1 Where's The Fun? { Invite Only } Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:11 am
Ria Pen
D-rank
The noise of the Chunin Exams was deafening, roaring in her ears and dwarfing the chaos of her local marketplace by several orders of magnitude. Supposedly, people flocked from all four corners (much more accurate analogy now, though Ria didn't necessarily know that to its full extent) of the Elemental Nations to experience the biannual event, and the commotion was beyond that of any Ria had seen or heard or downright experienced in her lifetime. For any normal cute eleven-year-old girl, it would've been scary. Yet, Ria hadn't earned her Iwagakure headband (not that she currently wore it) by being just 'any normal cute eleven-year-old girl', and so her eyes and ears drank in the imposing senses with delight and curiosity rather than apprehension and fear.
The young Pen was wandering the stalls alone, having lost her parents some time ago, not that she was too bothered by it. They trusted her to keep herself out of trouble and to be on her best behaviour. Her being in a foreign ninja village didn't worry them too much, but Ria suspected at the same time that their absence was explained also by why they had traavelled across the continent. They may have been ninja enthusiasts, itching to watch the Chunin Exams, but that didn't change that above and beyond that, they were a couple, and aa young one at that. Just because they suddenly became 'mama' and 'papa' ten years ago when their heart went out for an orphaned stranger didn't mean that they weren't just twenty-seven-year-olds. And, as Ria had found out the hard way - the very, very, very hard way - they were young, horny, and worst of all daring twenty-seven-year-olds. They wanted their time alone to do whatever it was grownups did when they were alone and adopting a girl wasn't going to stop them.
A shudder ran down her spine and Ria focused her attention back outwards towards the stands. Thinking about her parents that way was just gross. Gross.
There wasn't that much she was into, not here at least. The shops were well-decorated and vendors had clearly brainstormed for hours on end with every creative solution in the book to catch the eye of passers-by, but everything civilian, Ria cut off her list, and everything ninja was off-limits. Not off-limits off-limits, but with her parents her bank account, anything sold at the Chunin Exams would either be too dangerous for them to say yes, too expensive for them to say yes, or just too... dumb for her to say yes. The stadiums themselves weren't yet open, still waiting impatiently for the participants to be done with whatever test the dumb Raikage had set for them, and the only ones trading blows in the ring before her were two Genin, fresh out of the Academy not unlike herself, trying to flaunt the skills they didn't have to the cheering of the crowd.
The fight didn't particularly catch her attention. She was just seated lazily with her cheek resting on the back of one hand trying to will the time to pass so something cool would happen. And, honestly, no Genin competing would dare show their hand so close to the competition, nor were the adults ready with all the preparations yet - or so the grownups liked telling her the last three times she asked, in that baby voice they thought children found endearing - leaving Ria to wonder where all the flashes and explosions and kabooms-
... Her parents were right in keeping her on the reins a little longer, she thought with a resigned huff, blowing part of her hair up.
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The young Pen was wandering the stalls alone, having lost her parents some time ago, not that she was too bothered by it. They trusted her to keep herself out of trouble and to be on her best behaviour. Her being in a foreign ninja village didn't worry them too much, but Ria suspected at the same time that their absence was explained also by why they had traavelled across the continent. They may have been ninja enthusiasts, itching to watch the Chunin Exams, but that didn't change that above and beyond that, they were a couple, and aa young one at that. Just because they suddenly became 'mama' and 'papa' ten years ago when their heart went out for an orphaned stranger didn't mean that they weren't just twenty-seven-year-olds. And, as Ria had found out the hard way - the very, very, very hard way - they were young, horny, and worst of all daring twenty-seven-year-olds. They wanted their time alone to do whatever it was grownups did when they were alone and adopting a girl wasn't going to stop them.
A shudder ran down her spine and Ria focused her attention back outwards towards the stands. Thinking about her parents that way was just gross. Gross.
There wasn't that much she was into, not here at least. The shops were well-decorated and vendors had clearly brainstormed for hours on end with every creative solution in the book to catch the eye of passers-by, but everything civilian, Ria cut off her list, and everything ninja was off-limits. Not off-limits off-limits, but with her parents her bank account, anything sold at the Chunin Exams would either be too dangerous for them to say yes, too expensive for them to say yes, or just too... dumb for her to say yes. The stadiums themselves weren't yet open, still waiting impatiently for the participants to be done with whatever test the dumb Raikage had set for them, and the only ones trading blows in the ring before her were two Genin, fresh out of the Academy not unlike herself, trying to flaunt the skills they didn't have to the cheering of the crowd.
The fight didn't particularly catch her attention. She was just seated lazily with her cheek resting on the back of one hand trying to will the time to pass so something cool would happen. And, honestly, no Genin competing would dare show their hand so close to the competition, nor were the adults ready with all the preparations yet - or so the grownups liked telling her the last three times she asked, in that baby voice they thought children found endearing - leaving Ria to wonder where all the flashes and explosions and kabooms-
... Her parents were right in keeping her on the reins a little longer, she thought with a resigned huff, blowing part of her hair up.
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