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They ate and Nekomi remembered the scrolls of stuff in her bag that needed to be unpacked. Some furniture needed to be built too. The boys could help with that. She'd use some bamboo that was growing nearby. She'd cut it and bring it inside the barrier for the boys to work on. She then noticed the boys still had their necklaces on and that she hadn't dropped her genjutsu. She said "Take your necklaces off." They did and returned to looking like themselves.
Naruto asked "Kassan, aren't you going to take yours off?"
Nekomi said "I have to go cut some bamboo." Both boys put down their bowls. Nekomi said "The two of you will stay inside the ring while I do it. You may go out into the yard, but not out of the ring, do you understand? I put the jutsu up to protect you two." They nodded again and followed her outside.
Nekomi walked outside of the ring which she pointed out to Naruto and Gaara. She gathered some bamboo, meanwhile sending her senses out in a mile perimeter search by instinct. Once she had gotten a pile she was satisfied with, she bound it into four bundles and picked them up. She again did a search of the perimeter and frowned. Something was off, but she couldn't pinpoint it. She frowned and walked off in the opposite direction from her home. She then began to run and once she had gotten a good ways, did her Inabikari no Justu silently.
Naruto and Gaara grabbed onto her when she returned "We thought you ran away, Kassan!" Naruto cried.
Nekomi looked at him. She asked "You saw me?"
Gaara nodded.
Nekomi asked "Did you see anyone chase me?"
Gaara nodded.
"Did they see you?"
He shook his head.
Nekomi asked "Naruto, did you see them too?"
Naruto scratched his head. "How did you know there were two of them, Kassan?"
Nekomi's breath caught. "Describe them." She demanded. "What did they look like? Were they working together?" She realized she was frightening the boys and she forced herself to calm down. "Please."
Gaara said "One had a hood on."
Naruto screwed up his face, thinking "One had on a mask...I think I saw his hair. It was grey..."
Nekomi frowned. The same two that had been following her from before. She didn't like it. She didn't like it a lot. Could they track her? Were they looking for her or were they looking for the boys? Suddenly she didn't feel safe living in Rain anymore. Well, it really wasn't all that sudden, but she just realized this need to move. What if they were spies from Oorochimaru. Here, they were only a few miles away from where IT happened. They were close to everywhere that held danger for them. Suna, Konoha, Oto and now Ame. It felt like a noose was closing about her neck. She looked at the two boys. She looked at the windows that Gaara had helped her make. She shivered. Rain wasn't safe for her anymore, but she had things she had to get before she left.
Naruto asked "Kassan...what's going on?"
Nekomi said "I think those were the bad men from earlier."
"What are we going to do?" Gaara asked.
Nekomi looked at the boys with a serious face. She said "We're going to change our names and move to Kirigakure, the village hidden in the mist."
Naruto cried "But we were just going to move in here!"
Gaara asked "When?"
Nekomi said "Tonight." Nekomi would have waited, but there was a pressure bearing down upon her. The pressure of impending danger and she rarely misinterpreted it.
Naruto's head was whirling. So was Gaara's. They thought they were going to settle into a house with their new Kassan, and now they were moving, far away it sounded. And they were about to leave.
Gaara asked "Why are we going to change our names, Kassan?"
Nekomi said "We are leaving our pasts behind. With them we will leave our names." They nodded. Nekomi said "You two can always call me kassan, but to others I will no longer be Nekomi Wara. I will be Kagomi Mino."
Naruto asked "What will our new names be, kassan?"
Nekomi said "I was thiking about Akari for you and Banshou for you, Gaara. How about those?" Nekomi was nervous. She knew the boys could hear it in her voice, but she couldn't help it. The danger sense was pressing down on her.
Naruto said "Akari Mino." Like he was trying the sound of it out on his tongue. He looked at his kassan. This seemed to be important to her. He thought 'Everyone hated Naruto Uzumaki. Maybe...they'll like Akari Mino better.' He said "Okay."
Nekomi was relieved that the boy seemed to accept this so easily. She looked at Gaara, hoping that he would take it as well as Naruto.
Gaara thought. He didn't like his name. The thought of starting a whole new life...He asked "Kassan, will the people in the place we go to not know us?"
Nekomi smiled. "We're going far enough away where they won't recognize any of us."
Gaara smiled "Then I will be Banshou."
Nekomi said "Then from now on, we are Kagomi."
"Banshou"
"And Akari."
Kagomi smiled. She was proud of her boys. This alleviated the pressure for a moment from the sense, but she could still feel impending danger. She wanted her family scrolls. Money would also be useful. She'd have to do the special summoning for them, but she could only do it a short distance. It took a lot of energy. She said "We're going to go as soon as I get a couple of things."
"We're going out again?" Akari looked at her confused.
Kagomi said "No, I'm going to do a summoning of some scrolls."
Banshou asked "Like with the cat?"
"Kind of, but it's a little different." The scrolls were to be kept and used at the Wara compound, but in case of emergency they could be summoned once. There were two seals put into the scrolls. One would allow the summon and once summoned, that one would fade and the other that didn't allow another summon would activate. This was to keep them from being stolen by another clan member. She looked around. There were no signs of them being here save the bowls and bags. She put all of it in one bag and incinerated it with a katon jutsu. She said "As soon as I finish, we're leaving."
Akari asked "Right now?"
"As soon as I finish."
"Why?"
"Remember those men you saw chasing me?" They nodded. "I don't know if they're after me or you, but either way...they weren't chasing me to make friends. They could be assassins." She saw this had shaken both of the boys up. Both had had assassins after them before. She said "Don't worry. I won't let them get you, but we need to get moving tonight. I have a bad feeling."
"What are you going to do now that you have to finish?" Banshou asked.
Kagomi said "I have to get some scrolls."
"What for?"
"My family jutsu and money."
Akari asked, confused "How can you get them without leaving"
Kagomi answered "I'm going to summon them, but the two of you have to go stand in the doorway to the bedroom." They did, but watched her with worried faces. Kagomi needed concentration for this. She breathed in and out and closed her eyes, bringing the jutsu to memory. She then got the ink and painted kanji on the floor and performed the justu which contained of around a hundred handsigns. Kagomi smiled in relief as her family scroll appeared. There was a giant scroll, the size of Naruto. It contained the rest of the scrolls. The seal showed it had been untampered with. She put it in the pack she had lowered to the ground just outside of the circle. "Now, for the money" She did the jutsu again, but nothing happened. She frowned. That was impossible. How? Someone couldn't have taken it. There were no Waras left and if Oorochimaru had found out how to get it, he would have taken the technique scroll too, wouldn't he? Well they were held in seperate places...She sighed and reviewed the jutsu. She hadn't done it wrong, but just in case she tried it one more time. Again, nothing. She sighed again and tied up her back and replaced it on her back.
Banshou said "Nothing happened."
Kagomi said "Someone took it. I can't summon it. We'll have to make a living for ourselves in Kirigakure."
"Kirigakure?"
"The village hidden in the mist. It's in the land of water."
"Is that where we're going?"
"Yes. It's far away from Suna, Ame, and Konoha. No one will recognize us there as anyone but Kagomi, Akari and Banshou."
Akari said "But that's across the water. How are we going to get there?"
"It will take too long to run there. I'll have to use Inabikari ni Jutsu a few times."
"How many?" Banshou asked.
Kagomi thought. It would take five to get out of rain and ten to get out of fire, before they took a boat at the harbor. And that was going at maximum range each time. Not good. "Fifteen."
Banshou could tell that that was a problem. "How many can you do in one day?"
Kagomi was surprised that the red head picked up on the fact that she couldn't do them all in on day. How did he know that? She decided to answer him honestly though. "Five."
"So it's going to take three days?" Akari asked.
Kagomi said "At top speed. We'll have to find somewhere to rest in between times."
Banshou said "But you've already done it today."
Kagomi thought 'That's right. I have used up a lot of energy today. "I'll only be able to do it two more times today. That will put us near a small village I know of. Put your necklaces back on." They did. Kagomi took out a third necklace from a pocket inside of her shirt and put it on. She set it and said "Hold on to me." They grabbed on to her legs. "Inabikari no Jutsu!"
Just outside the house...
A man in a mask was trying to force his way through a genjutsu barrier when it dissapeared. He saw a house and went in, but found no one there. There wasn't any clue but a ring of kanji on the floor. It looked like a summoning circle. There were also some ashes on the floor, and the house looked like it had been fixed up, but that was it. The house was deserted. He left, frustrated. He had been sure this would lead somewhere.
A few minutes later, the man in the hood who had been watching and waiting for the man in the mask to leave went in. He looked around. He touched the glass. There wasn't a place to get glass closeby. Most didn't use it. They used screens instead. Glass in a small house like this. Strange. Why put something expensive in a house like that, unless...no. That was impossible. No one else alive knew that jutsu. Perhaps the owner was just foolish or stole the glass. That was a better explanation. The house was unremarkable. It had been abandoned. The only things that drew his attention was the ash on the floor and the circle of kanji. He picked some of the ash up and sniffed "Ramen bowls?" There must have been over a dozen to make this much ash. He shook his head again at the first thought that came to mind. 'That's impossible. Quit fantasizing and get out of here before that leaf nin comes back.' He scolded himself. Then his eyes widened. The kanji...it was for a summoning. A familiar summoning, a specific summoning. "Damn it, so that's where the jutsu scroll went." But only a Wara could summon that. It took a wara's blood to summon them. That meant one or more was alive! And they were gone. "Crap." He hadn't smelled any trail. They had gone the fast way. They would be nearly impossible to find as he doubted the cats would help him. He sighed. He had to try. Besides, it wasn't like he had anything else to do. At least now he had a mission. He sure the leaf nin wasn't following him and started on his quest.
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