~Mamoru's P.O.V~

~Inside the Forest of Death, The Next Day~

I eyed Jino as he came out of the cave that we found after the battle with the stranger. Standing up when he came out of the cave, I looked at him, the look on my face was grim. "How is she Jino? Is she okay, I'm gonna-," Jino cut me off with a wave of his hand. "Mamoru, she's fine. She needs rest, give her an hour or so of rest, and she'll be up." He said to me, as he walked away from me and headed towards a nearby river to wash up, I guess.

Letting out a sigh, I slid down the cave's entrance then, lowered my head. Gezz, what I wouldn't give for a cigarette right now but, I left my pack and lighter at home. "Oh well, I needed to quit anyways, mom would throw a fit if she caught me smoking again." I said to myself.

/I can't let Mamoru know about the strange mark on Kairi's neck, he'll have a fit./ Jino thought to himself, as he washed his hands in the river. /I'be never met a guy as serious as him. Well when it came Kairi. Maybe he likes her?/ He paused for a moment and thought about the thought of his team mates together, as a couple then, he shook his head at the thought. /Nah, their both to different for each other, Kairi's to serious and Mamoru is well, he's Mamoru, to laid-back, not very serious, unless he wants to be, and he never thinks when he's fighting, and Kairi does. So having a crush on Kairi is off the list. Is it because, she's a girl?/ Chuckling at his thoughts, he shook his head again then, headed back to the cave.

"Hey Jino, what are we going to dinner?" I asked him when he came back from the river.

Jino raised an eyebrow at the question. "Go fish Mamoru." He said to me, as he went back in the cave, to check on Kairi.

My mouth dropped to the floor. /Go fish? Jino are you crazy! I don't how to fish, dad never taught me that, he always told me, it wasn't important enough to learn. Oh boy was he wrong./ I thought to myself, shaking my head over and over again, as I walked back in the cave and watched Jino, who was checking on Kairi's vital signs at the moment.

Turning his head to look at me for a moment, Jino let out a sigh. "If your hungry, standing there isn't going to feed your hunger Mamoru, there's fish in the river." He said to me, as he brushed his hands on his pants then, looked at me, standing across from him, I nervously ran a hand through my dark blonde hair. Shaking his head at me, he walked towards me, grabbed my arm then, walked me out of the cave and took me to a nearby tree, handing me a kunai knife, he let out another sigh. "First you have to make a rod, cut a branch off of the tree, smooth the edges out. Come and get me when your finished this Mamoru, good luck." Was all he said to me, as headed back towards the cave.

Letting out a sigh, I started to cut a tree branch. My first rod was to thin, my second rod was to skinny. Needless to say, it took me fifteen different tree branches to find the perfect tree branch, at least by Jino's standards it was. The next part was to sharpen it. Taking a seat next to the river's edge, I started sharpening the rods top and bottom parts, for the next ten minutes or so.

Walking back into the cave, I entered the cave with my newly sharpened rod, I was feeling pretty proud of myself. Well until Jino had to open his mouth and tell me to do something else.

He gave me a small smile. "Good job Mamoru." He handed me some wire. "Now, go tie the wire around the stick." He added to me, shooing me out of the cave after he spoke.

Shaking my head, I let out another sigh. /I never thought fishing would be so damn hard./ I thought to myself, as I sat outside the cave's entrance and starting tying the wire on the rod. This took me a couple of tries. When I finally thought I got it right, I showed Jino, who just shook his head and laughed at the wire tied around my stick.

"Mamoru, you need to tie the wire tighter around the stick. Your never going to get any fish if you leave the wire like that. Come back when your finished." He said to me.

Once I left the cave, I flopped down on the grass and untied the wire from around the stick and re-tied the wire around it. "Damn Jino, telling me how to make this, why doesn't he make himself instead of watching over Kairi. This is bullshit." I muttered out to myself.

"I headed that Mamoru!" Jino shouted out to me from the cave after I finished speaking.

Letting out a groan, I rolled my eyes and muttered out, "of course you heard that Jino, you have bug ears."

Poking his head out of the cave, Jino raised an eyebrow at me. "I heard that to Mamoru!" He shouted out to me, as he turned around and went back to watching over Kairi.

Cursing Jino over and over again in my head, I eyed the stick. "I'm growing bored with this." I said to myself, as I headed back to the cave, stomping my feet along the way, like a two-year old who just broke his toy, or in this case, his fishing stick. "Jino, can you do this for me? You seemed to know how to do this."

Raising an eyebrow at me, he took a seat next to Kairi then, frowned at my words. "No, if I do it for you then, you'll never learn Mamoru. Now go on, try again." With those words, he kicked me out of the cave, again.

Grumbling under my breath about Jino, I let out another groan and sat down on the ground, outside the cave. Untying the wire from the fishing rod, I tied it back on the rod. I did this over again and again at least fifty times, until Jino said it was okay.

Jumping in the air with fist, I looked at Jino. "Am I done yet?" I asked him.

Shaking his head at me, Jino gave me a smirk. "No, not even close Mamoru. You still need a hook. Do you happened to have a hook with you?" He asked me.

I glared at him. "Does it look like I have a hook Jino? I'm an ninja, not a fishermen. Unless you have a hook, were both not getting dinner tonight."I nearly shouted at him.

Giving me a smile, Jino dug into his pouch and pulled out a hook. "Actually yes, I do." He said to me, giving me a smug smile then, tossing it on the cave floor, he added. "Oh and Mamoru, I could find dinner a lot faster then you could catch fish but, let's save that challenge for another day, or until Kairi's awake." Then, he looked down at Kairi and I left the cave, taking the stupid fish hook with me.

Rolling my eyes at Jino's challenge, I tied the fish hook around the knot that I made, I went back into the cave. "AM I FINISHED NOW? THIS IS PISSING ME OFF!" I shouted at him.

Jino just stared at me with a blank stare. "Yes, your finished Mamoru." He said to me, as he opened a bottle of water and poured some on a towel then, put the wet towel over Kairi's forehead.

"Thank god!" I shouted out as I went to the river and put the hook in the water and waited for the fish to bite.

~Two Hours Later~

Walking back into the cave, with six fish in my hands, I smiled at Jino. "See, I caught some fish." I bragged to him.

Jino shook his head at me. "Good job Mamoru." He said to me, adding out to me, "oh, and you need to cook the fish on a fire."

That was it, this was the last straw! I had, had it with Jino's antics. "A FIRE! YOU COULDN'T TELL ME THAT I NEEDED A FIRE!" I shouted at him.

A smirk crept up on Jino's face. "You should've figured that one out genius, do you need help with making a fire, or can you do that on your own?" He taunted to me.

Rolling my eyes at him, I stormed off. Well now I have to make a fire. Damn Jino...

~End of Mamoru's P.O.V~