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Sunshineverse

Okay everyone, it's time to test some people out! The rules of the game are simple. You have a character you would like to try out as a native to the setting of this game. You want to see if this is the right setting to play said character in, right?

Well, then all you have to do is drop them into this post as a top level comment with this as the header:
Character name | Series (OC's just put Original here) | Planned Village Affiliation

Then you comment around and play with everyone else!

If you need some ideas on how to get started, you can drop your character in during the middle of a mission, have them at an eatery around their village, or maybe even just doing weapons practice. It's up to you how you want to set out, so feel free to put your characters in this version of the Naruto universe however it most seems appropriate. Just be sure to say where you put them somewhere in your post though, otherwise two people might not even be threading in the same country.

One last thing! Remember that your character was born in this universe, so whatever else you decide, your character is a world native, even if they might be a tourist in the village you decided to test them out on.

And that's it. Just be good to each other and have fun! Threads you do here can count toward future activity checks, so long as the person you're threading with gets in too. These threads can also be used for samples on your application.

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_{[Let's do the thing]}

Having returned unrepentantly late to Suna earlier that week from a mission too close to Konohagakure for the reason for that lateness not to be bleedingly obvious, Gaara enters Baki's small office with outstanding calm. At least his only black mark to report this month is potential truancy rather than murder.

So far. Depending on whether he's allowed out again.

"Welcome back," he murmurs, taking the seat furthest from the door of the three set before Baki's desk and settling in to wait.

Baki was not fond of leaving the village for long periods of time. When he could help it, he preferred to stay close by, or to keep his excursions brief so he could return quickly. But when his village had need for him to depart, he would do as needed. He had been relieved to be back, and even more relieved to see that Suna remained more or less as intact as it had been when he had left it. A call for a meeting with his students was a reasonable idea following his long departure, and it was coming close to the time of year that they submitted assessments anyways.

He had been awaiting them in his small office on one side of the government buildings, hands folded neatly in front of himself. Gaara looks no worse for the wear either, calm and composed, which was usually a good sign.

"Thank you." He nods in turn. "I am glad to be back." Despite the sentiment, he glances at the door behind Gaara, wondering if his siblings were following along after.

Temari isn't surprised when she's summoned. If anything for the moment she's pleased. Normal she didn't avoid doing her work, but the work waiting for her she wasn't entirely enthused about and she could stand to put it off another hour. It wasn't like this particular agreement was a matter of life and death.

She's relaxed when she enters his office and takes the seat next to her youngest brother. So he'd finally returned from his mission, good. She was running out of things to tell the Kazekage when asked about Gaara. Crossing her legs, Temari folds her hands over her knee, the picture of at ease. "How was your mission, sensei?" The welcome back implied in the small smile she lets curve her lips upward for a moment.

"Temari," He greets her in turn. "The mission was very..." His brow furrows for a moment, "Involved." It's the kindest way he can think to phrase his description of it. Tedious was a better word. He had spent most of his time waiting to hear back from his mission givers, chasing after progress from day to day even for information he should have been given to begin with. "I have a copy of the summary here if either of you would care to read it." He sets one of the bundles of papers on his desk aside to demonstrate.

The amount of waiting he had been given had mostly been spent on worrying about Suna, as usual, and given the things that had been running through his head, he is relieved to see that Temari too looks at ease. As the eldest she was typically the most level headed of the siblings, but that didn't mean she wasn't just as capable of getting into trouble. Not today, it seems. "You both seem well."
There is still one of them absent, however.

Gaara shifts as Temari reaches for the papers, and unfolds himself so he can read across her. One of his pet projects is comparing the missions each of the team is assigned, after all, and Baki is their senior member.

"There was some trouble earlier in the month--" he began, before picking up on the focus on the open door and trailing off.

That they all arrive separately is one thing that hasn't changed, barring the odd sullen escorts when one or the other of them was staying away to prove some kind of point. They have such a variety of interests now that these meetings are about the most organised part of their months. That said, the time has come and gone for Kankuro to show, and Gaara belatedly recalls hearing something yelled down the corridor at him from his brother's rooms.

"Kankuro is busy," he says, a little too late to be helpful. "He sends his apologies."

Temari reads the offered report. Silent as she reads over what has to be the most boring mission on the continent after teaching the Kazekage's children for as long as he has. The most amusing part is how she doesn't so much as shift away as her brother perches to read over her shoulder. If seh had to be entirely honest, it shouldn't have come as any surprise given that she'd invaded his personal space plenty in the last few years.

She looks up from the report glancing at Gaara a moment gaze questioning and then shakes her head. These meetings weren't exactly optional, so unless their father had given him a task there was no reason he couldn't leave his workshop to sit down and give Baki a sit rep. She sighs slowly and settles the report in her lap again.

"There were a string of mind transfer mishaps and it wasn't limited to only Suna. Gaara actually ended up one of it's victims though damage was nonexistent despite him not being in control of himself." She explains, "We've kept the Kazekage primarily in the dark about the reason the three of went to Konoha at the time. It's safer." She murmurs her gaze sliding to Gaara as she says it, searching for a sign that he would like this to remain an unknown to their father for as long as possible.

Baki grows more serious at the first mention of trouble, his hands remaining unfolded as he settles back in, his eye narrowing. "I will expect to meet him at a later time, in that case." He begins, but for now he puts the third sibling aside to listen to Temari's explanation.

"...Mind transfer mishap...?" He repeats, almost incredulously. That is a lot to unpack in the space of a single phrase. Mind transfers weren't in his area of experience, but he had heard of them at least, enough to know some potential of what could affect Gaara. Honestly he hadn't actually thought such things were capable of affecting jinchūriki. "Who was in control of Gaara, then? Where was his mind transferred?"
The mention of keeping information from the Kazekage is accepted without Baki so much as batting an eyelash. He has long acknowledged the importance of keeping potentially compromising knowledge away from their father, as long as the safety of the village is not directly at stake. In that regard, he and his students have an understanding.

"One Uzumaki Kushina," she answers smoothly without a hitch though now that she's providing a full debrief she scans her teachers office quickly for any sign that the Kazekage was spying on them. He shouldn't be, he'd assigned all three to Bake for a reason, but one could never be too careful when it came to secrets from the leader of their village.

"Gaara ended up in her body in Konohagakure. Once it became apparent that Gaara was not himself. Kankuro and I took steps to limit her exposure and question her in private and proceeded from there." She pauses takes a breath. Again her teal eyes slide to her brother to check if she'd missed anything yet. When he didn't speak up she continued assuming that she was providing an accurate and full report to their teacher.

"After some discussion we fabricated a story to travel to Konoha and we worked with their seal experts to find a solution though they seemed to have switched back on their own after a few days. We're still without a defense or solution to the problem."

His expression slides from shock, concern, then back to the same apprehension. He's impressed at their resourcefulness, considering nothing went more awry. In addition, the Kazekage hasn't seemed to have caught wind of the incident, which Baki considers to be a good thing.

"Are you telling me that at this time we do not know how this occurred? The Yamanaka have not stepped forward?" He'd expect, if anyone, they might have at least an explanation, if not taking responsibility for the event.

"Gaara, have you been feeling any averse effects since the event?" Again, he is not sure how Shukaku would complicate such a state, much less Konoha's tails beast.

Naoki was looking forward to seeing Gaara compete in the chuunin exams. It was to Naoki's benefit that Gaara had been disqualified in the one exam they were both in and he was able to earn his promotion, but he ccouldn't deny that Gaara's unusual combat technique was fascinating to watch.

From their infrequent training sessions he knew Gaara was more than ready. But that wouldn't matter if there was another incident. So he showed up to the quarters belonging to Gaara with a small gift and to express his support. Naoki knocked on the door, holding the small fake plant delicately crafted from fabric and wire. The real version would not survive in Suna.

Baki was not a fan of Kirigakure. It wasn't a good bias to have, he knew, but he still nevertheless had it. He distrusted its leaders, he distrusted its members especially, and worst of all the moisture filled air wreaked havoc on his sinuses. He'd spent the trip sniffling and coughing as if he had had a cold, and he hated that. But he had soldiered through Water Country's... unique climate nonetheless in order to facilitate his student's second attempt at the chuunin exams.

He was the one to open the door when he heard a knock outside, pulling it open to see who it was.
He looked down at the young man, blinking briefly as he took in the sight of him. He recognized him, vaguely, from the prior exams he had attended in Konoha. Those markings are hard to forget, after all. "...Can I help you...?" He asked, cautiously.

This was not how Naoki had pictured this going. Show up, hand over the gift, and leave before his presence became something to talk about. Running into Gaara's jounin squad leader was not part of the plan, but Naoki didn't visibly react before blinking twice.

"I'm here to see Gaara." As far as he knew, Gaara hadn't told anyone on the Suna side about training Naoki. Naoki didn't mention it either, and Kisame only knew because he'd been there the first time Gaara asked to have the Silent Killing technique used on him.

"I brought him a gift."

His next inhale was embarrassingly loud enough to be heard in the space between them and he had to swallow down another cough, leading Baki to raise a hand and briefly rub his fingers over his face. A gift. For Gaara. As far as Gaara related surprises went this was one of the more agreeable ones but his first reaction was suspicion. It wasn't impossible that Gaara could have met and befriended someone without his notice, especially considering how he had changed in the past years, but...

He still felt an instinctive flicker of distrust. "You're a acquaintance of Gaara's?" He eyed the parcel in his hands. It too, looked innocent enough. "What's your name?"

It was just a little gratifying to know the shinobi from Suna were just as miserable in Kiri as he was in their village, but he also felt bad for them. It was a drastic climate change.

"Yes. I'm Kashima Naoki. We met after the chuunin exams in Suna." It was for the best that they met after and not during. Naoki doubted an encounter with Gaara would have over very well before Gaara developed an interest in his abilities. He wondered if the fake plant would be checked for traps or simply thrown out if left with the jounin.

Kashima Naoki. It wasn't a name that brought anything to mind but besides the more infamous members he was admittedly not as well versed with Kiri nin as he could be. He nodded his head, deciding to introduce himself in turn. "My name is Baki. As you may have guessed, I am Gaara's teacher, as well as his siblings'."

He could tell the plant he was holding was made of cloth and not living material, and the fact that the plant was fake piqued his interest. He held out his hand in between them. "May I see it?"

Naoki nodded in acknowledgement of the introduction, and lifted the delicately crafted plant in its pot. "It's a sundew. They eat insects." Not this one, obviously. It was meant more for people visiting to take home with them, or people who would be away too often to meet the needs of a real plant.

He held it out for Baki. Even if it did get tossed out, and he didn't get to see Gaara, he could always write to him.

He's heard of the species before, as carnivorous plants were often mentioned in botanical texts as a novelty. He took it from him in both hands, carefully, turning the pot from one side to another. It was an intricate work of art, the small... barbs? hairs? of the plant impressively rendered in wire and what looked like beads comprising the 'dew'.

He wasn't about to start tearing apart the gift to check it for dangers. He simply tilted it back a little to check the bottom and handed it back to him. Gaara was more than capable of defending himself, and if there was nothing immediately threatening that he could see, it was probably fine.

"You should give it to him yourself." He backed up, standing aside from the doorway to allow him in.

He took the plant back, and blinked quietly as Baki stepped aside. Naoki walked into the apartment, one of several set aside for people visiting Kiri on official business. They saw the most use during the chuunin exams.

"Thank you."

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Baki | Naruto | Sunagakure

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You adore us Baki ;P

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four years ago at Kiri chuunin exam

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There's six, APPLICATION TIME

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