I groaned when I realized that he was right. "Ah man and here I was trying to show off a little!" I pined and the jonin just chuckled.

  "So long as we have such youthful spirits in the vilge I think we will be just fine." Guy said with a bright smile and thumbs up.

  "But my savings!?" I pined.

  "The price of youth is truly a heavy one." he said still smiling.

  "Ugh! I was so bloody close to being able to buy that nd I had my eye on too, damnit all." I whined upset at the set back.

  I didn't actually care all that much sihe cost wasn't likely to actually be all that high to fix the ceiling but that didn't mean it didn't sting a bit. Still I was able to yself with a ret acquisition I had currently stashed away in my home. A red haired girl with gsses a couple years older thahat was a member of the Uzumaki , Karin. The rest of her team had gotten killed in the forest of death during the sed exam and I had reized her features from the history books on her d may or may not have kidnapped her a little.-

  To be fair she actually seemed happy to e with me after I rescued her and expined how wele she'd be in Konoha sidering our deep ties to her . She cried when I examined her for injuries and got pissed at what I found. Bite marks all over her arms where the ninjas of Kusa ninjas had used her innate healing abilities caused by her extremely strong yang chakra to heal from their injuries. They did this through biting her which sent the yang chakra into their bodies.-

  It was barbarid cruel and it didhere either as she was ostracized by the Kusa shinobi and treated as little more than an expendable tool from her childhood till now. Ironically it was this same poor treatment that saved her life as her team left her behind only to end up getting merc'd by Gaara who was in a bad mood for some inexplicable reason(cough*squirrel*cough). I currently had her waiting in my house with a mitosis e for the end of the in exams so I could sneakily brio the old man to accept into the vilge.-

  There was one small issue however that I was having to deal with, she had princess syndrome BAD.

  "Hey Kenzo-kun what's your favorite color? What about your favorite food?" she bombarded me with questions in an obvious attempt to get closer to me.

  Princess syndrome as I liked to call it was when a girl in danger gets rescued by a boy and immediately forms an attat to him. As the rescuer in this sario I was the target of her i and annoyingly enough was helpless to tell her off.-

  She had a lot of trauma and I WAS trying to give her a positive impression of the vilge for ter which led to this awkward situation where I was uo do anything beyond py hankfully she was only about as pushy as Naruto so I wasn't too terribly bothered by her. Friend zoning her wasn't really w and if anything seemed to make her MORE pushy for some gods awful reason. Yeah I had said we could be friends and she went nuts with the tears and the nonsensual hugging and all that annoying stuff.-

  I'm being dramatic here as it really wasn't that big a deal but get attached to like this bothered me for some reason. It was ohing with Naruto who I grew up with but Karin was in all actuality a stranger, a new face. I didn't know her at all really on any sort of personal level setting so gy was unfortable. Despite her traumatic past she was a very outgoing person and absolutely loved to read and learn. She smiled all the time and even ughed freely when she found something funny.-

  Funnily enough she and Akasha got along just fine as even when my e was training or something she'd just sit up in my home with a book in one hand and Akasha's head in her p as she idly stroked her fur. Admittedly I had totally fot to introduce Karin to my beasts so when I realized that Akasha had returned I was worried she might have killed her only to find the huge tiger lounging in the girls p tentedly. I rectified my mistake and introduced the girl to my beasts so there was no misuanding iure.-

  I suppose I should specify that all of this was going on simultaneously with the other stuff involving the exam. Mitosis es were useful at multitasking like this after all. Sure I ended up with my focus split up but the trade off was that I got so much more dohis way than if I used mere shadow es. One of the biggest fws of shadow es was that ohey spent the chakra you gave them that was it, they vanished. Mitosis es oher hand regeed their chakra and were not vulnerable to dispelling via minor injury.-

  In theory I could even use a mitosis e to learn how to wield a on or fe metal or some other bor and time ing task. Moving back to the present time during the qualifying tourhe matches had began. Most of the matches were b and not worth mentioning with the first exception being Neji VS Hinata. Let me tell you that boy has some serious pent up a the main family of the Hyuga as he absolutely destroyed her. She tried to fight back but Neji easily dealt with her resistand cruelly made the fight as painful as he could by attag her pressure points.-

  Naruto was NOT happy about it as the Hyuga boy touched a nerve in the process by talking down to Hinata. My blonde friehat fights are not pleasant things but he had this sort of code that he held people t a fight and Neji crossed a few lines in it. For starters he was kinda an asshole to Hinata the eime. He called her pathetic, he aired his grievances about the caged bird seal on his forehead and how she didn't have oe being a talentless waste.-

  All around the boy was not pleasant to watch for anyone from Konoha. The fight worth mentioning was the oweeen and Temari. It was a bad matchup, pin and simple. Tenten's fighting strategy revolved around throwing a whole bunch of ons at her oppo but that didn't really wainst Temari who was a wind release specialist. All the thrown ons got deflected by the winds while Tenten herself was smmed around by the winds like a kickball.