KUNOICHI.

K-UNOICHI. an independent and selective multi - muse blog based on naruto characters. mutuals only, minors dni. as written by kt. — tenten, sakura, mikoto, mei, aya.

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& mains. ; bakisensei / baki. (exclusive)

tenten’s reaction in the chuunin exams was one that was uncharacteristic of her. as a kunoichi that had a year more experience than the rookie 9 and just generally someone shown to be analytical ( as shown in her road to tenten episode where she knows she is in a genjutsu and does everything to prove it ), tenten being unable to see that her opponent must have been doing something to evade her attacks earlier seems to be quite uncharacteristic.

for me, personally, the reason boils down to my headcanons for tenten, in part; for my  tenten, she was orphaned after the nine tails attack and never knew her parents. as such, she never had a sense of identity that she always had searched for. she thought she found her identity in tsunade; however, in her inability to master medical ninjutsu and the techniques that tsunade had called her own, she felt that she had lost herself again.

it was when she was placed on team gai and found her love and proclivity for weapons that she really found who she was. she was the girl who never misses.