Morin- pronounced (more-in)
7 months later
Ryo's pov:
"Come on Emi, you're so slow!" I called from my room in our apartment. "We're leaving in 10 did you wait till the last minute to pack?" Emi didn't answer, either she was packing, and didn't hear me or she was packing, and ignored me. Hey, at least she was packing, probably. I glared at nothing at the idea of some ignoring me though. I sighed and picked up all my scrolls and headed out the door. "Emi, meet me at the gates!"

I walked through the hidden flame village, I just can't believe Emiko finished her training with Master Isamu so soon. It was my turn to take over her training, like I promised her when we first meet. After 3 minutes I made it the gates. Yuto and Eita happened to have guard duty today. I'm pretty happy about that, all the other guards think I'm a teenage hotshot with no real talent. Even though I've sparred against all of them during my first time in the flame village, and won with a KO. At least Yuto and Eita know I'm a teenage hotshot WITH talent.

"Yo Ryo! So your finally leaving eh?" Yuto asked. I smiled.

"Hey! I promised Emiko I would train her once she was finished with Master Isamu, and I need a change of scenery. I'm surprised I stayed here for 7 months without going insane. And it's so hard to pull pranks here!" I complained.

They laughed. "Your just lucky you had us. I think if we weren't here you WOULD have gone insane Ryo." Eita said.

"Yeah." I said with a chuckle. "You two are the coolest people here-..." I was cut off when I heard:

"Ryo! Why did you leave me!" Emi screamed and crashed into me at full speed, which is really fast. I always tell her she's slow, but in a race, I'm not who would win between us two.

"I left you because your so slow." I replied moving my blond hair out of my face. "Now come one Emiko, we need to leave now."

She nodded and said. "Thanks for everything Yuto, Eita." While smiling at the boys.

"No problem Emi." Eita started.

"Make sure to visit again Emiko." Yuto finished.

An irk Mark found its way to her forehead "Why can't you three just call me one thing! One day it's Emi, the next its Emiko for a couple of days, then it's Emi. Uuugggghhhh!" She cried out.

We all laughed, it was like a running joke with the four of us, we never stoke to one name.

"Well, we'll see you again some day Yuto, Eita." I said and gave them a bro hug.

"Bye guys." Emiko said and gave them a hug as well, and no... Not a bro hug.

Me and Emiko picked up all out stuff (by stuff, I mean scrolls. Yes I did teach her how to pack things in scrolls, what did you think I was going to lug all her things around... Haha nope) and gave our final good byes to Yuto and Eita and headed out of the gates.

We walked for about 20 minutes when I realized that Emiko was looking down. "Emi? What up? You look down."

"I'm just sad that we had to leave, I mean we did stay there for awhile, it was our home." She explained.

"Don't give me that. You need to learn that we are going to be all over the place, you can't get too attached ok. I've been doing this for a couple of years now so I'm used to it, so I'm not expecting you to be as good at this yet, but keep your head up. We are heading to village hidden in the valley." I replied with a cocky grin, although she couldn't see it. We walked a couple more minutes when he heard a painful yelp.

"What was that?" Emiko asked me. I frowned and looked around to see the owner of the yelp. I spotted a black bear growling at something. I walked over and saw a cornered wolf pup. The bear began to charge the poor thing when Emiko cried. "Ryo do something!"

I sighed and jumped I front of the pup, I did the hand signs and called out "Fire style: fireworks!" A small stream of fire flew from my hand and made its way toward the bear, I willed it to explode in front of it. This surprised the bear and it stumbled away. I hadn't put enough chakra in the jutsu because I didn't want to killed the bear, just surprise it. After a couple of seconds the bear left the clearing.

I was about to walk back over to Emiko when the wolf pup nudged my leg. I looked down to see the pup looking up at me. I looked around, waiting for the wolf pups mom to come out and try to maul me for being so close to her kid. But the mom never came. I frowned at this, wolfs where protective creatures that would never leave their pups alone.

"Yo Emi, let's stay here for a couple of minutes, I don't want this guys to get killed when I just saved his life, let's wait till one go his pack members finds him." I called out.

Emiko made her way over to me and sat under a tree. I walked over and plopped next to her. I leaned back and kept my eyes on the pup. The pup walked over, eyeing Emiko curiously. The pup came over finally and laid down on my lap.

"What the-..?" I stuttered. Emiko laughed out loud.

"Looks like someone likes you Ryo."

I started down at the wolf pup. I was beyond confused. I looked at the pup, noticing the way it's ears pointed, it's snot curved in, it's paws, them it hit me. Sorta literally.

Emiko hit me on the back of my head. "What are you staring at idiot?"

"Ow!" I said and looked back at the wolf. "Wait a minute... Hmmm... No freaking way!"

"Hmm, what did you find out?" She asked.

"Emi, this is a Morin wolf! (Ps I hope you read my profiles chapter because info on morin wolves was there, and I'm not explaining it again ;P) I exclaimed.

"What! No way!" She said. She looked at the wolf taking in the wolfs features. She sat there thinking for a couple of minutes, then said "no way, your right, of once." I anime fell when she said that.

I picked up the pup and stood up. I looked around, trying to find a sign that other morin wolfs were here. Emiko did the same. We looked around for 10 minutes before we gave up.

"Well what do you want to name it?" Emiko asked.

"Actually it's a girl. And who said we're keeping her?" I asked as the pup ran up to me and laid at my feet.

"I think she decided we were keeping her." Emiko stated.

"Why are you so smart, your like 6!" I sighed.

"Hey! I you don't remember I turned 7 three months ago. And I think we have to keep her, cause she going to die if we leave her. Aren't Morin Wolves almost extinct, and isn't it illegal to leave a Morin Wolf pup alone in the wild." She said.

"I guess we're keeping her." I said.

"Yep. So what do you want to name her?"

I thought about it for a bit when I finally said. "What about Riki?"

"Sounds good enough."

"How do you like Riki?" I asked the wolf pup at my feet. She jumped up and barked happily. Me and Emiko laughed at the pup enthusiasm. "Well I guess your names Riki. Now come on Emiko, we need to go. We need to get to the hidden valley village before nightfall in 2 days." I picked up Riki, cause I wasn't sure if she knew how to run through trees yet.

We ran through the trees till nightfall. We stopped at a clearing around 10pm. I set Riki down and sent up a tent for Emiko to sleep in. Not to be rude but she's not used to sleeping out side #1. And she's a girl.

I sat down on a log and got a small fire burning. Riki came up and laid next to me. I sighed

"What have I gotten myself into?"

Authors note:
Guess what! The fillers are over! Next chapter Ryo, Emiko, and Riki are going to the village hidden in the leaves!
-Kakahi