Fearless

Chapter 19

Paku laughed a bit, "Thank you, Pheles. I appreciate it." Looking from Kiara to Izumo, who just huffed, but didn't say anything. "Well, I should really be going. Have a good summer you guys." She waved at them and started getting into the car that was waiting for her.

"Yeah, you too. We'll keep in touch, alright?" Izumo said.

Paku nodded, and with those parting words she shut the car door and the group watched as the car drove off.

"Well, I guess we should grab our things and meet teach at the train station." Kiara said, "Don't want to make him annoyed with us by being late."

Everyone nodded, and they all parted ways, each of them going to their dorms to finish up getting ready for the mission.

***

Kiara was standing at the train station beside all her classmates, waiting for Yukio to tell them what they were doing there.

"I now you are all excited for summer break." Yukio started, "Well, you'll have to hold that thought because for the next three days, you Exwires will be participating in a field drill at the academy's training camp in the forest. Of course, I'll be coming along and so will Miss Kirigakure."

"Yeah hoo." Shura said, raising her hand in the air.

"Now, the purpose of this drill is to determine whether or not you are ready to go out on missions. So, stay sharp."

"Right!" The class exclaimed.

After the small speech, everyone got onto the lightrail and headed down to the forest, where they would start their training camp. The rail trip wasn't long, and soon everyone was stepping off and standing in front of an expansive forest. Without wasting too much time, all of them walked away from the station and headed into the forest.

"Oh yeah!" Rin cheered, "This is gonna be rad! Like going on a picnic!"

"I can see us sitting around a campfire at night and learning folk dances." Shima said, a blush appearing on his cheeks.

"Shima, spider." Kiara said, spotting a spider on on Shima's shoulder. She watched him look to where she was pointing and a look of pure terror appearing on his face. A second later he started freaking out, trying to het the spider off of his shoulder by moving around frantically.

"Wow, I knew you were unnerved by bugs, but this kinda fear is almost sad to watch." Kiara stated, chuckling a bit.

"Kiara!" Shima pouted.

"We don't have time for fooling around. We have quite a ways of walking before we get to where we'll be setting up camp. Let's get a move on, everybody!" Yukio shouted.

"Yes sir!" The class responded, and started walking a bit faster.

After walking for a while, Kiara noticed that her classmates were all starting to drag, all of her classmates aside from her, and Rin, though they both had enhanced stamina. Shura and Yukio seemed to be doing just fine as well.

"During the day, the forest is peaceful. But at night it becomes a hotbed of lower level demon activity. We have to set up base camp before the sun goes down. Pick up the pause." Yukio scolded, noticing that everyone was starting to drag as well.

"Look at that guy, isn't he hot in that coat?" Bon asked from beside Kiara, sweat rolling down his forehead.

"You know, I wouldn't put it past teach to put ice packs in that coat." Kiara mused, "He just seems like the type to do that."

"You heard him! Get a move on!" Shura said from behind the group.

"Um, ma'am, where's you bag?" Shima said.