Hours later after her rough landing, Sakura slowly sat up and peered around carefully, barely being able to spot Yamato through the pouring rain, not to mention her eyes were unfocused as she tried to get to her feet, being careful as her head pounded and she swayed dizzily.
Her stomach churned as her headache dulled after spending a spike of her chakra, the little bit she'd managed to regain since her transformation into a child again, to her head relieving herself of the headache, then Sakura slowly walked forward and knelt next to Yamato.
"Yamato wake up" Sakura nudged him gently and his eyes blinked open only to hurriedly sit up, when he cringed she knew that he was suffering from the same headache she'd had moments before, a couple minutes later Yamato stood gripping her hand as she helped him.
He stared around trying to see through the rain trying to determine if the jutsu had worked before giving up "We should try to find them now while it's still early" Yamato suggested as he situated his pack more firmly as his shoulders, Sakura doing the same, as they set forward.
Sakura nodded as they walked towards the village "I think it worked, I don't remember seeing any of this except in books from the history of the Rain Village in the past" she pointed at the buildings as they trekked through the Hidden Rain Village.
By doing this they hoped to run across the Rain Orphans "At least we have a chance to prevent a catastrophe" Yamato smiled keeping a hold on the pinkette, who was definitely several inches shorter than him despite them being the same age now.
Luck was not on their side as Sakura accidentally rammed into someone's knee's and she was knocked to the side, into him "Outta my way brat" a drunk slurred storming passed them, he could tell Sakura was resisting the urge to stick her tongue out at the man.
Instead, Sakura turned with an irritated huff and stalked down the mud covered streets, him keeping up easily due to his slightly longer legs "Are you okay Sakura, that guy kind of shoved you pretty hard" Yamato couldn't help but be worried.
"Oh I'm fine Yamato" Sakura sighed silently crying, this village was vastly different to the Leaf Village, cobbled streets, lots of sunshine and blue skies, here in the Rain Village, it was nothing but rain, rain and yep you guessed it even more rain.
Yamato creased his forehead as Sakura trudged forward a cloud of depression hanging over her "You'd think will all this damn rain those three didn't go insane from it all" Sakura sulked outwardly to her mission companion rolling her shoulders to relieve them from the tension from carrying her semi heavy pack.
A chuckle loud enough for her to hear over the rain before "The Rain Village does have it's appeal though" Yamato pointed out enjoying the sound of thunder as it clashed over head, just before the rain started coming down harder than before.
"We should find shelter" Sakura grasped his hand with ease as they ran forward through through the streets looking for a place to get away from the rain, subsequently forgetting that Yamato had the ability to, even if it was a small one, create some form of shelter for them.
That was until he skidded to a halt pulling her to a stop with him "Let's go in that alley, I'll make a little umbrella for us" Yamato pointed and Sakura nodded remembering what the boy was capable of, even if it was minimal of what he could make at the moment.
Soon the two of them were huddled beneath a wooden structure that Yamato had made, with a great amount of effort, due to how little chakra he'd regained, Sakura being the better out of the two of them at connecting with her chakra during meditation.
"Phew" Sakura swiped through her pink hair as it stuck to her face, eye twitching at the long locks "Do you think I should have cut my hair" she held up a strand and Yamato blinked before smiling at her uneasily, probably thinking she was insane.
Who knows they both could be insane considering they'd agreed to the cockamamie plan after all, "Perhaps we should worry more about not drowning" Yamato chuckled glad that they had a chance to talk without shouting over the rain.
A pout formed on Sakura's lips "Right so let's put up a tarp" she nodded pulling out a scroll and unsealed a tarp that had a curved edge, ten inches high to prevent any rain from slipping through into their little shelter, thankfully she only had to use minimal chakra to access the scroll.
Together with Yamato's help, the tarp was put up muting the noise of rain even more, and when they were done, they sat down close to each other, in the year they'd had to prepare for this mission, they'd gotten to know each other better as friends.
"I think we should come up with a plan if we come across one of the rain orphans" Yamato spoke up suddenly obsidian orbs peering around the small shelter, it wasn't much just enough for them, but he couldn't help but feel a little homesick.
Sakura chewed on her lip furiously "They won't believe us if we say we are just friends, it's rare that orphans team up together, so perhaps cousins, no questions would be asked then" she stated and Yamato tilted his head to the side thinking it over.
Four minutes later he nodded "We'll give the excuse that our parents had left us with a sitter and went off on vacation unknowing of the danger and got killed in an explosion, or at least that's the official explanation" Yamato contributed to the story.
That was perfect "Yeah let's go with that, how do we explain all that we can do though, the ninja abilities, the information we have" Sakura gestured all around them "And our skill to survive better than the average orphan" she finished.
Another question that required a bit of thinking "We could say my parents were teaching me and I was teaching you for the shinobi skills, and books" Yamato finally spoke after several minutes and Sakura nodded, it was easy to pass some things off as you're parents teaching you them.
And since their parents really couldn't be questioned because they were technically dead and Yamato didn't really know his, they were safe, unless someone became suspicious, children were easy to deal with so it shouldn't be to difficult.
Eight minutes later a yawn slipped from between her lips "Guess I'm a little tired" Sakura covered her mouth with a hand just before Yamato did the same "You are to" she giggled unsealing a blanket for them to use.
Uncaring of how it might seem, they scooted closer to each other than before and Yamato wrapped the blanket around their shoulders "We should get some rest, tomorrow we'll set out and look for those orphans" he sighed softly.
It only took another five minutes before Sakura's eyes drooped close and her head leaned on his shoulder, Yamato soon followed the pinkette into slumber as they rested undisturbed in the shelter they'd created together.
The next morning he woke to the familiar smell of eggs "M'ning Yamato" Sakura greeted happily dishing out the scrambled eggs and a piece of toast that she'd toasted ever so carefully over the portable fire pit that had some grape jelly scraped across the top of it.
"You really know the way to a man's heart Sakura" Yamato chuckled taking the wooden plate with a grateful smile, eyeing the eggs for any greasiness and not finding any before digging in "So how should we search" he asked after a minute of enjoying his breakfast.
Sakura laughed softly at the compliment filling the shelter with a lightheartedness that hadn't been there the previous evening digging into her own breakfast, the same thing, "I think we should split up" she said swallowing her current bite after hearing Yamato's question.
It was obvious he didn't like the idea because of the clear reluctance she could see in his eyes "I could always put tracker seeds on you, they are easy to make without to much chakra" Yamato scratched his chin finally agreeing to the idea.
Once their plates were cleared, Yamato moved to stand "Aren't we going to meditate first" Sakura raised a pink brow at the brunette and he sat back down sheepishly, after they were done, they left their shelter and split up.
"Good luck Sakura and be careful" Yamato warned once he'd made some of his tracker seeds and placed them in a small leather pouch for Sakura to carry on her, Sakura nodded took the pouch before pivoting on her heel speeding off in the opposite direction.
For four hours Yamato searched the right side of the Hidden Rain Village for any sign of the three rain orphans he and Sakura were meant to save, until his search was interrupted by the rumbling of his stomach, so Yamato turned and pulled out some spare yen and bought a steamed pork bun.
Sakura was in a similar predicament, but unlike Yamato, she'd left all of her money in her pack in their shelter, which she was realizing had been extremely stupid and that anyone could stumble across the hideout and steal her things.
Instead of agonizing over it, she focused more on her search until she couldn't go on any longer and finally turned heading back to the shelter, when Sakura got there, the place was undisturbed and she dug through her pack for a can of peaches.
An hour later as she was preparing to set out again to renew her search, a hideous noise sounded in the alley behind the shelter and Sakura felt her heart stutter in fear, though she bravely left the tarp and backtracked around the alley and peered into the darkness.
Hissing sounded and Sakura had just enough time to jump out of the way of a stray cat who didn't like that someone had invaded it's home, her heart was just calming when a hand was pressed down on her shoulder and Sakura gave a shout just before "Sakura it's Yamato" the brunettes familiar voice came.
"Kami don't scare me like that" she whirled cheeks puffing up in exasperation and Yamato grinned "Urgh" Sakura threw her hands in the air stomping passed him as he chuckled leading the way back to the shelter that she'd abandoned to check out that noise.
Once within Yamato decided to ask "So what exactly were you doing in the alley" he inquired sitting down to rest for a bit after walking around in the rain for five hours, Sakura sighed ringing her hair out as best she could before answering.
"I heard a noise, I went to check it out, turns out it was a cat, end of story" she snorted flopping down "Want a late lunch" Sakura asked not letting Yamato comment on her irrational fears, they'd only been there a day after all.
Deciding not to worry about it for now Yamato nodded "Yeah I only had enough spare yen for one steamed pork bun" he frowned at his now empty pants pocket, soon over the portable fire, Sakura was hard at work cooking them a meat pie, easy and simple.
"How did the search go" the pinkette finally spoke after filling the pie shell with turkey meat and covering it with foil to make it cook better, when she got no answer Sakura glanced at Yamato for a brief second.
Realizing she'd asked him a question, Yamato sighed "Not very well, the Rain Village is full of people and orphans, but I didn't see any matching the description Naruto gave us" he shrugged leaning back on his hands watching Sakura cook.
Thirty minutes later, the pie was done and cut into eight equal slices, "Yeah it didn't go very well for me either" Sakura murmured around a bite several minutes later, this mission was proving to be a little harder than they'd both thought it would be.
His lips twitched upwards into a small smile "We have plenty of time Sakura, don't push yourself to hard" Yamato scolded lightly and Sakura smiled sheepishly polishing off her second piece like he had and then they were out in the pouring rain again searching for the Rain Orphans.
Later on they returned to their shelter and ate an extremely late dinner before meditating like they were so use to, then without a single word to each other, Yamato wrapped a thick blanket around himself and Sakura and they drifted off into sleep.