Chapter 1; Strange Visitor

Three and a half days later…

The guards at the gates of Konoha had checked the traveling papers of many different individuals, but the person whose papers they were checking just then was… distracting.

"So, may I go in?"

The guard with the papers blinked before clearing his throat. "Uh, yeah. Go on ahead." he said, handing over the papers.

Smiling, the person accepted the papers and said, "Thanks." (It wasn't a "Sai smile", mainly because the emotion of slight annoyance was behind the smile.) "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late."

Ignoring the double-takes and unseen stares, the visitor walked through the streets, stopping once or twice to look around before continuing on, eventually coming to a door. "This is the place," the person mumbled, about to knock, when an Anbu appeared. Looking at the strange visitor, he asked, "What, may I ask, are you doing here?"

The visitor gave a scroll to the Anbu, saying, "I have a job to do."

The Anbu thoroughly looked through the scroll before opening the door and gesturing at the person to follow.

The Anbu led the way to an office. He went in and said, "Lady Hokage, someone to see you."

The three ladies (and the pig) already in the room looked over at the figure leaning against the doorframe.

The visitor was a fairly attractive guy, about sixteen, with straight, messy brown hair gathered together in a (roughly) six-inch-long, loosely-tied ponytail at the nape of his neck.

He was slender, yet he had a well-toned frame (no icky he-man muscles). He was wearing loose-legged, dark-gray pants with a few pockets and various scorch and oil stains on them. He was wearing a scorch-and-oil-stained steel-gray vest (think Kakashi's vest, but a little different.) over a dark-gray sleeveless shirt and black exercise bands on both his wrists and one on his upper left arm. He had a scruffy-yet-sturdy wide gray tool belt that covered his entire middle section and looked like it was almost entirely made of pockets. He wore welding goggles on his forehead and you could see that his left eye was a marvelous blue, while the other eye was covered by a ninja headband.(1check below)

However, the metal plate of the headband hiding his right eye was blank. Not marked. No Konoha Leaf. No Sand Hourglass. No Sound Emblem. No mark at all; slashed, defaced or otherwise. It was just a smooth metal plate.

The guy smiled slightly. "I apologize for being late." he bowed and said, "I'm Nezumi. It's a pleasure to meet you, Hokage."

To be continued…

Auroria's Blah…

I apologize for taking so long, thank you all for being so patient. I try my hardest to make things interesting to make up for making everyone wait so long. I'm also working on a few more stories, so keep an eye out! I may put up several different stories soon!!

(1NOOO, he does NOT have a Sharingan eye and I SWEAR I wasn't thinking of Kakashi at the time and when I realized it was too late to change him and I slapped my forehead and cursed in gibberish and my friends were laughing at me and HE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH KAKASHI!! crying, tears Everyone's so mean to me…)