Tap, tap, tap. Someone is at my door. I sit up from bed to go see who it is. Creeaakk…
"Gaaahh!" I wake up yelling. Aiko and Kiyoshi, the guards outside my room, burst through the door. "Rupinasu!" Aiko yells. "What happened?"
"I'm fine…" I say in my hoarse, quiet voice. "It was just a bad dream, that's all." Aiko seems relieved; I hate seeing her worry. Kiyoshi, well, he's generally grumpy. As they exit the room, I get up and stretch out my back. 'hmmm…' I think. 'I wonder who it was that was behind the door in that dream.' I try to describe her to myself. 'She had long, blonde hair, and it was up in a pony tail.' I start to undress. 'Let's see…. That cloak was from the Akatsuki, right?'
Downstairs, the guards have made themselves breakfast. I'm not a prisoner or anything, by the way. Normally, people think that there are only nine Jinjuriki, but those people are wrong. I am the tenth jinjuriki. My name is Rupinasu Oshiro, and I am the Ten Tailed Wolf (ju-bi Okami).
I fixed myself a bowl of cereal, and seat myself at the table. My house is fairly nice, not too big or small. There's always guards running around though, because it's a highly guarded secret that there is a 10th jinjuriki. Aiko and Kiyoshi are usually the main guards. They're always disguised as normal people so that no one gets suspicious. In fact, no one but the Kazekage, the guards, and a few choice others know. I take a bite of my cereal.
"Rupinasu, the Kazekage wants to see you about something or other this afternoon," says Kiyoshi, sipping his coffee. I nod. 'I wonder what Gaara wants this time…. He's always so….. grumpy.' I clean up my mess, grab my iPod and slip out the door for my morning jog.
After jogging past the ramen stand, I see Shikamaru and Temari walking around the corner, and quickly catch up with them. "Hey, Rupi! What's up?" says Temari. Shikamaru looks at me and says "Who is this chick?" "Hello," I say. We all stop walking and sit on a nearby bench underneath a barren tree. "You must be Shikamaru. Temari has told me a lot about you." Temari blushes. I catch a glance of one of the guards across the street. They're so easy to pick out of the crowd these days…. I lean back and breathe in deeply. "Autumn air is so fresh, don't you think?" Temari gives me a weird look. 'That was incredibly random," she says, but her expression said that she agreed. I stand up, walk around the bench, and begin to climb the tree. My deep gray eyes take in everything in the nearby area, and my blonde, a little-over-shoulder-length hair blows softly in the breeze. I curl up between two forked branches, and pull out my iPod form my pocket. Temari and Shikamaru walk off in the direction of the ramen stand. 'Geez,' I think. 'I thought Naruto was the only person who could stomach ramen at 10 in the morning.' I sat back and listened to Blood on the Dance Floor until I drifted off…
