Ginko's Apprentice

"Teach me Sensei!"

Midoriko ran down the road after the enigmatic mushi master Ginko her dirty blonde hair trailing behind her. She had been trailing him for weeks now and was trying to get him to teach her. "Ginko Sensei!" she called after him trying to catch up to him.

Ginko turned around and looked at Midoriko. "Look kid, stop following me and go back to your village." He then went right on walking. Midoriko raced up next to him and smiled "You can't get rid of me that easy Ginko sensei, I Midoriko wan to be a mushi master like you Ginko sensei" she said grinning.

"Look, Midoriko, I don't want an apprentice let alone a little scamp of a village girl."

"Ginko-san, please, I want to learn about mushi and how to treat people who are being harmed by mushi."

Ginko remembered the girls village, was almost completely destroyed by a rare type of mushi. Midoriko had been the only survivor whom after a few days had taken to following him begging to be trained as a mushi master, relentlessly.

"Midoriko I know you lost a lot to the mushi, but I can't teach you if you can't see them."

Midoriko smiled "But I can see them Ginko-san, I can even close my second eye lid!"

Ginko stopped and looked the girl in the eye, his green one meeting her sky blue ones. He studied the girl a moment.

"Alright," he said ", let's sit down here a moment."

Ginko sat on the ground and Midoriko did the same. Ginko closed his eyes and his second eye lid and saw the river. Midoriko understood what he was doing and followed suit. When she saw the river she spotted Ginko and waved to him. They both opened their eyes and Ginko looked at the girl again, she was grinning.

"Alright so I still don't want a student."

Ginko got up and continued walking. Midoriko followed suit they walk for quite awhile in silence, well almost silence Midoriko was smiling and humming because Ginko had stopped telling her to turn back.

The sun began to set and Ginko began to make camp, with Midoriko helping out quite a bit. He decided to cave.

"Midoriko, I've decided to teach you after all, as long as you promise to help out with anything and everything I ask you to do and stay out of the way when asked, understand."

Midoriko lit up "Yes Sensei!" she chimed.