NaNoWriMo 2010 - Part 2
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loracarolThree weeks later Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt was at the port town of Woah Does Not This Town Know How To Party It Is At The Beach For The Love Of God, or, as it was more commonly known, the port town of Civility. Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt liked ports, and often times she wondered why she had decided to move to the mountains in the first place. Then she remembered her tragic, and yet wholly unimportant backstory which has absolutely no bearing on the plot at hand, and never will, and her dead fiancé, Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith. How she had loved Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith! How they had spent so much of their lives together, planning on how they would live once they were actually married! For Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to loose the love of her life, Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith to a tragic porcupine accident would haunt her forever! Why a tragic porcupine accident had forced Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to the mountains, she honestly had no clue. Maybe the horrible post tramatic-death disorder had forced her to leave her home in the beautiful village of This Village Is Too Quiet and Gorram It Where Can A Guy Get A Pint Of Beer In This Place Anyway, also known as the village of Temeprence. ‘Alas’ later Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt thought as she looked over the port town, ‘why is it that my character has become completely different from when I first was introduced, and why does my Tragic Backstory™ not get any time, and why am I not doing anything productive at this moment in time?’ And she walked the horse and cart into the city- all the better to control the horse with, of course, and most definitely not because the author screwed up, and still needs the words. That would be ridiculous.
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt decided that she rather liked the port town of Woah Does Not This Town Know How To Party It Is At The Beach For The Love Of God (also known as the port town of Civility). It was nice and peaceful, and she felt like she could make a half-way decent living here amoung the fisher folks, gypsies, tramps and thieves. It was so great that she felt a monologue coming on, and so started to speak to herself. If anyone noticed a babbling ninja who’s characterization had changed daramtically for totally plot related reasons I swear, they ignored her, because that is what you do with crazy people, ya know? You ignore them, and hope that they go away before they try to explain why the Korchanking government is really a bunch of lizard people form Neptune. I mean, that is patently ridiculous- the lizard people are from Pluto, the hamster people are from Neptune. Seriously, get it right people! Is that so hard? WELL, IS IT? I am now frowning at your issues because I do not wish to put in emoticons. Yes, anyway, back to the “plot”… such as it is.
“This is a beautiful town, much more like I grww up in!” Said the now randomly happy Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to herself for reasons preveasly not explained. “I feel as though I can let loose here, and return to my carefree roots as though when I was young again, instead of feeling like I must be firm, and a hard ass!” For it was true, you see, Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt was not normally like she was in the mountains, but moving there after the tragic death of her fiancé and lover Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith had turned her into something with a dark and hiden past- an enigma that would baffle people. And yet now, back at a town by the ocean, she was feeling the tension she had worn since Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith died begin to fade away. As she breathed in the salt sear smell of the air, she knew it instinctively in her bones. She was home, this was where she belonged.
“Hey, crazy lady, keep moving! I mean, really, come on!” Came an impatient voice from behind her, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt came crashing back to reality. Carefully replacing the “tough lady” façade that she had worn back in the mountains she turned and snarled at the newcomer.
“You have a problem with me?” She asked him, deadly serious, and reaching for one of the 762 knives she had on her person at all times.
“Yeah, move your bloody arse! I mean, is that so much to ask that you keep moving?” The voice replied back. It belonged to a man, and if this was any other story the man would turn out to be a rogue, who, though he acted like a jerk, he would turn out to be with a heart of gold that was rather hidden. Eventially, he and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt would get together after he helped her thourhg many hair raising escapades, and then they would get married and live happily ever after. This is not one of those stories, however, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt glared at the man unimpressed.
“I’ll move my bloody arse as soon as I know someplace where I can stay with my… Wards. You follow me? Perferabibly permenate, and I need to know where I can get a job as a midwife. Ya got anything for me?”
“Yeah, sure, if you just need a hotel, you got the Main street- that giant road right in front of you where I, might I add, am not traveling on it yet because you’re bloody cart is in the way. Keep going straight down, and eventually yourll get to the traditional giant four-way street with some sort of fountain deal in the middle. You’re going to want to go form there to Calloway street, and if you keep going along that way there should be a giant freaking building- they can help you get a more permanate living residence and a job. Now can you get moving? And step on it!”
“Thank you Mr…”
“It’s Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth, but it does not matter because I’m never going to be in this story again, so why waste your time?”
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt nodded at his words of wisdom. “I nod at your words of wisdom” she said, as she nodded, “However it would be improper if me not to give thanks to my assistant. I thank you Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth, and I move my cart. Take care that we do not meet again in some dark alley, or else I might show you what it means to insult me, and not have me mind my manners. “
“Oh, yeah, I’m so scared.” Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth said under his breath, but he decided he did not want to be re-written into the story just for Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to murder him, so he kept his mouth shut. He’s a good man, apparently. And smart. Anyway, it’s not about him that we care, or his thriving octobus massage service. Nope, we are definitely not interested in that at all. Not one bit.
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt wove her cart with her two precious cargoes in it to where Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth had told her to go, and found herself in front of a decent building to get stuff in. It veritably reeked of governmental business- that is, to say, it smelled of old paper and even older people. She found a cart hitch and after removing Daéja and Jaéda from the cart she walked inside. There was a clerk there, for there are always clerks, and he looked at her through eye glasses stained a pale green, and behind that, eyes that reminded her of a frog’s eyes.
“Ribbat and Fraug assistance in Important and Weird Government Stuff, I’m Mr. Ribbat, can I help you?”
“Yeah, do you have a place I could settle down with my children, and any job openings? Perferably for a midwife? And maybe a nurse to come in and care for my children while I’m at a job?”
“Well, you see, Ms… Ms…”
“My name is Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, which I would have given you had you just asked.”
“Alright. Are you asking for citizrnship in the town of Civility?”
“What do I get if I’m a citizen?”
“Well, you can’t be one now, you have to wait for our next citizenship test and welcoming parade. You can live here until then, and get a part-time job. And you can live in an inn- though if you are signed up for the citizenship ceremony, we’ll pay for some of your inn fees. After you become a citizen, you have automatic protection against anyone who would do you harm- we don’t extradite unless it’s a clear case of murder, rape or serial duck plucking. If you wre a thief, we might keep an eye on you, but as long as you keep your sticky hands to yourself, we won’t do or say anything. You agree to uphold the law, and pay taxes. Um… And you have to like fish.”
“Cool. What about these two?” And Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt waved her hand at the children.
“Are they biologically yours?”
“No. I was the midwife, and the mother died in childbirth. She had no partner to take care of the children after her death, and I would have left them at the temple except the Lady Mother Superior was determined that these two children were evil demons who had killed her friend, and so deserved to die. I will kill them if they turn out to be demons, but so far they are just like ordinary children.”
“We will put them in the paperwork as biologically yours. That should help, and keep everything easier. How about you sign these papers here, and if you survive that, we will get you a place to stay, and set up a citizenship testing schedule for you.”
“Domo Arigatou” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said in a surprisingly random display of gratuitous Japanese. Then she began to fill out paperwork.
It took Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt almost four and a half hours to fill out the paperwork, and she only got to stop once to feed Daéja and Jaéda. She had managed to find certain plants along the pathway in the mountains using the Ancient Ninja Art™ of looking at her surroundings until she found something she knew could be useful. These plants that she had ingested had tricked her body into believing that she had just given birth, and it forced milk well, you know where milk goes, right? And so she had fed the children that way. She refused to sing to them, though, which was alright as they were both scary – good kids. Nether of them really caused her any problems, she was glad to say, and neither of them really made a fuss when anything happened.
Finally done with the paperwork, she handed it to the Mr. Ribbat frog clerk, and he smiled at her. “You know, you are only the 9th person to ever finish this all in one sitting? And I think that you’re the fastest, too. Bravo!”
“Thanks” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said, earlier gratuitous Japanese forgotten. “Now, I’d like food and a real bed. Can I go anywhere?”
“Yeah- two doors down there will be a street called “Ivy”, go down it, and it’s the Holly Pines Inn. You can stay there for now.”
“Thank you” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said again to Mr. Rabbat, and she left for the hotel.
Once at the hotel, Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt took her young charges and chaged them into clothing more befitting port town babies. Or, that is what she would have done, had she had any. Instead she got the cart and horse stored away and the stuff she had managed to bring from the mountins into a room. After that, she set some traps along her doors, and did the once supernatural Ancient Ninja Art that would be even useful, and was not a total waste of energy: She used a bit of her blood, and a bit of her chakra which, though enever existing before, had totally been there and useful the whole freaking time to lock her doors and windows to protect what she had. After that, she toopk a big piece of cloth that she had brought from the mountains, and then she made a baby wrap so that she could have both children with her, and still have hands free mobility. This act of creating a baby holder was not, in fact, an Ancient Ninja Art, but it was still pretty damn useful when it came down to it. Once she had both children securely wrapped up, she went out into the city with her money from the mountains, and started shopping. She had managed to get three sets of clothing for the children, and she had (hopefully) enough, but she still had some things to get for them, and she still needed some new shoes for walking along the cooblestones and not breaking her flippen leg.
Gazing down at the two children, the girl child (Jaéda) whose hair was a pure white like newly fallen snow, and the boy child (Daéja) whose hair was as black as the shadows within shadows, she decided that they needed clothing that would match, and yet be distinct. But first, a sailor outfit for the two of them. I mean, how cute would that be? Carefully walking around the town, she managed to find what she was looking for: a jewel buyer. She had some, for the mountain town had some mining areas, and gold often flowed down the stream. People in the mountains had no need for such things, however, and they gave her the most expensive payments for her assistance with her midwifery and logic. She walked inside, the two children looking around with wide surprised faces, but still no sound was made from either of them. The man inside looked slimy, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt had to haggle long and hard to get a properly decent price for her gems.
Managing to get enough (she hoped) for new clothing and any sort of bribes she would need to make for the papers of citizenship (she had been assured that that wasn’t necessary, but there was always the possibility…) She went shopping. Even though Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt was a ninja, she was a fan of shopping, though she also looked for the functionability in an outfit rather then just the looks. Heels were impractical, but split skirts could be useful, if you had to wear a skirt. Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt looked around, and then had to admit that she was very lucky. For there, in the middle of town, was an outfitting shop for ninjas- and pirates. The co-owners were a brother and sister team of ninja-pirates, both having decided that they would rather settle down and sell clothing rather then having their parents fight them against each other to prove who was more superior, the ninja pirate or the pirate ninja. Their clothing shop was called “Swashbucklers and Shuriken”, and both were pleased with the name. They refused to take sides in any ninja pirate / pirate ninja conflict, for they were both, and why bother fighting when they could work together?
Carefully Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt walked into the store, and started to look around when there was a tap on the shoulder, and a woman’s voice was looking at her. Or rather, a woman was looking at her, and talking. Authoresses bad, sorry. XD
“Hello Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, it has been a long time since we last saw each other.” And the ninja pirate owner of the store was looking at the children with one eyebrow raised, as though she wanted an explanation, but woas too polite to try and demand one.
“Yes, for after my true love Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith died, I had to leave my ancestral home and travel far and wide until I could regain my Ninja Equilibrium. It succeeded.”
“I see” said the daughter of Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt’s ninja master. Her name was simply “Yuki”, well “Yukiko O’Bonny Suzumiya”, and she still looked as though she had a question to ask, but she was still too polite to ask it. Her brother was not so polite, however, and when the pirate ninja came over he let it be known. After all, it was such a big, important question, and there was an answer that had to be found, and questions that had to be asked, so he asked it. The question that was on everyone’s minds. The question that everyone wanted answered. The Question. Of. The. Century.
“Oh, hey Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, did you get a haircut?”
The universe promptly facepalmed.
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt decided that she rather liked the port town of Woah Does Not This Town Know How To Party It Is At The Beach For The Love Of God (also known as the port town of Civility). It was nice and peaceful, and she felt like she could make a half-way decent living here amoung the fisher folks, gypsies, tramps and thieves. It was so great that she felt a monologue coming on, and so started to speak to herself. If anyone noticed a babbling ninja who’s characterization had changed daramtically for totally plot related reasons I swear, they ignored her, because that is what you do with crazy people, ya know? You ignore them, and hope that they go away before they try to explain why the Korchanking government is really a bunch of lizard people form Neptune. I mean, that is patently ridiculous- the lizard people are from Pluto, the hamster people are from Neptune. Seriously, get it right people! Is that so hard? WELL, IS IT? I am now frowning at your issues because I do not wish to put in emoticons. Yes, anyway, back to the “plot”… such as it is.
“This is a beautiful town, much more like I grww up in!” Said the now randomly happy Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to herself for reasons preveasly not explained. “I feel as though I can let loose here, and return to my carefree roots as though when I was young again, instead of feeling like I must be firm, and a hard ass!” For it was true, you see, Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt was not normally like she was in the mountains, but moving there after the tragic death of her fiancé and lover Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith had turned her into something with a dark and hiden past- an enigma that would baffle people. And yet now, back at a town by the ocean, she was feeling the tension she had worn since Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith died begin to fade away. As she breathed in the salt sear smell of the air, she knew it instinctively in her bones. She was home, this was where she belonged.
“Hey, crazy lady, keep moving! I mean, really, come on!” Came an impatient voice from behind her, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt came crashing back to reality. Carefully replacing the “tough lady” façade that she had worn back in the mountains she turned and snarled at the newcomer.
“You have a problem with me?” She asked him, deadly serious, and reaching for one of the 762 knives she had on her person at all times.
“Yeah, move your bloody arse! I mean, is that so much to ask that you keep moving?” The voice replied back. It belonged to a man, and if this was any other story the man would turn out to be a rogue, who, though he acted like a jerk, he would turn out to be with a heart of gold that was rather hidden. Eventially, he and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt would get together after he helped her thourhg many hair raising escapades, and then they would get married and live happily ever after. This is not one of those stories, however, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt glared at the man unimpressed.
“I’ll move my bloody arse as soon as I know someplace where I can stay with my… Wards. You follow me? Perferabibly permenate, and I need to know where I can get a job as a midwife. Ya got anything for me?”
“Yeah, sure, if you just need a hotel, you got the Main street- that giant road right in front of you where I, might I add, am not traveling on it yet because you’re bloody cart is in the way. Keep going straight down, and eventually yourll get to the traditional giant four-way street with some sort of fountain deal in the middle. You’re going to want to go form there to Calloway street, and if you keep going along that way there should be a giant freaking building- they can help you get a more permanate living residence and a job. Now can you get moving? And step on it!”
“Thank you Mr…”
“It’s Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth, but it does not matter because I’m never going to be in this story again, so why waste your time?”
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt nodded at his words of wisdom. “I nod at your words of wisdom” she said, as she nodded, “However it would be improper if me not to give thanks to my assistant. I thank you Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth, and I move my cart. Take care that we do not meet again in some dark alley, or else I might show you what it means to insult me, and not have me mind my manners. “
“Oh, yeah, I’m so scared.” Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth said under his breath, but he decided he did not want to be re-written into the story just for Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt to murder him, so he kept his mouth shut. He’s a good man, apparently. And smart. Anyway, it’s not about him that we care, or his thriving octobus massage service. Nope, we are definitely not interested in that at all. Not one bit.
Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt wove her cart with her two precious cargoes in it to where Mr. John Sierra Elexei Nikolovich Czarikan Bourgi McCallohoun Tybalt Lysander Orlando Marquee Kerlin Merlyn Saucy Joshua the Fourth had told her to go, and found herself in front of a decent building to get stuff in. It veritably reeked of governmental business- that is, to say, it smelled of old paper and even older people. She found a cart hitch and after removing Daéja and Jaéda from the cart she walked inside. There was a clerk there, for there are always clerks, and he looked at her through eye glasses stained a pale green, and behind that, eyes that reminded her of a frog’s eyes.
“Ribbat and Fraug assistance in Important and Weird Government Stuff, I’m Mr. Ribbat, can I help you?”
“Yeah, do you have a place I could settle down with my children, and any job openings? Perferably for a midwife? And maybe a nurse to come in and care for my children while I’m at a job?”
“Well, you see, Ms… Ms…”
“My name is Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, which I would have given you had you just asked.”
“Alright. Are you asking for citizrnship in the town of Civility?”
“What do I get if I’m a citizen?”
“Well, you can’t be one now, you have to wait for our next citizenship test and welcoming parade. You can live here until then, and get a part-time job. And you can live in an inn- though if you are signed up for the citizenship ceremony, we’ll pay for some of your inn fees. After you become a citizen, you have automatic protection against anyone who would do you harm- we don’t extradite unless it’s a clear case of murder, rape or serial duck plucking. If you wre a thief, we might keep an eye on you, but as long as you keep your sticky hands to yourself, we won’t do or say anything. You agree to uphold the law, and pay taxes. Um… And you have to like fish.”
“Cool. What about these two?” And Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt waved her hand at the children.
“Are they biologically yours?”
“No. I was the midwife, and the mother died in childbirth. She had no partner to take care of the children after her death, and I would have left them at the temple except the Lady Mother Superior was determined that these two children were evil demons who had killed her friend, and so deserved to die. I will kill them if they turn out to be demons, but so far they are just like ordinary children.”
“We will put them in the paperwork as biologically yours. That should help, and keep everything easier. How about you sign these papers here, and if you survive that, we will get you a place to stay, and set up a citizenship testing schedule for you.”
“Domo Arigatou” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said in a surprisingly random display of gratuitous Japanese. Then she began to fill out paperwork.
It took Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt almost four and a half hours to fill out the paperwork, and she only got to stop once to feed Daéja and Jaéda. She had managed to find certain plants along the pathway in the mountains using the Ancient Ninja Art™ of looking at her surroundings until she found something she knew could be useful. These plants that she had ingested had tricked her body into believing that she had just given birth, and it forced milk well, you know where milk goes, right? And so she had fed the children that way. She refused to sing to them, though, which was alright as they were both scary – good kids. Nether of them really caused her any problems, she was glad to say, and neither of them really made a fuss when anything happened.
Finally done with the paperwork, she handed it to the Mr. Ribbat frog clerk, and he smiled at her. “You know, you are only the 9th person to ever finish this all in one sitting? And I think that you’re the fastest, too. Bravo!”
“Thanks” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said, earlier gratuitous Japanese forgotten. “Now, I’d like food and a real bed. Can I go anywhere?”
“Yeah- two doors down there will be a street called “Ivy”, go down it, and it’s the Holly Pines Inn. You can stay there for now.”
“Thank you” Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt said again to Mr. Rabbat, and she left for the hotel.
Once at the hotel, Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt took her young charges and chaged them into clothing more befitting port town babies. Or, that is what she would have done, had she had any. Instead she got the cart and horse stored away and the stuff she had managed to bring from the mountins into a room. After that, she set some traps along her doors, and did the once supernatural Ancient Ninja Art that would be even useful, and was not a total waste of energy: She used a bit of her blood, and a bit of her chakra which, though enever existing before, had totally been there and useful the whole freaking time to lock her doors and windows to protect what she had. After that, she toopk a big piece of cloth that she had brought from the mountains, and then she made a baby wrap so that she could have both children with her, and still have hands free mobility. This act of creating a baby holder was not, in fact, an Ancient Ninja Art, but it was still pretty damn useful when it came down to it. Once she had both children securely wrapped up, she went out into the city with her money from the mountains, and started shopping. She had managed to get three sets of clothing for the children, and she had (hopefully) enough, but she still had some things to get for them, and she still needed some new shoes for walking along the cooblestones and not breaking her flippen leg.
Gazing down at the two children, the girl child (Jaéda) whose hair was a pure white like newly fallen snow, and the boy child (Daéja) whose hair was as black as the shadows within shadows, she decided that they needed clothing that would match, and yet be distinct. But first, a sailor outfit for the two of them. I mean, how cute would that be? Carefully walking around the town, she managed to find what she was looking for: a jewel buyer. She had some, for the mountain town had some mining areas, and gold often flowed down the stream. People in the mountains had no need for such things, however, and they gave her the most expensive payments for her assistance with her midwifery and logic. She walked inside, the two children looking around with wide surprised faces, but still no sound was made from either of them. The man inside looked slimy, and Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt had to haggle long and hard to get a properly decent price for her gems.
Managing to get enough (she hoped) for new clothing and any sort of bribes she would need to make for the papers of citizenship (she had been assured that that wasn’t necessary, but there was always the possibility…) She went shopping. Even though Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt was a ninja, she was a fan of shopping, though she also looked for the functionability in an outfit rather then just the looks. Heels were impractical, but split skirts could be useful, if you had to wear a skirt. Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt looked around, and then had to admit that she was very lucky. For there, in the middle of town, was an outfitting shop for ninjas- and pirates. The co-owners were a brother and sister team of ninja-pirates, both having decided that they would rather settle down and sell clothing rather then having their parents fight them against each other to prove who was more superior, the ninja pirate or the pirate ninja. Their clothing shop was called “Swashbucklers and Shuriken”, and both were pleased with the name. They refused to take sides in any ninja pirate / pirate ninja conflict, for they were both, and why bother fighting when they could work together?
Carefully Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt walked into the store, and started to look around when there was a tap on the shoulder, and a woman’s voice was looking at her. Or rather, a woman was looking at her, and talking. Authoresses bad, sorry. XD
“Hello Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, it has been a long time since we last saw each other.” And the ninja pirate owner of the store was looking at the children with one eyebrow raised, as though she wanted an explanation, but woas too polite to try and demand one.
“Yes, for after my true love Bob Anthony Truman Johnson Cassie Gator Josh Jack Jake Kelsey Karina Tanner Alex Travis Tobiah Tobias Smith died, I had to leave my ancestral home and travel far and wide until I could regain my Ninja Equilibrium. It succeeded.”
“I see” said the daughter of Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt’s ninja master. Her name was simply “Yuki”, well “Yukiko O’Bonny Suzumiya”, and she still looked as though she had a question to ask, but she was still too polite to ask it. Her brother was not so polite, however, and when the pirate ninja came over he let it be known. After all, it was such a big, important question, and there was an answer that had to be found, and questions that had to be asked, so he asked it. The question that was on everyone’s minds. The question that everyone wanted answered. The Question. Of. The. Century.
“Oh, hey Mizuko Miiko Yuki Ai Uzu Nekiko Fuu Umi Umiko Uchiha Hatake Sakura Scmidt, did you get a haircut?”
The universe promptly facepalmed.
