Ryu needed sometime away from the village, away from the noise, just some time to relax for a moment and reflect on the past couple of days that have been just so important for him. That was, in fact, the main reason as to why he came to this well that only few people knew the existence of. He usually just went there to chill and take a break, to do strictly nothing more than enjoy the cold wind caressing his cheeks, the low temperature invading his Ice resistant body. And that was exactly what he wanted to do at this point in time; forget of all the stress he was supposed to evacuate and just lie down on one of the hills there were, breathe air, keep living, maybe even taking a nap in the wilderness of the Land of Water. Although the area close to the well was relatively well-known (for a place that was supposed to be forgotten), but there was still an area that few people tried to explore, and that was in this area that Ryu liked to take a break and chill. It was, in fact, the main reason as to why he chose to go there; no one would be here to disturb him in his sleep and the only noise he would hear would be his breathing, and maybe the echoes of people that were kilometers away. That's kind of why he hated being so sensitive noise as well, it was too hard to focus on doing nothing.

He'd already been there for what has been approximately five minutes, five short minutes where he got closer every second to a good nap that would only do good to his mental and physical health. But he could not sleep or relax properly; the amount of stress he had to relieve was just way too great. Between the next mission he was to be assigned, or the fact that he needed desperately a sensei for the week his father was away from Kirigakure. Suddenly, fortunately stopped in his train of thought, Ryu heard a crackling noise. He awakened his chakra sensing technique that he learned at the academy, and only saw one chakra. It was not a hostile chakra, though it was unknown, and it did not look like a enemy. Still lying down, he said coldly to whichever person was there; "You're quite clever. I've never seen anyone other than me here."

He finally turned his head after this many seconds (only a dozen indeed, but it was still a dozen too many) to finally address this feminine voice via a face to face conversation. He examined her from head to toes, noticing a Kirigakure headband on the forehead of the young little lady, while saluting her for her answer. At least that was one person who did not think of him as a weirdo straight away. Nevertheless; Ryu replied to her own reply as well, smiling at the same time. He liked to smile while talking, it showed that there was still some clarity and purity in his heart.

Oh me? Nothing in particular really, I just came here to relax. I often come here when I need to take a break, so...

He realized that he was going to expand too much on his answer so he stopped briefly, still looking at the girl and expecting some kind of comment to add on to this conversation anytime soon. In the meantime, he still thought. Pray here? So there was truly still religious people out there who actually gave a damn about religion, or was she just here because of her going through tough times? Whatever, none of his business, at least not for now.

As he was lying down, he looked at the girl's movements, her feet calmly transporting her body all the way to the well, where she made a cut on her hand. Before Ryu started thinking about why she would mutilate herself, he noticed she then let some blood fall in to the well, as she clapped her hands and lifted her head up, murmuring something that was hard to discern for Ryu. He raised his head up and put some more effort into moving his butt a little bit more in order to be in a more comfortable position, pretty much a sitting one. Was she a Jashinist or something like that? He knew many religions but of all that he knew, the only one that implied a blood sacrifice was Jashinism; and no matter how cool it was to be immortal, it did sound kind of creepy. He started speaking to her, in order to get back her attention, hoping she was done praying or doing whatever she was doing.

What is your background? And by background, I mean religion. I never heard of a religion where people sacrifice blood as a prayer, except Jashinism. But that would make you immortal, so I doubt you support Jashin...

Again, he was expanding too much on the details, he was doing something that was not needed. The young boy was not following any religion for his sake, in fact he didn't really believe in anything, putted that way. Nevertheless, he still did have respect for everyone, no matter what their background may be, and he was quite thirsty for knowledge as well; knowing the background of this lady would help him expand onto that, so damn, why not?