The world was moving outside of her slumbering mind. Unbeknownst to the sleeping Fuyuko her partner had already started their waking up routine. While subconsciously she was aware that things were going on, she had no clue what those things were exactly. The bed was warm, her head comfortably resting on her feather soft pillow. The slight movements that were made by Takao were noticed but physically ignored. Fuyuko had no intention of lifting her head from her pillow or even opening her eyes for that matter. The comfort she found herself in in this fleeting moment was just too great to give up. As if she was put under hypnosis, the soft sound that was made as the door to her room closed again, put her right back to sleep again. Drifting off again into the world of fluffy clouds.

Time flew by slowly or quickly, it was all a matter of perspective after all. But eventually a warm feeling was felt again against her skin. Followed up by the soft spoken words from the person she had been sharing the bed with. He uttered words however that she would rather not hear and so decided to pretend not to hear him. Hoping that he would go away and let her rest for a bit more. If he were to continue, which he likely was, she'd start off with a bunch of grumbling noises of annoyance. How dare he wake her from her joyful sleep. Eventually she'd squeeze her eyelids tighter together, move her hands above her head and make squealing stretching noises before finally opening her eyes and looking over at Takao. With the softest sleepy voice she could probably make she spoke "Morning Takao". They'd probably exchange a couple of more sentences before she'd eventually tell him to get out of the room if he didn't leave himself. They might have been going out together for a while now, but Fuyuko was definitely not yet at the point where she could just change while he was in the room with her.

Eventually she'd come out of her room and meet Takao again in the living/dining room where a breakfast was made ready for her. She walked over to her chair and got herself seated. "This look delicious Takao, thank you." she said with her usual gentle smile. She slowly gobbled on her food as the grogginess had not yet subsided. In everything she did it was quite evident she was still somewhat absent minded and slow on the uptake. This included things like moving the food to her mouth, the way she turned her head slowly, or the slow pace at which she was speaking. Besides that she was still capable of noticing a pile of papers that was laid out on the table in a rather disorganized pile. It took a little bit for the gears in her head to get to 'full' working capacity but when they did she finally managed to get her question out. "What are those papers about?" she asked while pointing at them with her fork.


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“Oh yeah… the mission…” she thought to herself as Takao was explaining the content of the papers. She had completely forgotten that they had signed up for a mission together. Oh well it didn’t matter too much, Takao was there to pick up her slack. Normally such a thing wouldn’t happen but Fuyuko hasn’t been feeling the greatest ever since death camp. In fact, she blamed herself so much for her poor performance in the opening ‘act’ of the camp that she resigned pretty much from the rest of it. She had to figure out how to coop with the feelings she had inside first before she could present herself again in front of Nozomi.

Her somewhat somber trail of though got interrupted as Takao said something interesting. Just like herself he participated in the Chuunin exams. It made her wonder how he faired in his exams. “Chuunin exams? How did you fare in the Chuunin exams?” she asked as she looked eagerly at Takao for his answer. If he would inquire on how her exams went she’d reply with the following. “My exams went overall pretty good, however if I’m too happy with my performance, I’m still unsure. The initial tests went off pretty well and I could complete them without any real hardships. However when it came to the last stage it… I guess it was something else…” she said with a small smile trying to hide the feelings that still felt sore. “My first match was pretty aggravating. My opponent started out acting cocky and then when push came to shove nothing happened. I was just overpowering them and then they surrendered sounding like they just held back. It infuriated me, I was livid.” Fuyuko’s voice became more agitated and raised the more she told about her first fight but calmed down after that. “The second match was hard fought and I honestly felt like I had lost the match, but it turned out I just barely won by having dealt more damage to my opponent. It was a hard fought match and definitely one I enjoyed and lets not talk about the last match…” she stated as she somewhat awkwardly laughed and scratched behind her head.

Idle conversation ensued before they both finished their plates and Takao moved the dishes to the kitchen and started to clean them before he spoke up again. Fuyuko was slightly surprised by the question and had honestly forgotten that he was just her on vacation in the first place. “I…” she hesitated a little bit with her answer. “I’d love to join you of course! But I’m not sure if I’ll have all my businesses concluded here before that time arrives. However if I got all my tasks completed before you leave, I will gladly accompany you to your village.” She said with joy and hesitation in her voice. “But we can talk about this when we get home from the mission, alright? We should focus on that first for now.” She followed up with a smile.


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Fuyuko did her usual mission prep before the two of them would head out to meet the accompanying group. Fuyuko was left with a slightly unpleasant taste in her mouth as the greetings happened. She was very displeased with how two of the three were treating Takao. Luckily one of them was nice, obviously it was a girl like her that knew how to behave. Boys were always just… immature and never grew up. She would almost bet that they would still laugh about poop and piss jokes. She could feel her blood pressure starting to rise, but did her utmost best to keep it hidden from Takao. She would just pull the two of them to the side when they would make their way over to their destination and have a short chat with them. Making sure they were going to treat him with the respect he deserved. She’d just be a little bit persuasive, making sure not to harm them in anyway however. Just take enough action to make them understand what would happen if they didn’t show some respect.

Eventually they would reach their destination and set up their camping site for the rest of their stay. The lot of them bonded a bit around the campfire before they would sleep the first night at the lands borders. It would appear that her tactics hadn’t gone completely wasted. The two who showed such little respect at least managed to keep it to themselves now, or at the very least not be so obvious about it. They did however still keep talking with Takao to a minimal, but that was at least better than the behavior they showed when they initially met up. When the sun had set below the horizon the lot of them would head into their beds and sleep the rest of the night away.

Morning came and it was time to make groups for patrolling the area. It was a vast area and it was decided it was better to split up so that they could cover a larger area quicker. They drew straws, the shortest three would team up and whatever remained would form the other group. After drawing straws the two teams were formed. Fuyuko was paired with one of the rude dudes, while Takao was paired with the other two chuunins from the group. Fuyuko was a little disheartened by it, but there wasn’t anything she could do about it. She gave him a quick hug before they departed. She would be heading east along the coast while the other group would head west.

Patrolling with the other dude was rather boring, perhaps it was due to the fact how she had threatened him before, but Fuyuko didn’t really feel the need to change it either. She was just there to do her job. And so she walked and walked as the sun slowly rose high into the sky. Nothing happened, there were just the vast empty beach accompanied by the salty ocean breeze. Until they would eventually stumble upon something in the distance. The slowly closed the distance between what initially was just a big vague blob. Eventually it would turn out to be a big group of people. “We got to run and get Takao and the others. There’s no way we can do this by ourselves!” She said in an ordering fashion. They might be of the same rank but there was no way that she was going to get back talk from her companion at this point. She grabbed him by the neck and dragged him along until he would start to run himself.

Having opened up a gap between the group and themselves Fuyuko ordered him to keep running till he would reach Takao’s group and get them to come over here. In the mean time she would shadow the group from the forest not far from the beach. Make sure that she would not lose sight of the group so that they couldn’t do anything fishy while they were out of sight. Seeing as she could see the group, the group surely could see her as well. They would probably advance their own agenda now that they had been spotted.

She dashed into the woods and tried to move as silently possible back in the direction of where she had spotted the big group. Eventually she would spot them again from the tree line. They hadn’t moved yet but they sure seemed in a hurry to finish preparations for things. Minutes went by and she could only wonder how long it would be before the rest of the group showed up. Eventually the group of possible enemies would start to move, there was no time left to wait on back-up she would need to stall right here, right now.

So Fuyuko jumped out of the shadows and confronted them. A bit of dialogue followed between herself and someone that would appear to be the leader. From the conversation it became clear they were planning an attack against the nation, so there was nothing she could do but stop them right here. She tried dragging out the conversation as long as possible. Buy as much time as possible so that Takao could show up. Unfortunately this wasn’t possible as the enemy group advanced on her location. A big group of people came running towards her with their battle cries out. She weaved the bird, horse, rat and snake signs. Holding on the last sign and channeling a whole bunch of chakra as she did so. Letting them all close the gap drastically until they got really close to her. When they were within the desired range she would place her hand on the ground and the seal would instantly unfold itself at detecting foreign chakra natures.

Like flies all the assailants dropped to the ground and the immediate threat had stopped for now. The technique had left her panting a little bit however, spending almost a third of her chakra pool in a singular move was not something that the body enjoyed very much. It would just have to keep up with it for now as she was about to split it into half. There was a bigger chance of her surviving the oncoming onslaught if there were two of her. With a single seal a poof of smoke appeared besides her and a clone of herself came out of it. Now there was two of herself, thirty flies on the ground and a group at least twice that size still left to be dealt with. Please be here fast Takao, is all she could think at this moment.


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Fuyuko had jumped back a little bit from where she had originally placed the seal, standing with her clone close to the tree line. Making it harder for her to get surrounded and an easier way to breakaway if it was required. Further it would give herself a better time preparing for the oncoming charge of the rest of the gang.

She got startled from the rustles that came from behind. Had someone already managed to get behind her and corner her? She got quite worried at the thought and so turned around to see what was coming. But before she could fully turn around a black shadow jumped over head and landed between herself and the small army. It moved far too fast for her to instantly recognize who or what it was until it slowed down and stood still on the ground. Followed up by a gigantic wall of fire that came out of his mouth, separating the two of them and the army for the time being. A small had already appeared on both of Fuyuko’s faces before Takao had even managed to turn around. Her knight in shining armor had already appeared or was it a knight from darkness? It didn’t really matter. Her savior was here and was worried about her in his typical fashion.

Both of the clone and the real Fuyuko chuckled a little bit at the mans usual goofiness. Even in a situation like this he managed to lighten up her day as if he was a beacon of light. “Yes I’m okay, just a little out of breath at expending so much chakra quickly.” The clone replied as she put her hand on his gentle caring hand. The real Fuyuko walked over to the other two whilst talking herself. “You silly goose, that’s not the real me, although I’ll experience it still as such when she disappears.” Having closed the gap she tip-toed and reached for his cheek, giving a gentle peck on it as a token of appreciation for coming to her aid. However it was time for the two or three of them to focus on the task at hand. As much as she wanted the somewhat weirdly romantic scene to keep going, there was still a small army only a couple of meters away from them. An army that would most likely not wait on them to finish whatever they were doing.  “Shall we get to it?” she suggested with a small sigh.

The crackling fire combined with her sealing technique had kept the army at bay while Takao made sure she was okay. He was such a caring person that even in the midst of battle he cared more about her wellbeing than the imminent threat. She couldn’t help but feel grateful and lucky for having found such a man and to be able to call him hers. However the butterfly feelings would have to be pushed to the back of her mind for now. There was a battle about to begin, or rather resume, and having such thoughts would only be a distraction.

And so without waiting any longer herself and her clone started to run towards the right edge of the flame to make their way around it and start to beat up a ‘couple’ of the opposition. Just as she made it around the corner she was met with more than a handful of militias that seemed eager to teach her a lesson. The two of them prepared themselves and hand to hand combat would ensue. Fuyuko had initially expected that fighting a large amount would be difficult, however once the actual fighting had started it turned out to be a lot easier than expected. Their punches and kicks were slow and without strength. Her own physical capabilities weren’t all that impressive, at least not in her eyes, but the strength of these guys was… lackluster. She couldn’t help but wonder how could these guys possibly think the could invade a country like this? How were they ever going to defeat the power of the Kirigakure military if just herself and a clone were able to occupy so many of them. It wasn’t in her nature, but the thought was almost laughable.

She let one of the brutes gently hit her on the face so that he could ‘slap’ the distracting thoughts out of her mind. There was no time to have herself be distracted. While he capabilities might be eclipsing that of the opposition, it didn’t mean that they weren’t capable of hurting her at all. With her mind cleared again she fully focused on the task at hand again. The battle moved around quite a lot all to ensure that she wouldn’t end up being completely surrounded. It was one thing for her to fight outnumbered with everyone in front of her, it was another thing to have to do that while she was surrounded. The chances for injuries would exponentially sky rocket and it wasn’t really something she was looking forward to either. Besides she want to become better, not have to rely as much on others and further she might be able to impress Takao if she was able to handle so many opponents without his help. Grunts and moans accompanied by the sound of clashing metal was what filling the battlefield. There were next to non jutsu’s being used as well, which was probably to her own advantage seeing as there were only two of herself and over 50 of the opposition. She probably couldn’t defend from all the techniques they potentially could throw at her. Then again, they would probably end up hitting each other. They might have been a big group, but they seemed far from an organized group.

Slowly but surely Fuyuko was capable of forcing them to the ground decreasing the numbers of their aggressors. There was no time however to finish them off, that would require too much commitment to a single a person and would probably result in her receiving an injury from another person. But just having them on the ground and out for the count wasn’t in particular a bad thing either. They couldn’t case any more harm while they’re laying there nor were they any threat to herself any more. Slowly but surely their numbers dwindled and an end seemed to come insight. Some bruises and scrapes started to build up, it was the first fight that she participated in where she was kept busy for so long. Just fighting, no breaks. So it was inevitable that she would slip up sometimes and end up with some injuries, luckily due to their own lack of strength and skill they were all minor at best.

Eventually after a couple of minutes of intense battling, trading blows and clashing metal it came to an end. Panting she and her clone stood victories. Bodies lying on the floor left and right suffering from their own injuries and fatigue. What was she to do now? The mission was to patrol the border and keep the land safe. It didn’t say anything in particular about having to kill anyone that would trespass. While the village would most likely order such a thing if they knew about it, they didn’t at the moment. So did they have to do it? Couldn’t they just let them go back to where they came from and just let them be?

She made her way over to Takao if he hadn’t already made his way over to her. With sweat dripping down her forehead and a heavy breath she posed the question that had been plaguing her mind. “So… what do we do now?” she asked as her eyes scanned over the battlefield. She was sure she didn’t have to elaborate more on the question. It was pretty obvious, at least it was to her. The sound that mused through the air was just that of groaning and grunting man and woman. They were victorious in their battle, but now they were left with a dilemma. One that she really wished she didn’t have to face. Why did the village have to obliterate all of the jails? They could’ve perfectly all be going in there and pay their ‘debt’ there, now there was only death or life, nothing in between.

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