Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-25687356-20161221054911/@comment-26021384-20161221073150

Six months had come and gone, and Shinra Kidame had seen things and been through hardships while his team's leader was incapacitated. Naraku had left the team, Takahiro and he were remaining in their position of future leader and bodyguard. Shinra had not developed any aspirations beyond what he had told Takahiro nearly a year ago, 'I have no grand expectations of myself, I only want to see others achieve around me so that I can remain in the shadow'. That has only become more apparent with Shinra as of late in his mind.

If he could train himself to do the things like the Hokage could, he could finish off foes instantly and no one would know about it. It of course, lead to many people taking note of his progress. Which only made him grit his teeth and grind them a little whenever he would receive accolades for the work he had done in this past months. Of course his father had stopped marking his eye, this was because as he trained more he made less mistakes. He even earned his father's congratulations a few times, albeit bittersweet. He continued with his tool manufacturing, and even rebuilt some of his teacher's old puppet parts from memory and what remained from that battle six months ago.

Today however, he was invited to a barbecue with a new squad member and his team as a whole. He sighed and figured it was best to try and show the outfit he had gotten for the trip to Sunagakure as the next chunin exam was announced, and this time he would be pulling through as one of the ones on top. But enough of that, fashion montage.

He started off with a top that stopped halfway down his stomach as he normally wore, but this time it had one sewn in sleeve that went all the way to his fingers, looping around his middle finger only and back over the palm in black. Over his shoulders was a cowl that had two small belts on it and was black with golden square angular the cowl's opening had a belted metallic symbol which rested on his shoulder. That symbol was Team Instinct's logo. He wore a belt with a silver loop that held straps of leather that were red, white, gold and black that went over his black and gold stitched pants. Red tassles hung from the belt around his waist. The pants were baggy enough for the arid climate of the Hidden Sand village. He wore close toed tabi that resembled the shoes a kung-fu practitioner would wear.

Shinra made his way out of his house, grabbing a red sash with gold square stitching across it, tying it over his right eye, similar to a konobo wielding warrior from the Warring Kingdoms Dynasty. With his new form of eyepatch on, he made it to the designated spot and waved to his sensei.

"You look like you've been recovering well Sensei. And hello there Takahiro, it's good to see you again."