Sometimes I feel really bad about being truthful, but to tell the truth, I can't imagine any of the jounin actually getting a request to spy or something like that. Maybe it's just me, but I can't. Maybe the students like Naruto and Kiba convincing them to try and spy, but not the adults. Other than that, just the occasional mistake spelling/grammatically.

I greatly enjoyed this chapter. It seems even if Nishiyo is confident in her students, she is being cautious. Poor Ayako questioned her a bit too much. She got them all punished XD. Though in a way the sudden meeting saved them.

So the Rookie Nine and Team Shizen all finally meet. I didn't see the rivalry between Kiba and Yumika coming, but it also helped me understand a picture of Yumika I saw on deviantart to a point. It was funny since Yumika was keeping her head and being all stoic while Kiba was getting sooo annoyed. Hehe. It makes me look forward to more interaction between them in the future.

In a way Ayako is starting to make me think of Kina (character from Never Too Late - you read the old version and it is now being rewritten, by the way) for certain reasons. The new development with their abilities is quite cool. So they're a team of.... Elementals? Not sure what else to call them. Did the mist do that on purpose? Most likely. I wonder if there's one for lightning. And it's ironic two are from one village, two are from another.

This is an awesome development and I can't wait to see what it will do in the story's plot.

Author's Response: Don't feel bad! It's no big deal, really. I'm very pleased that you are truthful and it doesn't hurt my feelings one bit. It only would if you suddenly typed something like "This story absolutely sucks. I don't know why I read it." (Over-dramatization :P) Again, this chapter was written a while before I really could figure out how to write better. I really don't remember why I wrote it like that. I think it was because they wanted to, in a way, teach Nishiya a lesson that you can't just have your nose in the air when your the newbie and they wanted to see what her big talk was about. The rivalry between Kiba and Yumika wasn't there before actually. I thought I'd add it because of the whole cat and dog situation going on. Yeah, the picture of her wasn't the best considering her out changed into something more likely to be seen on Naruto, as well as Etsuyo's. I remember that story! I really liked it. The irony kind of has a back story which unfortunately doesn't come in for a looonnnggg time (I'm talking in the sequel... Sometimes having to write this story frustrates me because of everything that goes on in the actual Naruto and what has to happen in this to make sense.) Lightning also comes in later but during this story and it's pretty surprising what I have in store. :) I don't think I'll ever stop saying thank you for your thoughts, so be prepared to read some kind of thank you in my responses.