Her missions had never taken her so far away from home before. She'd never gotten so far into what she considered to be enemy territory before... though the was no open ongoing war between the fire and lightning countries anymore... she still had a permanent mindset that the fire country, and their leaf ninjas, were all evil. Though, she didn't think the same of their allies as much.... she was still a bit... displeased with them.<br/><br/>Mei was far from her home on a personal sort of mission. There were rumors of a massacre, leaving children stranded in a town. Despite the distance, it pained her heart... it took her two days to reach what was left of the village... even without food or water, even the children would be able to survive that long.... she hoped. However, she'd gotten the news in that time as well... so they were four days without, unless they knew how to feed themselves. Surely, the nearby leaf village would have heard of such things, especially if she had...but she couldn't trust that they would do their jobs properly. So she was here on the outskirts of a destroyed minor village...<br/><br/>Looking at it, it couldn't have been much larger that maybe a few families... small, remote people who kept to themselves... murdered for the fun of it. The village had obviously had some cleaning done...and there seemed to be no one around...but she was still concerned... a tragedy like this, children tended to hide....and they were very good at doing so. And this wasn't the first time she'd heard word of something like this. There was a pattern developing.... murder the adults or anyone who was old enough to put up a fight, steal the valuables, leaving the children. The oldest child to survive that she'd seen was 10... and even then... well, he was fragile of health... which is all that spared him.<br/><br/>After a few moments of silence and surveillance, she came out of hiding, and started to search the village for any signs of life. The village was located decently far away enough from the leaf village, so she felt a little better about that. It was towards the end of the fire country, near the border of the land of rivers... in truth, she was actually perfectly an even distance between the hidden  leaf village, and the hidden sand village on the other side of the land of rivers.