The wedding is still underway. After the classic cake-cutting and -eating scene, Shoda and Shigeko snuck off for a bit of…training? Meanwhile, Tokuzen’s daughter, Kohana dives in and wrecks the cake. Fortunately, the Drunken Brothers had a spare cake made in case of such a catastrophe. Then Taiken skillfully cut the cake with his awesome Fuuton skills. Not long after, the Hyuuga couple returned, and their first dance commenced. Currently, the reception is on their second song, being played by super awesome DJ Hinote, the Tsukikage.

But outside the land of the Naruto RPG, I’ve been doing a few things in Bleach. Most notably are the addition of two new characters to my roster: Yokoto Setsuna and Rundi. Setsuna is at E-Rank, the lowest possible, and I plan to slowly work her up to skills. Starting from Shinou Academy, she’s in the Onmitsukidou program (or Ninjagami, as I like to call them when I don’t think I can spell it). Rundi, whose surname I’m still deciding, is the Sexta (6th) Espada. I’m still working on him, which is why Kuro and I are practicing together in the Bleach Waiting Area.

Last night, I sat down and worked on a sketch for Rundi, thinking having a clear image might help me think of him and his characteristics. After spending a lot of time trying to draw in Kubo’s style and me messing it up with the final features, I got frustrated and began to draw randomly, luckily creating this image you see. It may not be the neatest or cleanest, but I like it.

Elsewhere in Bleach, Kurai got in a little scuffle with Kidou Corps chief Neriki. It didn’t last very long, but it was quite the short show. After Kurai finally passed, he checked out Karakura, only to find that any event there that he had sensed was already over. He was too late, due to the shinigami delay. So, he returned to the Kamenjin base, finding someone new inside.

In other news, the current badge battle is a Pinky Battle Royal! Not to mention, it’s being run by Dorian. I guess you can call it his first act of pinkness.

Since the meeting was dragging on, and the details were mostly all worked out, Shoda called the meeting to an end. Well, also because the Kazekage, Tsuchikage, and Sonchou of Otogakure had already left. If everyone’s leaving, might as well end it all, right?

Another thing that came to mind is how since September, there has been this whole war thing going on in the Naruto RPG. It finally clicked: this is what’s slowing everything down. The alliances, the wars. And these sorts of things should have been an event to begin with. Everyone was forcing themselves to take part in this mess, but did everyone really want to?

This was giving the characters playing village leaders too much power. They were deciding for every character within their village about who their friends and foes were. You know, that’s not cool. It’s too bad we didn’t realize this until too late. The Naruto RPG could’ve been somewhere more fun now. But all we can do is learn from this, and stop the war thing that just one or two people are pushing from continuing. It isn’t fair if only one or two RPers control the fate of everyone else’s.

Anyway, moving on, the preparations for Shoda and Shigeko’s wedding are happening right now! A group of people from Konoha headed over to the old, deserted Konoha, along with Kinyoubi and Neriki. They’re going to fix it up a bit so that the wedding ceremony can be held there. Then, after Shoda basically kicked out all the village leaders, he sent Zeni to Kankyou Town, the place where the wedding reception will be held.

This all seems to be working out well.

In some other Naruto RPG news, Versin is still in Kirigakure, but is trying to escape now. A little while back, I began using one of my new characters. She is a Genin Suna-nin named Nagahama Hiromi. However, she goes by Hiro. I started posting with her again today.