Just another rainy day..

[Maruyama Hikari]

It was a cold, gloomy, and rainy day in Otogakure no Sato. There was hardly anyone found out and about, especially at the park on such a day. Except on one lone park bench, sat a young girl, Maruyama Hikari. She loved the peaceful nature of the rain and the chill of the air. Hikari had been sitting there before daylight, or as much of it as there was. It was somewhere around seven in the morning, and just like most days, the young jounin was up and about. She had always been awake before most and stayed up later than most as well. Sleep was nothing more than a bother to the girl as she would much rather to be able to be without it. Unfortunately, she did get tired eventually and would be forced to rest.

It had rained most of the night and Hikari had been up for just about that entire time. To her, the rain was the most relaxing thing that she had ever experienced in her life filled with nothing but training, hard work, and serving Orochimaru. It was the one time she felt at peace with everything and that she didn't have any responsibility or cares in the world. She was wearing her usual attire that most would catch cold in out in that type of environment. Luckily for her, becoming ill was never something that had affected her as she was rarely ill. That was one of the good things that she had received from the whole birth process. The other, well there weren't many as the blindness ruined most things. The facts that she would never be able to see the faces of so many things, people, flowers, the sky, the rain. Things like these were always troubling her mind, but she came to living with that fact.

"It's such a lovely day out today." The girl quietly said aloud to herself with a faint smile on that ever timid face. "And yet there's no one to share it with." She continued on even quieter than most if anyone could hear followed by a brief sigh and look of depression. As she sat there with that look of depression upon her face, he head hung a little low, hands folded upon her lap, she started to have brief memories of her past. The happier times in her life. She quickly removed those memories from her mind as she knew that it was in the past and she needed to move on.

For many hours that young girl continued to sit there for hours becoming soaked in the rain not once hearing a passing footstep. She had adjusted herself to sit on the right side of the park bench, legs crossed, and hands still folded on top of her lap. There were no missions to do and she still had yet received word on what three genin would be apart of her team cell. So until she had received word on who would be her team, she was taking a break for once. Doing something for herself like she never had before. Sitting, thinking, relaxing and just enjoying the peace of hearing each individual rain drop splashing in the puddles in the grass. This is what the lonely girl had done on few other occasions and she just couldn't pass this opportunity up. Sitting in the rain might not have been fun for most or anyone aside from her, but that was something that Maruyama Hikari enjoyed.

[Ohgr Konoko]

Ohgr had always loved rainy days because they reminded him of his own mental state. Rainy days were lonely, no one went outside to play in the cool drops of falling water in the Village of Sound. Even the more dedicated ninja avoided training for fear of getting sick. Rainy days were lonely days, and no one was ever willing to keep the glum grey sky company. No one that is, except Ohgr, or usually only him. The black haired genin had been wanderings the streets of sound aimlessly. The streets were empty and little rivers of water ran down them, the constant sound of rain was harmony, occasionally broken by chirruping birds or animals skittering for cover.

Ohge was soaked completely through. His black wild hair was matted to his soft pale skin and his brown eyes glittered almost black as he walked along. Lonely as he always was, but that was not so much a big deal on rainy days because he loved it when the whether could relate to his mental turbulence. It was worse then normal today because he had not slept for several days due to his severe insomnia caused by a fear of sleep created while he had been in the slave trade.

Ohgr sighed, the industrial part of Sound getting boring to look at after a while. Never changing and constantly reminding him of the surroundings that he had been around for most of his life time. Industry, or trapped within a masters household or bedroom with no sign of other life or light. Or rain, beloved rain.

Ohgr's feet carried him along the streets and to Yakushi Park, which he thought would be empty for sure due to the rain. It was always filled with people and plenty of cheer during the hot and sunny days. But today would be different, it would be mucky and probably under a lot of water. Ohgr let out a sigh, how lonely. But again, Ohgr did not care. The harmony of the rain put him at ease. Perhaps he'd even be able to catch and hour or two of sleep afterwards. He almost hoped he'd catch a cold or fevor, when he was ill was nearly the only time he could catch more then three or four hours of sleep at once.

When he arrived at the park, he was surprised to find a women sitting on one of the benches. She looked equally as wet as he was, if not a little more, were that possible at all. She was very pretty, Ohgr wondered vaguely why her eyes were covered, but in sound nothing was abnormal and usually things were definatly not to be asked about. Silently, Ohgr walked over and sat on the opposite side of the bench. "Lovely rain fall, isn't it?" He asked, hoping he was not disturbing her from anything to important with his idle chatter. His lonelyness had gotten the better of him.