[hr][h3][color=Thistle]Azumi Taketori[/color][/h3][hr][sup][i]Morning  ||  Konoha[/i][/sup][indent] [/indent]
Azumi nodded, attempting a smile at Ai when the jonin addressed her. While she couldn’t read much off Ai’s face, there wasn’t much to say about her run through the training course anyway. Her performance was, if put generously, average, lacking any hint of talent or aptitude like her teammates—especially Masumi—would likely show. 

As Minori headed off, Azumi glanced at Masumi, who sniffed and turned away from her. She clearly hadn’t made much headway with his opinion of her.

Minori’s run of the course went much better than hers did. Where she nearly tripped and fell over some parts, he seemed to breeze over them. Though he was a quiet student who achieved average marks, Minori was still a fair deal better than Azumi.

[color=thistle]“You did great, Minori!”[/color] Azumi said with a grin once the boy had returned. [color=thistle]“Jumping on the pendulum was so cool!”[/color]
[h3]   [/h3][hr][h3][color=darkgray]Masumi Rinha[/color][/h3][hr][sup][i]Morning  ||  Konoha[/i][/sup][indent] [/indent]
Masumi was surprised when Minori jumped on the pendulum, but he’d rather die than admit that. Giving his only competent teammate a nod as he set out, Masumi lined himself up at the start line then—at Ai’s signal—sprinted off, deftly tossing his first three kunai during the height of his jump. All three hit, two center. 

The obstacle course itself was no trouble for Masumi, who’d had plenty of practice maneuvering over tough terrain during his academy years. He ran smoothly over poles and through obstacles, hitting the target past the pendulum dead center as he ran through. On the last stretch, Masumi was prepared for the targets to shift, and he responded accordingly, tossing out kunai as he spotted them. However, unlike when he could plan his responses like earlier, the flashing targets provided more of a challenge: running through, Masumi hit seven of them, but only one center.

[color=darkgray]“Damn it,”[/color] he cursed as he reached the finish line, glancing back for the targets that had already disappeared. Sure he hadn’t expected to hit them precisely like he’d done to the previous few, but to miss one entirely? That wasn’t how he worked. 

[color=darkgray]“I’ll get them all next time,”[/color] Masumi said as he returned to Ai’s side, sulking. He’d wanted to deliver a flawless execution to knock everyone flat, but he’d fallen short, and falling short of excellent was nothing amazing. Falling short of excellent—that made him normal, and Masumi loathed being normal.
[h3] [/h3][hr][h3][color=mediumpurple]Asuka Kurama[/color][/h3][hr][sup][i]Morning  ||  Konoha[/i][/sup][indent] [/indent]
Ryuu’s words took Asuka by surprise, reminding her of how long it’d been since she’d had face-to-face contact with another person. Her surprise, though, didn’t translate itself onto her facial features, which remained still throughout Ryuu’s speech, even as the fellow jonin brought up Chiasa Uchiha. The mask she wore during her Anbu missions was realized in her own lack of emotions, a curious detail Asuka didn’t think much of since it didn’t affect her performance in the field. Still, when Ryuu pulled out the pictures, Asuka was struck by resemblance between them: pale, slightly bloated skin with patches of bruises and blemishes to offset the black, cavernous sockets staring out of the picture. Dead, dead, dead, the bodies seemed to indicate, as if one glance wasn’t enough to tell.

[color=mediumpurple]“If you know I’m Anbu, then I suppose my commander’s already approved this,”[/color] Asuka said flatly. No wonder Bear had given her such a long break this time around. [color=mediumpurple]“Where’s the witness being held?”[/color]

“Commander!” a man—jonin, by the looks of it—burst into the restaurant, rushing to Ryuu’s side when he spotted the robed man. “Commander Sakaguchi, the witness has been reported missing!”

[color=mediumpurple]“They want him dead,”[/color] Asuka said, rising from her seat. [color=mediumpurple]“Take us to where you last saw him.”[/color]
[h3] [/h3][hr][sup][i]Mid-morning  ||  Konoha[/i][/sup][indent] [/indent]
“Here—he was supposed to be in this room,” the jonin officer said, indicating a holding room. “His mother stepped out for a moment, and when she came back, he was gone.”

[color=mediumpurple]“There was no forced entry,”[/color] Asuka said.

The jonin officer shook his head. “No one entered the premises around that time.”

Asuka looked to Ryuu, crossing her arms. There was a mole in the police ranks—that much was clear.