Kakashi took a deep breath. Under the silver-white hair, there was not much emotion in the eyes exposed, but he just habitually glanced at the examiner's seat opposite.
When he met the eyes of the examiner codenamed "Lin", his heart skipped a beat for no reason.
That's her!
The sight that had been observing him before, making him feel uncomfortable, came from the other party!
"Let's go, Kakashi."
A gentle and steady voice sounded beside him. Hatake Sakumo patted his son on the shoulder, with a hint of smile and fighting intent in his eyes. The high-frequency Chakra Blade behind him shone with a cold luster under the light.
The father and son walked into the venue side by side.
Opposite them, two figures also appeared.
The figure was a bit exaggeratedly tall, with strange gray-blue skin. He carried a huge bandaged weapon on his shoulders, and his small and ferocious eyes were like a shark in the deep sea. Just looking at him made people feel a suffocating pressure.
The other person is the examiner codenamed "Lin".
She has a slender figure, wearing the same standard combat uniform as the other examiners, and a mask that covers her entire face. Her breath is very steady, and even feels a little weak, in sharp contrast to the monster-like man next to her.
But Kakashi's attention was almost entirely attracted by her.
I don't know why, looking at her, a long-lasting, almost forgotten feeling of familiarity came to my heart like a tide.
"The assessment... begins!"
The cold radio sound fell.
Buzz--buzz--
Just like the previous two games, four White Zetsu Puppets that are exactly the same as the main body are standing next to the four people.
I don't know what "Lin" and "Same" said before the battle.
At the beginning of the battle, the examiner code-named "Same", also known as Kisame Hoshigaki, saw the ground beneath his feet explode with a sudden explosion, and his whole body turned into a blue afterimage, carrying a fierce power, and rushed towards Hatake Sakumo.
"Lin" rushed towards her remaining opponent Kakashi, and the battlefield instantly changed from a two-on-one battle to a one-on-one fight.
Hatake Sakumo discovered that the examiner code-named "Shark" played a bit like "Demon Blade" in the previous game. Both of them were equally successful.
"Water Release·Water Shark Bullet Technique!"
Kisame Hoshigaki was the first to use his clones to launch an attack. The perennial Battle Intuition told him that among the father and son, this older-looking man was the real threat!
When Kisame Hoshigaki first formed a team with this girl named "Lin", Kisame Hoshigaki once looked down on this girl who looked very weak on the surface.
When Senju Chen assigned the girl named "Lin" to him and asked them to form a team together, Kisame Hoshigaki's shark face grew longer than anyone else's.
"Minister, what I need is teammates, not a dragster who needs someone to take care of me. If that's the case, I'd rather go out alone to complete the mission."
These are his exact words.
Kisame grew up in the bloody rules of Kirigakure, where there is no need for extra emotions. The weak is the food of the strong. Kindness? What is that? Can it be eaten?
He is not happy from the bottom of his heart. He would rather team up with a ruthless character like senior Zabuza, rather than a dragster who needs psychological training to even kill people.
But Senju Chen directly stated that either the two of them would go out together, or no one would go out. He could not change Senju Chen's decision, and in the end he could only go out with a dark face and start taking on tasks with this "oil bottle".
The first few missions were a disaster.
Kisame Hoshigaki found that the other party really acted as if she had never left home, and treated the outside world like a little white rabbit just out of the cage. When she saw an injured stray cat, she had to save it, and when she encountered a villager being bullied by a bandit, she had to take care of it. Once, Kisame Go even wanted to go up and treat a bounty target after breaking his hands and feet.
"What are you doing?!" Kisame pulled her back, his tone full of uncontrollable anger.
"He, he bled a lot... He's going to die!"
"He just wanted to stab your heart with a knife!" Kisame's voice was frighteningly loud, "Don't waste your Chakra, and don't challenge my patience!"
"But... but the mission requires us to capture them alive..."
After several times, Kisame was so angry that he almost threw the other party down and left directly.
Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and gave Rin Nohara a death order.
"From today on, you are responsible for lighting the fire, cooking, and looking after the luggage. Don't interfere with the bounty."
Rin Nohara didn't refute, just nodded silently.
In the days that followed, Kisame Hoshigaki really regarded her as a mobile logistics. After all, after undergoing drug injection and high-intensity training at the base, he could deal with those Elite Jonin who were not Five Great Shinobi Villages. No matter how many opponents came, he believed that he alone was enough.
The turning point of the matter occurred during an S-level bounty mission.
The target was a defected Iwagakure Jonin, who was good at blasting and trapping. As a result, during the capture process, Kisame Hoshigaki and Lin were betrayed by the buyer and plunged into the enemy's carefully arranged encirclement.
Dozens of ninjas surrounded them.
"The famous "Twins" combination, we have accepted your bounty!"
Kisame sneered, and rushed forward with Samehada on his back. He was confident that he could fight his way out.
But he underestimated the despicability of the other party.
Just as he was getting excited after killing several people, a shot of Senbon tempered with a special neurotoxin silently came from the blind corner of his defense and scratched his arm.
At first he didn't pay attention, but soon he felt something was wrong.
Chakra's operation began to become sluggish, and the muscles began to lose control.
"Oops!"
In this moment of distraction, several chains tied to Explosive Tag wrapped around his body.
Boom!!!
The violent explosion blew him away and hit him on the rock wall, with a large mouthful of blood spurting out of his mouth.
"Hahaha! No matter how strong you are, if you are poisoned by the Tsuchigumo Clan's secret poison, you can only be slaughtered by others!" The leader Iwagakure smiled ferociously and walked step by step towards Kisame, who was seriously injured and fell to the ground.
"Damn it."
Kisame struggled to stand up, but his body felt as heavy as lead.
Just when the enemy thought he had a chance of victory, he raised his butcher's knife.
A palpitating, moist and hot Chakra suddenly erupted from behind!
"You are not allowed... to touch him!!!"
That voice was no longer the usual gentleness, but had a hint of beast-like roar.
Kisame turned around with difficulty, only to see the girl who had been protected behind him and whom he regarded as a "trailer". Her eyes turned scarlet and her body was surrounded by three blood-red Chakra tails.
The next second, Rin Nohara's figure suddenly disappeared.
When he reappeared, behind the Iwagakure, a hand wrapped in scarlet Chakra penetrated directly through his chest.
After Rin Nohara went on a rampage and relied on Three-Tails to kill everyone in one go.
Kisame, whose life was saved, had his pupils contracted to the extreme.
This girl... is actually Three-Tails Jinchūriki!
Just when Kisame thought he would be taken care of by the crazy Three-Tails, he found that his weak teammate did not lose control after taking Three-Tails back into his body.
Perfect Jinchuriki...
These words flashed through Kisame Hoshigaki's mind, but then look at the teammate in front of him, Lihua came running over to bandage him up.
Kisame Hoshigaki feels inexplicably ridiculous.
It turns out that my teammates are not "weak" at all!!!
Since then, although Rin Nohara was still responsible for the team's cooking and logistics, Kisame Hoshigaki's attitude toward Rin Nohara slowly began to change. Occasionally, during breaks, he began to tell Rin Nohara his summary of combat experience and survival skills, intentionally or unintentionally.
"When you draw the knife, don't hesitate. Hesitation will kill you."
"This berry is poisonous, and that mushroom can be used as an antidote. Remember it."
Although he still said he disliked her, slowly he began to get used to having such a kind girl by his side, who would treat him when he was injured, and would look at him quietly with her clear eyes when he killed too much, calming down his irritable mood.
Kisame Hoshigaki slowly began to take care of this girl he didn't like at first as his own sister.
At the same time, he is also protecting the quality in the other person that he has long lost, called "sincerity and kindness".