Test Drive

[sunshinemods]

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. Locations General Info Characters World ♦ Main Community ♦ Message Community ♦ OOC Community ♦ History Journal ♦ Application Journal ♦ Mod Journal ♦ sunshinemods ♦ Premise ♦ Rules ♦ F.A.Q. ♦ Player Contact ♦ Player Ideas ♦ Event Calendar ♦ Character History FAQ ♦ Taken ♦ Applications ♦ Reserves ♦ Hiatus ♦ Drop ♦ Country Navigation ♦ Backstory List ♦ Mission FAQ ♦ Mission List ♦ Maps

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[culinarydreams]

Dark eyes snapped open at the touch. Already embarrassed at being caught in such an awkward position, she almost didn't want to look. Natsumi knew that voice, and a cautious glance to the side revealed exactly what she'd feared: she'd just fallen asleep on the Hokage. How shameful! Her only saving grace was that at least she'd never done anything like this before. All that meant, though, was that she didn't have a reputation for foolish and embarrassing behaviour. She was still humiliated now.

"Please accept my apologies for this rude and sloppy behaviour, Hokage-sama," she said, straightening her posture as best she could in this exhausted state. "May I have permission to go crawl under a rock and die of embarrassment now?"

She felt about ready to do just that. Her only hope was that her mother would never find out about this. Her mother was a loving woman, but a stickler for propriety, composure, and organization who forgave but didn't forget mistakes easily. Over a decade could pass, and Uchiha Noriko would still lecture about it. Occasionally, Natsumi was still lectured about mistakes she'd made in her early Academy days.

[thebestuchiha]

"I would really rather you not." His tone was thoroughly amused now, and he squeezed her shoulder before pulling his hand back, lifting it away so that she could straighten more easily. "You look exhausted so I think you'd be stuck down there in any case."

Tilting his head, he peered into her face. "Right?"

[culinarydreams]

Theoretically, if she was crawling under the rock to die, it wouldn't matter if she was stuck under there, but Natsumi wasn't going to say anything that could be construed as backtalk to the Hokage. Especially not when she'd just done something so embarrassing. She generally strived to be polite and behave like a young woman of the Uchiha clan should. Now and then she fell short of the mark, but she made an effort at least.

"You're right, Hokage-sama. I don't think I've got enough chakra left for even a weak fire jutsu to blast a rock away."

Hence eating at the stand at this late hour rather than going home and cooking for herself. She was putting some food into herself so that she could manage the rest of the walk home before crashing. She'd have to consider putting in an application to the police force once she wasn't a bleary-eyed wreck. It wouldn't be opening a restaurant like she really wanted, but she likely wouldn't get to do that until she was well over Kagami's age.

[thebestuchiha]

"I think for the next few weeks I'm going to have you on high clearance paperwork duty." He shook his head, humming softly. "I know you want to make the family proud... but it worries me to see you this exhausted."

He may never have gotten to know her personally, it's true, but he made it a point to at least know in a general sense about his shinobi, family especially. He'd seen what Fugaku had pushed on Itachi, after all.

[culinarydreams]

Natsumi's already pale face visibly blanched at that. There was nothing relaxing about paperwork, in part because that had been her mother's line of work since retiring from active duty. Although she supposed it really depended on where Obito placed her. Filing paperwork in his office would be fine. Doing high clearance paperwork in the police force's building meant she'd work right alongside her mother and...gah. No. Even working with a classroom of hyperactive children would be more restful than that.

"I can do that," she said, not wanting to say no to the Hokage. No matter how kind and understanding he was, one didn't outright refuse the Hokage without a very good reason. "If there are any Academy students who need tutoring in genjutsu, I'd be happy to volunteer. Or I could help the hospital stock up on some antidotes to common poisons."

Skill in cooking loaned itself well to being able to follow precise recipes for poisons and antidotes, and mednins in the hospital were constantly kept busy. She was perfectly content to make herself useful in a variety of ways. If he really wanted her to handle paperwork...well, there were some things that should only be viewed by those of jounin rank, and she wasn't a slob.

[thebestuchiha]

He noticed the look and suspected he knew the cause of it, so he hummed a soft affirmative, watching her intently for a long moment before he finally spoke. "I'll keep that in mind. You know I've been thinking about assigning you a genin team, though of course that would mean spending a great deal of time on D and C-ranks."

He stated it almost idly, then rolled a shoulder in a shrug. "I'm sure the clan would be proud to have more people settled with the honor. In any case, I'll see you at my office starting tomorrow? Just talk to Izumo when you get in and he'll direct you."

[culinarydreams]

"If you think I'm ready, then I'll gladly accept a genin team," said Natsumi with a slight smile.

She'd only just made jounin last year and some might think that wasn't experienced enough to take on a genin team. At the same time, being an experienced jounin wasn't the same as being a good teacher. There were some excellent and experienced jounin that should probably never be assigned a genin team because they didn't have the kind of personality that was suited to working with freshly graduated rookies.

Natsumi did work reasonably well with kids. Enough, at least, that a few parents in the clan had no problem foisting their children off on her on her days off when they wanted a little peace and quiet. She'd found playing with them a little, occasional reward incentives and creatively unpleasant punishments kept them behaving for her the vast majority of the time. It would be a little different with genin, but she could apply similar principles.

[thebestuchiha]

"I believe that only you can determine if you're truly ready for something like that... but in my opinion, I think that there might be a few specific children in the current batch that would benefit from you." He felt a small smile on his lips.