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INDENT Upon noticing her arrival, Kaito quickly moved himself to the inside of the booth. Arina grinned setting herself down beside the young man. Kaito looked down to face Arina and asked her how her morning had been going so far. The young girl let out a deep, exhausted sigh and dropped her forehead against the table top counter with a large thud. It had been eventful to say the least but how to put it into words, that was the appropriate question. She carefully lifted her forehead from the counter and rubbed a soft spot, which she seemed to have caused injury from the fall to the table, with her palm. “Err,” Arina opened her mouth as if to speak up but quickly bit her lip, “I spent most of my time at the docks just admiring the environment and did some training later on.” It wasn’t as if he asked the entirety of her morning. For whatever reason, the cloud version of Kaito’s head and hair brought itself to the forefront of her thoughts. The girl giggled turning a light shade of red when Kaito then asked about the shop. “You have never been here before?” The young girl questioned with an odd look on her face. Was it awe, amazement, amusement or disbelief? One may never know what went through that odd girl’s mind sometimes. “Don’t you know something about ramen outside of just shops though?” The young girl questioned. She held too high of expectations. There weren’t many her age who excelled and enjoyed cooking as much as she. “Hm, what kind of foods do you enjoy? Salty, spicy, ect? I can order something for you if you like but later on, we are going to have a one-on-one about this.” Arina held her pointer finger in an upward manner with that matter of a fact look upon her face.

INDENT Arina turned around when she heard Chario barking. The excited young pup jumped onto the top of Lerry’s head causing him to slightly go off balance. Of course, the results of the young pup’s actions could have been much worse. The young boy laughed lightly asking how it was going and about the payment of the ramen shoving his hands into his pockets, which Arina assumed was a way of him suggesting that he had no money. Then, Lerry made the suggestion of doing a mission first. Well, it was a question but after the display with his pockets, Arina was sure that it had been meant more as a suggestion. Afterwards, Kaito‘s stomach growled loudly. Well, that answered Lerry‘s question for sure. Arina wasn‘t one for doing favors usually, but she felt as if today was going to be a good day. The young girl still had to make it look like she was loathing every minute. She propped herself upon her arms which rested against the tabletop looking towards Lerry with a nonchalant facial expression. “Usually the men are the ones who treat,” Arina sighed pulling out her savings from the satchel on her thigh. “I suppose that I can if you have no money,” the young girl counted her savings to make sure that she would be able to cover the expenses. ‘I suppose this is what happens when you surround yourself with boys who haven’t learned the ways of dating yet,’ Arina rolled her eyes at the thought not that she was interested in those kinds of relationships as it were.

INDENT Arina quickly replaced the sullen look which rested upon her face with a grin as the server came to take their orders. “I will have an order of tonkotsu ramen with seasoned bamboo shots, two boiled eggs, and chashu! What about you guys?” The young girl look over at the two boys momentarily before looking towards the server again. Perhaps, she had ordered too soon and the others were not ready. Well, she hadn’t even given the server a chance to speak. The girl laughed lightly. The server didn’t seem to be affected very much. She quickly wrote down the order on a small notepad she had carried with her. Arina scanned over the area quickly to notice that one of the other groups was beginning to leave. ‘Wonder where they are off to,’ She thought to herself in passing before returning her attention to the others.

Arina had an err... Odd response to his question. Obviously her morning had to be a rough one. They went from smiles to headbutting a table. The thud from the table was a loud one. Loud enough to make the others in the restaurant look in their direction. "Uhm..." The boy sat next to the girl in embarrassment. Everyone was looking at them, and Kaito did nothing but stare back at them, giving them a look that said 'I don't know what the hell's going on, don't look at me!". She lifted her head from the wooden table, and everyone quickly turned away, acting as though they weren't looking at the girl. She rubbed her head where it had been slammed, then began speaking. “I spent most of my time at the docks just admiring the environment and did some training later on." That was all she said, but he felt like there was a lot more to the story. But after that little scene, asking her to get into detail didn't seem like a wonderful idea.

Suddenly, Arina's skin changed like she were a chameleon or something. Her face went from it's normal white self to bright red in seconds. It actually changed to the same color as her forehead, where she smacked on the table. She began giggling randomly right about the same time. "What is she laughing about?" Kaito was thrown off for a minute, then she brought up him not eating here before. "Yeah i never ate here before... Honestly I haven't ate ramen more than... three times?" Which was a surprise for where they lived. Everyone in this village ate ramen often. Minus Kaito and his family of course. Though he loved the taste of ramen, his mother didn't. So she rarely ate or cooked it. And coming to ramen shops alone wasn't any fun. Who honestly enjoyed sitting and eating by yourself? Nobody. Kaito almost felt embarrassed for not eating ramen too often. "I like a lot of food. Spicy, salty, sweet. I like it all. But yeah, if I had to pick spicy was my favorite." Spicy foods just has their own distinctive flavor that no other food could give. Just the feeling of your mouth being feeling like it was on fire would be awesome. "So yeah, just go ahead and order something spicy for me if you can." It was nice having someone who seemed familiar with ramen, because she could easily help him pick what he wanted.

Chario and Lerry joined the conversation now, and they now spoke about who was paying for the food. Arina elected herself to pay for the food, but Kaito quickly intervened. "No, don't worry about it. I'll pay for it!" It was his idea to meet here, so he was going to pay for it. The server made her way to the table where they were talking about who was going to pay. Arina quickly blurted out her order before the waitress even had a chance to speak. Though as quick as she randomly wrote the order down, she was obviously a seasoned veteran in this field of work. "Uh... I'm not too sure what I want... Arina... What do I want?" Kaito chuckled, forcing his order upon Arina. She knew ramen like the back of her hand, or at least she made it sound that way.He told her he wanted something spicy, so he couldn't go wrong making her order for him. At least he thought so. "Oh, and before you write all this up all separate, put it all on one order. I'll be paying."

Lerry then brought up missions and stuff they would be doing today. "Honestly I haven't the slightest idea.... It just depends what's up on the mission board up town. I'm sure there will be a few interesting missions posted up there. At least I hope so." Hopefully it wasn't as boring as the Tora thing. Maybe something that included finding someone or something. He didn't know. They would have to wait until they got there until they found out.

What a crazy last few months this was shaping up to be. Kaito finally graduates from the academy, only to tweak his hamstring a week or two after graduation. The injury was nothing severe, it was just enough to keep him down and out of commission for a few weeks. Today was the day he'd be able to spread his wings once again, though he was going to have to take it easy on himself. Didn't want to get too wild and risk hurting himself once again. There was no way that he was going to sit another few months and watch all his classmates surpass him while he sat around and babied himself. Either way, it was time to get this day started. He slid on his black, skin tight black shirt. His right leg was bandaged up from the groin area to just a few inches above the knee to help keep the leg healthy, though this would all be covered up by his black, just below the knee shorts. Honestly he didn't want anyone to see those bandages anyways. To him that just seemed like an attention getter. And one hing was for sure, he didn't like, or want any extra attention.

After telling his mother good bye, the boy exited his house. His destination was the academy. It was time to get back at it, and to start playing catch up. Though he wasn't sure of a certain date, the Chuunin exams would be sooner than later. And he was obviously behind! Kaito was going to have to put in overtime if he wanted to even think about competing at a high level. The Chuunin exams were going to be a huge milestone in his life. He'd become a chuunin, but more importantly see how he ranked amongst the other Genin from across the world. The Kaguyan walked nervously thinking about the exam. Where would it be? How many other Genin were in it? What kind of crazy events would they be doing? So many questions he wondered about, yet he hadn't the slightest idea who to talk to about it, or more importantly how long he had until they started.

-Not done.-

Karasuni yawned softly as he walked among the townsfolk on occasion passing by a familiar genin or academy trainer engaging in small talk before going on about his business, His deep brown eyes often scanning the area for anything to do. It would only be a matter of time until he was placed into a cell and the wait was beginning to wear out his patience, In the back of his mind anxiety begin to set in but he knew raging would only worsen the matter and ultimate impact the time it would take to be put into a cell with the recent attack of a konoha building the village police have been on high alert and ninjas have been sent out in high volumes to capture the culprit. Karasuni gazed into the infinite clear blue sky as he pondered his next move "Well it does not mean I cannot do genin rank missions within the village on my own at least" With that said he made his way to the mission office to find something to do while he waited. As he approached the building he was greeted by other ninjas and Karasuni returned it with an acknowledging nod as he stepped into the shade of the building and shortly after into the confines of the building as well. There stood a desk attached wall to wall with two leaf ninja ready to serve any combat ready ninja. Karasuni waved and smile "Hey, Got anything I could do around here?" he asked they looked down at him and thought about it for a moment pulling a white sheet of paper with genin ranked missions he assumed " seeing as your are not part of a ninja cell as of it we can't send you out but there are missions in konoha it self you can pick. Here pick one you like" He said softly. Karasuni nodded as he took the sheet of paper and gazed at it.

Karasuni waited a few minutes as his billions of eyes scoured the city in search of the missing kitten, though he was confident in his bugs, Karasuni decided to contribute to the search as he leapt off the flat roof top and landed softly on the ground as he walked casually down the road peeking into alleys and behind or under dumpsters for the missing cat. To no avail his attempts were deemed futile but finally there. As if developing a third vision his eyes moved across the city and the cat came into his view. Karasuni chuckled as he broke into sprint, cutting through the alley ways and over fences. Karasuni stopped half a mile and from there went back to his casual walk knowing the cat. He had the cat in his sight hopefully she would be, now that he thought about it properly he never asked the gender of the feline that he was getting ready to capture or the name. As the cat came into the view of his eyes he zoomed in on the collar “Deadulus” He said in a low whisper. So it was a male cat. Karasuni stopped a few yards away “ Here deadulus, Come here boy” The cats ears perked up and it intently peered over his way before returning to sniffing the floor “ Do you not want to come home boy? Come on now. Let’s go feed you some cat n** or something” Karasuni as he came within arm’s reach he extended his right arm out to grab it’s fur but to his surprise it turned leapt onto his face leaving a scratch on his right cheek. In a gust of surprise he fell backwards on his bottom landing hard on the cement floor as Deadulus leapt off his face and took off with a speed Karasuni had never seen from a cat. Karasuni’s mouth open wide both in shame and surprise at how a dumb creature outsmarted him and got away from me. After a moment he stood up and patted himself down “you have to be kidding me” He said finally. As he casually begin to walk once again towards the cat location

"So, who wants to wake him?" One messenger-nin asked. He mouth was dry- he swallowed in anxiety, and it left him was incredible discomfort throughout his neck.

"Not me, not me, not me!" Another said, his knees clattering, teeth chattering. His messenger goggles clinked at the end of his twitching nose.

"Well, I don't want to be at the wrong end of his morning exercises- I call noses!" The third ninja desperately put a finger to his nose. The second ninja, Messenger Nin Number Two, grabbed his nose quickly. Messenger Nin Number One was left, nose untouched. His head sank in depression. Although it was his job to deliver he message, he knew this could very well be the end for him.

You see, Hisaki had an odd reputation. Specifically, Sleeping Hisaki had an odd reputation. Asleep, Hisaki was a lion. He rested as peacefully as a lamb, but if he were to be awoken out of sync- watch out. Smoldering passive aggression was his claw, and fiery ninjutsu was his fang. Before his wake-up time, claw and fang thirsted for blood.

And here, unlucky Messenger Nin Number One had to awaken that beast for which the rumors told. Poor Messenger Nin Number One, he had to-

"What in hell do you three want?"

Like cockroaches, Ninja Two and Three cowered down the steps of the Armory. One shivered in his boots, "I-I have a mission for you, s-sir."



812 (General) + 239 (Mission) words.

A lengthy sigh came from the man as he slide into the booth and shifted over to make room for the two other shinobi that accompanied him. "So what is good to eat here?" Sai questioned, his eyes scanning the room for the nearest waiter or waitress. It wasn't long before a tall woman with curling brown hair noticed the trio and rushed over, her arm baring menus for each of them. Smiling and pleasant, she was thanked and sent away with a request for a pitcher of ice water and a bottle of sake specifically for Sai. "No more of the drink for you, my good sir. Though you are most welcomed, monk." He grinned widely at them both, pulling a menu to himself as he did so.

"So, forgive me if I'm being forgetful but was his name again?" He asked, leaning towards the sobering man, a frown crossing his features for the moment before returning his attention back to his menu. "Ah, and if I maybe so bold to ask... what exactly are your intentions? That is for the immediate future and of course, ya know." With a pause he raised his eyes to look at either one of them before resting them on the waitress who was currently bent over to clean the table across from them. "With me. To be honest, I find it quite odd that a man of your stature was so seemingly eager to join a team with two men you'd only just met and have no knowledge of. In fact, it's quite alarming.." As Sai rambled on, the fingers of his left hand stretched out to draw a chopstick out from the folds of a napkin and pull it into the folds of his own sleeve. It was an action he'd hope would go unnoticed but the body was clumsy and unaccustomed.