'I've had it with these people, ever since that blonde blew up part of the village, everything went down hill. They are slowly loosing their own minds, thinking that the guy will be back to finish the job. Any right man would never come back here after making a very large statement like that, hell even I won't come back to this shit hole!' She thought recklessly mixing her chakura with some clay and molding it, it was a dangerously high amount of chakura to be putting in the small figure. Taking a glance down at her hand that was working the clay, she smiled. She knew this was dangerous, but she could hardly help herself. That guy took the very scroll that she was going after now, maybe she can perfect her jutsu, like he did. 'He was only 14 when he blew this place almost sky high, so why can't I? Well maybe because I'm not fourteen, but seventeen, but still this will be bigger then the stupid brat that plotted this from the beginning. I'm merely following in his foot steps, but making it larger, by blowing this place sky high! She laughed darkly, oh they will all perish! Even her abusive father, whom was coming up the stairs now, drunk. Even worse when he was sober, drunk father is what she has feared. Good thing she took some basic medical classes when she had the chance, she slipped on her forehead protector, along with some fingerless gloves with a metal plate on the back hand with the Iwagakura symbol on it. She needed to protect herself from him while she still could, and the figure in her hand was just the thing she needed to blow this bastard up. Something different happened, he passed her door and went to the bathroom instead, odd. She used this time to get her ninja gear ready, tonight was time to put her plan into action.
Last night she had placed some mines under the large buildings, and placed some minor ones around the village, she had a place where she can detonate them with only this over dosed chakura clay figure. She had her friends, or they stated the whole thing -either way works- tell people that she would blow this place sky high soon. They knew she was rebellious, and that she would do it, since she demonstrated a few jutsu's a while back, they just didn't know when.
She crawled out the window, with her gear in hand, and the clay figure securely in her hand she walked towards the kage tower. That is where the scroll, she needed was located, and since she was the top of her class, it was a snap to get in.
Problem number one, the scroll is with the kage, and he hardly has a life beyond his office, how will she get the scroll? This was the big problem, she leaned against the wall thinking of how she can get in, luckily the secretary wasn't there at this hour. She should have done her research better, now she was stuck, problem two, how will she get in, undetected? And three is getting out, undetected. Yeah, she wasn't really thinking, was she? So much for being like the blonde idiot, now she is the idiot. 'Alright think, stupid. You got in, right? Check. Scroll has been located? Check. Ninja guards knocked out? Check. So no problems unless someone walks in and...Damn, it just happened.' she thought as she heard a very loud yell from the main entrance to the tower. 'Shit!' she thought and went and hid under the desk, watching the feet scramble to the kage's door.
"I'm pretty sure it was, Izo no Leo."
"Leo of the ice, are you sure?"
"Positive, talk has been going around that she was going to blow this place sky high!" she listened to them talk, 'Yeah right, not just this place, the whole village!' she thought still listening.
"Oh no, history is repeating itself!"
"Sir?"
"Deidara, he did the exact same thing, we have to find her! Quickly!"
"Sir!"
"What are her motives?" was all she heard as he ran out of his office outside, she smirked crawling out from under the desk and into the unoccupied office. The scroll was in a glass casing, locked, and chakura sealed. 'Ha! Easy!' she thought as she picked the lock and released the chakura seal and making her way out the window towards the woods. 'Holly shit that really was easy,' she thought, getting to a safe distance from the village, she placed the figure near a thin string, and opened the scroll, 'Hm, complicated, kinda.'
Doing the hand seals, quickly she charged her chakura to her hands, her concentration broke when someone yelled out her position. 'Shit...' she thought putting the scroll in her pack, and ran to an even safer location. She then detonated the clay figure, making a large explosion, which activated the other mines, they too went. She turned to admire her work, she was right, the place went down, turning into a crater. Laughing madly she moved on, what she didn't know was that a messenger bird went out before the explosion went off, warning the closet village of 'Izo No Leo'.
She landed in the middle of no where in the forest, taking the scroll out once more to do the forbidden jutsu, completing the hand signs she activated the jutsu. Nothing happened. 'Well that sure was disappointing.' she thought a frown on her lips. Putting the scroll away she walked onward to the next village.
She found herself in Kohonakagure, there is no way that they would know her around these parts, but just to be safe, she took off her headband, and replaced the gloves with a different pair, and changed her clothes to look more like a citizen from another village. She put her pack in the crook of a tree, making sure it was well hidden, she placed a few weapons on her person and walked towards the gates.
The two Chunin's at the gate looked her over, seeing her long brown hair, her bangs flopped over her right eye, and a lovely milk chocolate brown eye, fair skin, wearing a light blue shirt, and blue jeans. Her hands were in her jean pockets, and a smile on her lips.
"Well," one of them said smiling at her, "what a lovely thing you are."
"Indeed," the other said after whistling at her, also smiling.
"Your too kind," she smiled at them closing her eyes for a moment.
"We were born that way," the first one said smiling, she giggled at that, 'My god, they are flirts,' she thought.
"So, what is a lovely thing like yourself doing all the way out here without an escort?" the other asked. 'Damn, thought I could get away easily, all well, lying to my father was easy, so why can't this?' she thought.
"Oh, I had a friend with me, but he had to return to his home since he was coming back from a mission," she smiled.
"Really, your friend is a ninja?" he asked in interest, she nodded, hoping that she can get away. "What's his name?" her face remained with a smile but on the inside she was screaming her lungs out, threatening to turn them into chop suey, and eating them up and spitting them out and feed them to the dogs, and let them shit the two out and have the bugs get at them.
"I'm sorry, but remains classified, my friends orders," she apologized, give a slight bow.
"Oh, of course, how rude of me," he said.
"Well, guess we should let you pass," the other put in.
"Oh yes, indeed, it was nice talking to you, miss."
"I enjoyed it too, have a good day," she smiled and walked through the gates. 'Thought I would never get out of there,' she thought walking through the streets, people gave her a passing glance, a smile, wink, wave, and occasionally a whistle. 'I need new threads, somethings to last me a few weeks, and...' she thought passing by a window, inside was a dark gray cloak with light gray wisps of what looked like smoke coming from the bottom rising up. 'Interesting,' she thought looking at the cloak.
After getting what she needed, including the cloak, and a larger bag to put it all in. She looked around the place, until she realized that it was getting late. 'Damn,' she thought, she went to a lounge where she can rest for the night.
She lay on the futon thinking, 'Should I stay for a while longer, or leave in the morning a blow this place up?' she thought, mulling over the idea for a while longer. She decided that staying would prove to be a better thought then blowing this place up as well, she will gather information here. 'I should get my bag,' she thought, getting up and getting ready to retrieve her bag with the scroll.
Arriving back, with no difficulties, she sat there and started to read more of the scroll. 'Wow! All this information, wonder if he read beyond this jutsu?' she smiled learning new jutsu's from the scroll.
The next morning she set out to wonder the village until she came across some information from this place, she was rather proud that she got into the village, means that she can destroy it from the inside out. Her motives for trying to destroy the villages were simple, try to stop the wars. If it failed, she would have started a great ninja war, all on her own. But she would have to be careful, what she was doing was highly dangerous, she could get killed on the spot if she wasn't sneaky. Hell her father taught her how to dodge the bullet when he was on a rampage when she was younger. Her mother was always gone on missions, it was just her and her father sometimes.
'He bore the hate into me, beating me almost everyday, threatened to kill me if I told anyone about this. I'm glad he is dead, I'm glad all of them are dead, I don't know why they failed to see the tears that I cried those nights. Or question my health, or why I looked so tired during school.' she gritted her teeth at the thoughts, 'Who cares, it's in the past now, they are gone, nothing more to it.'
Later on she heard talk about Izo no Leo, how she single handily destroyed Iwagakure, no survivors in the village. They said that it was larger then the last one to try to blow up the village. Smiling at that she left the tea house, leaving payment for the tea, and dumplings she walked around some more, gather more information on the town. More about Izo no Leo, some information on some of the ninja's around here, and a good place to eat.
Looking up at the kage tower, she smiled, people passing her by probably thought that she respected the hokage, but they were wrong. She wanted the scroll from within the tower, the one that, that Naruto kid stole. Oh she had plans for that particular scroll, and she might even befriend the, Naruto kid, her smile grew the more she thought of it. She will turn this place to rubble, feeling that she stood there to long she decided to stake out the place tonight, and the next day, to plan her entrance more better this time. She looked around for a suitable apartment that she will be staying at for the next month.
'There might be some Iwa ninja's around, good thing my outlook changed from that usual low pony tail, and no bangs, to no pony tail with long bangs. No one would tell the difference, since she always tied her hair up, sometimes with her hair in braids, or it looks short. She now has knew clothes, she wore knee high shorts, not those tight ones, she hated them, and a mesh shirt with a dark blue vest, that only came up above her stomach, zipped over the shirt. She didn't wear her cloak, she would only wear it when it either rains, snows, windy, or on the run.
She came out of a technical shop, planing on making a spy eye piece, something that would have night vision, heat vision, take pictures, zoom in or out, and will operate in any weather. That would be easy for her, since she has some free time on her hands, and she didn't feel like going out every day just to look around the village, she needed to do something constructive before she starts making clay figurines and making them explode. That will not go well for her persona that she has made for herself.
Home, well almost home, just a place to sleep, and bathe really. She worked on her eye piece determine to finish it before her time was up to take the scroll. She went out on the stake out every night, and watching everyone from children to ninja's, figuring out where they went on their time off, or where they live, how far they live, how far it takes them to get to the tower, where they get their food, all that. She now knew the ninja's of the village, and the people that live within the walls of the village. Picking up some information on some missing-nin's, like Uchiha Itachi, he murdered his clan. 'Hm, I need to pick up a bingo book, that should be easy,' she thought seeing a ninja she knew and followed him around for a bit. She noticed that he had a bingo book in his back pocket, 'Oh, this is too easy,' she thought walking by him swiftly taking the book, while acting as if nothing had happened. 'Easy,' she thought walking back to her apartment. She knew he was following her, some guys stopped her just to talk to her, she gladly played along. A blonde, blue eyed ninja stopped her as well, introducing himself as 'Uzamaki Naruto'. 'So, your Naruto, huh?' she thought smiling at him. They talked about ramen, little about the village, and his team. She gave false information on herself, saying that her father was loving and caring while her mother worked nights, and is gone most of the day time. That was all that she gave about herself before the kid had to leave with a silver haired man, a pink haired girl, yeah, odd color, and a raven haired boy. Luckily they stopped at her place, she watched them leave, before heading to her home. She cooked herself dinner, worked on cleaning the house a bit, and then going to sleep. She knew they would be watching her for a few more days, so she would lay low for a while. Besides, staking out the tower was starting to become exhausting in the mornings, she needed the rest.
She met with, Naruto again, they talked for a while, about his last mission, raman, training tips, that kind of thing. They went to get some raman, but she had other plans, as much as she like to know more about, Naruto, and his team, along with the rest of the village, she had to get things ready for tonight. It has been a month since she first arrived at the village gates, now she has to destroy this place before it was to late to do so. 'I hope this goes off better then Iwa,' she thought making sure that her mines were in place, and was still there.
She got in the tower with ease, knocked out the guards, and went to the hokage's office, she knew that the scroll would be in the office, and she knew that it would be locked away behind a door. What she wasn't expecting was the blonde following her every move. He made himself known when they reached the office, almost yelling out her position to the world. 'Fuck! My cover is blown!' she thought looking at him with wide eyes.
"Naruto! Is that you?" someone called from behind the door, she tensed, knowing that she was busted for sure.
"Yeah!" Naruto called out cheerfully. 'I have to get out of here!' she thought, quickly doing a hand sign and leaving the tower, and quickly returning to her home. 'That was way to fucking close!' she thought in the safety of her home. 'I need a better approach, maybe out in the open?' she thought, 'Nah, someone might suspect, she needs to leave the village first, but she would have to make a whole new plan just to get out successfully. 'That means I have to explain why I was in the tower,' she thought taking out her pony tail letting her hair fall over her shoulders, and letting her bangs cover her right eye once more.
She packed everything that she needs, and created a shadow clone, something that she learned from, Naruto when he was training, he made the mistake of letting her watch him train. She disguised the clone, and told it to wait in the woods for her, and to make sure the clone was unseen by anyone from the village.
She walked towards the gates, thinking about her plans for the third night that she would be raiding the tower once again.
"Hey, be careful," someone said to her, she turned her head to look at the person whom has spoke, it was that boy from, Naruto's team. Uchiha Sasuke, the younger brother and the soul survivor of the massacre of Uchiha Itachi.
"Why is that?" she asked, acting confused.
"You know about, Izo no Leo?" he asked her, she shook her head no, then a silver haired man came up to them, reading an orange book of some sort.
"Izo no Leo is the one whom blew up Iwagakure," he said not looking up from the book, "She's been spotted last night in the tower," he said.
"Oh no," she said, "I live near Iwa," she said.
"Oh, you do?" the silver hair asked.
"Yes," she said, "Is she still around?" she asked.
"No traces of her yet," he said.
"I see," she said, "I'll watch myself, then," she said and started to leave the village.
"Hey, leaving so soon?" the same two Chunin's smiled at her.
"Yes, I am," she smiled at them.
"Well, be careful out there little miss."
"I will, thank you for you concern."
"Hey! Just in time," 'Someone' called out to her, she smiled.
"Ryuu, yes you are just in time," she said to the 'boy'.
"Well, shall we get going then?" he smiled, she nodded and followed him through the forest leaving the village behind. They stopped halfway to the next village, near a three way, the other walked into the forest, while she stayed out in the open. She leaned against a tree sitting down, she noticed that two figures were coming towards her, but paid no attention to them as they passed her by. They both wore strange cloaks, they were black with blood red clouds on them. Odd. She thought that one of them looked familiar, maybe it was the black hair, or something else. She wasn't caring at the moment, they left her alone, so she was fine. She caught a tid bit of their small talk, "She looks almost like, Deidara," she figured that the blue guy said it, for the other just 'Hn'd'. 'Deidara, the one from Iwa, ha.' she thought a light smile on her lips.
The pain was unbearable! It hurt like hell! It felt as if her hand was splitting right in half! She tried easing the pain, but it only made it worse, it went on for three nights, the fourth day, it was now a dull pain, she looked her hand over, seeing a long gash across her palm. Then she saw it, a long tongue slid out from the gash and lapped up the blood. She felt that her other hand was doing the same, she didn't dare put her hands in the water fearing that it would bring more pain.
She lay on the stone floor like a cat would on it's stomach, head on her forearm, looking at the falling water before her. She looked the bingo book over, and discovered that the two men she saw four days ago were, Uchiha Itachi, and Hogoshi Kisame. She also seen Deidara in the black book, she didn't want to go out after meeting them, and to see if her hands would stop throbbing soon.
The fifth day the pain was gone, so she was ready to set out once more. Tieing her hair up, putting the gray cloak on, and leaving her belongings with, 'Ryuu' while she went to the village, in brood daylight. She was suppose to attack two nights ago, but the pain from her hands were still felt.
She had on her head band, looking the town over from the monument she smiled small watching the villagers go on with their day. 'Oh, I'm going to enjoy this,' she thought, she discovered that when she was holding her clay to mold it, the hand mouth took it and started chewing it like it was gum. 'Interesting,' she thought watching her hand for a moment, then started inflecting her chakura into the clay.
She went into the tower, knowing that it was now heavily guarded, she got past them with ease, and into the office, she walked towards the door where the scroll would be located and looked through the files of different types of scrolls, she found a few that would be good for her on her journey. Putting them into her pack, she looked some more, then she found it, smiling she took it and walked out of there. As she was walking out the front door, two ANBU spotted her, 'Shit!' she thought and ran for it, soon the whole squad was after her. She hopes that they love a good case, because she's not giving up that easily.
Running into, Ryuu they set off, she created different clones for them to follow, and lead them off her trail. It worked, she was free for a few days tops, she used that time to look the scroll over, 'Shadow clone...' she thought and looked at the other jutsu's. She was discovered once again, and is now on the run. Again.
Five days passed, without her stopping, everywhere she looked, ninja's came at her from all sides. Now everything ceased, she lost them for a little while, she was dead tired, so she collapse on the ground, Ryuu long gone by now. Little did she know that she was being watched for the past five days, they stood in the tree watching her unconscious form.
"What do you think, hm?" one of them asked the other.
"Too soon to tell," the other replied with an emotionless tone.
"I think she is alright, lasted this long from the ANBU, took an important scroll from the hokage, and one from Iwa, also blowing it up, hm."
"She has talent, but she's reckless, acting before thinking. She could get herself killed that way."
"Yes, but lasting that long like that, with ANBU, and other ninja's after her.." he trailed off.
She didn't know how long she's been out, but the flaring of chakura wouldn't let her rest longer, they started lightly at first, but now it was just intense. Pushing herself from the ground, she listened for any sign of movement. She heard rushing foot steps coming towards her, 'Shit,' she thought quickly hiding behind the tree, hoping they would pass her by. One stopped by the tree, looking at it intently, like he knew something was there, but wasn't sure if he was correct or not. She remained calm, her breathing light, nothing gave her away.
"What is it?" someone asked the man.
"Nothing," he said after hesitating a moment, he started running again, leaving his suspicions behind. She waited until they were out of her site before sliding down the tree, breathing a sigh of relief. She closed her eyes, unaware of the one above her, jumping down in front of her. He pulled out a kunai, ready to slash her throat, only to hesitate. He knew he should kill her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Finally giving up, he took out a small red pill and stuck it in her mouth, making her swallow it by pouring water down her throat as well.
He cut her hair loose, after putting a small mark on the head band, making sure it was well hidden behind the long bangs. "Make sure you put a mark on the head band every time someone does something nice for you, no matter your rebellious reputation." he said, laying down some rules for her to follow. "You are no longer a loyal ninja to any village, but a missing-nin, watch your back young one." he said as he left her alone.
Getting up from her spot on the ground, after registering what he had just said. 'Alright,' she thought and started to get a move on to the next village. That pill he made her swallow was a solider pill, he had placed a water bottle around her neck, and put some in her pack. 'Why did he do that? He should have killed me right there...wait...my pack is lighter...' she thought stopping to look into her pack, 'Damn he took the Kohona scroll back!' she thought. 'Well least I still have Iwa's' she thought moving on.
She arrived in Sunagakure, she still wore the cloak, she figured that most people would recognize her soon, or word just hasn't gotten here yet. She got passed the guards easily, although they were quite weary of her. 'Figures,' she thought walking into the heart of the village, 'Ah, I can stay here for a few weeks, take their scroll, and move on.' she thought looking at the kage tower. 'Kohona's scroll maybe gone but at least I will have the Suna's, or try to get it.' she thought moving on, 'I need to plan this out more carefully this time, it should be easy.' she thought.
She rented out an apartment here, set up everything she needed for the few weeks she would be staying, and getting back to work on her eye piece, that she didn't quiet finish yet. She took a closer look at her head band, seeing a small mark on the right side, she remembered what the Kohona ninja said to her. 'He did something nice for me, even though it would have coasted him his life,' she thought. She heard a knock at the door, taking her out of her thoughts, 'Who could that be?' she thought going to the door.
"Your Izo No Leo, correct?" the young woman whispered, she nodded, "Are...are you going to destroy this village?" she asked. She thought about it for a moment, unsure if she should destroy this place or not, "Please, don't, just take what you need and leave."
"I will take what I need and leave, but there has to be a price for letting your own guard down," she said to her.
"Your an outlaw, they will discover you soon," the woman said.
"Why tell me?" she asked, the woman looked at her.
"I can hide you," she said finally, she handed her a piece of paper and then left.
"Hide me?" she said to herself, going back into her 'Home' she looked at the paper and read what was on it. 'Hm, these people are willing to help me? Or capture me? I can't trust them, or is it them that can't trust me? I will find out in a few weeks.' she thought going to work on the eye piece.
She went to stake out the tower, watching them carefully, monitoring their every move, where they went, and noted where everything was. On her way back, she even went to check out that place where that woman said she would hide her. 'A child, a loving husband, and herself, a strict housewife. Ha, no wonder she was so open,' she thought smiling slightly before going to her own place. 'Why do I have a feeling that I'm being watched?' she thought, she had that feeling ever since she ran for it from Kohona. 'Am I being hunted? Are they waiting for me to let my guard down?' she thought. 'Hm, what about those flares? Seems like warnings, they start when ever a hunter nin, or an ANBU squad is near by, and close to my position.' she pondered on it for a while longer before going to bed, even though it was the afternoon.
She woke up to someone knocking on the door, 'Can't they see that I don't want to see anyone?' she thought going to answer the door, after quickly fixing up her hair, and washing her face. "Yes?" she asked after she opened the door.
"When?" it was the same woman from yesterday. Was it yesterday?
"Soon," she answered simply.
"How?"
"Find out."
"Fast."
"No."
"Why?"
"Time."
"How?"
"Long."
"Soon?"
"Soon."
"Remember," with that she left, 'When will it start? She asks, How long will that be? Make it fast. Why not? How much time? Is it going to be soon? Remember our conversation from yesterday.' she thought thinking about the very short conversation with the woman just then. 'This is tiring work,' she thought while cleaning up the house a bit. She finished with that work and decided to watch the sand ninja's train, hoping to gain some new jutsu's.
'They work fast,' she thought, watching them train, she smiled, she now had new jutsu's to work with, and she can use it to her advantage.
"She is smart."
"Yes, hm."
"Taking her time, watching the ninja's work, learning their jutsu's."
"Soon, she will be strong enough, hm."
"She learns fast."
"Yes, hm."
"What a long day," she said laying on her back on the bed, she was just about to go to sleep until a knock on the door was heard. 'Too good to be true, I was sure that I was going to get some rest, guess I thought wrong.' she went down the hall towards the door. No one was there, only a note stuck to the door. Taking it down she walked back to her room, laying down once again, reading the note.
Izo No Leo,
There are secret entrance's along the right wall, go through the middle one, that should lead you to where you want to go.
'Odd.' she thought, 'Right wall, what the hell? Right from the wall, or on the right side of the wall? Hm. Front is north, back is South, left is... Of course!' she thought a smile on her lips.
"Why did you help her, hm?"
"She was going to go direct, but that would get her killed."
"You want her to live, hm?"
"She should learn to think things over, before going direct, it almost got her killed in Kohona."
"I guess a little help is necessary, hm."
'Alright, the night to take the scroll, everything is set, and if things do go wrong, I have that woman's place to hide out in for a few days. Hopefully I won't have to use it,' she thought going along the wall where the secret passage ways are. She hesitated for a moment, 'Is this safe?' she thought, the flares didn't go up, so it must be. But her instincts told her to be wearying of those flares at some point later on. She went through, using her finished eye piece to crawl through the dark small tunnel. She got through with ease, now all she has to do is watch the kage for a bit,
"You think she's going to make it, hm?"
"Who's to tell?"
"Hm."
She watched him walk out, waiting for a bit before she crawled out from the passage. Walking towards the place where the scroll was kept, 'I'll go back for Kohona's after this,' she thought taking the wind scroll.
She had packed everything that she needed and set out of the village, she took one of the solider pills and ran past the gates, she made sure to place some mines on the sides of the walls the night before. She was now a safe distance away from the gates, and listened as they set off her trap, she knew that a while ago that a pair of Akatsuki members had done the same thing, but they captured the one tailed beast.
She heard talk about the band of missing-nin's, she never thought that she would have gotten that close to them. That blue guy, and the raven haired one, also known as Kisame, and Itachi, 'But the one on the white bird should be feared as well, who was he again? Oh right, Deidara,' she thought as she ran her way towards Kohonagakure once more.
Some plans have changed since she was being chased down by the ANBU forces, she found herself in the snow country, 'Good thing this cloak is warm,' she thought, a light smile on her almost blue lips. She seen that some of the people knew about her, but didn't bother to signal to the ninja's that she was there, they must have seen that she wasn't there to cause harm, just avoiding it.
"Excuse me, Izo No Leo," a woman spoke to her, she looked over at the one whom has spoken.
"Yes?" she said, trying to keep it simple as possible.
"Follow me," she said turning around and walking towards a nice homey house, she hesitated in following this stranger, "You need to warm up don't you?" she smiled back at her, she nodded and followed her searching for chakura signatures that might be located inside the home. The flares have ceased since Gaara was taken, who knew when she will receive those again.
Everything seems safe enough for her, looks like no ninja's will pop out of no where and take her away.
"Evening, Izo No Leo," the man spoke up, "Don't worry, we won't turn you in. Not unless you are planing on harming this village."
"No, there is another that I have in mind," she spoke, this seems to rise some questionable looks, but she paid no attention to it.
"Well, stay as long as you like," the woman spoke up, a small smile on her features.
"Yes, even though I don't agree to it," the man said returning back to the paper.
"Why let me in?" she asked them, she wasn't sure if she should trust them yet.
"The tough girl act won't work against me," the girl spoke, "even I can see the kindness in your heart."
"Indeed, even I see that," she nodded at them and sat down at the table taking off her head band and taking out a kunai. The two watched her wearily, wondering what she was doing. 'They showed kindness to me, and gave a reason for doing so,' she thought as she placed two small marks beside the first one.
"Why do that?" the man asked her.
"My own reasons, and my mission," she said putting the kunai back in her pouch, and placing her head band back on her forehead. The two looked at each other passing glaces, and then going on with what they were doing before. The woman, whom has never introduced herself, poured some tea for her, then herself, and her husband. She watched them drink, and looked at her own, 'How odd, strange flares have started up again,' she thought. 'But, different chakura signatures this time,' she quietly used her medical skills to separate the substance from the tea.
"He was right, she is smart."
"Yeah, she took to the warns easily, but a bit hesitant."
"Hn."
She looked at the substance that was now flowing above her tea, 'Poison,' she thought seeing the clear liquid, she opened a small vile that she usually carried around with her and put the poison in it, without them noticing her actions. She was still pretending to look a scroll over, she occasionally mouthed something out to make it look like she was trying to memorize it.
"Your tea is starting to get cold," the woman said, she looked up quickly like she was breaking from a trance.
"Oh, thank you," she said and noticed that the liquid was now gone and into the vile. The flares have ceased, she was a bit hesitant then took a small sip from the cup. She went back to reading the scroll, knowing that their anxiousness was rising with each passing second, she took another drink.
"Now look at her."
"Hn."
"Pretending to freak out, heh."
"Hn."
"Oh those smiles won't last, just like I said."
"I didn't know I did the hand signs wrong..." she said after spitting out her tea, actually choking on some in the process. She seen the smiles they had on, then they instantly fell after what she had just said.
"Well, I'll show you to your room," she said getting up and walking towards a door, she got up gathered up the scroll and followed along. 'Do they really think I'm that stupid?' she thought stepping over the little traps they've set up. She looked the room over, then entered, easily passing the traps that were set. "Good night," she said then left.
"Ninja standing right here," she said rolling her eyes then sat on the floor, taking out her newly additional scroll.
"She has one from Iwa, and now Suna."
"Hn."
"Think she's going back for Kohona's?"
"Hn."
Yawning for the fifth time that night, she has read the scroll about 12 times now. 'These people don't count now, next time I will wait till I leave then mark it.' she thought rolling the scroll up and putting it back in her bag. 'Almost morning, I didn't want to sleep since they tried to poison me last night, they might come in here and stab me to death. Wait, what were the possibilities for that? I'm a ninja..All well, least I memorized the scroll now, and if they take it, then I won't mind much.' she thought a faint smile on her lips. She got up and walked out of the room, once again avoiding the traps, and some that were freshly placed. Looking around the area, she seen that the two weren't up yet, so she may as well place a trap of her own, 'Well, they did try to kill me,' she thought placing it skillfully by the one that was most visible.
"Bye, and never come into my life again," she smiled and walked out of the house, into the cold morning air. She started to head towards Kohona, avoiding the ANBU as much as possible.
It's been two months, and she has just finished with retrieving another scroll, so far she has collected the great nations scrolls and some on the side, of course they were stolen back, she was lucky to remember what was inside each scroll, and started to write down in her own blank scroll of the different jutsu's. Those flairs were still there, each time different then the last, but still by two, and sometimes they would appear the same.
She sat in the tree, playing with a wooden yo-yo she made herself, watching it go down, then come back up, and catching it. It was like playing catch with yourself, without throwing the ball.
"Why have such a useless thing, hm?"
"Who knows why she has it."
"It just goes up and down, hm."
"Yes, nothing useful there."
She stopped in middle of throwing it back down, and listened; Hm, hunters heading this way, she thought and swung her legs so they were under her and laid on her stomach, while concealing her chakura. She watched them run past her below, and on the other side of the trees, one stopped below her and looked around.
"Izo No Leo, is getting more harder to find, I bet she is just right under our noses and rubbing it in our faces for not finding her there in the first place," he said, she smirked at this; For once they are right, she thought and watched them run again. She started playing with the yo-yo again, still laying on her stomach, right now she just wanted to relax and not go for any scrolls for awhile. What was the use? She knew their secrets, she got in and out again, and went back just to do it all again for fun.
"Mm," she started, stretching out her arms, "I should visit the snow country for a bit, they won't find me there, unless they look really hard," she said to herself, "I feel lazy," she muttered before laying her head down on her arm, looking at a leaf lightly swishing in the chilly breeze.
"There she is!" someone yelled, making her jump and fall out of the tree she was in, "Ah!" she called out before she hit the ground that is now on her back, "Who is that?" she opened her eyes and seen blue, with yellow, along with orange, for a moment she thought she was looking at the sky, and the sun.
"Izo No Leo," some said lazily, she looked over and seen the silver haired man; Naruto and the others. She thought and sat up.
"Ow..." she said, rubbing the back of her head.
"What? This can't be her, she doesn't have the cloak, or the scroll bag," someone else said sounded female, she looked over and seen pink.
"Ow, my eyes," she said covering them quickly, shielding them from the bright pink.
"It's her," the same man said, "Notice the headband, those scores, hm," he said putting his orange book down for a moment and lifting up her bangs to look at her head band, "More have been added, why is that?"
"My reasons, and my mission," she growled at him, just when she thought she could rest awhile longer, something just had to show up.
"Mission? Marking your headband is a mission?" the blonde asked.
"Yes, it was giving to me, and now I have to compete it," she said standing up again, "If you all will excuse me I need to get my things from the tree," she said and jumped back into the tree taking her cloak down and putting it on, along with her scroll bag. She jumped back down and looked at the four, she remembered the blonde as, Naruto, the silver hair as, Kakashi, the raven as, Sasuke, and the pink one as, Sakura.
"What is this mission?" Naruto asked.
"Hm, how about I put it this way, 'No way in hell I will tell you,'" she smiled and started to walk away from them.
"Hey!" she heard him yell.
"All missions are confidential, get used to it!" she called back smiling, releasing a clay figure that turned into a wolf, she got on it's back and it started to run faster then she had.
"She is from, Iwagakure," Kakashi noted, they headed back to Kohona's entrance, leaving, Leo alone on her travels.
"Why did they let her leave, hm?"
"She posses as no threat, so there is no need."
"Hm."
She arrived in snow country safe and sound, she looked around at the place, memorized by it all, the glistening snow, the light flutters of the snow falling. She started to walk it's streets, looking at the smiling villagers; I wonder what it would be like to have a caring family like them..she wondered to herself as she looked ahead again. She felt something tugging at her cloak from behind her, turning her head to see what, or who it was that was starting to annoy her.
"Yes?" she asked, she seen no one behind her, so she stated verbally that they have her attention; If it's someone asking that I'm Izo No Leo then I shall Bar B Que them, she thought.
"Do you have something to eat?" a small voice said, she turned herself half way to look at the small child.
This is what I do when I'm bored, or have such a brilliant idea...