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ProtoXtreme rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:31 am
Reimei had disappeared.
When he came into view, he was hiding behind Shadow.
"Ogre lady #2." He whispered, to his aniki, with a sagely nod.
Ogre lady #2? Who was #1 then? Why, the Uchiha Yoko of course...but that's cause Marcus kindly gave the label, and it stuck...
Course, there was Ogre Boy (Shin) and Ogre Girl (Elruda)...but that's beyond the point... Guess even while amnesic, Uchiha and Hyuugas did not get along that spectacularly.
But then he looked confused.
"...but when the pupils turn white, isn't that a sign of age...?" And, though still behind Shadow, he told Getsui very cheerfully.
"The skin around your eyes went all wrinkly, too~" There seemed to be a tiny heart that went into the air at the end of the statement. It was unfortunate, really, how terribly facts about the shinobi world had just been misunderstood by a basically-civilian mind...
Reimei tugged on Shadow's hand.
"Yuu-nee didn't really explain kekkai genkai well...is ogre-ism inheritable? The scary girl with no pupils (aka Elruda) was ogre too..." Terrific. He had just misunderstood the whole Hyuuga family. But then...
"Though the lady with the sword was very nice~" Ah. That was right, he had long fainted when Yokou went on her actual rampage.
And a cheerful add-on, as he pulled over his camouflage cloak.
"Shinobis are strange."
Oh the irony of his words.
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 0/5
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:18 am
Well... the Kage could only do so much really. It would all happen fairly quickly really. Getsue's eye's would flash her anger. If she had deduced properly then the brat was grouping her in with the b***h of the Hyuuga clan.
A quick spin to the side got her out of the way of Marcus. It was a grace only a Hyuuga with full Byakugan could display. Slipping past him, he would move around the boy Shadow and was primed to destroy the little pipsqueaks chakra system completly. However just before she could, her feet would be shifted from under her and her body encased in the ground.
Marcus was knelt down, hands on the ground and a huge grin on his face. "Hey! I got ya! You never let me get you with that! MWAHAHAHAHAH"
Getsue would look to Marcus but she knew she was at a loss. He had sealed her hands primarily with several layers of dirt. She could probably burst out but it would cause to much collateral damage... she was stuck. She began to close her eyes and grow silent... Marcus stood and dusted himself off. "Reimei... I'd watch my mouth if I were you little man. Can't say I can stop all the people in here who might have sore spots about things like age and origins.
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:33 pm
Ogre-ism eh? Yeah that sounds about right. Just remember, Hyuuga's tend to be nasty, nasty people... Except for Yokou-sama He added briefly, remembering her kindness. Really her and Kurai were the only two Hyuuga's that treated Shadow 'not like s**t'. Yokou was the first true blood, since Kurai had technically been Keigoku
Shadow couldn't help but burst into laughter at little brothers statement, and Marcus turning attention onto the Hyuuga woman. In all truth neither of them looked incredibly old. Shadow would guess Marcus was somewhere in his mid thirties at eldest, hell he could probably get away with late twenties with the way his fit body was built. Still Shadow laughed at the way they were joking around. And when Little Brother jumped behind him, he put a hand around them in a protective manner. He grinned as his brother kept on saying rather forward blunt statements, however as the Hyuga woman circled around him he quickly said:
Gah! Calm down he's just a k- He was cut off as Marcus dragged Getsu under ground. For some reason this made Shadow feel incredibly awkward, i mean he probably could get her out with minimal damage... But who knew if Marcus wanted it, or if she'd still try and kill little brother... He just felt so awkward, so he simply said Run away! And pulled the box over his head to turn invisible.
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 1/5 ]]
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:50 pm
[[ Hey we should decide a due date for the Chuunins, cause i was gonna post my profile by the end of the day, but then i have to set up for my diabolical plan, and i'm sure others are scheming as well, so we should have a due date! ]]
Shadow was in a box. That was it, plain and simple... However, he did not know how blatently obvious he was, with his blue eyes peering out of the eye hole in a cheerful manner, even though he was not saying anything, you could just tell that if he could he would be saying 'Teehee!'. Shadow looked left and right diabolically, and slowly tried to move away from the awkward crowd. While moving in his mind he was singing 'Doo doo i'm in a box and no one can see me and i just farted and it STARTS TO SMELL' he walked a couple of feet away from everyone, and then sat back down in the box trying to refocus his chakra. Little did he know pretty much anything would be better than his current disguise...
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 2/5 ]]
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 5 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:20 pm
As Shadow lay on the ground, there was still definitely a 'teehee' look in his eyes, however he slowly phased out of existence, or so it seemed. He glared out of his box feeling rather accomplished, still unknown to him he looked like a fool about ten seconds ago. However now at least he was invisible from the probably laughing stares of everyone else in the room. The quickly popped out of his hiding place, throwing the box behind him giving an accomplished laugh as he appeared. He then grinned at Remei and gave a thumbs up.
Don't worry, it isn't Shinobi's that are the weird ones! It's people! He then kicked the box into the air and gave a dramatic spin. We shinobi's are just the ones who aren't afraid to show it! He said as the box came falling down on his head.
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 2/5 ]]
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:25 pm
"Origin?" Repeated the boy, but the word was softly hissed. Yet this time, a very characteristically Uchiha sneer twisted his features...no trace of the cheerful playfulness from before. "At least you remember. Beyond Iwa, I recall nothing..." Was that a flicker of crimson in his eyes? There was a soft pause, as he drew the Kakuremino cloak tightly around him...and looked away.
How odd...it wasn't the behavior of a child now...almost...adult-like...the way he held himself suddenly...those gestures and actions... A flicker of image, as the material of the cloak floated in the air for a brief moment, like the hagoromo sashes of the tennyo people...
"One dream kept returning, however. Or maybe it was a memory...I really don't know." He drew closer to Shadow...almost as if seeking...support? Encouragement?
Or perhaps both?
"A black and red world..."
Or...
"A man killing a woman..." Came the quiet words.
...
"Eyes the color of blood..."
...
"And...I...had called them 'otou-san' and...'okaa-san'..."
...
"Maybe it was just an illusion..." He said, hesitantly.
Because...
If that was true...
His father would've had murdered his mother...
So why...
...so why didn't this feel like an illusion...?
"I don't care about the shinobi world."
A pause.
"I only want the truth."
But...did he TRULY want to remember...?
"In the dream though, there was one other face..." His voice was cold...slightly crimson gaze meeting Getsui's evenly. "A woman with the same kind of eyes." A pause. "...I...I don't remember why now...not even her name or face..."
"But..."
The image in his mind...
A young woman was not far ahead...in some sort of ancestral building...
"...she was the cause of calamity."
Haired pinned up in the traditional style of imperial China, but the rest of midnight-blue locks flowing loosely in the breeze. She was wearing the traditional robes of imperial China...courting the butterfly on a sakura branch...
"...ku...rui...zaki...hime..."
The 'Madly Blooming Princess'...?
Konoha's kuruizaki-hime?
But that was the Lady Hyuuga Yokou...
He gave Getsui a very bitter smile.
"So you know nothing...claiming consideration for origin, yet not doing the same... I don't quite understand why I am not afraid of you...but..."
"...it doesn't feel like the first time I have been threatened..."
...
"...it...all of this too...is familiar...somehow..."
Did he mean the Byakugan or that Taijutsu style...? Or perhaps both...?
...
And then, even quieter.
"...does it really even matter anymore..."
But it wasn't a question for Getsui.
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 1/5
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ProtoXtreme rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:27 pm
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:45 pm
He didn't disappear yet again, however this time he was more aware of his situation, and able to pick up that he wasn't bending the light propperly. He growled angrily as he put both hands on the outter edge of the box, and took a deep breath. He knew this would be easy for him, compared to his usual training it was much less intense. Especially considering he wouldn't need to be hospitalized afterwords, like he usually needed to with his intense forms of training. As he focused he heard his little brother talking, he listened and recalled his conversation with the talking panther. Was Akeru finally getting his memory back? Was it somehow returning? He felt he couldn't give to much away, for he might get in trouble, but he couldn't leave his little brother hanging.
Reimei, you should learn to care for the Shinobi world. For giving up on it is the same as giving up on everything. The farmers give us food, the cloth weavers give us cloths, and the Shinobi give others life. To give up on any of these worlds, means you give up on the whole. I have a feeling you have a gift, kid. One that will help you give others life. He then sighed, as he moved onto the next part of what he wanted to say. And don't talk to others that way. Do you think any of us would be here, if we didn't have a god damned screwed up "origin" He made sure to put a mocking emphasis on origin. I apologies for yours, however that gives you no right to try and lash out at others. We all seem strangely screwed up, and that's why we all need to work together towards the whole... Look to the past, let it change the present, and create a good future. That's all there is to it...
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 3/5 ]]
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 12 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:14 pm
Shadow disapeared again, making it seem like his talking was distant, out of touch. He however then stood up and walked over to the boy, embracing him in a hug, taking his head and putting it into Shadow''s stomach gently. He didn't say anything, he really didn't feel like he needed to. He just wanted to let his little brother know that no matter how hard life seemed, even if he was to go through hell in back, Shadow would be there for him. After a little while he let go, and returned silently to his box, feeling like the mood had been almost completely killed. He grabbed the box and thought for a moment, he suddenly flung it over himself and laughed as he said.
So you guys ever here of Green Eggs and ham? Bet you'd wanna eat in a box! Or how bout with a fox? He laughed again knowing that this joke was pretty much the most stupid, corny thing that he could have thought of right now.
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 4/5 ]]
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ProtoXtreme rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 15 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:19 pm
((*splutters*
...panther...?
Kuro would be very insulted. He's an albino bengal tiger... V.V))
"...but what...if it wasn't a gift...?"
...
Dark bangs partially obscured the expression on his face now.
"...but a curse...?"
There was...an almost malevolent aura around him now.
Shrouded in the cloak, he disappeared from sight, melding with the background...
...and like the shadows, reappeared again...
You...
In the depths of his mind, a river...
You are...
The face reflected in the water...
It was his, yet not his own...
Bloody, bloody orbs...
The reflection opened its mouth...and spoke these words...
I...am...
"...a monster..."
The smile on the child's face - long having passed innocent - grew more twisted. Not hate, no...almost a bitter resignation...partly anger...partly sorrow...
"Tengu. Demon changeling. In the end, it's all the same..."
The cloak of the Kakuremino was drawn elegantly around him, the gentle swirl of the cloth touching the stone of the ground, not all that unlike the shawl that went with the imperial robes...
"So you think you can help him...?"
Was that...really...Reimei speaking...?
"The fires of war burn in the blood of this line..."
Pale fingers lifted to his throat, refined nails pressing gently against porcelain, delicate skin... The nail pressed harder, drawing a line of red.
"Like the spiral of karma...it is something unavoidable..."
...the same fingers slipped wholly across his throat..
And to Shadow...he continued still...
"So isn't it better? Kill him now, before he becomes something you can't control...or...even for a Tengu changeling...you can still...?"
...I am you...
What. The. Bloody. Hell?
"...nope, sorry...I only listen to the guy up there...so what gives you the right to decide whether I live or not!"
But it wasn't directed at Shadow. Not even at Getsui.
The fingers closed around his throat...
Enough to break the spell.
...oh, but too tightly.
He let go.
When he finally was able to breathe calmly...
The child scowled.
"Dumbass!" But it wasn't to either Shadow or Getsui.
Back at that river...
'No way in the bloody seven levels of hell.' Reimei had told the reflection stubbornly.
'Stupid.' He added, sticking out his tongue.
The image in the water only smiled, though...crimson eyes glowing...
An unkind smile.
A cruel smile...no...a sneer...
Realizing that he had spoken aloud the end of the sordid conversation now though, Reimei gulped and looked at Shadow... He had not told his aniki about the nightmares...that have become normal now...not just that one of the murder...but also of the Styx river...
"Um...I can explain...really..."
But a thousand sweatdrops appeared at the back of his head instead.
Something was definitely seriously wrong with him...
He was going to be taken to the mental ward of the hospital, right?
"That's...not true..." Said the boy finally, deeply flustered. "...I...want to remember...because Yuu-nee always looks so hurt...and shinobis...shinobis have powers civilians don't, right...? So...to help them...and what the hell...I'm not interested in hurting people..."
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 2/5
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Zineal rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 19 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:09 pm
(( Crap i totally got my large wild cats confused... Omg, does that make me wild cat racist!? ))
As Akeru spoke, Shadow looked dead on into his eyes. Completely aware of the intense situation... Although his box made it appear otherwise... As he called it a curse, there was silence. Death was in the boys eyes, there was no kidding around in the room. Shadow threw off the box, looking the boy dead in the eye. And then laughed. He was one of the few people, who would laugh in the face of his own death, and this was no different. He looked into Akeru's eyes, perfectly aware of his bloodline, its history, and what he knew about it. Blood, murder, so much evil dwindled in those eyes. However Shadow just smiled.
It's an ability. You were born above most people. Whether you let it corrupt and change you, is up to you. However instead of worrying about what others with this gift have done, you should shut up and just make the best of it, you were born strong, its only a curse if you let it be. Shadow smiled while saying this as he tucked back into the box, hoping to finally master this ability.
((Imma respond to the crazy Reimei part in my next post to make training easier XD ))
[[ Cloak of Invisibility training
DC: 10
Successes: 4/5 ]]
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:27 pm
Shadow had this ability down, He tossed the box off as he reached for his ear, pressing a pretend ear piece. Mission complete! He looked at Reimei, as he started muttering things out loud, confusing the hell out of Shadow. Shadow leaned back, smirking as he was called a changeling, something normally he would have found insulting, however now he knew was a good time not loose his temper or begin to yell. He shrugged apathetically at the question.
Nope, can't help him at all. Shadow said, very matter of factly. He continued to speak in a laid back tone, different from his cheery attitude, yet still showed he wasn't letting himself loose control of the situation. I can only guide him. In the same way Marcus has guided me in his lesson. If i helped him, it would be a deep insult to my little brothers abilities. He can defeat you, his blood, or whatever the hell else he wants to. I have faith he's not a monster. Shadow finished his speech, leaning back on a desk feeling he now had this technique down.
Reimei then started to mutter things under his breath and Shadow looked with curiosity. As he said he could explain Shadow just nodded his head dismissing the idea. No need to, not to me anyways... I... Errrr, know a few things of loosing control... Shadow chuckled remembering how his bloodline was in the early days. Shadow looked at Little Brother as he spoke of wanting to remember, Shadow just walked over and rustled his hair. It's good you want to. Call it a suspicion, but i think you're getting closer everyday. And Rei, when you find those memories, don't let them become you. Okay? Shadow then looked over at Marcus and then to the desks. Well, i have to continue with my battle plan, i thank you endlessly for your help. But i'd hate to leave so soon, may i stay here and use some of the desks for... My plan? He asked curiously avoiding details and other such things. If he had to go he'd understand, but still, had to ask.
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ProtoXtreme rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:35 pm
((Rofl! A wild cat racist... o_O))
The child closed his eyes, happily - they became warm amber again, tinted gently with traces of gold under the light from the sunlight pooling through the windows - as Shadow ruffled his head. "Yeah..." The child's voice trailed off. "...it doesn't really matter, as long as my heart doesn't change, right...?" He was a little sorry that Shadow would have to go so early...but...if he becomes Genin, he can work alongside his aniki, right? So excitedly, taking up his cloak, the boy rushed to the wall, pressed tightly against it, and veiled the plastered textured camouflage cloak over his body.
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 3/5
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ProtoXtreme rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:36 pm
For a moment, a lump was still noticeable on the wall, but then a smooth gesture of the wrist, and the wrinkle ironed itself out...and then...boy was gone and there was only the smooth plaster wall. It was impressive really how careful the child was...not even the edges of his shoes, which was a commonly fundamental mistake for the other children attempting to learn this technique - not even that was visible, nor even a single strand of dark, raven hair...
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 4/5
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:44 pm
Feeling satisfied with his work, the boy pulled off his camouflage cloak. Trotting over to Shadow, he gave the older Genin a quick hug. "Good luck." Whispered the child, good-naturedly, as he wished his aniki luck with whatever training was being done for the Chuunin Exams. "Mn..." Though forgetting the village Shadow was supposed to represent... "Ah...so aniki can make...um...Ahonok (Konoha spelled backgrounds...? o_O)...or was it Honoka...no that's not quite right..." The child looked flustered now.
"Why do they need so many letters anyways..." Iwa only had three! And two syllables... Well, granted, his aniki's village had only one more syllable...but still... "Do your best, aniki~" He said, with a smile. With that, Reimei folded his Kakuremino cloak.
And he himself would, too...
Kakuremino no Jutsu
DC: 10
Successes: 5/5
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