The apparent Yuu.

I put the piece of meat to cook while I enjoy the aroma.

"Are you really going to stay there? Why don't you come enjoy the aroma of meat with me?" I look a little shocked.

Then an instant later two shadows come out from between the trees.

Rai and Sayuki settle some distance away but close to the fire.

Seeing this action I roll my eyes.

'What are they, bloodhounds waiting for orders to act?' I decide to stay quiet from the thoughts in my head.

Then he took a couple of pieces from between my clothes and with enough warmth I offered them.

"Do you want?"

"No"

"On another occasion"

"...(•_•)" I was a little stunned at the speed with which I was rejected.

He grabbed the pieces from my hand with a little annoyance and put them on other sticks to cook.

'You'll see wretches, they'll look craving when this is cooked and I'll eat it slowly in their faces while they can only swallow saliva thinking about how stupid they were hehehe *evil laugh*'

After a while my meats finish cooking and I start eating.

Like with a face of happiness and delight showing that it is very rich (actually it is, it is not an exaggeration).

Yuu widens his eyes a little and tries to look for some reaction but I just continue with that feeling that they're looking at me straight on.

Yuu isn't wrong with that thought, in fact, although Rai and Sayuki seem to be on their side they certainly haven't stopped inspecting him since they discreetly saw him.

If it were others, it would be difficult for them to realize this, especially Sayuki's look behind those glasses, to his bad luck, Yuu's observation Haki is trained to the point that with a certain amount of time, those discreet looks can be noticed even if he doesn't look closely (don't think he's not trained in this skill).

Well, it could be considered an advantage of the pirate world's power system.

Although on the surface Rai and Sayuki seem normal, the truth is that they have many thoughts.

Rai tries to catch Yuu's movements and expressions trying to catch something.

(PDA: I'm going to stop writing the names at the beginning of a thought, I'm a little tired of doing that, I'll only put it when necessary)

'Stupid movements, that clown smile, that friendly and trusting personality... I'm sure, he must be hiding his true personality, under all that facade must be the real one, the one the sister mentioned...' Rai seems to be convinced of one thing while trying to find clues on how to figure out his teammate.

On Sayuki's side, is she thinking a little too much or maybe deeply?

'Right now I can confirm it, the position of the campfire is right in the middle of our positions in the trees, with my concealment techniques it would be hard for someone to notice me so quickly, I'm sure he did it on purpose, huh? is it a warning?, if that were the case then it would make sense, am I trying to say that we don't try to trick him maybe?'

Sayuki unlike Rai has thought more deeply about Yuu.

The last time her pride was very hurt, the fact is that she considers herself very intelligent, that Yuu, someone on her team has been outside of her expectations, proof that she did not realize what she was really hiding behind Yuu.

(She is the typical person blinded by her intellect, also she did not receive any special training like the ambu, it is hard to believe but under that indifferent face there is pride that geniuses have (Sasuke and Neji from the original work could be a bit of an example, people blinded by talent, they believe others as inferior))

Sayuki is convinced that Yuu has a fairly high intelligence (not more than her of course).

She has that feeling because in her opinion he hides quite well, strength, skill, jutsus, everything is well hidden.

Reviewing her performance in the previous mission, she realized several things.

At first she thought that they were just coincidences but analyzing it in depth she realized several things.

Usually a ninja always has an area of interest to master depending on what they are good at, ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu, those with the three main areas of which are followed by various styles, due to time and age restriction, young ninjas only have time to specialize in a single style since doing several at the same time causes you to distribute your time unnecessarily and others can surpass it since they concentrate all their time and attention on one thing, in conclusion: all those who dominate a single style are more powerful than those who dominate several at the same time (even if the latter surpass them in talent).

Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule that can master several styles at the same time, such as Satsuki who has a good command of ninjutsu, taijutsu and genjutsu, a genius, a proof of talent is her brother who from what she infers He also tries to dominate all three fields at the same time but he is still inferior to his sister.

Well, the fact is that Yuu is a puzzle in this matter.

In past missions he only showed proficiency in taijutsu and ninjutsu.

But in the latter he showed that he dominated more things.

A first start was when strange ninjas ambushed them at night, he initially seemed unaware that he was in danger and the idiot fell asleep and was about to be run through by the ninjas, just when they were about to do so she was going to rescue him. but then he realized something halfway, Yuu had disappeared from where he was initially sleeping and appeared to the side launching a water technique.

If we want to analyze this in a reasonable way with what is known about him, it is that he never slept and was actually preparing to launch that attack.

Actually this could be called cunning, even a fool could do it, it wouldn't matter much if it wasn't for what happened next.

After they approached the gold mines, just as they lay down to watch the horizon, she had been spreading her insects in certain key places as a precaution (thanks to this she realized that they were chasing them), but what she didn't It is explained is how his partner Yuu realized, clearly he did nothing, he stayed in his place but he already knew who were the ones who were chasing them.

So he can only explain it with some very strong sensory ability, initially he thought he had a special bloodline that allowed him to turn his skin into metal but now it seems he had a double blood limit, this would explain a bit of why he hides.

So now she would see her new partner in a light, he was a genius, one stronger than Rai but still not more than her(according to her), as well as someone who keeps her intelligence(inferior to her) with her acting skills so well polished.

What followed, if somewhat surreal, was a chain of events that did trample her pride.

When she activated the bomb papers she had left behind and went to chase the last boss, she had almost realized that there was a tripwire ahead of her, at that moment I don't doubt that Rai could see it with his sharingan but Yuu could. be more difficult and that was shown since he was very close to the metal thread when it bent so hard that he managed to dodge it, here it was already explained that he had a lot of practice in various styles, it may seem silly but to do that movement in such a short time it could damage your bones.

At that moment she thought that he was going to die quite surely.

At that time she didn't pay much attention to it since she was angry with the man (she had killed many insects) because she thought she had it all figured out, it turned out that she lost more than she thought.

What happened next was unforeseen but she admits that she wouldn't have made it so easily in one piece, Yuu had absorbed much of the damage so she got it cheaply, as it was a blow to her pride.

She now realized that he had mastery of the wood style, a technique that according to the records she read in her clan belonged to the first Hokage, I think this was when she became very serious and cautious towards him.

She then began to think seriously and she came to the conclusion that her grandparents must be from the senju and another unknown one and one of her parents must also be from an unknown clan.

That would explain a lot.

Then nothing could surprise more but what followed next was something that left him thinking.

When they fell into the boss's trap, she was sure that all three of them were dead since being in such a raging current would leave no way out.

She had accepted her fate but she was awakened with a gasp in her lungs, he had CPRed her.

There it was a surprise, as she had done it, she remembers that in the last memories of him going down the water he was lower in the water level than the two of them.

If he had any technique to get out of the situation, she does not doubt that she would have used it before.

Even if I had had it then, with those conditions, a very great willpower would be needed, according to what he read in a book, this could only be possible with a lot of time (years) of training, you would have to temper your will over the years and many battles so that could get out of a situation that could bring him back from the brink of death.

At this point he was becoming very incomprehensible in her eyes.

The last thing that came after that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

It was like a beast, at that moment she felt his heart pound. I feel for the first time what the edemas call fear, never since she was born had she felt a bit afraid, she saw the world so monotonous that she had a cold mind, but perhaps that was when she realized that she was also human.

Yuu would be the only person who has made him like that in his entire life, so now he can't stop looking at him, she doesn't even know why she's looking at him, maybe it's the growing desire that is brewing in his heart, a feeling that can be similar to what Sasuke and Naruto have from the original work, rivalry...