The first thing she felt when she saw Pakkun again was panic.

When he told her that she wasn't a real-life sex doll she was thrilled. The sigh that left her lips couldn't even begin to express how utterly relieved she was. She knew that maybe she shouldn't believe him without proof but she didn't care, hope was running through her veins and it was great. She didn't have to do any of the things she had been trying to accept for hours, she felt free even if she wasn't at all.

" … Bull and I are his ninken. Boss is a shinobi so you have nothing to be scared of, you are safe here, no harm will come from us or any other shinobi. My mission today is to guard you. Also, you have permission to pet me."

"Those are nice words, but can I leave or would I be stopped?"

Pakkun looked at her harder, she had changed; from her body language to her tone of voice, she even smelt more dangerous.

"I don't know."

"Alright-y then, I think I'll stay anyways. But I might leave at some point. " She petted him then. Bull didn't exaggerate. "You said you were warding me, huh, I wonder what you did to get babysitting duty."

"You owe me a bath." She laughed, he found it nice.

"Well I assume you can communicate with the rest of humans in here, I might have to use you as a walking translator. I should probably learn to speak in their tongue before you start to hate me- I talk a lot. "She was smiling again, if he hadn't been paying attention he would have missed the second she switched from dangerous to innocent, and even now he wasn't sure he could pinpoint it exactly.

"I'll inform them."

"That's nice I'd like to… can I put you in my lap… I'd like to learn as fast as possible. Also, can I ask you something?"

"I might not answer."

"What does shinobi mean" Strangely, he didn't think she was lying, so he explained it .It was unusual for a human to not know that, Shinobi were quite popular appearing in books, films and all kind of education.

"Oh I get it… If you are his dog you are also a ninja right?"

"Yes, a ninken" The widest grin appeared on her face.

"So…" She stopped petting him and leveled her face with his "We can go out for a walk… just to see the place a little bit? You can stop me if I do something you don't like, you're a ninken! There is no problem, is it? "

He looked at her. He wasn't about to admit he couldn't stop her physically, he was a tracking hound not a battle one. She had a nice glint of mischief in her eyes, slightly childish. It was the most cheerful she's felt since she was found.

"I suppose… but you have to bathe me afterwards"

"Deal!"

She stood up immediately with Pakkun still on her arms and marched to the door. He was getting a little dizzy from being carried, he felt as if he was a throwing-stick being swinged to every direction whenever she moved. The second they were outside he jumped out of her embrace to the ground and walked with as much grace a pug could.

"Where do you want to go?"

"I don't mind, I haven't been to a town for a long time. Just walking through the streets is fine."

So he took her to the shopping streets, close to the center. He was forced to walk closer to her as the flow of people around them thickened, he had been watching her; she was curious about most things around her. "It's a little different from how I lived before" She had told him looking lost in thought. He respected it and didn't try to disturb her.

"Hey skinny! Eat more! I wouldn't like to have those legs around me. Nice butt though!"

His head turned as quick as lighting to see a man on his forties laughing with his colleagues in a pub as if it had been the best joke he's ever said.

"It's nice to see humans never change, was it about my boobs or my hair? That's where they're usually focused on." He was surprised that not only it had happened before, she was not even bothered by it.

"It's… umm."

"It's fine you don't have to say it, I can probably imagine it anyway, they aren't exactly poets."

They walked in silence through the streets some more. Until she spoke again" You looked surprised, does that not happen to shinobi girls?"

"I don't think so… Kunoichi tend to hit a little too hard to civilian men liking."

"Well, then I have a solution: all I have to do is pretend to be a kunoichi. How do you tell who's a shinobi and who's civilian?"

"They have a hitai-ate with the symbol of Konoha. They also have a kind of smell, hmmm, it's hard to describe, the way they walk, the rooftops-"

"The roofs?"

"Yes, shinobi of Konoha are known to jump from rooftop to rooftop as a fastest route. If you look closely you'll notice the buildings are close to one another."

"Let's do that then"

"What" How did he not see that coming, "That's a bad idea."

"It's fine" She shrugged it off "I've been jumping from branch to branch for like decades, it can't be that hard." They walked to the side of a building where there was barely space for two people.

"You'll have to get to the roof if you want to use that route."

"I was counting on it" There was too much space between the walls to press her back to the other building as support and climb with her legs and hands; so there was only one option left, using one wall to jump to the other and back to the first one until you climb up. Just like, Mario if you will, but this wasn't like the videogame her pride was on the line. Also if you fall it hurts.

She walked until her back touched a wall and took a deep breath before running and jumping against the other, only the tip of her feet made contact but it was enough to impulse herself so that her other foot reached the wall. She only had to do it two more times before her hands clung to the roof and she pushed herself up. It had probably looked very cool.

"That's the first time I've done that" She told the dog who just jumped to the top looking like he had barely done any effort. "That's just showing off."

"I'm not sure what you did, but don't do it again" She laughed and began walking to the other side.

"This is fun" She was nuts, Pakkun was regretting letting her out, he hoped the bath would be worth it (by the way Bull talked about it, it really was). "Eh, I thought you said the buildings were close together."

Pakkun looked at her "They are, by ninja standards." She shrugged and didn't hesitate to take a few steps backwards and sprint towards the edge like a madman. He couldn't help but bark at her, he was going to get a heart attack. She made it just fine to the other side by her standards, yes her ankle and legs were slightly bruised and still hurt but it just felt like stiffness as if she had been running for hours the day before. Yeah she limped a little but she could run just fine and this felt amazing, she thought she'd never get to run again. And the view was kinda pretty, all those buildings with different colors and the mountains…"Hey what's that on the mountains."

"Those are the faces of the Hokage who have led Konoha."

"That's kinda pretentious, but whatever. The Hokage I assume is the highest in the hierarchy"

"Yes"

"Alright let's get down" She walked to the ending of the building and stood in the edge for a second, Pakkun was behind her hoping she wouldn't try to jump. She grabbed the ending of the building and supported her entire body weight with her arms, she began to move the lower parts of her body using the oscillation to jump on top of a metal dumpster and rolled to avoid hurting her ankles that were already screaming at her to stop.

Pakkun jumped next to her. "You have to ask me next time before you do something like that again"

"I bet you feel really dumb jumping when you could do cool things like me" She walked out of the backstreet to the main one like it hadn't sound like she had been trying to kill a fly with a pan. It barely took thirty seconds for the eyes that followed her to mind their business. Just look unaffected and people will assume it isn't, old trick.

"We should return, it was a bad idea."

" I disagree, we should… Hey isn't that your boss, what's his name anyways?"

"What's yours?" He asked eyeing Kakashi, he had probably been looking for them. He had his book on his hand and looked bored.

"Good point" She was not really sure what she should do, greet him? He didn't look like he knew she was there, she stood there like an idiot while he was getting closer. He didn't look like he was going to stop so she let things happen. Usually when she just went with the flow she did incredibly stupid thing, this time wasn't any different. When they crossed she started walking in his same direction by his side and grabbed his free arm.

He didn't look bothered, hell, he didn't look like he had realized she was hanging onto him. Better for her.

"What are you doing girlie?"

He sounded incredibly exasperated and she loved it. "It's my emotional support arm"

Pakkun didn't say anything else after that. She thought it to be funny but didn't laugh.

They walked through streets and streets of shops, clothes, shoes, restaurants, weapons, flowers even a couple supermarkets. Also a lot of food stalls. "I want a notebook" She blurted, knowing he didn't have to listen to her the slightest, she'll probably get ignored. "And a pen."

Pakkun repeated her words and she let his arm go as he entered a shop. Hmm. Nice, this was going actually great. He came back with a bag, he didn't offer his arm but she took it anyway. He didn't make her let go so she guessed it was fine. She wasn't even touching him anywhere else, just using him as a shield. They attracted many eyes and she paid no mind, it was a funny situation: he was ignoring her as much as he could and she was clinging to him looking like she didn't care about anything.

Oh, look, something interesting. In the street there was a very loud man that stood out in the crowd, especially because the mass of people avoided him like the plague. She had a second to see green before she was inside a random shop. Mask Man didn't look interested in the products at all, but she was. Was that dynamite?

A teenager boy walked towards them, probably an employee, and he didn't look happy at all. He also didn't sound happy. Probably about having a dog around explosives. Mask man didn't look intimidated but was making a slight effort to stay inside the shop. Ok, fine, you owe me. She picked up Pakkun up a little bit too slowly to catch his attention and she petted him slowly dragging her hands on his fur as she smiled shyly and blinked innocently at him. The teen blushed and smiled back at her before saying something and walking away. Well isn't that a nice stroke to her ego. I still got it.

"What do you still have?"

"Eh, forget it."

Mask man was looking at her with interest which was as close as being acknowledged she's gotten so far, so she decided that dynamite was a lot more interesting. And it was. There were like infinite kinds of powder in that shop, proof that the shinobi thing was true, not that she needed that anymore. Looking back she was glad it wasn't magic, because she was only so crazy.

"Boss says you'll start at the Academy tomorrow to learn to read and write"

"Neat." She said in a flat tone but meaning it. "Are you going to come too?"

"I don't think so" Pakkun was her personal translator, she didn't know how much she would understand on her own." Boss says I have a mission"

"At least help me with homework when you're back. Let's head back home, I still owe you a bath." Mask Man seemed unaffected by being bossed around, but then she'd barely seen half of an emotion on him.