Or at least until the next time their team could manage to gather together like that again. Because, after all that time, nothing short of something dire could or should ever keep them separated for that long again. Team Gai was family, after all. And family stayed together.

"It definitely could have been a lot worse." Kneeling down into the snow, the kunoichi made quick work of picking up any remaining trash and chopsticks left over from their little meal. "No impossible eating challenges were issued and no one had to go home with an upset stomach."