Thoughts are in Italics
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me, only Aya
Aya walked through the markets looking for the ingredients her grandmother's restaurant was running short on. It had been unexpectedly busy yesterday night, with the fall festival, and their next shipment of food wasn't due for another week. So her grandmother had made Aya make a quick run for the essentials. Truthfully assisting at her grandmother's restaurant wasn't her primary occupation, but after that mission, Aya had asked the Hokage to be taken off active duty of an indefinite amount of time, until either she decided to resume her work as a ninja, or the Hokage deemed it necessary. Aya wasn't in any way inexperienced as an 18 chunnin. But that mission had shaken her, losing her best friend, Kumiko had taken its toll. But that was a year ago, and Aya was slowly moving on, and beginning to realise that civilian life wasn't so bad.
She was just about finished with the groceries, now all she needed to do was lug these all back to her grandma's restaurant. Aya sighed, this much weight would have been nothing for her a year ago, but she'd lost so much muscle mass that she was essentially a civilian now, not that that was bad, it just felt weird to her. After so many years of: eat, sleep, train, mission. The simplicity of civilian life felt foreign. She glanced up at the sky and sighed. I better get going or else grandma will throw a tantrum.
She started to head down the street, stopping every few minutes to adjust her bags. Honestly, Aya thought she had better reflexes from her time as a ninja, but clearly not, because she failed to notice an extremely anxious cat barrelling out of the alleyway as she passed. Shit. The cat jumped at her just before latching onto her shoulder, followed by two extremely enthusiastic genins. What the hell! Aya thought as she tumbled over, bags and all.
When the two kids eventually got off of her, she got a better look at them. The one clutching the cat, that was desperately trying to get away, had black hair, and goggles, whilst the one scolding him was a young girl, with markings on her face. They didn't look to be over 13 years old.
"Obito! You can't just barrel into other people like that! Its rude!" The young girl yelled at her teammate.
"I know! But I got the cat didn't I! And we've been after it for two days now, I wasn't about to let it get away!" The boy, who's name Aya had figured to be Obito, yelled indignantly.
Aya watched on in mild fascination, are these the missions gennins got these days? My god no wonder he didn't care whether he knocked me over or not.
"I'm very sorry, for my team, Miss," Aya turned around to who spoke, and found herself looking up half a foot, to a jonnin, with unmistakeable bright yellow hair, Konoha's yellow flash, so this is his team.
Of course Aya had never met him personally, but he was Konoha's Yellow Flash, who hadn't heard of him?
"Obito! Apologise!" He yelled at his student
"Ah, sorry miss, I didn't mean too…well I did mean too, but I had too, cause ya'know the cat and all. But like I didn't want to accidentally push you over. I suppose it wasn't all that accidental. But I didn't mean to cause you harm! But then again I suppose –"
"Obito, shut up!" The girl yelled again, whacking him in the head
The yellow flash sighed and rubbed his head.
"How about I help you with these," pointing to her bags, "while my students go complete their mission?"
"Ah, okay…" Aya said still in a bit of a daze from the events of the morning
"Obito, Rin! Go report to the Hokage and return the cat…And while you're at it go find where Kakashi is."
"Yes sir!" They said simultaneously as they vanished
"Sorry about that again," he said as he bent down to help her pick up her bags, "They get a bit enthusiastic sometimes." He laughed
"My name's Minato by the way," he smiled dazzlingly.
"I'm Aya," she said as she smiled back, she had a feeling that maybe civilian life was going to get a bit more interesting from here on out.