[b][center]Midori Sato

The Start of Something New[/b][/center]

Midori was pretty pleased with herself. The girl, that was no longer that little, was currently standing before a quite run down looking building in the outskirts of Kumogakure. Even though it didn't look very fancy or worthy of praise with its grey walls and splatters of random paint, it was the ugly building that made Midori proud. Over the past few weeks she and Reyna had been working on it, it was their secret plan, their own place. Their base. Midori grinned as the word crossed her mind. A base sounded extremely exciting and that was exactly what it was. Totally exciting and it was good to have something like that again in her life. 

Midori was aware of the fact that time had changed her though she hadn't exactly figure out yet if this change was good. Probably. Most likely. Lots of things had happened in the past 2 years. Awful things, painful things, but there were also good moments. Her thoughts went to her dad and to Kiyomi. Those were good things. Some problems had been solved, some others had been created. Maybe that was how things went. Maybe this project before her would raise new problems, but this time she wouldn't have to handle them alone. She would have Reyna to help her with them, and Deidara of course if he wanted, and all the other people that would come to this place. Because they would come. 

The word had been send out to Genin and Chuunin of Kumogakure. Not through official means of course. Hopefully, Midori thought, the officials couldn't care less about what was going on. She really never wanted to see Asami again or, she corrected herself, at least not anytime soon. She patted herself on the shoulder for that thought. It was another thing she had learend during the years. She couldn't keep running away from things. She could avoid them for a while, but they would come back and she had learned to accept that. No, she hadn't send messages to people, she hadn't written letters. These things had gone from person to person by the way of the mouth, which fitted her just fine. People were talking about it, but only a select amount of people. Midori didn't want the place to be a public thing. it was for shinobi, it was for Genin and Chuunins. A place to hang out. A place to make friends. A place to be when a mission was done. A place to start things or end them.

A place to have fun. 

Determined Midori placed her hands on her hips. This would be the start of a new chapter. This would be the start of something great. If only Gakuko was here to see it, then everything would be perfect. But Gakuko was gone and it was time for Midori to move on. She had Reyna now and Deidara and Raspberry-sensei and... She looked down to her feet where a little dog was playing with her shoelaces. [b]"Let's go Pear."[/b] She said as she pulled the dog along towards the building. [b]"Let's start something great."[/b]