sunshineverse | [Closed] She's so wasted, acting crazy

Who: Karin and Itachi.
When: June 20th, afternoon.
Where: By the river.
Notes: Curing her blues or something. Honestly, why is Itachi the non-jerk Uchiha?

In terms of birthdays, this was the absolute worst. She’d been so sure that by today she’d be well on her way to completing her first and hopefully last Chunin exams. Instead, she was disqualified a week ago, and had a very slowly healing cut to remind her just how horrifically the whole thing had gone once she and her teammates entered the forest. She’d pretty much torn out of the house as soon as the sun had risen to a respectable height and bought breakfast before eventually settling on the bank of the river.

She hadn’t moved since.

Here she could sulk and toss pebbles and rocks into the water. She didn’t want to see her aunt this morning, or any of her family. She really didn’t want to be anywhere too visible at all in case jerkface was around. She did not have the mental wherewithal to deal with him today.

She tossed another rock at the water and watched as it skipped across the surface. She was hungry but choosing to ignore that in favor of mentally berating herself. Another stone skipped across the surface before loudly sinking to the bottom. Stupid duckbutt totally ruining her calm before she went into the woods for a week. She could have dealt with anyone else, even the little Hyuuga girl next to him, and come out just fine. But no he had to have the innate ability to thoroughly ruin her confidence when she desperately needed it. She was going to…do absolutely nothing until her arm healed, because somehow storming into his home and knocking a door off its hinges without the physical ability to back up her ire didn’t seem like it would work out well for her.

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Itachi generally found water soothing. Walking beside the river was cathartic, though he'd waded off to check the tadpole population in a shallow, calm little dip in the bank. He'd taken off his sandals and not put them far enough from the water, and the crow that had been following him in hopes of snacks (Itachi did have a habit of feeding the normal crows around Konoha) had investigated his sandal for feed right into the water.

Itachi hadn't noticed until it was a good distance down the river, so he'd walked out into water, which was tricky with a fast current, and set off after the sandal, carrying his other one. Itachi still felt drained from dealing with the exams, so he stayed at a amiable jog down the current as the sandal vanished around the corner.

Itachi slowed as he saw the red-head throwing rocks into the river and watched his sandal bob right by her, merrily picking up speed. Itachi gave the girl an “everything is normal” smile as he got closer.

“Good morning.”

Okay that was weird. She remains seated unsure what is going on here, having missed the sandal go floating by her. She offered an extremely awkward smile along the lines of should I even respond or just ignore the person running through the river.

"Morning?" She replies after a moment though she's not sure the man actually heard her what with chasing after the thing he was doing. And she hadn't exactly been very loud oops. Shrugging Karin picked up another stone and tossed it a little in the air, testing it's weight before chucking it out into the river again.

If the man wanted to chat he'd come back. Or he wouldn't since she was obviously not good company right now. Though considering her stone had very good aim and sunk the sandal maybe he would.

Itachi watched as his sandal sank, sighing a little as he flipped his hands through signs, activating his Sharingan. With the enhanced eyesight he saw the sandal sinking below the surface, and translocated to the location. Then getting the sandal out of the water was just a simple variation of the water prison technique, trapping the sandal in a little bubble of water and pulling it up out of the current. Itachi released the prison and had one very damp sandal, but at least he would have to have to buy another pair.

"I'm sorry to have disturbed your morning," Itachi told the girl as he came back upstream and stepped onto the bank. He recognized her now as one of the gennin from Uzushio, which might have been an obvious assumption given her red hair.

She's still throwing stones into the water when he joins her on dry land. Albeit she's thrown all the large stone within arms reach and she has to aim around him. "It's fine," she says just barely meeting his eyes. Evasive but she isn't feeling very friendly at the moment. If he wants to talk he may have to make most of the effort. She's still in the brooding phase of failure, so she's mostly happy with her knees pulled up to her chest and her right arm resting across her knees since she can't do much else with it right now being in a cast.

Itachi watched the girl. He knew she was most likely a participant in the exams, but he doubted anyone with such a glum look would be preparing for the next stage of exams. It was possible, certainly, but unlikely. There was also the injury tipping Itachi towards a failed entrant, thought it was pretty much all speculation.

Itachi sat down on the bank, not too close to the girl, but within conversational distance if she felt inclined. Itachi wasn't at all good at offering consolation, or really advice. Itachi dusted the bits of grass and dirt off his feet and began putting his shoes back on. "Do you know how to skip rocks?"

"Yes. I'm just not as good with this hand," she snaps. More often than not when she tried it skipped once at best before plummeting to the bottom of the river. If her right arm wasn't broken it would be a different story. Not that she isn't capable of learning how to skip rocks well with her left hand, it's just something that was moot until her disqualification and her run in with the royal jerk boy.

She almost pouts at him. Why can't people just leave her alone to sulk. Jerk boy gave her a lecture, told her to stay a genin forever. And this one was asking if she knew how to skip rocks. It was such a laughable question, of course she knew. Except now that she's quiet she actually realizes he hadn't been rude or judgmental in the question he'd merely asked, and she'd snapped at him. She sighs. "I'm sorry about, uh, sinking your sandal."

"You don't have to apologize--that was a very good throw for your non-dominant hand. I was glad to provide a target." Itachi said. He should leave now, and leave the girl to her thinking or sulking or whatever it was. The river was soothing, and he did wonder if she's failed or just been hurt. He didn't think he could come right out and ask that, though.

"I hope your injury doesn't interfere too much with your training," Itachi added.

"Thanks." She turns her head slightly to actually look at him. She wasn't entirely sure if he was being sincere or just saying something nice in an effort because she apologized. All the same he earned himself a second look, and maybe his comment had helped a little her feeling sulky, it didn't undo what Sasuke had said but it did feel nice to have someone recognize that even injured she could still do something useful,

"It shouldn't." Just six weeks or so in which she would be mostly unable to participate in anything other than laps. She knew returning to her normal training would take time from there but that was to be expected too. "But I appreciate the sentiment."

"As sentiments are useless unless appreciated, thank you." Itachi had finished putting his his shoes. "I hope you at start feeling well enough to see a little of Konoha before you go home. It's not drastically different from Uzu, but it's nice to see different places once in a while." Genin didn't always get to travel to the far corners of the world, but the girl looked a little older than most gennin.

Someone actually acknowledges how pointless saying certain things, usually she just leaves it with her polite brush off. Other peoples hopes and well wishes don't make up for hardwork. But she sits there stunned for a moment before smiling a little, "I lived in Konoha for a while as a girl." Suffice to say she's seen plenty of the village it just never quite felt like home so much as a stopover between her home with her parents and settling in Uzushio. As such, she was far better traveled than the average genin, and maybe on equal footing with an early chunin.

[Closed] She's so wasted, acting crazy

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