Chapter 3: Chapter 3
Hello! A little bit of a time skip, no more than a couple months. ~LeViAcKeRmAnN
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"Gai, you don't mind it if Tenten is drafted to another mission?" Iruka asked, glancing up from a scroll. "I can find another unattached genin if you need three genin while she's gone."
"Tenten, you do not mind?" Gai boomed. Tenten shook her head, and Gai turned back to Iruka. "Two genin will be sufficient! We were going to do D-ranks this week anyway! Two genin is plenty for D-ranks!"
Iruka looked like he was in pain from the sheer volume of Gai, but he nodded anyway and managed a smile. "Thank you, Gai. Now, did you want a D-rank?"
"That would be wonderful!" Gai exclaimed.
Iruka glanced down at his list. "We have three weeding missions, two painting missions, and another Catch Tora."
Gai looked at his two male students to decide.
"We'll take the weeding missions," Neji decided.
Lee ran forward to fetch them, then raced out of the door, Gai close behind, and Neji following at a leisurely pace.
Tenten shifted awkwardly, suddenly the only person at the mission desk. "So, what's my mission?"
"Genma requested you for an easy C-rank to Uzushio. Your teammates are Genma Shirunai and Yuugao Uzuki. Meet them at the east gate tomorrow at noon, alright? Pack for about two weeks." Iruka smiled kindly at her, handing her the scroll with the mission details on it.
Tenten took the scroll with a short bow and hurried out. Should she pack then continue with the creating a space/time seal? Or go try and join her teammates and pack later.
She paused as she remembered that Neji had selected the three weeding missions. … Nevermind, she'd go pack now. She hated weeding missions, the boys always got very worked up and ended up doing basically all of it themselves. She did not appreciate it at all.
She returned to her apartment, pulled out her mission backpack, and started packing, clothes going into a storage seal before being placed in, rations and soldier pills into a second, smaller seal, and placed in the front pocket, then food and stuff into another scroll, camping supplies like her tent and bedroll went in next, and her many weapons scrolls went in last, filling up the remaining space.
Finally, she refilled her kunai pouches, and settled down for lunch, and to work on her project, a way to forcefully kawarimi someone with one of her weapons.
Maybe a two seal set up would work, one of the weapons she wanted the person to swap with, and the other on the person…
Tenten worked until the sun started setting, at which point she cooked dinner, and then went to bed. She had a mission in the morning, after all.
In the morning she cooked breakfast, finishing off the last of her perishables that would go bad during the two weeks she'd be away. She could seal them away, but that was too much trouble for now.
She showered and dressed, then walked out of the door. It was still kind of early, so she went to the weapons shop nearby, and browsed the weapons for a while, eventually getting an extra set of kunai and shuriken. Could never have enough kunai and shuriken.
As she really didn't have anything to do, but didn't want to be too tired, she just walked to the east gate to wait. She stopped at a book shop when a book on Fuuinjutsu in the display caught her eye. Might as well have reading material for the walk. Assuming they were walking, and not tree hopping, although Gai-sensei had suggested working out how to multitask, like reading a book while hopping through the trees.
She got the book she'd spotted, and another one on the Uzumaki clan, sitting down to read them near the east gate.
"Kushina-sama took something of a personal offense to that book. She'd rant about it for hours," Genma said, landing next to her without sound.
Tenten blinked at him, looking down at the book she was holding. The Uzumaki clan one. "Is it very incorrect?"
Genma nodded, sitting down beside her. "And not just outdated, Kushina would insist that she was pretty sure the person wrote the book based on rumors of Uzushio, and hadn't actually gone there."
Tenten stared at the book for a moment, then stuck it into her backpack. "Oh well, I was just curious."
"No problem with that," Genma said. "I can tell you what I know on the way, and Yuugao may be able to tell you more then me."
Tenten glanced up to spot the purple haired woman coming towards them. "Why?"
"Well, she was born there," Genma said, waving to the woman. "Here she comes now."
"Are you going to get up so we can leave?" She asked as she approached.
Genma shrugged lazily. "Maybe? We still have another ten minutes before we're supposed to leave."
Tenten snickered. This was one of the few times she'd actually seen this side of the special jounin. It mostly happened when he wanted to annoy someone. It was very clearly working this time, the woman glaring at him.
"Perhaps we should leave now, the sooner we go, the sooner we get back," Tenten suggested after a moment.
"Thank you," Yuugao said, sighing.
"Fine," Genma groaned, dragging himself up. Tenten rose to her feet far more smoothly, adjusting her backpack once she was on her feet.
"How far is it to Uzushio?" Tenten asked Genma as Yuugao signed them out.
"Two to three weeks at civilian pace. 2-3 days, give or take, for a shinobi," he replied easily. "We'll be maybe 4 days? Probably depends on your stamina and speed."
"It's not as good as Lee or Neji's," Tenten admitted. "But I'm working on it."
"Your teammates are a tiny green monster child of Gai's, and a Hyuuga, who's been training basically since he could walk. Don't try and compare yourself. It gets you nowhere." Genma patted her shoulder as Yuugao came back.
"We're good to go. Let's get moving," she said, leading them out of the gate.
They leaped up into the trees, moving quickly, although not as quickly as the speed drills Gai had them do occasionally.
"So, I suppose an easy way to tell you about Uzushio would be proving the book wrong. So, first thing the book says about Uzushio?" Genma ran beside her, sending an amused glance at her backpack, where the book was currently sitting.
Tenten thought to what little of the book she had read. "Uhm, Uzushio is made up of the Uzumaki clan only."
"False," Yuugao called back.
"Yeah," Genma agreed, scoffing quietly. "There were two clans on Uzushio, the Uzumaki, and the smaller Uzuki clan. Yuugao's parents, and by extension her, are from the Uzuki clan."
"What's the Uzuki clan do?" Tenten asked, curious.
"They use musical genjutsu. When we get back, I'll dig up an old bingo book that belonged to my mom back before Uzushio fell. There'll probably be at least one Uzuki in there."
"How does it work?" Tenten wondered, trying to apply her current, admittedly limited, knowledge of genjutsu to an instrument.
"You'd be better off asking Yuugao," Genma admitted. "I'm not quite sure how it works, but I think she knows at least the basics. Maybe when we stop for the night you can ask. What's the next thing?"
"The Uzumaki only specialized in space/time seals. I did think that a bit odd." Tenten frowned slightly.
"Also incorrect," Genma said, laughing quietly. "The Uzumaki were split into five branches, each specializing in a different kind of seal. Kushina-sama was from the branch that actually did space/time seals."
"Oh cool," Tenten settled on, breathing slightly heavier.
"You still good to run for another few hours?" Genma asked.
Tenten nodded, choosing not to waste her breath.
"Well, tell me if you need to slow down or rest," Genma said. "You're a genin, haven't even been one for a year, and are not expected to keep up with two highly trained jounin. No one would expect you to."
Tenten nodded again, stubbornly continuing on and keeping up with them.
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