he is looking for you? YOU fit his description."
Sen stopped dead in his tracks: "Sasuke is still here? Shit!"
"Is that what you told me about?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Hey! These are my rooms!", Kyoko interrupted: "And what does that mean? Why are you wanted?And what the hell are you? "
"Kyoko-sama ... please ...", Shizun looked at Heiji: "Lord, we should ..."
"I'll do it!", Heiji grabbed Sen by the arm and pulled her along.
"Ey!", Sen tried to defend himself, but then gave in.
"Kagome! Get the troops! I want ..."
"Kyoko ... Please, mistress. Calm down. We are not here to harm you, but we have chosen this path for ourselves. Why don't you at least try to understand what a ninja existence means for who it is? We. We always have big problems because we are mistrusted and the samurai hate us. But what we really achieve is never recognized ", Shizun sighed.
"What are you doing? You are cowardly and only kill when you feel safe. Alone the way you proceed! Never openly go into a fight, always this secrecy and only because of that you win, although our samurai could surely beat you. Yourselves if you pull off your cowardly, devious show, "said Kyoko seriously."We are not figs and unlike your samurai, we only kill when we have no choice," Shizun said: "Shinobi are at least as honorable as your unimaginative samurai! I bet, in a war between our two provinces, my ninja would finish off your samurai so quickly that you, stupid little princess, would have to fear for your life. But I'm here for peace, not childish. I demand that you treat the ninjas as respectfully as I treat your samurai, Otherwise I don't see any reason to extend my stay here ", Shizun explained to her rather gruffly and then turned his back on her.
"Are you crazy? Your province? Are you thinking ... STAY PLEASE when I talk to you!", Kyoko only saw the sliding door slam.
"Kyoko-sama?", Kagome looked at her uncertainly.
"Get me Shinji and Akira! I won't let that sit on me!", Kyoko snorted to himself.
+ ~ * ~ +
"What do you want from me?!"Sen had finally been able to free himself from Heiji's grip in the garden.
"Nothing, really, you are too young for me. But your friend is looking for you everywhere and there is also a killer running around here. You know him for sure, don't you? His name is Homaru ..." Heiji looked at Sen, she was pretty, but she which is just too young for him. In addition, he had no desire to mess with Sasuke, who was still looking for Sen around here.
"Woe to you tell him that you saw me! I don't want to go near him! And what does a murderer interest me? I have nothing to do with it, and now excuse me, you temporary shinobi, it's time I finally moved on ..." , Sen turned away demonstratively, she could have guessed that Sasuke wasn't so stupid to just leave when he couldn't be sure that she was gone. But how did he know? Their connection, which was based on the old blood guilt of their two family clans, was really not that strong. Maybe she shouldn't have been around him every day for the past three years ..."Sen ...", Heiji crunched: "Temporary shinobi ... That's really a bit hard, don't you think? Besides, I'm Jonin ... so elite ninja, one step more than you!"
"Yes and? What do you mean by that? That I as ChuNin, Mittelinja, have to follow you? You don't even belong in my training village, so you can't give me orders ... Sasuke ...", Sen held his head. Once again she hadn't noticed him and now he suddenly stood in front of her.
"I knew that you were still here. Tell me, do you still have them all, you can't always just run away. You're on the same team with me," Sasuke snapped at her and then immediately held her arm, so that it couldn't possibly get twisted easily.
"I told you I wanted to get away from you, didn't I? Nobody asked you to run after me like a silly lapdog! Go home to Sakura, that's where you belong!" Sen snapped at him.
"I left her in case you forgot!" Sasuke grumbled."Yes, what? That doesn't give you the right to pursue me!", Sen annoyed.
"How nice, so you're the two of you who are passing through here," Shizun intervened.
"Yeah, so if you ask me, you're having a relationship crisis ..." Heiji nodded.
"WE HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP!" Shouted Sen and Sasuke at the same time.
"It's good ... Calm down, okay? Heiji, I don't want you to play me any longer. It's enough. This little princess wants a fight. Samurai versus ninja. It's asked, so I'll be me again. And you Both ... ", Shizun looked at Sen and Sasuke:" What is it actually about? "
"Family thing! We don't talk about that ...", Sen turned away from Sasuke: "Don't you want to go to Sakura? Your little shooting dog, I'm sure it is already missing."
"I said that I left her, are you finally listening? And quite apart from that, you belong to me, don't you? Our blood demands that!", Sasuke hissed back: "And don't always call her a shooting dog ... ""You can me, gigantic Mister Sasuke! In your eyes I'm just a tool, right?"
"I never said that!", Sasuke held his head: "What are you always bitchy? You weren't before!"
"Are you sure that nothing ... Doesn't matter. Heiji, I want you to take care of this killer before Kyoko discovers him. Both of you could help me too. For reasonable payment, of course," suggested Shizun.
"That's the height! Three ninjas?", Kyoko had followed Shizun and stared at the group of four. She had heard everything ... it was just a tear in her hair that she hadn't noticed: "What do you think you're playing for me here, you little lousy ..."
"I did what I thought was right, Kyoko. Nothing that happened was to your disadvantage, so relax. Well, you two, what do you think, I will certainly pay you more than enough," Shizun turned back to the two of them young and for him still completely foreign Shinobis."They're still children!", Kagome said: "Sen is only 15 and the boy doesn't look much older either. You can't take them into your service. That's not right!"
"If you're ChuNin, that's okay. So?"
"Lord, I'm quite sure that these two are certainly not to be despised and that they have talent, but they just argue and she doesn't want to be with him, how is that supposed to work then?", Heiji was surprised. What was Shizun thinking with such an offer ... the two would hardly be able to work properly together.
"I have other things to do than track down someone. You have your ninja here, isn't that enough?" Sen sighed.
"We'll do it," said Sasuke suddenly.
"What? No, I said that I ..."
"You have nothing to do, Sen! On the contrary, you always run away. So I have to do something about it. Your honor as a shinobi dictates that you carry out this job, so you are at least close to me and I don't always have to look for you that sucks ", Sasuke contradicted her and pulled her back to him:" Don't forget what the blood contract requires of you and me. ""Hm ..." Sen snorted aside.
"Why are you forcing her?" Asked Kagome.
"I don't care, I don't allow children to be occupied by you. A ninja is enough, I tolerate Heiji, but not these two adolescents. What do you expect? You can't trust them, I'm pretty sure they'll be yours They will steal your gold and then you can see where you are! ", Kyoko increased in her hatred of these ninjas.
"What kind of girl is that?", Sasuke asked, who hadn't really noticed Kyoko until now.
"The princess here ... You are getting used to the little one ... Isn't it cute when she freaks out?", Heiji grinned and patted Sasuke on the shoulder: "But I think that you personally don't like older girls. At least it would be a shame , at least you have the little one here. "
Sasuke gave him a hard look: "Do you want trouble?"
"Let go of me, Sasuke! I'm not running away!", Sen interfered and tried to get her hand free."Well, that's settled. How is it Kyoko, fancy a competition? Two of your samurai against Sen and Sasuke?" Suggested Shizun.
"These are CHILDREN! Do you really think these two could stand up to the best samurais in my group?", Asked Kyoko: "I don't want to be like that. The best of the beginner class should be enough and show you who is in charge has and who is better. What is it about? "
"Hm ...", Shizun looked at Sen and Sasuke, then at Heiji: "You will enlighten the samurai about the murderer who is walking around here. Homaru, the name is definitely enough for a real Shinobi, because he is a ninja and also a samurai . He's at the top of the found list. Two birds with one stone. "
"Shizun, are you sure? This guy is ..."
"You see!", Kyoko interrupted him: "Even your friend is afraid that these kids are not up to him."
"I wanted to say that this guy is hard to pin down and a samurai is hardly capable of complex enough thinking, let alone creative.You risk the lives of two innocent novice samurais! ", Heiji replied.
"You underestimate our two samurai tremendously!", Kagome intervened: "And how do you know that he is here, you send a girl on a murder hunt. That is irresponsible, just irresponsible, nothing else."
"Kagome, I like to do it. With this I can prove to your princess that I have mastered my craft and that I am not weak," Sen waved off: "When does the competition start?"
"Tomorrow, at sunrise. When the samurai have been instructed. I'll be there and give the starting signal. After all, my people should really find out everything," answered Kyoko.
"Well, come with me then! See you ...", Sasuke grabbed Sens's arm again and then simply went with her.
"How do you actually do that?" Asked Kagome.
"That is speed and chakra. But you have to train that for a long time!", Heiji explained ... "I don`t like to admit that, both of them are faster than me."