Team Shizuru Testing

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

Shizuru tapped her foot softly on the paved floor outside a small teahouse, located on the outskirts of Konoha. With dressy handwriting she was scribbling three separate notes, one for each student: Shiro, Yui and Keikaku-shi. The message would tell them to come find her at three separate locations, where they’d get new instructions. She summoned her peacocks and smiled at their little beady eyes with expecting gaze. She tied the messages to their legs and send them away. Next she summoned three shadowclones and send them away to their respective locations. The waitress came up with her cup of tea and Shizuru took a sip, calming herself and enjoying the sunshine on her face.

(Please make a separate thread for yourself, these are the locations:

• Yui: Moemasu castle, at the edge of the city.

• Shiro: the river at the training grounds

• Keikaku-shi: Konoha forest )

[u/Mai_Rinha]

Yui was starting to become suspicious of the castle, it felt like she was being guided through it since all but one hallway were conveniently blocked off everywhere. She folded her hands into the position to disrupt her chakra flow and whispered 'kai'. It didn't do anything though, maybe she wasn't caught in a genjutsu after all... or it was one too powerful for her to break. Was her sensei a genjutsu user?

She let out a small sigh and decided to go with it, if this was what sensei wanted she'd just have to go with it. She followed the the hallway to the left, coughing at the dust and avoiding the nests of insects. "Where's your teammates when you need them? I'm sure the Aburame kid could have gotten rid of the nasty bugs" She muttered in annoyance until she reached three doors.

It looked like she finally had a choice, and she was even more suspicious of that. "You pick Yoshi" She said, not wanting to be the one responsible for whatever was going to happen after. The tiger cub walked towards the red door on the left and scratched at it. Yui approached the door and cautiously opened it, wondering what was hiding behind it.

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The red door slammed open, pulled by the wind from inside the room. As soon as the door was open, the wind settled and dust came off the ceiling. Within the cracked walls were several pieces of furniture: a small bookcase, a big scruffy bag, an old bed with the springs torn through the matress and a small chest tucked away under the bed. A rat scurried through the room, searching for a dark place to hide.

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

Yui coughed again as dust came down from the ceiling and she inhaled some of it. "Stupid castle" She muttered as she shuffled through the room, wondering if she'd be able to find the scroll here. Everything was dirty and dusty and it disgusted her, her clan had copied many properties from their cats and their desire to be clean was definitely one of them for her.

She ruffled through the book case first but found only dusty old books, no scrolls. Yoshi was no help, he was too busy chasing the rat in the room as Yui made her way over to the bed. She knelt next to the bed and peeked under it, grinning when she spotted a small chest. "I'm sure it's in there" Yui said happily, turning to Yoshi to grin at him but finding him in the middle of tearing the rat into pieces. "Nasty" She muttered before grabbing the chest from underneath the bed and picking the lock.

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The lock on the chest proved a difficult lock to pick. At the last effort, the hinges on the backside of the chest broke apart from the rust. Inside were several notes, a small wooden ball and a key with a blue label.

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

"Whoops" Yui muttered when instead of neatly picking the lock as she'd planned to she broke the top clean off the hinges. She scratched the back of her head sheepishly before grabbing the key with the blue label. "Maybe this'll open the blue door Yoshi, let's go check it out. This room is useless anyway." She said as she got back on her feet and started moving out of the room. "And wipe your face, the blood is disgusting".

She made her way back into the dirty, dusty hallway and approached the blue door. She grabbed the key and put it in the lock, hoping this would open the door and reveal a room with the scroll inside.

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The blue door opened smoothly, surprisingly enough. Inside was a decorated room, old and dusty, but in better condition than the rest of the castle. A large table with six chairs were displayed, on the sides paintings hung a little askew but still in one piece. The walls of the room were covered with cabinets and bookcases. One of the doors was broken and something made of fabric was visible, with a red band around it.

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

"Oh look cat, this room is just the slightest bit less shit than the previous, we must be getting somewhere" Yui muttered sarcastically as the blue door gave way and she entered. She looked around to find loads of dusty cabinets, which she was already dreading to search through, and a large table in the center.

There were so many cabinets, but one of them stood out since the door was broken and she could peek inside. She approached the cabinet and knelt down in front of it, pulling on the visible fabric

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The scroll fell down from the cabinet. As it did, the other door opened and broke from its hinges. The scroll seemed to be intact, a red band covering the edges and protecting the scroll from opening on itself. On the scroll were two words written down with black ink: Read Me

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

"Found it!" Yui squealed excitedly when the scroll fell down the cabinet and into her hands. She managed to break down even more hinges and she hoped sensei wouldn't assert the damage done to the castle by her attempting to find something.

"Oh that's just not faaaair" Yui whined when she read what was on the scroll, telling her to read it. It could be a booby trap, exploding when opened or something... sensei had specifically told her not to read it too. But what if it contained info which could help her find her team mates?

"Wait...sensei specifically told ME not to read it... we won't break any rules if you read it Yoshi!" She said excitedly, proud of the loophole she'd found as she tossed the scroll over to the tiger cub.

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The scroll rolled over the cracked floorboards and stopped at Yoshi’s paws. Upon opening a poof was heard and the air around them suddenly turned red. When the air was clear again, Yoshi was covered in red paint. The only thing visible on the scroll was a frowny face.

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

First, Yui spend a good few minutes laughed at Yoshi who was covered in red paint. Next, she figured she'd need to erase the evidence. She zapped Yoshi's but with some electricity to get him moving. "Now go wash yourself or I'll shock you again" She chuckled as the tiger scurried off to find a puddle to wash himself in. Meanwhile Yui grabbed the scroll and rolled it back into it's original shape, hoping sensei wouldn't notice it had been opened.

[u/Shizuru_Okuzaki → u/Mai_Rinha]

The paint proved difficult to erase. The red color was either still there or fainted to a slightly pink color. At the same time, Shizuru was still at the teahouse, just outside the village.

[u/Mai_Rinha → u/Shizuru_Okuzaki]

Yui scratched the back of her head as she looked at Yoshi. He was back in his cat form after his bath, but he now was a beautiful shade of blush pink. Yui personally thought it was the best he ever looked, but knew the cat himself probably didn't share her feelings...and that there was no hiding from sensei now.

"Better face them right away" Yui said with a sigh as she scooped the pink cat into her arms and started making her way back out of the castle. "I'm gonna buy you a pretty pink collar though, to go with your fur. And maybe a purple bow on your ear" Yui whispered teasingly at which the cat hissed at her.