"Hey, Sayuri-chan!" Reika waved across the classroom at break time, "You coming to the show tonight?"

Sayuri smiled. Reika-chan was talking to her! She had thought her new friends would have grown bored of her by now, but it seemed that was not the case.

"What show?" She had never been to a show before. Apart from the one at her old school. It was long and boring and her bottom went stiff. She remembered digging her nails into her hand to keep herself awake. Teacher wouldn't like if she fell asleep.

"The fireworks show!" Reika announced, bounding over to Sayuri's desk.

Sayuri tilted her head in confusion and looked over to Mayumi for answers. She wondered if it was another strange word that Amegakurean's liked to use.

The blonde girl smiled shyly.

"You know, fireworks."

Sayuri shook her head slowly. She had never heard of firey-works before. Perhaps it was a game the girls were playing. She was used to classmates playing games with her. Although they weren't often very fun games for Sayuri. Well, that was okay. That was fine.

Besides, she had Tobi.

"You know!" Reika bended her knees, putting her hands together, palms straight, then slowly brought them up above her head, stretching as high as she could. "Whee, boom!" She parted her hands and waved them about.

Sayuri was even more confused.

"They're like colourful lights in the sky," Mayumi explained, "They're explosions. Fire."

Fire in the sky? How strange.

"You definitely should come Sayuri-chan," Reika enthused, "It's great. You're going to love it."

—

After dinner she rushed to the genkan, racing to put on her shoes.

"Where is Sayuri-chan going?" Tobi asked.

"I'm going to see the firey-works!" She beamed.

"Not like that you're not."

He insisted on stuffing her into a padded coat while Sayuri bounced about in excitement.

"Tobi Tobi Tobi-san, are you going to see the firey-works with me? I heard it's going to be lots of fun!" Sayuri waved her arms, gloves attached to strings that had been threaded through the arms of her coat flapping from the sleeves.

"Fireworks," Tobi corrected gently, "And no, I've got things to do. You go, enjoy yourself. Make sure you wear your gloves."

—

It was pouring of rain outside, making Sayuri glad of her coat. Tobi was always doing nice things for her. He was the best.

A large crowd was forming in the village centre and the darkness made it impossible to find anyone. Sayuri began to panic, biting at her lip. What if her friends weren't there?

"Sayuri-chan! Over here!" Mayumi was waving at her from across the square.

The fireworks show, Sayuri learned from her friends, was apparently a celebration to commemorate the end of the civil-war. They stood and chatted about their day and the homework that Sayuri had not yet started.

Oops.

The rain stopped.

Silence.

Sayuri traced something travelling through the sky. Then it exploded into green sparks.

She gasped, wide-eyed.

"Mayumi-chan, did you see that?"

"Yeah," Mayumi smiled, "Shh."

Two lights of blue shot up in the sky and exploded like the green.

There was more?

There followed more powerful flashes of red and blue and green and purple, each one a striking flower in the sky.

These fireworks were brilliant! Some of them whistled as they raced through the dark, others were silent, then boom! A myriad of colours and sights lighting up the sky.

It was fantastic and beautiful and so very very nice.

Maybe even nicer than pancakes.

—

She arrived home an hour after she had set out, a massive grin on her face. Gloves, he noticed with a frown, still dangling from her sleeves. Not that he cared. But if she froze to death, she wouldn't be useful, that was all.

Out of nowhere it seemed, she produced a sparkler and set it alight.

"Woah!" Pain, Konan, and Obito shouted in unison, "Be careful with that!" It was all very well her going to see 'firey-works', as she so put it, but now she was going to burn the house down in the process.

Sayuri paid them no mind, waving the sparkler about in a haphazard fashion.

"Look Tobi, I can make drawings, maybe I can draw some pancakes?!"

"Yes, that's very nice, but we should stop it now, hmm?" Obito was considering how best to take the sparkler from her without causing further damage.

At that, she turned her back to him stubbornly.

"No. I like the sparkles." He could almost see her pouting.

He had to wait for the sparkler to die out (while keeping a wary eye on the child) until he could take the stick from her and put it into water.

Sayuri blinked at the sight of the extinguished sparkler, and then she burst into tears

They ended up with him giving Sayuri another sparkler and letting her light it up in the kamui dimension so she could wave it about to her heart's content.

Perhaps it would be best to hold-off on teaching her any fire-style jutsu for now.