[table][row][cell][color=#A2ADD0]Yue Nara[/color][/cell][cell][color=#A2ADD0]"Stop... being alive. It's embarrassing."[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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[cell][color=#A2ADD0][b]"What's this."[/b][/color]

[b]"It's nutritional porridge. It's an old recipe, which I improved with some of the herbs and flowers from the garden."[/b]

Yue lifted a spoon of it and watched the thick herb-scented mush fall of her spoon back into her bowl.

[b]"It's your day to report in and you never know what your village may be asking of you. I hope you've been reading those shinobi instructional books we bought for you! You've got to make a good first impression"[/b], Yue's mother explained and dutifully spooned some of her own mush into her mouth. Yue didn't follow suit and her mother frowned slightly.

[color=#A2ADD0][b]"Hm...[/b][/color], Yue replied, stirring the unappetizing goop around suspiciously. Over the course of the past week, her mother hadn't let her out of her sight. She'd dragged her around shopping for ninja gear, for new clothing, to meet the parents of her team members. She'd even been dragged around the entire village looking for the jounin instructor to make an introduction, which ended with her instructor very gently brushing them off. Of course this morning she'd received a letter telling her that she had been removed from her team and told to report to the village gates while everyone else would be meeting their team. Yue was sort of relieved. She couldn't imagine how she'd have been able to look anyone on her former team in the eye after having been paraded around the entire village.

Yue's mother had taken it less well.

[b]"I just don't know how they could have changed your team at the last minute. That's a sign of inadequate organization, in my opinion"[/b], she said, [b]"I should like to issue a formal complaint. As a parent, how am I supposed to prepare my child for life as a shinobi if I'm given... INACCURATE DATA!?!"[/b]

Yue's dad chuckled and yawned and slipped Yue a bag of dumplings under the table with his toes while Yue's mother was cleaning a plate. He had very articulate toes, something he'd developed from spending so much time lazing about in a hammock. Yue hid it expertly inside her jacket and stood straight up.

[color=#A2ADD0][b]"I... need to head out..."[/b][/color], she announced and began walking mechanically away from the table.

[b]"Your porridge"[/b], her mother called.

[color=#A2ADD0][b]"I should get their early and make a good impression"[/b][/color], Yue replied mechanically, without stopping or turning. Just a few more feet to the door...

[b]"Hm... Well, at least pick up some fresh fruit on the way! You should not be hungry for... whatever they will be having you do"[/b], but Yue was already gone.

She waited until she was well in the middle of the village proper before she snuck a dumpling out of the bag in her jacket and took a bite. It was a busy sunny day, but Yue didn't take the time to notice. Her mind was racing, now that she was finally alone. Sure she'd been agitated about her previous team, Remi and Chotzu would probably have been her last pick for teammates, but being taken off the team? Given nothing? What was this? She supposed that if she was meeting at the village gates, it was because they were leaving the village. Was it a mission? Could be. She was one of the few genin who could be classed as a sensor and even had some medical training. Perhaps she'd been reassigned for those skills. It made as much sense as anything else.

But if they were willing to take fresh genin and put them on a real mission... The last time something like that had happened was during the war.

She furrowed her brows and stuffed an entire dumpling in her mouth. This the situation was so suspicious. Had anyone else been summarily reassigned this way? What if no one was? Maybe she wasn't going to be reassigned at all. Maybe they were exiling her. Did that happen? She didn't know. She supposed if people were exiled, no one would talk about it... But that was silly, wasn't it? Why would they exile her? She hadn't done anything illegal. Her grades were fine. They wouldn't exile her without exiling her parents... Her mother would never let them hear the end of it...

With only three dumplings left, she stuffed the rest of the bag with the rest of her supplies. There was no telling if she'd be gone for long or if it was just some routine thing. She could probably forage, if she had to, but it was better to have something on hand than not. She tried to figure out her coming assignment for the entirety of her walk.

When she finally arrived, there were already several other ninja there.

[color=#A2ADD0][i]"So... I'm going to be on a team with Bakuto and Hiro, am I? Then that must make that woman my jounin and... that... is that a Kumo-nin? Hm..."[/i][/color], she thought to herself. She stuck her hands in her pockets and glared silently.
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