Enjoy! Nothin much to say other than filler chapter that may or may not lead to somethings later...just saying
Chapter 4- Making Arrangements
The girl was in the woods right outside town gathering her back pack that she had hidden earlier that day in case something happened at the meeting. She was glad because something did happen and she was prepared for it. Although she hated to admit it she would probably have to rent an apartment because she never stayed in an area for a long period of time because she didn't want to exhaust the natural resources.
So she headed back into town. It was about three in the afternoon according to the sun's position in the sky so she had plenty of time to look for a place to stay but before that she had to collect on the bet she made yesterday before the fight.
Even though she hated money she understood that it was necessary to get by in the human world, whether it was get information on people she could fight or to get medicine for the sick animals she met. Since she never stayed in a place long enough for a job she gambled on all her fights. It started with finding twenty dollars on the street and now it was hundreds of thousands of dollars in her bag. She always bet a lot but not enough to be suspicious or put her in trouble if she were to need the money.
She took out the stub that had her bet on it. She had bet two thousand dollars on yesterdays match with a twenty to one against her at the final call in. She was now going to have a nice payoff. When she got there however the bookie wouldn't give her the money.
"What do you mean you aren't going to give me the money?" she asked her voice getting dark.
"A little girl like you, especially being a ninja, shouldn't have been gambling in the first place. Genin, this is too teach you a valuable lesson," The guy said.
"Give me the money or I'll beat you until you do," she said angrily, if she hadn't exploded earlier she might've exploded then.
"Don't make me laugh what can some one so small do-"he was cut off when her hand got his throat. Everyone around him got up and looked menacing.
"Give it to me or you will pay!" she whammed his head into the table which then broke in half. All the guys who were about to crowd her backed off. "Will you give me the money now?'
The man couldn't talk but only nodded. "Good boy, the next time you think you're going to scam someone think again. This was a valuable life lesson wasn't it?" she asked rhetorically with a smile.
Twenty minutes later she was back on the street with forty thousand dollars in her pocket. She was walking around the streets looking for anything that said for rent. It didn't have to be nice, just something with a flat roof so she could go up there at night and a room so she could train a bit.
She finally found a run down place that looked in working order with a for rent sign. It was sort of tall with a red flat roof and looked like it would do. She went inside and talked with the land lord.
"Excuse me, I'm interested in renting," the girl said politely trying to get on the persons good side. She hated being nice to humans but she found that it's better to start off nice with people you'd have to encounter frequently.
The old land lord looked up with a smile and said, "Really? That's great; let me show you what we have!"
"Do you have something on the top level that can easily access the roof?"
"You're in luck! That's the one I've been trying to rent for the last few years," he said clearly happy.
"Why haven't you been able to rent it?" she asked cautiously. She didn't care much about the interior but more about it collapsing from the roof when she trained.
"Oh the person who lives next door is a ninja who likes to train at all hours and I just don't have the heart to kick him out. He has no family and would have no where else to go," he said sadly.
"Oh that's fine then, as long as he can handle me training all hours also," she smiled.
"Come let me show it to you," they went up and looked around. Everything was in working order and it was easy enough to get on the roof.
"I'll take it," the girl said.
"That's wonderful! The rent is normally a thousand a month but since I've been trying to get this place rented I'll make it five hundred."
"Lovely, can I just pay you for the next year in advance then?"
"You have six thousand dollars on you right now?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty nomadic so I carry everything I have with me but I have a deal with the hokage and I need to stay here for a year," She said all this while pulling out some of the money she had just won. "Here you go. I think I'm going to go put my stuff up there and then go get some supplies. Can I have my key please?"
"Why thank you for this in advanced and here's your key. If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask. I hope you like Konoha." The girl quickly went inside her new apartment and it felt odd to have a place she could call home. It already had a refrigerator built in but that's the only thing it came with. She had to go buy everything else that she would need. She wondered what she was going to do with it when her year was up but for now it felt to confined so she threw open all her windows and jumped out landing squarely on her feet.
She went out into the town and the sun was starting to set. She had bought a proper mask, toiletries and some towels for her apartment and was going to go back when she passed a flower shop. She didn't really care about the shop itself but a couple of potted plants caught her eye and she couldn't resist. If she was going to be stuck in an apartment she could at least make it feel a little more outdoorsy and put some plants in it.
There was a blonde girl behind the counter with green eyes but no pupil. "What can I do for you?" the girl asked.
"I'm looking for some potted plants to go in my apartment, what kind do you have?" She was curious how the girl could see with no pupil but not enough so to actually talk to the human.
"Not many but here let me show you," the blonde girl said coming from behind the counter. She led the girl to a small row with mostly herbs but there were some potted flowers and some climbing ivy.
It was hard to choose but in the end the girl bought some climbing Ivy she hoped would grow on her walls and a couple different herbs she knew how to make into medicine and tranquilizers. Just as she was about to pay though she saw a potted Lotus and got that too.
"So I've never seen you before, what brings you too my family's flower shop?"
"I was walking by and just thought it would be a good idea to by some plants for my new apartment," the girl answered in a clipped tone hoping this would end their conversation.
"So I see you're a ninja," the blonde said.
"Yeah and…?" the girl didn't understand what this flower girl's problem was and why she kept insisting on talking to her.
"Just wondering what level since I've never meet you. I'm a genin."
"I recently became a jounin," she said and it was obvious that it didn't have any meaning to her.
"Oh congratulations, I'm Ino by the way. What's your name…" By the time Ino finished her sentence the other girl was already walking away.
The girl looked over her shoulder as she was going through the door and said, "I don't have one."
Ino didn't realize until the girl was out of sight that she was the one who beat Lee the day before.
When she finally got to the apartment the land lord was down stairs and said, "Sorry about this but I told your neighbor that someone was finally going to move in and that they were also a ninja so I'm afraid he's kind of waiting to meet you."
"That's okay. That persons a little weird though, waiting for a complete stranger. Oh well. Good night sir." It was killing her to act polite but she figured she had to leave there for a year and she should be on the land lord's good side.
"And to you," With that the girl climbed the stairs, no one was in the hall so she thought they probably gave up but just when she was opening the door someone peeked their head out of the door across the hall.
"Hi, so you're my new neighbor?" the person said. The hall was dark so it was hard to see each other.
"Yes," was all she said before she went in her new apartment and closed the door. She put down her new supplies and was going to organize everything when someone knocked on the door.
"Hey new neighbor if you need any help just ask. Or if you want to train together sometime, you know that would be cool too."
The girl opened the door to tell him too go away when they were both shocked into silence. She snapped out of it first and said, "Hello Kyuubi…and Naruto. Now leave my door alone and go away I have a busy night ahead." She then slammed the door in his face.
When Naruto finally snapped out of it she could hear him yelling to her door. "You! What are you doing here?"
"I live here as of today, if you have a problem with that go to our landlord and complain, other wise leave me alone you baka!" she shouted out to her door deciding it baka was an appropriate nickname for the boy.
She could hear Naruto run downstairs to find the landlord and hear him yelling at him, "Are you crazy renting to her? She's the one who called for that fight yesterday at the arena! She's the reason I came home injured yesterday!"
"Really? She seems sweet enough though. Plus you volunteered for that fight and now you can go humble yourself from the experience. She also paid me a year in advance when you still owe me this month. Now go be a gentleman and be nice to her and if you annoy her too much I bet she could kick your butt in order." The old man chuckled after that and closed his door. She heard Naruto go to his apartment and slammed his door shut.
When she was sure no one was around she took the potted lotus and went to the hospital. She did her vanishing run to get past all the people so no one would see her and went to Lee's room. She looked through the window to make sure no one else was in there and that Lee was asleep before she went in.
She walked in slowly constantly looking around to make sure no one would come and then put the Lotus on his bedside table and then whispered, "Sorry you had too fall because of human me 'Green Beast.' It was a necessary evil," and left. She made a quick stop at the hokage's office and went back to her new apartment.
When she got back to her apartment she set up the plants to where she wanted them, organized the bathroom and set some things up for the next day. When she started to get tired she grabbed her bundled sleeping bag that would work as cushioning on the hard roof and jumped up top the building. When she looked up she sighed because only a few stars were visible through the light pollution and she fell asleep.
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