, she looked at him worriedly from behind the fellow Murakumo.
His smile was... facinating.

Lambda nodded slightly at him as Es took her hand "Thank you." she looked at Es who was hiding behind her "It's okay, hes only here to take us to our rooms." she turned back to the younger beastkin and smiled slightly as she waited for him to lead the way to the rooms, she had no map for this place and so she followed him with Es behind her, the girl was being cautious it seemed.

As the beastkin nodded to the taller of the two, he'd looked from Lambda to Es and smiled again. "It is nice to have guests, the honor is certainly mine to guide you." he'd gestured with his hand to his right, towards the side door. Moving towards it, he'd let his tail uncoil once before leaving it there to relax, he had once again overdone the limb in his fight earlier with Carl. But that was something that he'd be fine with. As he opened the locked door, they would see a change from the gym to a softer cherrywood floor, a more traditional Ikarugan styled home was within. "Right this way."

Es still hid behind Lambda, sometimes looking at Kinjou as they went to their room... his tail, too seemed somewhat interesting... exotic, for the lack of a better word. The well trained beastkin had her eyes locked on him, although that was partially due to her carefulness.

Lambda petted Es's head as they followed the beastkin, she found the tail curious as well but just becvause it was longer than any other beastkin she had seen before, it was interesting but she tore her eyes away and continued to walk with the Es and Kinjou, looking around at the decoration that her database read as Ikarugan achitecture.

The beastkin smiled brightly, well at a bit more ease since they had no questions, his tail had bobbed a little bit, while another second unlooped, though it crackled as the ligaments were left to be free. "My apologies, my tail has been coiled up most of the day. That noise can be disconcerting." he'd made the comment in brief before stopping at a sliding door on the right, taking but a moment to open it up and step inside, the room was decently sized. It had a spacious area, with two small roll up beds presently laid out. "Fortunately the beds and linens were cleaned this morning as a chore. They are freshly washed, dried, and awaiting your uses." he'd said this before offering another option to them, as he thought about it; though he could not be sure. "Or...perhaps you prefer separate rooms? In which case, there is a second across the hall, you could still be nearby each other."

Es shook her head a bit.
"I`d... prefer not to be alone after today... if possible, Lambda..."
She looked over to the blonde, questioningly, before looking back to Kinjou.
"...your tail is fine for me. It looks to me as if it were very handy... if used with dexterity."
Just imagine what kind of things you could do with it... swinging from streetlights, climbing buildings like spiderman, tying up criminals, defending justice...

Smiling, Aoko hung up and pocketed her phone. She nodded her thanks to Kinjou as he left her to her thoughts. Thinking that it would be prudent to wait outside for Takeru's eventual arrival, she stood up and stretched a little to see if her rib will impede her in battle. To her delight, all it did was cause her to wince a little.

"Okay, looks like I'm good to go." She said as she opened the door and left the office. After some walking and looking around, she eventually found Kinjou with two other females.

"Looks like you have guests, Shimazu-san." she said with a teasing smile "Admirers, I presume?"

Lambda nodded to Es.
"I'm fine with that." she looked at the catgirl that had entered and scanned her as a potential attacker, she couldn't be too careful with those in the NOL uniform, she didn't want to cause trouble and instead ignored her and looked to Kinjou "We will have the single room it seems."

"Well yes, I would say that my tail is useful, its the strongest of my limbs." the comment itself wasn't expected, but the small blond seemed to be intrigued by his tail, this led his tail to twitch a bit. He'd seemed to be glad that someone appreciated the tail. He often hid it due to it drawing too much attention when outside. Though as he would address the single room of use, he seemed to gesture about the room while explaining the insides. "Then please consider this room freely yours to use, there is a bathroom to the right, a bath within its confines if you wish to use it."

Though amidst his explanation, Kinjou had only just noticed the appearance of his earlier guest from the gym, he'd looked back to Aoko with a light twitch of his ear. Well he had more company back there than he'd thought. "Aoko-san, these two would be the guest of my family. I believe my mother has assisted them, now they will stay with us for a time." though once that was addressed, he had looked to his new friend. "You would be done resting?" it was more the question, he could only imagine that being one reason she'd come to find him.

"Hi, I'm 1st Lt. Aoko Kisaragi of the NOLSI." the feline beastkin smiled as she offered a hand to greet the two "It's nice to meetcha!"

However, her lips curled into a frown when she saw that Lambda was being wary of her "Anyway," she turned to Kinjou, her expression changing back to it's usual sunny demeanor "Yeah, I got to rest a little, thanks."

She glanced at the window, peering outside to see if her "hired help" had arrived yet "Oh, by the way, I'm expecting a friend to come over to help us with our little 'problem'." she paused, hoping that she caught her drift "Is it okay if we let him in once he arrives?"

Kinjou would give Aoko a light nod, as long as it was in the gym it would be fine. He'd had no real problems with any of there being a friend of hers showing up. He wasn't sure the kind of person that Aoko knew or ran with, but as a Librarium officer he didn't imagine that this friend would be the bad sort, he'd go out on a limb and trust his new acquaintance. He hadn't genuinely known her, he just had a good feeling about lending a bit of trust her way. "Well it will be fine, we can go meet your friend in the gym, mother is still training the students; but it should be fine either in the office or the back room. We can let him in and go from there." While he really wasn't sure what was planned once her friend arrived, he'd play host and find out from them as naturally that seemed it was going to be the nature of the meeting.

"Looks like this is the place..."

Takeru had taken Nu with him along Ronin-Gai, swiftly traversing the streets until they reached the Kurogane Renkon, the dojo of the locally famous Shimazu clan.

"Alright," he paused to turn to the silver-haired girl who came along with him "Let's see if she's here."

He went inside the dojo and, after going further in, he saw the person who called him: Aoko Kisaragi.

"Oh, there's my favorite dhampir!~" the feline looked up to see the two approaching and waved at them with a grin.

"Tch, can ya stop calling me that?" he groaned in annoyance, not remembering that he hadn't told Nu what he exactly was.

----------> From Shimazu Teahouse

Lambda had followed her sensors to the teahouse and entered where Takeru, Nu and Aoko were, she didn't move for a few seconds before her programming kicked in "Unit number thirteen detected in extreme proximity. Battle mode on standby. query subroutine activated." she rhymed monotonously as she had lost herself due to the contact protocols still present within her. She faced Nu from behind "Query."

Nu was just about to ask about the dhampir bit, as a jerk went through her system, a mechanical jolt, several gigawatts of energy directed elsewhere as she stiffened, narrowed down her eye, and turned to face the inferior unit. "Boundary Interface Prime Field Device, Murakumo project, Model 11. State your query." She answered coldly, her singular red eye gazing into Lambda`s like a laser, fiercly burning into her retinas despite looking otherwise disinterested.

Es arrived two minutes after Lambda, and stiffened, stepping back as she felt the tense, threatening atmospherre coming from the sister units that were anything but alike. No word came from her mouth, and despite her minds insistance of warping away, her system wouldn`t react.

Lambda held her stare as she looked to Nu "Unit 11 requires unit 13 to state intentions. Failure to respond will result in termination of unit 13." replying just as coldly as Nu had, she would make a decision based on the response from the fellow unit. She took the other people in the room into account as expendable if things resorted to a fight, not her own feeelings but something that was hardwired into her.