@Zenny:
1) Yeah, I know you're busy. Hence why I tried defending the stance on that. Like I said, there's just somethings one can let slip by -- just as allowing a bijuu to be taken OOCly when both parties already agreed to it. It was 'taken' some weeks ago, if memory serves, so I figured there was no need to do so. Hence why I used the whole "no using bathroom" analogy to explain that some things should just be left alone. But, all's well, if you're going to RP-it out, then go ahead; though I figure since she left Kumo now, it'd be all the more fun to just take it by using some nin to pick it up. Saves you trouble.
2) I still see the council as something we know of, but do not need exclusively. Like I stated in my first post: anyone's opinion is just as good as everyone's. I mean, what if everyone from the council is offline? Kinda boned on that one. I guess it can be seen as an 'official' ruling, if anything -- though I do fail to see what makes it so official if someone else had said the same thing. No need to postpone a fight so a handful of people can make a verdict on something like that, in my opinion. I'm still down for trial and error, however, so we can elect, let's say, 10 active members or something.
3) I don't see why Gobi would be given back to Kiri; Kyu gave it to you, through means unknown to the shinobi world, but that doesn't count as an inactive host -- just one who sought an ulterior motive with their bijuu that didn't involve its previous village.
4) 3rd&4th are currently being elected for. So far we have Nathan for Yonbi and Mioku for Sanbi. I'd have no problem with Nathan's position, but Mioku's seems rather iffy. I've yet to, really, see him RP as of late. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough (who knows?), but we need active people to resume active. To just jump-start RP is kind of a challenge.
5) Trading? Well, as odd as it seems of an action, it can rid us of two problems:
Finding a home for the turtle and taking it from an inactive.
But then bring up the problem of: Now we're looking at a home for Gobi. It's like an orphanage exchange program - as morbid as a thought that may seem to some.