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Aki entered into the Ramen shop. The air about her was filled with depression. Bags hung bellow her black hued eyes. She walked across the floor of the restaurant with her shoulders hung low but her head held forcefully high. She made her way to sit at a table off in the corner. The waiter came to take her order of green tea and mandarin chicken. As she waited for the order to be completed and her food to arrive Aki spun the diamond ring on her finger.

The beautiful stone glimmered in the low light of the shop. It's golden band remained ever perfect. Aki had made sure no harm ever came to that ring. It meant the world to her. For it was a symbol of her and Vrail's relationship. Vrail...

She hadn't seen him since Mikyo's tower. It seemed like it had been ages. The last person she'd had any contact with was Arekku, and that was hardly any. He'd met her at the gate and quickly sent her off to the hospital. The doctor's released her after treating her dehydration and any other minor wounds she'd received. However, mentally she was sick. Love sick. The metal heart of Uno constricted within her chest. He was missing. And she was alone in the village where her clan threatened to whisk her away at any moment.

The white haired girl was returned to reality as the waiter set her food on the table. She jumped and thanked the man with a whisper. Aki took the fork up into her pale hands and mixed the food about, but couldn't bring herself to eat. Human nature made interaction a necessary action. If one went without speaking and connecting to anyone for long periods of time they would slowly begin to emotionally rot within the inside. That's what was happening to Aki. The girl of flowers and metal was was becoming destroyed on the inside, and it was starting to reflect on her outer image.

It took Aki quite sometime to realize that she was being addressed. Her head snapped up from the still uneaten pile of food. Pure shock displayed across her features. "What...?" He voice was no more than a whisper. She hadn't expected to catch the eye of anyone. Aki reassesed the situation and shook the shock from her face. "O-of course you may." He wore the protector of a Kusa shinobi. However, he appeared to be still fairly young. A teen for sure and close to her in age. His small smile was slightly contagious and brought upon the ever so tiny twitch of her lips.

(( Edit
Forgot how old she was in this guild. XD ))

"A-ah..." Aki fumbled for words. She looked down at the table to her hands. One pale digit locked unto another tile her hands were clasped together. She still had troubles with guys. All because she had to be born into that shallow clan. Absentmindedly, her hand drifted up to touch the pink birthmark circles that dotted bellow her eyes. A symbol that she was 'gifted' to be free from the defect that flowed through the veins of the Chiru clan. Defect that didn't allow most of the women to be fertile. Aki didn't look back up at him and instead returned to shuffling around the food on her plate. "I'm Chiru Aki, please call me Aki." Quickly her eyes glanced up at him, "What may I call you?"

There was quite the clamor from the other side of the shop. Aki looked up and away from Daron to the crowd that was steadily growing. She rose from her seat and glanced to Daron, "That doesn't sound too good." The white haired teen pushed herself past the crowd to find a young teen laying on the ground. Quickly she formed several hand signs and created two clones. She glared to the crowd. "Were all of you just planning on standing there?" One of the two clones brought the boy up to a sitting position while the other snatched the water from the dumbfounded waiter's hand.

"He's most likely dehydrated." The water bearing clone commented as she took his chin into one hand gently pried his lips open. She poured just the ever so slight drizzle of water into his mouth then waited to see his reaction.