She was slowly wandering through a small wood in the middle of no where. Her thoughts were about as lost as she was, traveling from her location, to her dreams, then to her past. There they stopped and pondered for a while. The young child unconsciously started to cry as she went through the all of her past, wondering what it would have been like if only…
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She had lost all control. A deep hatred rose within her and she couldn't stop it. She attacked him with as much mercy as he had ever shown her, none what-so-ever. After she had calmed down, the girl ran. She ran as far and as fast as she could each day for weeks. She knew that she could never return, ever.
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Since she traveled mostly at night, her hearing and eye sight became unnaturally good, her daily needed amount of food decreased, her body became very flexible and quick to respond. She learned to trust no one and kill those who knew too much. The girl cared for no one else.
Realizing the time, she quickly got up and started off again. She felt unfathomable threats on the verge of awakening. The girl knew not what they were, but she really didn't want to know. The night was so cold and chilling, she felt like she was in the middle of the arctic. Yumi found a dense part of the forest that shielded her well enough from the rain.
The next morning, she awoke, with a little dread. She knew this day would somehow be different from any of the other days and to make things worse, there were unusually dark grey clouds above you that stretch from east to west, north to south, as far as the eye could see.
The sun had just appeared from behind the thick clouds for the first time today. 'Finally,' she thought. She looked right and left looking for something of interest, but, as usual, she found nothing.
She sighed. She was bored out of her mind. She had already practiced her jutsu and stuff, she had already meditated as you do every day. The day just seem to drag on and on. There was nothing better to do, so she started to look for another resting spot.
Yumi never usually spent more than one night, sometimes two, at one place. She didn't trust any sort of assurance of something or someplace safe. She just didn't have any kind or sort confidence in that word or anything to do with that word. She had learned that from previous experience.
Yumi soon came upon a village. She knew it to be what they called 'the village hidden in the sand'. She would occasionally go into a small town to get food and news, but she never stayed over night, since she did not trust herself. For some reason, though, she decided to stay for a while, check it out, may be getting a part time job for a while since she was running out of money or train for a while. She knew that just learning from what you had seen all those years ago were just not enough if you wanted to get somewhere and do something.
She had no idea what made her come to that decision, but when she made up her mind, it was very hard to change it.
She knew that if she wanted to stay here for a while, she had to find a temporary place to stay while she trained. Also that to find a place to stay, she had to get money and she was not about become the outcast of the village by stealing and begging was just below her.
So she started into the village, and began to look for the training grounds, a vacant room, and a place to work.
Before long, she found both a place to stay and had familiarized herself with the village, and had taken a look at the training areas, but she couldn't find a job anywhere!
'Well that's another thing for another day,' she said to herself as she watched the sun set.
Yumi awoke to a nice, large bedroom around her and sand blowing outside in the strong morning wind just beyond the rectangular window for the seventh time.
Getting up and dressed, she thought, I'm going to be here longer than I though.
It was true. Each day, she had begun to pack, but something just wouldn't let her leave. She had no idea that soon, in this village, she would change the lives of many.