It was about two weeks later and the friendship between you and Sasuke was growing stronger. Now you had started
to playfully tease him and he did it back. Sakura was jealous of this and sometimes tried to include herself in on it.
Naruto and you stayed good friends also, you would go on walks together sometimes after training and talk about random stuff. Sakura and you were also kind of close but not as close as you could be. She was too jealous to let you any closer.
Missions were pitifully easy. Just finding lost cats, babysitting little kids. (Which, for you, wasn't all that bad cuz you like kids.) Finding lost jewelry. Stupid little D rank missions. So while the team was getting assigned yet another D rank mission, Naruto finally cracked.
Naruto: HEY WHAT’S WITH ALL THE WIMPY MISSIONS? I WANNA GO ON A REAL MISSION WITH ACTION! DATEBAYO!
Kakashi: Pipe down!
After a little explanation of the difference between A, B, C, and D rank missions, the hokage finally gave into Naruto and called in an elderly man.
Hokage: You will be escorting this man back to his country.
Naruto cheered and you smiled because you’d actually be doing something.
Hokage: Now get going!
All five of you bowed and in an hour you were all packed up for the mission.
You: Hmm, kunai, shuriken, extra food, spare pants, (You’re ok with a dirty shirt it’s dirty pants you cannot stand!) a map, (Just in case you get lost!) and Kakashi’s spare Bingo Book. (A book of all enemies of Konoha in this case.)
It was time to go and you felt kind of happy to be on the road. Naruto was very jumpy.
Tazuna (Old man.): Settle down kid, why are you so hyper?
Naruto: It’s my first time actually leaving the village!
Tazuna: Should I really trust these kids?
Kakashi: Well I’m a jounin, so if anything bad happens I’ll cover it.
Naruto: OK NOW LET’S GET GOIN!
You sighed and decided that his hyperness couldn’t be helped and started walking with the rest of the group. Sasuke was shuffling behind Tazuna and Sakura was trying to walk at his pace but he was too slow. You were right behind him and Naruto was in front of Kakashi who was beside Tazuna.
(Formation.) N
K T
Sak
Sas
Ren
You finally got bored enough to start poking Sasuke’s back. He chuckled.
Sasuke: *Mumbles loud enough for only you to hear.* Stop poking me, Sakura might have a stroke. *Grins.*
You: *Mumbles back.* She’s already insane what more could happen?
Then Kakashi stopped and noticed something was wrong. He looked at the random puddle in the road.
You: “It hasn’t rained in days, why’s there a puddle?”
Then there were two people who came out of the puddle and tied up Kakashi in a flash.
?: One down!
Then Naruto was one the ground.
?2: Two down!
You: What the hell is going on?!
Kakashi broke free of the bonds and tied up the two ninja that ambushed the team.
Kakashi: Tazuna, why didn’t you say that you had shinobi after you? This is no longer a C mission, it’s a B.
Tazuna: I couldn’t pay for a B rank mission! But I have this big tycoon who’s on my case because he runs a shipping business and I’m building a bridge. It’ll be in the way of his boats so he wants to stop that! But I understand if you don’t want to keep protecting me, my fatherless grandson will only cry for a while and my widowed daughter will only go into a bout of depression probably the rest of her life!
You: Oh boy.
Kakashi: Well we’ll stay. *Nervous chuckle*
So you keep traveling and you look at the map to see just exactly where you were going. You gasped in shock and ran for Kakashi.
You: Kakashi! Do you know what town we are about to run into?!
Kakashi: No, Ren, I do not.
You passed him the map. His eyes got wide when he finally realized it. The group was heading for your home town.
You: This isn’t good! What if they see me?! I don’t know if I could handle seeing my mother after seven years!
Kakashi: It’s all right Ren, we’ll get through this together. You have me. Besides, we don’t have any other choice but to go through that town. Take any safest route with this case especially.
He put a hand on your shoulder, trying to comfort you. To you it didn’t feel awkward, but it was to the rest of the team.
Naruto: *Whispers to Sakura.* Hey, Sakura. Why does Kakashi-sensei have his hand on Ren’s shoulder?!
Sasuke: It’s a long story.
Naruto: And how do YOU know?
Sasuke: People can see each other outside of training, dummy.
Sakura: “I wonder if there’s something going on between those two. Sakura! Look where you’ve lead your mind to! Kakashi-sensei would never do that!”
Sooner more than later, the group arrived in a small, cheery town called Otafuku Gai. The only person who wasn’t in a very cheery mood was you. You could sense that it was going to be a busy day and they’d be out. You could tell from the clearance sale signs all over the windows in stores.
Naruto: Hey, Kakashi-sensei! Where are we?!
You: Otafuku Gai. Town of homely women…and the esteemed Takara family.
Sakura: Why are they so esteemed?
You: They’re rich.
Naruto: Ren, how do you know this?
You: Because my name is Ren Yumi Takara.
Sakura: But I thought-
Naruto: You’re family was dead?
You: It’s better lying and saying they’re dead than telling the truth about their horrible lives and what they did to me.
Sakura: So your house didn’t catch on fire?
You: No, I ran away because I couldn’t stand them anymore and I was better off on my own. After I thought I learned everything I needed to survive I ran away into the forest and lived there then I came here via Kakashi.
Naruto: Why did you lie?!
You: Because then you would know about something that should stay secret for a little while longer.
Kakashi: Interrogation time is over, let’s try to get out of here quickly.
Over in a shop not to far from the travelers, there were two women doing their weekly shopping spree. One was of middle age and the other slightly older than you. They were the remaining Takara’s in the small, bustling town of Otafuku. Everyone tried to impress them, but nothing could crack their perfectly airbrushed shells. Keiko (17) was a chuunin with a sharp eye. She spotted the Leaf ninja and examined them closely. One of them looked too familiar.
Keiko: Mama, doesn’t that look like little Renny? *Lips curl into a poisonous smile.*
Mother: Who, where?
Keiko: *Points.* Right, right over there. With the gathering of Leaf ninja and the old man.
Mother: What is she doing here? She’s supposed to be dead.
Keiko: Maybe we should just leave her alone
.
Mother: That wouldn’t be very proper. You must acknowledge those of long absences.
She put down the sweater she was looking at and walked closer and closer to the gathering of odd ninja and her daughter. Her eldest daughter followed close behind like the lost puppy she is, giggling slightly.
Naruto: *whispers to Sakura.* I still don’t understand why she didn’t tell us about her filthy rich family!
Sakura: *Whispers back.* You idiot! Obviously it causes her a lot of emotional stress and she didn’t want to bring
them up so it might’ve made her feel better if she lied about them!
Mother: Renny, dear!
You froze dead in your tracks and got a chill up your spine, you didn’t dare look behind you to see who’d called you
Renny after five years.
Mother: Turn around now, darling, and talk to you mother after five long years.
You: Won’t you smack me down anyways?
Mother: Not in public, heavens no!
You: Just say hi and please leave. I’m on an important mission.
Sasuke: *looks at your hands balled up in fists and notices they’re shaking.* “I didn’t know she was this livid about her family.” Ren, calm down.
You: Do you know these people, Sasuke? Do you? Do you even want to begin to understand the pain of being treated differently and not being loved by your own family just because of a monster that dwells inside your soul? I didn’t think so. Speaking of family, where’s Dad?
Mother: Dead. He went insane a few months ago saying we should’ve treated you better and actually loved you and all that jazz. He actually went out searching for you because he was going to try to make your life better! Ha! And if I didn’t let him leave to look for you, he said he’d divorce me because his life didn’t go the way he thought it would when he married me. Poor thing. With the good name we’ve built up for ourselves, we couldn’t be having a divorce! It was bad enough our out cast daughter ran away, but then a divorce? That’s just crying for attention. So I played dirty. I hired some strange men to do the job. One of them actually looked like your friend there. The only difference was there’re lines on his face. The other looked like a shark and the other looked like a female blonde. But he proved to just be a man with long blond hair and some feminity in his facial structure.
Sasuke: *mutters.* Itachi…
You: “That must’ve been the day I was caught by them.” So you hired people to kill your husband and take some of your precious money? Sounds like a loss on your end.
Mother: I really do actually like being single again. I don’t have to worry about this devoted wife image I was supposed to keep up.
You: *Slowly tears build up and fall to the ground.* So Father actually loved me and you couldn’t stand it? You are wrong in so many ways. I-I’ll KILL YOU FOR THIS ONE!
You took a kunai from your pouch and sliced at the air towards Keiko.
You: Do you want your pretty face to be scratched up? I think it’d do wonders for you! *Slits two cuts on her
cheeks.* Hehehehe. Let’s see what happens now when I let my curse take control of me
to playfully tease him and he did it back. Sakura was jealous of this and sometimes tried to include herself in on it.
Naruto and you stayed good friends also, you would go on walks together sometimes after training and talk about random stuff. Sakura and you were also kind of close but not as close as you could be. She was too jealous to let you any closer.
Missions were pitifully easy. Just finding lost cats, babysitting little kids. (Which, for you, wasn't all that bad cuz you like kids.) Finding lost jewelry. Stupid little D rank missions. So while the team was getting assigned yet another D rank mission, Naruto finally cracked.
Naruto: HEY WHAT’S WITH ALL THE WIMPY MISSIONS? I WANNA GO ON A REAL MISSION WITH ACTION! DATEBAYO!
Kakashi: Pipe down!
After a little explanation of the difference between A, B, C, and D rank missions, the hokage finally gave into Naruto and called in an elderly man.
Hokage: You will be escorting this man back to his country.
Naruto cheered and you smiled because you’d actually be doing something.
Hokage: Now get going!
All five of you bowed and in an hour you were all packed up for the mission.
You: Hmm, kunai, shuriken, extra food, spare pants, (You’re ok with a dirty shirt it’s dirty pants you cannot stand!) a map, (Just in case you get lost!) and Kakashi’s spare Bingo Book. (A book of all enemies of Konoha in this case.)
It was time to go and you felt kind of happy to be on the road. Naruto was very jumpy.
Tazuna (Old man.): Settle down kid, why are you so hyper?
Naruto: It’s my first time actually leaving the village!
Tazuna: Should I really trust these kids?
Kakashi: Well I’m a jounin, so if anything bad happens I’ll cover it.
Naruto: OK NOW LET’S GET GOIN!
You sighed and decided that his hyperness couldn’t be helped and started walking with the rest of the group. Sasuke was shuffling behind Tazuna and Sakura was trying to walk at his pace but he was too slow. You were right behind him and Naruto was in front of Kakashi who was beside Tazuna.
(Formation.) N
K T
Sak
Sas
Ren
You finally got bored enough to start poking Sasuke’s back. He chuckled.
Sasuke: *Mumbles loud enough for only you to hear.* Stop poking me, Sakura might have a stroke. *Grins.*
You: *Mumbles back.* She’s already insane what more could happen?
Then Kakashi stopped and noticed something was wrong. He looked at the random puddle in the road.
You: “It hasn’t rained in days, why’s there a puddle?”
Then there were two people who came out of the puddle and tied up Kakashi in a flash.
?: One down!
Then Naruto was one the ground.
?2: Two down!
You: What the hell is going on?!
Kakashi broke free of the bonds and tied up the two ninja that ambushed the team.
Kakashi: Tazuna, why didn’t you say that you had shinobi after you? This is no longer a C mission, it’s a B.
Tazuna: I couldn’t pay for a B rank mission! But I have this big tycoon who’s on my case because he runs a shipping business and I’m building a bridge. It’ll be in the way of his boats so he wants to stop that! But I understand if you don’t want to keep protecting me, my fatherless grandson will only cry for a while and my widowed daughter will only go into a bout of depression probably the rest of her life!
You: Oh boy.
Kakashi: Well we’ll stay. *Nervous chuckle*
So you keep traveling and you look at the map to see just exactly where you were going. You gasped in shock and ran for Kakashi.
You: Kakashi! Do you know what town we are about to run into?!
Kakashi: No, Ren, I do not.
You passed him the map. His eyes got wide when he finally realized it. The group was heading for your home town.
You: This isn’t good! What if they see me?! I don’t know if I could handle seeing my mother after seven years!
Kakashi: It’s all right Ren, we’ll get through this together. You have me. Besides, we don’t have any other choice but to go through that town. Take any safest route with this case especially.
He put a hand on your shoulder, trying to comfort you. To you it didn’t feel awkward, but it was to the rest of the team.
Naruto: *Whispers to Sakura.* Hey, Sakura. Why does Kakashi-sensei have his hand on Ren’s shoulder?!
Sasuke: It’s a long story.
Naruto: And how do YOU know?
Sasuke: People can see each other outside of training, dummy.
Sakura: “I wonder if there’s something going on between those two. Sakura! Look where you’ve lead your mind to! Kakashi-sensei would never do that!”
Sooner more than later, the group arrived in a small, cheery town called Otafuku Gai. The only person who wasn’t in a very cheery mood was you. You could sense that it was going to be a busy day and they’d be out. You could tell from the clearance sale signs all over the windows in stores.
Naruto: Hey, Kakashi-sensei! Where are we?!
You: Otafuku Gai. Town of homely women…and the esteemed Takara family.
Sakura: Why are they so esteemed?
You: They’re rich.
Naruto: Ren, how do you know this?
You: Because my name is Ren Yumi Takara.
Sakura: But I thought-
Naruto: You’re family was dead?
You: It’s better lying and saying they’re dead than telling the truth about their horrible lives and what they did to me.
Sakura: So your house didn’t catch on fire?
You: No, I ran away because I couldn’t stand them anymore and I was better off on my own. After I thought I learned everything I needed to survive I ran away into the forest and lived there then I came here via Kakashi.
Naruto: Why did you lie?!
You: Because then you would know about something that should stay secret for a little while longer.
Kakashi: Interrogation time is over, let’s try to get out of here quickly.
Over in a shop not to far from the travelers, there were two women doing their weekly shopping spree. One was of middle age and the other slightly older than you. They were the remaining Takara’s in the small, bustling town of Otafuku. Everyone tried to impress them, but nothing could crack their perfectly airbrushed shells. Keiko (17) was a chuunin with a sharp eye. She spotted the Leaf ninja and examined them closely. One of them looked too familiar.
Keiko: Mama, doesn’t that look like little Renny? *Lips curl into a poisonous smile.*
Mother: Who, where?
Keiko: *Points.* Right, right over there. With the gathering of Leaf ninja and the old man.
Mother: What is she doing here? She’s supposed to be dead.
Keiko: Maybe we should just leave her alone
.
Mother: That wouldn’t be very proper. You must acknowledge those of long absences.
She put down the sweater she was looking at and walked closer and closer to the gathering of odd ninja and her daughter. Her eldest daughter followed close behind like the lost puppy she is, giggling slightly.
Naruto: *whispers to Sakura.* I still don’t understand why she didn’t tell us about her filthy rich family!
Sakura: *Whispers back.* You idiot! Obviously it causes her a lot of emotional stress and she didn’t want to bring
them up so it might’ve made her feel better if she lied about them!
Mother: Renny, dear!
You froze dead in your tracks and got a chill up your spine, you didn’t dare look behind you to see who’d called you
Renny after five years.
Mother: Turn around now, darling, and talk to you mother after five long years.
You: Won’t you smack me down anyways?
Mother: Not in public, heavens no!
You: Just say hi and please leave. I’m on an important mission.
Sasuke: *looks at your hands balled up in fists and notices they’re shaking.* “I didn’t know she was this livid about her family.” Ren, calm down.
You: Do you know these people, Sasuke? Do you? Do you even want to begin to understand the pain of being treated differently and not being loved by your own family just because of a monster that dwells inside your soul? I didn’t think so. Speaking of family, where’s Dad?
Mother: Dead. He went insane a few months ago saying we should’ve treated you better and actually loved you and all that jazz. He actually went out searching for you because he was going to try to make your life better! Ha! And if I didn’t let him leave to look for you, he said he’d divorce me because his life didn’t go the way he thought it would when he married me. Poor thing. With the good name we’ve built up for ourselves, we couldn’t be having a divorce! It was bad enough our out cast daughter ran away, but then a divorce? That’s just crying for attention. So I played dirty. I hired some strange men to do the job. One of them actually looked like your friend there. The only difference was there’re lines on his face. The other looked like a shark and the other looked like a female blonde. But he proved to just be a man with long blond hair and some feminity in his facial structure.
Sasuke: *mutters.* Itachi…
You: “That must’ve been the day I was caught by them.” So you hired people to kill your husband and take some of your precious money? Sounds like a loss on your end.
Mother: I really do actually like being single again. I don’t have to worry about this devoted wife image I was supposed to keep up.
You: *Slowly tears build up and fall to the ground.* So Father actually loved me and you couldn’t stand it? You are wrong in so many ways. I-I’ll KILL YOU FOR THIS ONE!
You took a kunai from your pouch and sliced at the air towards Keiko.
You: Do you want your pretty face to be scratched up? I think it’d do wonders for you! *Slits two cuts on her
cheeks.* Hehehehe. Let’s see what happens now when I let my curse take control of me