One day, business went as usual. Hidan was due to come back from a delivery any minute and Mitsuko leaned over with her elbows on the counter, watching out the window and waiting for him. The bell of the door rang and she turned to see a tall old man with green eyes and greasy, shoulder length brown hair. Most of his body was covered with black clothes and he wore a leather, stitched mask over his mouth. He saw her and came up to the counter. All of the customers made quick glances as the old man laid a bundle of papers on the counter.
Mitsuko studied the papers and looked up at him when Hidan walked through the back door behind her and saw Kakuzu.
"Is there a problem?" Hidan asked and Mitsuko handed him the papers. After reading them he looked up at Kakuzu, "Let's talk around back,"
Mitsuko got hold of their boss' wife to run the register for her while she was gone. She quickly caught up with Kakuzu and Hidan by the back door before they walked out into the sandy back yard.
"You found our wanted posters!?" Hidan suddenly questioned him. He looked at the papers once more.
One had Kakuzu's picture on it with the bold words, "Wanted" above him and below was his bounty. Hidan's was the same but Mitsuko's however had, "Missing" across her poster. There was no money reward.
"I found them in Konoha," Kakuzu replied, "No doubt they'll be sending the posters here too."
"You went back to Konoha? What's the news?" Mitsuko asked him, anxious to hear if she could go back home.
"You're still a criminal so don't fall for the missing poster, it's just a trick to get you to come home," Kakuzu explained.
Her shoulders dropped, she had really hoped she could go back home.
"Hey, but isn't this what you've always wanted? To see the outside world?" Hidan asked with a smile, putting his hand on her shoulder to try to cheer her up.
"Not as a criminal," Mitsuko mumbled.
"Get used to it, pretty soon, you guys will have to flee to another country," Kakuzu put his hands on his hips.
"So what have you been doing?" Hidan asked Kakuzu to try to strike up a conversation with his old partner. Mitsuko disappeared back into the bakery seeing that she was not included.
Their boss' wife disappeared back into the kitchen and Mitsuko rung up a customer. Soon, they would have to leave this homely little town in the desert. Where would they go? Maybe further into the Wind Country or into Earth Country. They'll be running around the continent in disguises to try to hide themselves from authorities. Mitsuko didn't like having to run around and miss things. She wanted to travel and explore. She hadn't really had the chance to explore this town, she had been so busy working.