The Second's Bride

The Encounter

"Hey, wake up!"

That morning, I was surprised by a voice of an unknown boy. Without paying attention at my effort to woke up from my very-comfortable nap, He tried to shout as loud as possible and finally, his voice becoming quite clear to hear.

"Hey, wake up! You shouldn't sleep at this place! Hey, wake up!"

Now, the boy was trying to shake my body. Maybe, that was his reaction for my none-action. Perhaps He thought that I didn't want to wake up from my deep sleep. Slowly, I tried to open my eyes, to saw who was talking with me right now.

I had a trouble with my eyesight. I couldn't see an object clearly in a far distant. As a kunoichi, this was a great distraction because I lived in never-ended-war era, when shinobi had to fight so hard to got whatever they wanted.  I realize, maybe that was the boy's reason waking me up. The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a silhouette of a 9-years-old boy with a shaggy hair.

"Oh mean! Have you wake up yet?"

And the boy tried to pull my hand, forced me to wake up. I was grimacing a little and tried to sit. Finally, I woke up from my deep sleep this morning. And also, I took my hand back from him.

Now I could see the boy clearly. That boy, I thought I had ever met him before. He had a fair skin with a white shaggy hair and a pair of sharp crimson eye. He wore a navy vest and brown-stripped trousers, tied with a black rope in his waist. The boy gave me a sharp gaze with his crimson eyes.

'Is he, an Uchiha?'

I tried to pay a lot of attention on his eyes. It was a crimson eyes but ir was different with sharingan. There were nothing inside his crimson eyes. Differ with Uchihas, they had three (or two or one but I've never seen four) spots which looked similar with a coma who called 'tomoe'. I ever saw them in a battlefield.

"What are you looking at?"

The boy's question made me so surprise, it was force me to bring back my focus on him who standing in front of me right now. His eyesight made me quite uncomfortable.

"Err, nothing" I said simply.

Now the boy paid a lot of attention on me. He looked at me from my head to toe like he had never seen a human before and it made me scare of him. I knew it wasn't a good thing to took a rest in this area. This area was a borderland between Senju, Uchiha and my clan, Hagoromo.

"And you? What are you looking at?" I ask the same question as him.

I thought my question had made him quite surprise.

"What are you talking about? It's me who have to ask, What are you doing here? This is a dangerous place!" The boy seemed annoyed.

"Take a rest" I answered his question simply.

"What? Take a rest here? Are you dumb or you don't understand anything? I repeat my words. This place is DAN-GER-OUS!" He used a different tone in his last word.

"Hey! I know this is a dangerous area" I also used a different tone in 'dangerous' word. "I think even the newborn child already known it"

"So, if you have known about it, why you still laid down in this area?" Are you really stupid or..."

"Hey! Stop calling me stupid! We don't know each other but you already calling me stupid" I gave him a hard protest.

That boy. I didn't know why. He gave me a strange smile (i didn't know what's the meaning of his smile, but I thought he was laughing at me or he was mocking me?)

"If you're not stupid, why you choosed to take a rest in this area?"

"Emmm..."

I thought he said a right thing. This wasn't a save place for laying around. Also, I didn't remember why I decided to take a rest in this place.