Still only own Yasu and the plot.


Just as sensei Kanae had said to her word, we needed to prepare and her plan for us to prepare is to take other low rank missions to get us up to a C-ranked mission. Which happened quickly, team four were only requested for a few jobs that were D level because of the meaning behind it, we are expected to do C rank as the lowest possible mission level and higher levels.

We started a mission as messengers for people who can not summon, or won't give extra to get a messenger animal of some kind to deliver to other people in different towns and sometimes lands, but not often.

Another mission we did was with added limitations by Kanae because she felt it would add some more incentives to teamwork and thinking in different ways than we usually do, by plucking all the weeds without touching the ground and can only physically touch any weed three times.

So, after Miki plucked three weeds out from mid air with her bare hands, she was no longer allowed to touch anymore of them and needed to do something different. I could only imagine having chakra covering my hands, even for healing, counts as touching the weed with my hand, same for cutting with chakra unless it is farther away from my hands.

Zabuza avoided using his hands by using a version of a sword to kill most, if not all the weeds that were growing. I slowly worked my way through the weeds by slicing them with chakra and extending my chakra to keep slicing the weeds, focusing more on chakra to keep control.

Miki came to the idea of grabbing some rope and creating a trap that tightened around the weeds so she could pull all of them at once. The trap was difficult to create, but very possible with help from Zabuza finding material and my own finger work, along with Miki to make the trap quicker.

Another mission involved delivering letters to nearly every villager in the mist without being seen or heard, using techniques that specifically eschew vision or hearing was not allowed to the sensei, as she felg it will jmprove everyone's overall skill in the end.

Zabuza had some experience beforehand going unnoticed for his solo test, but it was still a difficult task to accomplish. As Sensei Kanae used a shadow clone for two of hef students, and followed one with her real self.

I tried to sneak past some people with minimal success, but compared to Miki, I was at least doing okay. Zabuza was excelling at sneaking in and out, past people to set their letters in visible and rather noticeable locations. While Sensei took credit for the team, since someone had to stay back and say that we were at that house or near the person's presence when they got the letter. The letter delivery took most of the day, until it started to turn dusk in the sky.

The final D-rank mission was to help get food for the village by practicing some techniques to bring up more fish, than throw kunai at the fish to stick them down somewhere for the villagers to enjoy the caught food. Throwing kunai at the moving targets multiple times was dull, but trained to be able to last a while in a task, would say any task, but that may be false.

Fishing was a task for Zabuza because is patience was growing better through training, to me, he was already a legend in waiting for prey to come within his grasp. While I was out looking for berries and other things that could be edible for a few reasons; one is I have no patience for fishing, maybe because fish is not a food I care for? Two Miki Sano was… rather persuasive to being alone with Zabuza, that she would tell me some secrets if I stayed away. The part she did not say aloud is she would make me regret it if I interrupted her, 'being in awe by Zabuza' time.

The missions went by quickly and time became sparing, as I felt there was more time in the day than when first starting especially before my ninja training began. So, my skills with chakra maintaining and kenjutsu was practiced as well, for one of the seven swords of the mist, Nuibari.


Sorry for late notice thought this after abit and some stories have them - a omake omake : girl time 1


At the end of the heavy set of missions Miki invited me to the hotsprings in the mist village, leaving Zabuza out because most of the team are female and would be tough for whole team bonding.

"Yasu, why does sensei make us do all the D ranks? And separated?" She looked at me with her dark blue eyes and I stared back, a small challenge of wills in our staring contest, before she broke it off laughing.

Giggling, "You know, I won't let your crush on our team mate… or my crush get in the way of the missions we take." I could only hold back making a gagging face at the thought of crushing on that team mate at all.

I could see Zabuza as a good ally, as long as he did not see me as an enemy like the classmates in the past seemed to have been, but nothing else.

Miki waved it off, saying "your not at my age yet so you don't understand things of the heart." She made a flurry of hand motions as if her actual, or metaphorical heart was going to burst by mention.

"Do you understand the actions of the heart?" My thin black brow arched up a little in questioning her. Miki' cheeks turning slightly in color then she stammered "S-s-shut up." Then no longer stammered, " Who asked you?" I only shrugged, we were just talking and I asked.

The rest of the trip was awkwardly silent, except for moments where you hear a stranger enter the boy's side, or see someone enter the girl's side which the two young girls left quickly after.


Aiming to make it longer, but maybe not constant.

Sorry that it was short.