Makoto's Daughter

Vigilantes

   This is the hairpin from the last chapter(tell me of the picture doesn't work):

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   Uno was in her father's office. She hummed as she watched her father paint. It had been a few weeks since she came back to Nagasaki. Makoto looked over at the fourteen year old.
   "Dad," Uno spoke up.
   "Yes?"
   "How long has the vigilantes been together?"
   "About a year or two, I believe. Aki has been part for about three months."
   Uno nodded. "Who are the others?"
   "Why are you asking?" Makoto put down his brush and turned completely to look at her.
   Uno stared right at him. "I want to join."
   "What?" He sounded shocked.
   "I told you that I had training as a ninja, and I'm tired of not being able to use them," Uno explained.
   Makoto moved his hand to Uno's hair and pushed her hair behind her ear. She still had the small hairpin in her hair, and it was softly ringing.
   "I won't let you do anything to dangerous if you join, and you won't be doing anything by yourself," He said.
   Uno nodded. "I'm okay with that. I just want to do something other than sitting here or walking around."
Makoto kissed his daughter's head. "Okay, why don't you go look at the stalls. There's a special market opened up today."
Uno stood up and nodded. "Okay, see you later."
Makoto watched as his daughter walked out of the room. "God, she's a handful like always," he chuckled to himself.

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Uno looked at the stalls. She was starting to get hungry so she went to the soba noddles stall. She bought one down of noddles and quickly ate them before starting to looked at the stalls again.
She stopped once she heard someone's loud voice. She looked to see a green haired man. He was selling tabloids. Uno walked over to wear it clearer. It was about the vigilantes.
Uno was the last person to buy one. The green haired male looked at her.
"Are you new here?" He asked.
"I guess you can say that."
"I'm Ritsu. If you need any information, just tell me," Ritsu said.
Uno smiled. "I'm Uno, and okay."
   Uno then ran off again. She hummed as she started looking over at some hairpins. She always liked looking at hairpins. Someone was already standing there.
   The other person glanced over at Uno. Uno felt the eyes on her and turned to him. She tilted her head.
   "Yes?"
   "It's not everyday a small kid is by herself."
   "I'm fourteen, and my dad said that it was good idea for me to come."
   "Fourteen?" The man asked. "You don't look fourteen."
   "I know, I get that a lot," Uno looked away.
   The men took a hairpin and put it up to her kimono. Uno looked over.
   "Hm?"
   "I'm a hairdresser. I think this would work with your kimono. I'm Aoi."
   Uno took the hairpin and looked at the price. Aoi chuckled before paying for it.
   "You don't have to do that, sir," Uno said.
   Aoi took her hairpin out of her hair, and put the new one in. Uno took the other hairpins back and put it in her pocket.
   "Uno," The black haired girl said before she heard Ukyo's voice and went over to him.

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   That night, Makoto was going to tell both the Edo and Nagasaki Vigilantes that his daughter was joining. Uno was sitting beside her father as she told him about what happened at the hairpin place.
   The first person to walk in was a blue haired man. "You're that girl from before," Aoi said.
   "What he the person who bought the hairpin?" Makoto asked. Uno nodded. "It's fine. He's part of the Edo vigilantes. "
   "Is she joining?" Aoi asked as a few more came in. Makoto nodded.
   After a few minutes later, everyone came in. Makoto looked at everyone.
   "Makoto, who's the kid?" A green haired men asked.
   "For those who don't know, this is my daughter, Uno, and she's a teenager," Makoto started. "About three weeks ago, she showed up after being missing for four years. She claimed that she was taken by my older brother. She also said that she was forced to take training as a ninja."
   Uno glances up at her father as he continued, "I have a feeling that my brother is back in Nagasaki too. He didn't know up so I think that something could be going on with him, like he's helping with something illegal."
   Uno knew what her father was talking about. He had talked to her about it before. "She's joining the vigilantes."
   "A girl?" Uno heard one mumble.
   A pink haired woman turned to them. "What's wrong with that?"
    "Yes, a girl," Makoto said.

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   Uno hummed as she was sitting under a tree on a hill when a pink haired woman walked over.
   "You're Makoto's daughter, right?" She asked. "I'm Rei!"
   Uno smiled softly at her. "Nice to meet you, Ms. Rei."
   Rei sat down by her and started taking to her about random things.

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The hairpin of this chapter:

and her kimono: