He was only a small genin that completed his first mission not so long ago, and it was not really a proper mission technically. How could he know about politics and stuff like that, as patriotic as he was? He had lived the last three years relatively far from the village and did not really know much about the village's situation, other than the obvious stuff and of who were the best shinobi of the country; in fact, he didn't even know who his daimyo was. Nevertheless, he was still as patriotic, if not more, than anyone he knew in the academy. Not knowing too much about politics was not so much of a big deal to him, that he could learn just by listening to gossip people were talking about around him. Anyways, this wasn't the first thing he was supposed to be worried about; his training had to come first, and this ninja that was standing before him seemed quite good. She had a superior look but she seemed a bit cute, and like a nice person. Nice enough to train him, at least, that was what he had hoped coming from a shinobi that was from an allied nation, as she claimed earlier. He looked at the kunoichi from toes to head, before giving her a quick stare in the eyes, to try to estimate her strength. Yeah, she looked strong enough, he thought; let's show her some more respect.
"I'm just a genin you know, I don't know that much about the Mizukage's meetings. But I know enough to be sure that you're not supposed to fight me like an enemy.
He said that casually, hoping this would chill the atmosphere a bit, and sighed. He walked by her, and after a couple of meters were separating them he smiled playfully. He didn't really have anything to lose by asking her, and she seemed like a good shinobi too, what else could he ask for? He turned his head back to face the girl, who was not as tall as he expected her to be. Still, a decent height though.
"Say, I was looking for a sensei for the day, do you think you could teach me a couple of tricks?"
He would be interested in sparring too, but he did not want to start the conversation with that. Come on, everyone knew that this would be a terrible start, especially since he did not know anything about the level of strength of knowledge of the shinobi he would be fighting. He just kept his playful smirk taped to his face, as he hoped the answer to his question would be positive, or at least half-positive. There was no such thing such as half-positive, but something in these waters.
However, the lady did not seem like she really cared all that much about his request and simply acted like he did not ask her anything. Oh well, that must have meant that the Hatake would have to wait a bit longer now, shall he not? Still, that Iwagakure woman seemed like a really skillful shinobi judged on the discretion she had when making her way down the tree all the way down to him, all that while still being extremely silent, at least silent enough for a ninja with great sensory skills like Ryu not to be able to hear her. He sighed, and looked around. She really did seem like the last option he had and he hated the fact that he would kind of have to give up on her. Like, finally he met someone who did seem like they had a bit of skill and after two hours of squatting the best he can get is a foreign shinobi that made one single remark, and then left right after the Kirigakure blade wielder requested for a short (really short, that is) training session. Man, Ryu was sure an unlucky fellow, you had to give him that much credit alright.
The Hatake sighed one more time, like he usually did, and stood up after having been sitting on this lonely rock for quite a long time, and made his way down towards the other end of the field, slowly walking there and stretching both his arms and legs at the same time. Why did this always have to happen to him, he was one of the hard workers of the village, one of the most determined future chuunin most people knew of and had so much ambition and energy that was wasted just because of the laziness of some people. Or was it shyness? Nevertheless, he clearly was not going to give up on the fact he needed a sensei right here and now, and walking around, stretching, maybe switching "squatting locations" (if that was even a word, that is) would help him find someone who had at least an illusion of interest in training him. He had a mission to deal with, another one yeah, and getting ready for that mission was the least he could do to honor the Mizukage's will. She was in a couple of struggles and even if Kirigakure was flourishing as one of the (if not the one) greatest and militarily speaking strongest nations, they were still a bit short on genin and his duty as a low-ranked ninja of the village was to take care of these more delicate and boring missions, that no one wanted to do. But someone had to do them though, right? He was the one who had to deal with all these crappy missions, and so that was mostly why he chose to come here and do something useful. He would most likely not learn anything major or useful on the ground of these missions (you do not learn how to make an ice blade out of chakra while trying to catch a cat or helping farmers collecting rice for example). Nevertheless, he was quite tired for now, and mostly sick of all this useless waiting, and so he left.
WC: 1008 (2004)
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REA: D-0 > D-2 (75 Ryo, 725 words)
PER: D-0 > D-3 (150 Ryo, 1175 words)