"Why did we break off of Sean?" Amari asked.
Both Amari and Miri walked together in white robes that covered their entire bodies. "Because I want to find that medical ninja. I can't have another boy by my side when I do."
"So we let Sean deal with a girl on his own because you wanted to find a boy on your own? But you want to keep me? I mean I could go get a haircut. You just put yours in a bun and Sean's like never grow. I need to keep my shaved head, like shaved."
"Nag, nag, nag. Look I can't just think he chose me because I was awake with hair. If he focuses on me then I got my answer."
"Do you even know where this guy is?"
"Nope."
Great. Amari thought.
They wandered randomly around the village. Every shop they entered in hopes to find the man went under. The shops themselves kicked them out after a matter of minutes since Sean took all the money they have collected. They took a break on their search and found a place to relax. They looked over the city on one of the heads that lined the mountain top. Even still they couldn't see the man they tried to hunt down.
"What a drag. Can't believe I had to come all the way up here to find you guys." Amari and Miri jumped. They looked behind them, there was a man with his hands in his pockets with a lean. "I know you're new here but you can't be up here. This is a sacred spot."
"We're trying just trying to find a guy, it's not our plan to stay up here forever." Miri stood at the end of head.
"Well hurry with it and get off this position."
Miri's head stopped from the search of the village. "Of course." Her arms eagled out and fell forward. Amari looked at the man then at the spot where Miri fell from. She only shrugged off the motion and jumped after her friend. She landed a couple of feet before Miri. She was off and ran away from her. Amari chased after her but was always out of arm's reach of her.
"Where are we running?" Amari jumped over a table with a family in it.
Miri looked back. "I found him." she looked back forward. "I found him!" she jumped forward and landed on the back of a man in a green vest. He toppled over the stand and crashed into another man behind it.
"You damn kids always destroy my cart!" the man grabbed the jars from the ground.
"Sorry." the man Miri tackled quickly apologized. "Who even jumped me?" He looked on the ground. Miri had one leg pulled up and her arms squeezed on her breasts. "Oh, it's you."
"Oh it's you as in a wink wink way or a annoyed older brother way?" Miri asked.
He grabbed Miri's arm and pulled her to her feet. "A wink wink way."
She grabbed his hand and pointed at Amari with her other. "What about her?"
"Even two years later you still look bad. I guess I just have to get better with my medical jutsu."
Amari glared at him. "Your lucky this sun burns my skin or else I'll beat you into the heavens."
"I didn't mean it in a bad way. I was literal. Even under those robes I can tell your bandages are still on. You'll never have full access to your chakra with your arms like that. And the tests we did when you got back even show you gotten worse. If it wasn't for your arms, then you'd be at the same level as Miri and Sean."
"I didn't mean that either. I meant how does it react with her." She pulled on his arm.
"I don't understand what you mean."
She wrapped around his arm and leaned on his bicep. "I got my answer."
"So I guess after two years that you decided to come to the Leaf village, I'm going to ask you on that date."
Amari's arms shot into the air. "I'm out."
Amari left on her own, she found a secluded spot in the village. She found herself in a alleyway away from any shop or home. She rolled up the sleeves to her robe. She released her flow of chakra and her arms hung low. She was tired of the weakness she has created on herself. She was once a top threat to anyone that met her and now she can't even be too close to the sunlight.
She sensed a large form of chakra close on her from above. She rolled to the side and narrowly dodged a large collapsed smoke bomb. She looked at the large dirt cloud that was created. The smoke faded, a abnormally large white dog was in it with a man on top of it.
"Akamaru picked up the scent of someone strong and new. So who are you?" he asked.
"Trust me kid, whatever your dog smells is not at its full ability. Maybe he can smell out something that can help my arms out."
He jumped off his dog. He flicked his arms up and snapped his fingers. "It's your lucky day, I can help you out here."
"How so?"
"A while back Akamaru here got hurt more than I would ever allow again. But one thing I don't trust is that headband of yours. We've been fighting fools with that style headband for a while now. So your lucky day can either be under or over."
"It's weird I would've thought the Hokage has spread word about us. I heard a few whisper about the Akatsuki and trust me I'm not one of them."
"Come on. We'll need the Hokage's permission before we can go. As you know we're dwindled in numbers and we can only allow so much free time nowadays."
"No." Tsunade's answer was short and harsh.
"Why not? Sure I just met this guy but what is he doing right now? I'm not even part of your squadron."
Tsunade leaned back on her chair. "That's part of my point, since you're not a Leaf Shinobi your job is a contract job that needs payment. And as Kiba is a master tracker he needs to be ready at all times." she turned to look at Kiba. "And you. Remember last time you went there, the four Guardians of Health?"
"A quick fang over fang got us in and out in nothing." Kiba leaned on the desk. "This should be as Naruto likes to say 'easy'."
"Why do you trust this person? You just met them."
"If the rumors going around are true then this person is a comrade. And we need comrades in tip top shape if they we want to grow our numbers."
"The answer is no and that's that. And I hope I'm not speaking to someone who acts like Naruto."
