Kirigakure no Sato was in trouble. Mitsuo didn’t entirely know what was going on but he knew that he needed to help them. He crawled out of his bed in the Aoi Bara manor and stretched before quickly cleaning up his bed. He smiled softly and yawned, stripping off his boxers and feeling the breeze as it hit him. He walked into the washroom and attended to something that needed to be done before running the water in the shower, allowing it to run hot and standing naked in front of his full body mirror and examining himself. He had toned up a lot over the past little while from all of his training, his strength having increased to a point where he thought almost unimaginable at one point. He had become decently muscular and his entire body was looking quite good, if he did say so himself. He stepped into the shower and lathered himself with soap, shampooing and rinsing before putting conditioner into his head. He trimmed down his beard before rinsing his body one last time and rinsing the conditioner out of his hair, stepping out of the shower and towel drying himself quickly. He discarded the towel into his hamper and made his way out into his room once more; looking towards what he would be wearing for his trip to Kirigakure no Sato.

The first thing he did was he pulled on his ANBU armour, meticulously dawning each piece in a sort of ritualistic way before adorning his bracers and gauntlets. He pulled on a black shirt overtop of his armour to hide most of it, along with a black pair of strap pants and a pair of black leather boots. He was mostly ready as far as his outfit went, grabbing his trench coat last of all and pulling it on before strapping all of his weapons to his body. First was his sword belt, which had the Seijin no Ken, his Katana, and the Chita no Kiba, his Tanto, and more recently added the Raijin no Ken that he had taken from the body of Uchiha Hao. This weapon was part of the reason he was going to the Village Hidden in the Mist. He had heard of a weapon collector there and he needed to sell the weapon off as it had a lot of heat. He then strapped Messiah and the Sword of the Immortal Blaze to his back, all of his weapons equipped before he walked out of the mansion, not forgetting to place his mask and his cloak in his travelling bag.

One of the other reasons he was going to the Village Hidden in the Mists was to meet the man who had saved his life and thank him if that would be possible. He remembered that the man had told him his name was Strafe Aisu, and his face had been haunting his dreams for the past several weeks when they weren’t nightmares, beckoning Mitsuo to join him in Kirigakure no Sato. He wasn’t entirely sure why but he wished for nothing more than to meet this man once more and tell him thank you, and perhaps see if he would like to get to know one another better. Mitsuo smiled at the thought, briefly picturing his lips brushing against Strafes, a thought that he was shocked at. He had been having such troubles coming to terms with Kimaru’s death that he hadn’t had such a thought of another man in a long time. He smiled as he took his leave of the Stone Country and made his way, finally, towards the Village Hidden in the Mists…

(610/600 Travel from Iwagakure no Sato > Kirigakure no Sato complete~)