Coffee had never been Sasuke's drink of choice -- it was hard to avoid being a tea-drinker, coming from a traditional family -- but he was beginning to think he actually liked it. It was probably not possible to be prisoner-syndromed into liking a drink, which didn't mean that Sasuke wasn't sucking down an enormous mug of the stuff as he reviewed the files of the team he would be working with for the last five days of the exam one last time.
It wasn't like he'd never worked with people whose abilities were unknown to him before, it was just that the last time he had, he'd allowed them to be injured. The fact that he wasn't allowed to know how his performance on the first two segments of the exam wasn't particularly helping his nerves, but he closed the dossier with one last gulp of coffee and closed his eyes.
Taking a deep breath, he focused on his chakra. The time given to heal up from the second test had allowed him to sort out the worst of the knotted-up flow, but it would be calming if nothing else to visualise a system he knew intimately while waiting for a system that would be entirely new.
[08/26-08/31] last leg of the jounin exam
It wasn't like he'd never worked with people whose abilities were unknown to him before, it was just that the last time he had, he'd allowed them to be injured. The fact that he wasn't allowed to know how his performance on the first two segments of the exam wasn't particularly helping his nerves, but he closed the dossier with one last gulp of coffee and closed his eyes.
Taking a deep breath, he focused on his chakra. The time given to heal up from the second test had allowed him to sort out the worst of the knotted-up flow, but it would be calming if nothing else to visualise a system he knew intimately while waiting for a system that would be entirely new.