A week had pasted with me doing just as I said building a shelter. I had cut down some trees to use my arm making the job easier. I had also managed to get a look at my face through the pond reflection and was shocked at what I found. Night black hair framed my face reaching down below my back (I'll have to cut that sometime, but I couldn't, it reminded me so much of my girls making the ordeal harder then it needed to be). I also had shiny green eyes similar in color to grass. My face was young to it didn't exactly have baby fat but my cheeks where a bit round. All an all I was adorable and if my calculations aren't off 13 years old. It was kinda jarring going from a 41-year-old single dad to a 13-year-old living in the woods. I was the same age as my daughters, it was a crazy concept thinking about it but what could you do. I tried to distract myself with games like how many push-ups can you do with a log on your back (64 on a good day) or my favorite how much weight can you lift with your magic arm (200 Id is the answer). It wasn't the most thrilling, but it did help me build up my body something I'll need. But if I'm being honest, I enjoyed the peace. Until they came

It was a normal day with me just having caught breakfast (a bunny who didn't see the arrow coming towards it). When I heard the first explosion it had spooked me quite a bit seeing as there wasn't anything in this forest that could make that sound. Before it clicked. Ninja. Of course, it would be ninja. I haven't seen one since I woke up so it would make sense for them to be around here now. But I had no intention of getting myself killed and from the sounds of it I most defiantly will. I hurried and ran to my little hut from the sound of things there nowhere near my clearing so I should lie low.

That's how I spent the next few hours sitting inside and waiting for the explosions to die down. I couldn't do any heavy training not wanting to leave myself tired in case I had to run. One explosion had been a tad to close being where the pond is but after that the seemed to die down. I pecked outside my hut looking around to see any ninja. Failing to see any I continued on my way to the pond to at least see if they left anything useful. And that's when I saw him floating in the center looking half-way died.

I should have left him. Let him die it wasn't any my business but all I could think of is the pain and fire of hell. He was gonna go there I knew the path of a ninja us not a clean one. I sighed knowing already what I was gonna do. Hey, maybe he'll be so grateful for me saving him he'll teach me some ninja stuff. I looked out to where he was, he was only like 5 feet out into the pond with it being 15 feet all together. He looked a bit banged up as well if the red trail floating from him was anything to go by. I could probably just reach over there and nab him (If I make it thin enough my arm could just reach him the longest, I had gotten it to was 5 ft after all). But I don't know how beat up he is, and I wouldn't want to pull him in only to rip off his leg. I guess I got to swim for him. After making up my mind to get him, I began to take off my clothes after all I had nothing to dry them with.

It wasn't to hard to get to him I wasn't the best swimmer, but I wasn't gonna drown anytime soon. So, after dragging him out of the water and on shore I managed to get a better look at him. He had a headband on the Village I recognize as Iwagakure making his presence here even weirder since I was somewhere in fire country with how big these trees are. He had plain looks with a mop of brown hair and his tanned completion. He was wearing the basic (to my knowledge) Iwa uniform with a mud brown flask jacket on it seemed standard issue except with lots of cuts and tears. It was also soaking wet and painted in blood. His injures where even worse with him missing his entire left leg from his foot to his upper thigh. This is gonna be a problem, I can nurse the wound with my knowledge of first aid, but it'll end up getting infected unless I either find some alcohol or some antibiotics for him. I look at the scroll on his waist before reaching for it maybe its when one of those storage scrolls. Before I could touch the scroll his hand is suddenly around my wrist. I blink. I hadn't even seen his hand move. Is this the power of a ninja? It's a big difference from seeing it in a show to in real life. He could kill me before I could blink. That's a scary thought but it only motivated me more to save him if he taught me that I would be one step closer to killing this bitch and seeing my kids.

"Please, I'm just trying to help you" it tried to stay calm even as I felt him tighten his iron grip on my wrist. "Do you have any antibiotics or alcohol?"

He frowned slightly clearly in miss trust, but I was his only optain well expect for death. I watch as he went into his back pocket and pulled out what appears to be a canteen before I brought it to my nose and took a sniff. I felt my nostrils burn at the smell of strong liquor. This will do.