Open Getting Lost

[Hanabi Aiko]

"Mmmm mmmm mmmm" she hummed gently, it echoing through the forest becoming more and more eerie as it escaped her vicinity and traveled into the wind. Her bare feet would make small pitter patter noises as she gingerly navigated the forest, jumping on and over big roots, through the grass and into the various brush coverings the forest had to offer. She was aimless, wandered up here out of boredom in her day and decided to go for a stroll. She thought she would go try to see some cool animals!

That was hours ago, and the sun was starting to set, but her being such a young and naive sort, didn't notice until the trees began to look the same and the area began to get too dark to make out land marks. She wasn't too bothered, she liked the darkness, it was easier on her eyes than the harsh sunlight. She was beginning to get hungry though, and her adventure was stopped short when her stomach spoke up in what can only be described as a baby bear growl. She turned around a few times wondering where she was, and walked off in the direction she thought she came from...deeper into the forest.

[MFT: WC - 205]

 

[Midori Futotta]

"Common, how hard could it be to find them!" Maru yelled as he continued to dig a few feet below ground before crawling out of the hole he made. In a clearing he dug at least ten holes looking for someone's parents. No he wasn't digging to find dead bodies but living breathing people who buried themselves in the forest just to get away from their child who called the Anbu for help but they couldn't do anything because they were looking for dead bodies. Maru being the normal person that he was, believed that the parents were buried somewhere in the forest, the problem was that he didn't know exactly where the parents buried themselves. They could be anywhere, maybe close to the exit or perhaps deeper in the forest. No matter what he was getting community service out of this and if he had to replace the child's parents with cloth dolls, Oni, clay, or even foxes he'd do it.

Maru placed his hands on his hips, then looked at the holes that he dug. He rubbed his chin trying to think just where these parents could be. If they were capable of burying themselves to keep hidden, chances are that they were like earthworms and come out during heavy rain. While earthworms can breath below ground, during the rain the oxygen in the soil may run out since the ground is starting to liquify into mud. Since the picture that the child gave him didn't show any evidence of them being undead or zombie like then they obviously needed to breathe otherwise they could just be ghosts. So Maru made a couple hand seals, then made the clouds gather around the ancient forest then with a snap of his fingers it was raining! Lighting boomed in the distance as rain drops that were shaped as people falling fell down heavily. The water began to fill the holes that he dug in an instant as Maru waited for the forest to get good and wet so he could go searching again for the parents who would have to crawl out of their hidey hole eventually!

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