1 Yet Another Addition to the Family [Private/No Kill] Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:18 am
Gin
Retired
It was difficult for most people to believe that Gin Kuroka had once been a civilian. The silver haired woman seemed to live a and breathe for the sake of battle and had a level of skill that most wold spend an entire lifetime to achieve. Moreover, she had become Kazekage at the mere age of eighteen, which without a doubt took a great many years of training to achieve. However, it was true that she had spent her early life traveling with a merchant caravan alongside her mother. It wasn't until the age of eleven that the option of becoming a shinobi was even presented to her. Gin's training began when she was about twelve years old - way above the age of the average first year academy student. She had had a great deal of talent for fighting at that age, though her skills were severely lacking in other areas - namely genjutsu. After training for hours and hours every day, however, she managed to catch up to her peers and graduate in a little under a year. Two years later, she was already a Special Jounin, quickly soaring through the ranks of the Hidden Sand Village. Remembering these things often gave the former Kazekage a small surge of pride and confidence - not that she was usually lacking in either of those. Most people were of the thought that she had too much of both.
There were brief instances during which she sometimes decided to remember her old roots and usually did so by going out of her way to help out whatever civilians there were in the surrounding areas. Whoever saw Gin doing something so selfless would probably assume that she was scheming something or that she was being blackmailed into doing someone a favor. That was the reason why she was now in the Hidden Cloud Village's rice paddies, soaking her bare feet in water that came up to a few inches below her knees and crouching over to help with this year's harvest. So far, she had filled several baskets worth of rice and had sped up the day's schedule significantly. At this rate, the farmers would be able to take the second half of the day off and rest.
Gin wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead with the back of her sleeve. She had forgotten how humid this area could get, making the village's usually cool temperatures almost hard to breathe in. The young woman shook her head and returned to the task at hand, looking at the shallow puddle of water and dipping her hand into it once again. This time, however, it brushed against something rather hard, or at least harder than the rice plant. She reached deeper into the murky water to get a better feel of what it was. She pulled it towards the surface, only to find a large pair of dark eyes staring blankly at her, surrounded by green fur. Startled, Gin jumped back and landed unceremoniously in the water. "A cat?!" She yelled in surprise.
At that moment, the small fuzzball's upper body flew out of the water. It took a deep breath as if it had been deprived of oxygen for minutes, which was likely the case. "Kero thinks holding his breath is hard," she head that cat say. Great. A talking cat with green fur. Gin really had to stop getting drunk in the middle of the day. Maybe she was having a heat stroke. The cat stared at her and swished its tail from one side to the other, looking at her curiously. "Pretty!" It - he, apparently - said as he looked at the silver haired woman. He crawled onto her lap happily.
Gin simply kept staring. "Who - what are you?!" she asked, her eyes still wide and her brain till scrambling to decide what to think of this situation.
"Kero's name is Kero and Kero is a frog. Who are you?" he said, keeping the same joyful expression. Funny, because this thing definitely looked like a cat.
Gin shook her head once more. "I'm Gin," she said simply. Ok, it was time to call it a day and head back home to where Sanosuke was. She needed to sleep this off - whatever this was. She stood up slowly. As she did, the cat - frog...? - climbed onto her shoulder and nuzzled against her.
"Where are we going?" He asked. Gin ignored him until they reached the Raikage's mansion. The ca- Kero, didn't seem to mind and kept asking questions that went unanswered. Gin refused to talk to a figment of her imagination.
She opened the door to the mansion and hoped to whatever gods existed that Sanosuke was waiting there, read to call a medic.
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There were brief instances during which she sometimes decided to remember her old roots and usually did so by going out of her way to help out whatever civilians there were in the surrounding areas. Whoever saw Gin doing something so selfless would probably assume that she was scheming something or that she was being blackmailed into doing someone a favor. That was the reason why she was now in the Hidden Cloud Village's rice paddies, soaking her bare feet in water that came up to a few inches below her knees and crouching over to help with this year's harvest. So far, she had filled several baskets worth of rice and had sped up the day's schedule significantly. At this rate, the farmers would be able to take the second half of the day off and rest.
Gin wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead with the back of her sleeve. She had forgotten how humid this area could get, making the village's usually cool temperatures almost hard to breathe in. The young woman shook her head and returned to the task at hand, looking at the shallow puddle of water and dipping her hand into it once again. This time, however, it brushed against something rather hard, or at least harder than the rice plant. She reached deeper into the murky water to get a better feel of what it was. She pulled it towards the surface, only to find a large pair of dark eyes staring blankly at her, surrounded by green fur. Startled, Gin jumped back and landed unceremoniously in the water. "A cat?!" She yelled in surprise.
At that moment, the small fuzzball's upper body flew out of the water. It took a deep breath as if it had been deprived of oxygen for minutes, which was likely the case. "Kero thinks holding his breath is hard," she head that cat say. Great. A talking cat with green fur. Gin really had to stop getting drunk in the middle of the day. Maybe she was having a heat stroke. The cat stared at her and swished its tail from one side to the other, looking at her curiously. "Pretty!" It - he, apparently - said as he looked at the silver haired woman. He crawled onto her lap happily.
Gin simply kept staring. "Who - what are you?!" she asked, her eyes still wide and her brain till scrambling to decide what to think of this situation.
"Kero's name is Kero and Kero is a frog. Who are you?" he said, keeping the same joyful expression. Funny, because this thing definitely looked like a cat.
Gin shook her head once more. "I'm Gin," she said simply. Ok, it was time to call it a day and head back home to where Sanosuke was. She needed to sleep this off - whatever this was. She stood up slowly. As she did, the cat - frog...? - climbed onto her shoulder and nuzzled against her.
"Where are we going?" He asked. Gin ignored him until they reached the Raikage's mansion. The ca- Kero, didn't seem to mind and kept asking questions that went unanswered. Gin refused to talk to a figment of her imagination.
She opened the door to the mansion and hoped to whatever gods existed that Sanosuke was waiting there, read to call a medic.
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