An encounter of the teens through a clumsy act [Wyn only]

A few days had passed since Aimi had met her team in their first gathering, and well she had very... different opinions about the team mates as she did about her sensei. But being her optimistical self, she was sure things would be going smoothly and without any conflicts. It was getting close to lunch, and she had spent her morning as usually at the pet store while helping Jin out with rearranging packages that he had gotten sent. For some reason this was a day she felt herself in the need to go buy something. There wasn't really anything in particular that she wanted or needed, she just really had an urge to spend some money on herself. It was not something she usually did, as she neatly put all her money to the side if she didn't spend it on buying food for homeless animals or people that was. Mother would be very proud to know what I'm doing right now.. She knew her mother wished that her only daughter wasn't this self-sacrificing all the time, and wished that Aimi would be more like the girls her own age. In other words, in Aimi's opinion, her mother wanted her to be a giggling teenager that spent most of her time buying clothes or flirting with guys. Well maybe not the flirting part, since her parents were very over-protective. A small blush colored her cheeks as her mind lead her to a certain boy she wouldn't mind meeting again.

Coming to a stop she found herself in front of a store that seemed to have many small things such as phone decorators, stickers, accessories of all kinds... basically a cheap store with not that good quality stuff but still something you kind of felt like you just have to have in your possession. "Hello there, can I help you with something?" The store clerk stood there, watching her with an indifferent expression. It was a girl that was probably 4 years older than Aimi was, and she didn't look the least joyful with her job. Her face was practically saying "oh great.. another customer to ruin my day..". "Uuumm no thanks, I'm just here to look over stuff." "Ah fine then, just be sure you wont ruin anything." Aimi's cheek heated a bit as she nodded her head curtly before keep walking further into the store. Does she really think I'm just a clumsy kid? That certainly stung!

"Why am I even in here to begin with? I don't need anything... I might need clothes, but most certainly not some cheap accessories." Her voice was just a low mumble as she absent mindedly let a skull shaped cellphone decoration dangle in front of her face. Her dark brown eyes weren't even looking at it as she was thinking about all the things that were done taking place in her life for the past few weeks. Slowly but surely she was now starting to walk the path of a person that was between being a kid and yet a partly grown up. And it was exactly as complicated as everybody had said. It was weird going out shopping alone, and even more weird to have thought of it on her own account. Usually her friends had to drag her with them inside the mall, while she tried to give any excuses she could possibly think of so that she would be able to get away. But no one really listened to that, they couldn't understand why she found it fun to hang around in a weird petshop with a scary middle-aged guy. Some of the girls even teased Aimi that she had a crush on the store owner. But it was all in good, and she didn't even bother pouting at her laughing friends but just laughed with them.

If Aimi hadn't been in such deep thought, she might have noticed that as she rested her hand on the table in front of her, she put it right at the end of a rather big box that was filled with pearls of all colors. The pearls were supposedly for the younger generation to make necklaces or bracelets from, but now the hundreds of pearls were spilling down on the floor with lots of noise. "OH SHIT!" Aimi yelped out as she jumped to the side, her face going red from the embarrassment from her clumsiness. "Oh you have -got- to be kidding me.." The girl from before was standing there also, having her hands on her hips while glancing from the pearls to Aimi's face, before glaring hard. "Ah..I'm sorry. I'll clean that up in no time!" She was already on her knees and started gathering the scattered pearls while cursing her embarrassed blushing. The clerk just rolled her eyes before getting back to her comfy seat, as it was the last thing on her mind to actually help that clumsy girl.

A crashing downpour of rain smothers the sound of Sothe's running to get inside the mall. Upon leaving his house, the skies showed no sign of rain and the sudden outburst of torrent has made his enjoyable walk to the mall, very very wet. So wet in fact that Sothe didn't have to break a sweat from his run since that was taken care of by the dark weather. All his clothing was damp, hair thick with rain and Sothe was left out of breath. He swung the glass door open and then put his head down, hands on his knees to catch himself tired and slightly annoyed. A few minutes pass and finally Sothe feels himself again and then remembers his true purpose for coming to the mall; He needed a new wallet.

Upon sightseeing the stores, Sothe had remembered how large the place was. It seemed like forever since he had last came here. So long ago in fact, he only carried faint memories of laughing with friends and buying random goods. Ever since him and his friends graduated from the school, the schedule was; Eat, train, sleep. He had a slight sadness overtake him as he walked through the large mall. His eyes scanned the perimeters and yes, it seemed like there was more than one. He almost felt that he lost touch with reality, believing he might've forgotten about this place at one point.

Finally, he found himself a fairly appropriate store. It seemed to contain various knick-knacks and acessories. That and the poster next to the shop said, " We sell Socks, Scarfs, Wallets and more!" Upon entering the store he noticed a strangely large amount of beads on the floor. He looked down and passed his girl cleaning up the mess. She wasn't wearing a uniform, unlike the store clerk he quickly saw lounging away. He though to himself, *What in the world? Why isn't she-*

Suddenly he slipped, not paying attention and stepping on some round beads. His feet flew up and body flew down, landing on his back and replying with various curses. After which he said, " Oh god... It feels like I'm being poked Vigorou-..." His eyes widened as he saw the girl's face picking the beads. He thought, *Crap, I just cursed a Shitload in front of her*

He ended up laying right in front of her way of cleaning. His faced slightly reddened and he said, "Ow...uh, Hi there." He winced from the pain scattered on his back from landing on the beads.

The mocking eyes of the store clerk made Aimi feel even worse as she was sure this was one of the biggest humiliations she had ever encountered. With quick movements she shoveled the pearls up with her hands and poured them down into the box again. If she was going to have to crawl under every shelf and look in every corner to find all the 500+ pearls, she would probably be there -all- day long. This is what you get when you think you can finally relax. And it would take especially long since it didn't seem like anyone was gonna lift a little finger to help her. On the contrary then the store clerk girl was just watching her over the top of her magazine while chewing on some gum, and people that were walking past and witnessed the girl on her knees in a pile of pearls just grinned and kept going to whatever business they had. I don't really blame them, they must all be busy. But well, that girl that was sitting there on her ass wasn't really busy, but Aimi was too kind to be acting bitchy so she just shrugged it off and kept on doing what she had to do.

Footsteps that seemed to be coming her way made Aimi pause from her work as she looked up, wondering if there was actually someone that might have the thoughts of helping her out. When her dark brown eyes glanced up, she saw a young looking boy with green hair and light brown eyes. He was probably not that far from her own age, and she immediately liked his face as he seemed to be a friendly guy without any arrogance in his expression. Oh wait he might fall if he walks further. She reached out her hand, ready to warn him, just as she saw the surprised look on his face before his feet went in the air. He landed with a thump right in front of Aimi, and after the thump came a stream of curses. She just stared, unable to think of anything to say, until he seemed to really notice her, then the boy's face turned a light shade of red before he stopped muttering and said hi to her like there was nothing more normal than him just laying there.

"Oh my God, are you alright??" Her dark colored eyes had a concerned look in them as she ignored the pearls but leaned over the boy that was probably in a lot of pain right now. "I-I should have said something... I'm really really sorry! Are you broken? You think you can stand?" The soft tone of her voice was slightly shaky as she thought about all the possible places he might have been broken or injured in. A small giggle was heard not far away from them, and for one of the few times in her life Aimi actually glared at someone, making the store clerk look quickly away as she stopped giggling. What is wrong with her? Doesn't she know he could be seriously injured!? Well that was a rather dramatic way to put it, but Aimi didn't care for that at the moment. Slowly and carefully she raised herself up on her feet while holding her hand out to the boy, a small and an apologetic smile being displayed on her rose pink lips. "If you think you are very hurt, then I'm a medical ninja so I'll take care of you."

Now that she had calmed a bit more down, then it was kind of rational to think that the worst case scenario injury he had sustained would be a very bruised back and butt. But that didn't make the concerned look on Aimi's face lessen the least bit. This was after all her fault, her and her clumsiness. If there was anything she could do for him, then he just had to name it.

A deep sigh came out of his mouth as reaction to his attempts to stand. He took another look at the girl in front of him and saw her hand. He put his left hand on the floor as balance and reached forward with his right, gripping it. As he felt, he noticed the strange smoothness of her hands. His own were slightly callused and rough, but her's seem to be quite the opposite.

"Ach...I think I'll be fine." He said in response. Sothe rose to his feet with his hand in hand of the girl helping him. As his feet were planted, he almost slipped once more, this time catching himself before falling. "Oh jeez...Why are all these beads here?" He glanced down once to look at the mess on the floor and quickly looked back up to see the girl's saddened eyes. "No no, I'll be fine. Don't worry about it." He gave a slight chuckle and smile. *Wow, she's real eye candy.* He thought.

"You must really like making beaded jewelery to have so many." He said while acknowledging the large box of them.

The grip of his hand was firm, strong, and sent a certain warmth through her own small hand, making Aimi squeeze slightly before helping him to pull himself up. She was very glad he didn't seem to have any problems in moving even if there was a slight frown on his face. Another attempt of the pearls to make him break his neck made Aimi hold back a sudden yelp as she was sure she'd have to see him flying again. But she sighed slightly in relief as he managed to steady himself. It would have been just -too- much if he had fallen again. He didn't seem mad at her, which was good. A smile lit up her face when he spoke to her again, letting a very cute smile follow with his statement. "That's really good. It's all my fault really that you fell. I was being a real clutz and spilled down all these pearls." Aimi's hand waved around over the scene, as she sighed a little before giving a low chuckle. She let now go of his hand as it seemed like he wouldn't be falling any time soon, before she got back down on her knees on the floor and started to once more gather what seemed like endless supplies of pearls of all colors.

"I don't think I've seen you anywhere before." Her almond shaped eyes glanced up from the floor and into his face as she tilted her head to the side while seemingly pondering a little. She was most certainly not a shy girl, and always welcomed new friends into her life as she seemed to be a rather strong personality that made others kind of trust her right away. So this was her way of seeing if he was interested in also gaining a new friend in his life. This situation was at least something really worthy of laughing over later on. "This is actually kinda funny, I've never been that much of a fan for these things. They get lost everywhere, and trip you when you least expect. But I do kinda like all the colors." Lifting her hand up while holding her palm open towards the boy she just met, she showed him pearls that were pink, purple, neon green, dark green, yellow... basically any color you could possibly think of. Her white teeth were flashed in a another big smile of hers as she closed her palm before holding it over the box and letting the pearls trickle down into it.

The store clerk seemed to be watching them intensely while pretending to be reading, only making Aimi hold back a small chuckle. She knew many girls like that. Girls that were perhaps not really as mean as they pretended to be, but kind of had chose that part in life just so they could be a little cooler. It had never really bothered Aimi though, not that much. She had a way of getting along with just about anyone, and she was also good at letting others get along. If there was a problem, then Aimi was the one that fixed it. She couldn't even remember all the times she had either saved a friendship or a relationship that seemed to be doomed. Yeah, she had many friends and there were many that trusted her. But no one really got just why she was this serious about becoming a ninja, and that was at times depressing even for herself.

"Oh I'm Aimi by the way, Aimi Kei. Most of my friends just call me Ai-chan. What's your name?" The gentle, dark brown eyes were again on his face, waiting for an answer.

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"That's really good. It's all my fault really that you fell. I was being a real clutz and spilled down all these pearls."

He lets the words pass through him, the voice feeling sweet and his face reddened slightly. Suddenly he felt very warm, almost uncomfortably warm. His train of thought being clouded and thus came unfolding; the actions of a teenage boy.

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"I don't think I've seen you anywhere before."

In response, “ Uh, No…I don’t believe you-“ and that’s were little Sothe lost his train of thought. He stopped talking in a funny little blank face. Sothe wasn’t much for talking, quite the shy one. *Wow she’s got pretty eyes.* he thought to himself. Sothe then realized that he blanked out on her and he quickly looked to the floor with a nervous smile.

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"This is actually kinda funny, I've never been that much of a fan for these things. They get lost everywhere, and trip you when you least expect. But I do kinda like all the colors."

He looked over to see her handful of beads and his eyes focused on the green colored ones. When she smiled big he realized that he should probably help her pick up the beads, as it was the polite thing to do. He got down and started to gather the beads together in a pile and then gripping them in a bunch before placing them in the box. For a brief moment, he became very focused in his work.

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"Oh I'm Aimi by the way, Aimi Kei. Most of my friends just call me Ai-chan. What's your name?"

An aggressive social approach wasn’t something Sothe was used to, so much so that he stopped working all together to meet her eyes. “I’m Sothe, but I don’t have a nickname that my friends call me.” For some odd reason, Sothe carried a strange concerned look in his eyes at that moment. Strange because he didn’t why he had it on himself.

He seemed really uneasy around her, or perhaps just shy? She guessed she couldn't really blame him for that since she was obviously not shy at all and was -very- forward with everything she said or did. His face had on a really cute, yet troubled expression, almost making Aimi wanna tease him a little bit with some word play so that she could see that blushing again. But she wasn't a mean person, and never made jokes on others expenses. To her surprise, then instead of just walking away after saying a quick goodbye, then the boy got down on the floor also and started helping her clean up. That's very sweet of him. For a few seconds she watched his hands as they gathered the pearls up before letting them spill down into the box. I wonder if he's also a Genin. She somehow was pretty sure that he must have been a ninja also like her. His hands seemed like hardworking hands, the hands of a ninja in the training, however weird that might have sounded.

"Sothe? I like that name." It sounded nice, and was also nice to say. And it also somehow fitted him very well. Sothe-kun.. I wonder why this concerned look has crossed his face. Is there something troubling him? She decided not to be asking, for now. It was probably enough for him to be introducing himself, as she doubted he wanted to right away start spilling out everything about his life. It would be fun though to hear about him. She always enjoyed it when people came to her and told her stories about their lives. There were many secrets which the young girl held. I wonder if he can perhaps train with me sometime? That might also help him in opening up. Most of her friends were not ninjas, and the other rest were by now pretty much always busy with their teams. And to be honest then Aimi really needed the training, as she was pretty sure she was the weakest one in her team. I'll ask him later if he is on a team.. A shadow was cast over them as they were kneeling on the floor, making Aimi stop her pondering and glance up only to meet the blue eyes of the store clerk that had just a few minutes ago been sitting and watching them. Now she stood there, and looked pretty uncomfortable as she had her hands behind her back.

"Hey ... you know what? I'll clean up the rest. You just go on with your business." The girl's face got a slight crimson color to it, as she was seemingly struggling with herself to be getting out of her way in the niceness. It made Aimi smile and nod her head, knowing just what it was taking this girl to say this. Balancing herself up before brushing some dirt off of her knees, she made a note about being sure to come back to this store soon again and have a chat with that store clerk. "Thank you." "Uh.. yeah yeah, no problem," Her shoulder long, strawberry blond hair got whipped slightly to the side as the girl turned on her heel and headed to the staff's room, most probably on her way to get some tools to help in getting all the pearls up. "Well, I guess that's the end of that." Aimi's smile was now focused on Sothe. But what now? "Is there somewhere in particular you were going? I don't have anything to do for the most part of this day, so I wouldn't mind some company." There, that wasn't so aggressive was it? She was now trying really hard to be a little less overwhelming so that her new friend wouldn't become too shy.

Powerful warmth grew over him as Aimi said she liked his name. The concerned look on his face melted away and he smiled gleamingly. At that moment he realized that he had a crush on Aimi. Quite the foreign feeling it was as he never had a crush before. He had heard about these things from movies and books but until just now, he didn’t know how spellbinding it was. In the movies he saw, there were always corny happy endings which he always despised because it made the storyline lose dynamic drama. Sothe then realized that happy endings weren’t so bad, at least not when they happen in real life. His train of thought was interrupted by the store clerk.

"Hey ... you know what? I'll clean up the rest. You just go on with your business."

Sothe nodded and smiled, showing appreciation for her gesture. He followed Aimi’s lead, standing up when she did. He then responded, “I was actually heading here to buy a wallet. “ His eyes lit up slightly when she said she wouldn’t mind company. “You wanna help me pick out a wallet?” He said before starting to walk further into the store.

Suddenly a loud crashing noise came from behind him, followed by an angry yell. “ERBODY GE ON DA FLOO NOW!” The voice had a very bad speech impediment with it.

Sothe grabbed Aimi’s shoulder and tugged her down to the floor gently. “We gotta keep quiet.” He said softly. “Right before he tries to escape, I’ll hit him with a jutsu and we’ll take him down. If we attack too early someone innocent could get hurt.” He said while on one knee.

Oh buying a wallet? That was at least a some sort of mission, and an excuse for her to stay for longer here in the walmart. It had been kinda boring to be wandering around alone, while trying to find something she could possibly use in the near future. But now, then perhaps she would find something interesting to buy herself while helping her new friend in finding a fitting wallet for him. "I would love to help you find a wallet! I actually think I saw some good looking ones a little further in here." Yay for something fun to do! Now she had the perfect opportunity to chat away, ask some questions about him and get to know him more.

What the? A loud crashing made Aimi frown as she started to turn around, trying to see from whom that loud yelling, with an -awful- grammar, came from. A hand on her shoulder which guided her down to the floor had stopped her though, and she looked straight into the face of Sothe that was down on the ground with her. Her big eyes had worry and surprise reflected in them as she listened to him, nodding in agreement as that sounded like a very smart thing to do. "Alright then, I will follow your lead Sothe-kun." It would be more fitting to let him do the move, as she didn't really possess any jutsus that were good in taking down a crazy robber. Now she was yet again reminded about how much she needed to train more, learn more things. It wasn't enough to just always hide herself behind the reason that she didn't want to hurt anyone... if she was supposed to be doing that, then she should at least be able to stop someone else that was gonna be doing the hurting.

The store clerk girl had shrieked out before she was now laying on the floor, tears filling her eyes. This was really frustrating, as Aimi didn't like it at all when people got this frightened. In her opinion, no one should be using their strength to do deeds that made others cry or would do harm to anyone. Her hand found Sothe's and she squeezed down on it before she leaned slightly against him, while she tried to calm her nerves down and not stand up to stop that man right away and give him the scolding of his life! I just hope everybody will do as he says so that no accidents will happen. If it would come down to it, then she was ready to use her medical skills to heal anyone that might get hurt. Letting go of Sothe's hand while staying close to him, she waited in anticipation to see when he would make his move. She didn't care if she would get injured herself, so if that meant she'd have to throw herself at that robber to be able to stop him then that was fine with her. I can always heal myself later, as long as it isn't anything too serious.

“GE DOWN ON DA GROUND NOW!” The Robber yells. Sothe tugs a little bit harder on Aimi and then lays on the floor. “Alright, I want you to watch his positon carefully. Once I hit him with my jutsu, it’ll effectively stun him and then I want you to throw a hand full of kunai, shuriken, anything to harm him afterwards. Try to aim for his arms and legs.” He whispers quickly. He turns his head back to the robber and takes note of his clothing. *Hockey mask, jeans, White T-shirt and a vest; possibly carrying other weaponry besides that Wind mill shuriken he's using to intimidate the civilians.*

“You lady! Open dis Dam Droo!" The imperative was directed at the store clerk from before. Tears ran down her blood rushed face and she quickly asked, "O-open this what?" Scared and confused with a stutter, the man's undereducated accent made it the situation a little more nerve wrecking for her. The robber then pointed to the register and pointed the Wind Mill shuriken at the store clerk. “Dis Droo! Open it and gimmie the Money!” The clerk then realized that he wanted her to open the register drawer and moved forward frantically to open it with her key. Contrary to what the robber said before, he didn't allow the clerk to handle the money, but instead slapped her across the knocking her out cold on the floor. He then proceeded to take the money himself.

As he took the money, Sothe proceeded to ask a question to Aimi. "Do you have any string? Hand it to me." After taking the string and placing it in his bag, he looks back and sees the robber about to attempt his escape. “No one follow me or do A-thing Stupi- ok!?” He says as he places an explosive tag on a nearby wall. Sothe balls his hand into a fist and starts to focus chakra into his hand. “I Aint afraid to blow dis @#$% up!” He turns around and once he looks away from the crowd, Sothe stands up and tosses a Burning Poison smoke bomb at the robber. The ball hits the robber’s back and releases smoke that burns his lungs and his eyes, distracting him. Sothe then waits for Aimi to throw her weaponry at the robber and then moves in with a Vanishing Strike, giving the robber a nice flying roundhouse kick to the head. It knocks the robber out of the smoke and Sothe quickly ties up the stunned robber with the string given to him earlier. Blood ran from the wounds on the robber and soaked his own clothes, thus giving reason to his pained voice, "Ya'll better untie me or I'll blow dis place up." The robber had seem to forgotten very quickly that his hands were tied and unable to perform necessary hand seals.

Sothe then walked over to the explosive tag the robber planted before and said, "This tag isn't even real. The Kanji on it says 'Kiddie Prank toy'." He then walks over to Aimi. "Well that was fun." and gave a chuckle and smile after speaking.

As she was now literally laying flat on the floor like a bug someone had stepped on, Aimi frowned slightly as Sothe told her what he had in mind. She didn't want to hurt anyone. Don't be naive Aimi.. you have to help the innocent ones in here. With a clearly hesitant and bothered look, she nodded while biting her teeth together so that she wouldn't voice out her protest. The last thing she wanted was for Sothe to take her for some kind of a wimp or someone that was too emotional or sympathetic. She already had most others scold her for that. She felt rather confused, but tried to take notice of the surroundings and also the appearance of the man they were about to take down. He seemed very unstable and most probably had more weapons on him somewhere. Great day to decide to go shopping.

While watching what was happening in front of her, Sothe's question snapped her back to what they were about to do. "W-what? Oh yes.. here." Her hand went to her small wallet and pulled out a string, one she had had in case she would see that stray cat again that usually lurked outside of the grocery store that was a few blocks down from her home. She watched wide eyed, both from curiosity as to what Sothe was doing and also nervousness, as Sothe put the string in his bag. Oh shit... an explosive tag... Her teeth worried her bottom lip as she wondered how they were gonna be able to pull this off. Just then as she was done thinking that, Sothe was up on his feet while the robber turned his back on them. He threw something that seemed like smoke bomb to Aimi, but somehow the smell that emitted from it seemed different and also how the smoke was. Being a medical ninja, even if she was low rank, required her to somewhat be able to tell these differences.

Not waiting to think about that though, she found herself also on her feet as her hand went to her pouch and pulled out 4 shuriken and a kunai which she threw directly at the robber. Her aim was pretty good, so she was able to strike the robber where it would leave the smallest wounds and yet give him pain that would be distracting. Sothe was already there, now tying the man up with quick movements. Now being wounded and tied up, the robber seemed to be rather scared as he tried to make useless threats. A sigh of relief emitted from her as things were now over, allowing her tense body to relax a bit. "Thank God for that..." She muttered as Sothe shared that this wasn't even a real explosive tag.

She was surprised at the smiling Sothe, not commenting on what he said. She hadn't found this fun at all. She had been worried, and had been forced to hurt someone. Turning her face slightly so he wouldn't have to show how she felt, she knew she should just make sure that the others were alright. "Are everybody ok?" Mutters and nodding made her smile, knowing that things would be alright now. But there was one thing left. With a rather concerned look on her face, Aimi made her way to the robber as he was laying on the floor. She went down on her knees and held her palms over him. "Don't worry, these wounds aren't too big." She wasn't afraid of him, but she held concern. Her soothing voice didn't hold much sympathy though as he had been close to hurting someone himself, but Aimi couldn't watch him just lay there and suffer. She bit her lower lip as the green colored chakra started forming under her palms, slowly starting to close up the wounds which were here and there on the robber. She didn't dare look at Sothe as she was afraid he'd yell at her for doing this. I know I shouldn't be this... feeling sympathy for those that don't deserve it. But aren't we all human? Can I really just give up hope for those that stray a little on their path?

Glancing towards Sothe, with a small and hesitant smile on her face, her dark colored eyes seemed to be asking not to be judged. She had by now kind of come to a peace with her part as the weak ninja that would probably get killed some day because she gave sympathy to the wrong person. I wonder if he will approve, or if he actually does enjoy violence.

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His eyes widened slightly with surprise as she walked over to heal the robber. The green glow of chakra was a clear indication as to what she was doing. Sothe walked over besides the robber and Aimi and said, "Here, lemme help." He said as he started to pry out the shuriken and Kunai stuck in the man's body. *Her heart must be big to be healing someone that just threatened to kill many innocent lives. That or she just wants to practice her jutsu.*, Sothe thought while the tied man groaned repeatedly at the removal of the weapons jabbed in his arm. He then noticed how bloody his hands were getting and decided to remove the gloves that hid his tattoos on his hands. After performing the jutsu from before, the tattoos spread partially to his forearm. Setting the gloves on his right, he continued to remove some of the weapons. The act was quickly followed by large amount of curses from the victim. "Perhaps we should sedate him." Sothe said after removing the second shuriken. He looked up to Aimi to see her hesitance, giving a big smile for reassurance. "You okay?", Sothe said wondering about her temerity.

To her pleasant surprise, Sothe started helping her out in trying to make the man feel more comfortable. It made her slightly glad to meet yet another kind person in this village. Her eyes caught tattoos on Sothe's hands as he took his gloves off, but she didn't question them... for now. Sothe's eyes went upon her, he smiled and asked if she was alright. A slight blush colored her cheeks pink as she smiled back at him before averting her eyes. "I'm fine.." For some reason she felt a little shy all of the sudden, making her feel a little fidgety as she moved her hand up to fix an imaginary strand of hair that could have been out of place. Focusing back again to their "victim" on the floor, she thought about what her new friend had said.
"Ah, I can use some mild anesthesia, that might help." She stopped the healing process and bit her teeth together while putting on her concentrating look. "I'm sorry but it wont work for that long." Her words were meant for the man laying on the ground, as she yet again started forming chakra in her palms. This time it was slightly lighter colored than the other, as she started to move her hands slowly around over the man's body. Just a few seconds after she had started, the man stopped cursing and squirming around while looking quite surprised.

"What's going on here?" Looking up, Aimi met the dark eyes of a man which was wearing a security outfit. His face showed surprise as he ran his eyes over the scenery. "Care to explain what you are doing?" Aimi started a little, feeling uncomfortable at the tone in his voice. But before she could speak out, the girl that worked in the store came stomping over and glared at the security officer while jabbing her finger in his chest. "What's going on here is that -you- were too busy somewhere eating a doghnut instead of doing your job!" "Eh..uh wha?" "Oh shut up! This man here came into the store with the intention of robbing the money while also threatning to kill us! And then these two managed to take him down all on their own! I think they deserve some thanks." The few other customers that were in there, circled around the security officer while agreeing with the girl, making the poor man blush as he tried to cling to some of his pride. "I-is that so. Then you and your boyfriend certainly deserve some good praise."

My boyfriend?? "Ah.. excuse me." Her small protest got drowned in the clapping of the people, as they were trying to be nice, but were only making the two teenagers feel even more embarrassed if possible. Aimi glanced in an apologetic way towards Sothe, as if expecting him to be mad over someone accidentally thinking he was her boyfriend. I will apologize properly to him when we get out of here. "So was there anything you needed? I am sure my manager would agree with me on giving you at least the award of getting something free in here." The store clerk smiled at them both while waiting. Aimi hesitantly stood up and glanced at Sothe. "Ah..I'm good... but I think he was ... going to buy something." Her gentle voice got a bit lower with each word as she felt she was going to disappear into the ground at any moment.

The security guard called for backup, and not 1 minute after that, they were taking the robber out of the store. "It's good to know some teens nowadays can show some promising skills. Keep up the good work." Aimi smiled a little awkwardly while waving and then sighing a little.

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