You know I have never experienced the parent standing by the door scene so many mentioned before.
I would have been happy keeping it that way.
Sure, it's not like the grey-haired shadow, ANBU, whatever, really did much. All he did was look at me as I trudged in while covered in dirt and leaves, and sticks coming out of my multicolored hair. But the Look. Oh, the LOOK.
I don't even know everything it said.
I was not expecting him to pick me up and take me to the bath, but I think that was because of how tired I was.
At least someone was there to make sure I didn't drown while getting rid of the muck
It's been a few days since all the excitement.
Really a few months of nothing then suddenly All This? Bah humbug!
Anyway. It's still getting colder. But still mild enough not to need a jacket. Or boots a think while looking at the plethora of sandals all around me. Seriously was there no other foot ware?
The atmosphere has been getting tense again, like it had been after that first parade (over directions in life of all things). Both I and the ANBU are a bit jumpy. Probably for very different reasons though. Sadly, because they are so twitchy right now they don't let me go off and hide with Naruto anymore. Maybe the green haired dud complained.
At least they got a small container of sand so I can practice writing symbols.
And the grey haired-jerk said Bird would be around soon so hopefully he means Soon, and not like in a month. He would actually teach me instead of snorting whenever I get a letter wrong.
At least I think that what the little huffs from the grey shadow are. I wonder if him disappearing outside quickly whenever one of my trees appear is annoying or funny. So far, I have gone with funny because he always comes back in while glaring at the nearest window like it has challenged him to a duel.
-knock-
I barely look up by the time Jerk has opened the door and standing there is Bird.
I smile
Finally.
So, good news:
I now have a book to practice instead of random symbols.
Bad news:
I am not sure what the symbols are so it doesn't add to my Bards Skill Tree
technicalities like that seem important.
Ah well, I will get there soon.
Today something weird is going on. There are more ANBU here than there have been for weeks (before Jerk, since ever even including right after I bit the ANBU truthfully). I have no clue what it is, but even the caretakers have started to be jumpy. Though that means they leave powdered formula mix instead of much else and one of the ANBU with a blue tinted mask, with stipes (for some reason this one never introduced himself) seemed to be delegated to making the stuff.
And there have been more people around, now that I think about it. They've mostly been about the gates, or in the garden though. They would sometimes rifle through the plants, or bend down to see under other things.
I wonder what they were looking for.
I don't approach. Mostly because some of these people are from the old orphanage and I don't trust them not to do anything like fake-face.
So, instead I am having to move around them to see anything.
Sneak has leveled up
And I have been sneaking a lot.
If only to try to figure out is Something like that Parade is going to happen. Actually, now that I think about it, the way I use that word might make it worse than some curse words. Though with how curse words are Curse words that might be the reason. Huh, I wonder what people would think of that. I curse you to live through the repercussions of a thousand parades. I shudder just thinking about it even as I snort at my ridiculousness.
Going back to the room I share with a bunch of paranoids and a specific blonde is not that difficult after going through the forest. It's just one building away and the people here leave plenty to use as cover.
Plus, no Rabbits.
BANG
SHRIEKING Metal
It's Just a MONSTER
I bolt upright. What between Above and Below was that Noise.
BOOM
The ground shook underneath me. Maybe there was an earthquake? I needed to get out of here.
Rumble
Creak
Going forward, then turning. Where's Naruto. Look for blonde hair. Rushing, almost running. I grab him and move to the door. If the roof was weakening we couldn't stay.
Getting to the door. Shoving it aside. In passing thought that I didn't give much time to was wondering why everything stood apart, was so fragmented, before it left with everything else that didn't have to do with me, and Naruto, getting OUT OF HERE.
I got Naruto and I out of the room before someone, I think one of the ANBU, came through a wall. Like in the old superhero shows where people just go through the wall? Just like that. And just like those shows the ANBU got back up and jumped through the hole they had made on entry. If someone looked in the room, as I was, then all they would see would be dust, and a mix of stone and wood splintered through the room.
Not that it took anytime to happen. Barely a second, maybe not even that.
So, lucky we got out of there.
Though just standing on the patio that worked like a hallway between our room, plus random storage, and the main building whilst listening to explosions and the earth shake, well…
Probably not my best moment.
Boom
Rumble
CRACK
And that was not a sound I had ever heard. They earth was shaking again but that last noise got me going, Naruto funnily had been moving without me.
Smart Blonde
I have no clue why there is a battle, or earthquake, or Whatever is going on.
I move fast enough to get to Naruto.
I did not think I would be going into the forest at night so soon after the last time.
-Poof- ignore the pop up tree that looks different now, and keep on guiding Naruto.
Come away o child
For this place is full of more fighting than be understood
AN: because for all that Danzo is a horrible individual, he at least kept Naruto secret until the loss wasn't quite so fresh. When you have Powerful people that 'just' (for a year ago) lost their family, their precious people and to have them be reminded of that? You are going to have issues. I think in Canon people didn't have to live with this kind of thing because well Danzo does keep his word in a weird, and very limited way. He probably told Sarutobi that he would 'protect' Naruto. And while he might have been in a cellar and almost dead from things, he wouldn't be having a lot of people to know where he was to try and kill him. When you are born with -10 luck you do not have very good things chosen for you (either be nearly dead or have your place of residence be found and turned into a mini war zone. Decisions, Decisions.) Not that kept him from spreading rumors about how he was kyuubi but well, I think he lost touch with Sanity a LONG time ago. Happy birthday Naruto.
Cookie to first to recognize what I reference in this Chapter.
the thing deleted this
And the chapter is meant to be confusing, after all if you got woken up with no training to the sound of explosions, and didn't come from a seismic area and the ground was Shaking one might be very confused and/or panicked.