Kisame week : day 5 ! (You may ask me "but wasn't it supposed to be yesterday?" to which I will respond "yeah but time is a social construct and sleep isn't")
Does this drawing respects the timeline and general ages of these characters ? Probably not.
Do I care ? Take a guess.
The Swordmen of the Mist have secrets, many of them being secret sword techniques passed down from generations to generations. You don't get to read those scrolls until you can be trusted with those secrets, because loose lips with sink ships and all that, so apprentices are not allowed to read them.
Zabuza and Mangetsu, though, decided they could bypass the rules and sneak in the temple to read the interesting stuff early on.
Honestly, that's very cute of them to assume they're the first one to try that. As if every single apprentice in the past hasn't done the exact same thing, to the point the real scrolls had to be put somewhere else and it's become an unofficial tradition to 'kindly' remind the newbies to not learn ultimate techniques before the basics.
Today is Kisame's turn to teach that lesson and he's been waiting years for that - ever since he suffered the same embarrassing fate at their age. Someone - or some two - are about to get a beating they'll never forget.
Event hosted by @kisames-corner
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