"Sironar, get up!" I yelled, attempting to wake Siren up, he's in that same position since I returned. Will he ever learn?

"Hellooo...?" ...No response. Hmm...

"S-I-R-O-N-A-R!" I raised my voice; he's such a heavy-sleeper!

"Whoa, wha...?" He sat up, half-awake, but that's just typical for him. I stood next to him tying my other village band on my upper left arm, since my Moon Village band was on my upper right arm.

"You're late for the exams!"

"Huh...?" He's still drowsy, as always.

"Ohh! Waaait! I gotta go then, see you, Nen!" He jumped from my bed, grabbed his sandals from the low-table and ran out the door. I looked at his direction, he was sprinting toward the Academy... I sighed. I took this opportunity to practice, while Sironar's away, I can tone up my skills to surpass him, two nights ago I was really off-practice by the way he ambushed me! I finished dressing in my casual apparel and walked to my favorite spot to practice and started on my accuracy. A few kunai, and a few shuriken right on bullseye should do the trick. But a few minutes after mid-way training I find myself dazing off at nearby a tree, I think Sironar's attitude is contagious or something.

...

"Neeeeniiin!" It sounded like Sironar... I peered my eyes opened, and he was running toward me. Just a second later he was on my shoulder, racking me around!

"I'm awake Siren!" I assured him that the racking was pointless. With him so bouncy today, something must of awoken his spirits.

"I passed, I passed Nenin!" Man, he's REALLY happy now.

"Congrats, Siren." I tried to sound like that it wasn't a big deal.

"Oh, and Senchō-sensei wants us to meet him at Lady Sundae's office." Yet again mispronouncing Lady Tsunade's name.

"Well then, let's go meet him." We then ran over to the spot where we were to meet our sensei.

"Senchō-sensei and Lady Sundae, we're here!" Sironar exclaimed loudly, he's never good with names anyways. Senchō just sighed lightly and Tsunade pretended that she ignored it. And I noticed Hinata positioned next to Senchō, what's she doing here, doesn't her team have a mission?

"Alright Team Diagna, you have a mission. Hinata is the replacement for the absence of Kemari Tanami," Tsunade explained. "Your mission is to investigate the deaths of two geologists and two meteorologists and the attempt of flooding a small village,"

"You see, after their deaths, unpredictable weather and land changes were occurring nearby and neighboring observatories cannot explain the reason of the flooding. And a representative requested an answer."

"And Senchō, I believe you have other important matters to attend?"

"Yes, ma'am, I will be getting to them right away, I have faith in these children." Senchō pledged, although we're unmistakably not children, we can take this mission by ourselves, I presume.

"Hey, I'm not a child, Senchō-sensei!" Needn't I say who that was?

"You are dismissed!" Senchō declared, and we left the Hokage's headquarters, Senchō-sensei followed the path opposite of ours, I guess he has a mission of his own? We've spoken to each other and agreed that the gate was our meeting point and we went to prepare ourselves. Sironar was without a pack, lent him one of mine temporarily. After a few preparations we met at the designated location: at the gate. With a nod of each one of us, Sironar, Hinata, and me, we left without further hesitation. Along the way, Siren broke the silence.

"Hi there cute girl!" What did Sironar just say...? I turned to look at Hinata, who was apparently blushing. Sironar is really pulling off smooth moves today. Maybe he's copying Naruto and doesn't even know it? And yet, first it was Naruto who makes her blush, but now my cousin, does Sironar remind her of Naruto or something? I need to focus, I'm asking myself too many questions...

"Hey what's wrong? Why are you red?"

"Nothing, it's nothing!" She snapped, but she spoke softly. She looked away for the time being, probably feeling very embarrassed to look at Sironar. Of course, Sironar's persistency wanted to find out.

"Common... You must be sick, right?"

"No! I- I mean, I'm fine!" She quickly withdrawn her embarrassed face and looked like her regular old self, looking at Sironar.

"See?" She sort of had a positive smile on her face, as if she was trying to prove Sironar wrong.

"Okie-dokey sis!" Sironar did his signature gesture again. Wait a second, Hinata, she's different...

"Hinata.. You would never have a sarcastic side.. Who are you?" It's strange really, it's almost impossible to alter your own personality, that's what makes you you. Whoever was in there was impersonating Hinata.

"Maybe not... Oh well." 'Hinata's' voice changed to a girl with a more firm and shrill voice, and around the same age of me. With that, the transformation dispelled and whoever was mimicking Hinata revealed herself.

"Haha! I gotcha both! My acting skills are grand, aren't they?" But, I didn't fell for it... Sironar appeared to be dumbfounded, what's wrong with him?

"You must be Kemari?" Whoa, for a girl, she sure seems the prankster. Why do I feel that Sironar and her will get along just fine...?

"Yeah! Even the Hokage fell for the trick!" Hey, what did I do to deserve this? She's basically Sironar but the opposite gender... They had a long chat on basically pointless things; and I just walked with the bunch, hands on the tan-colored straps that attach to my bag.

Kemari Tanami, renowned prankster, almost matching Naruto, just as Sironar, she's always filled with jokes or hoaxes instead of your standard ninja supplies. She had long purple pigtails and a beautifully combed front hair. Wait, I take that back, it isn't THAT beautiful. Leaf Village headband, a white long-sleeved shirt with a purple circle at the center that's cut off halfway downwards, white daisy-shorts, and extremely long white boots, and to top it off, a purplish scarf tied to her waist. Pretty much sums her up, other than that, she just seems unpredictable at times, not counting my Plyden, of course!

"So, Nenin was it? Where we're going?" Kemari asked in a positive tone.

"East, but we have to pick up the pace, since it's almost sunset." We should be almost halfway by that time, yet we've barely achieved 1/4th of the journey!

And there we go, off to our destination of our first team mission, alone, Sironar, Kemari, and me, Nenin. I don't know how our assignment will result in, but I know one thing; we will use teamwork. I slowed down a little, just to gather my thoughts into unity.

"Nen, I thought we had to pick up the pace!" Siren yelled, in an almost teasing voice, I caught up with them, down the stone road we eyed on the observatory we were meant to travel...