"Are you any good at it?"

"Well, I made lunch okay, didn't I?"

"Wasn't much cooking involved with it."

"I'll have to try harder to impress next time, then."

"I look forward to it."

She giggles.

Dinner finishes up fairly soon after, and Shinrei-sensei arranges their next meetup (tomorrow morning, same place) and sees Elaise off, before going to take Amajina to move her stuff.

They'll spend a few days on fairly intense training - getting used to each other, in large part - before their first D-rank, which Shinrei-sensei has three options for them: helping with construction of new housing near city outskirts, helping clear a shipping channel deeper into the village that's been getting block with detritus, or working in and just outside of the bay to clear it of litter and check for developing problems with the columns supporting the docks.

Ah, same old menial tasks.

Elaise loosely favors the third option.

Yeah. The bay sounds like Amajina's jam, though she wouldn't mind working with the canal.

Sayuri likes doing construction stuff, but she can do a lot of the stuff like checking the piers if they do the third. 

"Okay. Sounds like bay maintenance it is. There's also some refresher material you guys can read about checking the piers, too, though it's mostly simple stuff today."

"They're not still dealing with that weird fungus on the piers, are they?"

"It's been a stubborn problem."

Bleh.

"You should make sure to wear your gloves," she says to the other two genin.

"...Okay, noted."

She giggles. "Yeah, fungi can get mean. I might be able to deal with it a bit more thoroughly if it's an invasive species, though..."

"That'd be good. It's not fun to try to clean up."

"It's probably also messing with stuff environmentally if it isn't where it belongs."

"That too."

"So Sayuri can focus on the piers, and I'll help you with cleaning up the bay proper, and Sayuri will tell me if there's anything growing where it shouldn't."

"Sounds like a plan."

"Works for me, yeah."

"Let's head to the administrative building, then."

And hope there are no unfortunate complications before they can pick up their mission scrolls. Or with the actual mission itself.