Joy. A review on my wonderful new oneshot. Wonderful is sarcastic, of course. If you didn't read 'The Last Song' yet (Doesn't really have much Warriors in it to be honest), then you shouldn't. It sorta celebrates two very IMPORTANT holidays in about ten seconds, and the rest is random stuff.
Anyway, I finally got around to writing this. I'd much rather write the sequel I have in mind (the current name is Red Clouds of Winter, hint hint), which involves lots of Akatsuki and, of course, Rin Hiragana. I'm hoping to write that sometime, as I'm quite excited for what I have in mind for both that and this.
If you read 'Sam Umino: The Ninja of Pokemon', this first chapter takes place in the last chapter that wasn't an Epilogue. In the Epilogue, Rin DID make a random appearance, but whatever. Random water release ninja people playing card games on motorcycles! (Ignore that last part) Now introducing Chapter 1: And Then the Heavens Opened and Poured.

Rin Hiragana ran in the through the door. "I'm home, mom!"

Rin's mother smiled as Rin closed the door and walked through the house with her shoes still on. She had gotten tired of Rin tracking snow into the house with her bare feet all year, and it seemed like this was the only way to stop Rin from tracking snow. "How was your day, sweetie?"

Rin sighed. "Terrible. I'm way behind, but I just can't get the hang of it."

"Don't put yourself down," Rin's mother told her. "You're a smart girl. You can do it. Why don't you practice?"

"Okay." Rin shrugged. But before she could start, there was a knock on the door.

Rin's mom opened the door. "Yes?"

"We're being attacked by random water release ninja people," the random ninja at the door announced. "Stay indoors, ladies." And with that, the ninja ran off to attack a random water style ninja person.

Rin's mother grabbed a sword. (random note: WHAT IS A SWORD DOING IN THE SAME HOUSE AS A FIVE YEAR OLD LADY???) "Stay inside, Rin."

"Mom! We were just told to stay indoors! You can't go out there!" Rin protested.

"Rin, it's true that I'm non ninja and your powers aren't fully developed yet. But I can use a sword. It's what your father would have done. And it's what I will do."

"What...what if they come here?"

Rin's mother smiled. "You're a smart girl, Rin. You figure it out."

Rin sighed as her mother left the house. And that's when the heavens opened up and poured.

Rin waited and waited. She began to see lightning and started to worry. Finally, there was a knock on the door.

Rin opened the door to find the same ninja from before. "Yes?"

"Come on. There's something you need to see," the ninja told her.

Rin followed him out of the house. "Where are we going?"

"The wounded and dead," the ninja replied quickly.

The two arrived at two rows of people that mostly weren't moving. Obviously, this was the dead and wounded.

"Let me know when you recognize someone," the ninja told her.

When? Rin thought, but she scanned through the wounded. After recognizing no one, she did the same with the dead...

Her heart sank into a bottomless pit of grief.

"I'm so sorry," the ninja told her, putting a hand on Rin's shoulder.

Rin tore away and ran home, sinking to her knees one the floor when she got there. Now, instead of grief, she was extremely angry.

She had let her own mother die.

I'm actually sorta proud of this, which is something I don't say often. But thinking about it, it's not as good as I'm hoping (and thinking) it will be.
So the Big Three have all started. Hmm.
Happy Birthday.