As the fist connected with his own Xiao made a delightful 'whirr' like sound in excitement to be bashing fists with another shinobi, it may have looked foolish but to a shinobi it was a way to 'share' a bond much like the ninja of old. Work was work and cash was cash, as long as it was something to occupy his time Xiao Guan was content with doing just that. The chuunin exams seemed like a dream, something he was just passing through and taking his sweet time enjoying every hiccup that came about purely because it was all he could do. Sure he was the weakest of his generation, the smallest and the meekest but what he lacked in physical ability he made up for in personality and he truly did wish to ensure that each and every one of his generation was going to soar in these exams. “All of em, huh? Well I hope we give em something to watch right?” Yoshito stated to Xiao who proceeded to chuckle back "Hey if it's too boring we can just fight amongst ourselves" he jested as he allowed Yoshito continue his reflection on the exams themselves. Xiao proceeded to tap his chin as he listened to Yoshito stating the travel was the part he truly focused on. Perhaps Xiao wasn't alone in his thoughts of simply letting fate decide how all things would turn out, he was simply going with the flow and if Yoshito was to do the same he couldn't blame him at all. "What were your folks like anyway? We never really got to talk about that before. For me uhh, My Dad was a Knight of Gelel. Foreigner, y'know and My ma...was, well, a spider. No idea how they made me." he stated with a laugh as he followed Yoshito's lead with the growing crowd. As Yoshito eyed the trash Xiao nodded slowly with a flat expression as the Ice shinobi stated it was possibly best to begin cleaning here.
Xiao had a more optimal strategy, utilising web on one hand to create a 'ball' of trash and webbings to pull them towards him lightning fast. Gathering them into heaps and wearing each beer bottle on each finger before disposing them as the crowds past on by. Xiao found the task menotonous sure but it was a necessary task and one though he didn't take pride in found that it was a duty that all shinobi should have to simply maintain their village. The Mizukage was...a terrifying beauty, the god of shinobi they called her and though Xiao had heard stories of whacky Kage from his stories that would interact with the populace and go about aiding genin and weaving legends in their current era he had realised he had never even truly seen one of the kage so their name may have given power to being literal shadows so he supposed. As he dropped off his latest hoard he heard a small yelp as his eyes darted to Yoshito who seemed to have disturbed a civilian. Tourists. They never cared for the temporary spaces they interacted with and though each land had it's own value of personal space with leaf shinobi being the most likely to touch you and Kirigakure being the least likely, Xiao knew this was more than a mere bump and apology. If the man wasn't sober, then he was bound to make more rash decisions and Xiao was most definitely the type of boy to ensure that his friend would be taken care of but all at once the shinobi wished to see how it would play out. Of course he would never actually let harm befall Yoshito but if he was not needed Xiao would not attempt to 'beat' or 'best' the drunk in concern that he would steal the limelight from his ice blooded friend. The two went back and forth until finally Yoshito was about to strike back causing Xiao's eyes to widen with intrigue, something that could certainly amuse him from a night he thought would be simply picking up garbage and basic labor. Would Yoshito really layeth the smacketh down right before the chuunin exams? It was hard to know but if he did so Xiao would surely have something to take his mind off the garbage.
It was soon that the crowd began to side with Yoshito, Xiao opting to join in somewhat as he proceeded to begin small chants for Yoshito's vigilance and gentle heart as well as how good the youth was for trying to help. Xiao was proud of the ice user to say the least and he would show his support by cheering him on, a mirror to what was coming in the soon to be performed matches of the first round. Xiao saw the older man begin to loom forward, the crowd was divided and it was time for Xiao to step in, he couldn't let Kirigakure be seen as the type to pick fights not that Yoshito initiated it or anything but public relations was the little spiders specialty.
As the hulking oaf in a drunken stupor prepared to open his mouth to taunt Yoshito once more the sound of a 'fwip' of web shot forward from Xiao Guan's wrist onto his mouth ceasing his speech as the Spider-Nin walked forward clapping "Ladies and gentlemen you see before you but a humble street cleaner, my brother here Yoshito, harassed by none other than the constant infestation that plagues our fair cities whenever we dare to show our kindness." Xiao stated as he began to adjust his jacket, The oaf still eyeing Yoshito but Xiao attempting his best to 'lawyer up' and defend his friend through word not fists. "The hidden villages, now isn't that a funny word? Hidden? It means protected. It means away from public eye and yet we shinobi allow these..." he tried to falsely 'look' for a word to show an air of humbleness, he knew what he needed to say of course but the pause and act of thinking and stumbling on his words gave him the look of a more common man, something that could be used to steer the collective mobs as any diplomat did tend to find the collective IQ tended to drop with the more entities introduced. "...unsavory types. Now he is not like you humble civilians, no, not like you humble folk who do the simple task of throwing away your trash and seeking a break from your hard lives, instead a man like this is the type to simply throw his trash on to your streets because he is so far removed from you, he is not a hard worker for what type of hard working man would reject the five steps to throw away trash knowing that another hard working member of the village would pick up his labor? None! In this village, nay, in this world, we shoulder our brothers burdens under one united banner. Not that of leaf or water or even lightning but as humans. So what are we to say of a grown man, who has obviously been drinking since his eyes could bare the sun, harassing a young innocent genin who has an exam of all things upcoming? Do we treat him with respect? I say thee nay! We remove him!" the spider-nin stated with a triumphant roar but soon began to hush the crowd who murmured and chatted as he approached the oaf with clasped hands "Now now, I could 'remove' you, but as I said we are humans are we not? Civil men in a civil world...so what say you of this, eh? You go get a bottle of wine - I will not shame you for your merriment - my treat, you go back to your hotel and you show these people you are not the disrespectful person you act as now, but instead the boy your mother raise- no! That this world raised. What do you say?" Xiao stated to the man offering him a way out of the clash.
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