Snippet #1966475

Satoshi stood on the roof of a tall building near the market of Konoha; he could not identify any immediate threat to Lady Raikage Sama and decided to leave observation to his shadow clones while he returned to the Raikage. The other Shinobi on the mission was no where to be seen but Satoshi knew he was near by. Satoshi permitted himself a few moments of relaxation after creating the shadow clones; he had plenty of chakra reserves however because of the unscheduled nature of the mission Satoshi did not have the time to fully prepare himself for a journey and his chakra could be difficult if he didn't have a nice warm mug of tea at the beginning of the day..

There were two kinds of days in Satoshi's life; days which started ether at the morning or at midnight with a nice warm mug of tea and whatever he could beg out of his refrigerator followed by the normal business of the day, and days that started when the high ups wanted them to start and usually had no nice warm mug of tea involved in them.

Today was a great example of the latter type of day and Satoshi could feel the lack of his routine warm mug of tea which in Satoshi's opinion was a serious threat to moral but he wasn't about to spend the rest of his day thinking about being denied one of his only luxuries in life and how much he was looking forward to hearing his kettle whistle his favorite song called "good morning; the tea is ready".
"Cut the dreaming Satoshi you have a serious job to do" Satoshi told himself but he adapted poorly to the sudden brake of routine. Besides; there must be at lest one decent tea house in Konoha and Lady Raikage Sama had hinted that they could wonder about at some point during the mission.

There was something special about the mission and that was Lady Raikage Sama actually being serious about it. With the approaching Kage meeting Satoshi assumed that the mission was part of the effort to improve the standing of the village before the meeting actually took place. Satoshi liked to use the metaphor of holding the best hand before raising the stakes of the gamble because the Kage were probably going to sit around the conference table and count their assets after bluffing and double bluffing for a number of hours.

Satoshi descended to the earth and landed near the Raikage's position but didn't make an obvious show of it, he walked towards the Raikage and followed her; she would feel him approaching so there was no need to exchange words and it was inadvisable to talk while in a public area.

Satoshi saw a number of young Shinobi near by and wondered what training the academy of Konoha gave them these days.