Title: Down Deep

Author: Angel

Week/Challenge: Week 6 - Curiosity

Summary: Down deep there is a driving need that guides us to our path, but what if your guide centered around one person?

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Growing up she had always had a never ending quench for knowledge a need to absorb everything that the world could challenge her with. Coming to a decision to forever change her path had be quiet simple, becoming a shinobi would impact everything and everyone in her life. She would be the first in her family to take up the honor to stand a post or give her life to protect everyone she loved. Her parents had not approved and openly discouraged her when ever they could, only making her resolve more harden.

In time even she would agree that her thirst had cost her to much, her teammates, her parents, possible even her sanity. Her quench or as her Sensei had called it curiosity had pushed her through the even toughest time. The times when her parents had said enough or when her teammates had seek out their own paths, she suppose it was then her curiosity became a problem. It was then she had sought out the Hokage to teach her, to feed her void. However the emptiness just kept on growing, never stopping. It was at odd moments when she would find herself in the presents of her of old Sensei did everything seem complete.

Once after noticing this oddity did she question herself and her former Sensei, or better stated their relationship. In watching other students and their sensei's did she realize that her relationship with the copy ninja was beyond what one would call normal. She honesty tried to mark it up as the need to be near someone that understood what she felt, for most don't have their teammates yanked away.

It wasn't until her sixteenth birthday did she notice it was something different, for the whole time being surrounded be friends and new teammates did she yearn for feeling of his presences. It wasn't until all the guest had left and him suddenly appeared did that undeniable thirst bubble up once more. Only then in the blanket of darkness did she let her curiosity take control, letting the emotion explain everything she was feeling and in some cases what she wasn't feeling. But like her path in becoming a shinobi blocks stood before her, and this wasn't any different. But somewhere deep down the quenching feeling started to grow again, and just like before she knew she would follow it through.

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