“I’m not sure how Konoha’s various bloodlines work, we don’t have many in Kiri. Either way, you need to work on your speed. In the time it took you to try and land that attack, anyone could have come up behind you and stabbed you in the back. Try again. Faster this time.”

⌈ ほのお ⌋—- He sat on the ground, somehow resigning to his fate of being stabbed in the back anyway. “I give up. Besides, I’m…almost a pacifist, anyway. A-and I’m a long-ranged fighter. S-so I’m good.”
“No. But once you get it through your head, I’ll lay off a little. You’re not a child anymore. Yet you keep trying to...
⌈ ほのお ⌋—- “Che, can’t you just humor me for once? I know about that but I can handle myself pretty well, you know. I...