Winter morning

The day was cloudy, the earth was tucked under a sheet of snow. A chilly winds echoed trough the woods. And on one of the trees in the forest a murder of crows were watching a young boy doing a split between two trees branches  while reading a book.

"Hmmm half an hour already passed. Enough warm up." Kimimaro thought.

He simply moved his upper body backwards causing to turn his body around. He retracted his legs from the trees branches causing him to fall towards towards the ground, but he didn't panic he tucked his legs next to his chest to scroll his body. He hit the ground with a super hero landing.

"Never gets old." Kimimaro thought.

He walked ten minutes to reach a clearing in the forest. When he entered the clearing he saw an asymmetrical bow and few arrows on an arrow-stand neatly attached on one of the trees. He picked it up and nocked an arrow on to the bow.

He raised his hands above his head while retracting his hand towards his chest while lowering the bow till his eyes reached the naka-jikake(the nocking point in Japanese bows.)

There was slight wind on the right sight of Kimimaro. While not strong it will slightly affect the arrow trajectory. Kimimaro adjusted his stance while moving his left hand slightly to the right. Kimimaro took a sharp breath then he slowly started to release it and when the last vapor from his breath got out. There was typical sound of arrow released from a bow. Kimimaro looked at the arrow and boom bullseye.

"How can sharingan be superior dude,if a sharingan user don't expect me or sense me all I need is an arrow and a simple wind jutsu to stop all the sound of the already soundless arrow. And even if he expects me all I need is to wait till he let his guard down then boom arrow trough the chest or head. Even if he survive that finishing him of is as easy as taking a candy from a baby with my shikotsumyako or a second arrow.

Mangekyo sharingan, can you keep it active forever? And with every use of mangekyo ability the user slowly blinds himself.  All I need is time and eventually everyone can be exhausted then killed from my bow!"Kimimaro thought while fantasies about his future possibilities with his trusty bow.

"Alright let's continue." Kimimaro said to himself while nocking the next arrow.

The bow training continued till mid day then he did: one hundred push ups, forty dips between two branches, thirty pull ups then he climbed up the branch and hung him self downwards and did one hundred sit-ups. The he backfliped towards the ground. After that he streched and yawned.

"I am done for the morning exercise." Kimimaro thought while looking towards the sky. Countless snowflakes started to go down slowly falling towards the ground. Kimimaro started walking home in slow pace while enjoying the weather. Even though he is a summer kid his second favourite season is winter. Everything is slow and relaxing. The cold wasn't a problem for him because of his chakra. And rhythmic steps on the snow were oddly relaxing. He closed his eyes and let him self to sense the nature. He smiled slightly while continuing his slow walk. Soon he got home. He asked for food from the maids while going to take a bath. Soon the maid called him because the dinner was ready. He got dressed in new clothes and exited the bathroom.  He sat up on the floor and started eating from the kotatsu. Soon the door opened.

"I am home" a sound echoed trough the house.

Soon the old Zangetsu sat in front of Kimimaro.

"Oi, old man are you a bit early home, are you slacking, does your age catching up to you, what flowers you want for your grave. Will you leave your poor boy because you want to reunite with my grandma… shameless simple shameless." Kimimaro said in rapid speech while Zangetsu vein popped up from his forehead.

"Why you always reach the conclusion that I am dying you imbecile" Zangetsu said while catching Kimimaro shirt and trowing him out of the house for the n-th time this winter. After twenty minutes Kimimaro returned in the house with some kind of juice in his hand smiling slightly. Zangetsu eyes narrowed slightly.

"You cunning little shit, I grounded you to not go to the stalls for the winter festival. And now you planned to trow you out so you can go while being sure I won't watch you." Zangetsu said while smiling slightly.

"That's right old man you got played by a five years old,how do you fill now?" Kimimaro said while teasing his grandfather.

"You are right I got outplayed. Which means you got smarter, which means you can survive better in this cursed world. So I can leave you at any moment with peace in my heart." Zangetsu said.

Kimimaro narrowed his eyes.

"You gaslighter." Kimimaro thought.

Kimimaro sat in front of his grandfather and looked at him with serious face. Zangetsu raised an eyebrow and looked at Kimimaro waiting him to start speaking.( They are related after all. And all ninjas are highly perceptive for small facial expressions or any kind of body language.)

"Can you get gunpowder?" Kimimaro asked.

"Yes but why. You can use it only for fireworks." Zangetsu said.

"Well I want to try something out. And it's a high chance it is going to work."

"Alright but you must show me what you want to do with it."Zangetsu said.

"No problem." Kimimaro replied.