Jutsu sat at her office table with a big grin on her face. She was working on a pile of paper work? She neatly stacked them to the side as she finished them one by one. "That's great, now for the next stack." She stood up and walked to the desk near the window and puled out a news stack. Before going back she opened the window and headed for the desk when someone knocked on the door. "Come in," she said as she sat down.

Saruka walked in and saw Jutsu...smiling while she did paperwork. He just stood tehre stunned. "ummm..." Saruka stammered. "Are you smiling?"

Jutsu looked up. "Sure am." She stamped another paper and walked away from the table. "What's up?"

"you hate paperwork..." Saruka said, still pretty much paralyzed from her smiling while doing paperwork. "don't you?"

"Yes I do," she said still smiling.

"............" Saruka just stood there, amazed. "is that smile going to go away any time soon, it's scaring me...."

Jutsu started laughing. "Okay okay." She sat on her esk. "What brings you to the stealth?"

"Just checking in, I'm going to the Mist next. Anyways, what's up with the creepy smile???"
Saruka asks, a little fear returning to his voice remembering jutsu smiling while doing paperwork.

"Oh nothing. Just alot of family stuff going on. Tenkuu's going to take the chunin exams, Sky's taking the Jonin. Jay's trying for ANBU. And Sukai and me are going to hang out later after I get off. And i think I'll stay Kage for just a while longer."

"Jay's pretty ambitious isn't she" Saruka sighed. "i wish that was always a good thing..." Saruka looked at the ground. Then looking back up. "That's great though. about all that"

"She's doing better now though. She wants to move back to the snow though." Jutsu shrugged. "We talked about Micah going to the Akatsukis and how heartbroken she was that he didn't even think twice about her before he made the decision." Jutsu looked into the sky. "I hadn't know she cared that much about him."

"as a parant, it's probably good to talk to your kids really often about their lives. I would if I could, but I don't know her Momo went." Saruka said the last bit with sadness in his voice.

"What do you mean you don't know where Momoshiro went? he's your kid for Gods-sake Saruka!" Jutsu leaned to the side. "Did he leave with Mamodo?" She asked quietly.

"Ya. I don't know the reason, I think it's cause kids his age like their mom more." Saruka said in a whisper. "I miss them, not Ichigo, but Mamodo and Momo..."

Jutsu stayed quiet trying to figure out what to say. "Um, I'm sorry I brought it up." She gave a smile. "So how's Kokujo?"

Saruka smiled, trying to forget the conversasion. "Kokujo's doing great, he's almost the leader of the ANBU in my village already."

"wow, he is doing great." She grinned. "he'll be better than you one day."

*Saruka hits Jutsu on the back* "that wasn't nice...He'll be better than every ninja one day."

Jutsu giggles. "Well see about that."

"with my training it's a sure fire thing!" Saruka suddenly sounds as he did when he was young again. Hyper with enthusiasm and optimism.

"Okay, don't get all kiddy on me Keda." She smiled. "How the Death Valley?" She tossed some papers to the side and pulled out a book and started writing in it.

"normal, kinda lonely though." Saruka quickly shook his head to get the thoughts out of his head. "sorry, we're doing fine, less paperwork than normal."

Jutsu smiled. "Lonely huh? Maybe you should recruit. Adversitse. There's plenty of loners out there now a days. Rogues too, and if you don't mind Akatsuki, get them."

"that's not what I meant" Saruka whispers under his breath.

Jutsu blinks. "Oh....that. Well...go find...." Jutsu scratched her head. She gave a smile at her thought and grinned. "You know Ruka, just look."