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Knock A Door Run [M/Kazui]Nov 5, 2023 2:24:07 GMT -5
Yamamoto Shosuke
"Its just one thing after another..."
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groupCloud Shinobi
age 17 years old birthday 17/05 rank Chuunin occupation Ops Team 1
Despite the fact it had only been... what, a month? Maybe two?... since their last meeting, it felt like far more had changed in such a small amount of time than could really be considered possible. Though one wouldn't know it from looking at the figure of the man waiting in the woods just outside of the Border Town.

In terms of immediate features, Shosuke looked exactly the same as he did last time - the same overly long brown hair with a few greying strands despite his young age, the same pale skin, the same black sunglasses that sat upon the bridge of his nose. But the more one looked, the more one would be able to tell discrepancies from the first mission that the two had done together.

The first and perhaps most obvious was that Shosuke was not actually wearing the flak armour that he had worn the last time they were together. Indeed, he wasn't wearing any armour at all, instead clad in a simple travelling cloak that concealed the majority of his body, hood left down around his neck. His Kumo headband was concealed on the inside of his cloak, available to present should someone need to see it but otherwise kept from immediate view.

The other thing that was noticeable, though strangers might dismiss it as being relatively normal for Shinobi, was the hilt sitting on his back. A long, slender katana rested over his shoulder, lacking any overt decoration that might make the sword look unique or particularly artistic. No, everything about the sheath and the hilt of the blade made it look like it was entirely built for purpose, not an inch spared for aesthetics.

For now, Sho remained quiet, waiting for the woman that he had been ordered to meet here. Once again, Sho had been ordered to meet her, given the order to help deal with a continuing issue within the Land of Fire. It seemed to be a nasty piece of politique, apparently some minor noble had been kidnapped in an attempt to sabotage relationships between the Land of Fire and its allies. Of course, it was only natural therefore that an ally would be sent with Konoha's own representative, ensuring that no matter what the end of this little mission was there would be an outside observer who would be able to see the truth of the matter for themselves.

Thus, as he waited on the outskirts of the town, cloaked within the lingering shadows of the forest that surrounded the town, the sun beating down overhead. The entire idea of the mission was to catch them by surprise and rescue the family before they could be hurt any further so they couldn't rely on the usual nighttime approach. No, that would have been too obvious, ironically hitting them in the middle of the day kept them further off guard.

After all, what lunatic led a stealth operation in the middle of the day?

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B-Rank Mission: 1/20
Jutsus Used: None
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Knock A Door Run [M/Kazui]Nov 13, 2023 12:55:22 GMT -5
Lady Kazui
The sun will always rise after the storm.
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groupLeaf Shinobi
age 18 years old birthday December 25th rank Jōnin occupation Jōnin Hanchō | Head Commander of Root


Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

Another day, another mission, another problem that needed to be handled within the land of fire. Some would say overworked surely, but Kazui herself considered taking matters into her own hands. Realizing that if she wished to see Hi no Kuni in a better place, then she’d need to do a lot of the heavy lifting herself rather than depending on village officials to step up and spearhead the issues within the Konoha itself. A sigh escaped her breath as her legs slowly carried her to the outskirts of border town - slowly but steadily.

A similar cloak was worn over her physique as the girl walked with her head high, sword at the small of her back, her typical Uchiha garments worn beneath. Upon meeting Shosuke for the second time, the girl noticed that he was wearing a cloak and carried a sword as well. Gently smiling at the Kumo, Kazui placed her hand beneath her chin, index and thumb both caressed her face as she looked the boy up and down. "You never struck me as a kenjutsu user..” The Ravenette pointed out the obvious, poking light fun at Shosuke as she approached him and ultimately walked past him. A single hand gently lifted as if the girl was raising her hand in question. Instead, she gestured for Shosuke to follow along.

"Come come..let’s get things started. We can chat along the way.” The girl voiced. "This family isn’t going to rescue themselves..” If Shosuke paid close attention then he would see that Kazui was a bit more talkative and open to talking outside of mission related topics unlike their last meeting. With a fan in grasp, Kazui shielded her eyes from the sun, yet despite the brightness of the star, the wind and air around them in general was much more chilling as a breeze rushed over the area.

As she continued forward however, she’d look back over her shoulder to face the chunin. "So .. what pushed you to switch things up so suddenly?” Her tone was soft yet bland, but Kazui was one hundred percent intrigued nonetheless.




Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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Knock A Door Run [M/Kazui]Nov 13, 2023 18:25:37 GMT -5
Yamamoto Shosuke
"Its just one thing after another..."
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groupCloud Shinobi
age 17 years old birthday 17/05 rank Chuunin occupation Ops Team 1
Wanting to work to make the village a better place was a motivation that Shosuke could understand on a deeply personal level. When he had first left the Academy, he had joined the hospital because he wanted to help make the village a better place and to save lives.

Hell, even when he had relisted with the Shinobi corps, the motivation had been much the same - he had wanted to save other people, to stop people from needing to use the hospital in the first place. It was a little more of a down-to-earth pragmatic method of "improving the village" than her loftier ambitions, but he certainly wouldn't have faulted her for dreaming big as long as she was able to put up or shut up.

Not that that was a relevant conversation for now. Instead, as she approached, the first thing that she mentioned was how she hadn't taken him for a kenjutsu user. He turned to glance at her, shooting her a short smile before shrugging a little. "Me neither if I'm being honest, but I'm just following in my mentor's footsteps."

Whilst it wasn't technically untrue, he was indeed learning under some quite talented swordsmen in their own right, the truth was far more simple - Bearing an almost unique release, Sho needed something to fight with that wouldn't risk immediately exposing his identity.

It wasn't like the Senju in Konoha, he was the only person in Kumo capable of wielding Wood Release and so if someone saw a Kumo-nin fighting with wood one could immediately trace it back to him. Not a problem in his operations team duties but as a potential member of the Black Ops division? Well, it was dangerous to be recognizable.

Either way, he nodded silently and followed after Kazui as she headed into the village proper. As they walked towards the village, Sho was already working on feeling out the space around them, using his tremor-sense to scout the nearby houses. 

It felt a little invasive, looking inside other people's houses like this. It was something that he'd always had the ability to do from the moment his tremor-sense unlocked, but he didn't enjoy the idea of prying into other people's personal space. He wondered how Eri and other Yamamotos dealt with it during their awkward teenage phases when they could see all sorts of dirty secrets just by walking near places. 

As they walked, he was already reaching out, looking through every building they came near to see if there was any strangeness, any signs of the kidnapped family or anything that might give away an association with the kidnappers. 

"What about you. Kazui? You seem..." There was a momentary pause as if Sho was carefully choosing his words. "... chipper today. Was last time an off-day or have I done something to make you happy?" 

So far, there was nothing, but they were only at the edge of the village. They would find them, it only required them to walk about a bit more, he was certain of it. 

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B-Rank Mission: 3/20
Jutsus Used: None
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Knock A Door Run [M/Kazui]Dec 18, 2023 16:33:43 GMT -5
Lady Kazui
The sun will always rise after the storm.
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groupLeaf Shinobi
age 18 years old birthday December 25th rank Jōnin occupation Jōnin Hanchō | Head Commander of Root


Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

Following in his mentor’s footsteps? She could relate even though she and her mentor didn’t see eye to eye at all times. There were still lessons that she learned from the Senju that she still carried around with her to this day. "Hmm that makes a lot of sense…more sensible than the idea that I may have inspired you a bit in our last mission.” The Uchiha joked as she shrugged her shoulders and continued forward ahead of the Kumo shinobi. "Who is your mentor? If you don’t mind me asking?” Curiosity had gotten the best of her, though she was sure that she would know of the shinobi mentioned if they were actually worth their weight. What intrigued her most however was the fact that Shosuke was leaving out certain details. Nevertheless, the kunoichi continued on.

Her main priority remained on the missing family, so despite the small talk that the two were partaking in, Kazui herself remained focused as her sensory stretched far and wide across the land - hoping to catch wind of something, anything that felt out of place or simply felt off in general. For now there was nothing of merit, however the Uchiha was sure that the further the two delved into the case - the more information they would uncover. But as for now..

"Hmm oh?” The girl hummed, placing a hand gently beneath her chin, her gaze drifting up towards the clouds as she continued to prance about backwards as she gave the boy her attention. "Chipper, huh? Is there something wrong with that?” She asked jokingly before spinning on her heels and continuing to walk ahead - fanning herself gently before continuing.

"Besides there’s no point in me being so anti when I have to work so closely with others.” A sigh of defeat escaped her breath, she was only being half truthful with the kumo shinobi and the girl was aware that if she wanted to truly step out of the darkness that casted shadows over her life, then she would need to open herself up to the light. "And maybe I just wanted to make a new friend.. or two.” Kazui added on somewhat nervously. Being on her own for the better half of a year often caused the young woman’s heart to yearn out for more genuine connections. Loneliness opened her eyes to the lack of companions she had due to the closed off nature that she had adopted many years ago. Kazui was aware that the way she had been living recently was actually the furthest thing from truly living at all.




Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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Knock A Door Run [M/Kazui]Dec 28, 2023 14:47:46 GMT -5
Yamamoto Shosuke
"Its just one thing after another..."
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groupCloud Shinobi
age 17 years old birthday 17/05 rank Chuunin occupation Ops Team 1
As Kazui spoke, there was a momentary look of genuine confusion on Sho's face, though he quickly tried to hide it at risk of looking foolish in front of his senior. The way she said that, she made it almost seem as if she had expected that it had come from her, as if she thought she had an outsized impact on someone she had only met once.

It was true that Kazui was a very impressive Shinobi and that she had made a good showing on their last shared outing, but the idea that she would have influenced him permanently in some way was almost a little laughable. After all, they had only worked together for... what, an hour? It was a strange thing to expect, though he wouldn't be so bold as to say that out loud. After all, Sho still had his manners.

"You probably don't know him." Sho said, matter-of-factly, although the truth was that he wasn't entirely sure that was true. More alarmingly, before Sho had studied under the man's wing, he had assumed he was just a boring member of the War Council, with a relatively clean slate as far as Black Ops went. To announce him as his mentor in this situation of all situations was to risk marring his "good name". He could come up with a false one but honestly that was just about as believable as simply stating that she didn't know him.

After all, it wasn't like he knew everyone from Konoha.

The pair walked through the town, though their senses wandered further afield as they moved. Both were aware of the others abilities of sensing, though neither knew the true limits or capabilities of the others' skills. They simply had to trust in the other one and allow that faith to guide their actions.

"I guess not," Sho admitted, folding rather easily beneath the slightest bit of pressure from her side. "Though it's rather notable just how different you seem from last time. Especially considering one could argue this little job of ours is a lot more serious than the last one."

Their last role had essentially been exterminators, wiping out a threat to the nearby villages. It was serious in its own way but nobody's life was immediately in peril. Now though, a wrong move or an overly suspicious person and there were children's lives at risk, not to mention their innocent mother. One would have had to be blind not to recognise which was the more stressful duty.

However, it was as she mentioned the idea of them becoming friends that Sho had to physically stop himself from pausing. The truth was, Sho had precious few of those - Sure, he had Atagi and Yusei and Rui, though he had not seen Rui in quite some time. But that was a small amount compared to many, and considering the sheer gap in their experience one might have found such a bond to be a strange one, perhaps even an unearned one. That she was willing to say such openly... well it was flattering in of itself.

"Well, it's... appreciated?" Sho said, trying to keep his tone pleasant and sweet despite his uncertainty in how to handle the situation. "Though perhaps focusing on the task at hand rather than making friendship bracelets is for the best. Hard to make heartwarming memories with a knife against the throat."

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B-Rank Mission: 5/20
Jutsus Used: None

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