...These days, she occasionally wondered what happened to the village she'd looked up to (and sometimes resented) when she was a child. What sort of a person would walk out on a meeting with the Hokage? Although...what sort of a Hokage would regularly be so late...?
At his invitation, she eyed him levelly a moment. Ordinarily a sparring session didn't start with forcing her to attack, unless it was genjutsu...but this was a sword-skill encounter. Which was, objectively, for the best. With ninjutsu she'd be unable to go all out against him (considering the nature of her jutsus...) and against a Hokage from the Uchiha clan she'd be hopelessly outmatched with genjutsu.
...Even if kenjutsu wasn't likely to go well either, there would be a marked difference between his rounded skillset and what his clan was known for.
She settled into a comfortably aggressive stance then, and gave a small nod. "...If that's what you want." It hadn't even occurred to her that he might have set up a trap with the ANBU (as his reassurance must have meant to indicate he hadn't), as the idea that she could be any real threat to him was preposterous. Anyway, they weren't likely to be an issue, so while she registered the information that there were some lurking in the trees nearby (where, she wasn't sure, and she made an effort not to waste time trying to calculate that) she didn't bother to acknowledge it verbally.
Although she was primarily focused on kenjutsu skills in this encounter, she still summoned a trickle of chakra to reinforce and slightly lighten the blade in her grip as she drew it, ensuring it wouldn't easily shatter in the fight, and lessening the opportunity for him to knock it out of her hands.
The best possibility for attacking an 'open' opponent expecting an attack was...
She shot forward with a burst of speed (--so there wasn't a reason she couldn't also use shunshin if he didn't specifically rule that out) and flashed the blade in an upward arc, designed more to deflect whatever counter he had ready and keep her from being unbalanced if he dodged than to be all that damaging if it somehow managed to contact instead.
Which it wouldn't, because as far as she knew this was a training session, not an opportunity to inflict harm on the Hokage.
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At his invitation, she eyed him levelly a moment. Ordinarily a sparring session didn't start with forcing her to attack, unless it was genjutsu...but this was a sword-skill encounter. Which was, objectively, for the best. With ninjutsu she'd be unable to go all out against him (considering the nature of her jutsus...) and against a Hokage from the Uchiha clan she'd be hopelessly outmatched with genjutsu.
...Even if kenjutsu wasn't likely to go well either, there would be a marked difference between his rounded skillset and what his clan was known for.
She settled into a comfortably aggressive stance then, and gave a small nod. "...If that's what you want." It hadn't even occurred to her that he might have set up a trap with the ANBU (as his reassurance must have meant to indicate he hadn't), as the idea that she could be any real threat to him was preposterous. Anyway, they weren't likely to be an issue, so while she registered the information that there were some lurking in the trees nearby (where, she wasn't sure, and she made an effort not to waste time trying to calculate that) she didn't bother to acknowledge it verbally.
Although she was primarily focused on kenjutsu skills in this encounter, she still summoned a trickle of chakra to reinforce and slightly lighten the blade in her grip as she drew it, ensuring it wouldn't easily shatter in the fight, and lessening the opportunity for him to knock it out of her hands.
The best possibility for attacking an 'open' opponent expecting an attack was...
She shot forward with a burst of speed (--so there wasn't a reason she couldn't also use shunshin if he didn't specifically rule that out) and flashed the blade in an upward arc, designed more to deflect whatever counter he had ready and keep her from being unbalanced if he dodged than to be all that damaging if it somehow managed to contact instead.
Which it wouldn't, because as far as she knew this was a training session, not an opportunity to inflict harm on the Hokage.