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[Valles]

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I thought it was the Cloud and the Stone that Leaf usually had trouble with, aside from missing-nin. Isn't Water Country on the far side of those two from Fire?

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Fire is in the center of the map. Wind is due west, Earth -north-west. Lightning is northeast, and Water sort of East-southeast-ish, across a smallish sea.
Anyway, I'd guess that -all- of the Shinobi nations have had at least one fairly serious conflict with any given one of the others at -some- point in their history... and given how -vicious- the old-style Mist was, that war probably left some bad memories, particularly if it was recent enough to still be in living memory for the older citizens (ie, 30-40 years ago). Or there could have been a minor war where Mist tried to take advantage of the way Kyuubi would have weakened the Leaf.

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Anyway, feel free to kife the Spring Steel Compound Bow of DOOM! if you like it and it fits a character of yours.

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Well, maybe not the super-heavy-power-draw aspect, but I think I like it better for Kagami Eisha than the big shuriken (she's on Kakashi's team, I think I've mentioned).

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(laughs) Heh, and of course Naruto is torn between feeling a little bad, 'cause he was starting to think Hinata might like him too, and cheering her on because, well, Rikou is nice and all and it's nice to have someone who cares but really it's a little too much and maybe they'd go for a threesomeAAARGH! (Naruto thumps his head against a nearby solid object, ranting about Ero-ERO-ERO Sennin being a bad influence and he can't beleive he thought something like that)

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*cheers and waves his 'GO POLY!' banner*
Edit2:
Hinata: *glomp*
Rikou: Yack! Get off!
Hinata: *lets go and tears up* I... I had thought that you would understand my heart... please... listen to it... *grabs one of Rikou's hands and clasps it to her chest - palm -down-*
Rikou: Eep! *squeezesqeeze* *eyebrow twitch* ...that's... not fair...
I'd gotten the sennin/sannin bit, but ero/gero is news. Cool.
Ja, -n
(edit: Urge. Urge. Urge. Urge.)
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