Within a day we were done transferring everything from the barn back to the village. The people there looked so much better and the village just seemed brighter.

"Thank you so much for your help." the entire village chanted together all of them bowing low.

Gai-sensei replied with his usual, "it is the job of the youth in Kaho Na to help the people in need using their blooming youthfulness!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-se OW!"

"Could you two kindly not do that in my presence? It is disturbing." the two hugging ninja split apart immediately.

Lee-san frowned, "is something wrong your youthfulness Akuma-chan?"

My eyebrow began twitching, "Akuma-san. This is clearly a futile attempt. They have no clue what your talking about." neji placed a hand on my shoulder, "fate was simply not on your side this time."

"When is fate ever on my side?" i muttered under my breath. Neji-san looked at me but didn't ask me what i said.

I looked up from my feet as Tenten sat up and stretched her arms back over her head. "Hey Tenten i hope you don't mind but we're leaving in a few minutes now that you're awake?"

"Hu? But what about the mission?"

I smiled, "it was super easy! Lee could've done it alone, but he'd probably fight them all head on."

Tenten laughed at that, "he would. Did Gai-sensei not help out?"

"Na. He and Neji-san just watched to make sure nothing went wrong. They would have interfered before one of us got hurt."

Just then i realized that the other three boys on our team were still in the tent and Neji Son had simply been watching but our green duo were yelling/talking about youthfulness.

"Gai-sensei, we are ready to leave."

The man blinked slowly responded, "our Tenten's youth has been restored? Great!"

Did he seriously not notice that? I deadpanned and shared a look with Tenten, "uh, yeah. So now we should leave so we can get home before dark. I'm sure Tenten wants to see her family."

The touchy family subject, Lee-san and i never had parent's but her has our Sensei. Neji's father was killed by the clan head (that's what he says anyways), and Gai-sensei never talked about having parents' but i'm sure at least one of them was the one who taught him to be the way he is today.

"Yes, yes. Lets go my youthful genin!"

And so we set off, a still mildly sleepy Tenten on my back and all of us hoping there would be no surprise attack.

And we all know things always go wrong when we hope they go smoothly.