Crunch,Crunch, the dry brown leaves underfoot the young man still old enough to be classed as a boy resounded throughout the evergreen forest hidden within the mountain lands, overhead the long stalks of bamboo green from a hearty rainfall whistled as the wind lightly passed through their leafy stalks. The forest was brimming alive with life from its various fauna to its abundant calls of animals that called it home.
Aiko, a mere nineteen years old sighed, having been lost exploring the forest that lay just beyond his rustic village he had decided on venturing into the growth looking for a sense of adventure - only to now be lost in its forested unfamiliar path.
He thought of his betrothed, Liana, a seemingly now close friend and mentor whose family had raised him after his own were torn apart by an illness that had claimed the lives of both his parents at a young age.
What she would have said in his current predicament stinging him mentally "AIko, getting lost? How silly - I thought you knew your way around the forest!." Conjuring up the image of the giggling black haired girl caused him to blush. It was not the first time that Aiko had ventured into the forest and found his way back. But at this moment - nothing around the young man felt familiar with no landmarks to point him back to the rustic village he called home he had stumbled and trekked through the forest of bamboo and dense trees of Kigahara.
At long last, trekking through the forest revealed to him a small cliff overlooking a picturesque waterfall and accompanying lake surrounded by a lush moss and stones, its waters shimmering with the rays of the sun in the early morning. Mentally cursing himself he kicked a nearby lump of rock and dirt exclaiming as he lost his footing and fell down the cliff.
He found himself tumbling down the cliff face rolling into the dirt and moss that soon covered the dark fabric of his kimino garb, finally settling in a messy heap at the foot of the moss covered cliff face. Rolling his face from side to side in exhaustion he slowly, cautiously moved his limbs checking for any broken bones - relieved to find all his limbs showed no hint of fractures. They were however, covered in multiple scrapes and scratches from his comedic roll.
Slowly struggling to get up he stood awkwardly trying to reorient himself upright brushing off the multiple leaves that stuck in his short unkempt black hair - dusting his body off of any large residue of leaves and dirt he looked around for any semblance of a way back up his fall.
It was then that he heard it, a soft melody - its voice ringing out throughout the brush in front of him, it sounded feminine - Human!, with no time wasted Aiko, using his hands awkwardly pulled the fauna away. Maneuvering through the tall shrubbery that blocked his path toward the voice that sang out so sweetly. Breaking through to find facing in front of him a small, brown blossoming tree overlooking the lake's pristine waters. It shows a beautiful visage of the running waterfall and waters.
That's when he heard the voice again, looking around the lake to find the source of the voice, he saw her. Even from afar one simply could tell she was beautiful, her figure at least from where Aiko could see was that of a older woman she was full, supple and with a body that was every young man's dream to ever hope to catch a glimpse of, her hair that was as dark as the night sky, long and full cascaded down her beautiful backside pooling in the water - seeing the sight Aiko, subconsciously moved forward, holding on to the tree for support to get a better view of the woman in down in front of him.
She was sitting in the water using her hands to clean her hair in the lake's waters, singing with that rich and beautiful voice that seemed to harmonize past the roaring of the waterfall next to her. Aiko shuddered at the sight of the beautiful woman washing herself all but unable to look away at the sight.
Having realized he was staring, Aiko shook himself out of his thoughts, that's right he was already betrothed to someone his, Liana! Deciding that there was a chance that maybe this woman would know the way out of the forest he had found in Aiko, mentally determined to get back home to his love, nodded his head. He was just about to maneuver back from the ledge where the tree by its roots jutted out from when he slipped.
Losing his footing AIko, found himself falling toward the lake's waters, bracing himself, he attempted to protect his head and plugged his nose. He crashed into the water, opening his eyes in the depths of the lake and looking around, frantically he began swimming to any shore.
Weighed down by the now dirty and soaked fabric of his Kimino, Aiko having crawled out of the clear pool collapsed on the lakes shore, flipping himself on his back and heaving out great breaths of air in exhaustion.
In his reverie to collect himself from his plunge, he had forgotten to remember that he was not alone - Opening his eyes to the voice of someone speaking to him.
"Oh My!, to think there was a peeping tom watching me, my I hope you enjoyed yourself young man."
Opening his eyes, he was greeted by the naked woman from earlier. She was even more beautiful up close - possessing a face almost divine from the gods themselves with radiant light brown eyes, full lips adjourned in a mocking seemingly knowing smirk. She was the very image of beauty.
He was awestruck at the woman meer feet away from him looking down at him, speaking to him in a sultry, soft tone - that was until the meaning of her words cut through to him, eliciting him to awkwardly stare at her hand covering her ample chest, He blushed covering his eyes with his still damp hands.
"Oh please dear, I think you've seen more than enough for us to be the one in this situation, Hmm?."
Another question, accusatory yet somehow masked with that sultry voice as if she was teasing the young man. Aiko, profusely began to apologize while blushing, having by now slowly dropped his hands realizing that the woman in front of him was right.
The woman merely closed her eyes at the apologizing soaked boy bowing his head repeatedly in front of her, opening them to watch in the boy in pure masked mirth. Having had her fun she merely strode up to the young man offering him a hand up - He took the hand cautiously before being pulled upright now in front of the mysterious woman.
Aiko, having attempted to apologize to the naked woman in any way he could was quite frankly shocked when the woman strode up to him offering a hand, smiling softly, - He was more shocked however at the strength of the woman to be able to pull the prostate him upright, not that he was one to immediately consider himself to be light but the dexterity in which she merely forced him upright caused him to be even more confused, having now stand face-to-face with the still naked beauty. Aiko realized that he had misjudged her height from afar. The woman was at least a head and a half taller than him, forcing him to look up anxiously, bracing himself for another reprimand from the naked woman.
He was more surprised when she asked if he was hurt, Unable to at first answer the question, he listened as she simply said how ripped and dirty his dirt covered clothing was, eliciting a wide-eyed Aiko to look down at his kimono. Noticing how ripped and damaged the dark fabric was as well as the swaths of dirt that covered his kimono. Awkwardly shaking his head no after some time the woman chuckled softly.
