Oh no, she<em>had</em>hit that boy!<br/><br/>Sometimes, the kids she had seen in playgrounds, those visited while traveling with Father, anyway, didn’t react well to being run into. So, Midori stayed on the ground even when the boy stood back up, really wanting to cause the least amount of trouble possible. That, and Sunako needed to get situated first before she could hoist herself back up to her feet, anyway. Not that the kitten was doing that great a job at that, since she couldn’t seem to decide if she wanted to climb up Midori’s shirt or jump into the grass. And climbing her shirt was fine, but there was no way Midori was going to let the tiny kitten into the grass to fend for herself. She was too little.<br/><br/>Also, focusing on Sunako meant she didn’t have to look at the boy she’d run into, since that would make her nervous. Except when he spoke, she looked his way automatically. Just in time to see his expression, which was… not pleased, she didn’t think.<br/><br/><em>"Not mine.  Might be someone else's though.  I didn't have a good look at it before you ran into me." </em><br/><br/>“I.. I wasn’t watching where I was going… I’m sorry. I was looking at the cat… not.. not my cat. But the one that is stuck…” and she stayed sitting down, perhaps holding Sunako a bit more securely to herself as she began to feel more anxious. Right up until he offered his hand as if to help her up.<br/><br/>She did take a moment to decide to do so, but did shyly reach out to take his hand and hoist herself up. It was easier to keep Sunako stable that way, too.<br/><br/>“Thank you” It was very nice of him to help her. And, also, he didn’t seem quite so.. intense as the children in the park were.<br/><br/><em>"Ever got a cat from a tree before?  It's pretty high up, but at least it's not so high that it would be too dangerous to climb.”</em><br/><br/>Midori shook her head, eyeing the tree a bit, “I’ve climbed a tree before: Father taught me how.” he had said it was incase she needed to get somewhere safe or hide, but nothing bad had ever happened while they were traveling. Midori eyed the tree again. She’d need something to stand on to get tall enough to get a good hold on one of the branches, though: it was wide enough she’d have trouble hanging on to only the trunk. When he spoke of his dad climbing a tree, she looked back over at him curiously, “like shinobi can do?” she did<em>not</em>know how to climb a tree like that, though.<br/><br/><em>"I'm Isako Kino, but you can just call me Kino.  How about you?”</em><br/><br/>“Oh! I’m sorry, it was very rude of me not to introduce myself.” Father had been clear about that: it was polite to introduce oneself to other people you want good relations with. “I am Yuhara Midori. Um… I think maybe I can climb to the cat, but I need something to stand on because I am too short to reach the lowest branch. Um… also, I worry that Sunako will get hurt if I fall… And I do not want to take her into the tree with me, or for her to get lost if I set her down. Can you climb trees?” It was easier to focus on the problem of the cat in the tree than to worry about how poorly she was doing interacting with someone her own age. Talking with adults was so much easier…