With the Chunin Exams fast approaching, it seems as if every eligible genin is training to their limits. More often than not, this leads to quite a few landing themselves in the hospital for chakra exhaustion or some other similar ailment. As Toshiro is sending off a mulish boy of fourteen 'hoping to earn a vest in the next few weeks 'with a freshly healed burn scar, he runs into Kabuto.

The silver-haired teen is well-liked yet relatively unknown, an odd conundrum. People know

of

him but they do not

know

him, and well 'some people are just like that. Shinobi especially. Toshiro himself hadn 't really dwelled on the idea of having or making friends when he 'd been younger. Now, however, he doesn 't think he 'd give up the bonds he 's forged for anything in the world.

'Sensei, it 's good to see you. '

Toshiro smiles, brows slightly furrowed. 'You as well, Kabuto-san. I see you 're still working hard. '