Chapter Two
"Ne, 'Tousan," A young teen addressed her father. She reached up and tucked a strand of metallic blue hair behind her ear as she took a sip of her drink.
"Yes, Tameko?" He asked, looking at his older daughter.
"How do you think those boys got out there?" She wondered aloud. Earlier that day, she and her father had found two boys fighting in the lake. They had taken the boys to the hospital and discovered that they had frostbite and several broken bones each.
"I honestly don't know, Tameko. Perhaps they can tell us when they wake up."
"What if they don't speak Japanese?"
"Why wouldn't they, Yuiko?" Tameko questioned her sister. Yuiko's own hair was an identical shade to her sister's, though she wore it much longer.
"Well," Yuiko began through a mouthful of food. "Their clothes looked weird. Maybe they come from the Land of Fire, or the Land of Wind!" She chirped.
"No way, Yuiko. The Lands of Fire and Wind speak Japanese, too," Tameko explained to her sister. There was only a difference of 10 minutes in their ages, but it had made quite the impact on them. Yuiko had been oxygen deprived, if only for a little while, and aged at a much slower pace than her twin.
"Tameko, as a Shinobi you should know that there are other languages besides Japanese," Their father chided her.
"But it's almost exclusively Japanese!" Tameko whined.
"Eat up. It's almost time to get ready for bed." He ordered his daughters.
"Hai, 'Tousan," They obeyed.