"Can you walk any slower?" Kimiko shouted at Akemi from the end of the path. "Yeah, hurry it up." Her older brother Hiraku chimed in. Suppressing her urge to smack both the bratty children on the sides of their heads as she approached, Akemi slightly quickened her pace. It had been awhile since Akemi had been assigned a mission, 4 weeks in fact. Though Akemi had taken advantage of the surplus of free time to train, she had longed for a mission to come along, simply to ease her boredom. However, acting as the sole guard for two rather unpleasant teens was not the mission she had in mind. Hiraku and his younger sister Kimiko were the children of one of the wealthiest merchants in the Land of Fire and beyond from what Akmei knew. They had been brought to Akemi outside the boundaries of the Hi