𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑. ❪ 𝗌𝖺𝗌𝗎𝗄𝖾.𝗎 ❫

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Friendship

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Peaceful and magnificent.

The five of them have been traveling for at least two hours on foot, but someone is staring at someone in a disdainful manner this entire time. Naruto is giving Sai a grudging look. His new teammate is an odd person that spurts out scornful words that makes him and Sakura furious. Naruto doesn't comprehend how Misa isn't affected by Sai's retorts. Guess she has resilience.

Sakura and Misa could feel the tension growing through the air. The girls take a look at Naruto and feel unease. "What is it?" Sai breaks the silence in his calm voice. They heard him, though no response from any of them. "Please don't stare at me like that. I'll pound you." Sai politely yet in a threatening way tells Naruto. "You tick me off with everything you say!" The blonde boy was raising his fist at him as veins popped out of his knuckles. "I don't mean it." Sai draws on his usual smile. "You liar!" Naruto barked back. "I'm just trying to portray myself like that kind of character." The pale-skinned boy makes a reason, but Naruto denies it.

"You won't do at all!"

Sai stops walking along with everyone else. A vexed glare is burning through his dark eyes at Naruto. Yamato, Sakura, and Misa can detect they are about to fight right on the spot. "Don't act like that in front of your captain, Naruto." Yamato knows he has to stop them before it gets out of hand. "I'm sure Kakashi taught you that trust and teamwork are most important to a team. What's your problem?" A concerning question that made Naruto look at Sai distastefully.

He points his finger at the other boy, "He's not a member of Team Kakashi! The other member of Team Kakashi is Sasuke! I don't acknowledge him as a team member!" Naruto enrages as his blood kept boiling up. "Well, that's easier for me. He betrayed Konoha and ran off to serve Orochimaru. I don't want to be lumped together with a cockroach along the same lines as Orochimaru." Sai spoke directly that upset him even more.

"T-Teme!" Naruto was about to bash the ruthless boy, but he felt a slight tug from his sleeve. He looks down to see Misa frowning severely. "That's enough, Naruto." She demanded in a soft voice. She shifts her rosy pink eyes and set upon Sai. "As for you, Sai, I would like you not to speak ill about someone you don't know." Misa magically settled the mood that surprised Naruto and Sakura, even Yamato as well. Sai also obligated that he won't act like that ever again.

"Shichūka no Jutsu!"

The four shinobi shift their attention at the abrupt building that Yamato summoned out. It was Wood Release, the only secret jutsu that only the First Hokage could use. Yamato has stunned them for sure. He crosses his arms over his chest, "Now, this is going to be a warning. If you continue to fight, then I'll toss everyone in this cage to improve your rapport. We don't have much time until we get to the Tenchi Bridge. However, you all have enough time to detour. Either stay in the cage, or we can stay at a hot spring inn for a night. Which do you prefer?" Yamato asked the people in a petrifying way. From the looks of their horrific expression, he scrutinizes that they rather not get tortured by him.

So, they decided to stay at a hot spring inn.

"Yamato taichou is a creepy guy, don't you think?" Sakura asked. She and Misa are walking through the hallways of the inn. "He may seem like it, but I don't think he is that stern." Misa shrugged her shoulders. "Is it true that you know every Jōnin in Konoha?" The pink-haired kunoichi empathizes with the word "every." Misa giggles, "Well, my parents used to be in Anbu, so that's why I know a lot of people." She answered Sakura's question. They enter the ladies' section to take a nice, soothing bath.