Morning.
As Kurama Ryō straightened Yakumo's clothes, she said gently, "Yakumo, even though you're Lord Tsunade's apprentice now, you mustn't throw your weight around in the Medical Team!"
"I know, Mom!"
Yakumo smiled.
Looking at Yakumo's happy smile, Kurama Ryō sighed softly. "You have such a beautiful smile!"
Before that surgery, she could count on one hand the number of times she'd seen her daughter smile. Even now, she couldn't bear to look back on those days.
Yakumo didn't quite understand her mother's wistful remark, but she truly was happy today.
Just last night, she'd finally mastered the ocular jutsu hidden within the Red Dragon Eye, a technique called "Red Dragon." What's more, Red Dragon was an exceptionally rare Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Just then, Yakumo's father, Kurama Murakumo, walked in and said to Kurama Ryō, "All right, don't dawdle. We need to get going too!"
Seeing that her father was fully equipped, Yakumo asked, "Are you going on a mission today?"
"Mm!"
Kurama Ryō nodded lightly.
Kurama Murakumo said, "Because of your surgery, the village waived our clan's mission quota last month. Now that your condition has stabilized, your mother and I can go on missions without worrying."
As a shinobi clan, it was only natural that they took on missions for the village. The Kurama Clan was no exception.
But the Kurama Clan had grown so weak that, apart from its head, Kurama Murakumo, there wasn't another Jonin in the clan. So whenever a mission was even a little difficult, Kurama Murakumo had to take it on himself.
Seeing the worry on Yakumo's face, Kurama Ryō patted her head. "Don't worry. The village assigned your father a very simple mission, one even a Chunin could handle. Nothing will go wrong."
Kurama Murakumo smiled. "We're not at the point where we