Quote:That would be quite possible - one of my bigger weaknesses is my poor situational awareness, and, while N.'s training compensates for most of that, his ability to pick up sneakers is still... sub-par.
Ah, well, maybe something can be worked out with Nathan, a subordinate in charge of day-to-day affairs and overstepped his bounds, or something.
So having one of the other Specials or a vacationing Elite cover security would make sense, especially since it frees him up to take care of more of the administration work and/or wrestling with politics. (of which more in the other thread anon)
...now that I think about it, the actual Archive building and access there-to wouldn't be his job anyway. The division as a whole would have to have at least three major internal branches to cover its full mandate - the Academy, the Archives proper, and an Analysis group. (the other divisions would process things within their own purviews in-house, but also pass the raw data on to the full-time data-handlers in Analysis)
So, while Neshan wouldn't have the day-to-day contact with the entrance desk to determine exactly who gets access, he could and likely would set the rules that govern those decisions - and under which, Naruto would have exactly the same access rights as any other Genin, no more, no less.
OTOH, in TXY, Neshan is just a relatively young Jounin who's gotten as far as he has on the basis of wits and sheer drive - he has no particular reason to notice Naruto, for better or worse.
Regarding the building's security... N. is probably career second-line, but might well have come up through the Analysis branch rather than the Archives - either way, he's only held his current position for less than a year and has had a lot on his plate, especially since his main priority has been trying to improve the quality of the Academy... So, most of the procedures in place are going to be inherited from his predecessor.
Anyway, the building also has an intrinsic security system with extremely heavy, and dangerous wards that'll ground out some serious pain to anyone who tries to cross them - which you have to, to get at the scrolls - who isn't wearing an authorization token... which are watched and protected very closely. The building's external wards are even heavier, since they're designed not so much to be impossible to slip through as impossible to smash - Kyuubi tried and failed, to give you an idea - and they're set up to fry anyone who tries to slip a token out of the building.
There are probably ways to defeat the system, but all the ones I can think of would take a detailed knowledge of its workings, enough expertise in sealing to alter the wards without triggering them, and time to work on the problem - or a cooperative Jinchuuriki or Jounin or twelve and an environment safe enough for them to recover in after they burn through their entire chakra reserve brute-forcing their way in.
(The wards don't have a self-destruct function - there'd be a chance of its being triggered when it shouldn't, and a false positive would cost Konoha pretty much its entire institutional memory.)
None of which means that the guards on the ground wouldn't be as sloppy as that, or that they'd have any excuse for being that way - just that getting inside the outer wards the way Shikanenai just did is only the first of a series of very difficult steps.
Ja, -n
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