50shinobi theme #40 heart strings

Title: Arts & Crafts

“What do you think, sir?”

Tenzou lowered his gaze downward at the pint-sized girl asking his opinion. This particular student had created an outfit to illustrate the body’s chakra network. The eight gates were represented by cut-out shapes, such as the red paper heart. Strings, a myriad of them, ran through these, pinned to her clothing for chakra channels.

“Well?”

The wood-user took a step back, bringing a hand to his chin as he assessed her presentation. Meanwhile the pre-genin danced back and forth, eager for his response. Finally he circled behind her and gave her a poke between the shoulder blades.

“What about the back?”

The girl gasped. “I totally forgot!” spurted from her mouth, and then she was running off to find more thread.

A resigned sigh worked its way up his throat. There had to be better ways of fulfilling community involvement hours than helping Iruka’s remedial students.