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Zalor walked around konoha quietly, heading to Ichiraku Ramen. It was her favorite place to go, not just because ramen was her favorite food, but everyone looked down on her, even though she did nothing wrong... It was her place where she could stay calm.

 

'Why don't you make friends, Zalor?' Gobi asked Zalor in her thoughts. Zalor looked down, still walking.

 

'No one wants to be my friend.... Why make them?' Zalor thought back kind of sharply. She looked around and spotted a paint bucket.

 

'Zalor.... What are you thinking...' Gobi asked sternly in her thoughts, but she ignored him and ran over to it and picked it up. She looked at the mountain with the hokage's faces on it and smirked.

 

"Heheh..." She snickered and headed straight to there.

"Yo, Sensei, open up! It's me, Kinatama, and Zalor! It's super important, Sensei!" Kinatama added.

Edited July 11, 201312 yr by Firaga Sensei

Hana also arrived, staying back, a little un-confrontational.  "Yup..."

Koukon chased the other three. At one point on the way, he ran by a kunoichi returning from a mission, the same one that slowed him down before. He stopped, grinning at the opportunity. "Hey, we seem to meet up a lot. Name's Koukon, and..." He shook his head and turned back. "I don't have time for this! Can't get caught up by girls again today!" He shouted, then sped towards the rest of the group. When he reached them, his face was red, embarrassed that he slipped up like that again. "Uh, did I miss anything?" He asked quietly.

(Needed some excuse for him always being late, and still had to include the last bit of his personality... )

The door opened and revealed Tamaki-sensei with a book in his hand.

 

"What is it Zalor?" Tamaki-sensei asked. Zalor looked at Kinatama.

Hana examined Tamaki-Sensei.  Just what kind of person was he?  She wanted to know.

Kinatama nodded to Zalor, then looked at Tamaki. "Tamaki Sensei, we have something to tell you."

Edited July 24, 201312 yr by Firaga Sensei

Tamaki blinked.

 

"...Hn.. Come in." He muttered and walked inside his house.

"Do we come in also?" Hana asked, somewhat confused.

(I'm just gonna post this, then the rest is on hold until Firaga is back on.)

 

Zalor looked at her and nodded.

 

"Of course." She said and walked in.

Kinatama followed his friends inside. "You're gonna have to sit down for this, Sensei."

Edited July 11, 201312 yr by Firaga Sensei

Koukon entered the house with the others. He stood in the back, letting Kinatama and Zalor do all the explaining.

Tamaki sat down in a chair and nodded at Zalor.

 

"Hana was attacked by some mist anbu. They gave her the curse mark." Zalor reported. Tamaki remained calm and looked at Kinatama.

 

"Attacked by mist anbu, is that true?" Tamaki asked, wanting to know more information.

"We can only assume that the ninja are from the Mist. The markings on their masks are very similar to the ones that Mist ANBU wear," Kinatama added.

Edited July 18, 201312 yr by Firaga Sensei

"Yea.." she confirmed, rubbing the back of her head.  "Hello there!"

 

Hana slowly walked in and stood where she thought would be the most non-violating space.  She was a little tense and very attentive to the situation at hand.

 

"Please, continue."

Tamaki looked back at Zalor.

 

"We'll find out more about them. For now, what else happened?" Tamaki asked.

"Well, I took Hana to the hospital, where it looks like her Curse Mark was sealed off. Right, Hana?" Kinatama replied, looking over the silver haired kunonchi for approval.

"Right!  I recovered pretty quickly, to say the least.  Now we're trying to piece all the clues together!" she answered.

"We're too sure just how it all fits together, though. Tamaki Sensei, what do you think?" Kinatama asked his wise sensei.

Zalor looked at Tamaki. He looked deep in thought then looked at Hana.

 

"Your a clone aren't you?" He asked. "Because if you were the real one, you would be having a hard time getting here."

Koukon stood in the back, listening to everyone. He wasn't there for most of this, so he didn't have much to say. He studied Tamaki-sensei for a bit. So this was the guy that taught Zalor and Kinatama... He thought to himself. He heard him suggest that Hana was a clone. He formed a hand seal and activated his Byakugan, studying Hana to see if she really was a clone. "Yeah, this is a shadow clone..." He informed Tamaki-sensei.

Kinatama almost gasped at this realization, but recovered before he made a big sound.

 

"The real Hana is still in the hospital, recovering probably." Kinatama said with a low voice, looking away for a moment. This was starting to annoy the young bull. "Dammit, Hana, why do you keep lying to us? We're trying to help you!"

Zalor looked at Hana.

 

"Yeah, why didn't you tell us?" She asked, slightly disappointed Hana didn't tell them. Tamaki shook his head.

 

"Both of you be quiet..." He muttered calmly and looked at Hana. "Let me see that curse mark of yours."

Edited July 24, 201312 yr by TJwolf123

"Okay..." she said walking up to Tamaki sensei.  She pulled down the back of her shirt as she said, "I didn't know myself, that I was a clone..."

Koukon looked at Hana questioningly. "How do you not know that you're a clone...? Did you forget performing the jutsu, or what?" He asked her, curious how someone would fail to realize such a thing.

"I don't even remember doing the jutsu in the first place.  It felt as if I just woke up..." she answered, looking down at the ground in shame.