"There," Itachi said with as much dignity as he could muster. "Was a bird's nest." Because Itachi was the kind of ninja who would almost kill himself trying to avoid birds, bird's nests, and other woodland creatures while tree hopping. It has been the cause of his worse wreck as a genin--that and the time they'd been traveling at night and he'd taken a flying squirrel to the face.

Itachi brushed off a few leaves and wondered if everyone else had seen his spectacular evasive maneuver. His knee was burning, so he'd probably smacked it somewhere.