Natsume Reiko was no longer amused. Her day had started out horribly. She overslept and then as she was jumping out of bed, her legs got tangled in the sheets which caused her to face-plant into the ground. As she fell, she knocked over her cup of water dousing herself with it. At the time, she couldn't help but laugh at her clumsiness. She should have taken that as a sign from the universe and crawled back into bed and stayed there for the remainder of the day. 'But did I listen to my instinct? NOoooooooooO' She thought in annoyance. 10 times she had tried to head to her group, 10 times she had to turn back because she got doused by someone wielding the celebratory water guns and balloons. 'Whoever thought up the idea to give ninja's WATER guns is gonna die. I'm gonna STRANGLE them when I get my hands on them....... or drown them.......or BOTH' Reiko thought venomously. The first time she left her apartment, she tried to look decent for the celebrations, at this point, her group is lucky if she even even manages to show up at all.

As grumpy as she was, she couldn't help but admire all the decorations the event committee and all the other ninja's put into the celebrations. Along the way, she stopped by one of the stalls and handed in her "activity" sheet for the day. After the 5th dousing and needing to change, she decided to do the daily mission to get points to exchange for prizes. Luckily, she managed to avoid anyone who would have drenched her. So she got her customary water guns for showing up, plus her choice on what prizes to pick. 'Hmmmmm, which one should I get? I need the thread for my battle armour buuuut the amount of points needed is kinda expensive considering the max we're allowed a day' Then her eyes fell on the least expensive item and a wicked grin flit its way onto her face 'A water gun eh? Not needed, but it's inexpensive......and I could have a LOT of fun with these. Like, oh say, I don't know. How about PAYBACK. Mwahahahahahhahaha' Reiko couldn't contain the maniacal laughter.

The vendor looked at the cackling girl in slight fear and slowly started inching away, he knew all ninja's were a wee bit insane but he was hoping to get through his shift WITHOUT any .....incidences. Guess today just wasn't his lucky day.

Reiko evilly grinned at the vendor "I'll spend all my points on these" she said pointing to the water guns "please and thank you"

"Um, Ah, yeah sure" He stammered before processing her request and handing over the merchandise. "Ha...have a great day" He stuttered

"You too~!!" Reiko replied with enthusiasm before skipping off with her loot.

She was heading to her Group HQ, code name: The Foundation where she was currently the leader. The Hokage implemented the system for clan-less ninja's to join together and support one another, similar to clans. Although ninja's from clans could join if they wanted. Group's came in handy for when she needed to team up with someone for one of the daily missions she was assigned. What was also pretty interesting was how the Hokage also implemented a "tournament" for group's to attend twice a week. Once was prelim's the other the finals. It's to "promote friendly rivalry" and to "show how much we've grown" or something like that. Luckily, her group was #2 in her assigned section. Sadly, they had issues beating their rival group: The Guardians, which was ranked #1. She could count on one hand how many times they managed to win the tournament. She couldn't help the mischievous grin that slipped onto her face, she knew EXACTLY WHO she was going to use the water guns on...... or rather, what GROUP she was gonna use them on.

"Aiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" Reiko screeched in shock from violently being thrown out of her plotting by being drenched in the face. She scowled as she cameacross the laughing face of Jazz, one of the ninja's from her rival group. Before Reiko could retaliate, Jazz disappeared in a puff of smoke. 'That is the SIXTH time in the passed HOUR.....I really should be paying more attention to my surroundings' Reiko thought exasperatedly. She looked down at her drenched clothes and sighed in defeat 'This was my last dry pair of clothes' she thought in despair. 'Irk, Oh forget it! I GIVE UP.! The universe is against Natsume looking decent. Besides, I can't delay any longer. Our group activities are about to start and we need to finish organizing some things for the event' Reiko thought with a sigh.

Before she knew it, she was standing outside her group HQ. She threw open the doors and began to greet everyone.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm la-" Reiko spluttered as she was nailed in the face...yet again by another water gun. She gave the perpatrator a betrayed look, her group-mate Ec, he just grinned impishly at her. 'Yep, most definitely gonna kill the person who decided to hand these out, or at least pay them back for this. Lotsa fun using them, not so much being the one they're used on.' She thought murderously.

"...Weeeell now that THAT is outta the way" She gave a pointed look at Ec who began whistling innocently."It's time to start today's events for the celebration. So everyone clear on the rules? One team will hide while the other will seek. Once the seeking team has found someone from the hiding team, they must shoot the person with the water gun. If you get hit, you must return to base and wait for everyone else from your team to return. Last one caught wins, sounds fair?"

"I thought you weren't gonna use your water guns Nat?" Sashimae asked her confused

"....I don't plan on playing, I plan on going after The Guardians" She replied with a cold smile. Her group shuddered in slight fear and edged away slowly from her.

"Eh, you getting revenge on them or something?" OriOn asked. Reiko nodded her head and clapped her hands with glee.

"Eh, it's one of the only times we can pull one over on them~ So I'm gonna take it" Reiko shrugged her shoulders non-nonchalantly "Can ya blame me?"

"Revenge huh?" oRiOn responded with a mischievous smile. Reiko shuddered slightly in apprehension. She knew that look. OriOn and oRiOn were twins, impish ones who tried to troll and/or prank her whenever the chance presented itself. Luckily she always was able to counter. She affectionately called them the "Oreo" siblings as she called OriOn 'Ori' and oRiOn 'Rio" which sounded like the name brand "Oreo". Ori gave his sibling a knowing look. She glared at them su*iously and began to sweat nervously as they grinned at her.

"Then let's play hide and seek, Nat hides and we all seek....consider it revenge for all the sparring matches" The twins spoke in unison. '*it, I KNEW they were still mad when they teamed up to fight me at the same time and I beat both of their asses' Reiko couldn't help blanching at the thought of having to run and hide from all of her group mates, she gave them all a pleading look as she very slowly started inching for the door.

"Eh, you guys wouldn't do that to me right? Right? Right?" She asked nervously, but all the maniacal grins she was faced with made her heart sink. She was so screwed. She then turned accusing eyes to all of them ".......y'all were planning this from the beginning, weren't ya?"

"Heh, got that right" Emo smirked at her with a dark glint in his eyes.

"Welp, there's only one thing left for me to do" She gave them all a salute ".......Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee" Reiko promptly ran away screaming like a banshee as her group mates went charging after her.