Seeing the state of the brothers, the people in the village initially thought the worst until they saw the headbands. It was then we were taken to their house. Their mother and father were worried about Juro. They gave him a big tounge lashing and a physical beating. But after that corporal punishment, they expressed how proud they were of him for passing the genin exam so early. Their father was smiling and asked to boys to tell the rest of the family all about the exams. Aside from the mother and father, there were 12 children in the household. 10 boys. No wonder they had names like Goro, Rokuro and Juro. They were the 5th, 6th and 10th sons. They were a bit wary, but they told the full tale with no details being left out. They were all horrified about the rape. When they heard we saved them, everyone looked at us. I simply nodded my head. I had to say something cool. "Think nothing of it. Anyone would do the same." I said. The father said "Nonsense! You have done our clan a great favor and we repay all of our debts." There we go! "We just want a place to live in and work." I said. He smiled at us.
A major clan has 100 active ninja or more. A minor clan needs at least a dozen. The father, Yukiya Kirume, was 3rd in line for the clan head position out of 4 siblings. His father, Naruhito Kirume was the head of the clan and it's founder. There were 30 active ninja now. Naomi Kirume, Naruhito's first child and Yukiya's eldest sister had 2 children. Both were ninja. Mio, the second daughter had only 1 daughter. She was sickly since birth. Naoya, the 4th child and second son of Naruhito had 2 sons and 2 daughters. 1 of each were ninja currently. This was the main family. Naruhito had a younger brother and sister as well. They each had an extended family with their own children and grandchildren as well. Even more relevant was that they already had a branch house. A bastard son was born to Naruhito's sisters 3rd daughter. She had proved her own worth and had even developed her own technique that made her line distinct from the rest of the clan. Due to this, the Kirime branch was also living in the village. When they got to 12 ninja members, they would be their own distinct clan too.
Being brought in front of the assembled clan was a very intimidating matter. Keisuke and I brought to the main hall were the clan head lived. It was in the complex of the clan head. The founder was flanked by his siblings. On either side of us, their children lined the walls. We had to sit in a respectful position. I did not know much about the proper protocol, so I let Keisuke and Yukiya do all of the talking. As for my body language, I followed Keisuke's lead and did everything he did. Eventually talk came around to our origins. Keisuke was able to satisfy them by going into great detail about Kira. They seemed to be assuming that I was from the same village, or at least that I had been there recently. I was not going to correct them. We were allowed to live in one of the spare storage houses. It was cramped and damp, but they promised that we would be given homes as soon as the builders could get the supplies and we could prove our worth. I could see that my status changed. I was now a retainer of the Kirume Clan. I also saw the relationship between the Akaime Clan was totally hostile.
