on a certain lack of Team Gai members in route_29

[usedswift]

Look, alright, before I get started, let me say one thing -- I really appreciate how I've got upwards of forty Pokémon now. Beating Sasuke should be a snap!

But you know, with all these future-rookies coming in, it'd be pretty awesome to have, you know. My team?

Past, present, future, I don't care at this point, Mun-san. We've got pretty much all of Team Seven, so where's mine? Don't tell me the rookies are going to steal all the spotlight, are they?

Oi. Lee, Neji, Sensei, you're all late. Better get your butts in here before I end up too far ahead for you guys to even hope to catch up!

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[notchinese]

At least you still have people from your world.

[usedswift]

Yeah, you're right...

But it's not the same. I mean, before Johto, all I knew were that these guys were just the rookies in the year below. Now they're three years in the future, and so much stuff has happened...

It's one thing to hear about what's happened to them from these guys, but it's not like actually hearing it from them, you know?

[haiyaku]

Apparently my mun seems to agree that we need the rest of your team there.

[Why? He doesn't know.]

[usedswift]

Then your mun's pretty smart!

[Hang on...]

...Kakashi-sensei?!

[Why are you so small??]

[haiyaku]

Or she just likes to torment me.

[Because he likes to put up a big fuss about competing with Gai but it's okay.]

I'm no one's sensei.

[usedswift]

I think that's what muns are around for, if you ask me, sense--

[Or not. Huh...]

You must be from like, way back in the past, then. You're not on Obito-kun's team, are you?

[haiyaku]

It wouldn't surprise me.

[He's about the same age as her.]

Way back in the past? [Way to make him sound old, Tenten.] I am, actually.

[medinin]

You're one of Gai's students?

[ She's assuming, anyway. It's weird to think about all these people with their own teams. ]

I wouldn't mind seeing him again, really.

[usedswift]

That's right. I mean, I never thought I would actually miss those five-hundred-laps-around-the-village, but...

[A beat.]

You know him? I'm sorry miss, I don't think we've met...

[medinin]

That sounds like what I'd expect of him as a teacher. I'm glad he hasn't changed!

[ Ah, right. ]

I'm Rin. You're speaking to one of my teammates already - Kakashi? The other one will probably be here shortly.

[usedswift]

You're Rin?

[Don't mind her, she was expecting someone with silver hair. And looks kind of like Riku.]

...Huh. Nice to meet you. And I guess you've got my sympathies, too, because being on a team with Obito-kun? Sounds like a headache.

[medinin]

Rin Nohara, yes.

[ NOPE, no silver hair here. Or Riku resemblances. ]

Nice to meet you, too. It's not really a headache, though. They're stubborn and difficult sometimes, but I wouldn't have them any other way.

[thecutetransfer]

Hi! Nice to meetchya! Are you really a ninja?

[usedswift]

Yeah! I'm a kunoichi of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, Konoha.

And you're...?

[thecutetransfer]

Woah, that's really something! You seem cool!

I'm Shion Hibiki. I'm nobody special, really. Not like you.

[usedswift]

Hibiki-san, is it...? It's nice to meet you!

I don't know about that. If there's one thing I've seen about this Johto-place, it's that people can think they're from nowhere interesting and then in comparison it's really weird!

In a good way, I mean.

[thecutetransfer]

I don't like it when people call me by my surname. Just call me Shion.

Hmmm...maybe I'd like to go see this place, then! It's got Pokemon, right?

[itsjustdust]

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How did I not know Gai was your sensei?!

[usedswift]

...

...

You never asked? Wait, you didn't know him, did you?

[itsjustdust]

YES I know him, that jerk kept me from being a Chunin for months! [He scowled and then huffed.]

He's a classmate, even if he graduated before I did.

[usedswift]

What, seriously? How'd he do that? I mean, if he wasn't your sensei, there's no way he could hold you up from testing for the exams like we did...

[itsjustdust]

He knocked me out right off on my first exam! [Oh the scowl.]

It was humiliating. I mean sure, he got better, but yeah no.

[crouchingtiger_hiddenface]

I'm sure they'll turn up sooner or later.

I know this is going to get gigantic backlash. I don't care. XD

[beforethedarkness]

I'll trade you.

[Someone sounds frustrated...]

[avoideyecontact]

[Someone definitely not on her team comes running up to greet her.

Did I say "greet?" What I meant to say was "battle."]

Some people are afraid of bugs, I just don't get it.

Go Caterpie!

[He throws a pokéball down, and out pops a Caterpie!]