Kryptonian Steel
Insects, unworthy of such attention.
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Sakura Haruno The Gaming Addict, and Her Gamified Life [Naruto]
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Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
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Well, there's a few pretty important aspects here that explain this issue.
1. He didn't figure out she wasn't aiming to be lethal, he is sure she was trying to be lethal. That's actually a pretty important part of the puzzle.
2. Neji, for being a canonical sadistic prick, is still a genius. Like a hard G kind of genius, so any conclusion we can come to, we can assume he could come to given the right situation.
3. Sakura wasn't assigned to this mission out of convenience, her Sensei sent her with such an urgency that Gai overrode Tenten on the issue without argument, meaning whatever she's supposed to learn here is extremely important.
4. Sakura needed to be stopped from severely hurting him, meaning whatever that thing she's supposed to learn is, has nothing to do with combat power. This is actually important specifically to Neji, who categorizes people, and is now finding out his category for her is wrong. He now has to rapidly, as a genius, recategorize her. This means rethinking every thought he's ever had about her, in an instant, because special genius ninja powers.
5. He now very much wants to deescalate the situation.
6. Ninjas are literally taught to solve their problems with violence, so assuming she didn't learn the 'when' part of that isn't exactly far fetched, ninjas probably see this all the fucking time, and Neji knows about the demon sword because Tenten's his teammate and has obviously talked about it.
That 5th part is very important, because it means he could have just said some shit to stop the argument. This becomes very important to Sakura in the coming chapters, and is an anxiety inducing lever.
As for "everyone accept that her loosing it and attacking Neji is normal if they don't know about it"
That's just false.
No one has accepted that that's normal.
And they all know about the sword, a big part of the build up for this arc was Tenten holding her sword and almost killing her parents with it.
If you think they were being a pain in the ass about sleeping while she's awake before, oh boy.
As an added point, Gai didn't knock her out and cart her back to Konoha immediately, so their sensei doesn't find this something worth punishing her for, which has implications Neji can pick up on.
"This was, expected?" is one of the potential implications, as is "Neji needs to know how to deal with caustic teammates."
In either case, someone's being taught something.
I don't mind if you have concerns or complaints, but please don't make your first post in a story thread overtly negative.
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Canon-Side Story: Kizashi and Ino and the DDPF Protocol
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
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- New Mexico, USA
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- YouPick
Another week at $70 or higher, another side story.
This week's was voted on after a difficult 11 second decision by my $10 patrons.
You could get in on that too if you materialized $10.
Enjoy the piece.
"So the first thing you need to know is that my daughter is dumb." Kizashi's the kind of man that makes you a sandwich when you visit his house. He has to make a sandwich, sometimes two, then he checks if you've drank your water, if you're getting enough sleep, have you taken a shower- basically, he's got a shut in and once you're in the habit it's hard to lose it.
Which means Ino is munching on a sandwich, while Kizashi makes her another one. She didn't ask for another one, she didn't ask for the first one, but she has it. He even cut it in half, and he stole the crust. Ino kind of likes the crust, but one does not get crust in the Haruno household, because when Sakura was like five she asked for no crust, and now crust is nowhere to be found.
"That's not true, she's a genius," Ino points out, at least Sakura's okay with a good tomato on her sandwich, Ino enjoys the nice juicy crunch, "but you don't mean actual dumb, do you?"
"Nope, I mean dumb in the way that matters to people like us." Kizashi says, actively cutting off her poor crust from the second sandwich. Does she say anything? No, she'd never say anything. Just like Sakura would never say anything about Inoichi and his awkwardly smothery hugs. You just accept your friends' parents are gonna be weird and doting sometimes. "She can figure out advanced calculations that terrify me, and I know there's always something strange going on behind those eyes. Sakura's never failed to make me proud, but, well, she's an onion."
"She's a what?" Ino's blink catches her off guard, that's just, not a normal thing to say.
"She's an onion. An onion is used in many advanced dishes, and it has tons of layers. It's a complicated culinary tool that goes well in almost everything after the beginner level comforts. I could fit an onion pretty much anywhere in a restaurant menu, and I've never heard anyone complain about a little onion juices mixed in with the meat at dinner. Minced onion goes great in pasta, and you should absolutely throw onion into anything you're slow cooking. But… well, sometimes you're making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the onion is very confused, and it's there but it probably shouldn't be, and it never learned how to fit into peanut butter, and now you have to make an entire sauce just so the onion feels included when really you'd rather it just figure out how to be peanut butter."
"... I uh, think you lost me somewhere." Ino admits, accepting the second sandwich and looking into it. It's a Peanut Butter and Jelly, with, freaking, Onion. "Well uh…" She bites into it, accepting the crunch for what it is. Oh well, Sakura's father's insane.
"That doesn't work, except you kinda wish it did," he explains, "you don't have to eat that."
Ino gives him a little bit of a defiant glare, taking a second bite with a squint that gently twists her sunkissed features.
"I call it the dumb daughter problems first protocol," Kizashi explains, "Sakura's fine when she has time and a difficult problem to figure out, but the moment I need her to stop being an onion, she's gonna figure out how to make an onion work instead. Which means I need to prioritize her, or there'll be a huge problem. Sometimes that means helping her figure that out by providing some melted butter and a nice knife, and sometimes that means telling her she's being dumb and standing firm when she's trying to replace the jelly with more onion."
"Okay but like, when do I support her and when do I stand firm?" Ino asks between stubborn bites, she's not sure what point she's making but she's sure making it, "at what point am I providing too much help and not enough firmness, or stifling her instead of being supportive?"
"You don't," Kizashi nods to himself sagely, "you will have absolutely no idea."
"Isn't that kind of an issue?" Ino asks, "I mean, that's important right?"
"It's more of a feeling, just, you know, try to stay consistent or she'll get confused and then you have to deal with the under the bed monster." He starts on a third sandwich, he's so insistent…
"I hate the under the bed monster, she's so pinchy." Ino wriggles her nose at the thought.
This week's was voted on after a difficult 11 second decision by my $10 patrons.
You could get in on that too if you materialized $10.
Enjoy the piece.
"So the first thing you need to know is that my daughter is dumb." Kizashi's the kind of man that makes you a sandwich when you visit his house. He has to make a sandwich, sometimes two, then he checks if you've drank your water, if you're getting enough sleep, have you taken a shower- basically, he's got a shut in and once you're in the habit it's hard to lose it.
Which means Ino is munching on a sandwich, while Kizashi makes her another one. She didn't ask for another one, she didn't ask for the first one, but she has it. He even cut it in half, and he stole the crust. Ino kind of likes the crust, but one does not get crust in the Haruno household, because when Sakura was like five she asked for no crust, and now crust is nowhere to be found.
"That's not true, she's a genius," Ino points out, at least Sakura's okay with a good tomato on her sandwich, Ino enjoys the nice juicy crunch, "but you don't mean actual dumb, do you?"
"Nope, I mean dumb in the way that matters to people like us." Kizashi says, actively cutting off her poor crust from the second sandwich. Does she say anything? No, she'd never say anything. Just like Sakura would never say anything about Inoichi and his awkwardly smothery hugs. You just accept your friends' parents are gonna be weird and doting sometimes. "She can figure out advanced calculations that terrify me, and I know there's always something strange going on behind those eyes. Sakura's never failed to make me proud, but, well, she's an onion."
"She's a what?" Ino's blink catches her off guard, that's just, not a normal thing to say.
"She's an onion. An onion is used in many advanced dishes, and it has tons of layers. It's a complicated culinary tool that goes well in almost everything after the beginner level comforts. I could fit an onion pretty much anywhere in a restaurant menu, and I've never heard anyone complain about a little onion juices mixed in with the meat at dinner. Minced onion goes great in pasta, and you should absolutely throw onion into anything you're slow cooking. But… well, sometimes you're making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the onion is very confused, and it's there but it probably shouldn't be, and it never learned how to fit into peanut butter, and now you have to make an entire sauce just so the onion feels included when really you'd rather it just figure out how to be peanut butter."
"... I uh, think you lost me somewhere." Ino admits, accepting the second sandwich and looking into it. It's a Peanut Butter and Jelly, with, freaking, Onion. "Well uh…" She bites into it, accepting the crunch for what it is. Oh well, Sakura's father's insane.
"That doesn't work, except you kinda wish it did," he explains, "you don't have to eat that."
Ino gives him a little bit of a defiant glare, taking a second bite with a squint that gently twists her sunkissed features.
"I call it the dumb daughter problems first protocol," Kizashi explains, "Sakura's fine when she has time and a difficult problem to figure out, but the moment I need her to stop being an onion, she's gonna figure out how to make an onion work instead. Which means I need to prioritize her, or there'll be a huge problem. Sometimes that means helping her figure that out by providing some melted butter and a nice knife, and sometimes that means telling her she's being dumb and standing firm when she's trying to replace the jelly with more onion."
"Okay but like, when do I support her and when do I stand firm?" Ino asks between stubborn bites, she's not sure what point she's making but she's sure making it, "at what point am I providing too much help and not enough firmness, or stifling her instead of being supportive?"
"You don't," Kizashi nods to himself sagely, "you will have absolutely no idea."
"Isn't that kind of an issue?" Ino asks, "I mean, that's important right?"
"It's more of a feeling, just, you know, try to stay consistent or she'll get confused and then you have to deal with the under the bed monster." He starts on a third sandwich, he's so insistent…
"I hate the under the bed monster, she's so pinchy." Ino wriggles her nose at the thought.
Hexcalibur
Not So Ordinary Sword
- Location
- Somewhere
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- It
You're not the only confused one Ino.
Cute chapter OP. This fic is rather cute, sad, and fun in different moments because the superpowered ninjas are still clearly tiny people, written as tiny people.
- Location
- France
It's me, I'm the one who complains about a little onion juice. Well not really because I wasn't raised to be rude to someone's cooking but I will in my head. I just don't like onion.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
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- New Mexico, USA
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- YouPick
I fuckin despise onion.
I'm relatively okay with the taste like, mixing from juices or like onion powder, but actual onion? I would have genuinely vomited from the sandwich Ino ate.
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
people have done terrible things to onions...
good stuff too at least
Dopplerdee
Accident Prone(Yes the caps are necessary)
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- Happy Place
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- She/Her
I love the flavor but that texture os so fucking bad.
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- Louisville, GA
Hmm, sounds like he didn't cook it long enough?
Roasted onions are a pretty old thing:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV9spqCzSkQ
It's also possible to get really sweet onions, that are closer to... I'm not sure, Bosc Pears? when eaten raw.
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Guess part of the problem is that the story was originally written for 9-13 year old boys. Would presume a semi-realistic ninja academy graduate would look a lot more like someone who had gone through basic, one or more long AITs, and then Ranger School. Questions like, "uh... what do we do about prisoners?" should have been in the manual they were force to memorize and then tested on.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
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- YouPick
No, for real.
I think a lot of people freak out about what I make happen because they either don't understand 12/13 year olds or forget they're 12/13.
I should start using that as a defense.
"Don't you think Neji was weirdly confrontational?"
Go piss off a 13 year old boy, please... Fuck off XD
Shadow Archon
Protoss Preserver
- Location
- Louisiana
I'm getting some Pa Kent vibes from Sakura's dad here.
Though I think raising this Sakura is way more challenging than raising Clark.
Though I think raising this Sakura is way more challenging than raising Clark.
I have eaten enough raw onion to give my mouth burns before.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
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The only time I had "raw onion" like that was uh, my friend's birthday.
He walked up to me with an onion and was like "Eat this and you don't have to get me a gift" and I was poor so, I did.
Chapter 48 - Arc 4 - Brawling in the Streets: Found a Dungeon
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Chapter 69 - Nice - was pretty action packed today.
Sakura goes Killing again. You know you want it.
Chapter 48 is here, and Sakura's not sure she's happy with this development.
Sakura's head is still pounding from the adrenaline when they decide to go back out. Sharing reports was quick, and Tenten handled them so that Neji and Sakura didn't have to have a conversation so soon. She's sure it'll be fine, he doesn't seem like the type to hold that kind of grudge - weirdly enough - and he promised to look the other way. She's still quite embarrassed about flying off the handle like that, but with a calm mind, she can determine that it probably wasn't the sword that caused her to lose it, even if it didn't help.
Neji hit a button of hers she didn't know she had, she's been so much more vulnerable to other people's feelings since her charm started rising and she hasn't been put in a stressful situation where it mattered yet. Turns out she's empathetic all of a sudden, and that's difficult to deal with for a girl who didn't truly understand others even had feelings just a few months ago. Well, she did, analytically, but it's one thing to know something and another to understand something.
She understands now, and it hurts. She's just lucky it was Neji that set her off and not some poor rookie Genin Inuzuka training with his dog too hard or something.
"Thank you." Tenten's words cut through her thoughts, and drag her back to reality. Her tone is stiff, her body language false and only there in the hopes her dumb ass can't tell the difference. A few weeks ago she might have been fooled, as is, it's a pretty poor thank you, but as sheepish as Sakura feels at being lied to so blatantly she can't help but understand.
This is probably what lying badly looked like. Tenten wants her to understand she appreciates what happened but doesn't know how to communicate that with the understanding that she isn't actually grateful to her. Which makes sense, Sakura probably just made their team dynamic worse, not better. If she wants to make changes she needs to talk to Gai, not attack Neji with a sword in broad daylight.
There's also the part where she cut one of the dead in half, to get the power to punish Neji, for killing said corpse. There's no way Tenten viewed that as a positive. She looked like an axe murderer, and still feels a little like one too since she hasn't had time to get clean.
"Do you think we'll complete this quickly or long term?" Sakura asks.
"It's gonna be a while, Neji's hot-headed but he's too reserved at the same time to make use of his temper productively." Tenten explains. "It's better than him being mad all the time, but without leaning into it, there's no way we can complete this mission quickly."
"I noticed," Sakura admits, "he's clearly grappling with his own motivations. He wants it done, and wants them dead, but he's not willing to give an order like 'hunt them down and kill them all.'"
"I'm kind of happy about that," Tenten admits, "but, maybe that's dumb."
"I don't think it's dumb to be happy that your teammates are people you want to be paired with." Sakura says, "but I also think he needs to choose one. You can't be flippy flopping on something like that, you'll just make both sides angry with you and get little done except arguing. Murders or captures, doing both is just dumb, and I'm pretty sure no one that chooses captures without practical motive is ever getting to Jonin. Maybe Chunin…"
"You're one to talk about picking a path, you just went at him then apologized." Tenten points out.
"I'm twelve." It's her only defense.
She doesn't have many of them, but that's a good one she should use more often.
"Yeah, well…" Tenten's cheeks puff up a little at her reasoning. "I dunno about promotions, Gai doesn't go on killing sprees just because it's more practical, and he's a Jonin."
"Hmm…" She doubts that fact. He's probably just being less violent in front of them because it'd be very hard to train them if they were terrified. The man's goofy attitude has a practical purpose, but then, Kakashi's not killing people all over the place either and he doesn't care about scaring them even a little bit.
Is she wrong?
She needs to talk to Kakashi when they get home. He'll probably have a better answer for her than anything they'll come up with, even if he is a dick.
Their steps take them in circles around the village. It's not particularly large, and it's barren so there's no one to run into or bother. She would love for a brawl to break out in the streets any moment now so she could bleed off some of her anger at Neji and herself - literally - but as is it doesn't seem like the enemy is taking things lightly. There's caution in every breath, and Sakura is becoming very aware, very quickly, that they're not advancing this mission without going inside somewhere.
Which is why her feet take her to the town center. She doesn't plan to charge in, but maybe standing at the enemy hideout - it only makes sense to pick the biggest most important building - will draw some aggro and bring a few to them.
No such luck. She feels a little dumb standing here, waiting for nothing to happen and still being disappointed.
"What in the hell?" Tenten shouts, just as Sakura gets reading. She ignores her, this is more important.
She checks her own party contribution level, and finds she's hit level 23, which means Tenten - by quick math - is 28. Jeez, Tenten appears to be the weak one on the team, which means she started a fight earlier with someone who's like level 30, easily. She's lucky to be alive.
"What the, what are you doing? Why are you not reacting to this?" Tenten hisses. "What the hell?"
"Huh?" Sakura tilts her head at the girl, still doing calculations and pondering just how much work she needs to do to prepare for this dungeon if they decide to tackle it, when Tenten grabs her head by force, and shifts her view to look at the dungeon screen. "What?"
"Are you not seeing this?" Tenten asks, a tremble to her voice making it warble like she's got a little water in her lungs.
"Seeing what exactly?" She tries to look around it, maybe-wait, didn't Sasuke see the screen? "Oh, you can see it."
"Yes I can see the, is that supposed to be news?" Tenten hisses hard, the s sound travels, "Wait just a moment, you've seen this before?"
"Oh boy." Sakura sighs to herself, somewhat long and mournful. It seems like anyone she goes on a mission with might just be shown her game system. Dungeons are just visible. "This is a dungeon, it's a space outside of reality that contains our targets." She'll need to talk to Kakashi about this, maybe the Hokage, action needs to be taken before all of Konoha knows about her. Perhaps they should limit her partners, or only let her go without her team to very close places without much potential exploration?
It's dumb in hindsight, but she'd genuinely thought that Naruto and Sasuke could see the first dungeon's entrance because they were her teammates officially, and her power accepted how much she trusted them. Now she feels stupid, and Tenten knows.
Those rewards are great. She's not completely sure what affection scores really do but she can say with certainty that she needs every point after the crap she pulled earlier. The more this team likes her, the less likely they are to make a big deal about it and put it in the mission report despite what they said.
She's not dumb enough to think Neji won't go back on his word in an instant if she screws up again. He might have been lying in the first place, her charm isn't high enough for her to trust her own instinct that says he won't. He probably just wanted to keep the peace while they are on an actual mission together and didn't want to lose her fighting strength by sending her home right away. But if she can make friends and mingle and make them very much like her, it's possible her actions only get to the Hokage in a private report - of which she's sure everyone will be honest with because lying to the Hokage is really stupid - which would mean that the Hokage would be the only one that knows. If the Hokage is the only one that knows, it means he can deal with it with his own discretion instead of having to worry about what kind of statement forgiving her or being lenient might bring about.
Next there's the mission's completion - which is amazing, obviously - and Gai's promotion recommendation. It's said you only need 3 Jonin recommendations - four if you count your sensei - to promote after the exams are finished, that'd be a third of the promotion before she's even entered the exams. Your own Jonin sensei's recommendation is required, assuming you have a Jonin sensei, but by even sending you to the exams they are recommending you and it's rare that they get rescinded so she can assume she'll already have his.
There's just one problem. Dungeons are rated for three people, there are four people on this team. What even happens if she tries to bring a fourth? And does she want Neji to know about her power? Does she want Lee to know? Does she even want Tenten to know?
"Outside reality? Like inside a sealing scroll?" Tenten asks, musing her from her thoughts in an instant.
"Yes, kind of exactly like that. We'll find our targets, loot, and a challenge inside. Think of it like a living structure trying to answer our mission on its own.
"That's… What the fuck." Tenten says.
"You pulled a Glock, I still think that's the most distressing thing here."
"It was Glock-o-Clock though."
Sakura goes Killing again. You know you want it.
Chapter 48 is here, and Sakura's not sure she's happy with this development.
Sakura's head is still pounding from the adrenaline when they decide to go back out. Sharing reports was quick, and Tenten handled them so that Neji and Sakura didn't have to have a conversation so soon. She's sure it'll be fine, he doesn't seem like the type to hold that kind of grudge - weirdly enough - and he promised to look the other way. She's still quite embarrassed about flying off the handle like that, but with a calm mind, she can determine that it probably wasn't the sword that caused her to lose it, even if it didn't help.
Neji hit a button of hers she didn't know she had, she's been so much more vulnerable to other people's feelings since her charm started rising and she hasn't been put in a stressful situation where it mattered yet. Turns out she's empathetic all of a sudden, and that's difficult to deal with for a girl who didn't truly understand others even had feelings just a few months ago. Well, she did, analytically, but it's one thing to know something and another to understand something.
She understands now, and it hurts. She's just lucky it was Neji that set her off and not some poor rookie Genin Inuzuka training with his dog too hard or something.
"Thank you." Tenten's words cut through her thoughts, and drag her back to reality. Her tone is stiff, her body language false and only there in the hopes her dumb ass can't tell the difference. A few weeks ago she might have been fooled, as is, it's a pretty poor thank you, but as sheepish as Sakura feels at being lied to so blatantly she can't help but understand.
This is probably what lying badly looked like. Tenten wants her to understand she appreciates what happened but doesn't know how to communicate that with the understanding that she isn't actually grateful to her. Which makes sense, Sakura probably just made their team dynamic worse, not better. If she wants to make changes she needs to talk to Gai, not attack Neji with a sword in broad daylight.
There's also the part where she cut one of the dead in half, to get the power to punish Neji, for killing said corpse. There's no way Tenten viewed that as a positive. She looked like an axe murderer, and still feels a little like one too since she hasn't had time to get clean.
"Do you think we'll complete this quickly or long term?" Sakura asks.
"It's gonna be a while, Neji's hot-headed but he's too reserved at the same time to make use of his temper productively." Tenten explains. "It's better than him being mad all the time, but without leaning into it, there's no way we can complete this mission quickly."
"I noticed," Sakura admits, "he's clearly grappling with his own motivations. He wants it done, and wants them dead, but he's not willing to give an order like 'hunt them down and kill them all.'"
"I'm kind of happy about that," Tenten admits, "but, maybe that's dumb."
"I don't think it's dumb to be happy that your teammates are people you want to be paired with." Sakura says, "but I also think he needs to choose one. You can't be flippy flopping on something like that, you'll just make both sides angry with you and get little done except arguing. Murders or captures, doing both is just dumb, and I'm pretty sure no one that chooses captures without practical motive is ever getting to Jonin. Maybe Chunin…"
"You're one to talk about picking a path, you just went at him then apologized." Tenten points out.
"I'm twelve." It's her only defense.
She doesn't have many of them, but that's a good one she should use more often.
"Yeah, well…" Tenten's cheeks puff up a little at her reasoning. "I dunno about promotions, Gai doesn't go on killing sprees just because it's more practical, and he's a Jonin."
"Hmm…" She doubts that fact. He's probably just being less violent in front of them because it'd be very hard to train them if they were terrified. The man's goofy attitude has a practical purpose, but then, Kakashi's not killing people all over the place either and he doesn't care about scaring them even a little bit.
Is she wrong?
She needs to talk to Kakashi when they get home. He'll probably have a better answer for her than anything they'll come up with, even if he is a dick.
Their steps take them in circles around the village. It's not particularly large, and it's barren so there's no one to run into or bother. She would love for a brawl to break out in the streets any moment now so she could bleed off some of her anger at Neji and herself - literally - but as is it doesn't seem like the enemy is taking things lightly. There's caution in every breath, and Sakura is becoming very aware, very quickly, that they're not advancing this mission without going inside somewhere.
Which is why her feet take her to the town center. She doesn't plan to charge in, but maybe standing at the enemy hideout - it only makes sense to pick the biggest most important building - will draw some aggro and bring a few to them.
No such luck. She feels a little dumb standing here, waiting for nothing to happen and still being disappointed.
"What in the hell?" Tenten shouts, just as Sakura gets reading. She ignores her, this is more important.
| Dungeon: Rebel Base, Level 26 Party Level: 17 Warning: Your Party Level is being averaged to a party of 3, but you only have 2 members. You will die if you enter this dungeon. |
She checks her own party contribution level, and finds she's hit level 23, which means Tenten - by quick math - is 28. Jeez, Tenten appears to be the weak one on the team, which means she started a fight earlier with someone who's like level 30, easily. She's lucky to be alive.
"What the, what are you doing? Why are you not reacting to this?" Tenten hisses. "What the hell?"
"Huh?" Sakura tilts her head at the girl, still doing calculations and pondering just how much work she needs to do to prepare for this dungeon if they decide to tackle it, when Tenten grabs her head by force, and shifts her view to look at the dungeon screen. "What?"
"Are you not seeing this?" Tenten asks, a tremble to her voice making it warble like she's got a little water in her lungs.
"Seeing what exactly?" She tries to look around it, maybe-wait, didn't Sasuke see the screen? "Oh, you can see it."
"Yes I can see the, is that supposed to be news?" Tenten hisses hard, the s sound travels, "Wait just a moment, you've seen this before?"
"Oh boy." Sakura sighs to herself, somewhat long and mournful. It seems like anyone she goes on a mission with might just be shown her game system. Dungeons are just visible. "This is a dungeon, it's a space outside of reality that contains our targets." She'll need to talk to Kakashi about this, maybe the Hokage, action needs to be taken before all of Konoha knows about her. Perhaps they should limit her partners, or only let her go without her team to very close places without much potential exploration?
It's dumb in hindsight, but she'd genuinely thought that Naruto and Sasuke could see the first dungeon's entrance because they were her teammates officially, and her power accepted how much she trusted them. Now she feels stupid, and Tenten knows.
| Quest Obtained: Clear the Rebel Base Your party has noticed that no one but academy students are out and about, and determined that the brass of the problem are inside the rebel base dungeon. It's your first time with a One-Shot Dungeon, so be prepared as they are very different. One-Shot Dungeons are self-contained adventures that are normally significantly longer, contain multiple parts, and are more brutal than normal dungeons. Expect to spend several days clearing it. Of course, if you're too scared, starving them out over a few weeks will likely work too. Assuming no one's sneaking them goods, like a ninja. Rebel Base Dungeon Cleared: 0/1 Reward: Mission Completion, +1000 Affection score with Neji Hyuuga, +1000 Affection score with Tenten Higurashi, +1000 Affection score with Lee Rock, Recommendation of Sakura Haruno for Chunin from Maito Gai during grading phase of next Chunin exam |
Those rewards are great. She's not completely sure what affection scores really do but she can say with certainty that she needs every point after the crap she pulled earlier. The more this team likes her, the less likely they are to make a big deal about it and put it in the mission report despite what they said.
She's not dumb enough to think Neji won't go back on his word in an instant if she screws up again. He might have been lying in the first place, her charm isn't high enough for her to trust her own instinct that says he won't. He probably just wanted to keep the peace while they are on an actual mission together and didn't want to lose her fighting strength by sending her home right away. But if she can make friends and mingle and make them very much like her, it's possible her actions only get to the Hokage in a private report - of which she's sure everyone will be honest with because lying to the Hokage is really stupid - which would mean that the Hokage would be the only one that knows. If the Hokage is the only one that knows, it means he can deal with it with his own discretion instead of having to worry about what kind of statement forgiving her or being lenient might bring about.
Next there's the mission's completion - which is amazing, obviously - and Gai's promotion recommendation. It's said you only need 3 Jonin recommendations - four if you count your sensei - to promote after the exams are finished, that'd be a third of the promotion before she's even entered the exams. Your own Jonin sensei's recommendation is required, assuming you have a Jonin sensei, but by even sending you to the exams they are recommending you and it's rare that they get rescinded so she can assume she'll already have his.
There's just one problem. Dungeons are rated for three people, there are four people on this team. What even happens if she tries to bring a fourth? And does she want Neji to know about her power? Does she want Lee to know? Does she even want Tenten to know?
"Outside reality? Like inside a sealing scroll?" Tenten asks, musing her from her thoughts in an instant.
"Yes, kind of exactly like that. We'll find our targets, loot, and a challenge inside. Think of it like a living structure trying to answer our mission on its own.
"That's… What the fuck." Tenten says.
"You pulled a Glock, I still think that's the most distressing thing here."
"It was Glock-o-Clock though."
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
The Glock think is getting odd I admit.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
It's a realization we all have to go through sometime.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Tenten's logic checks out.
Eh, she has known she needed to talk with Kakashi for ages. I doubt this will prompt her to actually do so.
Ah yes, one of the more blatantly dumb parts of the worldbuilding.
Try it and find out.
Shadow Archon
Protoss Preserver
- Location
- Louisiana
Creating lasting bonds of friendship through murder. Equal parts bloody and wholesome!
I hope Tenten gets a gun as a loot drop.
I'm wondering if the party being limited to three members will be like most games with that limit, and the fourth member just disappears and only pops back into existence when you swap them back in. Thats mostly for turn based games, so no idea how it would manifest here if it does.
I hope Tenten gets a gun as a loot drop.
I'm wondering if the party being limited to three members will be like most games with that limit, and the fourth member just disappears and only pops back into existence when you swap them back in. Thats mostly for turn based games, so no idea how it would manifest here if it does.
- Location
- Argentina
I know this got write. In advance, but i really hope tenten and rock lee are the chosen party members, Lee could use some screen time and ten ten could use it too, also power the exp would make it easier for them to catch up to neji, .. that could use the Byakugan to answer the question "what does it look like from the outside" if he van see it, wonderful
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
I too, wish that happened.
Yeah, uh...
Yeah... uhhhhhhh-
It is stupid. I do agree.
I'm still doing it. But I agree it's stupid. I just, there's a lot I want to do with it, to make it less stupid and more fun. And I promised myself I'd do it with all my cool ideas, if I ever wrote a long standing Naruto Fic.
16 year old me won't let me not do it.
"I'm twelve." She is? I thought she was like 16 or something.
"She needs to talk to Kakashi when they get home." So, she's willing to talk to him about this, but not the cursed murder sword he gave her?
"She needs to talk to Kakashi when they get home." So, she's willing to talk to him about this, but not the cursed murder sword he gave her?
Thozmp
Gets my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.
That cursed murder sword is a friend! It's been so helpful to her, sure there was that one time when she got impaled, but that wasn't the sword's fault!
