The next day dawned and I woke up with Hanabi in my arms.
She was lying facing me and my arm was on her waist.
Her eyes were closed and I watched her sleep for half an hour.
She was so cute sleeping, the way her nose moved slightly as she breathed in and out.
Her mouth that had a little smile and her cute earlobes.
I then leaned over her slightly and kissed her gently on her cheek.
Her eyes opened and looked into mine.
Hanabi: Good morning.
Sato: I love you.
She then pressed her lips against mine and we kissed tenderly. She let go and said:"I love you too."
Hanabi: What time is it?
Sato: 7:00 a.m. you still have an hour until you have to go to the academy.
And my team is meeting at 9:00 a.m. but I don't know how long our first mission will be.
I may not be back tomorrow yet.
Hanabi: The main thing is that you promise me that you will come back alive.
Sato: Promise.
I got up and put on my underwear.
Hanabi followed suit and we went to the bathroom together.
We brushed our teeth and freshened up and then went downstairs to have breakfast.
Sato: Can I accompany you to the academy?
Hanabi: Of course, it would be nice if you accompanied me.
Sato: Suki has her final exams coming up, what do you think she would like as a gift?
Hanabi: Hinata liked the tampons you gave her, maybe you'll give Suki some of those.
Sato: That's not a real gift.
By the way, I also have something for you as a wedding present, I had forgotten to give it to you after our wedding.
I reached behind my back and pulled out a silver necklace with a silver cross pendant.
A small ruby was set into the center of the cross.
I lifted Hanabi's hair and placed the necklace around her neck.
Sato: And do you like it?
Hanabi: The necklace is beautiful, thank you.
She then kissed me again and we both got dressed.
Sato: The necklace has a small protective function and deflects up to three projectiles.
However, it needs to be charged for 12 hours afterwards.
Hanabi: What happens to the projectile?
Sato: They fly back to their sender.
Hanabi: That's cool.
Love you.
We went to breakfast and then I took Hanabi to the academy.
Suki came also with us.
We walked through the streets, the morning dew could still be seen on many plants.
A pair of birds chirped in the sky and I held Hanabi's hand.
Her hand was so warm and I could feel her heartbeat.
We saw the first shops opening and putting fruit in front of their doors.
And we arrived at the academy.
Hanabi: Thanks for bringing me here.
I love you.
She gave me a kiss and ran into the school building, Suki left right behind her.
Suki: By Onii Chan!
I stood still for a moment and then flew above the clouds and shouted loudly:
"I love you too!"
I stayed in the air, closed my eyes and enjoyed the sun warming my body and the wind flowing through my hair.
Before I knew it, it was time to meet the others.
I flew to the mission reception where Hinata Mara, Sai and Sakura were already waiting for an hour.
Sato: Good morning everyone.
"Good morning, you're late," everyone said and now we waited for Kakashi.
Hinata: Where is Kakashi, it's already 9:30.
Sakura: You better get used to it, Sensei Kakashi always comes a little later than planned.
And then he appeared.
Kakashi: Good morning, I hope you can forgive me for being so late.
I saw a baby abandoned in a stroller, but I just couldn't accidentally leave the baby in the middle of the street, so I would have to wait for the baby's mother to come back.
Hinata: Good thing you helped the baby.
Sato: I'd better not say anything about it.
Kakashi: Shall we pick up our mission then?
Sakura: Yes and that quickly, I don't want to wait forever.
We all went to the mission reception and picked up a C rank mission in the Land of the Wind.
It's about removing poisonous roots from a village called Tenben.
The mayor of the village gave the order, because children in this village tried to eat the roots and died.
The village wants to pay off the order in installments.
And Konoha pays us in advance for it.
So we made our way to Tenben.
Of course, I was able to write a message for Hanabi at home, telling her that the mission might even take a week.
Anyway, we left the village and after 2 hours I didn't feel like walking anymore, so I flew next to the others in a comfortable lying position and closed my eyes.
Sai: Sato, that you're flying is pretty interesting.
Sato: I often do that, so that I can better relax on my way.
Sakura: But shouldn't you watch out for attacks instead?
Hinata: He always does that, once he was even sleeping in a mission and he immediately noticed when enemies were approaching.
Sato: I find flying more comfortable than walking and like Hinata said, if an enemy comes within a 200m radius, I'll let you know.
Kakashi: You have useful jutsu's, but doesn't that use a lot of chakra?
Sato: Use your Sharingan that you're so famous for to look at me.
Kakashi removed the cloth from his eye and didn't believe what he saw.
Kakashi: Do you even use chakra?
Sato: No, I only use natural energy and I use it constantly when flying.
Kakashi: Then why don't you have any Senjutsu traits?
Sato: I was in Mount Myoboku and the toads also wanted to teach me normal senjutsu, but I was already able to use it better than them, without their help.
But at least I learned their martial arts.
They called what I do perfect control over natural energy or so.
Sakura: What is natural energy, Sensei?
Kakashi: Sakura natural energy is present everywhere and is used by a Sage to strengthen his chakra attacks, but what Sato is doing here, is a completely different matter.
Sato doesn't use chakra and only uses natural energy, meaning he can fly indefinitely.
Sakura: Can we learn that too?
Sato: If you want to turn into stone or turn your blood into moss.
Sakura: Something like that can happen?
Sato: A lot more can happen.
Kakashi: That's why very few people could learn this art, it has great dangers and some died trying to learn it.
Hinata: Sato, you never said you were doing something so dangerous?
Sato: As I said, I don't think it's dangerous and I now have full control over it.
The toads also said something about a prophecy, but the toad grandpa fell asleep and then I fell asleep too and when I woke up again, the toad grandpa couldn't remember the prophecy, so I went off.
Kakashi: It's a real shame you didn't hear the prophecy.
They are important.
Sato: What's the point of knowing your future if it happens anyway?
Hinata: You're right.
Why don't you just open a portal to our destination.
Sato: Because unfortunately I can only create them within a 200m radius or in places I've already been to.
(Of course that's not the truth, but I love hiking and looking at nature.)
Mara: How long do we actually need to get to Tenben?
Kakashi: We're taking an overnight break in the Land of Rivers, I think we should arrive at our destination by noon tomorrow.
Mara: Thanks for the info, I think, I didn't pack enough provisions for the trip!
Hinata: How many days did you pack for?
Mara: I thought we would be done in 2 days, I'm not that good at geology.
I burst into laughter and covered my eyes so no one would see my tears.
Mara: Why are you laughing so much, I'm bad at geology?
I then threw myself on the ground, because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to control myself, because I was laughing.
Mara looked at me desperately.
Mara: Why is Sato laughing like that?
Kakashi started laughing too.
Kakashi: Did you want to ha, ha, ha, sorry....did you want to take a rock sample?
Now Hinata and Sakura couldn't hold themselves together anymore and started laughing too.
Mara: Why a rock sample, you're all really mean?
Sai: I think it's because you said geology and not geography.
Mara: But that can happen, or not. They both start with geo.
Kakashi: Exactly, we shouldn't make fun of it, otherwise we'll get cramps in our legs.
Sato: Then you'll probably have to starve, Mara.
Mara: Now stop it or I'll tell the Hokage.
Sato: Yes, tell aunt, it will definitely cheer her up with all the paperwork.
Hinata: Come on, let's all calm down a bit, maybe it's just her blond hair color.
Mara: You guys are mean.
Sato: Sorry Mara, really.
Now let's move on.
Sai: And let's be careful of falling rocks.
Everyone started laughing again.
And we slowly continued on our way and arrived towards evening at a small village called Hagoto in the Land of Rivers.
Kakashi: I'll find us a cheap place to stay.
You can do whatever you want, we'll meet back here in an hour.
"Yes indeed"
The five of us walked a bit through the village, but there wasn't much to see here and we went back to the meeting point.
We noticed that people were trying to avoid us.
Hinata: Why do people behave like this here?
Sato: They probably remember the war and think our headbands are warning signs.
Sai: Do you think they are afraid of us?
Sato: I think they want peace and quiet and that's why they avoid ninjas.
Sakura: I can understand them, I've read about here, that armies were repeatedly sent out during the wars and many civilians were killed.
Mara: But the war is over, why do they think we are evil?
Sato: Because they don't just forget their hatred, Mara.
Mara: Thanks again for sharing your supplies with me Sato, you are my superhero.
Sato: Mmkay.
(I shouldn't have healed her, now she's constantly trying to sneak up on me.)
The next morning we set off for Tenben.
After an hour of travel, a slight wasteland began to appear.
Kakashi: I think we're not far away, I think there's still about 3 hours to go.
I took out a parasol, because it was getting relatively warm, around 30°C, and rising.
I gave the parasol to Hinata who shared it with Sakura.
I slowly started sweating and took off my T-Shirt.
The ground also became more and more sandy and it was harder for us to move forward.
This trip will be really worth it for Sai, as pale as his skin always looks.
Of course, the next moment I was ripped straight out of my thoughts.
Mara: Sato, your muscles are pretty well trained.🤭
That suits you, I'm so warm too, maybe I should take my shirt off too.😘
Luckily, Sakura heard that and punched Mara right in the face.
Sakura: Say you're crazy, not in front of the men and Sato is married, stop annoying him.🤬
Mara: You're just jealous that my breasts are bigger than yours.😏
Sakura's forehead vein rose, but she didn't want to fall to Mara's level and ignored her after she said:"Then show your breasts, I bet the desert bandits like them."
Mara then let it be and Kakashi had a very desperate expression on his face.
He probably had problems with Mara and Sakura before.
We finally arrived and the village had about 70 houses, it consisted of simple mud huts and was surrounded by dried out trees without leaves and had a well and fields that were also dried out.
The people we saw were emaciated, ill and some children weren't even wearing clothes.
And the people were all very suspicious when they saw us come in their village.