Iruka sighed happily as he gently placed himself onto the stool at the bar, greeting Teuchi as the man instantly got to work on his order. Quite surprisingly, it happened to be very grey and gloomy as it rained heavily in Konoha today, despite having had some beautiful weather earlier in the week.
As the bowl gently placed in front of him, a small duffle bag was haphazardly tossed onto the ground, between the stool near his feet. He turned away from breaking his wooden chopsticks to see the owner of said bag.
A woman in a kimono sat down on the stool two away from him. She wore a tightly woven, wide brimmed sun hat with a thin, see through, veil around the edges, obscuring the finer details of her face.
Her Kimono was tinted a pleasantly light shade of green. Although it was clearly cut at a shorter length for her height. The hem went half way down her shin, revealing that she wore leggings to her ankles underneath and plain flip flops.
She gently removed her hat, revealing a stunning face.
"Hey, is this place any good?" She asked Iruka with a light smile, as she rested her hat against her shoulder blades, the strap lightly going around her neck.
"You bet stranger!" The famous ramen maker said with a bright smile and thumbs up.
She turned away, a pleasant smile on her face as she chatted the man up.
Iruka took note of her features. Her hair was a deep shade of black, with side swept bangs, pulled back into a bun, most likely for the convenience of traveling. Her skin was a beautifully bronzed, as though she'd spent all day at the beach, although it was a tad lighter than his own in shade, but not by much.
Her eyes were her most prominent feature. They had a slight exotic slant to them framed by thick dark lashes. Their color not quite green and not quite light brown, but a color that flirted with both hues.
"So while you wait, what brings you around?" Teuchi asked as he worked on her order.
The woman smiled sweetly, her chin resting on left hand, which had been propped up on the bar, "Looking for an old friend."
"Oh really now?"
"Yep." She said with a sweet expression, "We didn't leave on good terms last we saw each other though."
"An old boyfriend maybe?" Teuchi teased, grinning at her.
"Too bold, good sir." She teased back, "No. Not a boyfriend."
"Well I hope you like Konoha either way." He said as he finished and placed a hot steaming bowl out in front of her.
"Thanks." She said as he broke apart her wooden chop sticks and ate in silence, Iruka eyeing her out of the corner of his eye.
"If you like her, strike up a conversation." Ayame whispered at him from behind the counter.
Iruka's nose was lightly dusted in pink as he forced his face to not show too much of his blush. He glared at the young girl and huffed, finishing his food in silence.
"Jin-ju." She said between slurps of noodles.
"Excuse me?" Iruka asked, eye brows up in confusion.
"My name, it's Jin-ju. You kept staring when I first arrived. I figured you wanted to know." She said with a knowing smirk on her plump lips as they made eye contact.
"Oh…uh..." Iruka now fully blushed more so because of the embarrassment of getting caught staring, than because she was speaking to him, "Iruka."
"Well then Iruka…I hope I see you around." The woman named Jin-ju said as she stood up, and grabbed her duffle bag, reaching inside and tossing what looked at first to Iruka, to be a plum.
Although when he caught it, felt hard like an apple. It was nearly perfectly round with a small part of the stem still attached.
"It's called a 'Kaimito'!" She shouted back at him, having already put her hat back on and on her way through the rain, all while Iruka had been staring at the strange fruit in his hand.
"Ooooo~ I like her." Ayame said with a bright smile, looking in the direction of the pretty traveler and then back at Iruka, who was still stupidly staring at the fruit and blushing.