Hatake Kakashi didn't know if he should be happy or annoyed as they escorted the bridge builder along. He'd been giving himself headaches, trying to understand what was going on in the minds of these kids, ever since the Bell Test.
Annoyed would be an option, because he hadn't yet managed the feat.
Happy would be an option, because they relatively quiet as they walked.
The Nara would have appeared similar to his brother of the recent Ino-Shika-Cho reincarnation genin team, but, as Kakashi had - much to his chagrin - found out, he responded to things with the sort of temper he'd have likened to that of the Yamanaka girl ... except that, where she used a tongue that was perhaps sharper than most of the best kunai forged in Konoha, he preferred more direct means of making his displeasure known. Liked to use excessive amounts of explosive notes. Which hurt.
Bakusuta Neshan ... good control and technique, poor reserves, and made up for it with weapons. Lost of weapons. And explosive notes. Lots of explosive notes. More than the Nara. Did he mention how much those hurt yet? Currently, he was loaded down with several scroll rolls, and while Kakashi would have normally looked at that more than a little oddly, he'd taken a peek at what the boy had been putting on them ... and while the Copy-Ninja wasn't a seal specialist, he had trained under the Yondaime, who'd in turn trained under Jiraiya ... some of the seals he'd seen the kid using had made him blink and reach for a reasearch book other than his beloved Icha Icha.
And Kirigishi just plain felt _off_. While his knowledge of Suitons could be explained away by the fact that his mother was an Mist-nukenin who'd sought out shelter in Konhagakure, the sort of killer instinct he'd shown during the Test ...
"Five minute break," Kirigishi Katsu said, cracking his neck, and stopping when his foot splashed a bit of a water from a puddle on the side of the road. "I need to take a piss."
And then he'd act like that.
Kakashi sighed, shrugged, and scanned the treeline with what looked like a casual motion, noting the positioning of the puddle without as much as a glance. Well, at least the boredom would likely stop.
A few minutes later the kid was back and they were walking again, when the noise of water being shifted reached them.
There was a whistle of air, and a sound that didn't quite fit into ...
*splorch* went Katsu, a formless mass of water falling to the ground where he'd been walking not a moment earlier.
Kakashi and the others spun around.
*crack* went the kunai that had penetrated into a Mist-nin's skull via ear canal, driven by Katsu's hand. The other hand was reaching the Mist-nin's armored glove, which had a razor-chain connecting said Mist-nin to the _second_ Mist-nin, who was currently in the air.
*ching* went the chain as Katsu's hand moved _something_ on the armored glove that made said chain go taut, after which the Leaf-genin yanked the spastic body of the kunai-lobotomized Mist-nin back and around, pulling the airborne one off course as well.
The Mist-nin rolled with the impact as best he could ... and stopped dead, or nearly so, when he was caught by Shikanenai's Shadow Bind, and a naginata (where the hell did _that_ come from?) held to his throat by Neshan.
The whole affair took less than three seconds.
"Well," Katsu said, twisting the kunai sticking out of the dead Mist-nin's ear with an audible wet sound. "I think our pay-grade just went up a notch, ne, Hatake-san?"
***snip***
---
Yes, Katsu would not be taking the dislocation very well, or very calmly. The typical Leaf low level missions weren't exactly helping. He's also a former Mist-nin specializing in assassination, so his knowledge of the Demon Brothers' favored tactics is justified.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm
Annoyed would be an option, because he hadn't yet managed the feat.
Happy would be an option, because they relatively quiet as they walked.
The Nara would have appeared similar to his brother of the recent Ino-Shika-Cho reincarnation genin team, but, as Kakashi had - much to his chagrin - found out, he responded to things with the sort of temper he'd have likened to that of the Yamanaka girl ... except that, where she used a tongue that was perhaps sharper than most of the best kunai forged in Konoha, he preferred more direct means of making his displeasure known. Liked to use excessive amounts of explosive notes. Which hurt.
Bakusuta Neshan ... good control and technique, poor reserves, and made up for it with weapons. Lost of weapons. And explosive notes. Lots of explosive notes. More than the Nara. Did he mention how much those hurt yet? Currently, he was loaded down with several scroll rolls, and while Kakashi would have normally looked at that more than a little oddly, he'd taken a peek at what the boy had been putting on them ... and while the Copy-Ninja wasn't a seal specialist, he had trained under the Yondaime, who'd in turn trained under Jiraiya ... some of the seals he'd seen the kid using had made him blink and reach for a reasearch book other than his beloved Icha Icha.
And Kirigishi just plain felt _off_. While his knowledge of Suitons could be explained away by the fact that his mother was an Mist-nukenin who'd sought out shelter in Konhagakure, the sort of killer instinct he'd shown during the Test ...
"Five minute break," Kirigishi Katsu said, cracking his neck, and stopping when his foot splashed a bit of a water from a puddle on the side of the road. "I need to take a piss."
And then he'd act like that.
Kakashi sighed, shrugged, and scanned the treeline with what looked like a casual motion, noting the positioning of the puddle without as much as a glance. Well, at least the boredom would likely stop.
A few minutes later the kid was back and they were walking again, when the noise of water being shifted reached them.
There was a whistle of air, and a sound that didn't quite fit into ...
*splorch* went Katsu, a formless mass of water falling to the ground where he'd been walking not a moment earlier.
Kakashi and the others spun around.
*crack* went the kunai that had penetrated into a Mist-nin's skull via ear canal, driven by Katsu's hand. The other hand was reaching the Mist-nin's armored glove, which had a razor-chain connecting said Mist-nin to the _second_ Mist-nin, who was currently in the air.
*ching* went the chain as Katsu's hand moved _something_ on the armored glove that made said chain go taut, after which the Leaf-genin yanked the spastic body of the kunai-lobotomized Mist-nin back and around, pulling the airborne one off course as well.
The Mist-nin rolled with the impact as best he could ... and stopped dead, or nearly so, when he was caught by Shikanenai's Shadow Bind, and a naginata (where the hell did _that_ come from?) held to his throat by Neshan.
The whole affair took less than three seconds.
"Well," Katsu said, twisting the kunai sticking out of the dead Mist-nin's ear with an audible wet sound. "I think our pay-grade just went up a notch, ne, Hatake-san?"
***snip***
---
Yes, Katsu would not be taking the dislocation very well, or very calmly. The typical Leaf low level missions weren't exactly helping. He's also a former Mist-nin specializing in assassination, so his knowledge of the Demon Brothers' favored tactics is justified.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm