That afternoon…"I thought I'd never see you again, but wait…what about your clan?" Koji said happy to see Ibuki now a young adult stood face to face. "Don't worry about them anymore; I'm now a student at this university. Not to mention I'm an ordinary girl now." Ibuki replied. Ibuki grasped Koji's hand tight glad to see him. "Aside from all that, where is Sarai I haven't seen her in awhile." Ibuki wondered.

"She is working a part time job now, so I'll take you to her work place, and man…will she be surprised to see you." Koji said. The two of them walked down the street as Ibuki grasped his arm and walked together.

"Thank you and please come again." Sarai greeted the customer checking out his items. Sarai signed tired after all her hard work. "Hey Sarai…how are you doing?" Koji greeted. "Dead tired and wish the shift was over it, since they have me working more hours." Sarai yawned. "…Right…well you'll be surprised to find out whose back outside." Koji said. "At this day I doubt I would seen be surprised." Sarai said not interested. She went outside and found out that Ibuki was back right in front of her.

"Ibuki…" Sarai rushed for a hug happy to see her. "It's been a while Sarai?" Ibuki said hugging her back. "I missed you so much." Sarai said. "Same here Sarai…glad to see you're doing well." Ibuki said. "By the way, my clan would like to recruit you as a ninja." Ibuki handed Sarai an application.

"Really…that's awesome, now I could be like you." Sarai said. "They were so impressed with your moves back there that they decided to have you aboard. You did well in putting out those fires. The choice is yours Sarai you don't have to be one of them if you don't want to." Ibuki said.

"Are you kidding…it would be a pleasure that way I won't have to sit on the sidelines anymore." Sarai said happily. Ibuki looked at her watch as her class was going to start. "Oh crap…I got to get to my class at the university…see you around Sarai. Let's go Koji." Ibuki rushed. "I gotta go finish my shift now…later." Sarai said.

"I'll meet you back…" Koji said going to his class first.

"Hey there cutie what's the rush, you should join our club I'm sure you would not want to leave." A handsome guy offered. "Really sounds exciting." Ibuki said. As Ibuki followed the guy she arrived at the club as it was full of young adult ninjas.

"Yep…this is post secondary ninja training, we learned about your training back at the glade such as under water, and even the dreadful kite training to endure in such harsh weather." He said.

"Ugh…you've got to be kidding me!" Ibuki complained with her hand on her forehead.

"Well then shall we get started?" He led. He opened his eyes once again and found Ibuki was gone from his sight. "Was there something I said?" he asked.

Ibuki was in her first class feeling mighty relieved about getting away from that ninja club. "Man I never knew they would have ninja training in this school. I need a break from all this. I so don't need this." She thought in depression with her head down.

She then remembered in her village after the attack from the Geki. Her clan mates were busy cleaning up the mess made from the Geki ninjas. Ibuki then confronted her masters about her departure. "Master…I will be leaving this village to live an ordinary life." Ibuki said. The ninja master was drinking tea as he heard her speech.

"You have grown up a long way since we first found you." He said. "Now I suppose it is time for the bird to spread his wings and leave the nest." He quoted. "Outside the village you made some good friends despite jeopardizing your secret." He continued drinking his tea. "You really love the outside world that much; therefore, I think your grown up to make your own choices." He continued.

"Master…" Ibuki replied.

"No matter where you go you will always have a family and place here in the village." He said as he put his hand on her shoulder.

"Yes…now then you are ready for new challenges, so your secondary ninja training is compete." The second ninja master stated.

Everyone in her village went to see Ibuki off once more as she said her farewell and then disappeared.

Ibuki slept through class as one of the teachers woke her up. "Um…class is over. You can go now." He said. Ibuki had awakened embarrassed that she slept through class. Later on that day…

Ibuki rested on a bench outside of school. Koji tossed her an iced coffee in a can. "Must have been a hard day for you huh?" Koji asked. "Oh man you don't know the half of it." Ibuki replied as drank some of the iced coffee. "It's been cram session for me as well, so don't feel left out. Aside from that you got to see your friends again." Koji said trying to cheer up Ibuki patting her back.

"Hey Ibuki…I didn't know you were back how are you!" Elena called out along with Makoto.

"Elena, Makoto, I just fine, it's good to see you guys again." Ibuki replied.

"I see you've been well." Elena wrapped her arm on Ibuki shoulder.

"Yep…just fine and dandy," Ibuki replied.

"Well I bet the university is taking their sweet time in making you soft. Too soft if you ask me, and to think I was going to ask you if you were finally ready for our long awaited dual." Makoto complained rubbing the back of her head.

Ibuki quickly used her disappearing technique as she was back in her ninja outfit. "Who said I was soft Makoto? No more delays I'm ready for you anytime 100%." Ibuki challenged.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Makoto asked. Both girls got into their fighting stances ready to fight each other with full force.


More to come on the way…