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Arc III Chapter 13
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“Asami, are you an idiot, or what?” Katsusane exploded. He didn’t approve of her actions. “Was this necessary? We know each other hardly an hour, and you already try your best to get us killed!”
“What do you mean, Katsusane?” Asami tilted her head in blissful ignorance. Her finger touched her chin.
Katsuane clenched his fists, furious. “Do I have to spell it out for you?” Asami was playing with him, and he accepted her challenge, a stupid decision. Things couldn’t get worse, but he was sadly mistaken.
“Please, Katsusane, enlighten me”, Asami invited him.
“...” Katsusane gritted his teeth. Her arrogance made him speechless. The other genin merely observed. They didn't intervene as the scene was beyond absurd. Nobody had any idea what was going on.
Katsusane admonished Asami. He was angry, and rightfully so. Their new girl dug them an early grave. “You, genius, pissed off the entire room! Are you trying to get us killed, or what? I don't get it!”
“Oh, that.” Asami faked realisation, unperturbed by the stares directed at her. “Don't worry, it is a minor inconvenience. Nothing relevant.”
“A minor incovneince?” Katsusane fumed. Her uncaring attitude and her massive ego put their very lives at risk. He and Hisaaki were by no means the weakest genin alive, but they weren't prepared to fight an entire room because Asami couldn’t keep her damn mouth shut. They received numerous hostile glares. He enjoyed some slight mischief, but this disaster exceeded his worst expectations.
Asami spun around. Her kimono followed her bewitching movements. “Indeed, a minor inconvenience. My tender heart is a playful one. Sometimes, I adore the superfluous, the irrational, the mischievous. These chunin exams are my stage, my venue. Before my power, your skill is insignificant, your techniques irrelevant, your past inconsequential. As if anyone in this room is even remotely able to defeat me.”
Her words echoed through the room, and Katsusane approached a nervous breakdown. Asami had done it. They were dead ...
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Asami grinned. A sea of murderous glares met her, but she remained unfazed. Her chakra detected a familiar presence at the front of the classroom, a group of concealed onlookers. She recognised his signature from her ANBU times, an old acquaintance from the interrogation department.
Her attention turned to her team mates. Their faces had paled considerably. Blank fear gripped them. They made her feel a tiny bit guilty. After all, their current state was her fault entirely. Time to do something. “Hisaaki, Katsusane, look, no need to hang your heads. Rest assured, I will bring you through the exams. Somehow.”
“...” Hisaaki and Katsusane exchanged worried looks. They didn't feel reassured at all, quite the contrary. Understandably so.
Asami beamed. “Trust me, as long as I am here, no harm will befall you ... Listen, my friends, don’t even think about it. If you three pull off anything funny in front of me, you will regret it.” Her eyes narrowed her eyes at the three Oto-nin. They caught her attention. Their hands were itching itched for a fight. They didn't take kindly to her words.
“So you can not only bark, but also bite.” One of the Oto-nin smirked, taunting her. It was a boy without remarkable features.
Asami chuckled, amused. “Isn't that a bit rich coming from a nobody like you? Of course, you are welcome to try your luck should you be stupid enough.”
The Oto-nin grabbed a kunai. “You asked for it! We will make you pay for your arrogance right here, right now ...”
A cloud of smoke interrupted them, revealing a group of grey coated ninja. The examiners had arrived, among them was Ibiki.
“...” The man narrowed his eyes, addressing the room. For a moment, his eyes rested on her, far longer than necessary. “As much as I look forward to you killing and murdering each other, I must nevertheless ask to postpone your little argument. This is neither the place, nor the time, to fight. After all, we don't want things to get messy. Now, everybody, take your seats! We have already wasted enough time as things stand. The chunin exams are about to start.”
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Why don't they connect the dots with the certain ANBU who I felt was very famous (or infamous in circles even outside of Konoha)? Especially Ibiki!
I am more and more intrigued by her ideology and her psyche. I wonder what limits does it possess and what natural goals it has (since I am wondering why when Hokage said about this operation beneffiting the village, Asami agreed. Does she care about the village that much? It's interesting because I doubt that). And also if what she said about decandence is true or made up to confuse the opponent ^^?
Ah, you reached some of the more philosophical chapters now. Excellent.
To best understand Asami, you need to know she just loves to play. She is a very playful character.
@Assurbanipal_II I thought they were philosophical before, too >_<. But I'm excited if you see them as even more so
@Queenfisher I see. I didn't consider them particularly philosophical.
@Assurbanipal_II My art motto is that I can see philosophy in many places because I want to and because I love it. Like, for example, there was this very pretentious book I read once, and its author insisted she was the super real deal and lamented when nobody *got* her (she did receive a Booker, so I have no idea why she needed to insist so hard that people do not understand her -_-. But when arguing with a negative critique in a special article she'd written, she did say that this reader probably wasn't reading the book carefully enough if he didn't like it. Which is like... whut???). And when looked through the prism of her insistence of how "smart and deep" she was, honestly -- I did not see anything that much smarter in her book that I couldn't see in many, MANY other places.
So I explicitely chose not to view her book in that light, and it became just a very boring book with no real substance other than the pretense of it >_<.
It's not the book that is Thinking. It's me, the Reader ^^. And I love thinking and getting inspired by other people's books as long as the authors don't shove their Superiority down anyone's throat ^^. Your book doesn't do that. So I get very inspired from it. And it does offer philosophy in the earlier chapters, too, at least to my taste!
Sorry for this sudden Ted Talk ^^.
@Queenfisher *melting from blushing*
Thank you very much, I try my best to keep my lines in accordance with my character and subtle in the background.
@Assurbanipal_II
Everyone is praising each other and talking about philosophy, everyone is melting and blushing...
SH can be so wholesome... .
@Queenfisher *doesn't know what to say* All this love.
@Assurbanipal_II
Hmm... so when you don't know what to say you say random quotes about love?
Interesting...
This might be easily abused later. For something... insidious ^^.
@Queenfisher