friend or foe

Village tour

Irene jerked her eyes open and looked around. That wasn't her house. That wasn't even their village. Panicked, she jumped up and winced as a stab of pain ran through her shoulder. When she looked down, she noticed that she was wearing hospital clothes, not her clothes, and that her shoulder was bandaged. Her clothes lay on a chair by the window, her bag on top. Unopened, as Irene was relieved to see. Her village had many enemies, so not everyone needed to know where she came from.
The door was thrown open. A girl ran in happily. Irene looked at the girl. It had blonde hair and blue eyes. "Who are you?" asked Irene. The girl replied, “Myu. I brought you here.” It almost sounded like it was normal for a patient to have amnesia, but maybe it was, who knew what the guys were putting into the medication.
Irene didn't answer, but ran to the window. One look outside and she knew where she was again. In Konoha in the realm of fire. Ironically in the village with which her village had been enemies for so long. Rumor has it that their village attacked Konoha once when the two countries were actually at peace. But as far as the countries were concerned, it did not have to apply to every single village. She herself had been on a mission during the attack. In fact, she'd been on a mission for five years. She had been to Iwa, a village that nobody really trusted because it often hired mercenaries and then started wars.
Behind her, Myu chattered cheerfully to himself that the wound on the shoulder had to heal by itself, why that was so and that she wanted to show Irene the village. Then Myu ran outside again and called Irene to get dressed. Then the door closed.
Irene exhaled and slowly walked to the chair. She did nothing better than to get rid of the hospital clothes and slip back into her usual clothes. Then she opened her pocket and pulled out her headband. It was engraved with the sign of her village, Suna. With a finger sign, Irene blurred the engraving, just in case. Then she hastily stuffed the headband back into her pocket and buckled the bag on.
When she stepped into the hallway, Myu was already waiting for her. "Now I'll show you the village and introduce you to my friends." Myu pulled Irene outside onto the street. She craned her neck and scanned the crowd. When she saw a blond boy, she shouted: "NARUTOOOOO! COME HERE!" Irene instinctively covered her ears. Don't yell like that, "she mumbled, but Myu didn't listen, but grinned at the blond boy." So Irene, this is my little brother Naruto Uzumaki, soon to be Hokage. "Myu introduced the boy.
"And I really like noodle soup, preferably Ichiraku's, my senseis are Kakashi Hatake, Iruka and Jiraiya, one of the San'nin, on my team are Sakura Haruno and Sai, who is replacing Sasuke Uchiha because Sasuke ran away, I'll bring him back to Konoha soon because he's my best friend ... "Naruto chatted off.The relationship to Myu was unmistakable. "And who are you?" he then asked Irene. "I'm Irene." she answered and it stayed that way.
"Naruto, we have a mission now, come on." it came from a pink haired girl with a rather high forehead. Next to her stood a rather pale boy with a cropped (?!?) T-shirt. It had to be Sakura and Sai.
Myu snorted contemptuously. "Yes, you just go, giant forehead. Don't you notice that you're bothering me?" Sakura frowned. "I'm not talking to you at all. Are you coming Naruto now?" Naruto didn't seem to mind going with Sakura. Apparently he was quite fond of the giant forehead. “I'm coming.” Naruto gave Myu and Irene an apologetic look and ran after Sakura and Sai. Myu shrugged. "Well, it doesn't matter. Ah, there is Shikamaru. HAAAALLOOOOOOO SHIIIKAAAA !!"
A brown-haired boy with a pigtail that looked like a pineapple shuffled annoyed to the two girls. "Myu, don't yell like that, I'm not deaf and I want it to stay that way." he grumbled. "Shika, don't be like that. Let's bet you wouldn't have heard me otherwise?" replied Myu. Shikamaru mumbled something unintelligible. Myu just grinned and then pointed at Irene. “This is Irene.” Shikamaru eyed Irene suspiciously. “Which village are you from?” Irene gave him a radiant smile. "Is that so important? Myu found me injured in the forest and took care of me, which I think is very nice." Shikamaru ignored Irene's reproachful voice and turned to Myu. "How often should I tell you? You can't just bring strangers into our village! Have you ever thought that she," he pointed to Irene, "could be a spy?" Myu waved her off, but Irene leaned forward slightly so that only Shikamaru could hear them. "Of course. I'm a spy and wanted to sneak into your village. Myu practically took me with him." Shikamaru ignored the ironic undertone in her voice and frowned. “I told you, Myu.” He turned Irene's hands behind his back and cuffed her. Myu screeched. "Shika, let go of her!" She added tearfully: "You two must love each other ..."
Shikamaru ignored Myu, but Irene smiled at Myu. “But we get along.” She looked so innocent that at that moment she would probably have believed herself.
"Well then." Myu shrugged and pulled Irene away with him. "Sorry Shika, I still have to show Irene the village to the end." Shikamaru could only watch helplessly as Irene grinned at him triumphantly while Myu pulled her behind him.
After a while, when Myu had shown her almost the whole village, Irene reminded Myu: "Myu, my hands ..." "Oh, right." Myu untied the ropes. "I almost forgot."
"Hey Myu." it came from behind. A boy with a huge dog ran towards the two girls. He looked a bit ridiculous with purple make-up on his face. "This is Kiba." Myu introduced the boy. "Hi. You're Irene, aren't you? Shika complained that Myu had already helped someone.Well, I think that's okay. "Grinned Kiba. Irene ignored Kiba, but bent down to his dog and stroked him." It's cute. What's his name? “Akamaru.” Myu replied instead of Kiba. “But,“ Myu took a closer look at Akamaru, “Kiba! Akamaru is totally starved. You have to take better care of him. "
Kiba ducked her head a little. "He just doesn't want to eat lately." he said, almost a little tearfully. Myu looked at him reproachfully. “Never heard of a vet?” She built herself up like a mother explaining something to a child in front of Kiba. "You know, whenever something happens to Akamaru, you should go to Shizune. Why do you have to be told that over and over again?" Kiba opened his mouth, but Myu was already pulling him behind him. Irene ran silently to Akamaru's side.
A few minutes later they reached the vet. Shizune was just about to feed Tonton. When the three or four entered, she looked up. “Myu, Kiba, is what with Akamaru?” She looked at them both questioningly and didn't even notice Irene, who was deliberately staying in the background. Myu explained to Shizune what the problem was and then turned to Irene. "Let's go. You haven't seen the village yet. We have to go to Ichiraku, I'm really hungry." Although Irene didn't really care, she feigned interest and asked: "And what can you do there eat? ”Myu grinned. “Noodle soup. My favorite dish.” She dragged Irene, who had twisted her mouth in disgust, back onto the street and through what felt like half the village.
"Myu! Wait a minute!" A slightly bigger boy ran towards her, which indeed looked silly, since he was already quite out of breath. "What is Choji?" "Shikamaru told me everything!" he gasped. “You let a spy into the village.” “Spy?” Myu narrowed her eyes while Irene crossed her arms in pretense. She and Choji eyed each other suspiciously until Myu intervened. "You shouldn't believe everything Shika. Irene doesn't do anything. She is very nice." There it was again, that moment in which Myu stood up like a mother in front of you. Choji shrank a few inches. "But ..." "Nothing but! Come on, we're all going to have a noodle soup together now!" Choji shook his head regretfully. "I have to go again, our team still has a meeting." Myu pouted his lower lip, but Irene, who suspected that Myu would come up with something how Choji could come along, interfered as quickly as Myu wanted to open his mouth again . "That's a shame, Choji, but there is nothing you can do about it." With these words, she dragged a rather bewildered Myu on.