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Shirayuki Kaede - Academy Student

Theme: For My Father

LV. 2 | Experience: 44/110 | Hp: 16/16 | Cp: 5/6 | MHp: 24/24

Henge no Jutsu
DC: 13
Cp: -1
Formula: 19 (1d20) + 0 (cha mod) = 19 (success).
Train: 2/5
Rewards: +1 Chakra

A poof, and the girl found herself coughing and wincing from the smoke. Not like the cigarette after smoke her father always reeked of. Still, both were very irritating. Kaede released the seal and looked down at her clothes, and the stains and blemishes had vanished. The girl's happiness expressed themselves in her lips, which faintly twitched. But the heightened surge of emotions flared, and she soon found her chakra flow extinguishing herself. She reverted back to her dirty appearance, just like Cinderella after midnight, much to Kaede's disappointment.

Right... she still had a long ways to go before fully learning and mastering this jutsu. Kaede was tempted to go bother Senju-san for more advice, but the exams would be starting soon. Hrm. Perhaps there was something she could pick up from the course syllabus scroll that would help. Where was the academy scroll...? Oh. She had left it with Miharo-sensei. And she had ditched him at the forest. She had ditched... A sigh. This was probably some sort of divine punishment for her delinquency. She would have to figure this out on her own.

Kaede breathed deeply. Maybe she should try transforming into Senju-san again. It was pointless to transform into herself, when she already was herself... It would be easier to discern the mistakes if she pretended to be someone else. With that goal in mind, Kaede reformed the tiger seal, once again feeling that warm sensation of chakra squirm through her body.

-1 Cp.

Taiju gritted his teeth when the Hyuuga boy called him a Senju. How he hated being called by his clan name. Were these people nothing more than slaves to their clans?

"If you are here for the exams be glad you aren't late. When the others come to me and announce themselves we can get this over with. Until then sit down and wait for a bit alright?"

Taiju really hoped these exams would go by quickly. All he wanted was to one day become a Sennin and leave the village on permanent hiatus. He didn't want to deal with student; he didn't want to deal with the damm village or its god forsaken residents. Seriously, after being fired from a job he loved and being subjected to proctoring Genin exams, what more could possibly curse him?

Rhaim pulled himself up from his cloud gazing at the sound of what appeared to be the procter for the exams. The fact that he was going to begin yelling out about them being late when he, and apparently Tenma, had arrived before him was a bit worrying. That probably meant that this instructor was going to be nothing less of short tempered for the duration of the exams. The boy pushed himself lazily to his feet and walked calmly over to Tenma first, his hands shooved deep into his pockets.

"Well we don't want to be late. Oh and I've got some good news."

Hoping that the girl was actually there to take the exams and not just continue working on her academy lessons, the Nara proceeded on to the instructor. As he came up to him and went onward towards the boy that had introduced himself as a Hyuuga he spoke out to the teacher.

"Nara Rhaim, present."

Hp: 1650 | Cp: 2738 | MHp: 1650

And here she was.

Mused Yokou, as she arrived shortly after Tairu. Somehow, she had managed to slipby the village unnoticed...after all, none of her clansmen would think nor expect that she would've dressed so casually. It was not shabby, but not even formal shinobi garb, simply a casual dark yukata...but, it was uncomfortable, and certainly much more so than the elaborately uncomfortable ceremonial robes, or the heavy many layers of the formal kimono... As strange as it was without the accustomed heavy layers, there was a certain...lightness too, as if a great weight has been lifted.

Ha.

If she had told her Sensei such a thing, though, his voice will twist with childish mockery: clothes were not weights, no no, he would probably say, and ask of her if she truly knew or understand the meaning of "weights"... And then he will either try to attach some insanely impossible 'training' weights - no less than a hundred pounds at the very least, perhaps - that dear, insane Senju.

She arrived about in time to hear Tairu greet the teacher as "Senju".

Yokou stared.

Wait a moment...that person... Suddenly horrified, and filled with grave apprehension, her head slowly - slowly - dared to turn aside and saw...

Kaede.

And she suddenly looked franctic as looking left, right, and back, she scoured for her Sensei. Getlostgetlostgetlostgetlostgetlost, lost lost... Her mind chanted the mantra, hoping it would come true. Of course, naturally, the fates did not favor her, and as he stepped into the clearing...

Rank: Sennin | Position: Council of Elders, Head of Hyuuga Familia
Title: Konoha's Kuruizaki-hime "Madly-Blooming Princess"

Hp: 1210 | Cp: 3250 | MHp: 1200

For the better, or the worse, Zephyr had forgotten to place up his Henge...

"Yuuko is awful!"

He came in grumbling, brushing stray sakura petals from his hair. Crossing his arms, he huffed. "What if a bear came along, with that still-..." His voice trailed off, however, as with Yokou's horrified stare, the Senju lord finally realized something was wrong.

"Eh?" He rubbed at his cheek, tentatively - or at least where Yokou's eyes seemed to be looking. He looked at her, with one eyebrow quirked. "What. Did I get something when I...? ...oh."

Oh.

This was rather not good.

In his rush to leave, he had forgotten to redo that damned Henge - wait, he couldn't, because of that stupid chakra limiter he had no access to chakra!

His palm met his face.

"Well, YuukohavefunI'llbeback!" He said quickly, rushing past Tairu, and in his haste to race off, for the second time in a day, Zephyr nearly bowled over something pink. This time, however, he did not fall. But, When he saw exactly what the obstacle was...

...

And that was when Zephyr decided, life really, really hated him.

Rank: Hokage | Position: Head of Clan, Senju Royal Family
Title: White Tiger of Konoha

Saito's eyes widened as he saw the people. He smiled, his hands in his pockets. He didn't feel he was obligated to saw hi, he felt rather awkward. Everyone here was so important, he was nothing...

^-^

He coughed a bit, looking around, no where really to fit in.

Zephyr ran by.

"Juugo-sensei!!!", he shouted and chased after. He wasn't exactly sure what caused this turnout. The Hokage certainly didn't need to run from anything, however--

It dawned on him.

He just came back, did he forget to change back?

He quickly shut his mouth, hoping no one caught ear of his last obnoxious. "Excuse me.", he softly said, running into Kaede and continued, bowing as he continued to job after Zephyr.

Hp: 1650 | Cp: 2738 | MHp: 1650

But the girl was of less matter.

She suddenly recall damn well who this person was.

Fortunately, Zephyr was far from earshot. Senju Taiju was a little taller than her, yet, she met him with a level gaze, and all the pride and dignity of a clan leader...no, of all the cold grace of one of the most dangerous Sennin and Elders of Konoha's High Council. Her tone was cold, brusque, it held none of the warmth to which she had greeted Tairu before, or Saito even and from here, they could see how she was truly dangerous: the gleam of dislike in her eye and proud posture, as even without only the simple garb of a peasant, she still held the proud grace of a queen.

"I wasn't aware, Senju..." Her face was neutral, her tone was even, but it was cold, and shimmered with dislike: almost soft enough to be a hiss, no honorific, the name left the Sennin's tongue like a stinging wasp. "...that I require your gracious permission." And it was true. Her husband, the Juudaime, who had been a former Kage of this village, and her own position as the head of the medic order. She owed her Sensei, but she owed Senju naught: she owed this insolent brat nothing. Konoha was her home as much as it was his: she could go where she pleased.

If she wished to observe Tairu, then she would do so. His opinion mattered to her about as far as the ground treaded beneath her feet: Yokou may love her Sensei - Zephyr was endearing in his own way - but for the most part, she despised nearly every other Senju she had met... That...infuriating arrogance ran so deeply rooted in that blood!

Even if looks could not kill, the bare spike in her chakra level, though her face was calm, made it hard for a single bated moment for many to even breathe. But remembering the children, she almost grudgingly relented, and the heavy pressure in the air disappeared, dissipating with the heavy morning fog...

Rank: Sennin | Position: Council of Elders, Head of Hyuuga Familia
Title: Konoha's Kuruizaki-hime "Madly-Blooming Princess"