The New Winds

Daiokyou has no family name yet, so, there would be no best time to go entirely under the radar and try honing all the skills he couldn't actually use during the Championship. After all, in his head, that was just a fancy thing for a title that wasn't even permanent. So, no need to linger on.

He buys new fancy clothes, packs everything he has at the Inn and gets ready to set for the road before his mother would call for him. The only reminder of his affiliation are the Mantis motifs at the tsuka of his daisho and his dashing physique.

Going down the Inn's stairs with a slight headache, he wonders who else would join him into this amazing Musha Shugyo adventure.

Bayushi Gakihiro looked at the Mantis and shook his head. He sighed. Why do I even bother? He just stepped behind him as the little cat named Ninya purred around the Mantis leg. "I can see who you are... ye scalywag." Came a whisper from behind.

Daiokyou, turns to look at the Socprion and chuckles, saying, "This means I need a wave name and a mask." He picks the feline and narrows his eyes to ask, "What name should I have while unimpeded, Ninya-chan –– which mask should I use?"

"Muuu..." Ninya goes. "You should get a better dresser and make up. That look doesn't quite fit you." He took a seat. A smile crept under his mask and a twinkle in his eyes could reveal he was up to no good.

"A bull?" He cocks his head back, looking at how the cat mooed instead of meowing.

Waving down to his fancy crane clothes, he snorts to the Scorpion "Doesn't fit me? These were expensive I tell you. I'll show Rokugan my greatness despite of clanhood... or clothes."

He shook his head. "It is not about that?" He looked at the Mantis. "You see it is not the clothes, that you need to worry about... It is about the mannerism. It is about trying to imitate what you want." As Gakihiro shook his own hair and styled it so that his eye was patched by it. As he speaks in a raspy voice "Avast ye, ya must belie'e tis ye. As a landlubber, me will be bad pirate but me can be good one."

He tilts his head, saying, "But I haven't even put my accent yet. I can't appear a gentleman of fortune, now. Else everyone will recognize me."

Gakihiro nodded. "Aye, me studyin ya, makin me better at pirate thing, arg." He motioned him to sit. "Sit down laddy and list'n and learn. Ye must understan tha is not jus bout the clothes. Tis bout who ye wanna be?" He move closer. "Who ye wanna be?"

Daiokyou sits down, having some fun with the Scorpion. "I always knew my former self would inspire you into greatness. My new self, now, needs to deliver Rokugan its new age of glory. In this period of transformation, though, I will endure the life of a wave man. Since only being wave, I can fully understand the vastness of the seas."

He waves his hands at the horizon, as if showing the sea, "In this path, I need a name, and a face. The bull is an interesting one. But what's my name?"

Ninya walked over and laid beside Gakihiro. "Chiageya, the land shark... Wha cha think laddy? Wanna be a land shark for e while?"

The Mantis start to laugh, and then writes down on the table with some water the characters:

地鮫

"Jizame." He says, instead. "Kanji for land, and for shark. Mighty jolly name, Bucko!"

"Aye..." He shook his head because being a pirate was daunting on him. He cleared his throat. "Good name indeed. So you may be known now by Jizame. Now where are you from?"

Nijing knew that he had to go, learn more and find out who he really is and find wisdom and maybe a cure to the deep rooted issues within his soul. He already sent a letter to his Lord, to inform him that Nijing would delay his service as a Gokenin to go on Musha Shugajo. This was the easier step. The harder step was telling his Love that he's gonna leave for a long time. From all the preparations he did to ensure a wedding, to suddenly go away was a serious slap in her face, but he needed the time and the space.

Originally going in the Inn to buy some supplies, he walked into two well known faces.
Following behind Nijing was Chen, dressed in a non-marked Ashigaru Armor and carrying a Yari. He approached the two and bowed deep down, in acordance with his newfound status. "This one is Nijing, an Honor to meet you, Samurai-Sama"

Gakihiro looked at the new arrival and shook his head. He sighed. "Welcome Nijing san... Do you really think we need to be addressed as sama?" Gakihiro offered him a seat. "Come on, I am Gakihiro of the Scorpion."

"Etiquette is Etiquette, Gakihiro-san, even when i'm not wiith the crane, i still want to keep up apperances" he said with aslight smile on his Face.

"Aaarr, and I be Jizame!" The Mantis lifts himself up and slams the table with a fist, then looks to the Scorpion, to mutter, "Blisterin' barnacles, th' accent."

Clearing his throat apologetically, he continues, with a bow, "An honor to meet the new you. Nijing-san."

"Oh, you're going on Musha SHuganjo too, Jizame-san?" Nijing inquired.

"Of course!" He says, "Daiokyou is too much for Rokugan yet, Jizame must prepare things for when he comes."

Gakihiro blinked a few times. "Okay... so... am I to be your guide in this?" The Bayushi seemed puzzled. Why are these people that just gotten to chose their names want to follow the path of a musha shugo.

"Hmmmmm" Kenji pondered. "May i wander a bit togheter with you? If you don't mind Chen of course"

Chen stood a bit behind Kenji, stepping on foot to the other seemingly out of place, the Ashigaru Armor he wore was a bit to big for him, but he may grwo into it, if he survives the Musha Shugajo with Nijing,..