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The smoke wasn't visible from the ground as it was very far away , but from the sky I could distinguish it clearly .

I perched myself on one of the trees and was counting the numbers of bandits there , I counted ten and three of them were shinobi , one of them was our benefactor tiger , the second was a girl the same age as him apparently , but the third , I can feel his aura , this shinobi is an experienced one , he was a bit dark skinned , and had long hair and a big scroll on his back , he wasn't very well built or you can say he was skinny , and I think this one was more than 30 years old and with my chakra sens I am 80 percent sur he is a jonin .

I couldn't stop say in my mind " what are they doing here ! did tiger bring them for revenge or something ? " from the looks of it , this isn't their first day here , I don't know if they want to make it their base here or if they are waiting for someone " I think I will stay here to see what they are up to "

I don't think they sensed my presence until now , I am in my bird form and as still as a rock and monitoring them with chakra sense

" I hope they will talk soon , I don't want to stay here all day "

I stayed like that for a while then the girl finally talked " is he as strong as you said ? " tiger who was daydreaming looked at her than said " yes he is " he waited for a while then continued " at first , I thought he was a little boy who wanted to see the world , he looked like he was a novice , but I was wrong , he made me think it was me who ambushed him but in reality it was me who walked to his trap"

" oh ! they are talking about me " I said in my mind .

The dark skinned man said " if he is that strong , then why didn't he notice us , it's the second day we are here and still nothing "

tiger looked at the horizon then said

" I am practically sur that he did notice us "

the dark skinned one looked a little angry then said " does that mean he is a coward ? "

the woman furrowed her eyebrows then said

" why do you say so ? "

the dark skinned man replied " if like tiger said he noticed us and didn't come then what is he if not a coward ?"

Tiger thought for a while then stood up and talked to the horizon " Hades , show your self I know you are here , we don't have bad intentions , we came all the way here to talk to you" he stopped here then continued " why do you think we stopped so far from your village because I know if I was to approach I would be dead without me knowing how , and I don't want to be in bad terms with you anymore "

they waited for a minute without hearing a response then the dark skinned man stood up began walking away and said " I think we wasted our times coming here " but before walking three steps someone responded

" what do you want ? " the dark skinned man stopped , traces of shock appeared in his face , " don't tell me he was here all this time !how did he escape my senses ? "

the woman too was shocked she began looking around trying to find him , tiger thought to himself "he realy was here , in reality I didn't think he was here at all " the trio looked pensive for awhile then the dark skinned man said " tiger says you don't belong to any clan and you're protecting this village , is that true ?"

I replied " yes " they tried to pinpoint me but every time I talked I changed my place I didn't have to be near them to see or hear them .

the man said " I seek shelter for my people they are all civilians whom i saved from slaughter " I was shocked hearing his reasons for coming here , I never expected them to come seek shelter " I too seek shelter to my people we are the only survivors from my clan" the girl said

my thoughts were in shambles , I am really inexperienced in those kinds of things , all the plans and calculations I had had , are reduced to none .

I took some breaths , reorganized my thoughts , then asked " why me !? why my village ? "

" it was my idea " tiger said then continued

" do you know what will happen to the families of the bandits you killed ? " I remembered the women and children I saw in their hideout the other day , I didn't think of them at all .

tiger continued " they are suffering , and they've no one to rely on " the dark skinned man said soon after " I've heard from someone that a shinobi saved a boy from death in the vicinity the other day risking his own life , saying that , for him , he wasn't a shinobi but a boy in distress and you know we have lots of children suffering "

I thought for a while then asked " what do I gain if I accept ? "

the man like he expected this replied

" you can choose one of my best techniques " the girl said " me to "

tiger looked like a boy who made a prank and said nothing then I asked " how many are there ?" tiger said " approximately a hundred "

" so you expect me to babysit a hundred people for two techniques ! "

Do they think I am a fool or what , seriously ! .

" what do you want ? " the dark skinned man with a bit of anger asked .

" I have a proposition to you " I said then continued " you come and live in my village with your people and forget about your ancient clan , my village will be your family and of course in case someone attacked , you will have to defend it , secondly you have to take a disciple each and teach them until they are at least twelve years old "

TITLE : SEEKING SHELTER