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Wow. o.o Fantastic fight scenes. Other than Shisui, the rather goodnatured tone of the fights was interesting. Rin's suggestion of medic-nin techniques is very nice (and furthers the following of the sannin). Other than that, I love how you make it quick and lethal like a ninja fight should be. And nice setup for further character development.
As I've said before, I'm a firm believer in the principle that any fight wherein at least one of the participants has at least half a fucking clue what he's doing is, by neccessity, going to be a fairly short one.
Character development... well, within the next, oh, three or four chapters I expect that they'll be firmly enough established in my head that they'll actually be the ones driving.
The Rin/Sakura/Medic thing just makes perfect sense - we know that Sakura has all the traits needed for a superb medinin, we know that Rin was one, and my version of Rin didn't give a damn about winning and so was more interested in kibbitzing. Uzumaki-no-Mae was flat-out throwing her fight, and Shisui was too busy foaming at the mouth to fight even halfway effectively.
Given that Rin was the highest-ranked of the three and didn't particularly care about losing, either, it's no wonder that Sakura walked away as the only one with any serious wounds.
Well, except for N, but he was lucky enough just not to be a smear mark.
Quote:I hadn't thought much about how Konoha's officialdom was going to react to this sequence, actually, but I had been thinking that the mission would count as 'S-Class, Failed'.
I'm anxious to see the Hokage's and higher level ninjas' reactions to the genin's respective fights as well as Neshan's fight. Wonder how this mission will go down in the books -- A ranked mission? And will this mission count as success or failure (or wash) given that Tazuna died before the bridge is completed?
The work crews, I've been thinking, are going to be able to carry forward the last of the work on their own, which might well lead to Neshan malingering out of going home due to his 'delicate battle wounds' until it was done - and it's not like he's got any reason to -stop- his kids from hanging out around the construction site in the meantime, does he?
An S-class mission, BTW, is defined as a mission which is facing/expected to face Kage-grade opposition, and considered to be essentially suicidal for most Jounin.
Ja, -n
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