Not so much because his voice was unpleasant in sound or anything like that but because I could tell from his tone and body nguage that he athetically weak. It took me all of about five seds to realize why I seemed to dislike the man like this. See as far as I knew factually speaking the Daimyo of any particur try was supposedly the highest power in that try. Unfortuhe definition of power I was expeg and the one I got in this first meeting were VERY different.-

  Politically speaking the man was a juggernaut that could break or raise aire try by his words, will and resources alone. So yes in a way he was indeed quite powerful but in terms of bat he was worth less than the weakest genin in the world. My mind had hyped up the man to some powerful warrior king and whey proved me different I had developed a distaste for him immediately.-

  'I may be taking after beasts a little too much it seems.' I thought annoyed.

  I was so used to the food being topped by the actually powerful creatures that a fake like this disagreed with my way of life heavily.

  "I'm fttered you'd say so sir but I really must insist that it was my sensei's teags that are to be praised instead." I said downpying my own talents in the process.

  "Is that so? Perhaps I'll o ask her whe she visits. I would normally ask you to work as a guard under me but if you are anything like your sensei you'll just reject me." the man said with a chuckle.

  "I suppose you aren't far off since I do rather enjoy my freedom, truly I do just hate when i am forced to do things." I said with a pointed look at the Hokage.

  The old bastard just chortled to himself like it amused him to see me frustrated.

  "Enough idle chatter though, lets talk about how to earn the most money from these exams." the Daimyo said with a sharp focused look that caught me off guard.

  "In what regard?" I asked suddenly VERY ied to see how this pyed out.

  "Ha! You really are Tsunade-s disciple! I'm talking about the betting pools of course, you were a cssmate of a good few partits so you'll know things that the bookies won't." the man said with a wide smile.

  "Ah! You want to know who's got the best ce of winning from the Konoha teams! Well first off these ones here be dropped immediately." I started passionately breaking down each of the partits I could since when gambling is ed I may have sort of picked up a little of my sensei's enthusiasm.

  You should have seen the look on the Hokages face as I systematically went over the strengths and weaknesses of my former cssmates while harshly critig their fws. The man looked on with a helpless look as the daimyo and I schemed and sorted about how to make the most money from my generous cssmates. I'm talking individual match up odds, overall victory ces, pts and even who had the most impressive teiques. Naruto won out on that st one by the way as his pore teique was nightmarish to deal with and quite visually stunning too. Obviously it wasn't the most practical of things but in terms of usefulness and power I couldn't think of much at the in level that got remotely close to it.-

  Well perhaps an dojutsu or kekkai genkai but those didly grow on trees so my point still stood. The daimyo and I ended up spending most of the first day creating a whole chart of various statistics to hedge our bets the best. He then called it a day as he was tired and I was left aloh the Hokage and his guards.

  "I'm gd to see you seem to get along with the Daimyo quite well. If you'd humor this old man what are your thoughts on him?" he asked curiously.

  I looked him right in the eyes "Do you want my ho answer or the ohat is political in nature?" I asked dead serious.

  His eyebrows rose in surprise "Now that doesn't sound very good at all, surely he isn't so bad that you'd dislike him to such a degree?" he asked but I shook my head.

  "If he wasn't the Daimyo you'd be correct." I said holy.

  "You'll five me if I 't uand what you mean, why would his being the Daimyo ge your thoughts of him as a person?" the old man asked seriously.

  "Once again, do you want the truth or the politically correswer?" I asked seriously.

  "i want the truth." he said sternly.

  "He's weak, hopelessly so in fact. Even worse is that he acts as though this isn't the case, like any random genin wouldn't sughter him in a fight. I don't like it , it feels wrong to me that someone so powerless is in charge of Konoha and the nd of fire. I'd never a these thoughts but that's the way I see it since you wao know." I said bluntly ho.

  The old man looked disappointed in me "Power isn't everything Kenzo." he said sternly.

  "I know that very well but don't try and lie to me and say that it isn't necessary either. You need power to lead others, to grasp your fate with both hands. You need power to have peace. Humans are violent and cruel beings just as much as we are kind ale. Without power you are helpless in the face of the darker side of humanity. Someohout power and the will to use that power should not ever take up a for themselves." I said firmly.

  "He is a good man who has dohe nd of fire good in the years he has sat on that throne. Will you deny this reality?" the old man said challengingly.

  "A good man you say? Dohe nd of fire good you say? History seems to disagree with you quite heavily. Every record i read about ret history all says the same thing about him, he's a ist. He agrees with whoever has the most ving argument, who has the most be to give him. He's made no reformations, no noticeable improvements from his own fathers time ruling. He sits on his throne ahe nd of fire rule itself while he gets the credit. He's merely a figurehead with more political power than he has the will to utilize to it's fullest." I said seriously.