Recently, he'd been having to save your ass from pretty much anything. And they were only D-Rank missions, so how was it that you almost fell off a waterfall drop, save for the hand that was holding your foot?

"Damnit, you're just about worse as Naruto," the boy's voice was heard in an uninterested tone as he stood on the underside of a branch of a tree, the chakra in his feet keeping both him and you from careening into the river below.

"You should be lucky I haven't decided to drop you. But I should." The only reason he didn't was because of the weird fluttery feeling he felt whenever he was around you.