I looked around. All I saw was sand and my sister, Hanako. She was also looking around. It seemed that all she saw was sand. And me.
Then she started complaining. "Brother!" she shouted. "Why are we looking for that weird guy, again?" She was referring to the kid that showered the town, OUR town, in sand. Several people suffocated and only a few survived. How many? SIX. Only SIX. The survivors are me, Hanako, and elderly couple, and my best friends, Shinobu and Kira. Of course, several residents were out on business. Everyone knows that the Village Hidden in Crystal is a busy place. That is, everyone who knows about it.
The Crystal Village is a secret Shinobi city, usually having internal Ninja Exams. Other Ninja don't know about it unless they stumble upon it accidentally or if they are part of another Village's government. Speaking of government, the Kage of the Crystal Village is the Hanakage.
Speaking of the Hanakage, the Eleventh Hanakage died in the attack. Guess who the most able Ninja from the Village to take his place was
ME.
Now the Twelfth Hanakage.
So I'm the one stuck with bringing justice to tge attacker. This person was described as a teenager with black rings around his eyes and a forehead tattoo depicting the Japanese character for "Ai." I didn't see him but everyone else that survived did.
And to top it off, my sister is so smart that she has a short term memory. But she still manages to retain knowledge. And faces. There's a plus. But still, she can't remember that our ruined Village, MY ruined Village, is under about OH twenty plus feet of sand.
"See that pile of sand?" I asked her, pointing back to the ruin.
She looked. Then she replied, "OH YEAH! He killed everything!"
"Of course," I teased. Then something caught my eye. "Prodigious! A Village!" I shouted. Then we ran across the rest of the desert till we got there.