H.Shuyo

8.5

To sum up Tazuna's very dramatic and prolonged speech, Gato brought the the land of waves economy down with all his midget power when he set his sights on the poor little village. He mentioned something about his son and daughter hating the leaf village and something about revenge, but we have a lot of those people already so nothing new.

Kakashi nodded along with Tazuna's story and I couldn't help but think. 'I hope he's knows that the old man just tried to guilt trip us into staying.' He stole a quick glance at me but immediately looked back to Tazuna when he saw that I was already starring at him. 'Baka, I hope you fall off a bridge.' I looked away from him and back into the misty air.

I took a deep breath and ran my hand through the water to help control the unnecessary anger I'm holding. Well it's not unnecessary considering the fact that our next opponent will more than likely be near Kakashi's rank or higher. I knew I could possibly survive if he were to fall, but that's only if I didn't have to worry about the other three. They wouldn't last long if I where to fall too and I don't want that to happen. Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi have already been through so much and I don't know much about Sakura so I don't know what she would do exactly if any of us were to die. Despite what the three of them say, they really do care about each other.

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"We'll I guess we'll have to stay until the bridge is finished then." I whiped my head around and glared. "Sensei say what now?" I looked at him like he was coo-coo for Coco-Puffs. I heard Naruto chuckle. "I swear no one but me has a brain sometimes." Kakashi along with the rest of the passengers didn't respond. "I'm going to go clear my head. Meet up with you guys later?" No one stopped me when I jumped out and landed on the water and stalked away from my team and client.

With Team 7 (3rd P.O.V.)
All of the non-elite ninja watched as Hiroto walk on water in amazement. Kakashi mumbled a few swear words about sticking together, but knew better than to aggravate the angry Shuyo. Tazuna spoke up for the group. "Is he going to be okay on his own?" Sakura nodded along with him, worry for her teammate clear in her eyes. Naruto smiled big. "Of course he'll be okay dattebayo! Hiroto's one of the strongest ninja I know!" Kakashi nodded. "Naruto's right guys. He'll be fine." Sauke grunted before speaking in his usual grumpy tone of voice. "How did he do that?" Sakura, Naruto, Tazuna, and the man rowing the boat blinked. "Do what Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke's eye twitched. "Baka. How did Hiroto-sama walk on the water and not fall in?" Everyone but Kakashi shrugged at his question so the scarecrow had to step in and explain. "It's a chakra technique. Most ninja refer to it as water walking because, well that's exactly what it looks like." The three genin on board nodded. "Will we learn how to do that sensei?" Kakashi shrugged at Sakura's question. "If you get passed the first exercise then sure." Sakura looked visibly confused unlike the other two. "There's more than one chakra exercise?" Naruto surprisingly answered her. "Hiroto told me there were more than a billion ways to exercise chakra control." Sakura scowled. "He seems to tell you a lot of things we don't know baka." Kakashi and the old man quirked a brow. "Not to be rude or anything, but how did you all meet the guy?" The boat rower was looking at his surroundings warily so Kakashi thought he probably wanted to stop any loud violence that was bound to happen between the younger two. Naruto eagerly raised his hand. "Ooh me first!" Sakura smacked him upside the head and told him to "shut up and get on with it then."
"Okay okay Sakura geez.. Me and Hiroto met around a year or two ago by accident, but we've been the best of friends ever since. We're like brothers!" He shut up for a minute when the guide told him to quiet down. "We always go out to eat ramen after he gets off work because we love ramen." Kakashi laughed for solid minute.

With Hiroto (1st P.O.V.)
I was sitting at the very edge of the bridge with my feet dangling over the edge with a fishing pole in my hands. I haven't caught anything yet, but I figured exercising my chakra to its best potential was better then wasting time doing nothing until they arrived.
I thought I saw a fish pop out of water so I used this random fishing pole I found just lying around near the bridge to real the thing in. I focused my chakra along the thin line of string so it went farther into the water.
I tried to pull the string back, but the fish was stubbornly resistance. I reeled the thing in a little but the thing was a lot heavier than any fish I knew. 'My first catch of the day and its a big one! Believe it!!' I grinned wickedly at the image of freshly grilled fish over a plate of steaming white rice. I stood up from my spot and reeled the thing in faster. When it showed less resistance I relaxed the line a little and then repeated the process. I saw some wooden structure pop up from the mist and sat back down in disappointment after I released the hooked piece of wood. 'bye-bye fishy..' Crocodile tears ran down my chibi face.