I woke one morning and wandered around where the man was keeping me captive, it had been 14 years or more, and he never left me on my own there was always some one around me, so to find the area empty shocked me, I couldn't help but smile though. I ran back to my room/cell and changed into some shorts and a dark green tank top. I pulled on a jacket grabbed what little I had then made my escape. I was still expecting someone to try and stop me at any time but the place seemed almost deserted. So I just ran and kept running.
I wasn't sure where I was so I chose a direction to run and stuck with it, eventually I would reach some village or civilisation and I would figure out where to go from there. I was running for about four days only taking a break when I absolutely needed to, I didn't each much and I was extremely hungry when I got to a village.
On arriving I soon learnt I was in Tanigakure, the village hidden in the land of rivers, I helped out some of the villages in exchanged for a little money. With that I bought some food supplies for travelling back to Konohagakure. While in Tanigakure, I saw six youngsters with the hidden leaf headband, I was also wearing mine and approached them.
Naturally they were wary but one of the four boys reminded me of Might Gai. With him was a boy and girl who were both obviously a Hyuga's, A boy with a hooded coat and sunglasses, a girl with brown hair in two buns and a boy with a large white dogs and the markings on his face told me he was an Inuzuka
"Are you perhaps heading back to Konoha soon?" I asked curiously.
"Yes we are going back today why?" The girl questioned suspiciously.
"Your smart to be suspicious but I'm from Konohagakure aswell, although it has been a long time since I've been back. I've been held prisoner a long time and I've only just get away, actually I was going to travel alone but couldn't help notice you three particularly the boy in the green training suite, I couldn't help notice he reminded me of Might Gai in looks, Perhaps you know him?" I replied
"Thank you miss, Gai-Sensei is our teacher, I'm Rock Lee, these are my team mates Tenten and Neji Hyuga." Lee Beamed then added "Oh and that's Neji's cousin Hinata Hyuga and her team Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru. Their Sensei is Kurenai"
"Oh I go way back with Guy and Kurenai we were great friends before I was kidnapped, them Kakashi, Iruka and Asuma. Man I could tell you some stories" I smiled remembering the mischief we all used to get up to "I don't know if they will have mentioned me my names Midori Kimura"
They all shook their head, I asked if they minded me travelling with them when they went back to the village and they agreed although some still seemed wary. We walked through and I asked them to tell me about what had happened in the hidden Leaf since I left. I explained I was kidnapped in the fight against the war involving the nine tails fox when the fourth Hokage was alive. They told me what they knew. I was sad because my Sensei Kushina had been killed as well as her husband the Fourth Hokage. I really just listened to them more than anything. They had just told me Iruka taught them in the academy. They also said Sarutobi had become Hokage but after some incident with the sand village and Orochimaru a short while back during the chunin exams now Tsunade was Hokage.
"Iruka now teaches children, that's amusing" I chuckled
"How so?" Tenten asked
"Just can't imagine him reprimanding trouble making kids" I smiled, then sighed
"What's wrong?" Hinata asked
"Iruka becoming a teacher makes me wonder if they've changed much, I can see Kakashi being more a teacher he was the one who was always a stickler for following rules, Iruka not so much" I frowned "What's Kurenai Like now?"
"She's Great, She's really caring, kind and she's a brilliant teacher" Kiba told me happily
"Well she was always that, well minus the teacher part" I smiled "What about Guy?"
"Gai is just the best, he always pushes us to our limits..." Lee started to ramble so I tuned out and turned to Lee's team mates
"Imagine Lee but older" Neji told me looking to his hyper team mate this caused me to stop walking to burst out into laughter, causing the other to look at me confused
"Well at least that's something that hasn't change, it's nice to hear" I said once I had stopped laughing "He always did have his quirks"
Soon we got back to the hidden leaf village and we walked up to the Hokages office where we were greeted by a blond haired women, she looked at me suspiciously as the kids reported back their missions and then explained about me. She told them to fetch one of the sensei's who ever they came across first and so they left to find one of their teachers.
