Naruto is not mines!

Chapter 3

I stood in the darkness. Who the heck was this guy? He saved my butt. Why? He knows Moto? I thought he was lost in the desert a long time ago. He can't be alive right now, can he? I bit my lip. What should I do?

"Now," Akiyoshi began, "Hana, are you single?"

"Say what?" I said in surprise, I mean dude!" You just had me jump into a hole and do some wind mojo, and the first thing you ask me is if I'm single? If any, I should be the one asking questions."

"Maybe I should have asked your age first. How old are you?" He smiled sweetly at me but, sense it was dark I couldn't see. Though, I understood what he was getting at.

"What? You pervert! I'm only eleven you friggin' molester!"

"Aww, that was mean. I'm just lonely. Anyways, why don't we start our journey out of the Wind Country? It's quite along walk."

"Out of the Wind Country? Where exactly are we going to? And what's with this place? How about some light?"

"Oh right. Hold on."

I heard some scuffling to my right and a loud creak. Soon, blinding light consumed my vision. I squinted through the light trying to get my eyes to adjust.

When my eyes had adjusted, I noticed that the place we had landed in was a tunnel and a big one at that. I was freaking wide! A whole mob of people could fit down here. The ceiling held lamps of light every 20 yard or so down the tunnel.

Off to my right, Akiyoshi stood against the wall. On the wall sat a lever that looked to be what made the loud creaking noise.

"These tunnels have been here for hundreds of years. They were an escape route for the village long ago." Akiyoshi said. At this point I began to take in what he looked like, not having, the time or care when I saw him on the surface.

He had shoulder length, slightly curly, brown, hair. Stubble covered his chin and cheeks. He wore black pants and a long sleeve black turtle neck with a ninja vest that was gray. He also wore a headband around his arm. It made me smile because carved in it was the symbol for 'free'.

"They go on for miles in the Wind Country. They lead out of the Country to Fire Country territory and a hide out in the middle of the desert. They used to go to further places but most of them have caved in. The hide out for the Sand(also buried and forgotten) and the Fire Country are the only places they lead to now a days." he finished.

"How do you know about them?" I ask.

"Some guy in my family line was the one who built them, and the map was passed down through the line."

"Map?"

"Well, yeah. You'll get lost in this maze of tunnels unless you have a map! Duh."

I scolded at him. Well, so-rry.

"Aww, don't be like that."

He puckered his bottom lip out and pouted.

I edged away from him slightly, "Umm, you are lonely."

His head dropped in sadness, "I Know."

I smiled slightly, this guy was kinda funny.

He straightened, "You must have a lot of questions, Hana." he said more serous now.

"Yeah."

"Well, would you like to sit here and talk or would you like to walk and talk? The journey will take a while."

"We can walk and talk."

"Alright then sweetie, lets go."

"Sweetie?" I said taken aback.

"What I can't call you that?"

I narrowed my eyes,"Heck no."

"What about pumpkin?"

"Uh, no" I answered edging away from him again.

"beautiful?"

"No!"

"Baby?"

"NO!"

"Sexy?" he said stepping near me his hand brushing my thigh.

"HELL NO!" I said slapping him across the face and pushing him away from me.

I gritted my teeth and glared at him. He was crouched on the floor holding his his cheek and crying silently.

"You freaking child molester! My name is Hana1 If you call me by any other name I freaking kill you! Got that, old man?"

"I'm only 35!" He said back.

"OLD! MY FATHER COULD BE THAT AGE! NOW,I. SAID, " I grabbed him by the collar of his vest with a evil stare, "GOT. THAT?"

"Yes, ma'am." he squeaked in a mousey voice.

"Good."

I let him fall to the ground.

"Man, for an eleven year old your scary."

I humphed and crossed my arms with my nose in the air.

"How about when your older we can-"

The bottom of my foot meet his face before he could finish.

"Pervert!"

I didn't want to admit it but, I kinda thought his pervertness was actually funny.

"So, can you please tell me what is going on?" I said as he began to walk down the tunnel me fallowing.

"Oh! Of course. Do you remember your dog Moto?"

"Well yeah, I asked you on the surface already if you were talking about my dog."

"Well, yes, that is who I was talking about. When you and your dog Moto was lost in the desert, I found him on the edge of the desert faint from exhaustion. I took him in. He left to look for you once he recovered, but soon felt that you were in a village. He decided to leave you, hoping you would live a good life but, about a week and a half ago he felt grief from you. So he sent me to see if you would leave the village or not. I have been at that post for five days waiting for you."

"He felt me?"

"Yes, did you not know that you are spiritually connected to Moto? He can feel you as well as you can feel him. Can't you?"

"No. I thought he was dead."

"Oh, what a pity. It comes naturally, so I am sure you will begin to feel him with time."

I looked down at my moving feet. I can't believe he's still alive. Wait, I looked up at Akiyoshi in suspicion, he very well may be lying to me. I should keep my guard up.

"So, why have you left the village?" he asked me.

"Wait, I'm the one asking the questions here."

"That's really all to me. I don't really have anything else."

"Are you a ninja?" I asked ignoring him and looking at his headband.

"For myself. I grew up in the Stone Village so I became a Stone Ninja. I ran off when I was younger. I wanted to travel. I still go back there to visit and help out though."

"So, what do you do?"

"I work with swords. Two."

I gasped, "Can you teach me?" I had stepped in front of him on my tippy toes, in his face. It was his turn to edge away slightly.

"Ummm, don't you need to work on some of your own ninja skills? Aren't you working on some pacific ninja thing in school? Or are you not going to ninja school?"

I looked down at my feet.

"The Kazakage didn't let me enter the Academy until about a year ago. So I'm still in the beginners class. And even so," I turned and began to walk down the tunnel, he fallowed,"I have bad grades and suck at it all anyways."

He began to walk a step ahead of me so that he was leading. I kept my head down, embarrassed.

"Well, I guess I can teach you some stuff. Moto will probably want me to take you in. He's so demanding."

I looked up at him with a smile on my face, "Really?"

He looked down at me and smiled slightly, "Yeah, sure. Why not?"

"Yes!" I punched the air. Gaara, Hinnika, I'm gonna get stronger no matter what.

"Though, I must tell you, I will be harsh."

"Will it make me strong?"

"Probably."

"Then do whatever is needed. I left to get stronger, no matter what."

"Why do you want to get stronger?"

"So I can protect the few people I have left."

"Good reason."

"I hope so."

"It will give you determination. And if you want to be stronger then you need something that will give you determination to get stronger."

"Well, I definitely have that."

We came to a fork in the tunnels at this point. Akiyoshi pulled a sheet of folded up paper out of a ninja sack he had held on his thigh.

"This way." he said after he unfolded and glanced at the paper.

We took a right and continued walking as he put the paper back in his sack.

"How long to get there?"

"About a day and a half."

"So we'll get there in about the afternoon after this coming afternoon?"

"Yes."

"Well, we got ways to go."

We continued down the tunnels.

I'm finally going to get stronger. Once out of these tunnels my adventure is really going to begin.