It was a pleasant afternoon day in my home of Sunagakure. The sun was high in the sky today after hiding behind the clouds for the past couple of days and there was a slight breeze that would gentle blow my clothing as I walked in Sietch Zensunna, the middle-class region of the village. In all my time living in this village, I had elected to spend the majority of my time in the Desert Crown, the Grand Palais, Omni Prime Medical Facility, or the Academy for various reasons, but mainly to keep the village striving forward. However, there was one part of the village that I absolutely despised with every fiber of my being which was the Grand Palais. One could even say that I was bitter and a bullhead when it came to that area as many events that had negatively impacted my life and made me who I was today had occurred there including being forced into this body that still felt somewhat unnatural to me. But, I could only strive forward and continue to fight the good fight in the hopes that everything would follow into place and Lord Byakko would guide me on this journey as he had been.In any case, I had decided to "investigate" Sietch Zensunna today as I was still technically not medically cleared by the Byakko doctors to get back to work nor did I feel like I would be ready for quite some time as I had to learn how to use this new body of mine effectively and how it was different than my past one. Some of the differences were obvious as I had breasts that were somewhat heavy to carry around and I couldn't use the bathroom like I used to which was odd the first few times, but I was adjusting slowly. Fortunately, I hadn't met the demon that woman called the period yet, but I knew that it was going to come eventually and I was certainly not looking forward to it at all. Luckily, my family had accepted my changes without any second thoughts and my wife had taught me much about the female body and how it operated. It was embarrassing to learn as I remember blushing, but it had to be done.
As I continued walking in this middle-class part of the village, I wasn't overly impressed by what I saw as the structures were not too classy, but they were moderate at best. However, they were much more upgraded than the filth that existed down in the Red Light District. The people also dressed much more nicer than the filth down there, but they were modest in their attire which was respectable since not everyone in the village could be born or marry into a clan that was rich like I did. Besides, I wasn't exactly wearing the most "high-class" attire myself currently as I was wearing black leggings, brown boots, a white blouse and a light greenish jacket. I admit that I used to dress much more classier when I was in my previous body, but people looked at me with envy and my livelihood was more at risk for sure; but, that was the past and the present me was much more modest with my dress attire out in the public for now. That could always change depending on what was going on or who I was visiting after all.
Eventually, I would find a sweet shop and decided to take a peek inside. The shopkeeper was an elderly man who gave me a gentle, welcoming smile as I gave him one back as I started to investigate his store as a customer. I would first go down a chocolate aisle and bask in the variety of assorted chocolates that he had noting that some of them were also from foreign countries, but I would not pick anything up. I would continue into another aisle and see a variety of bubble gum, lollipops, and even cough drops that were flavored. It was an interesting set-up for an aisle for a store, but I was not one to judge since I did not run his establishment. I was about to go down another aisle when I noticed something out of the corner of my eyes which lit them up as I emitted an awe...they had ice cream!
If one did not know me that well, I rarely ever was allowed to have ice cream growing up in Iwagakure, my home country, because my family was not wealthy and it was not a necessity. Thus, when they gave it out in the Academy sometimes, I would gratefully take it and consume it with delight as it was so good. When I made my move to Sunagakure, I tried to get ice cream once but the store that had it ran out and I was a sad descendant of Byakko that day. Since then, I never tried to get ice cream again partially because I didn't want to be disappointed again, but also because I did not have the time to actually go to the store and buy it since I taught at the Academy, worked in my clan's infirmary, and worked at the Hospital. Of course, I could've asked one of the members of my clan who did the shopping to buy me some, but the chances of me even getting any after working were slim to none so I never pursued it.
Today would change that as the store had plenty behind their their counter ready to be filled into a cone for a patron like myself. So, I would look around for other employees before going back to the front where the nice, old man was and asking him to get me some vanilla ice cream. He was graciously walk to the back and fill me a cone giving me a little extra possibly because I was a woman technically, but more likely because I had been nice and polite to him. We would walk back to the front and I would pay for it before I gave him a slight bow, a warm smile, and walked outside to a nearby bench and began to enjoy my treat for myself.
