Beep. Beep. Beep.

it was 2 A.M. and kaekio's body was still sore from extensive training she did in that cave just the other day. during the mean time she had got permission from sano to travel to kirigakure to finish her senjutsu training. she woke up, and stretched her arms. the cuts she had were healing alright. kaekio reached over and turned off her alarm, and let out another yawn. she was getting up this early because she wanted to make it to kirigakure sooner, and it would be better if she set out in the cover of night. less travel on the main roads that way. which meant she could get to her destination a lot faster, which was always nice. she swung her legs off of her bed, and stood up. her body ached, but it was nothing like what she had just felt a few day prior. she could easily handle this. kaekio took off her pajama's and walked a crossed her house naked, into her bathroom where she took a shower. once she was done with her shower, she dried off, and wrapped a towel around herself to pack. she packed her two of her typical outfit, a few letters from nozomi, her ryo, and a nice red dress she had. then she went and found her two black swords, and put them in their sheathes, along with her kunai and shurken in their pouches. she also went ot the lengths of polishing her kumogakure headband. she was going to be representing the entire village while she was out and about and wanted to look nice. she then put on a third set of her standard outfit, the her headband semi-loosely around her neck. she then put on her kunai pouch on her right thigh and her swords in an X shape on her back. then she put on her Ryuzoji robe over it all, and then put on her back pack full of her stuff. and with all of that she was ready to start her journey.

Kaekio paused and looked at her living room one last time before she closed and locked the door. this would be the last time she saw her house for awhile. but she was going to be a whole lot stronger when she came back. she wass now going to finish the next step in her sage mode training, and become a full fledged sage. the people of legend. and a wolf sage to boot. although that did mean she had to spend a considerable amount of time with wolves in order to accomplish this task. so she might become a sage... if she doesn't get eaten alive first. but that brought the next thought into her mind. what was her new training going to be like? surely, and hopefully it would be different than her last sage training. she wasn't sure if she had the drive to go through that a second time around. her body shook at the mere thought of it. so what would it be like? she guessed she would find out when she got there. but then the next thought crossed her mind. she would get to see nozomi. after long last, she would finally get to see her girlfriend. that one thought put a zip in kaekio's step as she practically ran out the village. her heart race, butterflies fluttered in her stomach, and blush ran wild on her face as she walked in the early morning. nozomi. that adorable ball of blonde cuteness. she had written kaekio almost everyday since the chunin exams, and kaekio had read every single one of them. it filled her heart every time she saw she had mail from her. although she could tell nozomi was feeling kind of down that kaekio hadn't written her back. but hopefully kaekio could make that up to her when she got to kirikgakure. "nozomi!" kaekio said out loud after the village was out of sight and ear shot "hold on a bit longer dear... i'm coming."

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