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[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

Once again, she had wandered further off than she had meant to. Luckily, this wasn’t a rare mistake for her and the surroundings were familiar to the golden haired girl, but it would take hours to get back home – she would miss the dinner.
Father won’t be happy when he hears about this…
She sighed softly and shook her head, her small hand stroked the fine fabric of her white dress absent-mindedly. Well, at least the day was beautiful: the sky was blue and cloudless, the forest green and lively.
That’s what had driven her out of the village and in to the forest again, a conversation with her father.

Roze halted her steps when she arrived at a small opening in the sea of trees. It had been the usual conversation about her age – she would be 18 far too soon – and finding an acceptable husband (plenty of money and from a good family) for her so she could make herself useful. That’s all he had been talking about lately.

A movement at the corner of her eye-sight returned Roze to reality and she turned quickly to find the cause. A big bird rose above the treetops and flew over her head, the flapping sound of its large wings loud in the quiet forest. Roze followed its flight with her amber eyes and let out a small amused sound when the animal disappeared from sight. It was a familiar creature, majestic old hawk, the king of this territory. She would have liked to get closer to the bird – she had tried numerous times – but her carelessness had ruined yet another chance to do so. That’s right, why to think about the past when there was so much to do right now?

Now that she was here, there were many options to choose from: she could go to check the small cave where a fox had moved some time ago and she suspected that now she might also find rowdy little cubs there; or, she could go to see that flower she had found on her last adventure, there wasn’t anything like that plant in the entire forest – how had it gotten there, had someone planted it…?

The flower. Before she had even really decided that option, Roze was already running towards the place where she had last seen the flower, the shore of a small pond. She was almost there, anyway, as if she had unconsciously decided her destination hours ago. And there it was: the dark forest pond and only a hand length away from the water grew the flower. Roze kneeled beside it carefully and put her hands around the bloom, careful not to harm it. The petals were deep blue, the center like a small ruby and it looked like a giant harebell with only one flower. Her thoughts started to wander again and she started to create a possible history for the beautiful plant in her head.

[minakami shū]

"Cute." a voice chimed as a shadow appeared over the flower and the girl, a slight smirk over his face as he observed the Konoha shinobi. It was vague, really. One wouldn't be sure if he was complimenting the flower of the girl herself - he preferred to keep it that way. Head shifted upwards and his eyes peered to the surroundings, before once more coming back down to overlook the flower that she was tending. "Do all Konoha kunoichi take enjoyment in such small things?" he inquired, obviously not seeing interest in a 'flower'. He'd read about them, but being from Sunagakure... he'd never really had the fancy to see them. Understandably, he viewed them the same as grass. There to be stepped on.

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

"Cute."
Roze's head snapped up at the sound of the unfamiliar voice and her eyes widened when she saw the male. Her cheeks blushed and she blinked quickly, surprised and embarrassed. How had he managed to surprise her like that, was she a shinobi or a klutzy commoner?
"W-Who..."
Roze shut her mouth when she heard her own shake voice. What was this, that was only a boy who had happened to catch her in less royal activities. The girl stood up, fixed her posture and lifted her chin up proudly, locking her amber eyes with the stranger's.
"Who are you and why did you sneak up on me like that? Don't you know it's considered rude by most of the people? Are you a traveling merchant?"
Roze lifted her right hand up and brushed her fingers through the ends of her long golden hair; the movement looked rather casual, but was actually a sign of slight faltering in her usual confidence when she was still trying to gather herself. The comment about the flower she ignored completely, hoping to guide the conversation away from her forest activities.
"Or maybe some kind of performer...?"

[minakami shū]

Eyebrow shifted down as his lips shifted in an awkward smirk.Performer...? Wandering Merchant? Was she a dense or something? The headband around his neck was clear as day and spoke of the symbol indicating Sunagakure, he wondered how she could miss such obvious details. "Of course, I've come to kill you." he stated with a grim, and rather serious look on his face. Though of course he was joking, therefore a light hearted laugh was given after a few seconds of looking so serious. He leaned down, noticing a different flower from what she had been tending to earlier - this flower yellow like her hair. Plucking it from the dirt, he smirked and pressed it into her fingers. "Its petals are quite beautiful, like your hair."

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

To kill me...?
Such comment made her heart jump and she tensed, unsure what to do. Although Roze was way past the time Genin usually graduated from the ninja school, her career as one was only couple of weeks old. She hadn't paid much attention to the headband until now, too concentrated to save herself from the embarrassment of proving somewhat unskilled already now (what kind of kunoichi would let a stranger sneak up to them?) and being discovered here that her eyes strayed to the way-too-clear symbol when she was scanning the boys body for signs of an attack.
Then he laughed. A rather confused expression replaced the slightly panicy one and slowly, she let her muscles relax again. Such a joke...? But no, that wasn't the main problem here now, he was from...
The stranger pressed a flower to her small hands and her head dropped, eyes stared at the gift as the already fading blush returned to her cheeks, brighter than before. Why did he...? Beautiful...? But, finally, looking at the small plant helped her to gather at least part of her thoughts together for words.
"You... I... Thank you..."
Roze lifted her head up again and there was a wary look in her eyes. For a moment she looked serious; for the first time, she let herself examine the boy properly with her eyes. He wasn't bad looking, but there was something strange in him. The way he behaved was something new to the girl and she didn't really know how to react to it.
Finally, her eyes focused to the headband; the symbol on it was familiar to her from her studies of politics as well as ninja school.
"You are from Kaze no Kuni, aren't you...?"
Now, perhaps she should have questioned the stranger - that's what an experienced shinobi would do; but, instead, she tilted her head to one side and gave him a careful smile.
"My name is Roze... I mean, Rozean... My father is very well known here, and I'm not really used to introducing myself, but... You have a strange sense of humor, but, nice to meet you."

[minakami shū]

There was a brief pause, a glance to the sky, and then Shiro frowned. "I have to go. Nice meeting you, Roze. I'm Shiro!" he concluded, smiling as he turned and rushed off to the border.

[©MARIO]

Not on my Day off >.<

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"I cant believe they got me out here trying to search for people. Or just her"

Mario would say to himself just nodding his head, today was suppose to be his chill and relax day. But nooooo, somebody decided to run off for whatever reason. And he was sure the reasons were going to be something a guy simply couldn't understand. Why couldn't they have sent a jounin or something, their way more experienced as far as looking through the lands of fire. What could someone like Mario possibly do, i mean come on now. He wasn't some fat guy in a plummer suit with a thick mustache created to save damsels in distress. Hopefully he came out of this search alive, because you never know what kind of random ninja could just pop off and start something off. Not to say that he was scared or anything, but fighting was something he hadn't intended on doing today. And in the life of a real shinobi, that was something you had to go through on the daily basis. Well at least on missions like these.

Mario had been searching for her for nearly hours now, and as more time passed he was more unsure on whether or not he was going to find her. All he had seen since he left the village were trees everywhere, and of course they were no help. They never wanna answer anything, they just wanna sit their and grow fat from the sun. Finally Mario decided that it would probably be easier to just run in a straight line instead of trying to run to different areas. And sure enough his plan would work to perfection. Ok, more like luck, he would find himself stumbling across a pond he had never seen before, and their she was, just standing their like everything in the world was all perfect, and filled with peace. Bout time i finally found you. He thought to himself shaking his head before he would slowly approach her so that she would get any ideas that someone was trying to attack her.

"Sooooo, this is were you have been hiding? You have had everyone at home worried sick. Not to mention you totally screwed my day off"[/justify][/blockquote]

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

Shiro...
Roze was left there dazzled when the Suna nin ran off, leaving him with nothing but the flower and his name. Where had he gone so suddenly...? Although the whole meeting had been... confusing, she wasn't satisfied when he left. What was the stranger doing here, why had he given her the flower? So many questions...
I hope we meet again, Shiro...[/color]
Before Roze had time to return to what she had been doing before the boy from Suna had sneaked up to her, the golden haired girl heard another new voice; this one was distantly familiar:
"Sooooo, this is were you have been hiding?"
The voice startled her; not because she was surprised again, the reason was the yellow flower in her palms. She hid it hastily to the holster under the hem of her skirt, but made sure it was safe in its own pocket. For some strange reason, Roze wanted to save it.
Then she straightened her back and faced the owner of the new voice. A slightly arrogant expression came to her face as she recognized this boy and a short flashback played in her mind:
"These two will be your new team mates" her father had explained with his usual colorless and serious tone, showing her two pictures. "They are from powerful clans - stay especially close to the Hyuuga. I will hear no complaints about this arrangement, you should be proud to be able to do something for your family." It was always about the bussiness...
"Oh. It's you."
Roze turned her back to the boy and kneeled down to the ground, returning to examine the unusual flower she had discovered earlier. She had another reason to dislike this boy, too, although they had actually only met once, briefly. She had seen him in the Academy and he was always hanging around Masa... Her only friend... At those times, she hadn't wanted to approach her friend and when this boy arrived when she was with the Hyuuga, Roze was sure to excuse herself with a gloomy look.
"They sent you to get me? We're not even team mates yet... Ah, my father saw this as a good chance, of course..." the amber eyed girl muttered mostly to herself, but loud enough so the boy could hear her words. "Father is not worried" she continued, "he only wants me to be there in time for the dinner. You can go now, I was about to return soon, anyway."[/font]

[©MARIO]

You just think your so cool

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"ITS JUST ME!!!! WHY YOU LITTLE!!"

How could she say such a thing to him, he had just spent hours going around trying to look to her, just to see if she was ok. But maybe it wasn't that good of a deed since he was practically force to go find her in the first place. If she was bold enough to go running off by herself, he was sure she was going to be fine. After all shes a big girl, and shes to old to have people going around looking for her. But these were all the thoughts Mario was going to keep to himself, the last thing he would want to happen is for drama to start. That was something he didn't like to deal with at all. "SO!!!" Mario would say aloud before stopping and realizing how easily he had let her get to his head. "Just because were not teammates 'yet' doesn't mean we shouldn't look after each other." Mario would say crossing his arms and looking away from her.

Roze had always been able to get the best of him, and he didn't even know her like that. Maybe that was the reason, or maybe it was because she was evil. She was always giving him this look as if he had done something wrong. But then again, maybe that was just another ignorant female trait that he was going to have to live with. "Well.... Wait??.... WHAT!!" Mario would say turning back to her after realizing what she had just said. "Your telling me that i had to do all of this just to get you back at home for dinner?" Mario would say in shock, he had been traveling for hours all day, and the issue wasn't even that serious. "Well...... I don't believe you, and i don't care what you want, you have to come with me." Mario would say reaching out his hand as if he were demanding her to come on. He had traveled all this way to get her and he wasn't going to go back without her. Because if he did he was probably going to have to here it from her father.

"You have already ruined my day with this pointless mission, so the least you can do is come on..""[/justify][/blockquote][/font]

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

"No-o-u."
She dismissed the boy's request, command, whatever, with only one word. Oh no, she wasn't going anywhere, simply because she didn't feel like it now. Somewhere deep inside of her head, Roze knew that her behavior was childish, but she was too much caught in her emotions to care.
She stood up and lifted her hand up slightly, wrapping a lock of her long hair between her fingers to play with. For some reason, her mood was ruined now too - mostly because she knew that her father had used both the boy and herself for his business plays, but since the Akadou was here and her father wasn't, she was about to take it all out on the boy.
"You know, not all of us have a loving daddy waiting for them at home," she spoke as she turned to face her team-mate-to-be, a grim expression on her face; but, there was also a flash of deep sadness in her eyes for a moment so brief it was hard to catch. She lowered her eyes to take a final look at the flower on the ground and when she returned to staring at the Akadou, the previous expression had returned to arrogance.
"Well, you ruined my day too. I visit this area often and I was just fine before you showed up. I don't need anyone to take care of me, but thank you very much for the effort", she continued with mock gratefulness and then did something even more childish than before: stuck out her tongue at him and turned around once again, folding her arms over her chests as she looked at the pond.
"Aah, it's such a nice day..."

[©MARIO]

Just come on so i can be lazy

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"NO!!!! THATS IT!!! YOU SELFISH!!! never mind"

Mario would say not knowing what words to actually say after that. He couldn't call her a brat, even if she was acting like one, and that was because he simply because he didn't know her. So he would make sure to stay in his place so that the situation didn't get worst. His main objective was to make sure that he didn't lose his cool with her, the last thing he wanted was to beat a helpless girl. Or on another, possibly even get beaten by one, which was something he didn't plan on risking. "Yea i know what you mean, because SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ONE!!"[/color] Mario would say to her aloud nodding his head at the same time, hoping that she would feel like shit or something. Then maybe if that worked she would actually try to come home, and then he would get praise from her dad. And then maybe afterward she would get on punishment, and then he could laugh at her from outside.

"WOOOOWW!!! now I'm responsible for ruining your day, i didn't even do anything." [/color]Mario would say realizing that his plan didn't work at all. She was to caught up into her own emotions to care. And on top of that she didn't make things any better by sticking his tongue out at him. "Well if you were so big and bad, why did your father call on me to come to the rescue HUH!!??"[/color] He would say proudly and would pose as if he were some type of major super hero that had just save the day. Yea, i bet you dint have a comeback for that one, which means you will have to definitely come home with me right now. Mario would think to himself ignorantly, not even realizing how dumb he was sounding right now. All he had seemed to care about what getting home so he could be lazy, which of course would be contradicting himself toward his previous comment.

"Yea yea yea, its a nice day, blah blah blah, now can u just come on so i can go home and eat, and do what I WANT!!"[/color][/justify][/blockquote][/font]

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

His words made the amber eyed girl quiet for a while, mostly the thing he said about some people not having a father. Sometimes she was actually hoping that situation would occur to her too, but there was a painful sting at Roze's heart when she realized that she loved her father, no matter how awful he could be. Every daughter did, somehow, she guessed.
"My father told you to come here because you're stupid" she answered with a sigh. "He knows I'll be fine, he just decided to use you as a little puppet. Now he can tell your clan how nice you were when you came for me and then they will order more stuff from us. And, I think he actually wants us to not just like, but like-like each other. I bet you didn't know he's planning an arranged marriage for me, hmm? He just hasn't picked the right candidate yet, there are so many!"
Suddenly the girl spun around again, her golden hair glimmering in the sun light when it followed her movements a little after the body. Without a warning, she walked to the Akadou with long strides, finally stopping to stand right before him, so close that her chest almost touched the lower part of his, or more like his upper abdomen because of their size difference.
She leant her head back, amber eyes locking to the boys'.
"Are you going to be the one, hmm? Will you take good care of me, DeMarivous Akadou? ...Do you think I'm beautiful?"
Roze stared at him intensely, her body completely still; only her chest rose and fell a bit faster than usually, displaying some kind of emotion that her body was hiding right now.

[©MARIO]

WHAT!!?? WHAT DO I DO NOW!! THIS CANT BE!!

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"WHAT? What are you talking about.... I... I... I DONT BELIEVE YOU!!!"[/color]

Calm down Mario, shes just trying to trick you using her little confusing girl powers. After all they can be quite confusing right, i mean she doesn't know what shes talking about. Remember, she said she had a bad day. Shaking his head he would straighten up his posture to show that he wasn't phased by any of the things that she had just said. None of that could possibly be true, right? I mean how could it be? "Theirs no way someone like me could be stupid, i mean come on, its me, MARIO!!"[/color] He would say shrugging his shoulders arrogantly as if nothing was going wrong right now. "If he was really sending me cause i was stupid he would have gotten a... Academy student.. Yea, yea, see, HUMPH!"[/color] Mario would say almost as if he was trying to hold his ground in a debate competition, doing everything he can not to be phased.

"And why he would he try to arranged for US to be married, i mean look at us."[/color] He would say to her lifting up his shirt to reveal his muscles, and would slowly slide his hands through his long hair. Basically trying to separate his good looks from her monstrosity, childish indeed, but he had to keep his "man" senses alive. "I'm obviously WAAAAAAAAYY to good looking for someone of your caliber, i mean, come on. I'm sure thats why hes trying to pick me because I'm SOOOOO awesome."[/color] Mario would say becoming slightly more arrogant than before, and just when he thought he had her, she would quickly turn the tables. She approach him in a way he had never experienced before, he couldn't even find the words to describe it, and before he could defend, he had already lost.

"HUH!! Wait... i mean... I.... I... Be the ONE??? Me?? Take Care of you?? I Mean?? That wasn't apart of the... Yes,... i Mean no..... I.."[/color]

Mario had found himself lost for worlds, how could he prepare himself for something he had never even experienced before. What was he going to do, every time he had her she just used her cheat girl powers to flip the switch. Its like she was using a genjutsu to trap him all the time. What was he going to do now, he was to young to be arranged for marriage, let alone with someone like her. He didn't even know her, what if he was to be the chosen one, what if this whole mission was a test, what if. What if he had to do the most dangerous mission of his life. MARRIAGE[/justify][/blockquote][/font]

[Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ]

When the boy started to boast with his looks, genuine embarrassment distracted Roze from her game for couple of seconds; raised in secure environment, she was not used to males flashing their muscles at her, she hadn't even seen a man topless before, for goodness' sake. Although she was acting like this, Roze was really a good girl. She blinked couple of times, but gathered herself and tried her best to ignore the remaining mental pictures and the blush she felt on her cheeks.
She wasn't going to lose this fight.
"Way out of your caliber...?"
Roze lowered her head suddenly, finally breaking the eye contact. Her hand returned to her soft hair and she twisted the golden locks around her fingers nervously as her lower lip began to tremble lightly.
"You think... I'm not... Do you think I'm u-ugly...?"
Her shaky words ended to a small sob. The girl took a step back and turned her head to the side, trying to hide her face from the boy. Her shoulders began to shake as she tried to keep her posture, failing at it miserably when she finally shouted tearfully at him:
"I HATE you!"
Without letting the Akadou get even a glimpse of her face, the girl ran back to the shore of the pond, slouching to sit close to it so that the tips of her boots touched the dark water. She curled up there, hugged her legs close to her chest and buried her face between her knees. Faint, muffled sobs could be heard although she was clearly trying to hide them.

[Dante]

"I HATE you!"

"Hn..?"

The tall and very distinct figure stood only a couple of meters from the only too familiar couple. His only friends, constantly waging a war against each others intimidating personalities. A truly unlikely troupe they were. Years and years the three of them spent together and the young Hyuuga simply could not get them to come to an equal agreement and settle their differences. But you see, that was the problem. They were so much alike that this became their difference. How utterly nerve wracking the situation was, but quite honestly Dante wouldn't have either of his two comrades any other way. The Hyuuga elders often scolded him for being so unreasonable, and thus they handpicked this team believing it would benefit him and diminish his rebellious nature.' He realized how much grief he caused his clan, but he could fairly give two shits. They pissed him off with their uppity methods, posing as if they were better than everyone. So naturally the boy acquired rebellious tendencies; Mario and Rozey definitely wouldn't be 'diminishing' anything. The elder's plot would backfire terribly.

The lifeless grey colored pupils fixed unwillingly onto the events taking place only a few meters away. They were so entangled in their hopeless bickering that they failed to take notice to his casually approaching figure. That's never good. At least their contemptuous conversations were kept away from the field -- sort of. For the most part they were entertaining, but when they got this bad, is when Dante would have to step him. A sigh would escape his lips and his feet would proceed forward once again, the grass crunching under his dark shaded shinobi boots. "I swear I'm running a daycare." Of course making a reference towards the way the two of them acted when they got around each other. And here, dear readers, would be his million dollar smug smirk. Kneeling down next to Rozey, a gentle palm to her back would proceed with rubbing carefully, making an attempt to calm his friend down. The white eyes of the Hyuuga would shift upward to his blond haired companion, the head tilting slightly upward with his body at a slight angle. "You two never talk, and finally when you do you can't get along for 10 seconds..." Though serious, an inviting grin stretched across his face.

How good it was to be home again..