<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fe/Bishi_samurai.jpg)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Akito</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FthbqOIk5UoRl1J8YFPQLot7c2Kvsx8kDJ8n_JtuUE/edit</div></div><br/>Akito gave a small but very warm smile.  "Hajimemashite, Ai-chan," he replied, then took a step ahead of her and, staff in hand, started off in the indicated direction at a jaunty pace.  "I've met many people from many lands, but never someone from the turtle clan."<br/><br/>Some time later, when they were a good distance down the road from the capitol, he paused and let the vigilance with which he'd traveled so far relax.  He smiled to himself.<br/><br/><em>One more step, and this will be further from home than I've ever been before.</em>He would take this opportunity to remove his daisho and tuck it into his obi, just bellow his fan.<br/><br/>“I think this will be a very great adventure.”<br/><br/>Akito took the next step.