Sarada had smirked after hearing Shiroma tease her about killing her squad. The idea was preposterous, yet intriguing at the same time. Never keeping her eyes off of Nori, she replied,”If I intended to kill you and set a record, I likely may have accomplished that in the Lord’s building. That’s would’ve been the record.” Nanami eventually came by them all, simultaneously diagnosing her teammates effectively. ”You’re going to be okay. Lady Sakura is on sight if Nanami cannot do this but considering her training, I have no doubt in her ability,” she removed her hand noticing the wince when she touched her. ”Perhaps you can tell that story better next time if you actually make a successful hit,” she teased before standing up. Several minutes as Sarada waited patiently. All the girls insisted she get healed. ”I don’t require healing, thank you. I’m just drained if anything. None of you managed to make me take any damage,” she teased.

Nori watched as Nanami came over and knelt down beside her and Shiroma. With the hand that she put on her shoulder, she lightly winced but soon saw herself start to glow. She could feel her fatigue begin to fade away within seconds and the pain she had felt internally from the burn marks on her skin began to subside. Although, it seemed that her burns were taking the longest as the damage to it was a lot more severe than anything else. Luckily the only thing she was directly hit with was their sensei's fist, but that was it. The burns were more than enough for her, but even they could cause more damage than any hit could have done. She watched as her skin began to slowly replenish before it turned it's normal hue again, which she was thankful for. She was honestly afraid that the burns were going to leave some kind of permanent scarring. However, with Nanami's superb medical skills, it seemed that she had nothing to worry about. Feeling her body completely replenished and renewed, Nori turned her head up and looked at her friend. "Thanks, Nanami," she said with a small smile before she looked back over to Sarada."If only I had been a few milliseconds faster than you, sensei, I think you would have been the one eating dust." She lightly smirked before she pushed herself up into a sitting position.

Nanami would give the same look that Sakura gave Nanami when saying she didn't need to be healed "We can't start a mission with you having even the smallest exploit, and I wouldn't be doing my job as the team's medical shinobi if I let our Sensei have any hindrances in the upcoming mission." She blinks letting out a breath "And it will only take a moment for me to scan you for any injuries. However small the bruise or cut. Both can cause other issues." She extends her hand towards Sarada "Let me check you for any such injury, please Sensei."

She didn't expect Sarada to let her, but hoped Sarada would "You were impressive, Sensei." Her eyes glance over to Nori "I thought you had Sensei as well, Nori. She is a Jonin for a reason right?" She smiled trying to make light of the situation. Nanami wondered how Sarada would judge them in such a short fight.

Shirmoa smirked slightly shaking her head at their Sensei’s clearly teasing tone a she spoke about them not touching her.  She was rather sure they hadn’t left a mark on her but at the same time she could hope after all there was a lot of fracturing ice when she stopped the attack  and she hadn’t been using her famed Sharingan so she might not have dodged them all. Shiroma nodded agreeing with Nanami both about her thinking Nori had her and how impressive Sadara was. “I must agree Sensei that though I’m not at all surprised at the outcome of the sparring match, I am rather shocked in your choices to stop…well specifically my attack.  I hadn’t thought of that weakness to it before, it relying on the ground being stable. Not sure if I can do anything to modify it to correct that weakness though.” She was chewing on her lip slowly clearly thinking through the sparing match.

Sarada was in fact facinstated in Nori’s quick attempt on her and even though it failed the way it did, she was impressed none the less. She sighed holding out her hand to Nanami, giving in to the girls of their concern. ”Make it quick,” she uttered before looking at them all. ”Your Attack was stable Shiroma. It caught me by surprise but I had to try and think of something quickly. Those spikes are no joke,” she praised. ”Nori, you almost had me. I actually was kinda scared in that moment when I stopped my Chidori. But I was just a tad quicker,” she explained. Truthfully Sarada admitted to herself that technique would’ve been the finishing for her. It was a scary thought and knew she had to be much more careful in the future. Her Sharingan would’ve prevented that. ”Ready for your evaluations?” she asked them.

Nori was honestly a little bit surprised that Sarada had walked away from the sparring match with no injuries. The only one that she had used a clone on was her, but with Shiroma and Nanami, those were all her. Did she really not get once scratch on her? They both delivered pretty impressive attacks. They seemed almost flawless. But with their sensei being stronger than they were, she was just a little bit quicker than they were. Although, somehow it felt good when she heard her praise them on their techniques. "I'm actually pretty happy that I was able to execute it the way that I wanted to. Lee-sensei taught me so much about that state of mind when it came to executing my techniques. I'm glad I was able to at least get it off the ground," she said with a small smile as she watched Sarada hold out her hand to Nanami so that she could check her for injuries. "I'm actually interested to hear your feedback, sensei. I'm ready for my evaluation."

Nanami uses her diagnosis jutsu and scans Sarada "Minor bruising, minor cuts, joint bruising, and mild chakra fatigue." She uses her healing jutsu and patches Sarada up quickly. She listened to Nori and nodded "I am curious as well." She looks at Sarada and back to Nori "Sensei had what would be the equivalent to the minor scrapes and bruising we get when we train." Her head tilted thinking over a few things. Nanami knew she still had a long way to go before she reached the strength she wanted to be.

She looked up as a gust of wind cut across the training yard. It was nice and cool. It calmed Nanami a little bit. She was curious about what mission they would be taking on, but decided to wait until they were told about it. No need pressing her luck with their new Sensei. Her head pops from one side to the other stretching her neck muscles. The minor burns she had taken from the fire jutsu she had healed while she healed Nori and Shiroma. Nanami realized parts of her clothes were burned.

Nanami stood their with a kind smile waiting for their sensei's assessment.

Shiroma cocked her head to one side slightly at the praise but she was still seemingly lost in thought though totally aware of everything that was around her and hearing every word.  The pair of her personalities were working as one to process the feelings and observations in their chakra flow as well as what their senses told them in minute detail.  Hearing the offer to give them the evaluations she shook herself from her thought process and looked to Sarada. “Yes Sensei I would love to hear what you thought of the sparring match and out performance.”  The way that this evaluation was said would say a lot about their new Sensei’s way of leading  and Shiroma was very interested in that, not to mention what she thought of her and them as a team whole.

Nanami’s diagnosis was at to no surprise. The scrapes were from her impact with the ground with Shiroma. She wasn’t surprised with it. She used powerful ninjutsu and executed them flawlessly but at a cost of chakra depletion and bruising to her joints. It was a norm for a shinobi at her level. She did feel the aches now but they quickly went away as Nanami took the necessary procedure to heal. Sarada could’ve done it herself but allowing Nanami to treat and assess her comrades was her duty more than Sarada’s.

Shortly after, she crossed her arms across her chest and looked at them. ”It was evident what you all were trying to do. You all split off in your own directions. The silent communication and observation from each of you, your initial plan was to push to Nori being as she focuses with up close combat. Nanami was more of a distraction, Shiroma used that opportunity as a push, and Nori was suppose to finish it. Your teamwork was superb,” she commented. ”I’m trying to figure out why that teamwork couldn’t be applied to your last mission. From what I read, Shiroma is your newest addition and she fits in perfectly in the short time she’s occompanied you and went along with the plan. I don’t know if it’s because you’re trying to impress so I’ll think less of you all or you truly did work on this during your suspension. It remains to be seen,” she added. They received passing for teamwork and strategic ability.

“Nanami, I would’ve liked to see a more powerful and more unique technique. An arrow with a paper bomb was a poor choice. I know you have better arsenal than that,” she commented on Nanami’s arrow with the paper bomb.

”Shiroma, I don’t know much about your abilities. However your display was fantastic. To create your own arrows using your kekkei and that same arrow transformed into spikes. You manipulated the moisture from within the ground and fueled that to create your spikes. It’s a very interesting technique and very deadly. I can imagine this and the rest of yours work much better with proper weather conditions,” she praised. ”Of course the only weakness is the ground. An earth shinobi user would be the downfall. We will have to figure out a way to conceal that weakness,” she added. Sarada seemed to have took a liking to Shiroma’s ability as oppose to Nanami’s.

”And finally, Nori. Your technique was quick and accurate and you knew right when to strike. You picked the perfect moment. However being in the air like that leaves you very vulnerable as you saw. It took me by surprise, I will admit that. I would’ve been done for Had I not acted sooner like I did. Your training with Lee-sensei paid off. You’re the perfect fit for surprise attacks like that,” she approved.

”Neither of you took an opportunity to do anything alone which was I was not looking for. Being a lone wolf works when it’s one on one but as an entire group, you all passed. And Nanami, I know why you took the safe approach. I was judging you by your rules as a medical kunochi and for that you passed. You followed your clauses perfectly, knowing you couldn’t go head on,” she said with a small smile before it faded.

Shiroma settled back after the minor cuts were healed thanks to Nanami’s skill though she had almost forgotten about them thanks to the mild numbing effect that she constantly felt throughout most of her body.  Though she did find it strange to note that it was lessened some in the warmer climate here than in her own land, guessing that at least part of what she was missing was what would be normal for everyone going around with such thin clothing in the cold of the land of frost as she did.   Smiling slightly the white haired girl nodded in thanks of the kind words from their new Sensei, though she wasn’t totally sure it wasn’t just her being impressed by something new she hadn’t seen before.

Either way Shiroma was at least impressed with the way that Sarada choose to speak to each part of their critique. It gave her hope for the leaders of the land of fire since it was rather different from the two she had dealt with before.   The frost girl thought over what was said and then finally spoke up when their sensei had finished.

“Sensei, regarding teamwork, we did put a focus in working together and building a tighter bond over our suspension.  There is a simple reason for that; that bond was deliberately attacked on out last mission.  What I mean is that there were physiological attacks launched that were intentionally used to divide us and cause the team to break apart.” She frowned slightly before continuing. “And in truth…I am not sure when they started." She fell silent letting that thought pass needing to process it more before she could offer more information on it.  Though there were several suspicions growing in her mind.

Nanami nodded "Team work was a focus during our suspension. We worked within each others abilities, also knowing the restrictions some of us are bound by." Hearing Sarada say she wanted to see flashy "If you want to see it. What I am sure will be my signature fire jutsu in the future, I am willing." Though she didn't mind if Sarada wanted to meet the trio or not. Nanami found a tree to lean against. Her eyes went down when the previous mission was talked about. There was so much lost on that mission that it made Nanami slightly agitated. Her eyes glance to Shiroma, yet they also gained. She slight agitation that she felt melted away. She knew she would have to be infinitely stronger to kill Kotatsu. The stories she had read about the third and fourth great ninja wars. Nanami felt she needed to rise to all the challenges that come her way..

Nanami activates her chakra scalpel and flexes her hand. Her mind drifted a little. She quickly deactivates it when she realizes that her mind had drifted to her place of focus. Nanami takes a deep breath "Shiroma summed it up pretty well." Nanami hoped Sarada did not ask her to elaborate or ask her thoughts on it. It was obvious though that Nanami held a lot of anger or even hate for something or someone. Maybe even both. She took many deep breaths calming her mind and adrenaline release "Have we been assigned a mission?" She asks attempting to change the subject.

Nori stayed silent as Sarada began to speak on each of their strengths while critiquing on what could be improved upon. She was honestly a little surprised of the praise that she received from her regarding the technique she had used. It was Nori's first attempt in using it since her training with Rock Lee and to know that her speed and accuracy was spot on was definitely something she was proud of. It was all about being able to pick the right time to make that move. As Lee-sensei had mentioned to her before, using it would be extremely strenuous on the body and could cause fatigue. She had to be more careful when she used it. Executing the Eight Gates technique was going to require perfect timing and accuracy each and every time. Despite having only learned the first couple, it would take its toll but she wanted to make a goal of learning as many as she could. Rock Lee had wanted her to learn just a few for now, but was open to training her more about open learning the other six. She had to make sure that she was prepared and to ready for when that time came. Learning them wasn't as it seemed to be. "Thank you for your critique, sensei. I feel very proud of what I have been able to accomplish so far, but I am definitely open to learning more from Lee-sensei when the time is right. For now, I wish to master at least the first two gates before moving on to the others. Although it means a lot knowing that my accuracy and speed were precise. I built up on those two areas during my training, but I feel like I could work on my stamina a bit, too. Using that technique causes strain and fatigue on the body," she replied as she slowly stood up to her feet and stretched herself out.

"I can't necessarily say teamwork was at our best during this last mission, but I definitely think that it can be approved upon and that was what we were trying to focus on during our training during the suspension period. With Shiroma, I feel like we all play off each other very well. I feel like we have learned a lot and I feel like we can take on this next assignment with a better state of mind and focus." Nori didn't know exactly what this next mission was going to consist of, but  she knew that they had to do well at it. Considering everything that had happened and what Nori's state of mind had been about Sigmund, finding out she killed his brother, and learning she was adopted, she knew she had to put those things in the back of her mind. It was still a process for her to be working through these things, but she had to focus on the assignment and not so much on what she couldn't control. She wanted to help Sigmund. She wanted to bring him back. She wanted to save him, but she knew she couldn't do any of that without getting back out there and doing what she needed to do to get the answers she wanted.
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As Sarada gave her feedback to her squad, they seem to have taken it well in return. They took her feedback and had commented they would apply that to their future. As they continued to mingle around, Sarada noticed Nanami’s sudden distance on the particular topic of their previous mission. For a moment, her eyes had changed to the famous Sharingan as Nanami walked away and leaned against a tree but not too far from hearing distance. A chakra scalpel was present but quickly dispersed. That’s when they all asked her if they would be assigned a mission. That’s when she heard her father walk up to them; she remained quiet out of respect. Her Sharingan was then not present anymore.
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Sasuke and Sakura has exchanged several words about their daughter’s capabilities to take on a mission under disguise. Sakura was more concerned that if anybody figured out who she really was, she could become a major target for captivity or worst: her kekkei genkai. He sighed, dismissing Sakura’s concern and it was left at that. Throughout their small spat, Sarada had finished her critique of her squad and he stepped forward. He heard the last of the conversation when they asked Sarada if they would be assigned a mission. He saw everything and anything and it was no mistake what he just saw as he was sure Sarada saw the same. ”I cannot assign a mission to a mentally unstable group of genin,” he stayed as he stopped next to Sarada. ”It seems one of you is not mentally stable. I cannot approve this group to move on to anything until these issues are resolved,” he added, eyeing Nanami. ”Let’s stop pretending you are all okay. Speak up now,” he ordered. Personally he never felt failure in his life other than his past. He couldn’t sympathize with them when it came to failing and losing all in the same evening. It was evident they held hate in their heart, regret, and agony. He knew he had to put a stop to it.
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Nanami looked up "It's not that. Its more of a focus, a focus to become stronger. A goal.. Someone I hate, yes.. Will I ever put that hate above my friends lives, or the mission. Never.." There was no falsehood in her words, all of her words rang pure. There wasn't any doubt in her tone "Everyone has that one person that they know is beyond them, so its their goal to reach their level. So they can.. I am far from that level. And you have forbidden me from taking a dark path to power. I promised I wouldn't, and I won't." Her gaze was normal, she had no reason to lie about her feelings "Do I want to kill him.. Yes. Yet seeing his power in force on the mission made me realize I can't become that strong on my own. I can't let hate rule me, like it rules that man..."

She looked Sasuke in the eyes "Hate leads one to give everything they love to it as well. It's not something I will ever be willing to sacrifice. That's the difference between me and others. I have too much to lose by giving into hate, into the need for power. I know I will become stronger, and I know that man will be waiting. And no I am not talking of Kotatsu. Their leader, the man in black. The killing intent, and chakra pressure was beyond any I have ever felt. My goal is become equal in power. So I can protect everything I love from him and the Land of Snow." She was unflinching in her words "You don't have to worry about me falling. I am one who will always get back up. I will protect my team, and I will never abandon them to pursue that hate." She paused and closed her eyes, then she opens them "I have been thinking about my ninja way a lot. Until taking such a loss, and being beaten down both physically and mentally. There were several things I said. So my ninja way is this. My word is my bond, I will never go back on it.. And I will never give up." She said this, not knowing it was similar to Naruto's ninja way "You can count on me being mentally stable. If you need me to kneel and swear it. I will. You have nothing to worry about or fear from me, Lord Sasuke." She bows respectfully.
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Sasuke listened silently as Nanami expressed herself but there were a couple things that bothered him. She bowed respectful after being honest with herself. Her want to kill, the fear of losing everything, and most of all hate for this mysterious shinobi they still had to identify. ”Fear is the first start of going down a dark path. Just because I forbid it, doesn’t mean you won’t defy me. Your fear has already led you to be angry and the need to kill and revenge for those you’ve already lost,” he explained. ”I’m telling you this because we looked over the samples you brought us. We know what fuels this mysterious chakra and it starts from the heart. You have a darkness that only you can fix. Take this warning and find hope instead. Harmony. Justice,” he added before turning to Sarada. ”I entrust the best out of you to keep them at bay and to redeem her darkened heart before it leads to another downfall,” he commented.

Several moments passed before he pulled out a scroll. ”All Of you must let go of revenge and the intent to kill this man and focus on our war efforts. You next assignment is in this scroll. I leave this in your care. Do not disappoint me,” he warned before handing the scroll to Sarada and disappeared.

Upon hearing footsteps coming in their direction, Nori turned her head and saw Lord Sasuke coming towards them. She stood upright and fixed her posture before she bowed her head towards him. It was when he began to speak about one of them in the group being mentally unstable that she lifted her head up and looked at him. She blinked. For a second, she thought it was herself as she had made it quite evident from her past emotional states, but now she was thinking with a more clear head. Although, she couldn't very well deny that she would let her emotions get in the way again. She didn't want them to, but she was an emotional person by nature so not letting them get in the way was perhaps impossible. At least when it came to the people and the things that were important to her. She had to go into not just this assignment, but future assignments with a clear head. She couldn't let herself get emotional no matter how much she wanted to. It was just as she was about to open her mouth and speak that she heard Nanami raise her voice. She turned her head and looked over at her friend, listening to what she said. A lot had happened and it had effected them all to some degree. They had all felt different things, but there was one thing they all had felt and that was hate for the man that had yet to reveal his true identity to anyone. That one emotion was one that was a key in their connection. They had their reasons for wanting that man to be gone and he knew what they were. This was all just a game to him. He set up the pieces exactly where he wanted them and at the moment, they were in the palm of his hand just waiting to see what he was going to do next. A war was happening and they were all apart of it now. And they all had to do their part. Nori knew that.

All the great nations were feeling fear right now because of this one man and his army of corrupted shinobi. She was sure that he had greater things in store for them, but it was obvious taking out as many of the nations as possible was a goal. Casualties didn't seem to matter to him. To Kotatsu...or Ryuu. And now...Sigmund. She did fear what would become of him if he were to continue siding with them. It scared her to know that this darkness in his heart may be there forever. But she...she wanted to stop it no matter how impossible it may have seemed. It was no surprise to her that the darkness started in someone's heart, but she had hope that it could stop. It was just...they all had to want to stop it on their own. That was what Sigmund needed to do, but would he? After speaking to their sensei for a brief moment, Lord Sasuke had turned his attention back towards them. Nori knew what she had to do and right now she knew she had to focus on stopping this war. Once he disappeared, she turned her head and looked over at Sarada. "I know we made a lot of mistakes in our past assignment, sensei, but we want to do what we can to make up for those mistakes. We want to show you our want and need to change in our efforts. We don't...we don't want to disappoint anyone ever again. We won't. I can't promise you that we won't, but...we want to do our best not to. There's too much at stake to do that again, so whatever the challenge is this time, we are ready to face it together," she told their sensei as she looked straight into her eyes with a solemn expression.

Sarada had kept her mouth shut the entire time Lord Sasuke, or her father, had spoken. She knew very well what memeber of the group he had been talking about; she had seen what he saw but chose to ignore it, having faith in Nanami as much as she could but with Lord Sasuke’s words she knew she couldn’t let anything like that slide at all. He had high expectations out of them and she needed to see to it that those expectations were meant. She hadn’t been told about the results of their findings but now it was clear to her that hate, pain, anger, and revenge could not be thes reason why they fought. Lord Sasuke elaborated on their findings and he of all people knew that because he single handedly experienced this. He was right, like always.

The Lord handed her a scroll, containing their next mission assignment. She gripped it tightly as he left rather quickly. She looked down at the scroll in her hand before looking at her group. Nori had broke the silence by trying to reassure her they had this, but Sarada was unsure of the mental capabilities of her squad. They had teamwork and strength and the techniques, however their emotional state was another problem all together. ”Lord Sasuke is right and you all know it. He is a perfect example and image of wanting revenge and the need to kill. Lord Sasuke takes this personally and as harsh as he is, he will do everything in his power to prevent anybody taking the road he once took. Neither one of us will ever be strong enough to tackle on this man. However we can overcome this Kotatsu fellow and all other right hand men he has appointed. We always start from the bottom. Attack them where it hurts. Taking down his associates will hurt the most. That’s the true war objective but our true purpose is to restore hope to many of the less fortunate countries. To provide hope,” she replied. ”Do you all understand this?” she questioned.

Nori grew silent at hearing Sarada speak of Lord Sasuke and his own taste for revenge. She was sure that he, probably more than anyone, would understand how they would feel. What was going on right now...while it was more for reasons that were effecting all the nations, for the three of them, it was much more than that. They had their own personal reasons for wanting to take revenge on both Kotasu and this mystery man, but Nori couldn't very well deny that deep down, she wanted to do her part in taking them down for what they did. Not just to those around her, but to her personally. She didn't know if she would ever get that chance to, but she didn't want those hateful, negative emotions to overrun her. She knew it wouldn't do any good. Lord Sasuke was trying to look out for their best interests and she couldn't even begin to understand just how much he was going through right now. To have the weight of the world on your shoulders...it wasn't an easy thing. And to entrust their sensei with whatever was in that scroll must have have taken a great deal of trust on his part. It only made her more curious as to what was inside it. "I understand, sensei. These people have gone through so much and with this war going on, it seems like hope is dwindling. But...I want to help restore their hope again," she said. "We all have to stand together and fight this enemy that is a threat to our very existence. They...they have taken so much away from all of us, but not anymore. Now t's their time to be brought down."

Shiroma sat there her ears still listening to everything and processing her teammate’s responses to the evaluation of their sparring match.  She was still processing through the ideas she had been working on for how to improve on her spike to make them less vulnerable to an earth jutsu like the one Sarada had used.  She doubted she would come up with an answer any time soon, though would have to keep working on it.  Looking up at the new voice her minds totally focused on him and then she frowned slightly finding herself a bit shocked that he would bring such a thing up.

‘He’s got a lot of nerve consider…’

‘Shut up.’

‘I won’t he really should have a piece of my mind! Now let me have control!’

‘No, he is the Omo after all.’

‘So…’

The rest of the conversation was stopped as Nanami spoke up and started into her promise and explanation of what it was that Suske was referring too  and it only caused a deeper frown on her face as she heard both what was being said from Nanami and then even more so from hearing about the fuel of the dark chakra.  She bit her lip bowing slightly at Suske left and sat there thinking through what that could all mean and then sighed.  She heard Nori’s comment and then nodded in agreement pushing the thoughts and doubts she was having to the back of her mind. “Yes Sensei, I understand. I think I speak for all of us when I say, we won’t let the people of the land of storms and the hurting nations down.”

Nanami listened to Sasuke as he spoke, she nodded "I will work on it. But its not as easy as I wish it could be." She stood up from her bow and watched him leave "I will keep to my ninja way.." She said quietly. She knew her next steps would have to get over these emotions. The feeling she felt at the concert were happy ones. She looked at Sarada "Why did you think I held that concert. It was so not only I, but all those who heard me could let out their anger, sadness, hate, and gain a glimmer of hope, happiness, and justice. I don't like feeling hate, or the need to kill a specific person. But in war its part of it. Many ninja need a focus, so they don't lose themselves to their hate." She thinks back at seeing the darkness manifest in Sigmund "I will work on ridding myself of it. It will take a little time I imagine." She goes quiet ending her bit on that topic..

Nanami looked at Nori, Shiroma and Sarada and she smiled a little. Letting out a deep breath "Actually saying all of that helped a bit. I hadn't really told anyone about what was on my mind." She walked up to Nori and Shiroma "We won't fail again." Her eyes shimmered softly in the light. She had many thoughts. Most were on what the future could bring. She knew she would have to ask Sakura soon if she wanted to start learning that jutsu. But she had a few other jutsu to learn before that one..

She listened to Sarada lay down the base plan "I understand, Sensei. We will protect our land." She said with a confident look.
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Sarada merely nodded. ”I am appointing Tsuna Shiroma as Squad captain. If I am not around or a separation occurs, it is your job to lead you all to victory and to complete your mission. You have a background specifically working under the land of snow and have been present during an entire country takeover. Because you do not have personal ties to the situation that these two have, you’re more level headed. While I understand it was said you slaughtered your own team, by joining our forces, you have redeemed yourself. Do not disappoint me,” she stated. Picking Shiroma as their captain was the most logical choice as in all three of their reports about their last mission, Shiroma had helped with the mapping of the area, deescaltion of personal situations, and was a mutual party in all their ordeals.

She proceeded to opening the scroll, giving it a quick read before closing it. ”All right, listen up. It would seem an old Konoha shinobi departed ways with us a long time ago. Relocating whenever possible and wherever they were needed, they were eventually marked as a missing-nin. Recently, it has been rumored this individual has been partnered with the land of snow before any of the war outbroke. ANBU recently spotted this most wanted individual and believe they have highly costly intel that can help change the turn of events. They are considered armed and dangerous; we are not to kill this missing-nin unless we have no choice however if that is what we have to resort to, we must first get our hands on what they know. This is a locating and captive mission and possibly an escort. We cannot fail as this can change the tides of war for us. We will be heading to the very land that started this all,” she explained as she summed up the mission they were given. It was a big one and it could change everything. This depended solely on them.

When Sarada had appointed Shiroma as team captain, it honestly didn't come as too much of a surprise that she was chosen. While she had definitely been asset to their last mission due to her intel, she wasn't personally tied to one of the main sources of her and Nanami's concerns: Sigmund. While he definitely would have approved of her intellectual abilities and techniques she had, Nori didn't want to feel as if their mistakes were going to continue following them even once this assignment was over. "I understand your decision, sensei. Nanami and I will continue to support Shiroma just as we have been," she reassured their sensei as she looked over at their new captain. "You can always rely on us, okay, Shiroma? We won't let you down. I promise."

She turned her head and looked back over to Sarada as she had opened up the scroll she was given by Lord Sasuke and quietly looked it over. Nori had been a little antsy as to what this particular mission was, but she knew one thing thing and that was that it wasn't going to involve Sigmund. Their sensei had made it clear that they weren't going to have anything to do with Sigmund. Although with the way she talked, it certainly did sound like Sigmund. That would be raising their hopes too high. "An...old Konoha shinobi listed as a missing-nin?" she said as she lightly folded her arms across her chest. "If this person is from Konoha, wouldn't their be some kind of records that are on file for all shinobi that were deemed as missing-nin? I mean, if we don't have some kind of idea of who this person is, than isn't that like picking a needle out of a haystack since we don't have a lot of intel on them?"

She smirked to Nori’s oblivious response. Sarada had simply not finished as she had only introduced the mission. ”It’s not Sigmund, Nori,” she pointed out. ”In the future, ensure you get all the information before you start asking questions,” she warmed as she opened up the scroll and turned it around.

”We are looking for a woman named Fūma Tsukiko. She separated herself from the Land of Fire as a teenager, a genin rank. She’s been far and wide from country to country. She goes by many aliases so it is our duty to ask around from here to the ship yard in the land of sound. She’s a hired mercenary at this point as we believe that is. Finding her shouldn’t be too difficult for the correct price we are hoping anyways,” she explained as she showed a picture of what the woman could possibly look like:

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