Outside of a hidden village stared a dark figure whom kept to the shadows and out of sight. "So this is the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Well, this was easier to find than I thought… so much for being hidden. Hahaha." The dark figure's mock laughter was drowned out by the light rustling of the leaves in the graceful wind. With an impatient sigh the shadowy stranger continued talking into the night's silence. "I've finally found you. You'll pay for what you did, and you better take responsibilities for your past actions." It was a late night and the village full of ninja was quiet, for the most part. The only lively place was the Ramen stand centered near the front of the village. There sat and old dirty looking man dressed in rags from head to toe. He sat there eating his ramen and looking at all the passer-biers with shadow cast eyes with such intensity, it was as if he was looking for someone. There aren't as many ninja here as I thought there would be, but the ones I did see were easy enough to pick out of the crowd. Hopefully I'll find who I'm looking for soon, the people here are really starting to look at me weird. Things were starting to quiet even more as the late-night customers were leaving for home when a group of three young ninjas -no older that fifteen or sixteen- entered the stand. The group consisted of two young men and a young woman with a unusually big forehead. One of the boys (with blond hair) was extremely loud and seemed to know way too much about ramen. He was way more excited than he should have been to be there -it's only ramen-. Both the other boy (with black hair-who let on to be the unofficial leader: calm, cool, and collected), and the girl (who was part of the cause of the commotion that now engulfed the stand do to her yelling at the knuckle-headed yellow haired boy.) looked away from their companion as if no one would know that they were in the same party. "Naruto who are you staring at?" inquired the girl with the big forehead. She turned to meet where Naruto was looking. Her long pink hair fell in front of her sea foam green eyes as they fell upon the old ragman. "That guy over there looks really weird" answered Naruto with a mouth half full of hot ramen. "NARUTO! DON'T STARE AT PEOPLE!" Sakura yelled, "besides, he's not hurting anyone. He's probably here just for the night. You know just passing through." as her temper lessened, she settled down. "There's something uneasy about him." The dark haired leader of the gang finally spoke up. His dark eyes staring at the dirty man, seemingly seeing through the people as they walked by disrupting his gaze. "Sasuke you too!" Sakura gave out a self-sympathizing sigh. Why do they have to be so nois-? Naruto interrupted her thought as he called to someone across the room. "Sensei!" Just then a tall man with gray hair walked over. The old man staring at everyone couldn't get a good look at him from his seat, but he seemed to be a bit uneasy at his arrival. The Sensei's blue headband branded with the mark of the Leave Village was covering his left eye and he wore a black mask that covered half his face, from his nose down. "Hello everyone. Now Naruto, what's all the commotion?" The Sensei questioned in a deep stern, yet cheerful voice. The yellow haired boy, presumably Naruto raised his hand, pointing with his chopsticks. "That guy over there, we think he's up to something." Their Sensei looked at Naruto with an amused look on his mostly hidden face (the only sign of humor was his one cheerfully closed eye.) "Oh is that so, he looks to me as if he's just passing through. What do you think Sakura?" "Thank you Kakashi Sensei. That's what I said." Sakura chirped in with a know-it-all tone in her voice. Her already big head seemingly growing at the thought that she, once again was right. No one saw the strange man flinch as he gasped at the name of the new man, the sensei who just walked in. No way! I found him already! Not only him but the boy as well. I have to get out of here before he realizes who I am or could be. As if nothing was out of the ordinary the old dirty man laid down his money and generous tip on the table and hurriedly made his was out of the stand. All the while Kakashi Sensei was watching Naruto might be right. Something is up with that man. He had noticed that the man was quite generous with his tip, and by the way he dressed, he should be a bit less careless with his money. Things weren't adding up right with that man.