Familiar Faces

Atsu laughs as he plays with his twin brother Ito. His mother and aunt were honestly lucky that although they looked extremely similar, they had two completely different styles, from their hair to their clothes, so their close friends and family are able to pick them out. Atsu stops when he sees Benimaru, their first cousin on their mother's side, and he returns the wish for a good morning back to their cousin. Then Atsu is back to the racing, although his mother and aunt were such spoilsports, not allowing them to use their Blast techniques to go way faster, like they could have done on the training grounds, and in fact, had done before. But it was their aunt's house, and they would only strain and stress their mother, so of course they would follow their aunt's rules.

He stops their playing when he sees their aunt and uncle together through the kitchen doorway, and he comes into the kitchen, breathing heavily from the exertion of their play, but he speaks simply and politely, even though they're his family members.

"Good morning, Aunt Asura. Uncle Mitsuki. Mother said that our cousin had become a ninja and was now a genin, and we wanted to see how far they've come on their training. We wanna see if he's real Kotoshura material!"

His face colors a little with a blush when he realizes what he said might be taken the wrong way and as an insult rather than a compliment.

"Of course, the Thorn of Kotoshura's child would obviously be real Kotoshura material! We're just excited to see him and pl- see how his training is coming along. I didn't even know you two had another son!"

Atsu had nearly called it playing, although that was really what he had in mind. He and his twin always knew how to get into (and even out of) trouble together, but they really enjoyed their playtime, even if their playtime was also just training. Atsu turns to look at Benimaru quizzically; he knew him a little, but he would have never thought little Benji would be able to pass the Academy... which is why Atsu's eyes go wide and his mouth drops when Mitsuki tells him that they have only one son, and that Benji is, in fact, that new genin. Atsu recovers quickly and smiles innocently enough while rubbing the back of his head.

"I er... I see... Well, Benimaru, let's get to know each other! We haven't seen you in, what, a decade and a half! Let's see how you've grown!"

Watching as his brother stop, Ito takes the opportunity to pounce. Running into Atsu where he stands, Ito wraps his arms around him and reach up and mess up his hair. ”It’s time to join the messy hair club! Oh, hey Auntie, Uncle. Good to see you guys!” Ito smiles softly, even as he continues to spin his brother’s hair. It was about this time that his eyes would fall upon Benji. They would grow wide for just a second before returning to their original size, though visibly excited and intrigued.

Ito would look towards his brother as he spoke of testing Benji and accidentally speaking as if he weren't competent. "Pffft, Of course he is Kotoshura material. It's in his blood!" Ito bursts out laughing, before wiping away a tear and turning to Benji. "Heya, Benj. Lookin' kinda big and strong now, huh? Let's go pla- test it out and train. You used to chase us around when you were soooo young. Though we were too but you were younger!" Ito gives a strong smirk as he points to outside with his thumb. "I know it's early, but like, nothing like a great workout in the morning, am I right?" Finally releasing Atsu, Ito would brush off and readjust his clothing and walk up to Benji. Looking way up through the height difference. His smirk would get larger as he approached. It is very obvious that when Ito isn't being entirely serious, he definitely has a very large personality. In any dangerous scenario, Ito most definitely chooses the safest route possible. Luckily this is with family and no hostility involved... yet. "What do you think?"

Benji began giving the twins a side eye and turned around to dump the rest of his drink down the drain before turning back around. Asura on the other hand, grabbed a knife and began cutting the fruit as the twins spoke. When Atsu opened his mouth about testing Benji to see if he was Kotoshura Material, her eyes remained closed and a sinister smile appeared on her face while cutting deep and hard into the fruit, making a deep chop sound. “Whats not Kotoshura Material about my ONLY son… Hmm?” Her cutting began to go faster as Mitsuki put a hand on her shoulder and looked to the boys. “Yes… Benji is our only son.. we never had another although we tried..” Mitsuki’s eyes wandered to somewhere else before looking at Benji who seemed irritated. “Alright..”


Benji straightened his posture and flared down at the two who really wanted to play. “Let’s go play….” Without thinking, he grabbed the two by their shirts and dragged them along to the training grounds, holding tight on them with his B strength. Veins popped out of his forearms, his crimson eyes swirling deep with anger. They insulted not only him but his mother as well. Asura and Mitsuki looked at each other and sighed, expecting a surprise visit possibly from Diana. “He’s your son…” Mitsuki said as he walked to the living room.

Atsu squeaks when it seems he's angered his aunt and probably his uncle as well, since he had inadvertently brought up the topic of their failed attempts at making another child. He hurriedly sputters to try and make the situation right, but he seems incapable of producing the correct phrases to make it clear that he meant no insult to either of the other adults. Instead, he gets grabbed by his collar along with his brother as their taller, but younger cousin leads them both outside. Although he's promising to "play", he has a bad feeling that it's not going to be the same kind of shenanigans that the twins like to get up to, which is usually much more cheeky and fun; he's fairly certain that Benji's shenanigans are going to be cruel and tragic. Which would make this not like shenanigans at all, really. Like evil shenanigans.

Although Atsu tries to escape, he finds that he's not really strong enough to get out of Benji's grip as both he and his twin are pulled outside. Once they're out of sight of the Asura and Mitsuki, he uses the sealless version of the Earth Spear Technique, turning his right arm dark with the power of the Doton chakra rushing over his skin, going all the way up to his chest before smashing raising his right arm to smash it into his own cousin's bulging forearm, mostly aiming to just cause enough pain that the pain response makes him let go of both Ito and himself.

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Just as it was made painfully obvious that Atsu had said something that was at the very least unwarranted, even if it was a misunderstanding, it had angered Auntie and Uncle. After they spoke up, so did Benji bringing Ito's attention back to him just as he starts to reach for Ito. Out of pure instinct and response to obvious hostility that he slightly pushed into being, Ito would get an metaphorical explosion of speed as he matched Benji's speed as he reached for him. Ito would scurry to the other side of Atsu. Noticing that he was having a great amount of trouble collecting his words. Ito would place a hand on his shoulder just as their cousin grabbed him by his collar.

As Ito avoids Benji's grasp with the aid of his Sensing Technique, he would apologize for Atsu's slip up. "Auntie, Uncle. I apologize for what Atsu said. Sometimes he speaks before thinks about the words being said and says things he doesn't mean. It was really an accident and we would never say anything on purpose to hurt your feelings, ever!" Just as he finishes apologizing, he would give a significant bow towards the adults. This was right before Benji then grabbed his collar from the back, while he was in the middle of his sincere bow. It was obvious that he was pissed off, which would be the reason as to why he ignored all of the words that Ito spoke to his parents in apology. Though, his obvious dodging of his impending wrath wasn't helping his anger any at all, so he didn't even fight it. As he was carried away, he would just look the adults in the eyes once again, bringing his hands together and bowing his head as much as he could in that position. After he left their sight, Ito would silently cross his arms and wait for the moment his shirt was released, prepping blast launch for the exact moment.

"Benj, listen. I know you're mad. It's understandable. But take it easy on bro. He didn't mean it. He would never intentionally do anything that would hurt Auntie's and Uncle's feelings. I promise it was an accident."

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Listening to the twins was to no avail. Benji was beyond pissed from how the twins treated his mother and father. Their words went through to him but his anger festered more. Due to his anger rising, his adrenaline spiked, having not feeling much of anything. Ito tried to apologize on behalf of Atsu and for that Benji thought maybe he would go lighter on him. Atsu however would feel his wrath, especially since a sharp pain struck his arm. He had drove his forearm into benji’s arm and all Benji did was move his eyes down to Atsu, glaring menacingly. Atsu had a bit of strength in him, that was for sure. If it could be seen, smoke would be coming out of his nose with how hot he had gone up. Finding his way to the training area, he got into his Arhat stance and threw both of them to the ground, Ito being a bit lighter, by holding back (C strength and landing 6 feet away). Atsu was used with his full strength (B), making Atsu possibly slide against the ground (landing 8 feet away).

Benji’s eyes glared once again towards the two, glowing bright and red with blast charges popping from his hands, almost attempts at making an attack.






With benji’s final words, he grew silent and performed some hand seals and placing his hands on the ground and making the earth cave in under Ito, simply holding him in place. This was to ensure that Ito stayed out of the way since his issue lied with Atsu himself and his mouth. His hair fell over his eyes, making nothing show but his glowing red pupils. Dashing forward, he used once hand to perform another seal, charging up an electric attack and immediately using that same hand to punch Atsu, with a shock of lightning upon contact, possibly pushing him back more. With the punch connecting, a vocal exhale was heard from Benji, sounding deeper and more hoarse. This was the strength of Benji, son of The Thorn of Kotoshura. His eyes never leaving Atsu’s body, never blinking.

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Atsu's eyes widen when he can see that his technique of coating his arm in Doton chakra and attacking the forearm of his cousin isn't going to make him let go, and he decides that continuing to use this jutsu was clearly not going to work that well with his cousin. That's when his brother suggests that what they're going to "play" isn't going to be much of a game, judging by his angry tone. Atsu tries to get his feet up underneath him in another attempt to get out of his cousin's grip and then he squeaks as he watches his brother get thrown before he's given the same treatment, though he gets thrown a bit further away. The hard landing on his tookus certainly doesn't help him with feeling that their cousin is done with them just yet. Then he watches Benji bringing his hands together, and he quickly recognizes that he's performing some jutsu. Not blasting them, then...

Atsu immediately begins performing his own handseals, having to focus to get his own done as he focuses Raiton chakra into his mouth, kneading it around and having to put extra effort into working up enough chakra to really get his technique ready. He notices out of the corner of his eye as his own brother gets stuffed into the ground, but he knows his brother is capable of getting out on his own, so he returns his focus to his own handseals, finishing them just as Benji does his own and approaches the much smaller cousin at quite a fast speed. With his cheeks puffed out by his own Raiton chakra, he's not really capable of speaking, but he thinks to himself in his own mind instead.

"Respect your elders, kid!"

Atsu chooses to focus the technique into its beam form once he sees that his cousin is using the Young Lightning technique, choosing not to weaken the technique by just using its spear form, and relying on the interaction between his own Raiton technique and his cousin's to ensure that he won't be killing or permanently harming his own cousin before opening his mouth wide, expelling a pure Raiton technique aimed directly at his cousin's hand. The shot of Raiton energy shoots out of Atsu's mouth at incredible speed, and pierces right through the Raiton chakra his cousin had gathered for the Young Lightning technique, decreasing the power of Atsu's own technique a bit with enough energy after passing straight through the jutsu to cause an intense stunning pain in Benji's hand all the way up his arm and to his shoulder, should it hit. Luckily, the technique didn't even break his bones, thanks to Benji's improved Constitution, but it would certainly force Benji to pull back from the attack instead of getting a punch in on his own kinsman.

Should the attack land, Atsu struggles up onto his own two feet and dusts kimono and jacket of all that dust he'd gathered being dragged over the ground, then stand with his arms crossed, staring across at his own cousin defiantly.

"Now will you let me apologize?! Jeez, cuz, you're way too hot-headed! You sure we're related?"

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Understanding Benji’s position as Ito and Atsu would be the same exact way if the roles were swapped, Ito would be torn on what to do. Between wanting to protect Atsu and not wanting to make Benji feel disrespected in his nonlethal yet painful punishment, a decision has to be made. Just as he was thinking that, the ground beneath him gave way. Out of pure reaction, a direct result of how much he and his brother played together, he used the clans explosive bloodline trait as best he could. Every step he took was swallowed by the inward spiral of the ground, but with what little amount of distance he had to cover to reach the collision point of the two family members. Luckily the small explosions of the technique kept freeing his feet as he pushed forward.

Attempting to prevent any type of technique collisions, he enters his Arhat Fist stance and tries to turn Atsu’s head away from Benji. Whether he were successful or not, he would still have a plan to form another string of seals. That was his plan, but he definitely didn’t have enough time to do such a thing. Instead, he chose to strengthen his stance and preemptively strike Benji’s technique with a shatter palm, hoping to knock his hand up and over the twins’ heads entirely. Though, if he were unsuccessful, he planned to take the force of the strike himself.

”Benji, please. I understand your feelings, but I feel this is a bit much. Please, Atsu didn’t mean it like that at all.”

It was around this point that Atsu spoke up about being hot-headed and such. This made Ito turn towards him with a response. ”You are pretty hotheaded youself bro, if I had to be honest. Please, can we all just take a deep breath and try to relax a little?” Ito would slightly pat his hand that collided with Benji’s, trying to keep his face from forming a wincing expression while hiding his hand from view of the others.

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As Benji used his attack to go after Atsu, he had formed an attack himself, blaring out Raiton out of his mouth. With just enough time, Ito had moved Atsu’s head which saved Benji’s hand. Benji’s had had gotten hit in just the beginning, giving a light sear, causing him to draw his hand back. He bared his teeth and kept in his Arhat stance, blinded from the rage but also enjoying the danger. The words of Ito and Atsu did nothing to get through to him but one voice did.





A light came back to Benji’s eyes for a moment, seeing his old dear friend, Yuri. Her white hair and blue eyes appeared in his head, her body forming shortly after before what felt like her hands caressing his cheeks. The warmth of her hands made his eyes tear up before being knocked back to reality (oh there goes gravity), a deep breath coming within Benji and having his exhale, a low growl following behind. “Sorry.” He stood up straight, exiting his arhat fist and fixing his clothes, hiding the wince from the sear that was on his hand. “Got a little over heated and took it out on you. Just be sure to watch your mouth around my parents. Just as you said, respect your elders. You may be 23 and I may only be 18 but at least I know when to shut it and act like an adult.” Clearly still upset about the comment from Atsu, he looks to Ito, giving him a soft smile. “No hatred to you. I appreciate you taking over for Atsu but you shouldn’t do that in the future.” As Benji stated, he knew when to act like an adult and now was that time. He clearly messed up and therefore apologized for his hot headed ness and gave a full bow to the twins in respect to their age. Not them as beings. “I’ve got somewhere to go, follow me. I’ll show you a shop of my buddies that he refurbished.”

Atsu only becomes more terrified of the incoming attack as Ito turns his head to ensure that Benimaru isn't going to get the full brunt of the attack, and the Raiton chakra harmlessly dissipates into the open air next to Benji after merely leaving behind a light burn across his fingers after his Raiton technique is pierced by the shot. Atsu is about to berate Ito for interrupting his "punishment" of his own cousin before Benji himself apologizes to them both. Atsu blinks and hurriedly hops up off of his butt, dusting off his black hakama hurriedly to achieve a more respectable appearance for Benji to apologize to; this would be more for Benimaru's benefit and his own, because he likely would feel somewhat disrespected having to apologize to someone sitting on the ground.

"Of course you're forgiven. Please also accept my apology for speaking without tact and suggesting something I didn't mean. I'll watch what I say from now on, even when I'm in an excitable state."

He reaches over then and gently but firmly holds his twin's hand when Benji smiles at Ito despite him clearly being upset still. But then he bows to them in apology, and Atsu immediately returns the bow at the same depth to show both his appreciation and to apologize sincerely for his own wrong-doing. Then when Benji offers to take them to a shop of a friend of his, his eyes instantly light up with excitement, having apparently forgotten that the one leading them to the shop had only a few moments ago been ready to nearly kill him with a single punch. He lets go of Ito's hand when he starts to follow Benimaru, but he does invite Ito along with excitement; Ito is his twin brother, but he's also his own man and can decide if he wants to come with them or not. That said, Atsu still wants his brother along, since it seems like Ito is the one that Benji is more willing to listen to.

Ito releases his breath as the two apologize to each other, though it seems rather weird and sudden for how quick Benji's attitude changed during the encounter. As Benji speaks on Ito's interference, Ito takes in every word only to reply with a nonagreement of his statement.

"With all due respect, I understand where you come from as you say such things. But Excessive force due to a misunderstanding and wrong choice of words, that by the way Atsu had full intentions of attempting to rescind his words as much as possible. He only stumbled at the anger of Uncle and Auntie. I can guarantee it. Granted..." Ito turns to Atsu while he speaks, giving a slight pause as he does. "You most definitely should have chose your words better. Mom has told us to refrain from saying such things about that topic. And to be honest, I kinda feel like I shouldn't have interfered." He smiles sheepishly after speaking this out, knowing he only chose to stop the scenario due to the fact he didn't want his brother to be hurt and nothing more. He looks to the two of them awaiting any type of response if they had one at all.

Ito then turns towards the house, thinking about how the adults feel about everything that transpired. Going in and fully and formally apologizing about everything is the only right thing to do before leaving and heading out to this place Benji suggested. Ito would refrain from releasing Atsu's hand as they attempted to walk off as he felt it was wholly necessary to do such things "Before we head out, let's go back inside and apologize about what was said and for the actions we all performed in their presence. And obviously we would start with Atsu." With this, he would slightly tug on his brother's arm while taking a step towards the house. Doing so with a normal styled grin on his face. "This time don't stutter and stumble bro, hehe!" It would be then that Ito would release Atsu's hand before darting inside to prep their situation.

Reentering the kitchen seeing the 3 elders standing and talking amongst themselves, they look up towards Ito as he enters. Ito looks back behind himself, hoping to see the other 2 following behind him as he opens his mouth to speak. "Auntie. Uncle. Mom. We have some things we would like to say to you guys about what happened a few moments ago." He would wait for the other 2 to enter and speak out, hopefully about such things he thought needed to be touched on.

Benji nodded to Ito, hearing him out while hearing Atsu’s apology, followed by an equivalent bow. Benji crossed his arms and looked away for a moment. “Intentions or none, still.” His eyes drifted back to the boys, his head following behind. He gave a sighed, his shoulders raising and lowering as they did. “Look. My mother is my world. She is my hero and my heart. Someone I fight for mainly.” His tone of voice getting a bit serious now. “She is someone that I would kill for. I would like to refrain from doing that, especially if it involves my mom.” Now getting that out, his personality changed and he clapped his hands together. He gave a smile to the two and nodded in agreement. “Right.”


Cut to the house, all three boys were on their knees, Asura completely laying into them. “Benimaru Kotoshura, you KNOW better! You should’ve used your head instead of your fists. You may be my child and I understand you want to protect me but I can protect my own feelings!” “Yep that’s right.” His father chimed in with his arms crossed. He was clearly terrified of his wife and only agreed to prevent himself from getting involved into the scolding. “And YOU!” Asura pointed to her husband.


Cut to.. all the boys on their knees, still being laid out by Asura.


Benji was quite used to this as he was a troubled kid. He knew her words and shouting were only from caring and loving them. Benji was right though. Asura crossed her arms and looked at Ito who spoke up first. “Go on..” She muttered. Benji looked up, realizing he had lifted from a bow and put his head back down. “M-Mom I am sorry for starting a fight with my cousins. I didn’t like how they disrespected you in your own home and especially with bringing up a sensitive topic.” His voice trembled every now and then, fearful of what may come. Asura crouched down to Benji, ruffled his hair and gave a giggle. Followed by a distant slam that made birds even flock away from the house.


Cut back to the scene again… except Benji is in the floor with a large bump on his head.


“Anyone else?”

Atsu is terrified when holding his twin's hand seems to backfire as Ito insists that they return to Benimaru's house to face the wrath of Asura and Mitsuki so he can apologize personally to the two of them for his insensitive wording earlier, and though his next words use the plural "them" and "they", he's only really remembering the way Asura was holding that large chopping knife.

"D-don't you think we should go and apologize to them when they've er... had a few hours or days to calm down?"

Despite his suggestion, he knows his twin brother is right, so he follows after him anyways, leaving all three of them in a dangerous situation as Atsu keeps his head down, though his eyes are wide and fearful. Of course, after Mitsuki chimes in out of turn, he ends up kneeling with the rest of the boys in their near-groveling for her to let bygones be bygones, and all Atsu could think was how scary she was. Benji speaks up and is the next to feel her wrath, so when Asura asks if anyone else has something to say, he simply bows down until his forehead touches the floor in full submission to this dangerous wife.

"I-I'm sorry."

Seeing Auntie rip into the other two as they all sat kneeling in front of her, Ito produces a couple of sweat drops on his forehead, but was still slightly confident in his own status within the situation. He hadn’t said anything out of turn or acted rashly like the other two so he was just expecting to get the tail-end of her wrath, though it is entirely unpredictable what she would have to say to him for this whole situation. At the very least, he cultivated this scenario, he can’t punk out now. Waiting for his turn to speak, he contemplates what he should say even though there isn’t much for him to apologize for in his mind. It would be best to have something at the very least. Sadly, as time ticked on he slowly became more worried being unable to think of anything. More sweat grew on his forehead and the sides of his face, as he became more nervous as to how she would respond. Maybe she would let him off for leading the charge of apologies before and after the whole situation? Maybe she would call him entitled for not admitting to anything and discipline him accordingly. Anything could happen.

As Benji finished his apology and received his corrective talk, all eyes fell to Ito, awaiting the possible apology. He would bow his head and take a deep breath before opening his mouth to speak. ”Auntie… I’m sorry for even speaking towards Benji as such after Atsu’s comment and partially instigating this whole ordeal. I hadn’t thought it was a big deal until I noticed you all become upset. I was late to realize what was said and hope to be more perceptive and considerate from now on.” Ito would sit on his heels for a moment awaiting his dose of the situation. Silently and accepting.

Asura, now steaming with anger from her face and fist from beating Benji into the ground, her expression turns normal when Atsu apologizes from genuine fear as well as Ito being the more mature of the two. Asura sighed and gets down to their level and raises both of their heads so they could look at her. She takes a deep breath in and exhales, giving a smile. “I don’t blame either of, however, Atsu, your comment did hurt. I know you were unaware of our incident but I accept your apology. I’m mad at Benji for taking you guys to teach you a lesson. He is a bit of a hot head and he is my only son. Please excuse his actions and I hope he does not do it again.” She offers a small head bow as an apology before bringing her head back up. “Benji.” “Y-YES MA’AM.” Benji got up immediately with perfect posture and stood almost at attention. “Your friend came by, he wants you to go to his shop.” Asura stated before handing him a piece of paper with Fro Tetsudashi’s signature. Benji sighed and took the paper and gave a weak smile. “Thanks, ma.” Asura gives him a back handed slap on the back of his head and huffs. “Now take the twins along with you and DONT FIGHT!” Benji winced from the slap and he chuckled, rubbing where she had hit him. “Y-yes ma’am. C’mon you guys.” Benji heads out the front door and heads towards the shop where his best friend made armor and weapons. Maybe he had something ready for Benji?

Atsu almost feels like bowing in apology again when Asura apologizes as well, but he refrains from doing so because it might end up making her mad again. Although this time, he also doesn't want to feel guilty for making her mad, as well as fearful of her anger.

"Ah, of course I accept your apology whole-heartedly, Auntie Asura."

He honestly seems more surprised that Asura also chose to apologize, but he's certainly not going to deny her the acceptance. But it looks like they were always destined to go to Benji's friend's place, since Benji was also given a note from this other person. Atsu hops up easily enough, wincing as Benji earns himself another smack from his own mother, and firmly stuffing down his giggle at Benji being given more punishment; he doesn't want to earn a smack like Benji did. Benimaru at least seems to recover quickly and starts leading his twin cousins towards his friend's shop anyways, so Atsu quickly follows, dragging his twin brother along.

"Thank you for having us over Auntie Asura, Uncle Mitsuki... Let's go, Ito!"

Ito being surprised as to not have received as much of a talking to as the other two, he was left unexpectedly in tact. Watching for the rest of the time as Auntie Asura spoke of Benji receiving a message, they were dismissed to leave the house and head out on an errand. Funny enough, the errand was just the same thing Benji had intended to do before Ito brought all of them inside to apologize. Some sort of shop owned by Benji's friend of sorts. Unknown to the twins but all the more fun and exciting, Ito grew more and more excited as they exited the house starting their trek.

"Hey hey, who is it from? What's this shop? Is it fun? I hope its fun. Atsu, what you think it is?"

Ito begins to speak as if he were a kid headed to a new candy store, although actually he doesn't like candy so maybe a different analogy would have been more suitable. Nonetheless, he was very excited to see what all of this was about. Wasn't before long that he would poke fun at Atsu during their walk as it all starts by him flipping Atsu's hair out of place and then darting off down the road releasing his signature Ito giggle, very subtle and spicy all in the same.

Benji shook his head, giving a simple smile to the twins. “It’s a shop of my friends. I need to visit him to see if he came make me a weapon. Maybe he’ll make you guys some weapons too.” He added on. Benji’s eyes darted back to Ito however when he asked if it’s fun. “I would suggest keeping your arms, legs, feet and hands to yourself while in this shop. It’s been redone and I would really hate to damage anything.” He said with more a warning tone. Silence filled between the three after that, Benji leading the way to fro’s shop which was in the Testudashi district. It was quite aways and honestly took maybe 20-30 minutes walking to the shop just with the speed Benji was walking at. He did this on purpose to hopefully tire the twins out so they wouldn’t be as energetic. Upon arriving, Benji had opened the door and knocked as well, calling out. “Fro? You in here? I’ve come to stop by and brought a couple of people.” He said while walking in. The shop looked a little bit different, more updated and honestly a bit roomier to him. He walked up to the counter, waiting patiently for his friend to show up. Looking around, he saw the familiar face of Fro at the counter which Benji walked up to, giving a small wave. “Yo, Fro! How’ve you been?” There had been at least three chairs pulled out already, seeing as Fro expected them to come by. “These are my Cousins. Atsu and Ito.”

Atsu blinks at the shop that the twins are being led to, before he meets Fro himself, being introduced simply as Benimaru's cousins, and not as Iwagakure's Own Blasting Twins. Atsu might have pouted if they weren't in front of a stranger, and so he instead ignores the (imaginary) slight and graciously accepts a seat as well as the offer for a drink, and he sits next to his twin brother as his intelligent eyes travel around the shop. He turns to look as Abby is introduced to them as well, and they're given the offer of a drink of tea from the Great Dragon Jade Shop, seen to by the assistant herself. His face flushes a bit as Abby calls them cute, but he uses some effort to keep himself from grinning like an idiot as the assistant moves closer to them. Despite the offer of tea from such a famous establishment, he also doesn't want to have to inconvenience Abby too much for her to go all the way out there for the tea.

Then he blinks when Fro calls them both kids, and he looks at Ito for a moment before getting one of his wicked grins on his face, and he turns back towards the master of arms and armor with the same grin on his face, though now it's one of almost childlike innocence as he finally gives his answer about what he'd like to drink while Fro is busy asking Benji what he came over to the shop for.

"I'll have a pint of beer, please!~"

At this moment, seeing two new individuals, especially after the ordeal back at Benji's house, they seemed to form a very welcoming aura. Even though their reactions and words pointing to the twins' size, this only proved to become a funny and interesting situation. A situation that is bound to be fun as Ito had asked on the way to the shop. About now, the one named Abby speaks up after Fro, mentioning how cute the twins were and not to be scared of Fro because of his being a workaholic and a follow up statement of them being called kids. Ito would grin at this before retorting.

"Even though you call us cute, it's only right to return the compliment to you as well. Oh. and also, the only kid here that I know of is Big Benj himself, hehe." Ito would chuckle a bit before watching for the reactions of the two new additions to his mental friendship log book. He would wait a second before speaking up again and following suit of Atsu's order, should they have beer in the first place. Afterwards, he would walk around and attempt to find a place to just sit and relax for a bit.

Benji glanced to the twins and scratched his cheek nervously, already getting an idea of what they had in mind. “Don’t mind them…” He gave a small chuckle once again before getting pulled away from the three and to Fro’s side. His eyes widened when Fro began asking a bunch of questions in regards to why he was coming around and Benji began belting out laughing. “I can’t hold it anymore… my cousins aren’t children, they’re 23…” Benji continued to chuckle before wiping some tears off of his face and patted fro’s back. “I’m only here because you said that you’d be able to make me my weapon, right? Maybe you can make some for them too.” He asked politely, nudging him as well, almost as if he was begging fro. Benji glanced back at the twins and began pointing and yelling to them. “Oi! Just because I’m not over there doesn’t mean act up!” He made a fist before returning to his friend. “Well, what do you say?”

Atsu grins as he watches the chaos he'd instigated come to fruition, sitting back and kicking one leg over the other while Benji and Fro talk to one another and Abby seems confused, since one of the boys that looked so young had asked for alcohol, and goes to check on them. He even lets out a little bit of a stifled giggle when Benji gets his cheek slapped before she returns to let them know that they would have an ally with her if their cousin got out of hand. Although, Atsu figured that he'd have a hard time of that; his mother was far more scary than Benji was. Being the Thorn of Iwagakure made her quite a terror. In any case, he brings his attention back to Fro and Benji as they approach once more, with the twins being shown something like a catalogue of various weapons that Fro had the blueprints for. Although Atsu himself was more interested in figuring out armor, that didn't mean he couldn't use some of these ideas for his own armor, or even nab a weapon from Fro himself, though probably for a cost.

"Ah, these weapons are..."

Unfortunately for Fro, Atsu doesn't sound quite so excited by the sight of them. Instead, he looks up at Fro, after peeking at Benji's weapon and not finding that particularly exciting either, and decides he could probably come up with something a little more... imaginative.

"They're interesting, but what about this; I figure if I can focus my Blast Release through a tube, I could increase its range by almost a hundred percent."

He starts drawing on a napkin with a nearby crayon before turning over the crudely-drawn "blueprint" to Fro, showing him a pair of hard metal pipes connected via a chain between the two, with the words "really strong metal" and a set of arrows pointing at the tubes as well as the chain. Like that needed much explaining. Other than the open ends, they really just looked like a pair of nunchakus.