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And her timing was perfect; almost too perfect. She woke up an hour and a half later to the shining of a beautiful full moon. She loved the full moon and especially loved it when no clouds clouded in front of it. Which was what she got to see tonight here in Hi no Kuni's forest. The night was destined to be a quiet one. The only sounds that she could hear were her own breathing and some of the odd birds that didn't need to sleep. But they would be her companions here tonight. She was just happy that not many Konoha shinobi found it their business to train in these parts of the forest at this time. She would hardly want to pick a fight again and maybe humiliate more people. That was fun but it would get boring pretty quickly. She got up from where she had been napping and quickly cleared her head.

She was here to train, to learn the next level of a jutsu that was very important for every Yukina Clan. She couldn't possibly call herself a member of the clan if she didn't at least A rank mastery in Yuki no Kami. It was the basic for all her clan jutsus. The more solid and the higher rank she trained Yuki no Kami, the better her chances were to learn the next tier of jutsus for the clan. She would only be able to learn all the Yukina Clan A rank jutsus if she had A rank in Yuki no Kami. Therefore, it was more than important. She may not remember much of her stay at the clan mansion or much of anyone being in her clan but she was going to prove to everyone that the Yukina were strong shinobi no matter where they were. Their village may be destroyed but they themselves were not.

She readied herself for another attempt at the Yuki Bunshin no Oni jutsu. The only reason why she needed to form a bunshin anyway was because she thought that her regular solo training methods were just too bland for her liking. Instead she wanted to create something new. Since it was almost three in the morning and no normal person would be walking into a deserted forest, she found it technically difficult and partially impossible in finding an actual opponent. Because she didn't have an opponent to fight with, she was going to create one out of ice. This was also the perfect chance to tone her skill in the jutsu she had only learned not too long ago.

There was also that thing about duo-jutsu training. She didn't have any experience in training this way. There were always jutsus that she had seen or heard of that required a basic jutsu to start out and then the actual jutsu. Only upon the flawless execution of both jutsus could the training be considered complete. Though the Bunshin was not mandatory for Yuki no Kami, it gave her training in chakra control that she wouldn't be able to train unless she was training a multi-jutsu. It was early practice and training that she knew she could really need and want despite its difficulty. The main difficulty being that both these jutsus were high rank, one B and one A rank. Her chakra pool was low so she wasn't even sure if she could actually do this.

If she really decided that after so many attempts that such thing was beyond her skill at her current leve she was going to do what she always did; divide the two jutsus seperately into two different training sessions. There was no point pushing her chakra to a point where it technically just could be pushed. But she wasn't going to let up until she was certain or at least practically sure that this was the case. She wanted to test her limits and wouldn't stop unless it hit her point blank that she was wasting her time. Even then her efforts wouldn't be wasted because she would learn just how hard it was to kill two birds with one stone.

She didn't feel comfortable leaving the forest. She'd been here for over five days now that anything outside of it; other than the dock; was dangerous to her. Then how else was she going to go on and learn an A rank jutsu like Yuki no Kami. She hated solo training because it was so boring and there were only about two different ways that a jutsu could be learned and either way would be boring. She needed a partner. She wasn't about to go out to the main country and then just pick one. It would kind of be like walking up to someone and just slashing their face with a sword and then walking away. She could do it because she was insane but she wasn't about to, not tonight. Then what? She also couldn't just stand here forever and debate about possibilities and not do anything. When the sun rises, she would lose her night to endless pondering.

She decided that it would be best that she was going to try something she'd never tried before. Well, she'd wanted to try for the longest time but hadn't found any motivation to train. Now she had an excuse. The only way to do this was if she could execute the jutsu just right and on the first go. If she makes an error, which often happens, the first jutsu that she would have to perform to this experiment was going to harm the overall experiment. It was the domino effect. She began to focus her chakra, her mind actively working on possible ways of making loopholes for herself. If she could think of some way that didn't put so much pressure herself. The more pressure she puts on herself, the more she was going to be doomed to fail. But it was going to have to all depend on how this first move. In her head she was already picturing her plan visually.

She was going to use a jutsu that was designed for the Yukina Clan that made clones of the user. She had trained the jutsu once before allowing her to make one clone of herself out of ice. But this was a multi-jutsu that required her use of her chakra to formulate this clone. The clone she makes will have the ability to use any jutsus she knows herself making it the perfect opponent for her to train. It was much better than staring at the pond and then releasing chakra to the water like she did for most of the other jutsus that she learned. This one will actually be fun to learn. She now only had to make sure that she had the chakra controlled to the point where she could make a clone and then have enough left to use to learn Yuki no Kami. If she failed, she could potentially have all her efforts go to waste and have to start over again. She calculated that she now had about eight hours before morning would hit again. Taking into account any room for error, she still could be able to learn the jutsu if she moved fast enough.

She didn't want to waste any more time thinking of what she was going to do. Instead she went ahead to form the handseals to the Yuki Bunshin no Oni jutsu which was the one that would create the clone of herself. She was careful though because the jutsu was a B rank. Having not trained that many B ranks, she was still very weak on chakra control for those kinds of jutsus. She knew that if she didn't pour enough jutsu, the clone could just not appear or disappear immediately. She didn't want that to happen. She would have to start all over again. The chakra was building in her body active enough for her to use whenever and how ever much she needed at a time. She closed her eyes to focus her thinking and mind on the jutsu and nothing else.

The good thing about being in the forest was the air was damp most of the time. There was an abundance of water particles in the air that made it easier for the air particles to seperate itself from the water. This made it easier to gather the water for a clone. The good thing about standing in front of the pond was that if the water found in the air wasn't enough, there was that natural water source in front of her face. After forming the handseals to the first jutsu, she poured out her chakra and called the name of the jutsu. She had high hopes for its success.

She realized how important it was this mission log really was as she finished reading the full recount of the first mission inside the log. She yawned and stretched, realizing that it was almost night time again. She had been immersed in the reading that she hadn't realized the time. Noticing that the sun had all but gone down by now and so reading the second entry in her log wasn't very wise. She decided that some kind of training was needed to pass the time. She had already made up her mind that as long as she stayed in the forest of Hi no Kuni, her daytime would be taken by reading her log and her nights would be dedicated for training. She got up and walked over to the pond again, her eyes facing the pond and the sun's horizon, or what was left of it. She wasn't sure which jutsu she wanted to learn or if she wanted to any at all.

She pulled out her Yukina Clan scroll and examined it. Now she knew that she was from the Yukina Clan so then she could kind of trace the weird symbol on the scroll to a clan at least. She guessed from the jutsus she had learned that her clan specialized in something to do with ice. That wasn't that out of the ordinary any way since she was sure that ice was a good release to specialize in in an atmosphere like Yukigakure no Sato. She should have been able to guess that something like that was the case when she learned Yukigakure no Jutsu, a jutsu that only Yukigakure and Yuukina Clan members were allowed to learn. But she didn't think much of anything at that point and was therefore rather oblivious to what was shown to her. But now from reading her first mission she came to realize more than what she originally thought she would.

She was looking for a simple jutsu to learn, something that wouldn't require much thinking so to speak. It was getting late and she wasn't in the mood to think. Anything that wasn't to complex, preferrably one that she had learned before. So a multi-rank justu in other words. She knew the perfect jutsu then. She was going to train Yuki no Kami, the one basic jutsu that all Yukina Clan members had to learn to learn the other jutsus of the clan. She had trained herself up to B rank, which was substantially better than most. But she still had A and S rank to overcome. But A rank was not easy. The higher the rank of the jutsu for multi-rank the more consistency the jutsu was looking for. There was no room for error; or not much of it. The higher the rank the more the shinobi is expected to perform at his or her best. Error was simply not an option.

She knew what sort of thing to expect from Yuki no Kami since she had trained the D, C and B rank of the jutsu. Through countless errors, many of them stupid, she had gained the ability to use that jutsu to B. Now she was shooting for the next level and to penetrate that level, she was going to have to do much more than just stand there and release chakra. A breakthrough was needed. So then where was she going to find this breakthrough chance? Things don't just fall from the sky, at least not willingly and she wasn't about to create a breakthrough in this unknown country that would risk blowing her cover. At the moment only two people knew of her existence that was a shinobi of Konoha. If more found out about her they'd probably try to chase her off their land. She wasn't particularly looking to be chased down before she was ready to leave.

So what kind of breakthrough could she have here in this forest? She wished she was back at her own little town because she could set up something that wouldn't risk her or anybody else being killed. But Hi no Kuni housed Konohagurke no Sato and she was sure that that village was not a friendly bunch to a smaller village shinobi like her. She looked around and only saw the abundance of trees. With just trees, she had nothing working for her. Unless she went out of the forest. It was dark out so she could make that move if she wanted to. As long as she made it so that nobody saw her.

The first couple of pages of her mission logs was like a preface or a prologue to what would be expected to come from the pages that followed. She saw that her methodicalness was shining through even back then when she listed each mission she had gone on in chronological order starting with her first mission. The preface acted like a table of contents too, which if it was only for her eyes to see, felt a little weird. But she was now glad that she had made it this way because she wouldn't have known otherwise what she was reading if she didn't. She noticed that she had been on many different missions that all seemed to have one comment element: snow or ice. It was no wonder she liked snow so much. She didn't know if this liking of snow could be any kind of reference to who she was. But she soon found out through her own writing.

Preface

This mission log belongs to Yukina Sayuri, Genin of Yukigakure no Sato. If ever someone finds this in a time of misplacement, please kindly return it to the Yukina mansion. The missions in this mission log were all completed either by myself or with one or two partners. They are the missions that were created by the Yukikage and were left for us shinobis to take on to help the villagers of Yuki. All the information listed in this log belong and are the sole property of Yukina Sayuri. Please note that the events and happenings listed within this log are personal accounts and should not be read unless the reader is the writer herself.

It sounded so much like she valued her privacy very much. She turned the page and found the list of missions, their details and how much money she was paid for each. She noticed with a rather curious eye that all of the missions she had documented were D rank missions. She couldn't remember much about mission ranks but knew a little about the ranking system of shinobi from what her guardian told her. D rank missions would be solo missions usually, taken by Genin that just started out being a shinobi. In that case the log was probably created to document her successes just in case she were to forget them in the future. She would be about fifteen or sixteen back then, fresh out of the academy and on the road to being a star.

From this small paragraph alone she picked up a lot of clues about her past. She was a Genin, a Genin that served under the Yukikage of Yukigakure no Sato. That meant that the headband with the weird symbol on it was the headband of Yukigakure. Taking out her headband quickly from her cape, she touched a hand lightly on the symbol on the metal plate. It did look a lot like falling snow. So she established that she had been a shinobi serving under Yuki But she still had no memory of any of her life in Yuki. And apparently she belonged to the Yukina Clan? What was that? While she found out more about her past, she also foun more questions that were waiting to be answered. She hoped that the mission log would further answer these new questions.

Flipping through the log and skim reading it, she found that most of the entries were written in first person; just like a diary. She guessed that she had tried to recover as much of the details of every single mission the moment she was finished one. Seeing her own account of the events and reading them like an outsider felt so weird. But this was the only way she could learn more about herself, or what was herself before the war that demolished the village altogether. She hadn't accounted for the fact that she would have to retrace her steps and find missing memories or that she'd lose them entirely. So now there she was, reading through a log written by her years ago to find the missing pieces of a puzzle. She flipped the pages and started with her first mission.