Now, if my characters are OOC, excuse me for it please? I sometimes get out of hand. Arigatou! Oh, and I added some people from WOTN in here! ^-^
Kiami is Maeko((Truth child))
Snow-kun is Toshiro((Talented))
Poe-kun is Reizo((Calm; Cool; Well-groomed))
Silence surrounded the dense forest just outside of Konoha's gates. A younge Konoichi still against a hollow tree as she panted softly from the lack of breath.
"You really think she went through here," one missing-nin asked his partner, who looked in deep concentration.
"Yes, I can feel her. Her chakra is running low, but it's there," he answered in a cold whisper. His red eyes scanning the thick trunks of the trees, the tree tops making sure that no shadows were unseen, even looking low, with every rustle in a bush being searched.
"Yo, Itachi, what if she already went into Konoha?" Kisame asked irritably, placing his huge sword against his shoulder.
Itachi glared at the forest for a bit more before turning his gaze to meet Kisame's. "Your probably right. That's what a smart one would do. We'll get her sooner or later. Even if she didn't go into those gates, she'll die in a matter of ours. Too many wounds to the body," Itachi stated factly, walking away while placing his straw hat over his head, Kisame following after.
"Yeah, let the squirt die. She's too much trouble," Kisame snidely remarked. "Plus, she hasn't eaten for days."
Maeko, the konoichi hiding against the tree, sighing tiredly and slumping down on the branch. "That was close. Those idiots, really thinking I'd be stupid enough to run away and not take food with me? Ha! And they call themselves the top missing-nin's. Big jokes," she laughed, jumping down from the high branch and landing on her feet after a small tumbling stop. "So, Konoha? If they say it's safe, let's really see..."
Walking up to the gates cautiously, looking back at every step she took, she looked up at the gaurds standing before her. "State your business," one demanded, not rudely, but enough to show he wasn't playing around.
"I'm a travler looking for a place to stay..." She answered immediaty, pleasing the gaurds.
"Than you will need to see the 5th Hokage first. Name?" The second asked, starting to walk forward through the doors.
"Hiname Maeko," she answered once again, taking in the comfty features of the village. "What country are we in?"
"The fire country. What Konoichi dosn't know that?" He asked incredulously.
Maeko shurgged embarrassingly. She had never been in the outside world for long. As soon as she was born, she was handed over to a foster family. And when they died, her only 7, she wondered around the forest aimlessly and was captured and made a slave for the Akatsuki. "I didn't get out much where I lived," she said, somewhat truthfully.
The gaurd half nodded, looking back forward and reaching a tall building, climbing a few steps before reaching a door. Soon she was surrounded by shadow as she entered the cooling building, still following the gaurd, up another flight of stairs. "Here we are. Hold on one minute," she said sternly.
Maeko nodded, looking around the building, listening closely as she heard the gaurd knock softly on a door, then a hoarse reply coming coming from behind it.
"Go ahead. You can handle it from here," he said, walking away, heading back to his post.
"Arigatou..." she muttered, twisting the knob and stepping into the room unasure if she should just leave. "Hello?" She shyly whispered.
"Come in fully. I don't bite," a blonde haired woman said smiling friendly.
Maeko twitched a small smile, stepping in full and closing the door softly behind her. She walked forward, bowing respectfully as she stared at the hokage in the eyes.
"How may I help you...Umm."
"Maeko. Hiname, Maeko. I wish to stay in Konoha...If that is okay...?"
"Ahh, well, welcome Maeko. I am Tsunadae, and it is fine to stay. Let me just find somewhere that you can stay," Tsunadae said sweetly. She shuffled through some papers that were piled on her desk, pulling out a thick folder and opening it quickly. Then once again shuffling through more papers. "Ahh! Here we go. Before I tell you where your staying, how old are you? Did you participate in a academy before? And if you did, do you know your rank?"
Maeko racked up the questions in order in her brain, then took a breath, "I am 13 years old, no I have never particapated in an academy before, and I don't know my rank." She admitted.
Tsunadae nodded, writing down some information before looking up and throwing a pair of keys Maeko's way. "Wait another minute," Tsunadae not really asked, but commanded.
Wrapping a message around a messanger birds foot, they waited about 15 minutes before 2 boys entered through the door, boring before Tsunadae. "Toshiro, Reizo, meet your new team mate, Hiname, Maeko."
Toshiro looked like he was about to protect before Tsundae shot him an annoyed look. Sighing in defeat, Toshiro glared at Maeko lightly, who glared right back.
"Okay now kids, you aren't 6," Reizo said laughing.
"Now go on, show her around the village too!" Tsunadae yelled after the three ninja's.
********
((Outside the building))
"Well, I'm Jinri, Reizo. And this stubborn ninja is Kirou, Toshiro," Reizo said kindly, bowing before Maeko, who blushed shyly.
"Nice to meet you," Maeko said, clearing making out that she wasn't too fond on getting to know Toshiro. "How old are you?" She said, clearing seeing that he wasn't of her age.
Reizo laughed, placing a hand on his head embarrassingly, "I'm 14 1/2. Toshiro's 13."
"Oh, well you look older than that. About 15 or so...your tall...Anyway, I'm 13 too," Maeko said.
"That's-" He was cut off when Maeko was suddenly bumped into and thrown to the floor.
"What the-" she started to yell, glaring at what bumped into her. A boy with Raven black hair and cold black eyes. "Watch where your going, you blind bat!" Maeko yelled.
"Hn," He replied coldly, getting up and dusting himself off, walking away with his hand in his pockets.
"Who the hell was that!?" Maeko yelled, getting up with Reizo's help.
"Uchiha, Sasuke. He really dosn't get along with anyone. And by the looks of it, you already made his bad list," he said with a smile.
"Good. Because he surely made mine," Maeko hissed, glaring at the direction that Sasuke walked off in. "I'll get him back for it..."
"Whatever, think evil plans later. Let's go, we still need to show you around and to your apartment," Toshiro joined in, rolling his eyes.
"Yea, let's go..." Reizo said, starting to wlak away.
Maeko followed after, plotting in her head how to get back at the Uchiha.
Last edited by Angelic Harmony on Sat Feb 23 2008, 10:58; edited 2 times in total