[quote=SailorMoon]
It's like the crushes you get in kindergarten when you compete with your love interest and taunt them. Let her down easy, Ko-chan!What? That is totally untrue, lol. Keiko just said she was an immature child(those were her private thoughts, mind you), which she is. >_> She didn't comment on her skill level, that was Iyana being doubtful of little Keiko.I would also like to add Keiko is still unimpressed since probably no one would have landed their attacks or did their attacks unscathed had she not restrained the beast with awesome mokuton.
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The Shukaku may be powerful, but the thing is slow and it doesn't have any special sensory (not from any documented case at least). Iyana came from above and is vastly faster than the thing. I planned for her to do that regardless.

I also had Shijima, who had he not been beaten to the punch, would have sunk the Shukaku's legs into that sinkhole before Keiko used her vines.

I'm aware of the fact that Keiko never actually [I]said[/I] anything to Iyana. However, Iyana has been dealing with people like her for most of her life. She's used to people underestimating her, or thinking she's immature. There are immature parts of her, and it is true that her toughness is something of a protective mechanism to hide her insecurities, but it'd not be enough to really consider her childish or immature. She [I]is[/I] crude and has less tact than most, but that doesn't necessarily make her immature.

Also keep in mind that Iyana is not a mind reader so she was reading body language, which is a good indicator of emotion and reaction towards people. She can do that due to kinda being a taijutsu specialist at her core. Kinda comes with the skill set. So yeah she assumed that Keiko was underestimating her, or looking down on her (one of which is kinda true) because that's what it seemed like.

I never claimed that Iyana's conclusion that she was being underestimated was correct. That's just what she thinks.