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@tarucchi || Adventurer!AU
Born to a simple family in a simple village, Madara Mikejima had never been expected to stay within the borders of their small home. Even as a child the other villagers would note how friendly the child was and how much mischief he would get into on his own. He easily got along with people and charmed travelers with his smiles. He was always asking for stories about the places they had been and going off on small quests into the surrounding forests to gather mushrooms or berries for his mother.
As he got older, Madara had apprenticed with a bard that had settled into the village some years ago, learning the trade. Along with that he had also split his time with working odd jobs throughout the village, picking up skills here and there. He truly was a jack of all trades. No one could say that he didn’t excel at what he did, because Madara was not one to do things halfway. If he had set his mind to it then he would make sure he did it to the best of his abilities.
So when he came of age, it was no surprise when he announced that he was to go off traveling, to see the world. He had always been an adventurous little boy, it was only fitting that he’d grow up to be a true adventurer.
It had been a few years since he’d set out now. Sometimes Madara would have companions to travel with but most times he traveled alone. Every town he passed through he would leave with a new group of people to call friends and even more people added to his information network.
The last town he’d been in, he had left roughly three days ago. Since then he’d been traveling by foot through a rather dark forest, on the request to help slay some of the beasts that resided within. They didn’t need him to drive them out, but it would certainly help the townspeople if he could at least dwindle down the numbers of the beasts. Slay them and bring back their pelts for a tidy sum award.
Sounded reasonable enough.
He’d taken down two already after reaching the area two days ago. After saying a prayer for the fallen animals he’d skinned them and stored the pelts and butchered them, cleaning the meat and cooking it to serve as his meals. Anything he didn’t eat he left out for scavengers to have.
The rustling of leaves just off to his side had Madara quieting his steps to a near silence as he strung his bow, arrow pulled back and aimed at where the rustling had come from. The adventurer listened closely for any more sounds of movement as he approached.
Carefully pushing branches aside, he found himself emerging into a clearing and - Madara released the tight grip he had on his weapon and returned his arrow to its quiver, the bow once more over his shoulder.
“I never expected to run into another in this part of the forest~ How wonderful a meeting this must be, to be the light in the darkness of these parts~”
It wasn’t someone that Madara had met before, but that didn’t stop him from calling out a friendly greeting. Any new person that he ran into had the potential of being a new friend after all!
