It's unfortunate I've only spent a week with him before his team was assigned an escort mission. It was shocking to learn how they had received said mission.
While I begrudge low-rank missions as much as every shinobi in the village, I would never raise my voice and demand better missions from our Hokage.
I was sure SF would be reprimanded in some way shape or form, however, I've learnedafter the factthat SF seems to have a working relationship with Hokage-sama. It makes sense considering certain details.*
Of course, I refused to engage in our usual activity the night before his mission. As a general rule, shinobi tend to not engage in rigorous sexual activity before missions.
However, I utilized the time to go over strategy and his gear, and was upset upon discovering everything he owned was worn and or old. He explained that it's all he could afford which didn't make sense.
As I had plenty to spare, I gifted him a standard shinobi field pack, complete with Kunai, Shuriken, Makibishi spikes, Exploding Notes, Cable Wire, a couple Flash and Smoke Bombs, Emergency Food Pills, and an empty Sealing Scroll.
SF was through the moon, to say the least. He used the day and many clones to present me with a gift of his own, an unusual flower; dirty because of all the earth still attached, but pretty and thoughtful nonetheless*.
Though he was worried about how things might change when he returned, I reassured him that I would still be here when he got back and I had no intention of breaking our arrangement.
*For the purposes of anonymity many details of SF's relations will be restricted.
*Our bargain shouldn't have room for gifts, however, I allowed it given his insistence it was special, though he didn't know how. Will check with a specialist.
INO
Smugness is the only other emotion the pink-haired girl showed that day as she told her, "well when you start tree-walking, you're going to feel proud when you can hold it for thirty minutes, and you should. As a student of Iry-ninjutsu, I can tell you that's above average for ninja our age.
Do you want to know how he trains What lunacy you forced me to be apart of? That idiot fights Kage Bunshin of himself on water for hours! Everything he does is jacked up to insanity and it's killing me! It's a personal best if I only pass out once."
Ino didn't believe it. Not that Naruto. Not the Dead Last of their class. How could she?
He was the most hopeless case the Academy had ever seen. If he wasn't an orphan, Ino was sure his parents would've taken him out after failing the second time. Ino even asked Asuma-sensei what's the average length of time one can hold tree or water walking.
His response of, "hours," also came with a caveat.
"Just because a thing is unlikely, doesn't mean it's impossible," the gruff Jnin-sensei told them. "This world is filled with odd and unexpected shinobi.
The Nara technique of Shadow Binding is as unique as the Yamanaka techniques mind-walkers and the Akimichi techniques of body weight and size manipulation. Then there are Kekkei Genkai which is a different league of weird.
You never know what you may face out there which is why teams are the most effective way to fightto cover each other's back."
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