[closed thread] Testing Day 6 [Sachiko, Kureno, Asuka]

[redeyedavenger]

Day 6 of Kureno's genjutsu exam started as pretty typical for Sachiko. She rose, went through the usual morning routine with a bit of leisure as Asuka-taichou had been kind enough to work the team's training time around the 6-hour block the test required. Granted, team training usually took place immediately after when (depending on the genjutsu

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Meanwhile...

[yuuhi_kureno]

Since tentatively starting an official relationship courtship of sorts with Asuka about a month ago, Kureno had to say that the progress was slow. However, it was still being made, and that was enough to keep him pushing forward, even when being so close and yet so...polite had begun to frustrate him in ways that were really best not to tell her. ...It probably hadn't been the best move to tell them to Aki either, but dang it, he needed to vent to someone and when it came right down to it, Aki was his best friend. (He'd thought about confiding in Kakami for all of two seconds before killing that notion. Kakami was a genius, and whenever she had too much time on her hands she loved teasing and making mischief for others. No way was he walking into that punishment. At least he could threaten trust Aki to keep his mouth shut if he got him to vow confidentiality.) It wasn't that Kureno was mad at Asuka for needing time, but he'd already been spending plenty of time sorting his feelings out. By now, he was well aware of where he

[asuka_sensei]

It counted as odd for Kureno to be suggesting a lunch date when she knew full well he was supposedly working on genjutsu testing/training with Sachiko. After all, she'd been asked to change her training schedule to accommodate this. Not that it was a bad thing - she'd been enjoying sleeping in late for the last few days - but still odd. He was very work oriented, after all. And this was almost like playing hooky.

As strange as it was, though, Asuka had decided to hesitantly consent. Half because her curiosity was piked (Yuuhi Kureno skipping training), half because she didn't feel like microwaved ramen for lunch again and half because.... well..... she wanted to. Sort of. She was still working out her interest levels and what precisely they lay in (soup and salads, or Kureno?), but she couldn't make any progress on that decision if she avoided him.

The fact that she still preferred to not make a decision - even if she was slowly getting used to the idea - certainly didn't help things any

[redeyedavenger]

Sachiko was walking down one of the village's main drags, hands comfortably in pockets as the when the wind blew it made things slightly nippy, scouting out more potential places of ambush when her eyes caught sight of Kureno sitting in the outdoor area of a food place. And he was with Asuka. Sachiko almost stopped short but didn't; she needed to remain nonchalant and not give away that she was having to rapidly rethink a few things. Asuka was susceptible to genjutsu--Sachiko had already tested that when trying an experiment with the team. She had put different minor illusions on all three of them as a self-test to see if she could affect more than one mind, each with their own illusion. It had worked, and not only that, but all three of them--Taichou, Moegi, and Konohako--hadn't even realized the had been genjutsu'd. The problem here was that Kureno would break anything she did regardless of who she did it on. And there was no saying if he'd get pissy over her getting Asuka, even if he'd already stated that anyone was fair

[yuuhi_kureno]

Amusing as it was to see Asuka react, Kureno kept his eyes on Sachiko. She'd obviously received his backlashing from the genjutsu she'd attempted to pull. Honestly, he was beginning to wonder if he'd put her on this test too early. He could understand her using her first couple of days to test the waters, play a little with her abilities and poke at his defenses even in not-serious ways, just for the sake of learning more about him and his abilities. But now she was well passed the halfway point, and only yesterday had she come at him without being fully serious. He wondered if she knew how serious this test was to her training, or if she thought she could float her way through it once since he was under orders to be her sensei. He had begun to slap her back with each failure to try and encourage her to be more serious. One would think that losing an entire day of training would be enough, but clearly