There was a young woman who looked to be about two or three years older than he was. She had an average height of around 5'5", with shoulder length black hair and two bangs that were tied at the bottom and framed her face. She was wearing a faded blue sleeveless over shirt that looked several sizes too big for her, and went down past her knees. It was held near her waist by a white piece of cloth that she wrapped around her several times. Her shorts were a dull brown, which were fairly baggy that covered to her calves and she was walking barefoot. There were also several bandages covering her around her forehead, left cheek, neck, her right forearm, all of her left arm and her right leg. Naruto noticed that if it were not for her dirty appearance she would be quite beautiful, however it was not this that had gotten his attention.
It was the look she had in her eyes; they held a sense of hopelessness that he knew very well. The same look he had when he was younger, and suffering under the abuse and loneliness he had gotten from his village. But it was even more than that, since he also took notice of the way people glared at her and the whispers they spoke. They seemed to go out of their way to avoid her and looked at her with utter hatred and fear, like she was some kind of monster or plague. It reminded him a lot of his own past, and was enough to make his blood boil.
"Watch where you're going you freak!"
Naruto's eyes hardened as he saw some teenager purposely bump into her, knocking her bag out of her hand and spilling its contents. Naruto resisted the urge to shove a rasenshuriken up the boy's ass; instead he walked over to the young woman. Kneeling down he began to help her put her groceries back into the bag, making sure nothing was broken and would fit well. The woman looked at him for a second; when Naruto looked up at her he saw a brief flicker of emotion before it left. When all of her groceries were back in the bag, the woman stood up and left.
"How rude," Ino huffed as she and the other two Konoha ninja walked up to him, "she didn't even say thank you."
Naruto ignored the platinum blond as he looked over at Anko, "did you see it?"
"Yeah…" Anko trailed off as she rubbed her neck where the cursed seal was, "she had that hopeless look in her eyes."
Naruto nodded as he chose to ignore her holding the curse seal for now, "Shino did you put a bug on her?"
"Of course Namikaze-san," Shino replied.
"Just Naruto, Shino, I dislike titles," Naruto said as he came up with a plan. "Alright Shino I want you to follow that girl, don't make your presence known just tell me where she goes and what she does." When he received a nod he turned to Ino, "I want you to use your mind jutsu to discreetly gather information from the villagers. Anything you can find about the Kaima and that girl will be useful," Naruto then turned to Anko. "And I want you to question the sailors on what they know about the Kaima, make sure you're discreet."
"And when you say discreet what do you mean exactly?" Anko asked with a sly grin.
"I want them perfectly capable of walking," Naruto said, causing Anko to pout.
"What will you be doing Naruto-san?" asked Shino.
"Jiraiya has a contact located here, so I'm going to speak with that person and see what they know." Naruto answered; receiving a nod from Shino, he ordered the three to start moving. In the mean time he would see what he could find out about this Kaima as well.
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Tsunade slumped in her seat as her eyes stared at the information she had just received, her eyes were able to see read the information but her mind seemed to be incapable of computing it. As she slowly began to think coherently her mind began to stray again as guilt took over, many thoughts and questions ran through her head. A part of her wondered if this was Kami's way of playing some kind of cruel joke, or perhaps just her bad luck with gambling at work. Whatever the case what she had just found out was almost enough to make her want to run away from Konoha again out of shame, especially since it meant she had done something that to her was unforgivable. A part of her wondered if Jiraiya knew. If he did then the pervert would get the most serious beating of his life worse than when he had caught him peaking on her in the hot springs. Yet at the same time she knew that logically he could not know, however this only compounded on her guilt.
She grit her teeth as she wiped away a few tears from her eyes, she could not face this right now.
She would deal with it later.
Hopefully several years later.
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Naruto stared out of the window in his room, as he reviewed the information he had received from the members of his team. Most of what he found out would seem useless to a lot of people, but for those who not only went by the old adage of 'look underneath the underneath' but also took that and looked underneath several more times, the information he had received was more than enough to put most of the pieces together.
The first piece of information he had was about the girl, whose name he had found out was Isaribi. Ino had gone through the memories of several of the people here, and found out some useful information about the girl. The first one being that a lot of people hated her in the same way he had been hated in Konoha, its apparent cause was the irrational hate and fear most humans had of the unknown. Ino had discovered that Isaribi along with nearly forty other children had all one day disappeared, vanished with not even a trace of them being found. Many people here made up some superstitious claim about it being monsters, Naruto was sure that it was a monster who had done it; just not the type they were thinking of. Then about five years later Isaribi reappeared, much to the shock of the people around her; she had also been the only one to actually come back from where ever she and the others had been taken. This had led to the people coming into the belief that she had been transformed into a monster, and had come to somehow destroy the village. It did not help that upon her return several ships had been attacked.
This led to Shino's discovery when he had followed Isaribi, who lived in a shack on the north eastern coast near a peninsula. There the girl had shown off the ability to transform, into a creature that Shino described as very fishlike before taking off into the water. This confirmed that the girl was in all likelihood the Kaima; however it also brought up more questions. Like why was this girl attacking ships? Naruto had seen in her eyes the hopeless despair and desire for acceptance, so he knew she was not a bad person. This gave him the idea that someone was using her for their own ends, which correlated with what Anko had found.
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