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[Jaina]

OCC: so.. since Kitty here (Akito) has somewhat decided to AFK himself from the board for a month..out of talking to Delphi I decided to move the RP to about.. well two days or some from the last day. I want to have a chance to at least interact with the other characters in this RP and get those introductions out of the way. I think it can be known that Rin, Miko, and Yui passed their little exam i dunno in what way when Kitty returns we can go over that.

It had been a long couple days for the dark haired female ninja, she had endured a grueling first introduction from her instructor and had taken the whole day after just to regain her abilities. The bruises, scraps, and cuts had been the least of Rin's real worries, the mental pain she endured from that little game had been enough to send the ninja into her room to sulk. Up until the "mission" Rin had considered herself to be the absolute best in her class, she scored the highest in the exams and had even managed to be #1 in most of the exercises, but here she was learning that in comparison to her young leader she just a tiny ant that he could just brush away. Now here she was being forced to embrace her weakness and hope to maybe grow strong enough to live up to the name #1 in the class.

She dressed quickly in a purple tank top and a black pair of capris, her Iwagakure headband she tight tightly around her upper arm and headed out the door in hopes of find some more delicious breakfast then the nasty rice and cooked fish that her mom was cooking. She jutted down the street until she came across a small cafe where she ordered herself a cup of green tea and picked at a cup of fresh fruit and a biscuit. Today was the first day since her grueling first day that she would have to meet up with her team, and needless to say the young Uchiha girl was not looking forward to it.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin looked up from the hot green tea he'd been sipping at for the past half an hour. One of the team members from the other day . . . what was her name? Uchiha. Uchiha Rin. Sole child (as far as anyone knew) of the legendary Uchiha Sasuke. Jin had met the man only once during his time as a Mist ANBU and . . . well, he had no wish to risk his life battling the Uchiha. He had not made his presence explicitly known to any save the bubbly one. The Hyuga likely had been aware of his presence, but had not seen him, meaning it was unlikely he would be able to distinguish his aura from that of any of the other ninja on the street. He assumed the bubbly one would have spoken with her teammates about him, though with the dynamic of the group the way it was, that was by no means certain. Jin had, quite frankly, been bored out of his mind for the past couple days. He had been trained to be able to wait for extremely long periods of time, to be patient, but waiting in that fashion always had some set purpose, some goal to be fulfilled. Here, he had nothing to do after morning training save sit around, drink sake, and watch the genin train. This team interested him, especially as it was made solely of girls. Watching them complete the survival examination had been somewhat of a welcome distraction. Perhaps he could speak with the Hyuga about training with them . . . For the moment, however, he resolved to make the acquaintance of the Uchiha girl. He settled back and waited to catch her eye. It did not take her long to notice him, and the third time she looked back at her he motioned her to come to his table.


OOC: I played your character a bit Jaina, hope you don't mind horribly, but 't seemed necessary to keep the flow going for the post. Let me know if you want me to change it and I will.

[Jaina]

OCC: Heey no prob, as long as you don't start making her jump in the air and do somersaults or something it is all good.

IC: Rin had been noticing for some time that man Jin's attention on her. She was used to the occasional eyes in town watching her closely ever since her Mom announced that she was an illegitimate child with the famous Uchiha Sasuke, but this man..well he didn't appear to be some local resident from Iwagakure. Rin finally caught his eye for a second and noticed him motioning over, usually Rin's common sense would have told her this was a bad idea, but the large amount of foreigners that recently entered her village piped up her curiosity a little. She picked up her small cup of fruit and sat herself down across the man and dipped a finger into the small cup and crunched on a grape.

"Umm..Hello." The young girl said her eyes keeping a firm lock on his face to note any changes to his expression that may reveal his intentions towards her.

"Can I help you with anything?" She added wondering why this guy had so much curiosity about her. There was no way that he could recognize her as an Uchiha unless he knew about her from word of mouth from the Village. She was unaware of the fact that she did look a lot like her father and if she was ever to encounter a friend or enemy of Sasuke's most likely it wouldn't be to hard for them to see some sort of family resembles with him.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin looked at her for a moment, his face completely impassive.
"I observed you . . . and your teammates during your graduation exam a couple days ago. It was . . . interesting. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Jin, a Konoha Jonin sent on this mission in an . . . advisory capacity." Few of the Konoha ninja had actually been aware of his presence in the party sent to the Earth village. Jin had traveled in the rear party along with most of the strongest Jonin on the trip. Shikamaru was obviously still afraid of a betrayal. Needless, but understandable. He looked at the girl again and extended his hand. "Pleased to meet you, Miss Uchiha, was it not?"

[Jaina]

Rin blanched at the thought of some guy spying on her during her little exam her leader put her through. It wasn't exactly her most shining moment and she hated the idea that some guy had watched her fail pretty damn miserably. She looked down at her fruit for a moment and looked up again at the mention of her name, the guy had mentioned he was from Konoha that could be really the only reason for his remembrance of her last name. Most likely the guy was going to test her on some sort of validity of her broad statement.

"Umm..yes." She said attempting to control her emotions. Part of her wanted to blush red at this, she had been using her heritage earlier as a tactic against the Hyuuga leader but she hadn't expected to be somewhat "called out" on it.

"I guess interesting is a good word for it, I call it more of cat and mouse game, being as though my team mates and I didn't exactly stand a chance of winning against a bloodline jonin from your village." She stated as she pushed away the cup of fruit.

"Now if you came to tell me I did well in that fight then I am going to know you are just pushing my buttons, I got my ass kicked." She said as she rested her elbows on the wooden table the two of them were sitting at.

[Steel Samurai]

"Did well? . . . 'Well' is highly subjective. For example, should I fight the Hokage, or your father, I would do 'well' to escape with my life. However, should I face one of the Konoha chunin, Konohamaru for example, I would have to be having a very bad day to take more than 15 minutes." He spoke without a hint of arrogance, it was simply the truth, and there was little point in being modest about it. "So, considering your opponent was a high ranking Jonin, a Hyuga no less, and you had only just met your team members, you didn't do that poorly. However," He took a sip of tea "Your teamwork is, at the moment, horrible. You each seem to think more of her own personal glory and benefit than that of the team. The test was designed to force you to work together as a team without worrying about your own needs or wants; to let you think solely about accomplishing the mission. I could tell from watching you that it didn't succeed. You'll need more training there." Jin settled back in his chair and eyed her critically. "Not to mention your physical abilities." He raised his hand before she could open her mouth. "You, and the rest of your team really, are excellent for just coming out of the academy, but you'll need to improve immensely before I would rate you ready to perform a mission with more danger than that of tangling with some escaped chickens. Not that I've got any say in the matter." He took another sip of tea and waited to see what her response would be.

[Jaina]

The Uchiha listened in silence, she was glad of his blunt honesty to her about her ability to work together as a team, she had made a effort and he should acknowledge that. It wasn't of course until the adult ninja dared to mention her lack of strength that Rin showed any sign of emotion in her cold dark eyes. She grinded her teeth together a few times waiting to rebut back at the man.

"...tangling escaped chickens?" She said with obvious annoyance. She pulled herself out of her chair in a huff ready to leave. The girl had really heard just about enough, if she hadn't already been let down at her complete failure against the Hyuuga, here was this man saying that all her last three years had taught her nothing more then how to wrestle a damn chicken.

"Now what the hell gives you the right to come in here and lecture me on something I already knew? You think it wasn't obvious to me that a the start of the GAME that I would have to work with a team in order to stand a chance against a jonin? I know i am weak, but you know I rather consider myself skilled for a genin straight out of the academy. You know how it feels to have everyone in my village watching my every move expecting me to be some god dam GENIUS just because I share half of my blood with some strong bloodline nin from your village?" She said places her hands up in annoyance.

"Well, look at me now I graduate and the best I can do according to you is run and catch some chicken with my bare hands. Wow, way to live up to expectations there, but you know what can the freakin village expect from me? I am not like some of the kids who have parents to teach them techniques, my mom runs a clothing shop and my step father is a carpenter, both are retired. And my real Dad? I haven't even seen as much as a photograph of him." She said and finally pushed in the chair stating with her body languages that she was just about done with her little rant.

"And here you go judging me and calling me weak? I am just a average academy graduate who has one useful jutsu up her sleeve just like everyone else. I may have graduated first in my class but yeah I am weak but I can promise you that I am at least a little more talented then you give me credit for MISTER. If you were trying to make me cry with your acquisitions well I am just going to leave before I give you the glory of that." She said and turned around to leave.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin's expression hardened, his face now deadly serious.
"Have you ever fought one trying to kill you?" His voice was low, but clear. "No matter how good your grades were in the academy, no matter what jutsu your parents did or didn't teach you, there is nothing, nothing that can truly prepare for that moment, the moment when you can't be sure you'll come out alive. Why do you think they don't give genin anything but D-Rank missions until they've undergone months of training? You may think you were hot stuff coming out of the academy, but any genin who's been training for a year or more could defeat you as you are now." He sighed. "Look, I'm not trying to insult you or make you cry, I said that for ninja just out of this academy, you're far from horrible, but you have to realize that going into a battle with too high of an expectation of your own abilities is just as deadly as going in with too low of an expectation of your enemies' abilities. Nothing can ready you for your first serious fight, but with focused training you can at least hope to, if not win, at least escape with your life. Worrying over other's expectations of your abilities is pointless. Train for yourself, for your own sake, so you don't have to live with the regret of a lost teammate and so you can continue living period. Fulfilling the expectations of others won't bring you satisfaction, or content. They'll just keep demanding more and more of you, until eventually you can't give them anything else, and they betray you or cast you aside." Jin drained the last of his tea from his cup, pushed back his chair, and stood up. He spoke again, half to himself. "Why do I even bother? Maybe I just wish there'd been someone to talk to me like this when I was a genin." Jin signaled to the waitress and left a generous tip on the table. "Look, I'm happy to help in your training while I'm here. Don't ask me why, I'm not entirely sure myself . . ." he trailed off, then murmured to himself. "Maybe I'm just bored." He brushed a long strand of white hair out of his face. "I'll be in the training field this afternoon." He paid for his tea and turned to go.

[Delphi]

“Yui-sama? Perhaps you should take a rest. It would be awful if you hurt yourself so soon after graduating.”

The blue haired gennin being chided could barely hear her tutor over the pounding of blood against her eardrums. A fierce shake of her head cleared the sweaty strands of her once immaculately styled hair and served to tell the older woman that she had heard her pleas but would not be listening to her advice.

“No. Again!” Those two words were all she could spit out between heaving breaths and a dull throbbing in her abdomen. The tutor was hesitant to continue with Yui’s impromptu and rather intense training session. Fool.

Her attack had barely been launched when the older woman grabbed her ward’s wrist and pushed her other arm against Yui’s stomach. Failed. Again. The girl slumped into her teacher’s hold who in turn slowly sank to the ground with her student. She held her for a moment to be sure she would not try something so pointless again. Yui was content to stay a moment before struggling from her grip. She did not need to be babied by some woman who wasn’t even blood related.

“I will train on my own then. You’re dismissed,” the Masachika girl regarded her teacher coolly. As expected, her tutor bowed and left.

If she couldn’t have a training partner, she’d practice her aim then. Her gaze fell on what she’d been using for target practice in the courtyard. The same tree she always used, the one her family allowed to deface when she refused to use conventional targets. And yet all her practice had failed her.

An Uchiha. Damn it. One that probably carried that bloodline too. No doubt when the girl was old enough some member of her family would get the idea lure her to marry into the Masachika clan; to replace the resident failure. Bringing a foreigner into the family would be worth it if they carried the blood of a clan so illustrious as the Uchiha.

In the midst of her mental rambling she finally took aim and let her weapons fly.

Then there was the bubbly girl. Was that what it was like to be normal? Not to have to think constantly about how you could be ousted in your family’s favor? So carefree, so easily amused. Yui took a moment to scoff at herself. She was even jealous of that idiot. What was the world coming to?

What did normal girls her age think about? Since she was thrown into the real world of sorts she discovered very quickly that she did not think like other children. Other children didn’t think about clan dynamics. They were more concerned with who was “it” and what “it” meant in tag. They were concerned if the slightly smashed flowers they’d found would be a suitable gift for their mother. Yui never understood such a custom. They lived with their families and saw them every day. Didn’t they already have their approval and affection? Certainly they weren’t like her, who had to earn their respect or lose it entirely.

All thoughts ceased as she was seized by the realization that she was forced to draw a breath and then immediately found herself in a gasping, coughing fit.

Neurotic. Panic attack. Possible mental instability. No physical explanation for it. All things she’d heard tossed about whenever she found herself in this situation and subsequently examined. Though Yui didn’t know what half of it meant, she had a feeling that the panic thing was the closest. Anytime she thought of her family’s approval she wondered…and panicked. What would happen to her if—no when she was finally declared a failure?

[Jaina]

Rin gave the guy a strange look of confusion. 'Why was he lecturing her? She had admitted her weakness and here he was acting like I believed myself capable of a more advanced mission.' Rin thought to herself as she let the guy prattle on and on about stuff that she had already knew.

"Just stop." Rin said holding out her hand hoping that the guy would just shut up. "Did you even listen to HALF of what I said? I didn't say I was capable of some mission against another genin, I just thought it was a bit insulting that you don't even think I am capable of something beyond chicken catching." She said giving him a glare.

"I know my weaknesses, and last thing I want to do is a fight a real ninja in the state I am in. I was never naive enough to think of myself as being strong enough for a real battle yet. I think I am at least capable to fight others of my age and level and I might be able to run away if I damn well tried." She said and then gave him another glare.

"And don't give me some pity invite to train with you, I am not that pathetic to take hand outs." She said and followed him towards the door she had a small mission to do herself.

"Go find some other rookie to take under your wing." she said waving him off.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin shrugged. "The offer was not given out of pity, Uchiha. So be it." Damn. Now he had nothing to do again. Bloody genin. Jin put himself in the Uchiha's place, however, and decided he likely would've done the same. She knew nothing of him besides the village he was from; ninja didn't see a Bingo Book till they were special jonin level, unless pertinent to their mission. Though if she had seen the bingo book she probably would've been even less likely to trust him. No matter.

Jin returned to the small apartment he was staying in and shut the door. He stretched out on the floor and sighed. Surely there was something productive he could do with his time. Maybe write a series of titillating romance novels. No, wait, that had been done already. Required reading for every jonin, for some reason. Jin sighed. He rolled backwards, planting his hands firmly on the wooden floor behind his head, then, in one fluid motion, pushed up, at the same time extending his legs to give him the required momentum to rotate his body in mid air and land on his feet. He jumped out the window. May as well get a decent map of the village in his head while he was here. He wandered for an hour, in circles, around bends, crossing his tracks, gradually venturing further from his starting point. Eventually he passed by a large walled compound. The gate in front said "Masachika." Masachika. The clan of that Yui girl. So she lived there. Interesting. Jin continued walking along the side of the compound. He was about to turn down a side-street when the sound of a kunai or shuriken striking a wooden object sounded in his ears. Not an uncommon sound by any means, but Jin was suddenly curious to know whether it was the Yui girl or not. Having no reason to curb his curiosity, Jin decided to investigate. Boar, dog, rabbit, horse. He held him hand in front of him, palm facing up. The moisture in the air began to gradually coalesce and harden, forming a flawless ice crystal, shaped like a Z with the "tails" being perpendicular to the shaft. A completely ridiculous looking object, but it worked. Jin held it upright and lifted it just high enough that the top "tail" just peeked over the top of the wall. He looked into the lower "tail." It had taken him years to perfect the device, but Jin could now use the natural refraction properties of ice to see over the wall. The same technique also allowed him to form a magnifying glass or binoculars from the moisture around him. The precise chakra control needed to form the lenses was extremely taxing, however, and Jin only used the technique when he had no other options, or, as now, when he was bored. So. It was Yui. She was suddenly wracked with coughing. Jin hesitated over whether to go see if she was alright or no. It was really none of his business, and he could imagine someone being very pissed off with him if they caught him in their compound. Best to leave it for the moment. It was likely not life threatening. To be certain though, he would stay here until it was apparent that she was in no real danger.

[Delphi]

A few more coughs and deep breaths and the stick of a girl in question had finally caught her breath. Whatever it was, she had no reason to make it known to anyone else. It would only be another instance of weakness. Something she did not like to admit. Her time with the target was not over yet either. Once again she took aim, this time with a kunai-

There! A flash of light. The opposite side of the courtyard. Very small and reflective. Metallic? No. An unknown material. Brittle? Possibly. A threat? A spy? Even more possible.

Instead of launching the kunai at her intended target she instead aimed for whatever it was peeking over the wall. If anyone got hurt in the process it served them right for trying to peek into private property. The act of turning her stance and throwing the kunai was completed in one swift, fluid movement. She learned from her earlier embarrassment and made sure the kunai flew with both speed and precision. If it hit would be up to if her skills were on par with whoever her opponent may be. In the mean time, she'd figure out what this person was up to.

"Whoever you are, you better show yourself or flee right now before I call for help!" Yui called to the intruder.

[Steel Samurai]

The ice crystal shattered into a thousand pieces. The girl had keen eyes. The front of the periscope was designed to reflect light rays in such a way that they would not be visible to most. Jin smiled. He leaped to the top of the wall.
"You have keen eyes."

[Delphi]

"And you're apparently very good at stating the blatantly obvious," the blue haired girl spat. She flipped three kunai between her knuckles, taking aim again. "Now get off my wall of I will call for support! You're trespassing on private property and being a peeping tom! What kind of moron are you?!"

[Steel Samurai]

"A keen tongue as well as keen eyes." Jin chuckled. "I heard someone who sounded as though they might need medical aid, but I decided to check first rather than embarrassing myself by offering aid where it is not needed. As," He looked pointedly at her. "It appears you do not. Being the case, I shall be off" He turned to go, but then looked over his shoulder at the girl. "Good work in your exam yesterday, by the way."

[Delphi]

"Yes. You were mistaken. Now go. And if you're trying to screw with my mind, it's not working," The girl continued to spill forth the wrath that had laid dormant until she found a suitable victim. "You won't be getting attention with flattery or your pathetic attempts at catching me off guard. If you've got nothing better to do than spy on gennin then no matter what your skills you're a second rate shinobi! Now get out of my sight!" The girl pointed over the wall, wondering where this idiot had come from.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin simply laughed and hopped down from the fence. He returned to his quarters, where a young Jonin, Genmaru Hideaki by name, was waiting. Despite his relative youth, Genmaru had been chosen to lead the exchange program, and was one of the few who knew of Jin's accompaniment.
"One of the Jonin in charge of an earth Genin team has fallen ill. You're the only one we've got to replace him, and it is vital that there be no delays. Can you . . ."
Jin finished his sentence. ". . . be the temporary leader of the team? Eh. Couldn't hurt. Give me the files on the members."
Genmaru nodded gratefully and handed him the files. "Their first mission is today. You need to meet them at the Earth training ground in an hour." Jin nodded absent mindedly as he looked through the files the jonin had given him. A small smile crept across his lips.

* * *

One Hour Later

Jin leaned against the target in the practice field. Actually, he thought, it needed a couple more words to make it completely accurate. Practice Field of Rocks. Yes. That had a much nicer ring to it. He looked at the sun. They should be here by now . . .

[Jaina]

The female Uchiha was feeling good, she had just the day before yesterday recieved a note about her "leaf nin" leader unexpectedly getting ill, it had filled her with so much joy to hear that she would no longer have to deal with his tyrannical raids of abuse thrown at her. She of course liked to believe that she could throw it back at him just as hard, but well when it came down to it the boy could easily knock the crap out of her without so much as a second thought.

The Uchiha threw on a long black jacket over her colorful attire of lavender shirt and tan skirt and left her house smiling with joy of the prospect of a real instructor who may actually teach then ninjutsu instead of using them as some sort of target practice. Imagine her surprise when she arrived on the scene to find somebody that well almost made her as sick and ill as her previous leader, it was that noisy man who well knew just how to press Rin's buttons.

She scrunched her nose together and quickly placed her arms over her chest in some sort of defensive position. "Oh my god doesn't your country have just ONE GOOD jounin? What do they hate our country so much that they throw you pieces of shit leaders to the Earth Country? I would think they would at least want to give us genin a GOOD impression of your country." she said and flopped down on a rock nearby refusing to even show the man even an ounce of respect.

"God, it almost would be better to remain a genin if my country can't so much as give me a decent leader." The Uchiha mumbled to herself as she went to tracing a design in the dirt with her booted foot.

[Steel Samurai]

Jin chuckled.
"And a good morning to you too, Uchiha." He looked up at the sun for a moment. "Whatever could be keeping your comrades? Being late to your first mission is somewhat bad form." He toyed absent-mindedly with a needle which appeared to grow out of his wrist. "Truth be told I'd much rather be on a proper mission than baby-sitting, but as the choice was between this and sitting in my quarters doing nothing all day again, I couldn't pass up the offer." His eyes glazed over for a moment, and then the needle in his hand was suddenly sent at blistering speed towards Rin's shoulder.
"Heads up."

[Jaina]

Rin looked up in time to see a needle come flying at her. She quickly threw her body to the side in order to dodge the small flying object. The needle flew past her to hit with a clang once it hit the ground. The girl sat back up again and glared hard at the guy with piercing black eyes.

"What the hell was that for?" She spat at him. She brushed at her side and kicked off some dirt that had gathered from her sudden dodging effort.

"If you don't mind I would rather save my energy for the mission and not dodging senbons from some show off jounin." She said with annoyance.

"Those chickens or whatever the fuck weak ass mission this is would sure like me in tip top shape I would assume." She said despising her current situation.