Many people, upon meeting Maito Gaia, would dismiss her as a lunatic - a grinning, amiable idiot, who was jounin due only to her freakish physical capabilities. Others, more paranoid, decided that no one could POSSIBLY be that eccentric and strange, and that the whole thing was an elaborate, complex facade that hid Gaia's true plans - which were
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Completely forgetting about the nice green lady who had brought him there (who was now weeping into the shoulder of one visibly terrified guard, who patted her back awkwardly), Tentsuke wandered off to explore, hoping to find more things that he recognized - to find more blocks to build up his mind again.
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Dark hair - pale skin - eyes that shone with odd, strange intensity. Something tickled at his memory -- faded dream-memories ran together, and he ended up not quite knowing her but knowing he did.
(( And something in him would always belong to a kunoichi with dark hair and doujutsu-eyes, no matter what he knew or said or did or became))
He smiled at her, the sweet, trusting smile of a child, of someone who had forgotten had not learnt to be cautious.
"Do I know you?"
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What spring usually did not bring, however, was Sachiko standing with someone who for all rights and purposes shouldn't be there. Hinaji stopped in shock, Enka continued unabated, and his arm jerked forward as she pulled him towards the two ninja.
Just what was going on?
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But at least, hey, if anyone she knew would have any idea on Hyuuga's whereabouts, it would probably be her cousin. "Hey, Hinaji! You wouldn't by chance know if Hy--er, your cousin's around, would you? Tentsuke's back," she said, "but he doesn't seem to, well, remember much."
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A bolt of tingling lightning raced up his spine when he caught sight of the new arrival's white eyes. He knew those eyes...or at least -- something like them? Hadn't he?
"Nejiko!" he blurted out, not naming anyone in particular - not even having consciously meaning to do it.
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"...N-no," he finally stammered out, and glanced at Sachiko. She'd said he didn't remember much, but how far did that actually go? "I'm sorry, I'm Hinaji. Nejiko-neesan is out on a mission."
And what a time to be out. His chest tightened, remembering how she looked after Tentsuke's disappearance, at her time in the hospital. And now...
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She reminded herself that things had to be taken one step at a time. Right now, the first step was to get him to Tsurude.
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(Those white eyes though, he wouldn't forget those white eyes.)
He followed behind Sachiko because Sachiko was pulling him, and he had no reason to say no. At first. And then they passed a small, gaudy shop on the main street, with shiny things, and Tentsuke pulled away without a second thought. He plastered himself against the window like a small hungry child peering at a candystore, and drooling about as much ( ... )
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With a quick flick of his wrist he flung it upwards, eyes wide as it flipped end over end and laughing with pure, artless glee as he caught it easily by his fingertips, rolling the kunai over the backs of his knuckles like a cardsharp playing with a deck of playing cards.
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