(Five Teachers Kiyoshi Might Have Had)
Utsugi Kiyoshi stands alongside Katou Dan and Mokume Kunugi and waits for their sensei to appear.
Their sensei, Shimura Danzo.
Kiyoshi tries not to scream.
She manages to hold off until she is alone, at home, a pillow pressed over her face.
Her parents think it is excitement and nerves and, well, they’re not wrong exactly.
Because any hope of not being tangled up in the story of Konoha to be has been irrevocably shot.
She’s not entirely sure what to do–just knows that she won’t stand idly by as Shimura Danzo twists Konoha on itself.
Maybe she’ll stop him or maybe she’ll help him or maybe she’ll usurp him entirely.
But she needs must do something–either that, or she’ll die trying–and isn’t that just the absolute worst of it.
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Utsugi Kiyoshi stands alongside Katou Dan and Mokume Kunugi and waits for their sensei to appear.
Their sensei, Uchiha Kagami.
Kiyoshi doesn’t hide her confusion.
Mostly because… it doesn’t make any sense and she doesn’t know what else to feel otherwise.
An Uchiha? She doesn’t even know which Uchiha this is–if he’s at all related to the specific Uchiha that will come later.
Doesn’t know if he’ll have children and grandchildren, if he’ll live to see Itachi or Obito kill him or if he’ll be dead long before that.
What is she supposed to do? Can she do anything?
Well, at the very least, she can get accustomed to how the Sharingan works. Just in case.
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Utsugi Kiyoshi stands alongside Katou Dan and Mokume Kunugi and waits for their sensei to appear.
Their sensei, Mitokado Homura.
Kiyoshi treads lightly.
She doesn’t know much about him–just that he was the Hokage’s teammate, held a place on the Council, and at some point will fall prey to Danzo whether by Sharingan or just normal human manipulation.
Either way, it’s a precarious situation. She’s not sure how any of her actions may change the future–if it will at all. For all she knows, this was meant to be and nothing she does will change anything.
For now, she’ll watch and wait. It’s what her sensei would advise, after all.
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Utsugi Kiyoshi stands alongside Katou Dan and Mokume Kunugi and waits for their sensei to appear.
Their sensei, Utatane Koharu.
Kiyoshi smiles, bright and sharp.
She’s met Koharu before, during the special club from kunoichi classes. Nae-chan.
Koharu was never a Nae-chan–too noticeably skilled and part of the Utatane clan on top of that–but she had been the only kunoichi on Team Tobirama. The only kunoichi on the Sandaime Hokage’s Council, and Mito-sama’s (the Nae-chan program’s) connection to legitimacy.
She almost wants to cry because maybe this is a sign–some kind path already forged that won’t make her leave her dreams behind.
Maybe Kiyoshi will never be a Nae-chan, but she can still help, still be a part of it.
She’s not alone.
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Utsugi Kiyoshi stands alongside Katou Dan and Mokume Kunugi and waits for their sensei to appear.
Their sensei, Akimichi Torifu.
Kiyoshi gives a quiet sigh of relief.
Given the jounin sensei for the other genin team in their year, she had feared the worst. But Akimichi Torifu is still a respectable choice–more than, actually, given who the genin are.
Minor clans at best, and none of them particularly prestigious at that. But the Akimichi have always been the most open of the four Noble clans, and it actually makes sense in a way.
They are no Ino-Shika-Cho, not yet–three strangers put on a team and told to risk their lives together–but if anyone could get them near to it, it would be an Akimichi.
She’s not afraid.
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A/N: I kinda just wanted to go through potential jounin sensei for my (In)Difference team and figure out which I like best. Since I think best when I articulate by yelling or writing, I figured I ought to at least get a post out of it.
I’m leaning most towards Akimichi Torifu just because I don’t really want to plunge Kiyoshi headfirst into “does fate determine my actions” existential crisis right away and I can probably finagle the others into appearing one way or another. Also considering Homura and Kagami…
I really don’t want her to end up as Danzo’s student. And given what I have written for Koharu, she’ll have a role in the story regardless? I dunno…
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