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Test Drive Post!
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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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Sakura | Naruto | Konoha
Some ninja somewhere out there probably knew a better, faster way through a forest than leaping branch-to-treetop, but that person...wasn't her. Unfortunately, the three ninja chasing her were also familiar with the technique, so the only thing between her and those three catching up was her own speed. It was a shame she wasn't a wind-chakra user. Hayame Shirakumo's fleet foot jutsu would have been useful.
But...he wasn't around to help her with that particular jutsu this time. He was busy taking care of the elite two bandit ninja who'd attacked the caravan they'd been assigned to protect. Last she'd seen, Shino and Kiba had teamed up on the five flunkies who'd come along. They were fine, the hidden beetle jutsu, or whatever new vaguely creepy man-beast jutsu Kiba had cooked up would deal with ninja like those easily. All the same, they wouldn't be of any help to her either.
No, these three shinobi were hers to deal with. And she couldn't expect someone else to come and pick up the slack when she'd volunteered for this. A shinobi who couldn't carry their weight on their team was no shinobi, and one who expected their teammates to protect them didn't really deserve to be one.
A branch snapped behind her and she spun in the air. Steel flashed lightning fast, as her blade sliced a line along the branch she'd just kicked off of. The dust and plant fibers that shot up quickly coalesced into a mud-web, and she dropped to the dirt path beneath her. As her knee impacted the dirt, an open hand slammed the ground, sending a wall of rock and dirt thundering up to the tree branch she'd dropped from. Either they'd have to expend time and energy blasting through that dirt wall, or they'd try to follow her path and go right through the sticky-mud web. Either way, their pursuit would be at least somewhat hampered.
She turned around to charge off once more, intent on leading them somewhere her skills would be better used...and found a kunai sunk into her gut. She blinked down in shock at the hand holding the kunai (and the smirking bandit-nin who possessed it), and collapsed into a pile of dirt.
"Earth substitution clone. Sorry." The pink haired chuunin spared the trio of shinobi (who had simply snapped a branch behind her with a kunai to disguise their position) a sympathetic grimace, and--once the three glanced back at her in surprise--clapped her hands together in four quick signs. "Nightmare illusion: Endless drop!"
The three shinobi's eyes went clear as the genjutsu took hold, and one of them managed to scream, before all three collapsed on the ground, temporarily catatonic. As one would be if they suddenly found the earth open up underneath them and started falling into an enormous, bottomless chasm.
...Maybe that was a harsher genjutsu than she needed to use, but they had just tried to stab her with a kunai.
After a few moments of monitoring the chakra flow linked to hers and ensuring they were under, she dropped from the branches to the ground once more, long pink ponytail fluttering out behind her like the ridiculous scarf some shinobi insisted on wearing, and she glanced up at the earth wall and net, debating on whether to release it.
Ultimately...it probably wouldn't hurt to leave it. Just in case.
She turned to start on her way back to the rendezvous point Shirakumo-sensei had dictated, and startled herself once more. "Ah!"
A person on the road ahead?
[OOC: The person may be unrelated to the mission, an ally...or maybe this was just a training session and it's abruptly finished.]
Route 2:
Chuunin weren't expected to jump and race all over the village like genin were, no longer given cat-chasing duties or similar missions...but Sakura often still did. Shirakumo-sensei kept rigorous training schedules for his students, but she still always felt like she had years to make up for in physical training, after spending so much of her Academy life avoiding practice days that would make her a target of ridicule. Exercising her skills in town was better practice than waiting on missions to refine her skills.
Besides that, she'd only been chuunin for a year now. It was hard to adjust in some ways to the way expectations of her differed. Team Shirakumo hadn't taken part in the chuunin race most of the rest of her class participated in. The group they'd called the 'Rookie Nine' had rushed into their chuunin exams almost immediately after graduating, and those that failed to pass that year tried again the next year, or the year after. Hayama Shirakumo would have none of that. She, Shino, and Kiba had taken their exams at fifteen. No one really noticed their exam (except Shino's terrifying bug techniques he used on the Iwa-nin he faced in the finals) but they had passed easily on their first try, and it kept them from wasting any time on failed or repeated exams.
She was glad for better missions and better pay now, and to no longer be called a 'junior' ninja...but sometimes it was hard to remember chuunin weren't expected to use the village as their personal outdoor gym.
She was always careful not to take shortcuts through bedrooms, nor to intentionally land near any windows where secret missions were being handed out or meetings were being convened...but it wasn't her fault if she happened to pass by one she didn't know to avoid. On those days, she liked to consider it a bonus training mission: don't get caught by an angry jounin, kage, ANBU, or other much stronger shinobi than her.
Usually, she tried not to need genjutsu to accomplish such an escape.
She paused on top of the rooftop of some shop she never visited enough to identify without looking at the sign, and frowned down at the village around her. She was just about out of room to go that wasn't entering the Hokage's Office area (a place she often found herself 'stumbling into' secrets she wasn't authorized for) heading west...so the question was...where next instead?
Re: Sakura | Naruto | Konoha
Shisui stepped out of the place with a stick of dango, stepping further enough that turning around and looking up put him in her line of sight. He smiled, then waved. "What are you doing up there? Down here is where all the good stuff is."
It was his way of saying hello, and was an indirect invitation to come join him at tea. If this was Wonderland, then Shisui was the Mad Hatter. Only he didn't wear or make hats...
He was also not that crazy.
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She blinked down at her dark-haired mentor (the one with the smaller sword) before she moved forward and dropped down off of the roof. "As long as you're paying for the good things, Shishou." Ordinarily she'd try to work in his name but...Shisui-Shishou was....ridiculous, and Shishishou sounded like a sneeze. It was also too intimate for a student/teacher bond. She chose not to identify him as 'Uchiha' not because she had anything against the clan, but because it associated him with The Uchiha she'd once put far too much of her self image into and lost.
It wasn't like she was pining after a lost crush anymore, she just didn't like to be reminded of the unpleasantness she'd felt in losing it.
"When did you get back in town?"
...She's reserving judgment on how crazy he is.
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"Of course," he called back, still smiling. Though, to be honest, Shisui would have liked for her to address him by name, but he figured it might feel awkward for her to do so, especially since she made chuunin only not too long ago.
"We'll talk inside." He slipped back into the shop, reserving answers for when she joined him there.
And hey-- what gave away the crazy?
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Although it would be additionally awkward to call him by his first name sans-honorific due to her recent chuunin status and...equally recent introduction to him as a teacher, even years down the road he's likely to find she refuses to call him anything of the sort. Respect is important. Even if said person being respected might not want that form of it.
It's complex, in Sakura's head.
She followed after him silently, but with a curious expression. Was there a reason they couldn't speak while walking? Reading his moods was somewhat difficult, given how different they were from Shirakumo and Shino's. They were deceptively similar to Kiba's, but...also not. That said, she's fairly certain she hasn't been caught accidentally hearing anything, so there should be no reason for him to be giving her privacy for a scolding.
Whatever else he might be thinking of telling her then, she had no idea. Maybe he was just anxious for dango.
...She might not have anything against the Uchiha, but that didn't mean she didn't know the reputation they had in the village, diminishing as it was since Obito Uchiha became the Fifth Hokage.
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A table with a spread of tea and sweets was already laid out, and it looked as though it had recently been occupied, too. Obviously, because it was his table. Located right next to the window and with a great view, he'd spotted her from where he'd sat.
Shisui stood, waiting for her to take her seat. "I got back just this morning. How have you been?" It had been a while; he'd been gone a month.
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She glanced down at the table briefly, before moving to sit across from the seat that appeared to have been occupied last. Obviously...he must have seen her approaching and came out to see her on purpose. Was her pattern predictable enough that he actually knew she'd pause long enough for him to come out and lure her inside? She'd probably...want to do...something about that if so.
"Team Shirakumo received an A rank mission." Despite being composed of chuunin, Hayame's skill as a jounin and the competency of the chuunin under him were such that an A-rank mission for the team itself wasn't completely uncommon. Actually she was a little more excited about her other news. "I was assigned a B-rank escort while you were gone."
Chuunin for a year she might have been, but B ranks were still A Deal for her, even if they weren't...always...a big one.
...Honestly there's very little more else to share in the month. She reached out gingerly to pick up one of the sticks of dango nearest to her. "I've been practicing, too. I can activate the genjutsu almost twice as fast as last time."
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Route 1!
Itachi dropped from the trees when he saw the fight was over. His affiliation was marked plainly enough by his flak vest and headband, he didn't worry about being attacked. That wasn't to say he wasn't ready if he were attacked.
"That was very neatly done," Itachi complimented as he got close enough to speak.
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For a moment, she hesitated when he approached, inspecting him and herself for signs of henge or genjutsu. There wasn't any reason for Shisui to interrupt her mission, but there wasn't any reason for any other Konoha nin to do it either. She didn't think it was unreasonable to be wary, and being cautious around an unknown Uchiha would give her less crap than not identifying her sensei once one or the other was established.
...That said, she didn't feel her chakra disturbed, and she still felt the three bandit-nin's chakra (if it were possible to be genjutsu'd and still maintain a genjutsu on someone else...she didn't know how), so it probably wasn't that. If he were henge, there weren't any obvious errors. That was enough for the moment to discount her sensei interrupting her mission with a surprise training exercise, anyway. (She would not at all put it past him, all the same.)
She glanced back at the incapacitated trio finally, then turned a curious gaze back to the unidentified Uchiha. "...Sorry, I didn't lead these three into your area, did I?" Usually two missions weren't assigned near to each other to avoid crossing things and causing complications for either or both missions...but sometimes such things happened and were unavoidable. Particularly if one or both were covert.
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His tone was cheerful, loud, and from the ground right under her. "You're looking lively today Haruno-san!"
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Which means she chose a bad place to stop, but on the other hand...at least she didn't decide to keep on going into the office zone with him standing right there.
She stared down at him a moment, equally surprised that he was there at all as she was that he was speaking to her (and not in a 'damn it girl, get out of the window while I hand out ANBU assignments!' way, as...sometimes...might happen with at least some officials.). Eventually, she slid down from the rooftop so she could kneel properly without looking...odd. Hokage were known to be more friendly than certain other kage (like the Raikage...) but there was still a certain amount of respect required for dealing with them...and she was still used to being a genin.
"Ah, Lord Hokage! I...thought it would be good to practice on one of my leisure days."
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Surely a Hokage wouldn't be another exception.
"I..um. I hadn't been that way yet. I'll be sure to avoid them going forward though, Lord Hokage." She'd yet to fall through a roof and she'd...yeah, she'd like to keep it that way. "...I didn't expect to see you out here, Lord Hokage." Because wow didn't he spend most of his day drowning in paperwork and ordering around ANBU?
That's the impression she always got from the dismissive way Shirakumo spoke of the position.
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Also, her face remains downturned, but the expression is skeptical. An advantage to looking down is hiding one's expressions. "...The Hokage office district has the Hokage Monument look out, doesn't it?"
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Option 1!
Now that he was finally headed home, however, the sound of another battle was the last thing he wanted to hear -- but it was close enough to the village walls that he heaved a sigh and went to investigate after just a few seconds of debating whether it was worth it.
The sound of a terrified scream broke his vague hope that it was just someone training further out from the village than usual, however, a frown creasing his forehead as he took to the trees to move more quickly. There: a riot of damage through the forest and the lingering trails of earth-natured chakra everywhere. And something familiar about it, something he only placed once he'd skirted the mess of the earth wall and web and landed squarely in the path of the shinobi responsible for it, sword drawn.
The Konoha forehead protector was good enough to start with, but that pink hair was hard to miss.
"You're ... aren't you Sakura?"
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Sasuke Uchiha. She didn't exactly...stalk him like she had when she was a child, or even see him all that often anymore (considering he was on a team full of high-class jounin candidates training under the Hokage and Team Shirakumo was still getting used to being chuunin, they didn't exactly share patrols)...but she still recognized his face readily enough. Probably most people in Konoha would.
She did maybe a little more quickly than some people in Konoha. They were ex-classmates, after all. That said, to say she was surprised was a mild understatement. Although she was near Konoha, it still wasn't that common to encounter uninvolved ninja in a mission. Particularly one she'd actually know. But--it was unlikely in the extreme that it could be Shisui, as he was still on a long-distance mission last she'd heard, and even if he returned today, he would have gone to report to the Hokage, not harass his student.
So. Probably not a henge or genjutsu.
She blinked in surprise, staring at the new Jounin for a few moments both to recover from that surprise and to discreetly check her chakra for disturbances or his image for inconsistencies, before she finally spoke. "I...um...yes?" She'd be surprised he recognized her, except he was clearly a genius, and there weren't really any other pink haired people in the village. (She presumed that her father must have come from some family that moved in to Konoha some time after it was founded, but Kizashi hadn't actually kept track of his family history and had no idea)
"It's...Sasuke Uchiha?" She's quite sure it was, but that seemed the polite response. And it explained her hesitance without needing to skirt around the whole 'secretly being tutored by an Uchiha' issue that...really explained the extended pause she gave before answering.
...Plus pretending to be unsure who he was made her feel less weird and embarrassed about the 'once had an obsessive crush on him' thing.
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"Yeah, I'm Sasuke," he nodded, used to people not always completely sure which Uchiha they had in front of him.
"Did you run into trouble back there?" He tilted his sword back in the direction they'd come from.
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Without anything else to knock her further off-balance, she had to eventually move on from both.
She glanced over her shoulder briefly at the still ensnared bandits, and then back Sasuke (and his sword, which really held her interest more than the neutralized nin behind her). "With bandits like those? Not at all. I just couldn't fight them where they were, the client gets squeamish around battle." No matter how Shirakumo assured them their silks wouldn't get sprayed with blood or body parts they'd been...adamant.
Her sword might not have helped their ideas.
SO SORRY FOR BEING HIDEOUSLY SLOW
He left his hand awkwardly on the hilt of his blade instead, at a loss for a moment before finally coming up with: "I was headed back to the village. Your team is fine?"
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She moved away after Itachi made his presence known, choosing instead to take a break in a tree along the road. But as soon as Itachi cleared off, she announced her own presence. At least she was in her Konoha gear, standard for whenever she was traveling between villages, which would mark her as no enemy at first glance. Whether or not the girl would recognize her as Naruto's mom or Yondaime's wife was another matter.]
That was a pretty impressive genjutsu.
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It was even more unusual that the first would be Uchiha and the second Uzumaki (no other clan in Konoha had hair like that, it's an immediate giveaway). She squinted at the figure who approached, remaining still for the moment.
There were again, no signs of henge or genjutsu, which meant either reality or skill far beyond her own. And if it was reality...this was...Kushina Uzumaki. Wife of the Fourth Hokage, and shinobi who'd been given leave to rebuild Konoha's lost ally country.
...That didn't help her suspicion that this was a trick, honestly, but she wasn't about to disrespect a current world leader who also happened to be the wife of the previous Hokage.
She might ordinarily...bow or something, but that would be ill-advised considering there were three unconscious shinobi behind her and...other shinobi popping up out of the woods everywhere.]
...Ah, Lady Kushina. I'm sorry, I must have led these three too close to the travel seal. [Because that...seemed the only logical answer why she came across multiple uninvolved shinobi.]
holy crap i didn't realize how badly i bungled the... complete lack of html
[In a couple seconds, she's jumped back down on ground level and moving to inspect one of the unconscious shinobi. She crouches down and pulls up one of his eyelids. Hoo boy she really did a number on them... One more young kunoichi that would be a great asset to the village, and a dangerous foe to her enemies.]
He's gonna be out for a while... Are you gonna want a hand dragging these three somewhere or are they staying put until your team catches up?
Pshah. Notifs seem to be slow.
I'd like to move them somewhere, but the client would go into a panic if I brought them back...
[Skittish clients. One would think those would go away after the twitchy cat ladies and sketchy merchants were left behind in the genin-appropriate missions, and that chuunin would have to deal with more...battle-aware people.
Instead, the rich twitchy people paid more money just to assure they had 'high quality' escorts...and sometimes people with actual B-and-A rank missions were weirdly squeamish about actual battle.]
I was thinking of just putting them in an Earth dome until one of the patrol nin might find and deal with them, considering how close we are to Konoha...
there does tend to be a delay sometimes
Mm. That would work, but if they're desperate to get away if they ever wake up... Maybe you could consider dividing them so they can't work together to get out if they wake up before a patrol can retrieve them? What do you think?
[She's very careful with her wording, an attempt at advice with a suggestion. After all, it's not her mission and the girl would know the effects of her own techniques and her enemies better.]