How had it come to this, where top brass were no longer able to move freely because of the activities of some insolent brats? As he cast his gaze across the ANBU sparring hall he realized that despite his best efforts Plan B wasn’t exactly living up to his expectations: With the 44th training ground out of the question they were confident to the by comparison cramped chambers that HQ had to offer, which was definitely a step down giving his primary fighting style. It couldn’t be helped however on such a short notice, Yoshihisa having relocated the sparring match with Yukio at the last possible second with a begrudging ‘We ought not to’. Before that day he wasn’t quite convinced words could express the same level as disgust on paper as they could when spoken, only to pass the test with flying colors.
Having arrived before the Hyuuga patriarch that morning, there was little more he could do to pass the time with the routine warm-up stretches as he sorted out his thoughts. Their relationship was an odd one at best, for despite their numerous connections outside their professional lives they had pretty much limited their interactions to their work hours. How much was his colleague even aware of, Izumi to take non-quite random example out of thin air? Yoshihisa couldn’t deny that his desire to improve further wasn’t solely driven by the office he now represented, as for the first time since settling in Konoha his private life became an active driving force. He had made a promise to Takeshi that he would let no harm come to his youngest adoptive son, something which had been nagging in the back of his mind ever since: In retrospective with the threat of war looming about, it was somewhat of a ballsy statement to make and even harder to keep true to those words.
Still he had no intention of breaking said promise, not if he had plenty of opportunities to grow stronger and the desire to back it up. The shinobi had sacrificed much along the way and fully dedicated himself to his career: Little had changed, aside from the fact that he had been able to carve himself a place to belong, someone to eventually come home to and the inspiration it provided him. Okay, perhaps it were quite a few things that had changed for the better, things he was thankful for from the very botttom of his heart. But if he wasn’t strong enough to protect them it may as well be dust scattered to the wind for all that it mattered.
[MFT]
[Summoning Yukio]
Having arrived before the Hyuuga patriarch that morning, there was little more he could do to pass the time with the routine warm-up stretches as he sorted out his thoughts. Their relationship was an odd one at best, for despite their numerous connections outside their professional lives they had pretty much limited their interactions to their work hours. How much was his colleague even aware of, Izumi to take non-quite random example out of thin air? Yoshihisa couldn’t deny that his desire to improve further wasn’t solely driven by the office he now represented, as for the first time since settling in Konoha his private life became an active driving force. He had made a promise to Takeshi that he would let no harm come to his youngest adoptive son, something which had been nagging in the back of his mind ever since: In retrospective with the threat of war looming about, it was somewhat of a ballsy statement to make and even harder to keep true to those words.
Still he had no intention of breaking said promise, not if he had plenty of opportunities to grow stronger and the desire to back it up. The shinobi had sacrificed much along the way and fully dedicated himself to his career: Little had changed, aside from the fact that he had been able to carve himself a place to belong, someone to eventually come home to and the inspiration it provided him. Okay, perhaps it were quite a few things that had changed for the better, things he was thankful for from the very botttom of his heart. But if he wasn’t strong enough to protect them it may as well be dust scattered to the wind for all that it mattered.
[MFT]
[Summoning Yukio]