>>6451776>>6451997You'd rather keep things simple. Eito seems the friendliest, so why not reciprocate? Though your team has to do your introductions first.
"I am Karasuba Uchiha." Karasuba goes first. "I don't mind staying cordial with you all, even despite the fact that we'll be fighting each other in the near future."
Eito just grins at that, but A furrows her brow. Something about the way Karasuba said that just pissed her off, apparently.
"My name is Kagari Uchiha. Nice to meet you." Kagari goes next, keeping her bit short.
"Wow, two Uchihas on one team? That's crazy." Eito remarks.
"We're, uh... We're cousins." Kagari gives a further bit of detail on impulse.
"Yo, for real? Me and A are cousins, too!" Eito steps back to put his arm around A's shoulder to demonstrate their closeness, but A shoves him and he falls over. He just laughs it off, though.
Now it's your turn.
"The name's Akio Karagowa." You tell them. "Here's hoping we can get along. Never met ninja from another village before."
"Yeah, me neither." Eito replies. You take a seat next to him, ready to just chat casually.
Kagari joins you, though you're not sure how much talking she'll do. Karasuba on the other hand sits across from A. You figure those two are the type to get into some kind of mental power struggle or something. Better to leave them to it. Terui keeps to himself and just stands aside filming all of you like it's nothing. Still very odd.
"My pops has got friends from other villages, but I never met 'em." Eito goes on. "What's up with that? Is it too confusing for a kid, or what? Giving we supposed to be living in peace time now, I'da thought it would make sense to have your kids meet all these friends you got from other lands, but it didn't happen. Just don't make no sense."
"I... Think that's the case with our dads, too..." Kagari tries to stay engaged in the conversation from the outset this time. "Maybe not my dad as much... But definitely Karasuba and Akio's dads for sure..."
On that last line, when she got to your name, Kagari looks like she realizes something. She trails off and then looks at you, before ceasing to say anything more. You can guess what she thought of, given the topic at hand, and she's the kind of person who will do anything not to step on someone else's toes. You've barely mentioned it to her in all these years, there's no way she would ever even risk bringing it up herself.
"You don't say... Your sensei did know ours from back in the day, so I can see it. Your parents went on some missions or whatever." Eito doesn't even acknowledge Kagari suddenly going quiet. "As much as I'd like this to be like one of those, we ain't on no diplomatic get-together. We gonna compete, that's fo' sho. I ain't backing down, even against my own friends."
"As long as we don't end up killing each other, alright?" You respond in a joking tone. You're pretty sure out of any of them, this guy isn't going to try anything too dangerous on you.
