"I've found us some special training to do during the month," Katsu voiced, casting a glance back at Neshan.
He'd found his teammate pretty much where he'd expected him to be, pacing outside the Hyuuga girl's hospital room, and looking ready to bite heads off if spoken to. Or at least lop them off with a polearm.
How the former Mist-nin had managed to drag him off, Neshan still couldn't really put a finger on, but the fact was that the two of them were making their way across Konoha's rooftops. A bit unsteadily, since some lingering fatigue from the 3rd Chunin exam stage preliminaries was still present, but they managed to make do.
"I need to start getting ready for Neji," Neshan said, with a deceptive calmness that belied his underlying mood. "Why am I following you, anyway?"
"My inborn charisma?" snerked Katsu, dropping down to street level, and stopping in an alley which held the back-entrance to a small tea-house. The two genin came to a halt opposite one another, at either sides of that entrance. "Or is it you actually want to _do_ something rather than just stewing? If you don't already have an idea how to handle Neji, I'll go out with Yamanaka."
"Alright, I'll give you that much," admitted the once and current Leaf-nin with a sigh. "More stamina building would be the only thing I'd need to be sure I can pull it off."
"We need to unwind, though. The Forest wasn't a cakewalk, neither were the prelims. And I don't think we were very stress free even before that. And that just invites problems to happen."
Neshan's eyebrow went up. "Nenai-kun hit you over the head with that one, didn't he?"
Katsu looked to the side, a little uncomfortably, and nodded. "He was right, though. I need to have my mind _here_ and not on, erm, other concerns. Hence, the 'special training'."
"Alright, so what did you two have in mind?"
Katsu motioned to the back-entrance of the tea house. They went in.
"Katsu-kun!"
Whereupon one was promptly sporting a blonde attachment.
"Care to explain?" asked a now somewhat bemused Neshan. The situation had returned to what it was prior to the Chunin exam's beginning, it seemed, when for some reason or other the currently glomped-on Yamanaka Ino had restrained herself from more eyecatching displays of affection towards Team 7's silent killing specialist in training.
Said boy gave him a pained look and mouthed 'later', then adressing the kunoichi who'd latched onto his left arm. "Is Nenai-kun back yet, Ino-san?"
"He just got back a few minutes ago, actually," the blonde kunoichi replied, making no move to step away.
***
Neshan had been expecting Shikanenai. He could even wrap his head around Katsu trying not to pry Ino from his arm, if he tried hard enough. The fact that Yuuhi Kurenai and Mitarashi Anko were also present, however, was ringing all sorts of alarm bells inside his head.
Sitting around a table in the back room of the tea-house (apparently one that Katsu frequented and knew the owner of), with a scroll in the middle of said table and a few candles flickering around ...
Though Katsu had been as surprised at Anko-sempai's presence as he had been, Neshan noted.
"Right, now that we're all settled, let's get to why we're here," Shikanenai said. "Kurenai-sensei and Anko-sensei were kind enough to let us consult them on the matter, but this training excercise will chiefly be up to us, planning included. We will be simulating the infiltration of an enemy shinobi stronghold, and information gathering therein without alerting the inhabitants ..."
He proceeded to unroll the scroll, which proved to contain a map of a familiar looking compound ... Neshan couldn't quite place it for a moment, then blinked. Then he blinked again, to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
"We've agreed to give this operation the codename 'White Tears of the Sun' to further simulate actual mission conditions ..."
***
*snip to several weeks later, early morning*
There was a twitch. It soon developed into a nervous tick. Then came the grinding of teeth, flaring nostrils, and an angry flush to the face. The latter being nearly totally uncharecteristic of the person sporting it right there and then.
Supernaturally keen eyes scanned the courtyard. The hallways. The walls. Through the walls, taking in as much of the entire compound as they could.
It was everywhere.
There was a moment of near absolute silence.
"I demand to know who did this!!!" Hyuga Hiashi shouted as the breeze picked up, making the lengths of white toilet paper draped all across the Hyuga compound's main courtyard flutter.
---
shortly after the scene Nathan wrote up - of the beginning of the Chunin exam - but before the first exam itself, Katsu told Ino he'd train with her afterwards if she took the exam seriously (meaning not acting like a human octopus every time she saw him).
After the prelims Katsu went to grab Neshan from the hospital (Hinata vs Neji happened), and Nenai went off to get Kurenai - Hinata's Jounin-sensei - who was pretty damn angry with the Hyuga clan there and then, I think, to get another perspective on the matter. Anko tagged along. I do believe both would greet the opportunity to help pull something like this off with open arms.
And Ino's Shintenshin would be useful during the 'operation' so Katsu brough her in for this 'training'.
It is a rather good team-building excercise, isn't it?
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm
He'd found his teammate pretty much where he'd expected him to be, pacing outside the Hyuuga girl's hospital room, and looking ready to bite heads off if spoken to. Or at least lop them off with a polearm.
How the former Mist-nin had managed to drag him off, Neshan still couldn't really put a finger on, but the fact was that the two of them were making their way across Konoha's rooftops. A bit unsteadily, since some lingering fatigue from the 3rd Chunin exam stage preliminaries was still present, but they managed to make do.
"I need to start getting ready for Neji," Neshan said, with a deceptive calmness that belied his underlying mood. "Why am I following you, anyway?"
"My inborn charisma?" snerked Katsu, dropping down to street level, and stopping in an alley which held the back-entrance to a small tea-house. The two genin came to a halt opposite one another, at either sides of that entrance. "Or is it you actually want to _do_ something rather than just stewing? If you don't already have an idea how to handle Neji, I'll go out with Yamanaka."
"Alright, I'll give you that much," admitted the once and current Leaf-nin with a sigh. "More stamina building would be the only thing I'd need to be sure I can pull it off."
"We need to unwind, though. The Forest wasn't a cakewalk, neither were the prelims. And I don't think we were very stress free even before that. And that just invites problems to happen."
Neshan's eyebrow went up. "Nenai-kun hit you over the head with that one, didn't he?"
Katsu looked to the side, a little uncomfortably, and nodded. "He was right, though. I need to have my mind _here_ and not on, erm, other concerns. Hence, the 'special training'."
"Alright, so what did you two have in mind?"
Katsu motioned to the back-entrance of the tea house. They went in.
"Katsu-kun!"
Whereupon one was promptly sporting a blonde attachment.
"Care to explain?" asked a now somewhat bemused Neshan. The situation had returned to what it was prior to the Chunin exam's beginning, it seemed, when for some reason or other the currently glomped-on Yamanaka Ino had restrained herself from more eyecatching displays of affection towards Team 7's silent killing specialist in training.
Said boy gave him a pained look and mouthed 'later', then adressing the kunoichi who'd latched onto his left arm. "Is Nenai-kun back yet, Ino-san?"
"He just got back a few minutes ago, actually," the blonde kunoichi replied, making no move to step away.
***
Neshan had been expecting Shikanenai. He could even wrap his head around Katsu trying not to pry Ino from his arm, if he tried hard enough. The fact that Yuuhi Kurenai and Mitarashi Anko were also present, however, was ringing all sorts of alarm bells inside his head.
Sitting around a table in the back room of the tea-house (apparently one that Katsu frequented and knew the owner of), with a scroll in the middle of said table and a few candles flickering around ...
Though Katsu had been as surprised at Anko-sempai's presence as he had been, Neshan noted.
"Right, now that we're all settled, let's get to why we're here," Shikanenai said. "Kurenai-sensei and Anko-sensei were kind enough to let us consult them on the matter, but this training excercise will chiefly be up to us, planning included. We will be simulating the infiltration of an enemy shinobi stronghold, and information gathering therein without alerting the inhabitants ..."
He proceeded to unroll the scroll, which proved to contain a map of a familiar looking compound ... Neshan couldn't quite place it for a moment, then blinked. Then he blinked again, to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
"We've agreed to give this operation the codename 'White Tears of the Sun' to further simulate actual mission conditions ..."
***
*snip to several weeks later, early morning*
There was a twitch. It soon developed into a nervous tick. Then came the grinding of teeth, flaring nostrils, and an angry flush to the face. The latter being nearly totally uncharecteristic of the person sporting it right there and then.
Supernaturally keen eyes scanned the courtyard. The hallways. The walls. Through the walls, taking in as much of the entire compound as they could.
It was everywhere.
There was a moment of near absolute silence.
"I demand to know who did this!!!" Hyuga Hiashi shouted as the breeze picked up, making the lengths of white toilet paper draped all across the Hyuga compound's main courtyard flutter.
---
shortly after the scene Nathan wrote up - of the beginning of the Chunin exam - but before the first exam itself, Katsu told Ino he'd train with her afterwards if she took the exam seriously (meaning not acting like a human octopus every time she saw him).
After the prelims Katsu went to grab Neshan from the hospital (Hinata vs Neji happened), and Nenai went off to get Kurenai - Hinata's Jounin-sensei - who was pretty damn angry with the Hyuga clan there and then, I think, to get another perspective on the matter. Anko tagged along. I do believe both would greet the opportunity to help pull something like this off with open arms.
And Ino's Shintenshin would be useful during the 'operation' so Katsu brough her in for this 'training'.
It is a rather good team-building excercise, isn't it?
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm