Old friends [Privet-ness]

[Hidan]

A young boy stood next to a large wooden log, with many dents in it. He was dripping sweat, as he held his knees, panting. He stood up straigh once more, and looked at the log seruisly. He kicked it and counted off each kick, one after another. His legs were bleeding and broused from kicking it so many times. "108, 109, 110, 111, 112" He counted, with each kick, harder then the next. " If I can't do 300, then I must do 600 punches!" The shinobi said, kicking the log again, and again, detremend to reach his mark of 300 kicks. His eyes half closed from exsoughtion, he had been at it and training for hours, not once stopping. One kick affter another, chipping away at the log. He was breathing heavly and his hair wet from sweat.

The shinobi's name was Kouhei, who was once part of a proud, noble and fairly rich family. His father was friends with the Ame lord. And his mother got lucky and when her mother died she inharrited the money. But Kouhei was assinged to the ANBU of the village, a hunter ninja. After an attempt on the lords life, Kouhei was to track down and kill the person who ordered the hit. As it would turn out, his own father ordered the hit, their for Kouhei was ordered to kill him and any one who got in his way, sadly that was his hole family and the gaurds, at the end, kouhei killed his mother, Father and all the gaurds and servents, only one lived due to the fact he was on Kouhei's side. He serves him to this day. Kouhei use to be a fun loving prankster but ever since he joined the ANBU he was tought to discard any emotions or feelings, such as Sai from the leaf village. Now Kouhei is blunt and pretty emotionless, but not so much when it comes to trainigng.

Kouhei use to have an older brother, who's name was Kaname, looked like him in every way. But he was blind. Kaname passed away on a mission and thus Kouhei was assigned to his squad, where he had meet Rin, but he knew Rin because she was the Ame's doughter. Kouhei took a liking to Rin but once she left he never saw her again. He went into the ANBU for three reasons, he loved his brother who was in the ANBU and followed in his foot steps. Also, he made a promise to his team that he would go into the ANBU and so he did, and last, he wanted to see if this would allow him to find Rin. Now Ame is in ruines with out the doughter of the lord. And the war. Kouhei still gets sent on missions but other then that hardly leaves the village.

Kouhei stood about 6 foot, his jet black hair reached down to his neck, and he didn't have normal clothes, only a taddered leather jacket, that was open at the chest, wich were connecceted by two chains, leaving him very open. He hand shorts on, tan like Sasukes. His wepons were in a pouch that was on his left side, and his poisens were on the right. He had a stainless steel tanto, which he held on his back, the sheath was orange with yellow strips, because he liked showing off. He had two gloves on with no finger holes, it was cut off. He didn't have any shoes on, he disliked shoes or thingyes greatly. To constricting. He carried his ANBU mask with him at all timnes, wich was strapped on his back next to his tanto. It was in the shape of a dragon, wich he had specialy made.

Kouhei kicked the log over and over. He had been at this for more then an hour now. And dark storm clouds fourmed over the small village of Ame. Soon after they fourmed, it started to rain. One drop lead to three and three two ten and soon it was a down poor. It didn't take long for Kouhei to get soaked, his hiard was heavy and wet from the rain, but it was a refreashing turn from the hot sun. Kouhei looked around, taking another short break from the log. All the animles had returned home, The birds had stopped chirpping and the sun was gone. Kouhei smirked. He wasn't ready to leave. He had more training to do. After 30 minutes the ground became mud and it was soft and slippery. Not to metion deep. Kouhei had his right foot clean of mud because it was in the air kicking the log, but his left foot was stuck in the mud, consumign it up to his ankel.

Kouhei fell back from exsostion, he couldn't take any more. He was out before the sun came up and it was almost dusk. "Dammit! I can't stop now..." He said, laying in the mud, looking up at the blackened sky. As lighting and thunder ripped accrost the land. He smiled as the rain was soothing and relaxing, and the mud..Well, not so much. Kouhei got to his knees and held his head down, sighing. He took another good look around, he was in the trainign fields, far from the village. I remember when our team was out here every day....Training till the sun wa gone......" He said, thinking back to the past. But soon shoock them emorie away.

[hikari02]

Ruins. It was nothing but ruins. Her home. The place she had left so many years ago and now… Now she was finally returning to the place of her birth. The woman wandered into the ruined village, her shoulders back and she walked in catwalk style. “Hey! You!” A guard called at the village gates. At this point the beautiful woman stopped dead in her tracks, turning her body slightly to give the guard a stern look. “Yes?” The Hunter-Nin asked in a more seductive tone. The guard stared slightly before shaking his head as if he didn’t have a problem with it. She laughed softly before continuing to enter the broken apart village.

Her name you ask? Well, it was known by many here in Amegakure. Myoiku Rin. The daughter of the once proud Lord. A hit was ordered on her father and once he found out Rin was ordered to flee the country because she was next in line to take over. Difficult to leave her whole life behind her, yes, but in order to stay alive, it was the simplest of things she’s ever had to do. When Rin fled, she fled to Kumogakure where the Kage of their village took her in with no problems or questions asked. She was trained here under the support of the Kage and other high ranked Shinobi . When Rin was asked to become Chuunin and Jounin she easily passed both tests. From there she went on to be a high ranked Hunter Ninja, where she became determined to hunt down those who successfully killed her father and destroyed her home and those who ordered the hit itself.

Three day’s after her birth, Rin’s mother died and she was left in the care of her Father and Grandfather. It was troublesome, because she easily became a troublemaker without a female to look up too. Her attitude shortly ended after stumbling upon Ronin, Kaname, and Kaname’s little brother Kouhei. All three of the boy’s had an impact on her small delicate life. Ronin taught her that it was easy to love and be loved. Kaname showed her that you always don’t need to see the things around you just to appreciate it . Kouhei showed her perverts were all around her, but even perverts could be kind and caring guys. She grew up with those three in mind at all times, never ever forgetting them. Hoping to return to the village to find at least one of them.

Rin wasn’t very tall for her age of 18, she only stood at about 5’7-5’8. Her long red hair was pulled up in a pony tail that only reached up to the middle of her back, but when she wore it down it was past her waist. Her usually attire was nothing like what normal Hunter-Nin would wear. That was only because she had two different outfits she would wear normally. One for her hunts, and the other for just hanging out. Her Hunting uniform consisted of a dress like piece of clothing, that was black, and was slight highly on both sides while her casual attire consists of a pale yellow tank top with a blank long sleeved shirt underneath, with a pair of tight blue ninja pants.

Slowly Rin made her way through the ruins of the once proud village. “Pathetic.” She murmured as her eyes wandered around the crumbling buildings and the dirty streets. “Look, Kitsune…Look at how far Amegakure has fallen since the Lord‘s death..” Kitsune, the deep red fox followed in Rin’s shadow. Rin frowned slightly as the sky became dark and rain drops began to fall. She still continued to walk, still grieving on the thoughts of her past. How horrid. What had really happened here? That she didn’t know, but young Rin was determined to find out.

Since it was quiet here, she was only able to listen to the sounds of her boots slipping against the mud. Of course it was slick and these boots weren’t meant for this. It wasn’t long until she saw someone in the training grounds far away from the village . Becoming quite curious, Rin and Kitsune made their way towards the grounds, before the blurred image of the male came into complete focuss. “Well. Every team was out here at one time…Training because every single one of them thought they were the best.” Rin sneered as she over heard what the male had said. For some odd reason he looked familiar, like she knew his face, but couldn’t remember the name.

[Hidan]

The young shinobi looked around another time. Looking up at the sky. He tried to get up but he couldn't. Kouhei's legs shook and wobbled before collapsing once more. He sighed and laid back down, looking back to the sky, smiling. "Drip, drop, drip, drop." He repeated. Looking at the rain drops as they fell down, one by one. He closed his eyes and let the pounding rain fall on his face. The rain fell on his leather jacket but just slid down. Kouhei ran his hand across the grass. He laid there still for a moment, just closing his eyes, almost as if he was asleep. Kouhei smiled while he keep running his hand through the grass. He was remembering the past, when he was with his friends and brother. Ronin, Rin, Kaname. All these people had the biggest impact of his life. Kouhei was fond of Ronin because he was Kouhei's revile, and made Kouhei want to train even more, Rin was his crush as a kid, and also his reason he joined the ANBU. Kaname was the biggest. He taught his little brother that looks are disiving . Never trust your eyes.

Kouhei sighed, he felt like crying over his friends and brother, but as a ABU he couldn't, he was trained never to show emotion. Kouhei did how ever look as if he was crying, with the rain rolling down his face. Kouhei got up and whipped his face. He stood up straight, Kouhei looked around and saw a figure in the distance, he sighed, thinking it was another villager to bug him, or an invader. He sighed, once more. Turning around slowly. He grabbed his mask and slipped it on, as not to be seen He took a close look at the figure. He walked over, thinking nothing of it at the time. Kouhei keep walking closer, but stopped. He looked down, sighing in an irritated way. His foot was stuck in the mud again. He pulled it out quickly and came right up next to Rin.

Kouhei looked the strange girl in the face, he got in her face, his face only about an inch from her's. Kouhei squinted trying to see if he knew this person. "Who are you girl?" He asked, grabbing her shirt and lifting her up slightly. He wasn't exactly trained to be nice, in fact he was quite rude and harsh, not to mention rough with new people or some one he didn't know. And some times just anyone, really. Kouhei lifted her up so they were eye level. He keep looking at the girl closely. Thinking he knew her from some where. "Answer me girl!" He said, in a harsh tone, lifting her up a bit higher.

Kouhei looked over at the foxs that was with the girl. "Kitsune?" He asked, shocked. He then looked back up to Rin. "R-Rin?!" Kouhei asked, with surprise. His eyes opened up slightly more, and he let her down and backed up a few steps. He got on one knee and the other one up, He rested his arm on his knee, he put his hand into a fist and put it on the ground, he bowed in the traditional way that ANBU did to the lord and his family. "Lord Rin. Please forgive me for my rudeness. If I may,. it is such an honor to be with my lord again! And may I say how pleased I am you have finally returned home. As is my duty, I shall here for escort you around. As you can see, Ame is no longer a safe place for any one." Kouhei said, he didn't treat her as a friend but as the lord and him as a servent. And with his mask on, she would have no way of knowing it was Kouhei. He smiled under his mask. Many thoughts ran threw his mind.

[hikari02]

Rin ran her pale hand through her hair before having the male pick her up by her shirt. She sneered some more. “What’s it to you, you pathetic slime?!” She sneered as she frowned upon this ANBU. How dare her lift her up like this. Kitsune snarled fiercely at the male, blood stained fangs flashing in what very little sunlight was out. “Put me down this instant!” Rin somewhat glared at the man, as she made no effort to break free from his grip. No emotions. None what so ever since she under went training with the Kage of Kumogakure.

It wasn’t until the man recognized Kitsune and herself that a smug look over the Hunter-Nin’s face. “That’s right. I’m Rin.” She said as she was set down finally. Confidently folded her arms across her chest as she stared down at the kneeling ANBU. “First of all, its not Lord because I am not a man. It would be Lady, but I don’t run this pathetic village.” Rin sneered before sticking her nose in the air as if she was a spoiled rotten brat. Yeah, she was pretty much the same troublemaker as she was when she left.

The rain made her eyeliner and mascara run slightly as she frowned. Her eyes wandered around slightly as he mentioned how unsafe it was here. Well, duh. A newborn could probably tell that this village was no longer safe. This village had changed dramatically. So dramatically, she didn’t quite like it. “Who’s in charge here now that Lord Kozuki has perished?” Rin asked brushing her red locks out from her face. “Why has this village been allowed to become in this state?” Kitsune grunted slightly before finally walking up to her side. The red fox shook its head slightly in disgust at the same time as Rin.

As she stood there, acting like she was tough, Rin’s favorite memory of the training grounds played in her mind. Kouhei and Hinagi were both there, being trained by their sensei. Rin’s first Sensei that is before she was ordered to flee. It was a pretty fun, but that was before Hinagi’s family moved away. Rin closed her eyes slightly trying to avoid any feelings during her remembering. Slowly, her attention returned to the ANBU. “I don’t need an escort around my own home.” She said softly.

[Hidan]

Kouhei staid in that spot for a few more moments before looking back up to her. "Please forgive me Lady Rin. And as long as the lords blood runs through your vains. You need to run Ame lady. We are in shambles, we are easly open to invasion! Your town needs you!" Kouhei said, not once moving from the spot. He thought back to his past one more time. Thinking if he should relvile him self to her as his once friend. Kouhei dug his fist into the ground more. My lady, please, your people need you. And I am sorry for my rudeness. If I knew I would have treated you with the utmost respect." He said, smiling under his mask.

Kouhei stood up, whipping his muddy fist one his jacket. He petted Kitsune softly. " My lady, this village is not safe, after the death of out proud and caring lord. The counclie has been doing their best but looking for you. Our village is beng mainly run by the villagers." He said, looking at her in the eyes. "As an ANBU I can not let you go around, we just got you back. It is my job to protect you with my life. Besides... Maybe this will change your mind" He said, smiling, he slowly took her hand and placed it on the mask. With his free hand he took off the strap. He took her hand and helped take the mask off. He smiled as he looked in her eyes once more.

Kouhei put the mask back on his back, strapping it back to his sheath of his sword. Kouhei hugged Rin tightly. " Rin....Slime is a rathe harsh word to say to an old friend" He said, smirking. He used two fingures and softly pushed her head down so they were eye level once more. " Don't be so stuck up" He said softly, as he hugged her tighter, rapping his arms around her waiste. He closed his eyes tightly before opening them once more, looking up at the dark storm clouds. He used his right hand to pet Kitsune still. His dark jet black hair was still soaked. And his Legs and arms muddy. Kouhei strongly didn't want to let go.

Kouhei let go of her and whipped his face, wich was dripping wet. Kouhei put the ANBU mask on the top of his head, using it as a shield ageanst the rain. He looked the same way he always did. He brushed the mud of him, then looked back up to Rin. " Lady Rin. I will escort you to my house for the time being. I wouldn't want our Lady catching a cold. Come along Lady Rin." He said, being formal, and acting like any other ANBU. He whipped the blood from his legs before starting of for the village. He didn't feel like being out in the freezing rain any longer then he had to.

" To answer some of your quistions, the village is like this because after the death of our lord, we depened on you to come back. The counlicel was to stubbern and ignorent to appoint the new lord or lady. We long awaited your return." He said, with no emotion in his tone at all. He didn't bother looking behind him as he walked, he knew she would follow. " Lady Rin, I will escort you any where you please. And I will fetch anything for you at your command." He said, with still no emotion, acting like any other ANBU who was loyal to the Lord. Not as a friend. He was trained not to show emotion, and so he stuck to that