The Haruno Clan's Blossom

Chapter10

Sakura (now named Kiku) looked around the village, people were walking around, getting on with their daily lives. Her and Nozomi-san (who was now called Egao) seemed to be catching a lot of attention. It wasn't totally unexpected however the peoples' stares did make her rather uncomfortable. 

The pinkette - now brunette- knew that they would catch a lot of attention by taking up the role of noble women but that was part of the reason why she chose to do so. In bars people may be loose tounged but they would be even more willing to share information when seduced or when someone offers a pretty price. Two young, pretty, unmarried women who also happened to be rich was a jackpot. This village wasn't a shinobi village (part of the reason why they had gotten in so easily) so they would hopefully be able to go around without much suspicion. Occasionally missing nin or ninja on missions would stop by in small villages like this one and several of those ninja went to bars. This meant that they would still have to be careful of any ninja calling them out.

"Follow closely brat!" Hissed the woman who was now under the alias of Egao. Sakura barely refrained from rolling her eyes at the older woman. They made their way through the streets of the village, the ground beneath them was a dirt path and the buildings that lined the streets were tall and made out of wood. Not the most durable but Sakura supposed that it was acceptable since this wasn't a shinobi village and people were less likely threatened by the danger of their village being destroyed.

They made their way round a corner before they entered a tall building that had a sign outside with the words 'Inn Tomochika' on it. The door was made out of dark oak and opened easily, Egao walked towards one of the staff at the bar and started to converse with them. Saku- Kiku stood just out of the doorway as she took in the details of the building. The whole place was made out of wood along with most of the objects inside. Wooden tables; wooden counter tops; wooden chairs; and so much more wood! The brunette absently wondered if they had to cut down a whole forest just to be able to build this building along with all of its contents.

She was brought out of her musings by Nozo- Egao walking back to her. "I managed to get us room 14 on the third floor, the owner of this Inn said that we'll be able to stay as long as we wish, only rule: don't cause trouble. Since this Inn is also a bar it may get loud at night but we can put up with that." Sakura nodded.

The duo walked past the bar and went up the stairs. They walked up the second flight of stairs to the third floor and walked down the hallway, searching for their room. Once they had found the room labelled 'Room 14' they entered it and looked around.

The flooring was made up of wooden planks and the walls were painted a tan colour. There were two single beds to the right of the room. The beds were separated by a single bedside table. To the left of the room there was another door that the brunette guessed led to the bathroom. The wall opposite the door they had entered through was lined with windows and sunlight shone through the glass, lighting up the room. Egao went over to the windows and drew the sky blue curtains to give them some privacy.

"Alright then brat, time to make a game plan!" A feral grin made it's way onto Egao's face.

They went over different ways of gaining information- the most popular way being their original plan of getting the drunk to spill the beans.  Sakura (Kiku) wasn't surprised when Nozomi-san (Egao) shared her plan of making the Uchiha spy on the organisation for the whole of the time they had to gather information. Maybe she had known the woman for too long or perhaps her emotions were more numbed then she had originally thought but she found that she was no longer surprised by the older woman's antics. 

"Egao-san I-"

"Relax kid, as long as no one is nearby you can call me by my real name."

"Nozomi-san," Sakura corrected. "I feel as if we should inform the Uchiha of this."

"Yeah yeah, we'll tell him when we meet up with him tomorrow."  Nozomi-san waved off the girl's worries. "Now drop the henge and go take a shower."

The younger female obeyed the command as she quickly released her henge before rushing off into the bathroom.

She stripped out of her clothes, taking off her mask and sealing it all into her storage scroll. She took out her shampoo along with a bar of soap that she could use to clean her body. Then the pinkette turned on the shower and relieved herself whilst she waited for the water to warm up. Once she was done she stepped into the shower and relished in the feeling of the hot water running down her naked body. 

The small girl squirted a big blob of shampoo into her hand before she massaged it into her hair. Once her hair was a frothy mess the pinkette rinsed off and watched the bubbles disappear down the drain. Then she moved on to washing her body. She grabbed the bar of soap and held it under the water for a moment. She rubbed her hand against it, before running her now soapy hand down her body. 

She finished her shower in under ten minutes and came out of the bathroom squeaky clean and dressed in a forest green sleeping yukata. She brushed her damp hair before setting down the brush and securing her summoning scroll inside the fold of her clothes.

"Don't get too comfy brat, we'll have to go downstairs to the bar later on to gather information." Nozomi-san, who had now released her henge said before she disappeared into the bathroom.

Sakura sighed as she heard the shower start, Nozomi-san probably wouldn't be out for another ten minutes so she decided to keep herself busy by sharpening her kunai.

After ten minutes all her kunai were in perfect condition and she packed them all away just as Nozomi-san exited the bathroom. The woman was wearing a dark red sleeping yukata and had her wet hair tied up in a messy bun. The woman sat down on the bed she had claimed whilst Sakura was having her shower before turning her attention to the pinkette.

 "Now all we have to do is wait for the sun to go down and the noise to go up and we'll be downstairs getting all the info we need." 

The sun set and the volume in the bar rose. The two Harunos henged back into their disguises before they made their way down to the bar.

Sakura barely held in her urge to clamp her hands over her ears at the level of noise.

'Is it always this loud in bars?' The girl winced.

"I'm going to get myself a drink." Nozomi-san said before she went over to the bartender. Sakura sighed, sometimes she was grateful that she was too young to drink, after all, if Nozomi-san got too drunk then she would always be there to drag the woman back to their room.

She decided to find somewhere to sit. She walked over to a table at the back of the bar and sat down. She watched the people around her chat loudly to one another and tried to zone in on their conversations, maybe she could 'overhear' someone talking about a certain underground organisation?

A/N: Sooooo yeeeeeaah..

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