"An A-rank mission!" Celia squealed in delight. "I can't believe I'm going on an A-rank mission!"

Wylie smiled at his younger sister, hiking his backpack straps up higher on his shoulders. "And who do we have to thank for that?"

"Auntie Saku!" Celia cheered, beaming brightly at the pink-haired woman walking in between them.

"That's right, guys. Awesome Auntie Saku is taking you out for a mission." Sakura agreed, placing a hand on each of their head and ruffling their light blonde hair.

The mission Naruto, the currently Hokage, had assigned them was an easy A-ranking mission, in which they had retrieve a scroll that had been stolen by a small group of rogues. Sakura just wanted to take her niece and nephew out on an adventure before she went traveling again, and this mission was perfect. There was a few hours of traveling (aka bonding time) in store for them, along with some action when they kicked the rogue butts, and then more traveling!

As they got to the gate they sent small smiles at each other, all equally excited. And they took off, Wylie and Celia impressing Sakura with their speed. Celia, at the age of thirteen was a Chunin, and Wylie had just become a jounin at age fifteen.

They leapt across the trees, chatting all the way. Sakura told them about some of her travels, and Wylie blushed about Celia's story of a girl on her team. Which led to further investigation of the topic, which led to the discovery of Wylie's insanely big crush, which led to all of them vowing not to release any of the information uncovered during this trip to anyone else.

As night fell, the trio decided to set up camp. Sakura looked at the map and deducted that they had about an hours worth of travelling until they arrived at the base of the rogues. And then they spent quite a while laughing and joking.

"Auntie, who do we look like more? Ma or Pa?" Celia inquired after everyone had finished their food.

Sakura took a good look at them before replying. "You have your father's eyes and your mother's hair, but that's obvious. Both of you inherited your mother's cheek bones, which is a definite blessing in my opinion. Wylie, you look more like your mother, because as far as I can see, the only thing you inherited from Rui was the eyes. Maybe the jawline too. And Celia, you're a mixture of both. You have Rui's eyes, jaw, and nose, but Lihn's eye shape, cheeks, and lips." Sakura nodded. "But I think you guys got the best of both. However, you obviously got more of Lihn's in you because Lihn is way more attractive than my ugly, older brother." She snickered, which brought on more jokes up until the time they were falling asleep.

They got home a few days afterwards, the mission completed without a hitch. Wylie and Celia kicked some serious butt and Sakura got to blow up the place (which made her feel immensely gratified). And they returned home with huge smiles on their faces.