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Hikaru stifled a quick yawn as she strode up to the Phoenix Gate of the Leaf village. She had awoken early enough that the sky only barely showed hints of color, a lighter gradient beginning to stretch across the horizon eastwards. Only a handful of guards stood by the gate, and she waved to them as she waited, looking out of the village at the path that led away. She wore simple clothes and a red jacket, with a light travelling pack resting on her back and pouches fastened to her hip and leg. Although this wouldn’t be her first mission, officially, it would be the first time she left the village on one, and she was having some difficulty keeping herself from pacing in anticipation. Moreover, she was supposed to carry it out with three others, marking her first team mission.
The assignment had been delivered at the mission office the day before: an elderly couple living nearby had requested help tending to their farm. Although they would have to make a roughly half-day journey to the farm and back, Hikaru wasn’t especially worried about the mission’s difficulty. She had brought a bed-roll and enough supplies for two days or more, but it was unlikely that they would be needed- this was an E-Rank mission after all. Yawning again, she retrieved a newly-made map from her pack and looked over it absent-mindedly, glancing up and around periodically for her teammates. According to the assignment, she was supposed to meet with two other students and a team captain, none of whom she recognised milling about in the nearby streets this early in the morning. Hikaru turned back to the map again, trying to study their route, and waited.
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[OOC: Welcome to the Self-modded Team Mission, and thank you for joining! Quick reminder: this is an E-Rank STM, so each participant has to reach a total word count in the thread of at least 2,000, and we have to make 15+ posts total among the four of us. Looking forward to starting this mission with you all! ]
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