.:Chapter 2:.
:.A New Shinobi World.:
"Who is she? That girl… Is she an enemy?" the villagers mumbled among themselves as they saw a strangely dressed girl coming out of an alley.
"Where am I exactly…? What's with those people…? Where is Kuukai then…?" those were the thoughts of the confused and lost Utau.
She walked out of the alley with her sunglasses and cap, making the villagers wondered why she was wearing those. When she walked on the street of the unknown place, she saw a few figures jumping and landing on the roof-tops of the houses in a blink of eyes. The confused girl's eyes widened as she looked at the blurry figures which jumped from roofs to roofs towards a certain way. However, the people around them did not seem to be shocked nor surprised and they just continue doing their own things and businesses. Utau then tried to ask a child that walked past her about the figures and the location.
"Hello little friend…Erm…Did you saw a few figures jumping from roofs to roofs just now? Aren't they strange?" asked Utau kindly as she squat down to face the young child who smiled as he answered.
"Nope~ Nee-chan must be from other places…The people who are able to do that are all Shinobi!!! They are all great ninja of Konoha !!! I wanted to be one of them too when I grow up~" cheered the sparkling child as he spoke so proudly of the figures.
"Shinobi? Erm…Where am I now actually…?" Utau mumbles to herself as she thinks of what the child had said. The little guy had heard what the girl mumbled and answered the question she asked herself.
"Here is The Hidden Village of Konoha!!! One of the great five nations~ The best village ever!!!" the child said happily as his arms opened wide in happiness with a wide grin on his face.
Utau's eyes widened as she heard what the child had said. She then thanked the child before he ran off to some other places. The yellow-haired girl walked continuously none-stop, wanting to find the way back to her own world. However, she realized herself walking without a destination in mind and turned her head in all direction, looking for a place to go to ask someone the way to go back to her own world. She saw houses and shops around her everywhere but something caught her eyes. In the direction of the mountains, she saw 4 head figures being carved on the huge mountain, making her wonder how the villagers there does the huge carving. The thing that caught her eyes was the red, huge and tall building that had a chinese word "Fire" as the name of the building.
"What's with that Chinese word "Fire"…? Hmm…Well, since I have no where to go, let's go there…Maybe it is the police station? It's worth a try to go and check it out I guess…" Utau thought as she walk towards the huge and red-coloured building.
She then started walking with all eyes on her, wondering who she was. She heard many whisperings but she ignored them. Although there were many whisperings around her, there was a voice that she heard very clearly.
"Ah!!! Please spare me… I need the money for my family… Please let me go…" a cry travels through the air and to Utau's ears.
With such a voice that sound so sad, she followed the direction of where the voice came from. She then came across a similar alley just like the one she found herself at, and peeked at what was happening in that dark alley. She saw a worn-out young girl who had a frightened expression on her face and wearing really dirty clothes, stuck in that alley with a few men surrounding her. Utau then continued eavesdropping since she wanted to understand what had happened exactly.
"Hah… So what? As if we care about your stinking 'family'… Just hand over the money you had in your pocket, you brat… Your stupid father kept on gambling and owe us a few hundred bucks… Since he disappeared, his family will have to return the money for him… Blame it on your own father for gambling so much when your family hadn't eat for so many days!!! HAHA!!! Now hand the money over!!!" a scary and deep voice shouted happily as he kicked the little cornered girl who hugged her dirty pocket tightly, not allowing even a single coin to show. Before Utau realized it, she was actually in front of the poor girl, trying to protect her and looking at the 3 fierce men whose faces had scars that were slashed across their faces. They were all muscular and tough-looking guys, making Utau's heart slightly shaken.
"Damn… I run out and wanting to protect the girl without even thinking… What should I do to stop these 3 scary guys…?" Utau thought as the 3 fierce-looking men glared at her with merciless eyes.
"Erm… From what I know…this girl's father owed you money right…? So why don't you 3 give her a due date to return the money instead of torturing her…??" Utau asked nicely since she think that it is best to deal situations like this nicely without using force.
"heh!? Where did you come from, stupid brat!? We want the money now! Who can stop us!? Haha!!! Don't try to be a hero…You are too young and stupid to be one!!! I bet your parents are regretting to have born you!!! Hahahaha!!!!" laughed the fierce-looking men as they pointed at Utau, who wanted to help the young but poor girl.
"Don't try to be a hero… I bet your parents are regretting to have born you!!! …" those words rang in Utau's mind. Since she was an orphan, she grew up in the orphanage without anyone care for her nor wanting to make friends with her even though she had a pretty, cute and beautiful face since young. Even though she had no idea why her parents had abandoned her, she still believed that her parents had their own reasons for doing such thing to her so she would not allow anyone to bad-mouth about her parents. Since no one had ever cared about her, Utau then always tried to do things with all her best so someone will at least acknowledge her hard-work. Utau's head hung low as the 3 men make fun of her, saying that she should go away and her parents were stupid to have born her. The poor and young girl behind looked at Utau with grateful yet sad eyes, thinking that Utau might cry and goes away due to the nasty comments. However, Utau slowly rise up her head to face the 3 men with her eyes closed. She slowly opened her eyes, her eyes were full of killing-intentions and the scary thing was that, her original charming purple eyes had turned into a pair of scary bloody-red coloured eyes. The 3 fierce-looking men stopped the mean comments as they saw Utau's eyes glowing bloody-red in colour, and their feets suddenly got weak and shaky, feeling scared of Utau's glowing eyes. The alley had suddenly become darker and darker than usual and the only thing they saw were Utau's glowing red eyes and her serious-looking face.
"What's with this pair of eyes which glowed so sudden and filled with intention to kill…!? There is nothing like that before… Since you are like this, your parents must be some really stupid monsters…" one of the 3 men shouted out loud.
Just then, Utau got angrier and continue glaring at the 3 huge-sized men, whose legs were actually shaking and frightened of her seemed-to-kill eyes. Suddenly, the windows of a building behind them broke and shattered into pieces as the yellow-haired girl glared even harder at the 3 men. Before Utau even start to speak, the 3 huge and tough-looking men were already running out of the ally, crying and shouting out loud.
"Help!!! Another monster is in Konoha!!! Someone help us!!!" the men shouted as more and more people gathered at the other end of the alley, wondering what happened.
The young girl who was being helped run away using the opportunity that Utau created for her. Utau's eyes slowly turned back to normal as the men ran away in horror, but strangely, she did not know the reason for the 3 men being so frightened and she did not know that her eyes had changed into such a scary colour just now. Utau then slowly walked out of the alley.
"Whew…I was kinda lucky that those 3 huge guys didn't beat me up and ran away, being frightened… But, come to think of it…What are they scared about…??" Utau wondered as she walked out of the alley and saw a crowd of cold-looking villagers glaring at her with cold eyes. The atmosphere changed as the more and more villagers glared at Utau detestably. Some of them started to throw stones at her after a while.
"Go away Monster!!!" some women shouted as they threw stones at her.
"We don't need a second monster here!!! Get lost Demon!!!" some other villagers exclaimed as Utau ran and tried blocking the stones with her arm covering herself.
She managed to run and ended up in her destination coincidentally and found a corner to hide so the villagers could not find her. She thought back of what just happened and got more confused.
"What's wrong with those villagers!? Are they crazy!? I am not a monster…I am a normal human… But…it is the same just like when I was just in the real world…People who don't like me and chasing me away… No one ever care about me and talk to me…Until I became a celebrity… I worked hard and I will continue to do so to accomplish this dream…and it is to become the best celebrity and singer who can reach out to other's heart!!! Yeah…That's right…Who cares what others think…? Just do what my own heart wanted… That's enough… Although I am kind of hurt by them calling me "monster"… I might just have to get use to that before I can get back to my own world… Ah… Come to think of it… Why did the villagers say "We don't need a second monster here!!!" ?? Does that mean there is really a monster here…!?" Utau speak to herself in her own mind as she hid quietly in the corner of a dark alley behind the huge and red building where she had decided to go at first.
Just then, she felt someone looking at her from above so she quickly looked up. On the roof, what she saw clearly was an eye which was dark red in colour with 3 black tomoe* and a black filled circle in the middle in that eye of the figure. Utau gasped as she looked in the strange eye of the figure that jumped down from the high roof and landed swiftly, unhurt. Utau looked at the figure which stood still, facing her, looking at her seriously with one of his strange eyes and another normal eye. Utau's eyes were wide opened as the figure started walking closer and closer to her.
*A tomoe is a Japanese abstract shape (i.e. a swirl) that resembles a comma.
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