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While Rian and Kyoku attend to negotiations with Konoha, Orochimaru is involved in the just as important task of feeling out their smaller neighbors. Plains, home to Kusa, is still in the aftershocks of turmoil from its civil war, even as brief as that one was. Bandits seem to be overcoming their fear of the Mountain's Graveyard, at least for now. Rapids, home to Taki, will likely go whichever direction Konoha does, and hasn't historically tended to interact much with outsiders anyways. Hot Water is an entity for Kyoku to talk to, after their demilitarization campaign. Frost is traditionally Lightning's ally, but might be moveable...
Rian and Orochimaru coalition build
athousandgold
"We're mostly interested in trading raw materials. Especially things that're useful to the development of medicines. We'd say nothing easily weaponized, but, well, everything is a weapon."
He inclines his head. "Fair enough. It'll depend on specifics, but we have few limits on materials."
He turns the conversation to those specifics, then - preliminary negotiations. It'll be a while yet before they have so much as a draft of the agreement.
athousandgold
It'll be several more rounds of back and forth; still, she's done for now, and she returns with a sense of mild relief.
athousandgold
"Well enough. They're not opposed to the idea, and agreed to initial trade terms, but there's a lot of diplomacy remaining - which I'd rather someone else handle."
outoftune
"That can be arranged. You'll be wanted for any actual exchange of medical knowledge, but for now I should be able to handle future talks."
athousandgold
"I'll see about setting out an educational course. Them sending doctors to us to be trained might be good as an eventual goal of this."
lostdream
He's findable, currently hanging out with his genin team, laughing at something Karin's said.
lostdream
He waves to her when he sees her, splitting off from his team a bit. "Hey, sis," he says, a bit hesitantly.
athousandgold
"Oh, trust me, you guys haven't had nearly enough time to get properly on each other's nerves. That requires a bit of familiarity."
phosphorescent
"We've been doing team building stuff, so maybe won't be long before we can manage a proper intra-team murder attempt."
athousandgold
"Try not to get the blood anywhere important. It's a pain to clean up."
She smiles to hide how shaky the joke makes her feel. Blood still terrifies her, even as it grates on her that she can't do much healing and is stuck as a teacher and coordinator.