Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20160325110650/@comment-34754862-20160330231759

Before fully continuing their walk into the luxurious hall way, Takuza listened to Ryouta who seemed a bit bothered about what Takuza had said. He seemed to rival the fact that Takuza had ordered them to stay in the back of the front line as he couldn’t have them die on such an important mission. Takuza listened to Ryouta’s position and understood him completely. He never interrupted him and allowed him to speak his mind, but the moment he finished Takuza would respond with;

“I never said you were a coward, the only reason I called that order was because we don’t know what we are up against. Having a Genin go in blindly without analyzing the opponent before striking is too risky. I never underestimated you as there is a reason you have trained, it’s a form of combat, this method is used to analyze all given factors before attempting something Rash. I never said you guys were cowards so check your words Ryouta.”

Takuza had said this with a sharp and intellectual voicing, he didn’t mean it in a disrespectful way. But the Jounin had a different way of thinking as he was more about thinking before striking. If Ryouta had taken it as an insult that would be on him, but Takuza himself had a good reason to even call such an order as he would expect them to follow it. Takuza then began listening to all sounds around him carefully as anything would alert him due to the uneasy feeling he possessed. He then heard a voice call out from the sides as it caused his head to flicker around and look for the source of this sound. But to his avail nothing was found, the second time the voice began speaking, his ears quickly picked up on the location of the sound and looked directly towards one of the painting on the way. A face seemed to be slammed into the painting and seemed to be talking from the other side. The man consisted of a shaggy beard and blue eyes, Takuza examined his posture inside of the painting, as he began rambling about the situation with the masked people. Takuza’s first thoughts being

‘How does this man know about the masked shinobis? And why is he inside of a painting? This makes no sense what so ever.’

But his lips remained sealed never showing an inch of movement as he analyzed the situation before making any rash decision. Takuza then opened his mouth after the man in the painting had finished talking;

“What do you know about the masked me? And why did you seem in such a hurry to get out…? Most importantly what are you doing here and in that painting?”

He asked calmly without making a single movement towards the painting. Takuza lifted his hand during his speech to make the Genin aware of not moving closer to the painting as Takuza was only following his Gut instinct. Something seemed off, but he couldn’t put his finger on it. The lifted hand would signal the genin to stay in place as he had not ordered them to make any movements, at least as of yet. He waited patiently for the Painting to answer his questions as it seemed too shady for it to be here and ask for help. If the man had responded to his questions accordingly Takuza would then consider helping him become free.