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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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On the road, undisclosed location

[It's been a while since he's been on such an easy mission. He'd already met up with the clients and delivered the scroll, so he was just in civilian garb and taking his time on the way home - knowing that he has the time to spare. Even walking in the rain with a parasol and his clothes and pack, he can't help enjoying the cool mist coming from the summer shower around him. It's a nice break from teaching, though at the same time he can't wait to go back.

That's when he notices someone on the road ahead, putting on his best smile as he waves. No matter who's ahead of him, it's better to get their attention from a distance instead of unintentionally sneaking up.]

Hey, traveler! You're walking out in the rain too?

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Chuunin Exams

[Another year, another few genin that had graduated from his academy classes going on to try and test as Chuunin - like him. It's with fear and pride that he watches the gates of the village coming closer, having been part of the escort for the teams attending the exams.

He knows that the kids aren't that much younger than him, and that he's pretty advanced to already be teaching in the academy. He hasn't been at it long, but he couldn't help feeling responsible for them even after they've left his care. The village they're testing in seems to have a nice enough population, but as much as he doesn't want to think about it... He knows they're in enemy territory.

There's no reason for them to attack though, right?]

Oops! Sorry about that! [He'd been lost in his own thoughts for so long that, after walking around in the village's walls for a bit, he accidentally bumped into someone. It jostled him a little, but did he knock the other person over? He doesn't know. So he frets a little, looking over the person he just walked into.] Are you okay?

[Seeing the wave, the tiny figure huddled under the umbrella some distance before Gohan seems to give a pause before offering a much slower and more awkward wave of her own. Once she's close enough, Ava peers out from beneath her meager protection looking a bit pale. If not for the Kiri forehead protector dangling from about her neck, it'd be hard to pin her from a village with such a reputation considering her appearance.]

Mmm. I'd rather not. You... don't seem to mind it, though.

[For the first part of the Chuunin exams, Kushina had decided to coincide her usual trip to Konoha with them. Sure she'd be passing the results of the lone Uzushio Genin team back to the council, but that didn't mean she wouldn't have time in between the exams to visit with her family.

As she wasn't the jounin sensei to her niece's team, there wasn't a reason to be overseeing their training. That would come later. So while Karin's team trained, she went to track down her suiton student. But life had other plans for her when she rounded a corner right into someone. The impact tipped her over onto her ass. Maybe she shouldn't have been walking fast.

Oh well, too late for that. She gets back on her feet and brushes herself off. Ah, that's right. She hadn't changed out of her usual outfit that she wore in Uzushio when she had left. And she even had a hitai-ate marking her from that village. Oops. This should be interesting.]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[She gives the boy-- no, the young man a look over. She doesn't recognize him, but the flak jacket and hitai-ate are familiar. Familiar enough that a strange look flickers across her face.]

Kumo, huh?

He suspected he'd irritated someone by his blunt approach again. It was the only reason he could think of for him to be sent out to the islands in what amounted to border patrol. It was useless, and there were those far better at it than himself, and far more... better used in that manner as well.

He was a weapon meant to be used for more finesse than this. Still, there was little help for it, and he merely moved through the seal point nearest his location to make sure that everything on the other side was... quite nonhostile.

If they'd wanted someone less efficient at it, they should have used someone who wasn't one of their highest ranking jounin.

(OOC: Feel free to have the seal he just popped through be wherever. He's kind of cranky at being 'misused' though so be warned.)

Ashiko blinked, slow and almost offensively unruffled by the sudden intrusion into her midday meal. She was settled quite comfortably on a nearby bench, the top layer of a bento in her lap and its other two counterparts still stacked neatly next to her. There was a thermos of tea gently steaming on her other side, and the cooling, purple-faced corpses of three rough-and-tumble bandit types piled up several yards away.

"...good afternoon?" She sounded more curious than cordial, but truth be told she had little experience with non-Oto shinobi getting a firsthand look at how well she could manage without a bodyguard dogging every step. She found herself at a loss of how to proceed, which in and of itself was something of a novelty.

Did they just ignore the bodies? Would he demand an explanation?

...should she offer him some tea?

Edited (effing swype) 2014-04-24 02:39 (UTC)

Oh god.

Adela had been on border patrol near Konoha, so immediately she reacted to the unnatural movement by drawing some shuriken to throw at the feet of the target. But, the flash of silver was enough to get her to stop mid throw, and her disbelieving eyes only confirmed what she saw before her. It was him.

She was stark still, unsure of how to feel upon seeing him again. Part of her knew she should have fled before he had a chance to properly see her. The familiarity was jarring enough to plant her feet where they were even without chakra holding her to the branch of the magnolia tree she was in, and although she was still somewhat camouflaged in the leaves she almost wasn't sure she wanted to be. It really was him...

Kirigakure's Silver Terror. He was Sephiroth.

Edited 2014-04-24 04:31 (UTC)

A little rain never hurts, not if you're careful.

[Hm... The girl doesn't seem to be doing well in the rain though - not from what he can tell. Still, she's a kiri nin... He knows enough not to just offer help, not if he doesn't want to find a knife in his throat. He has to be careful around her.]

Where are you heading?

Y-Yeah, I'm from Kumo. Is there a problem with that? [He scratches at his cheek, smiling a little nervously at the declaration. Surely she must have known that the chuunin exams were going on, right...? He'd show her his papers if he had to, especially since he doesn't want to start a fight and set a poor example for the genin coming there.]

I'm overseeing some of the students with their instructors.

The Land of Fang... There's just something I need to pick up.

[Which was more or less true, after all. Just... nothing no one else needed to worry about as far as she was concerned.]

What about you?

There was already someone on the other side of the seal, and the sudden appearance of the Kiri jounin had that individual immediately flaring out her fans in surprise. That was as far as Ava got, however, before her mind immediately recognized the other and stopped her body from even thinking about sliding into any kind of combat stance.

She hadn't been expecting anyone else so soon after she had also stepped out of the seal, and it had caught her off guard. Still, Ava knew better than to raise her weapons against one of Kiri's best. Tagging along her own mentor had meant she'd met a few other jounin. Some she knew more than others, but even if she hadn't been a tag along... Sephiroth's reputation definitely preceded him.

A bit awkwardly, she kept her fans at her side and gave a quick bow of her head. "Um... Good evening. Sir."

He paused in his steps, staring at the bodies for a moment before his gaze tracked sideways to the woman, moving over her to evaluate what level of threat she might be to him. Whatever level that was... he seemed to find it lacking enough that he was at ease, and padded closer to look at the girl more personally.

Then, he invited himself to sit across from her without a word, inclining his head slightly to her. She seemed as though she might be refreshing company for an afternoon.

Had she completely forgotten his absurdly tuned chakra senses? It was nearly good enough for mind reading, and few knew how he used it for his genjutsu on those rare occasions when he'd rather play with than fight the enemy in a more conventional manner.

Or perhaps she'd simply been too young to remember when she decided that Kiri wasn't a good enough country to become a shinobi for any longer.

Either was possible.

"You might as well come down."

He turned his head, looking right at her, feline eyes cold. "Adela."

Edited 2014-04-24 08:27 (UTC)

He peered at her for a long moment, as even though they'd never actually spoken, the girl had a rather distinctive look to her, and he knew her name.

Her family name, at least. He'd never bothered to learn the rest, feeling that having that much was more than enough. "Ire-san." He tilted his head a fraction, watching her. "You've been on a rather long mission."

She had been out on it for a while now... She hoped that wasn't going to be an issue. Carefully, Ava put away her fans. "The client really wanted this mission to be done right. So, I've just been trying to make sure everything's gone alright." That is to say, making sure that she hadn't been followed, and that no one knew that the assassination mission had been carried out by a shinobi of Kiri.

Unable to help herself, she bit on the inside of her cheek. "I'm thinking of asking for a promotion to jounin. So it was important to me that I did this right..."

[A momentary hesitation, then a shake of her head. This boy couldn't know what had been done decades ago. He was too young and if Kumo hadn't tried to snatch her again in the last 30 or so years, why would they make a fresh attempt now? Answer: they wouldn't. The current Raikage was no fool.]

No, there's no problem. You wouldn't be here if you didn't have business of some kind. And if you're overseeing students, you're here for the Chuunin exams too. [She cocks her head to one side, giving him a second appraisal.] What's your name?

"... Sephiroth," It was a little hesitant as she put her kunai away, jumping down with years of practiced grace and approaching him on foot where he could see her. She still stayed out of what she thought was the range of Masamune, forcing herself to relax so that she could react in an instant if she had to. A face she hadn't seen since she was a child, someone she once looked up to - still looked up to as her goal in reaching her own perfection as a ninja.

It would be stupid to assume that everything was the same though. Until last year, everyone had thought she was dead - including him. And she hadn't discovered the true circumstances behind her and her uncle's escape from Kirigakure until then. The memories were still fresh, of the chuunin exams and the events that had resulted in her parents' plan.

"It's been a long time."

Well then. That answered part of the conundrum she found herself in. He was certainly right about the danger level—for all her proficiency with poisons, she was nowhere even close to matching a real ninja—and if he didn't care to bring up the pile then she wouldn't either. She was a little surprised when he approached, but rallied admirably.

"Do you care for rooibos tea?" She asked, gesturing to the thermos. When she had company or was serving, she tended towards more traditional blends—jasmine, green, ginseng and so on—but when she was expecting to be on her own she indulged in more exotic blends. Still, it was only polite to ask, and it was, perhaps, a little less awkward then jumping ahead and asking if he wanted any of the tempura or dumplings in the untouched stack.

For all that shinobi were trained to be aware of their surroundings and cautious in both familiar and unfamiliar lands, many fell short. Many forgot to look up and hard against rock, wood, shadow, and sand, but especially the young ones, to the point that Kazue often found any location higher than a head and of those types to be a relatively safe cover for her purposes. Naps could be had as well as the general five minute breather, the former being of the utmost importance when she was outside her native country. She had never slept well outside its borders, to the point that, exhausted or at her best, her nights were always restless and naps were the only way for her to secure any rest, which suited her just fine. After all, it wasn't a new development. It was simply the way of things, always had been, and she had never been one to allow herself to be deterred by a bump.

Bump. B-bump bump bump.

One blue eye was cracked open, the wind stirring and shifting red bangs wordlessly. The kunoichi remained motionless, one leg following the branch atop which she was perched while the other hung motionless over the side. The pointer of her right finger twitched and the tanuki puppet that had been busily arguing with a squirrel a few trees over bridged the gap with a couple of heroic jumps and a bit of fast climbing, seemingly disappearing into the shadow in which she was resting. With a brief, skittering sound, it climbed up her and came to rest atop her shoulder, turning its head to meet her gaze, at which point she allowed her eye to close for a moment. She was aware of the presence approaching, but were they aware of her? By all rights, they should have been. She'd given them an avenue into awareness via her trusted companion for her boredom about her present circumstances and her admitted curiosity, but whether they took any heed of it and how was their decision. She was due to move, at any rate.

Edited 2014-04-24 20:54 (UTC)

He peered at the pot for a long moment, taking a deep breath of the air... then inclined his head. He doubted her surprise indicated she tended to drink poison in her tea too.

It really wasn't that sort of stack.

"I've had it before."

"Quite." The word was clipped, and his gaze shifted, examining her before coming to rest on her Hitai-ate, pointedly making sure he saw what was inscribed there, before he looked back to her face.

"How is it then?"

He blinked, then studied her more intently, bright eyes flicking over her almost... thoughtfully. Then he turned and started away from the Seal point. "Come."

She didn't look tired, and he did have his own standards for those who might be partnered with him in missions after all.

He might not be the very best at these things, but he was definitely not unobservant. He didn't intend to get himself killed while out of the village after all. No, he was an expert at running very very far away when he needed to, after all, and this was hardly any kind of exception.

Still... he didn't feel threatened so....

He was staring upward. "Hi."

That wasn't her preferred additive, no. She unscrewed a second cup from the bottom of the thermos and filled it, her motions combining ritual grace with slow, deliberate motions that kept her sleeves by her elbows and her pale hands and wrists open to inspection. It was best to be very open when a ninja knew you had something up your sleeve, after all. Especially when that was literal.

Wordlessly, she held it out as a peace offering.

"... Things are fine. Quiet, for a while now," A while being since her previous out-of-village mission, but at least she didn't almost-die that time. She was unsure of what else she was supposed to say though, or even if what she said addressed the hidden questions he was asking. It was nerve wracking to talk to him, stressing her beyond what she had been prepared for with simple border patrol. Why was he there? Was he going to try and take her back?

Her stomach flipped at the thought. He'd do it if he wanted, no question - only the Hokage could possibly stand a chance against him, if what she remembered about Sephiroth was right. He could probably kill her on the spot if he wanted - though the fact that she wasn't dead already gave her tentative hope. Did he still care, at least a little? But, she cared too... Which only made this meeting harder on her.

Huh? Ava quickly hurried after her elder- she always seemed to be hurrying places in an effort to make up for her much shorter height. While she'd worked with many different shinobi as was only expected of those in Kiri, she still wasn't sure what to make of Sephiroth. She supposed she'd find out.

For now, she just followed after him, eyes flickering here and there just in case.

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Totally won't.

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