"Hey! Wake up, your being sent out." A voice yelled into my ear, as I was in the middle of a dream about chocolate covered pretzels'. I bolted straight up in my bed, and turned to see a boy. He was looking at me with mirth in his eyes, his blonde hair was disheveled. He cocked his head to the left, and his right ear twitched with impatience, grabbed my hand and dragged me out of my bed.
"Where are we going?" I yawned as I let him drag me to the commander's office.
"We're not going anywhere, this is a solo mission." he said slowly as he walked in front of me, his tail swishing.
"What?" I said as I stopped walking, my hand slipping from his grasp, "what did you say?"
"This is your first solo mission, Rea. Don't blow it 'cause I'm not there to curb your temper!" he snapped, trying to hide his teary eyes.
A door down the hall burst open, a woman with spiky bright red hair stepped out and started walking towards us. I cringed when I realized who it was, 'Dawn, oh no! What did I do this time?'
"He…Hello, Mistress Dawn." I stuttered as she bore down on us with her intense eyes.
"Hello, Rea, has Timothy told you what your mission is." She asked primly, she was dressed as though she had just come from a meeting.
"Umm… No Mistress Dawn, I was waiting for you to explain" he stated, his right ear twitched and his tail flicked slightly. She looked at him, looked back at me, looked back at him, and sighed.
"Well come on then, I'm not waiting all day." she said as she turned and walked back to her office, the very door she had come out of.
I walked in and looked around; sure, I had been here many times before for other mission assignments, but never for a solo mission. The walls what you could see of them through packed bookshelves, was a bright green, a color I learned to love. I looked down as I rubbed my bare feet on the plush purple carpet, I reached my arm out and shocked Timothy on the shoulder, I laughed as he jumped. The solid oak desk in front of me was covered with paperwork, whether it be mission reports or mission assignments or even unopened birthday cards, it was there. The whole room gave off an air of power and authority, but the walls and the plush carpet said that our leader was still a kid at heart.
I looked back at Dawn as she sat in her rolling office chair, shuffled through some papers, and pulled one out of a large pile.
"Rea, your mission is to travel to the hidden leaf village, and accompany a group of genin through their world. This mission is extremely important, not only for us but also for the Hokage and his people as well. This mission will help build ties between our dimension and theirs. I am telling you this now so you won't screw it up." she explained quickly, giving me no time to interrupt, my jaw dropped open. This wasn't going to be a weeklong thing, this was going to be for possible the rest of my life.
I turned to Timothy, we had been together since my parents had left me here, and we had clung to each other. I felt the tears pricking my eyes as I tried to hold them back. I turned back to Dawn, while wiping my eyes.
"When do I leave?" I asked quietly.
"In two days." was her grim reply.