16 Escor

It had been a year since Team 2 was formed. But, they had only done two different things during the year. They had been focusing on training and had been doing simple missions. Up to this point, even Ren was starting to get annoyed at how they only focused on training, but when he was told they'd go on an escort mission he was ecstatic. Zoro was even more excited than Ren as he felt he was finally doing the things a ninja should do.

Arriving outside the main entrance for the village, Ren, Izumi, and Zoro see Asuma spoking next to a cart full or merchants. Looking over it, they see food, resources, medical supplies, and different types of weapons. Ren didn't care for much of the things he saw, but Izumi's bright hazel eyes seemed to start sparkling as soon as she saw the medical supplies and Zoro's seemed to have a burning fire in them once he saw the different types of weapons.

Before they could continue looking, Asuma suddenly came over and said: "We're going to these merchant's hometown, our goal is to protect them from wild beasts".

...

Walking on a path, it had been a few hours since they had left the village. Along the carriage, Ren was bored out of his mind as he couldn't train or find anything to do to distract him, Izumi, Zoro, and Asuma were currently sleeping on the carriage. Standing up, Ren decided to go further ahead of the wagon to stretch and stall the time.

Looking around he could see animals now and then, but they didn't look hostile so he just ignores them. Continuing to walk he suddenly finds himself surrounded by wild boars. Letting out a smirk he pulls out his blade and rushes at the closest one and instantly kills it. Rushing onto the next ones he eventually kills all of them as he sees the carriage appear from behind.

"Don't worry, I just killed all the wild boars in the way," Ren said while jumping onto the carriage.

Startling Izumi from the landing, she woke up and shook as she was surprised seeing Ren right in front of her,

"What's going on?" Izumi asked.

"What do you mean? I just jumped onto the carriage" Ren replied a little confused as to why she asked a question.

As Ren was speaking with Izumi the surroundings started to get foggy as they continued forward.

Ren felt this was somewhat amidst as there were no signs of fog or any precipitation earlier when he was fighting the boars or when he was in the cart.

"What's going on? Asuma Sensei!" Ren shouted at Asuma with feelings of anxiousness

"I'm not too sure, but I can only suspect it's someone from Kirigakure, causing the mist to form is a special thing unique to Kirigakure mostly."

Suddenly an eerie laugh interrupted as a short young lady with two swords on her back walked out from the mist with maroon her and what seemed to be pitch black eyes, "You guessed correctly, leaf shinobi" as a smirk came to her face she drew her two swords, "This place will be your grave,"