A tall blonde girl was slowly approaching the nearest lake the one of those so little here in the land of clouds and lithging. She was gracefully moving her feet and playing with two metal things in the air while walking. Miho looked more like a circus artist than a real shinobi. Well, she was somehow like that when it comes to how she treated people. Never ending games and tricks. Suddenly, she rolled her eyes to the nearest tree as she sensed something. However, Miho was so full of her own chakra, that she could not identify if that was a man or an animal. She couldn't care less if that was either of that.

When Miho reached the destination, two metal things which were dancing in the air freely some moments ago now stopped and suddenly gone underneath the water. Miho took her one hand out of the sleeve of her sleek black outfit. The water was shining as the sunrays crossed it, she was hesitating a bit to disturb that calmness of the nature. However, the hesitation didn't last long, Miho took off the rest of the outfit and curved a devilish smile on a face while jumping in the water. She was happy to create even a tiny bit of chaos around her. The skin was covered in little drops that made her light skin shine in the sun as well, however, the sun was covered by the clouds soon, thus, the girl went underneath the water and it took way to long for her to come out.

”So, it was a man after all.”

The girl smirked a little and some satisfaction ran through her face. She was thrilled to meet the new man, or, maybe he was the same, to whom she owns a huge favor for not killing her when the clan was being wiped out. Probably not, he would have been gone under the water by now. As Miho couldn’t keep her breath any longer, she decided to reveal herself and to greet then man. The girl jumped from the water, right behind that spot where the mysterious man was. She pushed him lightly from behind to knock him out of balance and splashed a little. However, then threw her curvy body into water very quickly so that only a very sharp eye could notice some of the appearances. As Miho was floating behind with her shoulder skin opened, she couldn’t do anything, but smile.

” It is rude to lurk around while a woman is swimming.”

Despite the fact Miho was still young, and a man looked more serious and matures, she also considered herself a matured person, as a life, one day in particular made her so.

”Let’s say…Why don’t you jump in and I’ll forgive you?”

As soon as Miho saw the legendary eye, she understood that it is pointless to play with the man, or she would end up stuck in that eye of him anyways. She pierced into that one as it was the first time her seeing it from that very distance they were in, although she was not so interested in shinobi‘s abilities unless they include using weapons. Miho frowned a little while was approaching the shore.

“You can turn your damn eye off, mister, there is no reason for you not to trust me, I‘m just a mere genin lady, who came for a good refreshing swim.“

That sounded nice and polite, or it would if that was true. Miho kept her weapons lying deep in the lake after all and saw no need to reveal the indentity or clan abilities, like the man did in the first place. She slowly walked out from the water and approached her clothes lying somewhere near the lake, the curvy body would be a nice view for a random man‘s eye, but she did not turn around as she knew the man wasn‘t watching. He made it clear that he was not interested in that kind of stuff from the beggining. While putting her clothes gracefully, Miho spoke in a silent voice, it gave a shivering feeling of melancholy or nostalgia.

“And don‘t give me that „freedom“ stuff you youself do not believe in. We are our own slaves and even if one realizes it, it still cannot be helped.“

The blonde rolled her eye to see if the man was listening even a bit to the discussion she had more with herself than anyone else. Miho couldn‘t care less if he would agree, or if he would understand, it seemed like the man was more serious and experienced than she was, so he probably had his own reasons for not to be interested in a conversation with some arrogant girl who‘s main interest was to collect shiny toys from her dead clan members.

As soon as Miho put on her clothes she was standing there still with her back turned to the man. She was listening carefully what the man had to say and couldn‘t help herself but smile after the whole talk he has given. The thing that amused her the most was that he was the first one Miho met to be so hard for her to deal with. The blonde adores challenges and new experiences when it comes to cases like that.

The moment Miho turned to meet the man‘s gaze, she somehow felt insecure for the first time through these years. He reminded her someone, the man seemed so cold and distant, that it gave her a shivering feeling bringing back a weird memory of her father. Miho was caught in surprise, she couldn‘t imagine that she could ever meet a person so much like him, with the similar dark and cold aura around. However, the moment of confusion was too short to make any difference. Miho stepped back a little and leaned herself to the tree relaxing her every nerve. She never had a problem with staring right into  stranger‘s eyes, that‘s what she kept doing.

“You‘re talking the truth. However, the truth for you is a whole different thing for me. Your freedom is yours alone, my ideal freedom had gone under the ground long time ago along with all of my people. While you are okay by just being alone, even if there are plenty of your people in the world, I wouldn‘t be able to achieve this kind of situation just by myself ever again.“

Miho didn‘t expect the man to understand as she knew there still were a lot of Sharingan users left, so he haven‘t experienced such a huge loss. However, the blonde was never the one to complain about something, thus those words she spoke were more gently and explaining, then the rude answers she was used to give to others.

The sun distracted her gaze from the man and Miho closed her eyes, sunrays were too bright to handle like that. She slightly moved her finger and her chakrams came from the depths of the lake. One stopped right in the air, where the round bright circle of the sun was, protecting the angle of sunrays which were bothering the girl‘s eyes, so that she could open those again. The other metal went back to her arms.

“ I guess so limitless person like you do not answer question. But still, what the man like you is doing in the place like this? Naturally, there is always are reason.“

Miho remembered almost the same conversation she had with her father some years ago. She asked him, why is he going to the village, however, he answered he just wanted to look around. Despite the fact that she knew he was lying, she believed each and every word. Although, after the sun rose up, the father came home carrying his legendary sword which was soaked in unknown people‘s blood. Without any hasitation, the only child girl took the sword and willingly polished it for her father. That was the reality she knew and missed of.  The reality of her staying by the man‘s side watching the people being easy killed and pointing the finger to who would be next.

Miho sat there gazing at the weapon in her arm, waiting for the man to answer.

While the girl was waiting for an answer the sky was getting darker, clouds were gathering around, It seemed that the nature itself was reflecting the mood. She rose an eyebrow when the man started giving his lecture. It seemed that they couldn‘t understand each other, or most likely didn‘t want to. Miho felt her blood boiling, she wanted to do something right away when the man was speaking in a calm and cold manner. Naturally, she would have frowned or growled, but only a deep sight came out and her honey eyes shined a little like small cubes of glasses.

“I don‘t know what gave you an impression that I already gave up, I am here after all, in the middle of my daily hunting and despite the fact that everything I find are already deep in the ground, I‘m still here. However, you‘re right that the world is rotten as long as people like me exists, who just are stuck in between the process of achieving and actually achieving something. I understood everything you said about your angle of freedom, but people cling to someone that is what makes them human, thus my freedom is also clinged to someone. Just to be able to simply go and talk to or see my clansmen would make me free. To see my family would make me feel free. To be able to revive my clan and pursue our path together would give me a feeling of freedom. However, all of us are more than gone now, so I am stuck in a lonely and pathetic freedom you have described.

The sky was almost black by the time Miho spoke everything out. She naturally would become all excited about the argue thing, but this time it gave her a sad feeling. It was not like her to curve a straight line on her lips that was messaging about her concern. She decided not to add anything more not to get even more upset than she already was. When the blond gazed at the man, he seemed somohow supernatural, with that dark background behind him, like he would be the one creating the upcoming storm. Maybe it was true, considering the storm that occured in Miho‘s head. She stepped forward towards the man wanting to decrease the distance, but then stopped in hesitation and bit her lip. It was the first time she didn‘t know what to do, which showed that the girl was just a plain unsignificant person compared to the man.