Self improvement was the cornerstone of what made Team Gai so successful in their dynamics. Because being strong individually could only help them when they worked as an actual team. It was one of the main reasons why they had such a high success rate on missions. Of course, it had been some odd months since the members of Team Gai had actually gone on an assignment together.

It was a sad realization that Tenten faced almost once every week. And much like Lee, she drowned such thoughts in more training and more missions to fill in her days in the meantime. So it was quite a fortunate surprise to find Lee jumping from rooftop to rooftop as she was strolling through the market area of the village towards one of her favorite weapons shop.

"Lee!"