“I’m not sorry!”

In a field empty as far as the eye can see, Shirohi watched as Jirayia appeared in front of him. Not expecting this to be a 'clean' fight Shirohi already had a Kunai drawn, his other hand reaching towards a pouch on his hip. As soon as he saw Minato appear in a puff of smoke Shirohi flicked his wrist sending shuriken flying toward the duo, white bands of lightning dancing around his body as he seemingly disappeared into a flurry of grass trimmings.

Ignoring the shuriken Jirayia snapped around with enough time spare to evade a slash from Shirohi, yelling out as he dodged "I didn't say start!" Shirohi didn't bother responding as he backpedalled sending another flurry of shuriken towards Minato in hopes of keeping him at bay. Running through hand seals Shirohi's hands slammed against the ground generating a liquid-like wave of lightning towards Jirayia, while simultaneously leaving a clone as he circled around to Jirayia's back littering a stack of paper during his movements.

In a seemingly random order the pieces of papers flashed with a bright light blinding Jirayia momentarily, however before Shirohi could monopolize on it Minato appeared in front of him with a flash.

Shirohi's expression crumpled, he didn't even notice him move… a frown came to his face as the lightning surrounding his body sprang to life arcing off to the surroundings charring the earth around him, appearing in front of Minato he shot out his hand just barely scraping Minato's wrist but managed to grab ahold, throwing his arm down knocking Minato off balance Shirohi wrapped around his body locking Minato's arm in between his legs.

Just as Jirayia arrived Shirohi violently bent back causing a visceral crack to sound out "*SNAP!* Ack!", Minato collapsed to the ground holding his limp arm. Jirayia lifted his palm, a small orb of violent energy swirling with in… it was too close to avoid so Shirohi coated his kunai with Raiton in an attempt to block it his chakra reserves dangerously low due to the 'Raiton: Static Wave' he used previously internally cursing himself he watched as his kunai was ground to dust the orb of energy exploding at the same moment sending both parties flying backward.

From his position lying on the ground Shirohi saw Jirayia come out the cloud of dust relatively unharmed, blood leaking down his head, his hair singed, and a tooth missing but still relatively unharmed. Jirayia plopped down on the ground, his breath still fairly steady, "You've grown kid, and to think a little over a year ago you didn't know how to circulate your chakra."

Minato went wide-eyed. "What?!" He was a Chuunin with nearly enough merits to become a jounin and he lost to some kid that didn't know how to use chakra a year ago… His whole view of the Shinobi world was blown out of proportion, macgyvering a sling from various things in his storage scroll he bound his arm the pain still coursing through his body he knew this wasn't something he was gonna forget, he was caught off guard due to using 'Flying Thunder God Jutsu' when he wasn't prepared nor the jutsu finished and that cost him an arm… if they had been on the battlefield what else would he have lost?

Shirohi sat up, breathing roughly as he applied ointment that Tsunade had made to his cuts and bruises, "Soo?" Jirayia let out a heavy sigh "Minato we're returning, Shirohi… I'll send somebody to infor—"

"No… either you show or you don't, we will only be in Rannai Village for a week." Flickering away Shirohi left the two to lick their wounds.

Minato looked at his charred wrist, a grimace showing on his face as he questioned… "How is he that good?" Jirayia shook his head "I don't know but his moves were rusty, it seems he had been slacking as of recently…"

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Shirohi flickered through the window stumbling to a stop, Shizune turned around and dropped a pot of hot water as she rushed over "What happened to you?! Who did this?!" Shirohi grunted as he got comfortable in a chair "Nothing, just a small disagreement is all. You want to fix me up before I have to go get Tsunade? I still have to clean this blood off."

Shizune mumbled and grumbled but eventually began healing him, wiping off the ointment as she progressed, after a while Shirohi solemnly spoke "We will have to move again, if Jirayia could use luck to find us anyone can."

Shizune nodded her head not fully processing his words, she was just focused on healing what injuries Shirohi had. Not once had he come back all beat up like this but she knew it wasn't her place to question him, they probably wouldn't have made it this far without him. With Tsunade's gambling habits they would probably be sleeping in the streets up to their neck in debt…

Shirohi groaned as Shizune pressed on his ribs, Shizune frowned as she chided him "You know your ribs will never properly heal if you don't take a break… how about I get Tsunade today and you just rest," Shirohi shook his head "No, you still have dinner to worry about let me worry about getting Tsunade home, I'll be fine," seeing Shizune's unconvinced glare Shirohi spoke "I'll take it easy I promise."

Shizune lightly punched his arm causing a grimace to form on his face "You better, and I'm not sorry!"