Jaymaru walked into the Crested. She'd dyed her hair and changed her entire apperance pretty much. She was good at this by now. Seeing as though she'd been undercover for a good long while andthen she'd been Ginger Stormwatcher. Now she was having to think of a new name as long as she was stationed here. She was liking the name Adre Firestone. It was way different from her old name. She smiled. Yeps. She was going to love this. Walking through the village she looked around for a place to crash for the night. Well for the time she was here. She didn't want to buy a house, that was ridiculous! She grinned. "An apartment for rent or a hotel would do. She'd have to ask Deidara about how long her and Halo would be staying here. Speaking of, she wondered where Halo was at.

Adre Firestone aka Jaymaru Undercover

(OMFG I was looking up names for Halo and apparently Akatsuki is a boy's name meaning Dawn)

Halo sighed. She wasn't used to this kind of work. Undercover and sneaking around. But she had to do it to gain the trust of Bat and Deidara. Halo knew where Jaymaru would be, since she had a distinct aura to her. Yes, Halo was one of few people who could actually see auras. As she walked, she saw Jay's aura and walked up to her with a smile. "Hello," she said as if Jay was any other stranger. She had already decided on a name for herself while she was staying there: Hana Suzuki. The form she took was one of a twelve year old girl. Sure, it was older than her normal form, but she was much older than her normal form let on anyways.

A pic of Hana:

Jutsumasterr turned to the girl and looked at her for a moment through careless brown eyes. Finally she spoke, "Hello." She looked around. Strange how a kid just showed up from nowhere. "I'm Adre Firestone," she said, "And just who are you," she asked. Jaymaru had dropped her age to like 29 years old. And her attitude was very light but had mild rebellion to it. She secretly smirked. This was going to be very fun.

Halo gave a polite smile as the woman said hello. "I'm Hana Suzuki," she said with a smile. "You don't look like you're from around here," she said, trying to drop subtle hints to Jaymaru. "Do you need help finding your way around?" she asked. She wondered what else she could say that might clue Jaymaru in to who Hana really was. Hopefully Jay would take the first hint though.

Jaymaru looked at the girl and smiled. She knew now that this was no child named Hana, but Halo. "I've just transfered her from the Rain Village and will be needing a place to stay until I'm called back home. Any ideas where a good place might be," she asked. She figured Halo would get the hint that they both needed a place to stay while here because gathering information wasn't just a one day thing. She'd spent years in the Valley.

Halo smiled, knowing that Jaymaru had figured it out. When she asked if there were any good places around, Halo thought about the people in the village that she'd recently asked. "Well there are a few inns around, but word also has it that there are quite a few abandoned houses that no one enters anymore," she said with a smile. "It seems that people even go out of their way to stay away from those houses. But of course, a hotel would probably be a much better option," she said with an almost sly smile. Halo didn't mind hotels, but it would be easier to keep a low profile from one of the houses.

Jaymaru sighed and scratched her head. "Hotels are nice, but they cost money, and money is sadly something I don't have right now," she said. "To the houses we go." She then looked around the village. This place was so peaceful that she hated herself for spyng on them like this. They should have just stayed away from the Vallies and they would have been safe. She shook her head and waited for Halo to show her the way.

Halo nodded as Jaymaru said that money wasn't something she had. "Alright then, this way," she said with a small bow, playing up her persona, even though Jay knew that it was her. As Halo walked, she tried to remember where the villagers had told her the houses were. She remembered that one was behind a bunch of trees that looked like it led into the forest, but really it didn't. Halo walked through the trees and after about 5 minutes they came up to the house. "Here we are. This is the one that's best hidden," she said, turning to Jay with a smile. The best thing about this personality was that she could be herself. She didn't have to act when she was Hana.

Jaymaru followed Halo through the small forest and up to the house. "Isn't this just cozy looking," she said sarcastly. "Let's check it out." She walked over to the door and tried the knob. It was open. Pushing the door she walked into the house. "Real cozy." The place was dumb. They'd be doing some cleaning. She was almost pushed enough to take a trip the open near the rogue forest and see if her old home was still in tact. Sighing she looked at Halo. "Better start cleaning now instead of waiting til nightfall," she said.