[Closed] Continued Lessons

[notveryspecial]

Who: Sakura and her troublesome teacher.
Where: One of the training grounds
When: The 29th, I think.
Notes: Not all of Shisui's special brand of jounin prep training is completely horrible. Probably.

The past few months had been tiring for various reasons, but since returning from the rather terrible mission that month, sleep and relaxation felt even more scarce than it had been on the road. She was fairly certain that wasn't actually the case, but it felt that way. Still, there wasn't much she could say about it. The Hokage and her teacher were both insistent she was at a point that she should take the jounin test. (Shirakumo himself seemed to concur under the circumstances)

If the prep were this difficult, then she couldn't argue the necessity of it, either. After all, as she understood it, a jounin exam was a one time thing, unlike chuunin exams. If she allowed herself to take it before she was fully prepared, she'd only be wasting her chance and disappointing the people who (for reasons she didn't fully understand) had faith in her abilities.

It was still with some apprehension that she approached their meeting point, one of the training fields not currently in use by groups of genin today. It was the sort of apprehension reserved for the certain knowledge that she was going to be sore and beaten (in one form or another) by the time the meeting was done. She wondered if there was ever a time when that sort of certainty allowed for the possibility of just not going to the place it would happen.

It seemed very unlikely.

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[shunshinoshishi]

She wasn't the only one lacking sleep. Ever since Obito had given him full access to all those papers, Shisui had put his eidetic memory to good use, memorizing every single report and written record while he covered his walls with information and the pages with conspiracy theories. Sometimes the lack of sleep had produced ridiculous theories, but he was still sorting out which ones he was going to put forth to Obito.

...Or if he was going to be putting anything forth at all.

Sometimes he felt like it could be a test to laugh at him.

But Sakura. Sakura was someone he was pleased to see, and it was evident in the way he was beaming down at her from up an old maple tree. He wanted her to pass this test, and he wanted her to pass it with flying colors. Sure, he might have bragged about her abilities, but in all honesty, he didn't think it was unwarranted; in his opinion, she could most definitely be the next Toka Senju.

Having jumped down from the tree, Shisui padded over to her, still grinning. "Yo!" Ha-- such a formal greeting for a teacher. "How've you been?" It's been a while. You doin' okay? The unspoken words were more or less conveyed through the look in his eyes and the softening smile.