Death Goddess

Riverside Days

Naruto gave a sigh as she dodged another sword "When the first try doesn't work out, try again. What should one do when they've tried over ten times?" she wondered out loud as she ducked down to avoid a kick

The ninja wearing the Hagoromo clan symbol growled in annoyance "Kids like you piss me off!" the teenager declared

"I just asked a simple question!" Naruto squeaked jumping away to avoid a hurricane of shuriken.

The teenager narrowed his eyes at her "You think I'm stupid? Who the hell would believe a kid who managed to avoid every single trap I set and walked up to me while I was eating to ask something so stupid? You were obviously trying to make me drop my guard!"

Naruto sighed "But I'm just a kid! Do you really expect a kid to be skilled enough to kill someone twice their age?!" she yelled in annoyance

The teenager hurled more shuriken towards her "I've seen younger bath in the blood of my clan members!" he growled leaping towards Naruto

"I've tried to be nice!" Naruto snapped going into the sleeve of her kimono to produce a kunai, "But," she deflected the shuriken before they could hit her "Desperate times calls for desperate measures!" and she leaped.

It happened in less than five seconds. The blonde rammed into the teenager making both fall down, her left hand grabbing the sword before it could pierce her neck as she placed her kunai at the teenager's throat. Both going tense as they stared each other down. "Answer the question" Naruto stated releasing a tint of killer intent.

The teenager spit in her face "Go die!"

"I said," with her left hand she broke the sword she was holding "Answer. The. Question" killer intent was dancing around the two

"We're in the Warring Era!" the teenager answered

Killer intent immediately went away. "Thanks!" Naruto gave him a sweet smile before leaping away.

The teenager could only wonder if that really happened. Because, honestly, who would go through all the trouble to avoid every trap just to ask what period they were in? And despite himself the ninja found himself commenting out loud "Did she live under a rock or something?" Regardless he damned sure wouldn't let anyone know that he pissed his pants because of a girl.

He did have his pride after all.

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Her senses could feel it. A vaguely familiar signature that for some reason made her want to rip apart a whole forest as a warm up before destroying an ocean or something. It took all she had to hold down the killer intent she was starting to feel.

A pebble skipping over the river made her go back in tune with the nature surrounding her. Nature had always been something she loved after all, it was so relaxing and calming. Soothing even. Whenever she was feeling stressed she'd go into the living world and just sit on a tree, like she was currently doing right now.

Calmly she looked down towards the river and saw a boy. Maybe a year or two younger than her? She wasn't too sure.

He had black hair from what she could tell, and he was currently struggling with skipping pebbles. At the funny sight she allowed the lingering desire to kill the boy flee from her.

Killing others wasn't something she was opposed to, but she'd prefer to have a concrete reason instead of just relying on her instincts no matter how good they were.

"Ugh! I'll reach the other side!" the boy declared throwing another pebble which didn't make it halfway across the river

Naruto jumped off the tree landing exactly next to the fuming boy "It won't make it if you don't calm down" she lectured softly.