Sand (connie and Nbird)

Tsukiakara fell blissfully asleep. He didn’t know what time it was when he woke up. He looked around to find Yukiko but his vision was still blurry from waking up.

She transformed back during his sleep time, and she stood up, placing Tsukiakara head tomthe side, she started looking for something to cover herself, she didn't mind being naked, she didn't feel embarrassed but she figured Tsukiakara would, she didn't even notice him wake up.

“Yukiko are you there” he sword wasn’t on fire so he couldn’t see well. He felt around the ground tiring to find where he placed it.

She froze "yeah I'm here" she muttered and quickly found a large branch with lots of leaves and shielded it in front of her self "and I kind of changed back" she laughed, he didn't yet know that she was naked.

“Well that’s ok” he said unaware that she was naked. He had finally found the sword and set it ablaze. When he saw her naked he was so shocked that he turned off the blade. “I’m So Sorry I didn’t know you were changing” he said hoping he wasn’t going to be punched or something.

She laughed at his shock "I'm not changing, thats just what happens when I transform back from wolf mode" she searched around in the dark "um, you wouldn't have any clothes I could Borrow do you?" the question hung in the air like a cloud.

“umm. No I’m afraid not” he answered. Now this was going to be awkward.

She thought "hmm. Well i could always go wolf mode again" she did some hand signs inthe dark and soon transformed back into a wolf 'wolf' she thought, it was annoying how she could only use simple words but it worked nonetheless.

Tsukiakara turn back on the light. “Ok now where do we go?” He asked looking into the 3 different pathways.

Using her wolf like senses she could sense something bad coming from number two, she lowered her eyes and whined at the second path but the other two seemed fine, all they had to do was stay away from path 2.

“Let’s try the right one” he said as he lead them through the cave. Bats and water dripping from stalactites could be heard. Soon a bright light was in the distance. Cheerfully Tsukiakara ran to the exit to see what was outside. It was a land full of sandy desert. They had made it to the land of winds. Now all they had to do was find the Hidden Sand Village.

Yukiko gave a happy bark and jumped in the air then started chasing her tail, she had to admit it was fun being a wolf. She leapt forwards and started running in circles, there mission was nearly complete.

“Well I’m now treading on unfamiliar territory. My guess is we are near the south-east part of this country. You better lead on.” Now that there in a desert it was going to be easy to be spotted by the exiles. He just hoped they can get to their destination as soon as possible.

She kept her senses sharp and stopped after a little bit, her ears dropped and she uttered a low growl, something bad was ahead, she just didn't know what, she slung Tsukiakara onto her back and tredded carefully, she was ready to run at a moments notice.

Suddenly swarms of kunai and shrunken were fling in there direction. Using both his ice sword and fire sword he was able to defect the projectiles. Soon the exile ninja who had followed them popped out of there hiding places beneath the sand surrounding both Yukiko and Tsukiakara.

She snarled at the ninja and her fun bristeld "where's the girl gone?" asked the head ninja again, Yukiko mentally smirked, he didn't know she was a wolf, this could work in her favour.

“I ate her.” He said sarcastically. This of course did not make the exile ninja happy. “Just give us the goods kid and we won’t have to hurt you” One of the exiles said.

Yukiko decided to try and trick the exile ninja, she reached in to Tsukiakaras pouch and pulled out an empty scroll with her jaws. She then proceeded to snarl at the ninja and bound off past them and away from Tsukiakara 'finish mission' she thought to him as the ninja chased after her, only the leader remained stationary, looking at Tsukiakara with a calm collected gaze.

“Well I would like to stay and chat but I have to go.’ He sent some fireballs toward the leader and created a wall of ice hoping to slow him down. He then started running in a different direction than Yukiko.

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Meanwhile the other ninja were having a hard time catching up to Yukiko. So they started sending poorly aimed kunai and shuriken at her.

She dodged all the weapons easily and kept running, she could run so much faster as a wolf on all fours, suddenly she felt a pull in her gut 'no not now' she muttered and tried to for e herself to stay in wolf form.

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meanwhile the leader smirked and rammed through the ice with ease and jumped over the fire "hand over the goods kid and I might go easy on you" he caught up easily and grabbed Tsukiakaras wrist, he was planning on using him as a hostage to get the scroll from the wolf.

They kept tiring to catch up to Yukiko but she was just to fast. They continued to throw as many weapons as possible to slow her down.

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The man may have grabbed his writ but he was closer now and Tsukiakara was going to use that to his advantage. He began freezing the captured hand with his sword. He just hoped that the ice would freeze fast enough to trap his opponent.

The leader yanked his hand back before it could be frozen anymore "you insolent brat!" he spat the words at Tsukiakara and punched him across the cheek

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Yukiko kept dodging and Manovring the weapons and was doing well until in a poof of smoke she turned back into her naked self with the scroll in her mouth, she stood up and got into a fighting position ignoring the fact that she was naked, but he ninjas didn't and there eyes glistened.

The men just stood there dumbstruck. Some of them even had their nose bleeding. All of them were paralyzed not even caring if they were going to get there face pummeled.

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The punch knock Tsukiakara to the ground but he quickly got up. He went back to his plan of shooting fireballs and ice spears while running away.

Yukiko made quick work of the frozen ninja, they watched her every move with desire in there eyes not even dodging when she hit or knocked them out, she quickly made her way back to Tsukiakara and the leader and it looked like they were engaged in close combat but the leader was dodging every move Tsukiakara threw at him "hey ninja" she called to the leader in hopes to destract him.

Thank goodness, Yukiko arrived. Tsukiakara didn’t know how long he was going to last. He was so happy that he didn’t care the Yukikio was naked. The leader too didn’t seem to care either.