At night, Namikaze Hiatohi and Uchiha Itachi sat high up in a tree, preparing to spend the night there. There was no campfire, and the moon was not full, but the sky was blanketed with stars.
"KAMISAMA, maybe you're right. It probably was a bit of a stretch for me to take part in the Chunin Exams." Hiatohi gnawed on a crisp, sweet apple while her mind replayed the daytime skirmish with Yeyu. Although she had held her own toward the end, her initial freezing up and trembling had almost cost her her life—and Itachi's as well.
Itachi sat in silence. Hiatohi might have found it a stretch, but what about himself? Weren't there still many areas where he needed to try much harder? Yes, absolutely. When facing that person named Yeyu, he hadn't even possessed the ability to defeat him.
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