Look, guys! It's Skelette!

The tavern of the Swamps village. A rather dusty place, all in all. It seems as though Skelette had been the first one in this place... Huh. Odd. Seems like most of the village was untouched... Was that good, or was it bad? Skelette did not know. Good and bad were not something it could decipher that well...

Regardless, Skelette slowly made its way in, sitting down on some random chair. It was barren. No one. How lonely it felt... But did Skelette really feel? Who knows... "... Chizuuuniii..." Skelette slightly cried out. It seemed like it wanted to make this place lively... Despite Skelette's overly un-lively attitude and personality.

"Ah..."

She walked into the seemingly empty tavern, wandering the various areas of her new "home" nation. It would take some... a lot... of getting used to. Though one sight in particular caught her interest, the hooded figure sitting not too far from her.

She sat by him, completely nonchalantly, grabbing a nearby empty glass and beginning to concoct a drink with her water-based energy... Wonder what sort of mix she'd make today..

Skelette noticed this newcomer, yet did not look toward her. It merely kept its head down, staring at the table. It did, however, begin to speak to her "... Skelette." It would say, as that was it's way of introducing itself. Skelette was not much of a talker, even for a Kage, hence why Chizuni had to do most of the public stuff in the swamps (heh heh heh... Nice cover~!). Skelette was then silent, as if it were awaiting the girl to say something to it...

"Uh?"

Clearly he had said something, but she wasn't sure if it was another language or a name, but sounded awfully familiar.. She played with the word in her head a little bit, thinking up what it might mean..

"Skel-ette... Skeleton... -ette. A girl Skeleton?"

Skelette turned its head, now only its gleaming green eye under the darker than black shadow of the cloak that seemed to be another realm, itself "... Miniature Skeleton. Skelette." Skelette's body then turned around to face the girl, continuously staring at her "... You?"

"Ooh.."

She hadn't thought of that possibility, that the -ette was for something smaller, not just feminine. Ah, well. That must have been the guy's name, at any rate. Playing along, she would decide to introduce herself in a similar manner.

"Brand-new Genin, Umbra~"

Ah, not the effect she'd been looking for.. Tut tut.

Skelette looked down. Its tone was emotionless. It rarely spoke... It needed a medium. Even if it were to talk to her through mental thoughts, which it could only send and could not receive, the words would still come out in the same way... It was time to summon an undead creature.

From under Skelette's robe came a long, thick tail that resembled a spinal cord, made completely of Shini Energy. From this, Skelette would stab it deeeeep into the ground, breaking the floor of the tavern in the process. Skelette was searching for any sort of dead creature that it could re-animate for the time being, so that it could talk for it. Finally, Skelette found something, and it would retract its spinal tail; the skeleton of some sort of tusked man would rise from the ground.

"... Hello. I will be speaking on behalf of my new skeletal master. You are the new Genin of the Swamps? Ah, that is quite good... We have very little visitors. If I had emotions, I'm sure I would be very lonely..." the Tusked Skeleton would say in Skelette's voice.

Oh, well that was certainly interesting. Umbra had heard something about necromancy, but had admittedly never seen anything like it before.

"Huh, so you're a dead guy.. That's a really cool trick you have!"

She was pretty much beaming by now. Her darker.. passions had been in dire need of some spectacle, and here was a.. well, she wasn't too sure what Skelette was.

"Say, Skelette.. who exactly are you around here~?"

The Tusked Skeleton chuckled a bit "... I am the Kage of the Swamps. Or, one of them, rather. It is a rather lonely life out here... No one wishes to come to the Swamps. I have been alone since my existence was brought about. Since magic assimilated itself within my bones, I have been alone..." The Tusked Skeleton looked to Skelette, shaking his head. "... Regardless of my life, what brought you to the Swamps? Or, even moreso, to this lonely old tavern?"

She was paying very close attention to him, which was really quite rare for Umbra to do. Skelette really was a fascinating person - though it would only make sense that she was the Kage aside from Chizuni. Ah, silly her..

"Ah, well.. I tend to wander around a lot, and I got lost in the swamps and found this place~. It felt nice here, so I joined up with Chizuni, though I really haven't seen very many others around here.."

Though she really wasn't too interested in stories anymore; she wanted to learn a few things from this guy now. Ah, that's right he was the other Kage, the one who could do psy.. something.

"Hey, you're the guy that teaches the stuff Chizuni can't, right~?"

The Tusked Skeleton cocked his head "Stuff that Chizuni cannot? Psynergy, you must mean, correct? Yes, I am the master of all of the Psynergies, really. There is one for each of the 4 major elements; Earth, Fire, Wind and Water. Which is your specialty? I can give you a Djinn and you will be free to train with it."

Skelette would then jump out of its chair and begin to slowly move itself to Umbra. A tiny skeletal hand would extend and touch her shoulder, as the Tusked Skeleton awaited her answer.

"O-oh, water.. definitely water!"

She had actually completely forgotten about the drink she had been stirring up, now just a glass full of pitch black liquid-energy. Gah, what a waste.

"You can teach all of them? But.. I wouldn't think such a thing is so easy.."

The Tusked Skeleton shook his head "... Most definitely is not. But I am not normal. Normally, one cannot learn all 4 of the elements. I have, however. Besides, who would be there to teach, if not me?"

Just then, the Tusked Man disintegrated without a second thought, and Skelette used its Body Manifestation ability to manifest itself and Umbra back into the office of the Kage instantly, since Skelette actually moving itself there would take days. Skelette moves so slooow~!