So yeah, this is when my plot idea starts. I have ideas for this story but it just takes so long for my fingers to catch up with my brain. Did you know that you think faster than you speak (or write) so that you can think twice about what you're about to say? I didn't know that either, it's just a theory I got from a comic strip…
Just a thought, its not easy writing an essay in a language you are not fluent in. It takes a lot of thought and finagling…that must be a word because it showed up on spell check
After a month and a half, the girls were getting a twinge of worry about Kurenai. (You probably forgot she was gone huh?) I mean, yeah, mission go overtime and all, but it was a week mission and it's a month and a half now. Any good daughter would be worried. But Tsunade wasn't worried so they kept their mouths shut and kept on trudging through school as they did every year.
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At school one day though, apparently Tsunade got a little worried about the mission because she called them to her office. That's what the girls thought anyway, I mean, why else would they be summoned?
When they arrived and were ushered in by a silent Anko, they saw their principal sitting behind her deck, fingers steepled, and a serious look on her face. The girls got a bit nervous.
"Um, are we in trouble or something?" asked Sakura apprehensively shifting her weight onto her other foot.
"Depends on what you call trouble," Tsunade answered cryptically.
"We call trouble the thing you get into when you do something wrong and receive a punishment," Ino replied cheekily raising an eyebrow, "What do you call trouble?"
Tsunade raised her eyebrow in return, "About the same as you do. If that's the case then, you have nothing to worry about. You guys have a mission."
"Yes!" cried TenTen, "We haven't had a mission in forever!"
"I didn't finish. And this may take the air out of your balloon," Tsunade said, "This is a rescue mission for you mother and you are going with the boys."
"Wait, Kurenai is in trouble?! Since when?" Hinata gasped.
"And do you mean those boys? Like the ones who hate us boys?" Ino clarified.
"Yes, those boys. And yes, Kurenai and her mission squad are in trouble. I'll explain. Actually, let me get the boys here first as well, that way I don't have to explain this all twice. I hate repeating myself." Tsunade leaned over to her intercom and asked Anko, "Can you send in the boys? I hate repeating myself."
The boys traipsed into the office with much elbowing and shuffling and angry whispers, as it is when all boys try to file in. Neither side made eye contact with the other. Tsunade sighed, "OK, I've told the girls the deal so let me recapitulate; the reader's digest version: Kurenai and her team are in trouble and you guys are going to find her."
"Wait, we, like the girls and the four of us?" Naruto asked gesturing between the two groups not even glancing over at the girls.
"Don't talk about us in third person, we're right here," Sakura replied her arms crossed, looking straight ahead.