Gin slowly woke up. Without even opening her eyes, she could already tell that she had a hangover. Her head hurt like a bitch and she was feeling slightly nauseous. It took her a while before she could regain full consciousness. But as she did, she noticed that something was... off. The pillow underneath her head was stiff, but warm. She nuzzled into the warmth before it clicked in her head that she was laying down on Sake's chest. She shot off of the bed immediately. Just what had happened the night before? Her memory was hay, but she distinctly remembered alcohol, a drinking game and a talk of virginity... did she...? No, she couldn't have. She refused to believe so. But just to make sure, the young Kazekage pulled the covers off of Sake and sighed in relief. He was fully clothed. "Thank God," She said to herself. Her head was till pounding, though. The light hurt her eyes more than it usually did. For a second, she considered whether or not she should stop drinking. "Like that'll ever happen," She thought to herself and quickly set those thoughts aside. She looked at the clock on the wall above her bed. She still had an hour before she had to meet up with Norahike and whoever else decided to come with her to Konoha. It was enough time to take a shower and look mildly presentable. She picked an outfit from her closet and stepped into the bathroom. The young kunoichi took a quick sower and got dressed. She decided to change her outfit, swapping her revealing kimono and short skirt for a pair of jeans and what looked like a deep purple bikini top.

She stepped out of the bathroom and saw that Sake was still sleeping soundly. She smiled deviously. By her calculations, he should have been at least as hung over as she was. She kneeled on the floor beside the bed and pressed her lips to his ear. "SAKEEEE!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. If he woke up, she would merely smile at him. "We're going to Konoha, I'm not taking no for an answer unless you mind not seeing me for a month, in which case, screw you." She would say quickly, a smile still broad and apparent on her face. "You have about half an hour to get ready and pack your bags. We're meeting near the southern entrance, got it?" She would instruct before throwing her own luggage over her shoulder along with the scabbard that designated her as her clan's leader. She blew a kiss at Sake and left through the door. She didn't really mind getting to the meeting spot early. With any luck, some people would have already gathered there. She jumped from one roof top to another and reached the southern entrance in only a few minutes. There, she would wait for the rest of the group.

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Nora woke up with a smile on his face today he would be going to konoha he looked walked out onto his balcony and shouted, “goodbye Suna I going to konoha!!!!!!” at first he just got shouts then he heard several screams and some swoons. did I mention that Nora sleeps nude... well he does and now suna knows. He shouted again,” Sorry I get hot!” he walks back into his room with a huge smile on his face and a couple of panties in his hands. “ I love Suna” he says aloud. He runs to the bathroom and starts to brush his teeth. he smiles into the mirror still pearly white he throws on a purple variation of his typical attire then applies his eyeliner. he looks at himself in the mirror then says with a smile, “beautiful. He grabs his beloved puppet; shin then walks out of his apartment. He smiles as he sees the kage waiting over in the distance the frowns wondering if she saw him nude. He shrugs his shoulders as long as she liked what she saw he had no problems. He walks over to a coffee shop to pick up some early morning drinks and snacks everyone deserved breakfast. He walks up to the lady running the store she turned so red he thought she was sick, “Are you okay” he says quickly. she nods and says “sorry sorry sorry, ummm I ummmm eh....” the woman passes out. Nora hops over the counter to check on her but the shopkeeper shoos him away. Nora smiles and orders his coffee some girls just can’t handle nudity he hoped the kage wasn’t as meek. He takes the coffees and doughnuts from the man and began to walk to where the kage waited. “Hello Gin” he says informally "you look dazzling today. “" he continues to smile as he says, “ I brought coffees, teas, and doughnuts everyone deserves a breakfast.”
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Rikuto woke up and slowly sat up. The sun was shining directly on his face. Lifting line arm up he blocked the ray of light. Today was a bit exciting, but at the same time a bit painful. During his training with Gin, she had mentioned that she was going to force him to go to Konoha with her and a few others. Only reason he was excited was because he was going to a place he had never been before. Though on the opposite side, all he would have to deal with Gin as well as some new people. He slid out of bed and hit the floor with a thump. Walking over to his closet, he picked out his usual clothes and went downstairs. After eating and packing his bag, he stepped out the door and started heading to where Gin told him to be. As he slowly strolled through Suna's streets, he heard a single loud yell in the distance. Right away he could tell it was Gin's voice. She had already used the same tone of yell during his training. Then another yell, this one, he didn't recognize. Shaking his head, he continued on. Passing by were a few busy people. For some reason, these people were always moving around and getting their shops or stands set up.

Eventually he made it to the meeting spot and saw that Gin was already there, along with Nora. "Great..." Rikuto remembered the training he endured with Gin. Mainly the part where Gin had threatened the safety of his grandmother's ocarina. Gin seemed to be the only one that was there at the time. Nora on the other hand, he didn't mind. Still, Nora was incredibly hard to read due to his 'unique' personality. Slowly approaching the two, he found a place he could sit and silently sat down. He wasn't going to acknowledge Gin until she said something to him. Rikuto did however take out his ocarina and start playing a soft and slow tune. It wasn't an actual song, but simply one he had made up. This was mainly so he'd be entertained while the two were busy.

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Shibirin woke up, strangely, by the sound of people's footsteps. He had forgotten to set his alarm up, but frankly he didn't need it anymore. He got out of bed and looked outside, to see a few genins and one or two jounins making their way towards their meeting point. He took a glance at the calendar he mounted on his wall and he had marked a certain date on it and wrote beside it, 'Trip to Konoha'. His mind wasn't quite switched on at the time, so all he could make out from the vivid writing, was something about konoha. It didn't take him long enough to realise that the date marked was today, the day they were all going to Konoha.

Shibirin forced himself downstairs and down to his basement. He took hold of his katana, along with its sheath and made his way up to the living room. His mother took one glance at him and said, "Where do you think you're going without any pants on?". Shibirin was confused to why the woman had asked such a thing, but he soon found out when he took a look at his feet and saw no pants on. He rushed back upstairs and quickly slipped on his long, black pants. He also wore his long-sleeved, white polo shirt with a long, black tie and only the last three buttons left un-buttoned. He took hold of his glasses and put them on his eyes: he could see better now. He also managed to remember to take his back pack. He had only packed his wallet, two pairs of spare clothes and an extra pair of his glasses, in case they were to break. After a visit into his bathroom and brushing his teeth, combing his hair and slapping on some deodorant, he made his way outside, kissing his mum's cheek on the way out.
He made his way through the village, taking in most of the buildings around, for he wasn’t going to see them for a while, until he got back from the trip. He saw children running up the streets and children playing in the park. The sight of such innocent things doing innocent things, made Shibirin forcing out smirk. He eyed the children as they played, keeping in mind that he used to be exactly like them when he was younger: free of duties and loaded with lots of wild imaginations. He often dreams that he was a child again, but then at the same time, he knew reality and fantasy should never meet, so he quickly got the thought out of his head and continued walking, until he arrived at the meeting spot, the kazekage had chosen.
He eyed the three nin that had made it here so far, however his smirk from before had been wiped away from his lips, leaving nothing more than a blank, straight line. He threw his attention towards Norahike, he just hoped he wouldn’t try one of his ‘Taking off your arm’ pranks whilst Shibirin had his guard down. Very quickly and emotionlessly, he switched his gaze to the direction of Rikuto, a smile brushed over his lips. He barely knew the boy, but already he felt like he had known him for years. He just admired his innocent aura, something not many genins at his age have. Lastly, the Genko member looked towards Gin and surely a half-smirk; half-frown could be seen. He knew she couldn’t stand her, her mistake for taking his ‘joke’ too seriously, but at the same time, secretly he was proud she was the kazekage, otherwise they wouldn’t get chances like these to visit other places.
Shibirin made his way towards a stone bench, which he had spotted at his arrival to this spot. He didn’t bother to sit on it, he merely used it to rest his right leg on top of and as a clean area to dump his bags. He looked to his side, over to the others and said, ”So, who else is coming?”. He couldn’t care less about whether or not he received an answer, he just said it to notify the others that he was there and not ignoring them.

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Sake rolled over in the bed. It was so warm, so soft. Damn, Gin had a really, REALLY comfortable bed. Sake hugged the pillow, probably drooling a little bit. He was having the most amazing dream. 20 years in the future, he and Gin had kids: Gake and Sin. They were all in the field- fields in Suna? – having a picnic, but they ran out of potato salad. Sake had to run to Konoha to make the salad again, and quickly get back. Sake had hit paradise; he had just achieved ultimate peace. Of course it didn’t last long. Sake was awoken from his deep slumber by a loud scream in his ear. He woke up to see Gin there, smiling at him. She was commanding him already, apparently they were going to Konoha, on no notice whatsoever. Sake had vague recollections of the prior night; he had definitely had one too many shots. Gin and Sake were both most certainly wasted, and talking about virginity among other topics. He remembered taking a shot off of Gin’s stomach, her laughing at a stupid look on his face, and stumbling into bed, that was about it really. Sake stumbled into the bathroom, the inevitable hangover headache beginning to take effect. The light really hurt his eyes, and the cold water he splashed on his face only intensified the pain of the headache. He jumped into the shower to get rid of the strong scent of stale alcohol on his body. The warm water was soothing, Sake felt like going back to sleep in the shower. Why did they even need to go to Konoha, he could just stay home and sleep. Then again, Gin had mentioned something about not taking no for an answer, and that she would be pissed at Sake if he didn’t go. After scrubbing himself thoroughly with many layers of soap, Sake hopped out of the shower, drying himself swiftly.

Sake gathered his stuff into his backpack. For the first time in years, he actually had belongings, not many belongings mind you; it didn’t matter to Sake, he had stuff and that was all that mattered. He stuck in his paper which he was writing up blueprints for his puppet on. He stuffing in an old pen, and some extra clothes. He also packed some instant food, just in case he ran short of money to buy food in Konoha. Gin was already halfway through the door by the time he was ready, so he ran after Gin, tripping over as he did so. After dusting himself off and catching up to Gin, Sake walked by the side of her, trying to keep a serious look on his face. He turned to her, speaking in a loud, deep voice.
“So why do we need to go to Konoha anyway? It’s not like I have any business being there”
Sake knew that his words would more than likely earn him a solid punch, but he genuinely wanted to know why they needed to go to Konoha, especially seeing as he had no reason to be there.

Gin leaned against the edge of the wall that surrounded Suna. She crossed her arms over her chest and began to watch everyone approach the meeting place. She hadn't really noticed that Sake had followed closely behind her. But that just made things better. It meant that she didn't have to wait as long for everyone else to get there. Next came Norahike, bringing a much needed breakfast along with him. "Thanks," She said as she took one of the doughnuts and ate it happily. She usually ate much more for breakfast, but she supposed that it would have to do for now. After all, they were on a tight schedule. She wanted to make it over to Konoha in under two days. She could probably make the time without breaking a sweat, but she had Genin travelling with her. She couldn't really push them that hard.

The young Kazekage grinned widely as she saw Rikuto approach the scene. He looked scared, but then again he almost always did as far as she could tell. "Glad that you could join us, kid," She greeted him. She knew she had given him strict orders to come with them to Konoha, but she hadn't really expected him to actually come. She thought he would try to hide under his bed or something instead. She tilted her head to the side as Sake spoke to her, asking why exactly, his presence was needed. Something about what he said ticked her off slightly, though she couldn't really tell what it was. "I have business with the Hokage, not to mention the fact that every village leader except for me, is there on diplomatic purposes. I just thought you'd like to tag along, seeing as I won't be back for over a month." She said, sounding slightly mad. No, that wasn't the word. She wasn't really mad at him. She was... offended? Yes, that could describe it a little more accurately. She was offended that he would rather stay behind. "So much for love," She thought. "If you want to stay, it's fine by me," She finished.

At that moment, the last member of their party approached the entrance of Sunagakure. She saw his silver hair from a distance and groaned. She didn't really want to deal with the boy, but she basically had no choice. "Shibirin, good to see you here," She said, sounding quite unenthusiastic. "All of us are here," She answered his question with a sight. She stood up straight and started to head through the gates. "Now, I want all of you to keep up with my pace, got it?" She ordered sternly and began running towards her destination. Soon enough, she would reach the gates of Konoha.

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Nora offers breakfast to everyone systematically as they arrived not caring whether anyone but the kage took the food or not as the kages bodyguard he couldn’t let her go hungry while he ate. Nora greeted everyone happy to see that all of his students were coming they were gonna have fun in konoha. He had only met each of them a handful of times but by far Shibirin was his favorite He was disrespectful but entertaining and unpredictable. He had some things in common with Rikuto(they both played instruments) and Sake( puppeteer). As for the kage she was interesting and attractive, but she could work on her people skills. Rather funny that a puppeteer that pleasured in removing the limbs of other people; not to mention his occasional role playing would say that a person needed to work on their people skills but this kage needed just that.

Nora started to munch on a doughnut it was sweet and delicious ‘Suna had the best sweets on the planet, they may not have the toughest ninja’ he thought while looking at Rikuto but one could beat them at sweets. He takes his puppet off his back as he sits down waiting for the rest of their group to finally meet them he looks his puppet over making sure all of it’s parts were in the right way and all of his blades were sharpened the whole process generally took about 30 minutes but seeing as he was only doing this to pass the time it wasn’t even necessary thus he was only testing it half heartedly.

”So, who else is coming?”
He looked up at Shibirin as he approached the group he smiles at him and says quickly, “everyone in my ninja squad, and of course the kazekage” he offers the genin breakfast due to the fact that he was in an awesome mood. He looked at the rest of the group with a mile giving breakfast to anyone he missed.

So why do we need to go to Konoha anyway? It’s not like I have any business being there”
“Several reasons” he says with a smile “but primarily because I must start training you guys eventually and why not start at the chunin exams. All other reasons are a little bit above your pay grade.” He says this firmly but respectfully an unusual trait for the maniacal jonin.

"Now, I want all of you to keep up with my pace, got it?"
Nora looked at his heavy puppet apprehensively he looked at her and realized that he might lag a little bit behind the kazekage didn’t even have to carry her swords. He hope she realized that some of them had a puppet riding shotgun. At least he could keep up better than the genin, that way he could keep the young ninja and the kage safe from harm.
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Shibirin forced out a smirk when the kazekage had said it was nice to see him. Though the two hated each other’s guts, they were still human with human feelings. Shibirin replied to her, ”Nice to see you too,” before directing his attention towards Norahike. It was nice that the guy had brought some food to eat as breakfast; Shibirin certainly hadn’t remembered to have his. He raised one hand in the air and beckoned for him to come towards where he was. ”I don’t mind a donut or two,” he said, not wanting to be ungrateful to the guy. Shibirin ate both of the donuts in to time; this was probably because he was hungry. He didn’t usually have an appetite, but when he was hungry he’d eat anything if it were edible.

He saw Sake had come with the Kazekage to the location. ’Do they live with each other?’ he thought to himself, for he had no idea the two were ‘a thing’. No, no one informed him of anything that goes around Suna, in fact he was shocked that someone had told him about this trip, otherwise he would’ve been left alone in the village with nothing else to do than count grains of sand. When he was all ready to go, he started making his way out the village gates, regardless of whether the others were following behind or not. He wasn’t the most patient guy, he hated staying in one spot for a long time, but he wasn’t going to travel all the way to konoha alone, he’d slow down once the others have caught up and walk with them the rest of the way.

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Nora seemed to pass by everyone and offer some food to them. When he reached Rikuto, he held one hand up to decline it. He had already eaten breakfast and wasn't too hungry at the moment. Later on, he'd eventually get hungry from the longevity of the trip. When he put his hand up, it caused he to stop playing since two hands were required for the song he was playing. Rikuto shrugged his shoulders and put his ocarina away. The other had been talking to one another and asking a few questions. None of which generally pertained to himself. Once he had stretched a little in place and made sure his limbs were limber, he walked over to be a little bit closer to the rest of the group. Although he didn’t feel up to the traveling bit, he was still a bit excited for the fact that he would be able to explore a new place. A lot of the people seemed to be leaving Suna to go to Konoha. It was an adventure for Rikuto, but he wasn’t quite sure of the others. Gin might have influenced then to tag along. She certainly influenced Rikuto by threatening him to go. He took a deep breath as he continued to think out why everyone was there. Exhaling, he decided to let go of the thought and continue walking. One thing was still in his mind as he walked. “I’m staying away from Gin for this trip…”

"Now, I want all of you to keep up with my pace, got it?"
Gin had issued an order for the rest to follow as she started a steady running pace. As soon as she made one step, a few of the others followed. Rikuto noticed that Nora was a bit farther behind then the rest. Most likely had to do with his puppet. It looked heavy from Rikuto's point of view. A quick thought bounced in his mind before he finally decided on where his place should be in the travel formation. He'd stick next to Nora. Nora was his teacher and he never really got to know him. He was odd, but comical to Rikuto. Plus the fact that Nora looked like he would need some help with his puppet. But if his little prediction of Nora’s personality was correct, Nora’s puppet would be like Rikuto and his ocarina. Rikuto generally didn’t like it when others handled his belongings. Especially his ocarina. After he was done thinking, he matched his speed with Nora and looked up at Nora. “Uh... Hi Nora... how are you doing...?” His voice was still nervous sounding, but it was naturally like that.

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Suprisingly Gin hadn’t punched Sake after his question, instead she gave him a reasonable answer. Sake was more than willing to go to Konoha, he just wasn’t sure why. Well if Gin was going to be gone for more than a month, Sake was going to follow. He wondered what he would do in Konoha. Gin would be on diplomatic duty, he didn’t have any friends in the village, he had only had brief encounters with Rikuto and Razor. Sake would probably find the nearest bar and drink until he dropped. He really didn’t have much else to do. Unless he found a genin with an attitude, that would be nice. Then Sake would slam that prick’s head into the wall. Not a good idea actually, Gin would get mad, Sake would get kicked out of Konoha and Suna would look bad. Well, back to the drinking plan then, yep.

There was a pretty nice turnout at the meeting location, everyone who Sake knew in Konoha was there. His entire team was there in fact, Shibirin, Rikuto and Norahike, his sensei. Sake sat down and rested for a bit, the hangover headache still bothering him. He was pleased to see Norahike come around with breakfast. Sake took a doughnut and a cup of tea, bowing his thanks to Norahike before devouring the meal. The breakfast gave Sake a huge boost, the tea giving him a nice burst of energy. Sake was more than pumped to go to Konoha, now that the breakfast had lifted him off his feet. Actually, he felt something in him, what was it, Excitement? Either way, Sake was raring to go. Sake set off running, meeting Konoha Soon…..

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