Mokoto Umino sighed as she looked around the area curiously. She wasn't sure how, but she'd managed to escape the hot water she had found herself in at the hot springs a week earlier, and avoided all contact with the others, under the guise of covering the civilians as well. A few kage bunshin floated around the areas for the kunoichi under new guises, but they avoided contact at all cost.
Taking a picture of a street stall, she sighed and tried to figure out what she was going to do now. The entire group were onto the Mokoto guise, and had tracked her down to three hotel rooms. After work tonight, she was going to head to the woods where she had set up a camping area.
As her attention focused on a group of school aged girls playing a game, she smiled and wondered if she had been a girl growing up, if she would have played games like that instead of being alone as Naruto Uzumaki.
As her shutter clicked its cycle she felt a prescience behind her, and a hand land softly on her shoulder. Even as her face fell in dismay, she heard the voice of Yugito Nii purring softly into her ear. "Looks like I found a little lost birdie..."
"Indeed..." voiced one of the kage level women she'd interviewed and taken pictures of before. Mei Terumī if she remembered right, the Mizukage if she remembered right. "Such a pity she's been on flight from us... isn't it dearie?"
"That's right Terumī-hime..." Koyuki Kazahana answered, leaning against the Mizukage's shoulder a little too casually. "And it seems that she's nervous..."
"Y...y...yes..." Mokoto answered, sounding roughly like Hinata on her worst days, backing away slowly from the trio of ninjas that had her cornered. "I r...r...really ssshouldn't d...d...disturb yyyou aaany mmmore..."
Her retreat was cut off by arms wrapping around her, holding her into place while the cheerful voice of Emiru whispered into her ear. "We worry about you Moko-chan... you left without saying goodbye... we just want to get to know you better..."
Mokoto noticed that she was trapped now, and with a whimper decided to go along with them. After all, she deserved this.
Little did she know just what this all entailed.
