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She was still pondering about the topic as Ren started to steer the boat in the left direction. Not having a world map meant that she had no way of knowing where the boat was heading. But having traveled with Ren for a few days already has mace her quite trusting to his skills and experience. He definitely knew the waters well. He was expecting her to feel a little loss and so ge decided that jt would be best to update her client. "We're just headin' out of the Hi no Kuni districts now. We're officially safe." that relieved her a bit.

She smiled and sat back, feeling the gentle rocking of the boat. She was fairly happy with the speed at which they were traveling. Because they were now in the middle of the ocean, she was allowed to breathe easier. The fact that she had gotten herself into the messes with those Konoha nin was certainly not something smart that she did. Especially with that she/he Hyuuga. She had lashed out before she could control her insanity and had then gotten herself into an almost life threatening situation. It meant that before she had the strength of preferrably a Chuunin level shinobi, 

She closed her eyes and just sat there, almost in the meditation stance. The boat was very good for meditation because the gentle rocking and the water rppling sounds gave her some kind of peace. She hadn't felt so relaxed for a total of eight days, living in constant fear that somebody would come up behind her and slit her throat. She should have realized the grave dangers of being a wandering shinobi. But she had in some ways kind of expected it too. It was definitely better than being a shinobi without a village. So now, there was a delemma in her hands; a choice that she would have to make eventually. She was going to have to make a decision soon  

Ren also saw through the anxiety in the look on her face. He didn't question her about it but instead let her think. He knew that she needed peace and quiet. Once he became tired of paddling, he would take a seat opposite her and munch on his breakfast. He offered her some food too to which she declined. But he pressured her simply because she was looking unhealthy and too skinny. "Problems won't go away without eatin', lass" He pushed a plate of cold eggs and sausages that he had packed this morning and told her to eat. She finally complied and ate a little. He smiled as she ate. Although cold, the food was delicious and she realized upon taking the first bite that she was actually hungry.

The afternoon was drawing near and Ren let the boat drift on it's own in the ocean. They were on schedule anyway and didn't need to hasten for any reason. He also imagined that she needed a bit of rest after all the excitement from her days in Hi no Kuni. He asked her if she wanted to rest but she told him she wanted to read a bit of her mission logs first. She has been meaning to read the logs for a few days now. 

As they contours to drift their way on the waters, she was deep in thought. Ren noticed it too and so didn't offer much as conversation. Whatever that had happened back there in Hi no Kuni had struck her in many ways unimaginable. The only question was whether she could recover from it. She was already a bit emotionally unstable as it was. Was there a possibility that she would just go full out insane? If that was the case, he feared she would get herself into worse situations. Paddling the boat in silence, he made no move to dig deeper. If she wanted to say anything she would.

And it was simply that she had nothing to say. It was worse that she felt nothing but anger and resentment towards Konoha and it's shinobi. She shouldn't, naturally because she wasn't a Konoha shinobi and had trespassed onto their land. But that was beside the point. Ever since a part of her memory came back, she was more than certain that she wanted to do something about the fallen Yuki no Kuni. Even if it cost her life, she was going to bring back her village. There was no doubt about it. It hurt that she couldn't have been there or supposed that she wasn't, to help her village when the war took place.

"Where are we going now?" she asked quietly. It had been the first time she said anything since boarding the boat. It had suddenly occured to her that she was drifting on the boat with no real place in mind. Her only desire had been to escape out of Hi no Kuni. Did she want to continue her journey still to the five great shinobi nations or did she want to head home? Even though she loved her home, she wasn't going back just yet. There were still unanswered questions which needed answers. She couldn't find them on Hi no Kuni so she was going to take the time to find them elsewhere. But she didn't have a world map, at least not yet and wasn't sure where the other countries were.

Ren was able to answer that though. He told her there were four other great shinobi nations which housed four different hidden villages. He ticked off the list and told her that she could just pick one to go to. After thinking for a moment, she definitely ruled out Kaze no Kuni because of distance and instead turned her attention to either Kaminari no Kuni or Tsuchi no Kuni. She was somewhat fearful of these lands in case they were like Hi no Kuni. But he reassured her that as long as she didn't get herself into messes, all would be well.

So she took his word for it and thought about it. None of them aroused any particular interest and she didn't know too much about them to really make a choice. She told Ren to make the choice for her, just so she didn't have to think. He agreed and told her what when she got there, she would know which country he chose. So now he was being mysterious too? Though she didn't mind so much so long as she was safe from harm's way.

Her swift paddling allowed the small boat to be carried safely on the waters away from Hi no Kuni. The dock was slowly getting smaller and smaller; away from view. It was only then that she let out a deep sigh and sit back on the bench. She let Ren take over the paddling now that they were out of harm's way. Closing her eyes she had to calm herself down. There was no way she was going to be this unnerved again, not in front of anyone else. She wasn't out to kill Ren, but she was very cautious of him. 

"I found out my real name--" she began as she attempted to break the silence. Ren looked at her from where he was standing, still paddling. She nodded her head as though to reassure him that she spoke the truth. "I saw in my dream--somebody called me by my real name. It's Yukina Sayuri." For the first time she told someone of her real name. It felt proud for her to call herself a Yukina, finally acknowledging the fact that she was part of the clan. It seemed like she had waited so long for the day to be able to tell people what her name was. Her real name that is. "So you remember everything, lass?" She shook her head. There were still unanswered questions that she quested for, hoping to find answers of.

It was only now that she was away from the big ominious country of Hi no Kuni that she began to think back of the entire stay. And something struck her as troublesome. She had holed herself in the forest of Konoha and people just came up and about either asking for a spar, picking a fight or pissing her off so much she had to fight them. There were not that many people she met that dwarves an inch more respect than she gave them. They all treated her like an outsider, not once willing to hear her out of her circumstances. All they cared about was the fact that she didn't have the same shinobi headband with her than they did. Especially Tomomi.

Just because she was a shinobi from a lesser village; a village that was destroyed because of some stupid war! She hated every single one of the people that she'd met in those nine days and had come up with a heavily biased opinion that she hated both Hi no Kuni and Konohagurke no Sato. She was furious at them; those who thought that they were more superior than her. She was going to teach them a lesson one day that they would never ever forget, She wasn't sure if one day she would want to annihilate Konoha but certainly do justice upon herself for those who crossed her path the wrong way. She hated not being strong.

That was now her goal--to be stronger than everyone; to be the strongest Yukina Clan member alive. She was still young and had many more years to go before she was old and could no longer train. Because she was so young she should take advantage of what she had now and get to the strongest rank she possibly could. She had had so much success from the start that now she was just getting closer and closer. She would have to be patient and strong willed so that she could fight every last barrier which was out to stop her from realizing her dreams.

But she literally had no time to explain. Nor did she want to stay in Hi no Kuni. Every moment she was in the area she felt scared. As though if she turned a corner she'd suddenly be ganged up by these shinobi. She'd had that experience once before and now she was definitely frightful of the country. She vowed that she would never return to it because of this fear and knew that the Konoha shinobi were probably on the lookout for her anyhow. She had caused much havoc during her brief stay to the point where she was probably ordered to be captured. Or better yet, killed. 

No she couldn't die! Dying wasn't an option. She hadn't lived through the war, come out of it unscathed save for memory loss to have herself killed by a bunch of people that probably knew nothing about her life! No, that was out of the question! She quickly mounted the boat that Ren was sitting on and almost barked out an order for him to take her out of the country at once. She needed to leave, and it was now or never. Her voice held panic for the very first time, 

Realizing how urgent this situation actually was, he was going to ignore the fact that she ordered him and ask just do as she said. She was panicing and a nervous wreck, which was so different from the usual composed and calm self. He took the paddle into his hand abs began to row out of the docks of Hi no Kuni. He wasn't sure what she was so afraid of since it seemed that there wasn't anyone chasing after her. It was daybreak and not many people were out and about. 

A perfect time for a getaway. He paddled as fast as his arms allowed him out of the waters of Hi no Kuni. But his arms were tired from a long trip which took almost two full days to finish but was finally able to bring his customer to his destination. He was not sure if he could paddle anymore. But since she asked him to help her, he wasn't going to just sit there and say no. She was like a good friend of his by now and she was likely one of the only friends he got a chance to talk to these days. He was definitely going to help her.

Seeing that Ren seemed to be having some difficulty with the paddling, she didn't ask questions or get angry. She merely stepped up to where he was, took the paddle from his hands and told him to stand aside while she paddled. Paddling was quite hardwork especially speed paddling. Even though nobody chased after her, she was fearful. And so her speed increased rapidly as her hands worked. The power of fear and what it could do to the most insane of people--

So they were literally just passing each other. Now that certainly wasn't something she was happy with since her plan wasn't going to work. But what she was going to do now was stop her shunshin before it reached the whole five meters and then turned her head around. Her right hand was already reaching inside her weapon pouch strapped to her right knee and pulling out two shuriken. She was aiming at Hitomi's right shoulder and threw the shuriken at her. But her attack wasn't quite done yet. She would charge forward. As soon as she got within range of her opponent she would reach into her weapon pouch again to pull out a kunai. The kunai would act as her temporary primary weapon since it was kind of like a dagger.

She was waiting for Hitomi to react first to her shuriken attack and then the close kunai attack. She was certain that even as a Taijutsu master, because she had chosen to use her whip as her primary source of attack, she had opened up the chance to go for short distance attacks which in and of itself was going to be hard to block or dodge unless she stopped using her whip and actually used a Taijutsu instead. That made her wonder what her Ninjutsu release specialty was since almost every Genin would find one release that they really liked. But for now she was going to focus on what kind of counter-attack Hitomi could come up with.

And she wouldn't be disappointed. She saw that Hitomi was indeed planning to give up on her use of the whip and instead just use her bare hands to counter her kunai attack. Because she had decided to make the kunai act as a sword, it gave Hitomi the opportunity to just grab onto her arm before she could actually attack with it. She was going to have do much more to get herself out of the situation. She had chosen to not move to catch her kunai attack that she had had to take the shuriken to her shoulder. She felt kinda bad for the girl. But she reminded herself that she was her opponent.

As soon as she felt the grip of her hand on her arm, she would turn her body towards Hitomi. She forgot that a person had two arms and two legs. Even if she couldn't possibly try to do something with her other arm because she was without a weapon, there were still her legs. She would try to jump up from where she was standing and then aim for an attack using her feet. She wasn't sure if it would be successful at all but she was hoping that it would be at least be able to allow her to release her arm. They still hadn't used jutsus against each other. This battle was going to be very long, she had a feeling.

But that approach wasn't fast enough. Hitomi had already pushed her kunai out of her hand and threw her away from her. Her strength was unbelievable and it wasn't something she was quite used to. She raised an eyebrow as she was thrown rather clumsily away from her opponent. It was great to see that she didn't have to get too personal to get her arm released but her kunai was now on the ground in front of Hitomi. She thought that maybe now was the time to use her jutsus.