Interlude: Splicing Threads
Right after information on the Frozen Skein? Skein, threads? Hmmmmmm... Let me air baseless assumptions by the dozen now- or I could read. Reading is good.
She of course had her fair share of miserable experiences at the hands of appalling teachers.
Which is why we need Kagome to have high-level Shadow Clone proficiency. To teach everything.
"My sister said this is a… thing that new senseis sometimes do to haze their students. They show up late to watch the genin freak out, to see if they do something stupid or if they act sensibly under pressure."
Sometimes this constitutes a breach of logic so enormous, people can't believe that Kakashi was actually skilled at anything a few books later.
... under pressure 🎶
After a moment, Minami acquiesced. "Yes, that sounds possible too, Uchiha. Let's search the room."
And thus was born the alliance of the Stinking Cheater (Hyūga-Excluding) Magic Eyeballs, or SCHEME.
After all, if there were pursuit, why give away information about other parties involved?
Mom it's not an anxiety disorder, it's OPSEC
PSYCHO-SENSEI THE ELDER???
The first of you three to step foot on Training Ground 88
See beyond the beyond, underneath the underneath, find what hides behind the hidden - there is no Training Ground 88!
I am the One!
Sasaki frowned, but Minori interrupted. "Do either of you know the location of Training Ground 88?"
They both shook their heads.
Oh I so called it.
It was nice, Minori thought, that even with the streets so crowded, people made room for the ninja.
Yeeeeesh. You'll learn, kid. Mari will learn ya.
saw Minami pointing at a redheaded woman, walking into a green-painted building.
Neither of them are colour-blind it seems. Good to know. The cheating eyeballs are really full of cheat.
In the Academy, Minami had been the queen bee of her own metaphorical hive
I have suspicions that the Minami are secretly the Hornet Summoners.
Those whose primary aim in life was to taste the heel of another's sandal were not particularly equipped to create barbs with lasting harm.
I&S experts would tell you there's nothing wrong with that, though.
Therefore, if their words had hurt, it proved only her own weakness.
Can we get these kids to therapy already 😭
What had her clan head said once, about finding secrets and looking yet deeper?
"Feed Naruto and you'll get a jōnin-sensei"
Many barriers existed to defend the Minami Clan's inner sanctum from attackers, charlatans, and petitioners – they all fell before Minami Samiko.
Sagehovah's Witnesses still slip through however. We don't know how they do that.
Lady Minami was short even for a woman.
She was Mari from the start wasn't she
with a strange armband around one arm
Hmmm...
long, flowing red hair cascaded around her shoulders and reached just below her large bust.
YUP.
"Yes, Gōketsu Mari, a very strong and fearsome jōnin. Both beautiful and competent with a mind-boggling mission record. You should be honored to join her squad."
Girl from
Mist Leaf, very loyal and-
Minori, shame on you for not even recognizing your own mother.
Was this supposed to be Minami, or did Mari actually get a picture of Uchiha Minori's dead mum? The second option is... ouch.
"Drat. Okay, have we actually failed this time? That was a pretty egregious failure, Minori. Your own mother, really?"
Minami glared. "I couldn't recognize her! Surely you know that. I couldn't even think about the fact that she looked totally wrong!"
Oh, I think there is some name switcheroo that went on.
"Should we do something?" said Minami Samiko, breaking the silence. "She's not here yet."
She's Samiko, earlier.
... Unless I got myself confused, which is a likely possibility as well.
The squares around the Tower were even more crowded than the markets on the eastern side of the city near Training Ground 88 and the Gōketsu Compound (if Training Ground 88 even existed, now that Minori considered the possibility).
Hehehehehehe... Mwahahahahaha!
They entered the Tower and waited politely in line for the attention of one of the skinwastes.
OOF. Rude.
Perhaps, with a jōnin-sensei, the three of them would be able to avoid that end and instead engage in truly exciting missions
Hehehe. Dream big kid. Suuuuure you'll avoid the D-ranks as a newly-minted genin.
"Apologies, Miss Minami. I merely wanted to ask: are you talking about Inoue Mari? She has been spotted in the Land of Fire recently."
Snort.
Description: Short female, 20s, hourglass build, long red hair. Extremely physically attractive.
The s stands for something, she's a 20-something year old extremely physically attractive lady.
"So she's a missing-nin?" Sasaki asked.
Tense issue. You didn't ask when that bingo book was from. Devious, devious.
"She really is a missing-nin," said the chūnin. "Don't go on any missions if you think she's targeting you. She's scarier than even Momochi Zabuza. You don't want to mess with her."
I KNEW HE WAS ALIVE. And... a missing-nin, now?
Okay I'm doubting my assumption that this was an insult because that word keeps popping up but I can't find a dictionary so I'm also doubting my grasp on reality and it's getting very meta now
"Make sure you don't ask for ANBU Field Guide 448B. It's very similar to 448A, but accounts for when the cat-and-mouse game has seduction elements that aren't appropriate for new genin like you."
Hahahahaha
Sometimes, they were just under the flickering torches. Sometimes, they were deep in the dark between the torches, barely visible by the way that the torch light reflected off the enameled markings.
The ones that they target you with a genjutsu through the eye-holes of are just in the middle, where you can't really see anything but you're not paying attention because it's not fully dark.
"If we were traveling west the whole time, we may be outside of Leaf by now."
Go west, life is peaceful there, go west, in the open air... Go west, you may find ANBU, go west, a team leader is youuuuu!
Minori felt her heart race. This mask, it was…
Mister Mew is back!
"Me!" the woman said in return, with her mouth full of dango. With her free hand, she pointed at herself.
I'm in love
"Exactly," Gōketsu said. "You got sufficient scores in close-quarters combat, demonstrated adequate ability with thrown weapons, passed an inane written test, and demonstrated control over the Basic Three ninjutsu: Clone, Substitution, and the Dispelling technique. Is any of that wrong?"
No longer the Twin Techniques, but not the Academy Three again yet? Deep lore casually expressed.
One person cannot genjutsu three people
MARI: Being plural helps.
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