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Konoha's housing district. All apartments are located here, along with many other types of housing. This area generally has more citizens the shinobi in it. Occasionally a mission may call ninja here, but more often it is a lower ranked mission.

Mizumi had let Niji talk the entire walk back to the housing district. She didn't really mind, seeing how she had basically taken up her normal talking time via the rant she had in the forest. Mizumi continued up the stairs to the third floor. She stopped in front of a door, and pulled out a key that had a few key chains on it. The key chains were an apple, a small rabbit looking thing with a red gem on its forehead, and a diamond with the number 10 in kanji on it (Fear me, for I am NERD! XD ). She unlocked the door, and stopped before going inside.

"Niji...thanks a lot. I mean it. I'll see you tomorrow." She said with a small smile before walking into the apartment. Inside, everything seemed to have its own theme. The bathroom had a beach theme, the kitchen/dining room had a tropical jungle theme, the living room had a ship theme, and the bedroom was set as if it were underwater. Although she did NOT have a water bed, the walls were painted a dark blue, the carpet was an even darker shade of blue, and the ceiling looked like it was leading to the surface of the water. She placed Yuki on a pillow before changing into her pajamas and plopping down on the mattress.

Arriving at Mizumi's doorstep with her she smiled and waved goodbye, though decently sure that her teammate hadn't seen her as she walked into her apartment and closed the door.

Niji turned around towards the stairs that lead to the second story. She would tell Mizumi later that they lived in the same complex. Upon reaching her door, she knew Belle would leave it unlocked for her so she she didn't bother with the key.

Upon entering the threshold she noticed that Belle wasn't in the livingroom or kitchen, so she must've been in the bedroom. She was. Sleeping.

Sighing Niji set Paku down on her pillow so he could sleep comfortably and turned to the kitchen to make her some food. If they were tired they should sleep she decided.

Talking could wait until she was finished with supper, had it set on the table, and the cartoons on the TV. woke Belle up.

Belle moaned as she groggily woke up by the low volume noise that Niji tried hard to sustain. She looked over and saw the little panda sleeping soundly on the pillow next to her. Getting up she unstabley draped a blanket over her shoulders and put on her fuzzy slippers that were oh so comfy. Coming out of the bedroom she saw Niji cooking at smiled almost as if she was still unconcious. She plopped down on the couch and that was usually Niji's cue to sit beside her and be her self heating pillow, or vise-versa.

She kept her eyes closed, but she knew that Niji would know that she was still awake. Listening to her talk to her, she noticed, that her voice was unusually calm, and concerned. Not to make it seem like Belle didn't trust Niji, but this change in her attitude was a bit unnerving. She bit her lip. "I don't quite know, I think it started when I saw Ray freak out and run off. I felt homicidal and even you know that I never feel homicidal. I hope this doesn't go on..." She paused. "and if it does I could be a threat to the village, and everyone in it." A tear made it's way down Belle's cheek, "I almost hurt Ray... If I hadn't stopped myself, who knows what might have happened." Another pause, "And it was so scary when i was in that state, it felt like I wasn't controlling my body, all i saw was darkness, i could hear what was going on, thank god, otherwise I probably couldn't have ceased my actions. All I remember is me getting so emotional that I couldn't take it anymore, and I snapped back into reality, and was shooting at Ray about to attack. I could only slow myself I couldn't dodge him, so the best thing that I could think of at that point... I gave him a hug." Belle smiled trying to lighten up the coversation, but she knew Niji was in deep thought about what she had said before that. Her smile faded away as she said, "What do you think?"

Belle couldn't help but smile at that. "Eh, Niji nothings ever serious with you is it?" Belle took a deep sigh and decided to talk to Ray about it tommarow. At this point her eyes were gently closing and she knew Niji would have to get up at some point, but for now, silence. Belle waitind a couple moments then Niji began to lightly scratch her head with the tips of her fingernails, belle cuddled closer in approval.

Mizumi yawned as she walked into her extremely tidy apartment. She went to the kitchen and emptied out her bag, sorting through all of its contents and putting them back where they belonged. She frowned slightly at the uneaten bento.

"Such a waste..." She mumbled, opening the box and placing it on the floor for Yuki to scarf down in a matter of seconds. After less than a minute, she picked up the empty box and rinsed it out in the sink. She yawned again while drying it off and placing it on the counter where it always was. She trudged into the bathroom, kicking off her shoes and changing out of her clothes to take a shower. ((Whoops, not describing that. >_<; )) After getting out of the shower and putting on her blue silk pajamas, she went back into the bathroom to finish up. She glared at her corkscrew curls that were now weighed down heavily because of water. She did a few quick hand seals, and began to extract the water from her hair. She had always felt a bit sorry for the local residents that were not shinobi, since they could not control chakra for tasks such as that. She left her hair down and climbed into bed, turning off the light.

"Night, Yuki." She mumbled. Yuki cooed and took her place on a comfortable looking pillow.

Mizumi was still sleeping soundly, as was Yuki. Suddenly, there was a loud knock on the front door. Mizumi still didn't get up. She rolled over and tried to ignore it. The knock was much louder the second time; too loud to ignore. She grumbled and got out of bed. After putting on her slippers, she trudged to the front door to see exactly who was brave enough to knock on her door when she was sleeping. She opened the door, and she immediately seemed in a better mood.

"Onii-San!" She squealed a bit, glomping her older brother. He was quite a bit taller than his younger sister, but he shared the black hair and blue eyes. He looked about 24 or 25.

"You seem to have lightened up a bit since the last time I saw you..." He replied, trying to pry Mizumi off of him. "Get off, or you won't get any of the food I brought."

(( Her brother is more of a NP character, I guess. He probably won't show up again for a long time...))