Suki pulled up short having already leaped into a nearby tree and begun searching when Ginza made his announcement of not participating. Suki gave a sigh, and headed back to where everyone else was gathered. If Ginza was not participating she need not worry about him refusing to work as a team. Now, with only Suki and Hatako, both of whom wanted to do this together, there was no point to rushing this. That hand after all, been the point. Now that there was no competition… What was the point of speeding off? ”Sorry about that Hatako, I was worried that Ginza might object to working together… And Kenta-sama had indicated even if subtle, that the time has already started… So it made sense to me to hustle just in case. But with no competition, there is no reason to not communicate.” Suki said this and say down, looking half expectantly at Hatako. Suki had already planned for a team thing...so she had no objections… Supposing the terms were fair. She had no problems working as a team and receiving split credit for any good they had done. But she wasn’t the type to allow anyone to write her off and take full credit. ”As long as we present everything jointly, and take no individual credit… this benefit a both of us, as the one doesn't find the correct coin need not worry so much.” Suki spoke in an odd tone. As if neither wanting to display lack of confidence or overconfidence. Many would interpret her as cocky or arrogant, but they mistook a good mood and playfulness for it. Suki was prone to giving that superior look all cats are prone to, but Any who knew her knew it was a sign she was in a good, if playful mood, not out of arrogance. Suki was careful not to give that look now, out of worry that it would be misconstrued. Nevertheless, she smiled and surveyed Hatako expectantly, her tail, proportionately a bit longer than most, waving back and forward. There was definitely an air of playful eagerness and mild confidence, and a desire to prove herself that lingered around her, she looked much like a cat poised to pounce. Ready and playful, but waiting. That said, she wasn't the type to play devoted sidekick and follower either. She would listen, but would not hesitate to give feedback of her own. She wouldn’t be ignored.

Suki smiled and flicked her ears towards Rippa. Of the joys of ears that could swivel and move without turning the head,and separately at that. She could only imagine some humans were jealous of that ability. But… she imagined most ninja would far rather be human. She was, after all, dwarfed by any humanities than a child. And she was far too light. She was huge for a typical non-big cat, aka a lion or leopard. She had seen domestic cats like her. They were called “Savannah” cats she believed. Half serval. But it was awkward talking about regular cats and breeds and things. Regardless she listened, but didn't glean anything in particular. The village had problems with him clearly, but he had already explained as much earlier. So it hardly interested her. Enough to pay attention to, but not enough to truly care about.

Suki’s other ear swiveled to the other side and twitched, based mostly on instinct. The sound moved suddenly, and her ear twitched and moved. A girl appeared, and asked why a former Hokage and a jounin were not competing… Suki turned towards been mouth slightly opened in confusion, but she didn't say anything. Surely she knew that these two were beyond these tests. I mean… you only had to look at them. They had that aura of experience and power that only jounin and very experienced ninja have. Them taking this test would be pointless. Suki shook her head, and would listen to anything Hatako said, and if she had no objections, she would speed off into the forest.

Her small, lithe body was perfect for searching in the trees. She was small, but agile. Suki scanned here and there,keeping an eye out for coins. Twice she found only soda or beer bottle tops, before she found her first silver coin. Suki smiled as much as she could with the coin in her mouth, and placed it in her backpack, and sped off to scour the park for more.

Word Count: 749
Total Word Count: 3,400+749=4,149

OKay, so since literally half the participant in this thread are MIA or gone right now, I'm just going to end this here. Everyone's gotta a solid social out of it, and plenty of WC to use for trainings. Genin, if you want to try again to get onto Kenta's squad, you're welcome to request a personal test/training lesson from me IC, and we'll go from there.

-EXIT-

Final WC: 4648

4648/6850 B2-S0 REA

EXIT

~Training to be edited into this post later.~

Feet touching ground, finally! Finally she was able to stand still on the ground once again as Shihai drops down from the tree, if she hasn't make this happen sooner, one might mistake her to have a permanent spot on the tree or something, well we can't have that can we. As Shihai was dropping down, one of the older Ninja said something to her but her attention was elsewhere, as it often was, she does have the tendency to get distracted by something else from time to time, and despite just asked a question to them herself, she was not really looking for an answer, so she pointy ignored them for the time being.

Looking around the place, trying to get a good look at the ever changing situation of the park, which, since she was not here since the very beginning, her grasp of the situation was shifty at best, but it had looked like the situation takes a sadder turn to the worst. When she first arrived here there used to be a lot more people, gathering inside this small park and working towards some kind of goal, which from an overheard of the situation seems to be finding coins, for whatever reasons. But as of right now, she noticed that at least some of them are missing now, must have take their exit when she not looking and forfeiting the competition altogether. Such as the fate of the Ninja world, to come and go like the wind and disappearing without a hint of the sound, some might consider the mystery of the Ninja world intriguing. But, nevertheless, it had felt regretful that no one has as of yet find any of the coins, such objects could be oh so very easily found without hardly any effort and yet. Perhaps the competition aspect of all have sort of ruin the mood, but regardless of the reason, the whole situation have kind of felt incomplete to her, making her wish that someone should just find one already, even if there is no reward at the end, the very notion of completing and did something would be much better than this vague thingy we have right now, but oh well.

Turning around and narrowing her eyes, thinking that doing so would somehow further her field of vision or something, as she tries to have a good look at which participants are still here in the field, that was when she remembered that she was still standing there somewhat near the other two Ninja and her very presence might make the two other Ninja felt uncomfortable with their conversation. She nods to them and moves away, walking towards to the side of the park, not wanting to just stand there.

Walking along the edge of the park, there was a small pound of water ahead of her and inside the pond, she could see some large koi fish swimming around the place. They look somewhat colorful with their shiny scales, consisting of mostly golden, white, orange and red color. Shihai reaching around her carry on side bag as she looks to see if she was carrying anything that she could use to feed the fish, before remembering that usually the park maintenance unit does not like it when people try to feed the wild animals, even if this was the Ninja world, and that puts an end to that thoughts entirely. Sighing, she straighten up her own posture and trying to take a look at who else was here, she has noticed that there are still some Genins around the park but since they were far away, she couldn't really tell who them were, and if even she were to get a good look, it would be unlikely that she would recognizes any of them anyway.

At her Ninja academy time, Shihai was one of those shy students who doesn't really want to hang out with other students and tries to avoid eye contact as best as she could, adding to that, the fact that her family moves the kids from time to time from one location to another doesn't really help her social situation either, so it would be very likely that even if she were in the same class as any of the other Genins that she could not have remembered them even if she were to see them sometimes. Since a year closer to her own graduation, and as she gets older, she realized (from old history book, not necessarily from the recent development ,since she wasn't really keep in update of what was happening currently in the world, she was the sort of living in the myth and legend type of book worm.) that Ninjas have traditionally work in teams, whether it was for a Genin squad or the more advance specialization squads, the word team work seems to show up just about every other place. In her desire to fit in to the society, but more importantly, in her desire to reach her full potential, whether it was for doing solo mission or functioning within a team, never the one to back down from a challenge, she has try to chance herself and be more open minded and try to work with other people more, and it seems that she has make some progress on that front and her shyness have mostly went away now that she could now look at other people in the eyes and have no problem with that.

Such as to be expected from a Ninja though, having a healthy amount of fear and the fair appreciation of danger for the unknown would increase one's chance of survival, but the ability to stare at the face of danger and remains calm and not afraid is even more importantly so in just any any kind of missions, and just a few stranger face and a few social conversation should not have make her afraid any more so than facing the unknown adversaries, especially since they were from the same village as her and therefore "allies" and mostly consist of Genins too.

Having reflected on the past, she felt a sense of lost at the progress that she made and her future direction, on where she wanted to go from here on out, but this is neither the time nor the place for deep soul searching thinking, in fact, she was so glad that there was no one nearby to see her lost in thoughts in her own little world here inside this park near the fish pond.

From her location she could see that there are still some coins left about and some participation, and she can't help but think that if one were to go for it them would be able to get the coin and get the prize, but she was not sure if anyone was still motivated enough for that, but nevertheless, if one wants the squad, there's always the hokage request office that one can try.

Nodding to herself, it had look like there's not much else that she could find out from this place, and it was regretful that she never finds out who won the big prize or what the prize was, but all in all, it was an eventful day and that was all that anyone could have asked for.

[Shihai Exit]

Total WC: 2585

Exit thread
3528
Speed A-2 to A-3 1300/1300
2228
Strength A to A-2 2150/2150

78 remaining

- Exit Thread -

Total: 3328

2000/2000 for C-> B Fuuton/Jiton

Left over WC: 1328