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A little over a month had passed since I had arrived here in Konoha, and I have to say the experiences I've gotten so far were probably the most interesting ones I've had so far. The one thing Yasuhi and I haven't gotten over yet is how laid back the people are compared to where we're from. Oh I can't forget to mention that Yasuhi had managed to make a friend and relax a bit more since coming here which is awesome.

But the one thing that didn't change was the fact that I had to go to school...Again. The idea wasn't a bad one, but it wasn't what I had in mind when coming here. The one thing that I'm grateful for is that I know most of the stuff that is going to be taught in class minus history. I'm not sure what history is going to be like here. I was told that the history class is easy and that it was hard to not pass that subject according to Ino. Moving on now and to something completely different from that the topic of school I was told by Choza that I was to meet with the hokage at his office around three. I wasn't told what for as Choza wasn't even told the reason only that I was to be there on time.

"I'm heading out now," I told Choza as I finished putting on my shoes.

"Okay." Was his response back to me before I left the house. Jumping along the roofs to get to the hokage's tower I got there with in three minutes and was about ten minutes ahead of time which was a good thing. Upon getting there though there was a black, long haired woman standing at the door with a sweet grin, making me feel comfortable. She seemed like one of those women who I felt like I could get along with her fairly well.

"Hello. You must be Fuyuka." The woman said. "Good, then please come with me." She had pushed herself off the door and turned to face it. Once inside the door the woman had made small talk with me till we made it to the hokage's main door where she had knocked once before entering the room.

"Ah I see you brought Fuyuka up with you. Good timing, Kurenai. I've got something that I want the both of you to do." The hokage commented, nodding for them to sit down in front of him. "There has been a group of rouge ninja harassing a village south of here and I want you two to investigate and eliminate the threat."

I nodded at the hokage understanding the mission quite clearly, these types of missions where nothing new for me. I was about to ask when we were to leave Kurenai had stood up and complained.

. "But lord Hokage why are you sending a civilian with me and not another ninja, like Asuma or Kakashi. She's bound just to get in the way or end up dead."

"I assure you Kurenai that she will be of use to you and you might get along well." He smiled at her "And I want you two to leave today, the mission shouldn't take long with you two."

"If you say so Lord Hokage." She nodded slightly and told me before she left to meet her after a certain time. It was when she left that I randomly asked the question

"Hokage-sama, if I may ask why did you want me to go with her when I thought I was on a temporary probation from being a ninja till I graduated from school?" He smiled again and explained why even though he didn't have to, I thanked him and had left to let Choza know where I was going to be in the meantime and went to find Yasuhi as I had about a half hour left till I was to meet Kurenai again at the gate. I had found Yasuhi after a few minutes of searching as he was running around and playing with his friends. He had said their names a couple of times to me but I forgot after a few days of him telling me, but I think their names were Moegi and Uren or was it Udon? Either way they were his friends and I couldn't help but smile upon the scene that I was watching. Yasuhi had stopped after a while and looked up at my direction not before Moegi had crashed into Yasuhi and resulted in a heap on the ground, laughing at the situation. You know all this does make me feel like I'm a mother watching their child even though I said that our relationship was to be nothing more than brother and sister.

"Fuyuka nee-san!" he called out and as I jumped down to greet him. The girl by this point had gotten up and looked a bit confused as the other boy didn't pay attention what Yasuhi had called me.

"Nee-san?" she questioned tilting her head off to one side looking between the both of us "You didn't tell us you had a sister." Yasuhi just looked at her and shrugged.

"Nee-san, what are you doing here?"

"I have a mission, I most likely will not be back to night depending on how long it takes to complete. So if you could would you let Choza know." I asked him he then questioned if I would be back in time for the academy tomorrow. I nodded but I wasn't one hundred percent sure that I was going to be there on time. The time I had left before I was to meet Kurenai back at the gate had passed quickly and only had a few minutes to make it on time and really wanted to make a good impression on her. The only thing about that was the gate was on the other side of the village and running along the roofs would make her late.

"If only it was raining, that would make my life so much easier..." I sighed

"I can take care of that..." Ame had spoken up.

-3RD pov-

As Fuyuka had spoken the children around her wondered how rain would make her day easier, they had thought that it would make it harder for her since she would have nothing to combat the rain. The more they watched her they noticed something happening to her eyes, they were changing to a florescent cerulean blue. It was a little strange to see this, eyes changing colors, but they honestly had no clue what to think. Within seconds the sky had turned a dark gray and rain had started down pour much like it does in Amegakure. Once people felt the rain they rushed in doors and had much forgotten what they had set out to do for the day. With a few exceptions, there was the shinobi of the village who had not been sent on missions who had thought that the rain was out of place.

With the rain Fuyuka had had moved her hands to form seals for her transportation jutsu "Water puddle transportation" she said normally and had turned herself in to a puddle making the kids gasp in amazement. Fuyuka had imagined herself appearing at the gate, where she was to be within the next minute.

At the gate Kurenai was still a little annoyed that she was being sent on a B ranked mission with someone who was a civilian to her knowledge. "Maa, what's taking her, I told her to be here with in thirty minutes... and what the hell was with the rain?!" she complained out loud not expecting for to be answered back but that's exactly happened.

"But I did make it on time Kurenai-san." A voice said behind her making said woman turn around in search of the owner of the voice. Kurenai had readied a weapon in case the voice was not who she was thinking it was. "No need for weapons Kurenai-san it's only me, Fuyuka." Fuyuka had finished rising up from the rain water on the ground and her eye color had returned to its normal state making the rain go away.

Kurenai had sighed once more putting her weapons away and noticing the slight change in Fuyuka's appearance. Instead of the spaghetti strap shirt she had a jacket that stopped at her stomach with a fishnet shirt underneath her skirt that she was wearing was the same as before. "So are you ready to go Fuyuka? I'm assuming you want to get this mission done before the academy starts back up right?" Kurenai deducted since she was able to use jutsu's. and even though she had seen her do that she still wasn't happy to be doing the mission with a now academy level student. The Chuunin had nodded and soon they were off to a village south of Konoha, the village as Kurenai described it as a village that floated on water and was a tourist attraction during the summer as they were known for their frozen treats and crystal clear water that the city floats upon. She also said that this was one place that was deemed to be a mystical place. The trip to the village took only a few hours to get there.

The Jounin and the Chuunin had conversed but not as much between that time, where it they learned more about each other when they made it to the village Fuyuka had found the description that the Jounin had given her was lackluster compared to the real thing. The water was as Kurenai had explained but the plant life and the wild life made the place seem much more vivid. She could see why this place would be a tourist attraction when the weather was nice.

Once in the village the pair was greeted by a child who was probably no older than eight, he had seen the leaf symbol blazoned on the Jounins hitai-ate and assumed that they were the help that they requested from Konoha.

"You are Konoha nin are you not?" he said quietly looking in every direction. Kurenai had nodded and had pointed to her hitai-ate. Once the kid was sure of the two that were in front of him he motioned to follow which both women did. During the walk the Chuunin had surveyed the area with the help of the Ame-onna in her to make sure that nothing had seemed out of the ordinary so far, that was the key word for the moment. At the far end of the village where the boy was instructed to take the ninja was the leader and his council members who had welcomed them before getting to business. They had talked about how this was a tourist paradise and that is probably why the bandits had targeted them in the first place, they also told us our job and as well as some thing's to beware of here. Once the village elders had bid the two ninja's farewell the two were left to roam and look for signs of said bandits.

They talked to the locals that would talk about such subject and that was far and few between for most to all of them were scared of the consequences for talking about them.

"Fuyuka, did you find anything out from the villagers?" Kurenai asked

"No, they weren't too keen on talking; they were too scared to tell any information on them. How about you? Did you have any luck?"

"Yes, they had mentioned something to do with the rain people, Do you think that they were talking about Amegakure?"

"Hmmm I don't think so. Amegakure has tried to stay out of things like these and if there were whispers of this they would have been dealt with already... they don't waste time in clearing loose ends." Fuyuka had explained which made her partner that much more curious about her. Since when has there been an academy student from Konoha that would know so much about another land unless they were originally from the place? The elder woman thought to herself but Fuyuka hadn't finished her statement. "So when they mentioned rain people they were probably talking about the Ame-hito or more commonly called out as Ame-onna."

After a few more hours of talking the two had split off to go search for more clues as to the whereabouts of the ninjas that were hiding. When they were about to stop looking they were confronted by said ninja and they were not happy about this.

"Well then, its two past midnight and you finally show yourself." Fuyuka commented drily gaining a snide 'whatever' from the two.

"You know, I was hoping to be finished and back to the village 'bout two hours ago, you two just had to fuck that up didn't you...?" a scowl was now on her face and the jounin had an annoyed expression as well plastered on her face too.

"Well, I would hate to keep you waiting any longer, princess," one of the ninja said charging for the midnight blue hair Chuunin who had made a water kunai in the process of him talking and the other one made the mistake of going for the Genjustsu user who had cast one the second the ninja looked at her. With that being said the two respective ninja's had branched off to face their opponent without interfering with the others battle.

The ninja that had chosen the Chuunin was in the process of tiring her out, if that was possible, to make the kill that much quicker. But that was proving difficult to do so as she wasn't wasting any unnecessary movement that wasn't need. That was the process that both rouges had agreed on before attacking the Konoha ninja's that had appeared in the village after their heads. That is also why that waited this long to actually make an appearance.

"Say, the people of this village are saying that you have the backing of the rain people, do you mean Amegakure?" she questioned him

"Wouldn't you like to know!" he yelled forming hands "Raiton: lighting ball" he yelled out throwing the ball of lighting towards the unmoving ninja in front of him. 'that was a piece of cake!' he laughed internally momentarily being pulled out of his pre celebration. On the other end the Kurenai was having some troubles herself as the other rouge in front of her.

Time seemed to slow as the Chuunin and Jounin went up against their respective opponents, both seeming to have their own challenges. When each opponent thought that they were going to win the ninja from Konoha had proven them wrong they were tougher than they looked especially since one looked no more than a civilian status. They were defiantly wishing that they didn't judge the book by its cover.

With the Konoha nin's standing there panting heavily and injured the two ninjas had made their move; the Chuunin had made a clone of herself while the jounin annoyed that this had taken longer than it should have casted

"Demonic Illusion: tree binding death" which ensnared the man in vines with a tree that was behind him. His opponent had seemed to disappear from sight much like that of mist evaporating only to appear in the trunk itself above him. The man had struggled to get out of the vines but soon became futile to even try anymore seeing he was also beat and bloody and running low on chakra, not like the man had a huge reserve of it to begin with compared to his partner who had a tad bit more than him and was able to go longer when it came to fights but it seemed his luck ran short with the woman he was fighting. For the next thing he knew the woman had called out "Suiton: Steam Devil tyranny" and made her clones explode as soon as he made contact.

Out of all the jutsu's the Chuunin knew that one was her flashiest and the most loud and she sure as hell knew that everyone was awake now and probably scared shit less with the loud noise made by the explosion. She also mused that this would probably make the bomber of Iwa proud in some weird was since he was explosion happy. After that both enemies where lifeless floating in the water, Kurenai and Fuyuka had moved them to land and made their way to the elder, who in fact was watching the whole thing while his councilors. To say that he was mildly impressed with their action and how they disposed of the threat but not impressed with the younger girls last jutsu and how it disrupted his village at the time of the night.

"Shall we go let the leader and elders know that we completed the job and head home?" Fuyuka asked impatience and needing to be back before the school day had actually begun. She had wanted to keep her promise to her brother about being there on time and seeing him off to his class. Kurenai just nodded in response making her head off in the direction of the elder. The one thing that made her mad for not getting them to speak or more than not it was the ame-onna in Fuyuka was pissed that her people were backing rouges, that was not one thing that she had passed on to them.