So as you can see from the chapter amount that this is the only chapter now and it's because of change in my writing style I wanted to try out, and I didn't know what to do after Generic Bandit-chan showed up, notice though this isn't considered a rewrite, at least to me, because the plot hasn't changed at all. Again this is a test on a new writing style I might change it back at anytime in the upcoming chapters.

"Talking"

'thinking/writing'

*action*

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Other

Alice's p.o.v.

I arrived in Konoha in early to mid spring. I wasn't questioned extensively at the gate, and was let in quickly. I had to set up shop where the weapon stores, and blacksmiths were, because my dolls could be used as weapons. Wonderland Dolls I called it, I actually didn't have a customer for the first week of opening now that I think of it, but my first customer was the Hyuga heiress, Hinata I believe her name is.

She came in quietly, hell I don't think I would have noticed if it wasn't for the bell, and walked around the store, eventually she came up to the counter with a average sized doll, the doll was wearing a white dress, and had brown hair and eyes, really the doll was very plain looking and I had thought that it wouldn't sell well because of that, people tended to like the brighter and exotic looking dolls. She didn't really say much other than asking how much the doll was and saying thank you after she paid. All in all she was a good first customer, better than others i've had in the past.

Apparently if the heiress of one of the noble clans shops at your store it means the business will pick up, I was lucky enough that my shop although located in an area where shinobi were more likely to go, was near the entrance to that area so I had a lot more civilian customers then shinobi.

In fact my first actual shinobi customer, not academy student, was Mitarashi Anko. She came in around, oh five-ish, now at the time I had only been living in Konoha for around a month but even I the recluse I was had heard about her, the traitors student and how she would someday kill everyone, so when she came in I did the only sensible thing I could think of.

I sent Hourai over to her with a twenty-five percent off coupon. I couldn't tell what surprised her more the coupon or Hourai with her beautiful red dress and her noose. She didn't buy anything sadly, but she looked pretty interested in some of the tea I also sell on the side.

After Mitarashi-san left business slowed down, apparently people didn't want to buy things at the doll store that gave the snake whore discounts, not that it bothered me, however I needed some money so I started doing puppet shows and some sewing lessons. It was around this time that the few puppet users of Konoha started coming in to my store, usually for repair materials a few of them asked if it would be possible for them to use my workshop to build some of their puppets, however I had to turn them down on those requests, a doll maker's workshop has to be made to fit their own purposes never anyone else's.

Mitarashi-san was what you could call my first regular customer. She came in every friday at five twenty on the dot, unless she had a mission, so when she came in on a monday before ten o'clock, with another person even, I was intrigued. The two of them had walked up to me, sitting off in the corner reading and not Shanghai at the counter, I was perhaps the most surprised I had been since I had heard about that Icha-Icha series, oh Marisa would love them and probably Sakuya too.

Mitarashi-san's friend was the first one to talk. "Excuse me," the red eyed woman asked "but would you perchance be the owner of this store?"

"Why yes, I am. Is there something wrong?" I had asked in return

The red eyed woman waved her hand in dismissal, "Oh no nothing is wrong, no we are just here to invite you to a little get together, a tea party one might call it."

"So are you in, or not?" ah it seemed that Mitarashi-san was tried of not speaking

"Well that depends on a few factors. What day would it be on, what time, and how many people would be there?" I was open really to do whatever I liked whenever, so it was mostly my timid nature making itself known.

Mitarashi-san was the one who spoke this time, "Wednesday, around noon, the three of us, and it would be at my place if you're wondering. So i'll ask again you in or out?"

I took a sip of the cup of green tea I had sitting off to the side at the time, "I believe I can make it, however I need your address Mitarashi-san if I am to come."

Mitarashi-san waved her hands in a dismissive manner, "I'll just come and pick you up, and just call me Anko."

I nodded my head "Okay Anko-san. I will see you on Wednesday."

They left after that not buying anything again, the cheeps.

Wednesday rolled around soon enough, and I was waiting on the bench in front of my store with Hourai, and Shanghai sitting on my respective left and right shoulders, when Anko-san dropped down from the rooftops.

"You ready?" She said, before she turned to glare at one of the people passing by, he started to run then.

"Yes. Lead the way." At the time was genuinely quite curious at what kind of a place Anko-san lived at, especially with her reputation.

It wasn't that far of a walk actually, maybe around thirty minutes tops, before we reached the apartment complex where she lived. It was one of the shinobi only apartment complexes, it looked rather bland in my taste though, Anko-san's apartment was on the third floor of the five story building.

The inside of her apartment was quite different from the bland building, and hallways. The ways were a nice shade of light blue, and contrasted the dark wood flooring. The red eyed woman was sitting at the dining table some sugar cubes sat in a cup, and some other various tea related things lay near them.

When we got around to talking, maybe I should have kept my tea habits a bit more hidden.

"What? *plop*" I said as I put some more sugar in my tea.

"Don't you think that that's enough sugar *plop*, I mean I don't think I can see the tea anymore *plop*." Anko's red eyed friend, whose name I learned was Yuhi Kurenai, said while looking at the growing pile of sugar cubes in my tea.

"No *plop* why this is almost the right amount of sugar?"

At the tea party we didn't really talk all too much, we mostly just sat and drank tea, however I do believe that the three of us were what one might call friends after that.

It was when I was returning home from that when I ran into her.

So what did you think of the way this is being written, with the whole it's kind of a flashback and/or interview...thing

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I appreciate criticisms but please none of that "it's shit" if you think it's shit please give a reason why it's shit, nine times out of ten I will probably agree with the reasoning, I am a bad writer that's why i'm doing this to get better.

So yeah hoped you enjoyed i'm going to write this two chapters at a time so when this goes up expect the next one up soon too, spellcheck and other corrections yeah.

Oh and yes I have decided on pairings for them so at one point there will be romance, shittly written romance, but romance none the less THIS I SWEAR.

Thank you for reading.