The long winded path hidden in Iwagakure's Valley of Mountains, broken on several places, would once again serve the kunoichi-now-hermit well. Smothered against the immortal mountains on one side, taunted by the wide open depths where the storms raged through unbridled on the other side, moving across the Trial of a Thousand Stairs was an arduous task even to the trained body of the hermit. Her only respite would be a small shrine in the middle of the two-days long trek which she would not fail to visit. Even if she was not one to put a lot of value in local kami, this was a place where she preferred to avoid its possible wrath. Just in case.