Who: Haku and Misao
When:
Sometime before meeting up with Kakashi. Where: Haku's place/Alice's shop
Rating: PG?
Warnings: None other than Misao going through a major personality change
Summary: Misao takes Haku up on his offer for a place to stay while she is banned from the upper level for having died.
Now that she was alive again, Misao felt fine physically. She had a few aches here and there, probably some few bruises, but they were minor pains compared to the internal struggle she was dealing with. Nearly as soon as she had woken up, her mind turned to Aoshi and how he had almost killed Okina, banished her from his presence and sided with Shishio all in one swoop. That was the very last thing she remembered about him and it hurt her very deeply. Aoshi had been the one person out of the entire clan that she had admired the most and looked up to as her mentor, idol and older brother figure. He had left their home base in Kyoto when she was only eight years old and having searched for him in futile for quite awhile, she was finally able to see him again, just as he had finished brutalizing Okina.
No, Misao was not all right but no one really needed to know that. Not for now at least. She was simply grateful that Haku had offered her a place to stay while she was going to be stuck on the lower level. It was winter now, and she would have been hard pressed to find decent shelter as well as food and drink. It would be easier with someone else to help.
Making her way through the lower level, Misao searched the streets for the shop that Haku said he lived right next to. She hadn't actually been there before but she had no trouble finding it. Approaching Haku's door, she knocked firmly, waiting patiently for him to answer.