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>>3902269
“You tough enough to handle this?” she asks in a low, dangerous voice. “You’re not afraid, are you? Tough guys like you have a habit of not coming back from this forest.”

She looks like she’s about to go the full creepy distance and lick the blood off Naruto’s cheek, when a Kusagakure genin whose hair that kunai cut approaches her from behind.

Anko quickly draws a second kunai, only to find the Grass ninja returning the first blade with… her tongue. That’s… definitely something.

“I was just returning your kunai,” the genin explains.

“Why thank you, Grass ninja!” Anko responds as she takes the kunai with a facetious grin. “But I have a piece of advice for you, if you don’t wanna die young you shouldn’t stand so close behind me.”

“My apologies,” the genin replies as she… he? As it withdraws its tongue. “But with the sight of fresh blood and your kunai cutting my hair I simply became a bit… excited.”

“I meant you no harm.”

After a moment, Anko chuckles. “Likewise.”

“Seems like everyone here is quick-tempered… must be something in the air. This is gonna be fun!”

Anko walks forward and turns around. “Now then, before we begin I have something to hand out to you all. Just a standard consent form. Before the test all of you are gonna have to read over this form and sign it.”

“What for?” Naruto quizzes her, rubbing his wounded cheek.

“Some of you aren’t gonna come back from this test,” Anko explains rather cheerfully. “So we need to get your consent to that before you can participate. Otherwise… it’d kinda be my responsibility!”

That sends a murmur through the crowd as she passes the forms first to Naruto, who hands them off to another genin.
>2/3

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>>3902273
She begins by describing the terrain. It’s intended to be a survival test in the forest, a circular field ten kilometers in radius with forty-four locked entry gates. There’s a tower in the center of the field that you’ll have to reach with a set of matching scrolls: one marked ‘Heaven’, the other marked ‘Earth’.

The time limit is five days… while one rather overweight genin complains about the lack of food, you’re thoroughly satisfied that a week’s worth of stored food will suffice. Disqualifications are loss of a teammate, failure to get both scrolls in the time allotted, or opening one of the scrolls en route.

Going over the math in your head as she gives her explanation that means the total area is 314 square kilometers with a total density of 0.25 genin per square kilometer of terrain, starting at gates about 1.4 kilometers apart.

Because of the structure of the exam you’re most likely to run into other teams in the first hour or so, since two neighboring teams could conceivably reach one another within five minutes of running, and near the end of the five days when teams with both scrolls will be congregating near the tower at the center of the field.

There’s also Karin to consider. Over an area as wide as this, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to run across her by chance… especially if another team gets to her team first.

You’re not even really listening until she gives you her final piece of advice: “try not to die!”

>Sign the waiver immediately, pick your gate early. You’ll be aiming for the tower in the center.
>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.
>These two scrolls must be slightly different. See if you can tell them apart using your sensory ability.
>Other?

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902269
> ‘44’, twice as bad as if it were just the ‘fourth’ training ground.
Ah, yes, extra death.

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.
try to warn the other ame genin of gaara, they are your countrymen and its only fair

>>3902275
>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.
then
>These two scrolls must be slightly different. See if you can tell them apart using your sensory ability.

>>3902275
>>Sign the waiver, but wait to see which gate Karin’s team picks and start as close as you can.

>>3902275
>These two scrolls must be slightly different. See if you can tell them apart using your sensory ability.

NINJA TIME

>>3902275
You sign the waiver immediately, and even as the other teams disperse to contemplate and discuss you approach the proctor.

“Mitarashi-han, I’ve signed the form,” you explain. “I presume I’m meant to take it over to those chūnin there?”

Mitarashi Anko looks at you appraisingly. “So you’re our single entrant, hm?”

You incline your head politely. “I am, yes. I hope the Leaf didn’t need to go to any trouble on my account.”

“Course not!” she replies with a smirk. “Lord Third decided it was okay, and that was that. But still, it’s a little weird… the last guy to do it was ten years old, so it’s not that weird I guess.”

“That’s insane,” you shake your head, looking over her shoulder at the forest. “I can tell even from here that’s no place for a kid.”

Mitarashi-han shrugs. “Crazy thing was he passed, the little prick.”

The proctor points you to the chūnin, one of whom draws a curtain so that your assigned scroll will be kept secret from the other teams. It’s marked ‘Ten’… a ‘Heaven’ scroll, meaning you’ll be looking for a ‘Chi’ or ‘Earth’ scroll. You tuck it away in your sash, where there’s a nice little hidden pocket for just such an occasion that will keep it entirely out of the way.

Next you take up a position atop a boulder and wait, as to someone as perceptive as Mitarashi-han reveals your strategy. You may not have much of a way to reliably tell the scrolls apart, but you can appraise the various teams as they leave and stalk one that you think you can beat. Or, unbeknownst to her, you can wait until Karin’s team takes their scroll. If they have an Earth scroll it will just be a happy coincidence.
>1/2

>>3902307
It takes a while, but they doeventually go up and get their scroll. That’s when you make your own move.

You pass several teams, including the Sound team on Gate #20, before you sense that Karin’s chakra stops at Gate #25. Gate #24 next to them was already filled when you passed, probably because the leader of Karin’s team wanted to attack the Konoha genin in that slot. Gate #23 was filled by a team from Takigakure that was coming behind you, but Gate #22 is open. That’s the gate you settle on, the closest you can get to Karin’s team to start off.

Now you have to decide on a plan…

>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.
>Avoid contact with the Taki and Konoha teams between you and Karin’s team, start tailing them.
>Head straight for Karin’s team and remove her teammates from the equation.
>Other?

>>3902308
>>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>Head straight for Karin’s team and remove her teammates from the equation.

>>3902308
>>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>>Move to intercept the team on Gate #23. You’ll need a matching scroll to move forward, Karin or no.

>>3902308
>>Head straight for Karin’s team and remove her teammates from the equation.

>>3902308
Regardless of anything else that happens you’re going to need an Earth scroll to match your Heaven scroll to get into that tower, Karin or no Karin. So you should at least investigate the two teams between you and Karin’s team, starting with the Takigakure team on the gate right next to you.

So when a chūnin comes by to unlock the gate for you, your immediate play is to start off on an angle forward and to your left.
>1d6, DC 8
>taking three

Rolled 5 (1d6)

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>>3902335
And by left I mean right, I have no idea what made me say that.

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>>3902335
You sense rather easily that you’ve gotten out ahead of the team from Takigakure after all of five minutes' work, giving you the distinct advantage. You only have a minute or two to set up.

>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.
>Lay some explosive tags as landmines and hide them with genjutsu.
>Lay an obvious fake tripwire to make them stop, then pepper them with poisoned paper shuriken.
>Other?

>>3902349
>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>>3902351
supporting

why fight yourself when you can turn the enemy on eachother

>>3902349
>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>>Lay an obvious fake tripwire to make them stop, then pepper them with poisoned paper shuriken.

>>3902349
>>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>>Try to use a genjutsu to confuse their sense of direction, steer them into the Konoha team that left Gate #24.

>>3902349
>1d6, DC 10
>Taking three rolls

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>>3902370
just a 10 for this, Naori is scary

Rolled 5 (1d6)

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>>3902376
try again mate
its 1d6 in this quest

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>>3902375
It's a subtle genjutsu accessible to genin, and 10 is between Moderate and Hard.
>writing

>>3902370
Thinking quickly, you draw Umekiri Ichimonji and flow yin-nature chakra through its blade… just in case this doesn’t go according to your plan. You make a few seals with your left hand, then complete your technique just in the nick of time.

“Kori Shinchū no Jutsu!”

This technique isn’t particularly powerful, but it is extremely devious. It confuses the targets’ sense of direction, sending them one way when they think they should be heading towards the tower at the center of the training grounds. Your intention is to lead them straight into the team to their own right, the one from Konoha. Then you’ll swoop in and deal with the exhausted winners, doubling your chances of getting the Earth scroll that you need.

This is precisely the sort of thing genjutsu is typically best at, and it works like a charm. Within another twenty minutes you hear the sounds of a confrontation just ahead, quite a bit of clashing metal and shouting. There’s even one small explosion as someone sets off an exploding tag.

You come to a stop overlooking the results of the skirmish.

The three Takigakure genin are bruised and bloodied, but have come out victorious.

“Damn, another Earth scroll!?” the one who seems to be the leader moans. “These punks just wasted our time and stamina… jerks!”

He gives one of the downed Konoha genin a swift kick to relieve some of his stress.

Your own attack catches the genin totally off-guard as they catch their breath from having beaten their previous opponents, the first two don’t even have a chance to dodge your swiftly-summoned cloud of paper shuriken. Gashes open up on their arms and legs, the anesthetic seeping into the wounds in a matter of seconds.

The third genin raises his sword, a straight tantō, to face you. “Where the hell did you come from?”

“Awesome, so you have an Earth scroll!” you greet him cheerfully. “I hit the jackpot with you guys.”

>Summon another few handfuls of your Hachigami-Anken, put him under for a little while and steal his scroll.
>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.
>Use yourself as the distraction, and ‘pull’ the paper shuriken back towards him from behind as a surprise.
>Other?

>>3902402
>>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.
hm, blunt force trauma on the head isn't as effective at putting people under. but sure as shit is pretty satisfying.

>>3902402
>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.

>>3902402
>>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.

>>3902402
>>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.

>>3902402
>>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.

>>3902402
>Use the shuriken as a distraction to get close, crack him over the head with Umekiri’s blunt spine.

>>3902402
>steal both of earth scrolls.

>>3902417
>>3902402
yeah sure, why not

>>3902418
Yep. The extra one can be used as a bargaining chip. Or used for a trap.

>>3902402
>>Use yourself as the distraction, and ‘pull’ the paper shuriken back towards him from behind as a surprise.

>>3902402
>1d6, DC 9
>taking three

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>>3902438
You wait for your opponent to make the first move, slowly and calmly returning Umekiri to its scabbard at your side. The second the tsuba meets the throat of the scabbard with a metallic tic the boy charges you with his tantō raised. That’s when you strike.

In a blinding burst of movement you unseal and release six shuriken, three explosive which go off between the two of you to blind the Taki genin and throw him off balance and three poisoned aimed at his legs and right arm.

All three of the latter hit, and by the time the smoke from the explosions has cleared you’ve begun your counter-charge, drawing Umekiri in one instant and barely managing to reverse its edge midswing. The mune of your sword catches the genin in the back of the head, right where the occipital meets the top of his spine, and sends him crashing to the forest floor.

His teammates have collapsed from the effect of the anesthetic, and so you seal the remnants of the Hachigami-Anken you attacked them with so as to leave no trace.

Then you stoop over the stunned, groaning ‘leader’ of the three Takigakure genin and fish through his backpack for the two scrolls. After quickly determining their authenticity, you smirk.

“Thanks for your hard work, boys!”

That gives you three scrolls: two Earth and one Heaven. You could head straight for the tower at this rate, but instead you have another task out in this forest. You have to decide what to do about Karin.

>Try to cross her path and set up a few paper ‘receivers’ like a net.
>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.
>Get out ahead and cause some explosions, see if you can’t draw them towards you.
>Other?

>>3902458
>>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.
how much time do we have king?

>>3902458
>>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.
we got what we wanted, lets stay aware and do this stealthily

>>3902458
>>Try to cross her path and set up a few paper ‘receivers’ like a net.

>>3902458
>>Try to cross her path and set up a few paper ‘receivers’ like a net.
Kinda worried about being slow about it, but I can understand wanting to be stealthy.

>>3902464
So far it's taken you about half an hour to get your scroll, so you have five days.

>>3902458
>>Try to cross her path and set up a few paper ‘receivers’ like a net.

>>3902464
a little under 5 days left ...

>>3902458
>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.

>>3902470
But doesn't her team abandon her and she gets attacked by a bear? Pretty sure Sasuke saves her, but man crushing on Sauceboy is not something I want to subject her to.

>>3902458
>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.

>>3902470
Did you roll to see what scroll they would have

>>3902458
>>Try to cross her path and set up a few paper ‘receivers’ like a net.

>>3902458
>Take it slow, look for any traces of their passage and track them from behind.

>>3902484
What, the mook teams? No. I randomly rolled yours offscreen and the ones the various teams had were given in a databook. Randomizing all that would have just been a colossal pain in my ass for zero appreciable benefit.

>>3902458
>1d6, DC 9
>taking three

Rolled 1 (1d6)

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>Failure
>SP: 6/6
Use 2 SP to pass?
>Yes
>No

>>3902515
yes

>>3902515
yes

>>3902515
>Yes

>>3902515
YES!
Protect karin's smile!

>>3902515
>Yes
Fuck it yes

>>3902515
>>No

>>3902515
yupp

>>3902521
we have to get her to smile first

>>3902527
we must save the imouto to protect the imouto

>>3902515
Pass.
>SP: 4/6
>writing

>>3902538
Almost as an afterthought you drop some unsealed medical supplies on the Taki genin’s head before leaving.

“Now, be good and share these.”

You strike a path even further, towards where what should be the straight line between Karin’s gate and the tower. You even backtrack a ways just to make sure that you have the best chance of picking up traces of their movement. And luckily you find it: a single strand of brilliantly red hair, similar in shade to your own.

It takes you three hours of what for you is slow progress, and by the time you’re close enough to sense the chakra paper you left with her it’s grown dark in the forest. The sun isn’t down just yet, but the trees cast a heavy shade all around you.

That’s when you hear them.

“Damn that team!” a boy’s voice curses. “Making us waste our chakra like that!”

You creep in closer, finding a position downwind of the team where they’re unlikely to catch any hint of your presence but you can literally see them.

It’s definitely Karin’s team, though one now carries a sword he didn’t have during the first round of the exams. He’s the one to answer his angry teammate.

“Keep your voice down,” he orders. “Besides, that’s why we’ve got her with us, right?”

“Yeah, fair point,” the other boy admits. “But still, pisses me off.”

“You’re the one who got us into that fight, idiot,” the sword-carrying boy scoffs. “Now hurry up.”

“Be a good girl!” the second boy sneers as he reaches out to roll Karin’s sleeve up.

“You’ve already done it twice today!” she protests, pulling her arm away. “It’s dangerous for me to do it too many times in a day!”

“Why should we care?” the boy demands, grabbing her again… this time much more forcefully. “Don’t forget, this is why you’re here! You’re not even a genin, so what gives you the right to mouth off to us?”

“I said no!” Karin shouts, and something strange happens. A golden chain bursts from her back and lashes out at the genin, sending him sprawling. Unfortunately it seems like Karin has a tough time using that technique, as she collapses backwards immediately afterwards.

“Maybe I need to teach you a lesson,” the sword-wielder declares, stepping in and drawing his blade. “We were told to bring you back, but nobody said anything about what condition that had to be in...”

>Interfere with nonlethal but EXTREMELY PREJUDICIAL violence.
>Interfere at full force. These two clearly deserve no quarter from you.
>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.
>Other?

>>3902560
>>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.

>>3902560
>Interfere with nonlethal but EXTREMELY PREJUDICIAL violence.

>>3902560
>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.

>>3902560
Full force

>>3902560
>>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.
if it doesn't work we can still kill those fuckheads

>>3902560
>>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.

>>3902560
>>Interfere at full force. These two clearly deserve no quarter from you.

>>3902560
>>Interfere at full force. These two clearly deserve no quarter from you.
Cold as fuck, but if they're still alive and functional they'll end up at the tower with us eventually in closed-quarters. Hiding Karin like that would be a bitch and a half.

>>3902560
>no quarter

>>3902560
>Torment them with genjutsu until they pass out. Make them think Karin died in an accident.

Okay so why spare the obviously assholes when we said we'd steal Karin?

>>3902560
>genjutsu until they pass out
>then slit their throats

>>3902584
The SOLE IC reason for it, rather than a character-defining decision to avoid killing when possible, would be that Naori knows an ANBU in Kusagakure who she could ask about this down the road.

>>3902560
>1d6, DC 9
>taking three
>SP: 4/6
I'll be taking my planned intermission now. I'll let you know when I'm on my way back.

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>>3902596
Just hope you people have a plan to hide or do something with Karin for the 5 days of the second exam.

>>3902602
>>3902599
>>3902598
yay back to full sp

>>3902608
no, we only get 1 SP, but still good

>>3902596
Back, will start writing soon.
>SP: 5/6

>>3902891
You briefly contemplate killing these two, and silencing them for good. That would be a good step towards making sure that once you get Karin away from them she’s actually ‘free’, rather than living in fear of reprisals. But something strikes you as distinctly wrong about that approach. If you really were going to punish them for what they’ve been a part of death is too easy an escape, and if you were to spare them you’d still need to find a way to account for Karin’s abrupt absence when they report back to their superiors in Kusagakure.

Genjutsu again seems to be the answer.

Drawing Umekiri Ichimonji and forming a few hand seals, you put the two of them under a deep genjutsu. The story you weave for them will both scar them for life andexplain Karin’s disappearance, and it isn’t long before you hear them screaming in horror.

Karin seems shocked that you actually came for her, and it takes her a minute before she’s ready to speak.

“You… came for me?” she asks hesitantly.

You nod. “I said I would, didn’t I?”

“What are you doing to them?”

You draw a kunai and leave a few deep gashes in their arms and shoulders, trying to leave them in parallel sets of three.

“Genjutsu,” you explain as the two genin collapse from their ordeal. “I showed them scenes of a giant bear interrupting your argument and taking you in its jaws. You screamed apologies, and begged them for help, but they were frozen in horror, in their own cowardice. They watched you get torn apart in horrific detail, before they ran, abandoning you to your fate.”

“I see,” she replies, taking a kunai in her own hand. You put your arm between her and the two genin, shaking your head.

“Don’t,” you insist. “They’re not worth the risk.”

“What risk?” she snorts, eyes firmly fixed on the two genin.

“The risk that you’ll come to regret it later,” you clarify. “If that happens, then they’ll never stop hurting you.”

She seems to struggle with it for a few seconds, but eventually puts her kunai away.
>1/2

>>3902925
You breathe a sigh of relief.

“You stood up to them?” you ask.

She nods gently. “I felt you coming.”

“How?”

“Kagura Shingan,” she replies. “A sensory technique unique to the Uzumaki clan… I inherited it from my mom, like that chakra chain I used.”

“So those are both Uzumaki techniques?” you muse, leading her away from her teammates. “I never knew anything about our clan. My mom refused to talk about her ‘past life’, as she called it.”

Karin nods again. “Though I’m terrible at fūinjutsu, so I can’t do the Kongō Fūsa properly. I can just manifest the chains like my mom taught me.”

“So it’s a hiden, not a kekkei genkai?” you realize.

“Yes. The Kagura Shingan is limited to one branch of the Uzumaki, but the Kongō Fūsa can be learned by anyone with a talent for fūinjutsu and the right kind of chakra.”

“So we have a lot to teach each other,” you chuckle. “That’s good.”

After a few minutes, Karin hangs her head. “So… what do we do now?”

>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.
>We should find a place to hole up until morning, to rest and recover. I’ll take first watch.
>We should move slowly. Other teams may have decided to wait until nightfall to make their moves.
>Other?

>>3902944
>>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.

>>3902944
>>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.

>>3902944
>>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.

>>3902944
>We should find a place to hole up until morning, to rest and recover. I’ll take first watch.

>>3902944
>>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.

Time to book it, fuck staying in this forest. Meta-wise cuz Gaara and Orochimaru, IC-wise because holy shit hot showers and real beds are good.

>>3902944
>We should find a place to hole up until morning, to rest and recover. I’ll take first watch.
>Make sure to set up some nasty traps for anyone trying to ambush you.

>>3902944
>>Can you use that Kagura whatever while riding on my back? If so we can reach the tower tonight.

>>3902944
>check what scroll they have

>>3902968
It's irrelevant. Naori has more than one of each and Karin can't finish on her own anyway, they have to finish as a team.

>>3902944
>1d6, DC 8
>taking three
This is for Karin

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>>3902976
>Since this is Karin's perception there's no opportunity to use Naori's SP, nor does she gain SP
>writing

Karin is shiiiiiiit. Abduct a cute boy like Haku.

>>3902987
Haku is deeeeaaaad.

>>3902987
you are a shit, don't diss our new imotou!

even if she fucked up

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>>3902984
“Can you use that Kagura technique while I’m carrying you on my back?” you ask.

Karin nods. “Yes. It’s not difficult.”

“Then please keep your eyes on our way forward,” you insist. “I’ll be running through the night, and it’d be best if we avoided any unnecessary conflict.”

“Aren’t you going to ask about my scroll?” Karin asks.

You shake your head. “I already have mine. Got the second one pretty much immediately.”

It takes you quite a bit longer than you intended at first to make it to the tower. You have to blow up a swarm of giant leeches, behead a giant snake, and dodge a few genin teams along the way, but all of that is remarkably easier with Karin’s guidance. Eventually you reach the tower, well before dawn, and draw your two scrolls from your sash.

“So what happens now?” Karin asks.

You shrug. “No idea. But from here on I’ve decided I’m just going to have to make it up as I go along. It was always going to come to that.”

Karin gulps. “Well… I’m in your care, I guess?”

You undo the clasps holding the scrolls closed, and unfurl them crossing each other. For several seconds they produce smoke, and then there’s a large puff like one of Ajisai’s summoning techniques.

The face which greets you leaves you completely stunned.
>1/2

>>3902998
OH SHIT
SHE CAME TO SEE US! She really does care

>>3902998
She’s dressed differently, in a grey flak jacket like any one of your village’s regular jōnin, and she’s made a few slight changes to her facial features, but you can immediately tell that you’re face to face with none other than Tenshi-sensei.

You rush to offer a bow. “Sensei! I had no idea you’d be here!”

“Of course I would be here,” she replies calmly. “What teacher would not wish to see their student’s growth firsthand?”

“I just figured...” you begin, before thinking better of it. “Yeah, no, nevermind.”

“And who is this?” Tenshi-sensei asks, looking Karin over carefully.

You gesture for Karin to speak for herself, knowing that Tenshi-sensei wouldn’t be sufficiently impressed if you had to speak for her.

“Uzumaki Karin,” Karin bows deeply, “your student kindly offered to help me… escape. From Kusagakure, I mean.”

“She did?”

Tenshi-sensei’s gaze falls back upon you, and so you explain the situation. “Her village has been abusing her for her chakra, which has healing properties. They killed her mom for it, and they’d kill her too.”

“I… guess I just couldn’t stand for that. Is there any way we can help her?”

“Has she asked for our help?” Tenshi-sensei asks you in return, but glances back at Karin.

Karin nods emphatically. “I’d do anything to get away from those bastards who killed my mom!”

Tenshi-sensei inclines her head ever so slightly. “Then I will make arrangements. Your chakra has healing properties, you said?”

Karin nods again.

“Good,” Tenshi-sensei decides. “Then I will recommend you for training as a medical ninja. Perhaps you could serve as the permanent third member for team Ibuki.”

>That’s a great idea, sensei! Her healing and sensory skills would complement them perfectly.
>What should we do in the mean time? Hide her in the tower?
>Ask your Sensei for news. Have any other genin finished yet? What about Shigure?
>Other?

>>3903013
>>Ask your Sensei for news. Have any other genin finished yet? What about Shigure?
is she actually, physically here?
did she hide in the scroll?

>>3903013
>>That’s a great idea, sensei! Her healing and sensory skills would complement them perfectly.
>>What should we do in the mean time? Hide her in the tower?

>>3903013
>>That’s a great idea, sensei! Her healing and sensory skills would complement them perfectly
>>3903015
this too

>>3903015
She came under guise as a jonin sensei, the scrolls summoned her to let her 'team' into the tower.

>>3903013
>>What should we do in the mean time? Hide her in the tower?

>>3903013
>>What should we do in the mean time? Hide her in the tower?

>>3903013
>What should we do in the mean time? Hide her in the tower?
Naori is one of the early finishers, so I doubt there'd be much news about the other teams, except for Shigure's untimely demise.

>>3903013
“So what are we going to do for the next four days?” you ask. “Hide Karin in my room?”

Tenshi-sensei nods. “Precisely that, yes. At least until it comes time for me to escort the genin who will not be advancing back to Amegakure.”

She proceeds to unlock the door to the tower for you, leading you and Karin inside. It’s a much larger building than you thought at first, with plenty of room for as many genin as are likely to finish and then some. Your sensei shows you to your room, which has three beds inside… clearly intended for a team of three.

“My room will be the next one down the hall,” Tenshi-sensei informs you. “I’ll be going back to bed myself. Feel free to do the same, or else feed yourselves. This building is safe, unlike the forest outside.”

“Good night, Sensei,” you bow politely. “I look forward to showing you my skills.”

“And I look forward to seeing them,” she replies before excusing herself.

Karin is obviously exhausted after her ordeal, and practically falls into bed. You actually have to tuck her in, since she’s unconscious as soon as her head hits the pillow.

>Go to sleep yourself.
>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.
>See if any other genin have arrived and are still awake.
>Other?

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.

>>3903067
>>See if any other genin have arrived and are still awake.

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.
foooooood

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.

>>3903067
>>Go get some food, see if there’s a kitchen.
Can we cook a meal for Karin? Gotta show our hospitality. It'd be nice to give her something for when she wakes up, even if it goes cold.

>>3903097
The food Naori has stored away is stored hot.

>>3903067
You decide to look around for a kitchen, see if you can’t secure something to eat that hasn’t been sealed into a scroll. It’d give you something to do to relax. You find the kitchen one floor up…
>1d100, taking the third roll

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3903106

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>3903106

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3903106

>>3903106
And now I need
>1d6, DC 8
>taking three

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>3903119

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>3903119

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>3903119

>>3903119
Inside the kitchen is a team of Konoha genin: one boy in a heavy-looking jacket with sunglasses, a boy with a fur-trimmed hood and a puppy, and a girl with dark hair and featureless white eyes. All three of them look incredibly nervous, and the fact that there’s four of them… plus one jōnin-sensei…

“So you’re the ones who were tracking us!” you realize, sitting down across from the trio who practically leap out of their own skins at the sudden noise.

“What?” the boy with the puppy demands.

“Back when we had to cut into the Land of Fire to stay out of Otogakure,” you explain, “you tracked a group of three shinobi for a while. We were on our way to the Land of Hot Water.”

“I remember!” the pale-eyed girl suddenly exclaims. “It was two of you with your own jōnin-sensei, wasn’t it?”

With a jōnin? You… think maybe you should just let them believe that.

“We meant no harm of course,” you assure them. “Sorry if we caused any issues, but Otogakure is still such an unknown quantity we just couldn’t chance it, you know?”

“Kurenai-sensei suggested something like that,” the second boy admits.

“So you’re the weirdo who’s taking the exams alone?” the boy with the puppy wonders aloud, sizing you up.

“Kiba!” the girl hisses softly.

“We don’t want any more trouble today,” the second boy insists sternly. “Remember?”

‘Kiba’ winces for some reason. “Yeah… yeah, I guess. Sorry, guys.”

>It’s okay. I didn’t take any offense… it IS kind of a weird situation to be fair.
>Be careful who you talk to like that. Not everyone is as understanding as I am.
>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?
>Other?

>>3903135
And I'm totally out of gas, so I'll have to continue tomorrow.

>>3903135
>>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903135
>>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903135
>>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?
>>3903138
thanks for running

>>3903135
>>Be careful who you talk to like that. Not everyone is as understanding as I am.

>>3903135
>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903135
>Be careful who you talk to like that. Not everyone is as understanding as I am.

>>3903135
"says the guy with a dog on his head ..."
>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903135
Funny that they mistook us for a jōnin.

>>3903185
Probably only in comparison of Chakra reserves, Naori has more than the twins for sure

>>3903135
>>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903190
Forget the twins, Naori's chakra reserves are on par with Asuma who has greater reserves than both Kakashi and Kurenai.

>>3903931
Thats some really good Uzumaki genetics.

>>3903135
>What do you mean, ‘more’ trouble? Did something happen in the forest?

>>3903931
HOLY FUCKING SHIT

>>3903975
Gaara and Naruto both have higher chakra reserves without tapping out for the tailed beasts, but as far as genin go that's it. Even Lee has lower stamina (though non-Gate taijutsu is very efficient).

>>3903980
Yeah but don't tailed beast hosts usually have more chakra than normal? And Nart is just straight bullshit with the amount he has.

This is seriously your best quest so far.

>>3903986
Naruto's stamina and chakra are dumb even without Kurama being factored in, to the point where he can use the multi shadow clone technique (which the Second Hokage soft-banned due to having a risk of killing even many jonin by accident) even when Kurama's chakra was sealed by Orochimaru.

That's his own chakra, because Uzumaki fuck yeah.

>>3903135
“Yeah, no, I’m not the one with a dog in my shirt,” you roll your eyes dramatically at the patently ridiculous notion that you’re the ‘weird’ one here. “So… what did you mean, ‘more’ trouble today? Did something happen in the forest?”

All three of the genin wince or cringe, almost in perfect sync like they’d practiced it. They exchange a series of nervous glances, before the girl finally speaks up. “Well, yes...”

“We nearly died,” Kiba clarifies. “Ran into a team of… well, it was a total freakshow.”

“What, like the Sound team?” you ask.

Kiba shakes his head. “That Sand team, the guy with the red hair.”

“What, Gaara?” you frown. “So what’d he do?”

“You know him?” the girl asks, as though surprised the Suna genin didn’t murder you in the street just for fun.

“We’ve run into each other,” you admit. “But I wouldn’t say I know any of them.”

“There was another team from your village,” the boy wearing the sunglasses continues the story. “Led by a big guy, with scars on his face. Almost like yours, but the sutures were cruder.”

“Yeah, I know him,” you nod along. “That’s Shigure. What happened?”

“That sand kid killed all three of ‘em,” Kiba tells you with a shiver. “He didn’t even have to, after the big guy got… I mean, after he got crushed like that, the other two tried to just give him their scroll.”

“Didn’t even slow him down.”

“I can still hear the screaming,” the boy in the sunglasses admits. “It was… terrible.”

>Sounds like Gaara did me a favor. Shigure hates my guts as much as Oboro does, for some reason.
>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.
>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?
>Other?

>>3904178
>>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.
>>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?
i am somewhere between these 2, can't really put it into words

>>3904178
>>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?
we have standards

>>3904178
>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?

>>3904178
>>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?

>>3904178
>>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.

>>3904178
>>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.
>>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?

>>3904178
>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?
>Shigure may have been a dick, but he was still a fellow countryman. While you won't shed tears over his death, that doesn't mean that you're pleased about it.

>>3904178
>>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.
>>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?

>>3904178
>>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.

>>3904178
>It may sound harsh, but Shigure would have done the same to them. So don’t stress too much.
>That’s just gross. Killing happens sometimes, but killing someone who surrendered?

>>3904178
“I know Shigure would’ve killed them without a second thought,” you grumble bitterly, “but to kill opponents who’d already surrendered? That’s just gross.”

You’re forced to recall Raiga, the way he callously slaughtered both sides of a skirmish, and was perfectly willing to kill your team just for witnessing it. But then again, even that twisted bastard had someone he evidently cared about. But Gaara? You don’t know if that’s the case for him as well, and you’re not sure that you’re curious enough to find out.

“Um...” the girl mutters half to herself. “You’re not… mad at us, are you?”

You shake your head. “Sorry, what? I was thinking to myself.”

“I asked if you were… mad at us.”

“That guy was nuts!” Kiba protests, slamming his palm on the cafeteria-style table. “He was about to kill us just for being too close! You can’t expect us to just, what, suicide rush the guy out of nowhere?”

“I never said I blamed you,” you interrupt his tirade.

He blinks awkwardly. “Oh. Okay, sorry.”

You simply shrug. “Too hungry to hold a grudge.”

“You’re not tired?” the girl asks inquisitively.

“Not really,” you admit. “I just need something to eat, maybe a hot shower.”

You find a refrigerator nearby and raid it, finding a few different kinds of fruit and yogurt to eat. Not a bad late-night snack, actually. You pile some stuff into a bowl with some granola and tear into it. Man, nothing works up an appetite like beating the crap out of some genin… evidently.

“No kidding, you were hungry...” Kiba muses. “You eat like that Naruto kid.”

PICK ONE:

>So is there anything to do around here? It’s gonna get super boring otherwise.
>So you see any other teams besides us come in, or are we the only ones?
>Just thank them for the information and head back to your room.
>Perception check

>>3904220
>>Perception check

>>3904220
>>Perception check

>>3904220
>>Perception check
How can I not

>>3904220
>>Perception check

>>3904220
I shall walk headfirst into this mystery box.
>Perception check

>>3904220
>Perception check

>>3904220
>>Perception check

>>3904220
>Perception check
>Make small talk. How about everyone introduces themselves?

>>3904234
>>3904220
Sure this

>>3904220
>So is there anything to do around here? It’s gonna get super boring otherwise.
>So you see any other teams besides us come in, or are we the only ones?
>Perception check

>>3904234
PICK ONE

>>3904220
>Perception check

>>3904220
>1d6, DC11
>Taking three

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>3904252

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>3904252

Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>3904252

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>3904252

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>3904252

>>3904252
>SP: 6/6
Use 2 to pass?
>Yes
>No

>>3904263
Yes

>>3904263
No

>>3904263
>>Yes

>>3904263
>Yes

>>3904263
yes

>>3904263
ye

>>3904263
>Yes

>>3904263
>>No

>>3904263
>>Yes

>>3904263
>SP: 4/6

You hone your sensing technique in on something that’s bothering you, and find that Karin’s chakra is fluctuating.

“Anyway,” you declare abruptly, “I’ve got other things I have to do before I sleep, so I’ll be taking my leave.”

You offer a quick bow as the girl tries to ask for your name, and hustle out of the room and back to the room where you left Karin for the night.

“You okay?” you demand as you burst in through the door. “Something wrong?”

Karin is sitting on her bed, staring at the tiny window. “I sensed the proctor out there, in the forest. She was fighting someone.”

“Fighting?” you repeat blankly. “Mitarashi-han, wasn’t it? Are you sure?”

She turns to you and frowns. “Raishō-senpai, I’m good for two things.”

“Where?” you press.

“Five and a half kilometers,” she informs you. You quickly unseal a compass from your utility pouch, and have Karin give you bearings according to that.

“Wish I’d sealed a radio set in there just to be safe,” you grumble. “But without a team I thought I’d never use it.”

“That was even an option?” Karin shakes her head. “Just how much stuff are you carrying with you anyway?”

“Everything except the kitchen sink,” you tell her. “Or comm gear, because I’m an idiot sometimes.”

Next time, Naori. They may call you crazy for it, but next time you’ll be ready.

>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?
>I’m going. I might be able to help, and I’ll be faster on my own than with an ad-hoc team.
>It’s not our business, and she’s an instructor. Keep an ‘eye’ on her, but I’m sure she’ll be fine.
>Other?

>>3904321
>>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?

>>3904321
>>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?

>>3904321
>>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?
Telling someone is good enough. Fuck going back out there where's no beds or hot showers.

>>3904321
>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?

>>3904321
>>It’s not our business, and she’s an instructor. Keep an ‘eye’ on her, but I’m sure she’ll be fine.

>>3904321
>>I’m going. I might be able to help, and I’ll be faster on my own than with an ad-hoc team.

>>3904321
>>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?

>>3904321
>We should try to inform someone. Do you sense anyone from Konoha within the tower?

>>3904321
“Can you sense anyone from Konoha in the tower?” you ask. “I have no idea how I’d track her down without your help, and we really lucked out the first time getting you in here in the first place.”

Karin nods, focusing her chakra. “Four floors up, feels like there are more… examiners, maybe?”

She trails off slightly. “Hey, where are you going?”

You sprint up the stairs until you can sense the room Karin was talking about, and try the doorknob. It’s obviously locked, and so you start pounding on the door hard enough that it creaks slightly in the frame.

A few seconds later the door flies open. “What!?”

The chūnin who faces you is clearly irritated at having been disturbed, even more so as you push past him into the room to come face to face with a group of Konoha ANBU.

“Awesome!” you declare. “Just who I was hoping to see!”

The ANBU are on their feet, having drawn their swords when you pushed your way into the room.

“Hey, easy!” you shout. “I’m here because I sensed Mitarashi-han being attacked in the forest… five and a half kilometers straight that way.”

Most of the ANBU lower their blades, while the one closest to you keeps his raised. “Are you sure?”

“Positive,” you nod. “If you go now you should be able to lend a hand before one of those giant animals makes things worse for her.”

The ANBU who seems to be the Captain finally sheaths his blade. “Gōrai, Paz, you two on me. Saitō, Yūgao, you remain here. Be on guard.”

“Yes!” comes a chorus of replies as three of the five ANBU leap from a nearby balcony overlooking the forest while two, a heavier-set man with sandy blonde hair behind a falcon-themed mask and a dark-haired woman in a cat-like mask with three stripes remain.

After a few moments, the dark-haired woman approaches you. “Thank you for the intel, Ame-genin… you would be Raishō-kun, correct?”

You bow your head slightly. “You have me at a disadvantage.”

“Yūgao,” the woman replies. “Please return to your quarters for now. Rest assured, we’ll see to Anko-san.”

>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.
>I’ve been meaning to ask… what are we supposed to DO for four full days?
>Forgive me if this seems a bit presumptuous, but would you mind sparring with me tomorrow? If you’re around?
>Other?

>>3904377
>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.

>>3904377
>>I’ve been meaning to ask… what are we supposed to DO for four full days?
"Excuse me asking, but

>>3904377
>>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.

>>3904377
>>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.

>>3904377
>>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.
Obviously we're supposed to just enjoy our vacation for the next 4 days. Be smug about hot showers and warm food when all the other dorks are sleeping in the dirt and eating ration bars.

>>3904377
>>I’ve been meaning to ask… what are we supposed to DO for four full days?

>>3904377
>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.
>I’ve been meaning to ask… what are we supposed to DO for four full days?

>>3904377
>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.

>>3904377
>Yes, ma’am. Glad to help.
>I’ve been meaning to ask… what are we supposed to DO for four full days?

>>3904377
“Glad to help,” you reply cheerfully. “But I have been meaning to ask… what exactly are we supposed to do for the next four days?”

Yūgao’s shoulders droop slightly. “Well, to be honest? You’re supposed to take longer than eight hours to finish the exam. But there’s a library one floor up I can let you into, if you’d like.”

>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)
>I’ll keep it in mind, thanks for the offer.
>What sort of library? Practical, or recreational?
>Other?

>>3904431
I'd like that very much, thank you

>>3904431
>>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

Time for raunchy romance novels!

>>3904431
>>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

>>3904431
>I’d like that very much

>>3904431
>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

>>3904431
>>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

>>3904431
>>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

>>3904431
>I’d like that very much (and Karin probably wouldn’t mind some reading material)

>>3904431
You offer her a smile. “Awesome, I’d really appreciate that!”

Yūgao gives you the key to the library and the next morning you let yourself in, with some requests from Karin… evidently she’s into a trashy but wildly popular romance novel series called ‘Icha-Icha’. Evidently the second book, ‘Icha-Icha Violence’, has been out for a while but she hasn’t had a chance to read it yet. The third book, to be titled ‘Icha-Icha Innocence’ is also supposed to be coming out soon and Karin wants to be caught up when it does. You also snag a textbook on basic medical ninjutsu for her to alternate with as part of your terms for letting her goof off while you’re actually working.

Once those are secured, you ponder what you should spend your time on.

>Find a text about a famous swordsman, or some other kenjutsu-related text.
>Look for a book about fūinjutsu theory to advance your skills with that.
>See if there are any other ninjutsu-related manuals here.
>Other?

>>3904478
>>Look for a book about fūinjutsu theory to advance your skills with that.

>>3904478
>all the books
>ransack the Library

>>3904478
>>Look for a book about fūinjutsu theory to advance your skills with that.
maybe talk a bit with karin, we barely know anything about each other

>>3904478
>Find a text about a famous swordsman, or some other kenjutsu-related text.

>>3904489
>we barely know anything about each other
Partly because it's not a pleasant subject.

>>3904478

>look for books on genjutsu

>>3904478
>>Find a text about a famous swordsman, or some other kenjutsu-related text.
>>3904478

>>3904478
>Look for a book about fūinjutsu theory to advance your skills with that.

>>3904478
>1d100, best of three

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3904511

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>3904511

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3904511

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>3904511

>>3904511
Over the next few days you read pretty far into a book about sealing techniques, inspired by the bizarre sealing formula those scrolls used to summon Tenshi-sensei. It’s impossible for you to do right now since you don’t know how to use the summoning technique yet, but it’s an interesting possibility to summon things through a paper shuriken.

You also read something about the Uzumaki clan, references to the Kongō Fūsa that Karin mentioned to you in the forest. It’s painfully vague, but you get the idea that it’s an intersection between skill at sealing chakra, the manifested chains that are part of the hiden technique, and the unusual properties of the Uzumaki clan’s chakra which allow them to make practical use of an otherwise difficult and extremely taxing technique. Fascinating reading, even more so since you end up convincing Karin to show you that chain technique a few more times, respecting her physical limits of course. It seems to tire her out rather quickly.

As for Karin herself, you slowly learn a little more about her as you go. She’s not a fan of talking about herself, but you do gather that she has very little in the way of formal training or ‘normal’ life experiences. She has no friends in Kusagakure, and even if she did she more likely spent most of her evenings alone in her one-room apartment, whimpering in pain instead of going out. Every time it comes up it reminds you why you went to the trouble of bringing her here.

You do learn two more positive things about her: first is that she enjoys collecting perfumes and incense, which for someone with so little experience shows a remarkable sense of taste and aesthetic appreciation.

The other is the identity of her handler in Kusagakure, which she simply told you is named ‘Zōsui’. It almost sounds like an ANBU codename, but you can’t be sure of course. You file that knowledge away for later.

On the afternoon of the third day, you find yourself approached in the kitchen by the blonde kunoichi from the Sand team.

>Can I help you? (Chilly)
>Can I help you? (Calm)
>Ask her about Shigure.
>Other?

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)
no reason for a cold shoulder

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)
No need to be an ass juuuust yet.

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)

>>3904541
>>Can I help you? (Calm)