Recap

"You can get some rest because I know your tired, I'll run for you since your quite light and when we get there I'll wake you. Okay?" she instructed me but didn't give me time before she jumped onto a tree branch and began jumping from one branch to another. Not wanting to argue, I leaned my head down on her soft shoulder and closed my eyes. Dozing off into another deep slumber.

Forbidden

Chapter Eight

"Yumi, wake up. We're here." I felt someone lightly shake me lighty causing me to come from my sleep. Not wanting to be shaken anymore, I forced my eyes to open even though they refused at first since it was tired of being interrupted during a slumber. I finally was able to open my eyes to see sun suddenly coming to vision of it making me groan in response.

"Yumi you have to wake up, we're almost to the gate." Konan said as she shook me once more until I finally was fully awake. Looking around, I noticed that we were on ground level with my back sitting against a tree with my face looking directly at the rising sun. I rubbed my eyes to rid of sleep from my eyes so I could see better and when I did I saw Konan standing next to me with a warm smile.

"Well morning there sleepy head, sorry I had to wake you but we are nearing the gate which is just around the corner. Now before we go I have to tell you a few things." Konan instructed me as I just simply nodded in agreement, my voice to weak to talk. I stretched my muscles out until I felt them untense a little before I got back into my slouched down position with a light grunt coming from my lips, listening as Konan started speaking.

"The guards are, of course, ask us our names and information when we get to the gates so when we get there I need you to remember this information. Your name is Mia Oniko and we are from the star village, my name will be Kaoru Oniko and your my 6-year-old niece. Okay?" she filled me in as she handed me a black clothed head protector that had the star symbol engraved in it, before pulling out a similar one and tied it around her waist as a belt. I decided to tie mine around my neck since my long bangs were in the way of me putting it around my head.

"Alright you ready to go?" Konan asked me once I was up on my feet, stretching one more time to get the tension out my legs. I nodded my head when I was done, telling her I was ready, and without another word we walked back onto the dirt path. Not even a few minutes later, we walked up to a gate after only a few short turns. Guards standing tall in alert when they saw us, one of the men stepped forward while raising a hand signaling us to stop which we did. I took in his appearance to see that he wasn't all that tall, maybe an inch higher than Konan and that he had markings all on his face with a bald texture on top of his pale head.

"State your business and information." the man said with a demanding tone, not surprising me as I stood tall in return with my eyes staring ahead into the populated village. I grabbed shyly onto Konan's hand when I felt eyes begining to close in on me after a mere second later.

"I'm Kaoru Oniko and this is my niece Mia Oniko, we are from the star village and we are simply here to do some shopping for my sister's up coming birthday." Konan said without a hint of pressure in her voice, like she was used to lying but I guess she would since she is in a secret organization I suppose. I felt the guard look at us for a moment, looking at me a bit longer than nescessary.

"Fine, but you must report to the Hokage once you've enter. I will escort you, do not go running off until you have permission." the man ordered us, his eyes still glued on to me but I managed a nod before they got suspicious at my mute self. The man turned swiftly around, pausing to give an unknown look at some of the soldiers who nodded as if in understatement making me even more nervous. Have they caught on?

I didn't get much time to think about it when I felt myself being tugged along by Konan who kept a stiff smile on her face as we followed behind the man. I made sure to stay at least two steps away from him, going a little slower in pace when he glanced back at me to make sure we were still there.

"So, Mia right? What are you thinking of getting for your mother's birthday." I heard him say as we made our way past a few sushi shops, coming up to a tall building that we being guarded by a few ninjas of course.

"I-I was thinking of giving her ... maybe, a new blouse. S-she really likes b-blouses, especially the b-blue ones." I stuttered, my eyes looking down at the ground as I wanted to wrestle my fingers like I usually do but I couldn't with one of my hands being help by a still smiling Konan.

"Oh is that right. Well I know a few shops that sell blouses. How old is your mom turning?" he asked as if I were being interviewed or something, making a bit more nervous than I was before. What was he trying to do anyway?

"She is t-turning 35, in a w-week." I lied the best I could but with the feeling of his eyes gazing holes at me, I swore I was trembling in my very shoes. Konan squeezed my hand lightly, trying to calm me down and it did help a bit, but it wasn't enough. So choosing that it was best to stay quiet I shifted my head to the side and started looking around at the tall wood buildings as we walked by them. The village was really nice since it was my first time coming here, and I must say I liked it alot. There was a lot of buildings, restaurants, and I even saw some apartment buildings here and there. The people all wore smiles on their face as if they didn't have anything to be afraid and were just plain carefree, which I really liked about them. I wished I could be like that, someday.

"I'm here to escort these two to see the Hokage, they are here visiting." I heard the man suddenly say and I snapped my head forward to see had arrived at the tower doors, the pale guard talking to the other two guards. I looked up at Konan to see her smiling ahead with her eyes on the doors, her hand firmly holding mine. I gripped her hand a bit tighter when the man gestured for us to follow, we did but not without me giving a hesitant look at the staring guards. Konan squeezed my hand again in reassurance making me calm down a bit.

After a few minutes of walking, with a few turns and stairs we had to climb, we finally came up to a door. The guard knocked hard onto the door before light, 'Come in' was heard on the other side, it sounded like a man. Pretty old by the sound. I would know of course.

"Lord Hokage." the man said as we entered the room, and I looked at the dearly elder man that sat in the large chair in front of us. His gaze fixing on us as we came in, he had dark tan skin with wrinkles taking on his face and a mole on it. But then again he was probably deeply aged and he was Hokage for christ sake's, I had to give him the respect he deserved. So without a word of my own, I bowed in respect at his presence with my hand falling from Konan's in the process.

"It's nice to meet you Lord Hokage, it's a pleasure to meet you." I said truthfully since he was the first Kage to not attack me on sight, well maybe because he didn't know it was me but it was still nice to meet a Kage for once without having a murderous look on his face. Even the thought made a small smile form on my face.

"Lord Hokage, it's an honor to be in your presence." Konan said shortly after me, before straightened back up but this time no smile was shown on her face. I looked at the Hokage to see him staring at me making me a bit nervous but I pushed it aside as best as I could, grabbing onto Konan's hand.

"What are your names?" the Hokage asked with his eyes transfixed on me, the guard next to us standing in front of the window next to him. I glanced up at Konan, seeing if she was going to answer but when she looked at me I knew I was the one he was referring to.

"My name is Mia Oniko, and this is my aunt Kaoru Oniko." I answered him with surprisingly no stutter interrupting my speech, I tried to look at ease and innocent as possible. Which was quite hard with eyes all looking at me.

"Ok ... and might I ask what brings you to Konoha?" he questioned with his eyes still fixed on me, not paying any attention to Konan at all. Like I was the only one in the room, I didn't like the feeling at all. It felt wierd. Kind of creepy you might say.

"We are here because we wanted to pick up a gift for my mom and her upcoming birthday. Maybe grab some food and stuff while we're here." I answered, not really sure why I added the last part in. I guess for further notice if one of the guards saw us doing something else other than shopping I suppose.

"Alright, well I see no harm in that. Toshi, why don't you escort these young woman back out so they can get on with their shopping. There is a hotel not far from here if you decide to stay the night." the Hokage said with a smile on his face, acceptance in his voice as he ordered Toshi his command. Toshi looked at me skeptically before he nodded his head in agreement.

"Thank you Lord Hokage, we might just do that. Thank you very much for welcoming us." Konan said sweetly with a bow in dissmisal, I did the same without saying a word as I kept my eyes on his. Him doing the same to me, it was like he was trying to read my mind or something. My eyes soon left his when I felt a tug on my hand, I looked at Konan to see her looking at me with a waiting look. Toshi giving me a look that I couldn't describe. So with one more bow, I turned with Konan and we made our way out the door with Toshi leading the way.

"What shop do you think we should go to first?" I whispered to Konan who had her eyes on Toshi's back in concentration but she fixed her expression to a sweet one as she looked down at me.

"I was thinking maybe we should grab something to eat first since we haven't had breakfast yet." Konan giggled at the sound of my tummy rumbling yet again at the mention of food, oh how I craved some ramen right now. Maybe some ramen would be nice too, oh just the thought had gotten my tummy rumbling like an earthquake.

"Okay you two, we are here, so I see no reason to stay here any longer." Toshi said rudely, stating that we were finally back outside at the entrance before I even noticed. Toshi, without a single word of kindness, began walking off. I guess back to his post in the front gates, leaving me, Konan, and the other two staring guards there. I felt Konan grunt at the disapproving manner before she clasped firmly onto my hand, leading us down a different, yet still as busy, road path.


"Thank you for the ramen Teuchi-san it really was delicious." Konan said with gratitude in her voice as I dropped my two wooden chopsticks into the now empty bowl of what was ramen. Konan had decided to stop by a ramen shop named 'Ichiraku', and by what we've heard he was, by far, the best ramen shop in the village. Now that I've tasted his food I would say I had to agree, it had an amazing aroma with such an amazing taste to it. He had my vote for sure.

"It was my pleasure, now you two have a nice day, you hear." the kind man, Teuchi, said with a smile as his daughter, Ayame I recall, waved sweetly at us as we made our way out the shope. Not without Konan leaving a kind tip on the counter for them, they surely did deserve it I can tell you that.

"Where are we going now, oba-chan?" I asked her, making sure to stay in roll since someone could have been watching us at any moment, you just never know who could be spying.

"Well I was thinking we could start doing to some clothes shopping first, maybe your okāsan would like some new shirts of some sort." Konan smiled slightly as we made our way into a nearby clothing store that held various clothes for possibly everyone, ninjas, elders, pregnant woman, etc. It was quite large and I noticed it was quite busy today for some reason but seeing as it was had the most stock than any other stores I walked past, I didn't really think into it.

"Let's go see what they have." Konan smiled with a somewhat excited look on her face before tugging my small body quickly into the store. This would be interesting.


"What a busy and tiring day we've had, right Mia?" Konan laughed with a quiet yawn coming shortly after as we made our way down the sun set street with her bags in hand. I nodded in agreement, clutching the heavy weighted plastic bags that was took up both of my hands.

We were making our way to the motel at the end of the street after a hard days work of shopping at the ever so crowded mall. I had a nice time shopping, me and Konan having a few laughs here and there at the outfits she picked out for me. We were in there so long that was didn't know that he sun had started to set. It was worth it though, I had found out a lot about Konan during out experience.

I had learned that Konan was a secret shopaholic deep down inside of her, that explained the happy smiles toward the rack of clothes we passed every now and then. I also learned that Konan had deep liking in floral attires, I picked that up when she showed me at least five floral shirts every 15 minutes. Though I declined them seeing as I had enough clothes already and didn't want her spending anymore money on me, let me tell you how hard of a fight that was to win before I finally gave up after she sent a warning glare at me. On the bright side, I did grow some muscles during this event.

"You got a lot of cute stuff, we'll have to come back next time when you get bigger since I doubt you'll be able to fit that in the next couple of years." Konan giggled at me making me smile slightly at the thought, I looked down at the mountain of bags that I was carrying and smiled in appreciation.

"Oba-chan, I wanted to thank you for today. I never ... well I never really did these kind of things before and I really ... appreciate it." I said with my eyes averted downward for the half of it before looking back up to meet her eyes to find them already looking down at me.

"You are very welcome, it's just really nice to have a female with us, though you aren't exactly what I pictured in age though." she laughed with a smile on her face and her eyes closed as we continued to walk to the motel that was getting bigger every step we took. Once we stepped through the door, I looked inside the lobby which was quite nice for a four star.

"Why hello there young ladies, how may I service you?" a middle-aged woman said from the desk to the left of us and we turned our heads to see her smiling at us in her blue and red uniform. Konan strided toward before setting down the bags at her feet, pulling out a wad of cash as she did.

"Yes could we have one room, with two beds please?" Konan requested happily and not even a second later the two had traded, money for key, and Konan was making her way over to me with the bags once again in tow.

"Your room is on the 3rd floor. I hope you have a nice night." the woman called after us and I sent a simple smile back at her in thanks but I kept my body moving, making our way down the hall to the metal staircase.

"Do you want something to eat, they have a cafeteria down stairs?" Konan suggested as we went up the flight of stairs toward our room. I thought about it for a moment but decided against it since we ate lunch earlier at a small food stand earlier and I was still fool.

"No thanks I think I'm fine." I shook my head at her question which she just nodded back as we finally made it to the 3rd floor. Good because my hands were starting to hurt with these bags.

"Here we are room A6, finally we can rest on something soft." Konan opened the door to our room, her bags immediately meeting the floor when we stepped inside and a sigh of relief coming from her mouth. I gently put my bags down next to hers with a short giggle before I began to look around the room.

It was quite simple, two beds on either side with a nightstand placed in the middle with a night lamp in the middle along with a bathroom on the opposite side of the room and a large window across from us that gave a somewhat nice view. I liked it all in all, it was very nice and thankfully clean. I glanced over at Konan to find her already laying in the bed to my left, obviously sleeping from not getting any rest for 2 days. I couldn't blame her I was tired my self.

Deciding that I would take a shower first so Konan could go ahead in the morning, I searched through my piles of bags before I reached the one that held my undergarments and sleepwear. I took out a pair along with a pair of my pajamas which consisted of a simple white tank top and long black clothed pants. Checking to make sure I had everything, I walked into the bathroom and shit the door silently behind so I wouldn't wake her before I started to strip of my now dirty clothes.


Once I was finish with my cleansing routine I exited the bathroom with my dirty clothes in tow and my clean fresh ones on my body. I dumped the clothes next to one of the bags since I was to tired at the moment to figure out what to do with them and made my way to the bed. I looked over to see Konan still sleeping peacefully with her head on the pillow and her body over the covers. Knowing it was cold I took up on my own favor to pull her exhausted body under the covers before she freezed to death.

When her figure was nice tucked under the covers, I went ahead and climbed into my own bed that was surprisingly warm when I entered it. Ignoring the unusual temperature, I climbed under the covers and made sure to cover everything from nose down before finally relaxing into a slumber.

"Good night Konan-san." I muttered as I fell into a deep slumber, not knowing what was awaiting me in my dream land. And I will tell you that I didn't like it.

Sorry for not updating sooner, I'm working on another story right now and I'm making sure it's perfect. Again sorry, and a deeper sorry for any mistakes in the story. Hope you enjoyed.