'He saw me! Oh gods, how could I have been so careless?!' Rin thought, as she fled the scene, her vision blurring. When she was quite sure that he wasn't following, she stopped and stood there for a while, shaking. Looking up, she found herself at a part of town that she didn't quite recognize. But it didn't matter, so long as no one was there to bother her. She could be alone for a while. She NEEDED to be alone, for a while.
"O ne chan, daijobuka?" she heard a childlike voice ask her, and she looked up. She saw a blond kid, looking at her, he was wearing an orange colored jacket and matching pants.
"No, I'm not," Rin replied honestly. Now where had she seen him before…? "What are you doing here so late at night?"
"My apartment is over there, and I was training some of my jutsu when I saw you out here, and I thought that you might need some help." The boy told her. He didn't seem to be lying about it either.
"I see, well, thank you for coming, my name is Rin," Rin introduced herself. "What about you?"
"Me? I'm Uzumaki Naruto! I'm going to be the greatest Hokage ever!" Rin was slightly taken aback at his tone of voice, but smiled nonetheless. "That's why I have to keep on training, you see. Besides, I don't want to lose to Sasuke anymore!"
"Oh, I see, you're Kakashi's students, right?" Rin suddenly remembered seeing him training under her brother on the day that she had returned to the village. Naruto turned to her, and just looked blank, wondering how she had gotten to know that he was under Kakashi. "That's my secret. I can't tell you."
"Ah, ano… what are you doing here?" Naruto asked, and the words of the Hokage seemed to float back to her.
"I guess I just don't know if I should be a ninja anymore," Rin said, and Naruto was totally shocked at the answer.
"NANI?!?! Doshite?" Naruto practically shouted. Perhaps talking about such private things with this kid wasn't such a good idea after all…
"I guess I just don't fit in anymore…" Rin admitted. "Perhaps it is because I'm so different from everyone else, or that I may have something that others don't, and that they might be envious, or something."
"Then just make yourself fit in!" Naruto said, as if that it were such a simple thing.
"How? I think of all people, you will know what it feels like to have people look at you like you are some kind of unwanted junk." Rin said, and Naruto knew only too well what she was talking about. "I hate that!"
"But running away isn't going to solve your problem." Naruto advised, and Rin raised an eyebrow. "I tried, it didn't work. In fact, it only got worse! That's why I'm training to be the Hokage! You can't just back down because they think you don't fit into their culture! Who cares about them? I have my own way of ninja, and I'll always live by it, no matter what other people say!"
"Eh?" Rin was very taken aback by what this boy had said. Obviously, he had been thinking about this for a long time. Then again, he probably didn't have as much support as she did, and to be able to stand up for yourself, even amongst people who don't seem to care if you live or die, sugoi. "I can see why you are such a well known person in this village!"
"Eh? You mean people actually talk about me?" Naruto was excited at the concept that someone might actually be talking about him, it didn't matter if it was good or bad. "Ne, ne, what do they say?"
"You want to know?" at Naruto's enthusiastic nod, she continued. "Then I guess you'd better use your information gathering skills and find out, eh?"
"Ah?" Naruto was disappointed that she didn't tell him what people say.
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find out about it! I've got to go, it's getting late." Rin said, and thanked him, before heading back to the apartment, where she found Kakashi waiting for her.
"How'd it go?" Kakashi asked her as soon as stepped through the door. She had left a note saying where she had gone, so he was probably worried about what the Hokage might have said, though outwardly he didn't seem in the least concerned.
"Well, let's just say that there might be people after my life, and the Hokage wants to know if I'm going to stay or not before he teaches me some high level jutsu, or so he says." Rin explained.
"Who are these people?" Kakashi asked her. "What do they want with you?"
"I think it's more of the jutsu that I supposedly have the ability to use. Hokage sama thinks that there may be people out there who know about my background and maybe after me for various reasons," Rin said. "Though there were no outward signs that anyone is, he has still warned me to be careful."
"So ka?" Kakashi said, almost to himself. "So, have you decided what you are going to do now?"
"Not yet, but I think that I'll get my answer after tonight," Rin said, and wished him goodnight. She went to take a shower, and went to her room to think things through.