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 Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:44 pm
"You know more than they do about whatever organization it is you're from. The Angra Mainyu, was it? From the way you talked to them, I assumed they were somehow subordinate to you." That, thought Tsutae, along with the fact that you're one of my bloodline... the only one I've met in years.
She found that she wasn't afraid to creep around a foreign village like a thief in the night, without backup. If she were attacked, there would be no salvation except by her own wits and steel. She did not and probably would never belong to a squad; hers was the way of the knife in the dark.
She wanted to ask him more questions. What village was he from? How old was he? Tsutae was torn between seeing him as a brother, and as a threat. Even her years of being trained to act with paranoia at all times couldn't protect her from her fascination at seeing Akou's shimmering red feathers.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:37 pm
Sonnie [Majora], Tama | Akou [Ichazuki]   "Organization? Angra Mainyu?" Akou questioned in his head as Tsutae spoke. Once she was done his eyes shift to look up at the sky before he sighs. His eyes fall back on her before he speaks. "I will say that I have worked with the Angra Mainyu before, I was asked to. But those two, no. The Angra Mainyu isn't that lenient. The Angra Mainyu and my squad tend to team up from time to time but only for really big things so the weaker members of our group like Hikai and Fushou don't get involved. Fushou is my subordinate and Hikai is a member of another squad under my squads command. I wouldn't exactly consider him my subordinate though," Akou replies as his feathers seem to twitch.
"Akou, er, Yuriko sort of... Uh..." Tama stutters as Akou slowly turns around.
"Yuriko what?"
"She just sort of passed out," Tama quickly states motioning over to Akou quickly. Akou looks her over before frowning at Tama.
"She just?" Tama struggles to reply as Akou's eyes narrow. After a few more moments of Tama stuttering, he just freezes. He presses Yuriko to Akou before turning on his heels and starting back the way he'd come. "T-Tama?" Akou asks confused as Tama stops.
"I'm going on a journey."
"Wh-"
"Because I don't want you to kill me again."
"Kill you... What the hell are you talking about kill you again. I've never-"
"JOURNEY!" Tama yells continuing on. Akou begins to go after him before remembering Yuriko in his arms. He slowly crouches down and lays her down before getting on his knees beside her. First he brings his ear to her chest and listens to her heart and breathing. Just by ear he could tell that was fine. He then places his right hand to her face and strokes it slowly, gently. As he does his left eye becomes bloodshot as the other stays the same. The regular eye, if peered into, would have images swiftly flickering across it. He was reading Yuriko for information on what happened when he'd left her to Tama and of what might be wrong with her. After a moment he removes his hand from her face and tugs his shirt from about him. He shuts his left eye, not seeming to have needed to activate it, before opening it to reveal the same eyes as before. He continues to sit beside Yuriko, awaiting her to awaken. Apparently a new power she had obtained is causing her body some trouble as it tries to adapt. Ichazuki:: He was reading Yuriko for information on what...Invocation: Art of Empathy 400 Skill Points: Ichazuki ninja are able to transfer memories between themselves, other people, and inanimate objects. Some drove themselves insane when they forgot which memories belonged to them and which did not. Unwilling targets cannot be subjected to this technique although it can be combined with one of the below techniques. ...his left eye becomes bloodshot...Eye of The Virus - This is an eye that has been infected with every virus, it has built an immunity to each and every disease. This eye has the appearance of an extremely bloodshot eye, and must be inserted into the person's eye socket, when they are missing an eye. the user of this eye will have the ability to cure any disease inside of their body, or even cure someone else by injecting their blood into the person's body. the blood of the user of the eye can also cause anyone to become sick from a large amount of viruses. Calculations: 108,200cp - 400sp{Invocation: Art of Empathy} = 107,800cp Majora:: Calculations: 31,200cp Words = ?
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:50 pm
Tsutae tilted her head, a little annoyed at being upstaged by this new situation. She had a lot of questions for Akou, dammit, and like hell he was going to tend to someone who with a non-life-threatening injury before giving her answers. As the Ichazuki boy turned his back, Tsutae literally had to draw back her hand from reaching out to touch him while he wasn't looking. She had spent most of her life getting her information from people using the Art of Empathy. Actually persuading people to talk to her instead of simply invading their minds was something that required practice.
So instead of attempting to overpower his mind while he concentrated on something that was more important to him than she was, she offered to help him.
"Is there any way I can help?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:10 pm
 Yuriko could hear several different voices, and still couldn’t tell who they were. Yuriko twitched a bit as Akou stroked her face. She didn’t know that it was Akou stroking her. She stayed unconscious for a few more hours before she finally stirred. She slowly opened her eyes, blinking her eyes every now and then. She still didn’t feel right, like a new part of her was coming out. “Akou? How long have I’ve been out for?” She was afraid to sit up. She was afraid to move period. “What did I get myself into…” She then noticed another person there. "Hello?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:45 pm
Sonnie [Majora], Tama | Akou [Ichazuki] "Don't worry about her. It's nothing real serious," Akou mutters as Yuriko begins to stir. He waits until she greets Tsutae before climbing to his feet. "Dun hello her! What's the big idea running off and fighting some ninja all alone? You could have gotten really hurt and then I'd have had to bury you or something! I mean, there's only so much a Medic Nin can do! Geez!" Akou huffs a moment. But he wasn't yelling as loudly as he often did. It was as if he was still trying to get over being glad that Yuriko was fine. "Just lay there for a little while, okay?" Akou asks more gently, his eyes looking away from Yuriko and off into the forest before tilting his head in Tsutae's direction. "Why are you so interested in the Angra Mainyu anyway?" Akou asks as he turns his body around.
Tama wanders around the forest a while before sighing. "Wait... who was that other female?" Tama asks himself stopping. "I was worried about Akou being attached to Yuriko but... there he is chatting with another girl!" Tama almost gasped turning around and headed beck before stopping. "No, no. If I misunderstand and bring it up then it'll cause problems and Akou'll have my head." Tama then turns back around and begins walking before stopping. He continues doing this, literally creating a groove in the ground. Ichazuki:: Calculations: 107,800cp Majora:: Calculations: 31,200cp Words = ?
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:05 pm
"They were spying on Moon village. I had a look into Fushou's head and saw that someone sent him to get information about some people. More than that, I didn't have time for. I assumed they were planning an abduction or assassination and that this organization, the 'Angra Mainyu,' was behind it."
Diamond Dust jingled sweetly at her hip as she took an accusatory stance. She consciously kept her hands well clear of her belt, as a gesture of peace as well as to avoid temptation herself. Spending this long with her weapon sheathed while in the presence of someone who was more likely than not going to end up attacking her went against every single instinct that she'd grown up with.
"Not that I'm accusing them baselessly of being up to no good. If they were there for peaceful purposes then they could have asked me for help instead of drawing weapons on me."
Her eyes briefly drifted to the girl lying, apparently wounded, on the ground. A member of the same organization, or a personal friend of Akou's? Perhaps she would be more informative. At knife-point or otherwise.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:29 pm
Yuriko blink as Akou kinda yelled at her. She wondered why he cared so much about what happened to her. She was attacked first and defending herself, not the other way around. If she hadn’t of stopped the man, he could have attacked someone else. She was only dong her job to her village. Yuriko moved so she could lay on her side and her arm under her head. She felt a little bit dizzy doing it, but if she was going to be lying down, she at least wanted to be comfortable. She had her back to Akou and the woman that he was talking to. Personally, she would have loved to see the woman “fly the coop.” Yuriko gasped at the thought. ‘When did I become jealous?’ she thought as she started blushing. She was grateful Akou couldn’t see her face.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:43 pm
Sonnie [Majora], Tama | Akou [Ichazuki] "You wha?" Akou asks almost laughing. "You took a look into Fushou's head? Well I guess since you don't know him you'd think of it as nothing. But I doubt you'll be peering into his head again, will ya? I didn't believe how messed up that kids head was until I read him earlier. I mean, I heard it was insane but..." Akou clears his throat, his smile fading so that he could have his more serious face on again. "Anyway, they weren't there to cause any trouble. Their mission was a simple retrieval. They were there to find and bring back certain ninja that reside in Hidden Moon for our leader, not the Angra Mainyu." Akou places a hand atop his head and shifts his hair around atop his head. "And it's not like there was a note left at the docks that said, 'If you're looking for someone then talk to Tsutae at this location'. Besides, Hikai drew his blade in response to Trevor drawing his so it could easily be declared self defense," Akou states almost cockily. Ichazuki:: Calculations: 107,800cp Majora:: Calculations: 31,200cp Words = ?
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:14 pm
"So maybe you'll be willing, unlike Hikai, to tell me who needed 'retrieving,' and why." Tsutae still didn't have any answers about the Angra Mainyu, or even any reassurance that Akou, Hikai, and Fushou weren't up to some kind of sabotage or assassination mission. Years of speaking to nobody but the odd employer and her uncle had done nothing to teach Tsutae social graces, but it had taught her not to trust any information that wasn't explicit and specific. Still she kept her stance non-threatening. Still she defied every instinct to silence the girl with a Cloak technique and strike the Ichazuki boy with a surprise Art of Reality.
"And yes," she muttered, almost-but-not-quite breaking a smirk, "Fushou's mind is a disaster. I don't pretend to have had a chance to fully understand, and I think I'll save that for a time when he isn't trying to gut me."
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:39 pm
Yuriko just laid there, an innocent “by-stander” recovering from her fight. She wasn’t exactly hurt or wound, as a matter of fact; she hadn’t even been hit once in her fight with the Uchiha with the strange power over Wood. As saw a nearby stick and she reached over to take it. She wondered how the Uchiha did it with the wood. As she thought about it, the twig in her hand began to move on its own. She gasped as she threw the stick on the ground and she got u to her knees. She knew this would worry Akou and most likely the woman there would think she was crazy as well. She picked the stick up again, trying to see if she could get it to move again, but alas, it didn’t move. ‘I know I’m not crazy…’ she thought as she continued to play with the stick.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:06 am
Sonnie [Majora], Tama | Akou [Ichazuki] Akou had been answering many questions of Tsutae's simply because the information wasn't important or because it wouldn't matter if he told her or not. He gave information away without giving too much away. Akou, in not being one to lie, was probably the best person to ask questions. So it wasn't hard to see that Akou, rather than Hikai or Fushou, was the best person to ask these questions to. But how long he would answer the questions before he did as he did to Fushou and Hikai was unknown. "Heh, another time huh? That mean you plan on visiting like this again? Doubt his mind'll be any different. But go right ahead," he scoffs looking over at Yuriko and then back to Tsutae. "I don't know too much about who they were sent for but I do know that the people they were sent to get had no link to you. So if you're worried about someone from your family or something getting snagged up then don't. Hikai was there looking for someone from his home village... Fushou was there because he got separated from another member..." Akou shuts his eyes as he speaks. He was shifting through memories in order to find the one about the retrieval mission. "Scion and Lucifer, I want you to go and retrieve five shinobi from Hidden Moon," starts Akou in an almost female voice, his eyes still closed before his voice goes back to normal. "Two brothers, one blind and one who has a strange doujutsu; two cousins, both ill from a deadly illness only linked to their clan; A small boy... Heron...? That's all I can remember. I was listening in but it sounded boring so I didn't listen too closely." Akou's eyes again shift over to Yuriko before rolling around and falling back on Tsutae. He was going to say something to Yuriko about what she was doing but he found himself not caring. She was probably bored so why should he bother her about fiddling with a stick? Ichazuki:: Calculations: 107,800cp Majora:: Calculations: 31,200cp Words = ?
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:31 am
Tsutae stared off into the distance just for a few moments, perhaps evaluating the situation or trying to run through the memory in her head and probe Akou's actions, words, mannerisms, for any signs of falsehood. The pause only lasted a few brief moments before Tsutae shook her head just a few times. "You misunderstand. Few, if any, of the ninja or the people of Moon are of personal significance to me. My reasons for investigating into this are political. I have a direct bloodline to the dishonored son of Kazuhiro Ichazuki, which means that I can claim my birthright as the Mistress of the clan if I restore our standing in Moon, or any other village for that matter. So I have a vested interest in appearing to fight for stability in my village and those of others."
She turned her eyes back to the girl on the ground, who seemed to be unhurt after all. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to ingratiate herself to this one as well. "Are you hurt?" She asked, unsure of how she could express genuine caring in this situation.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:52 am
Yuriko looked up from her stick and to the woman that had started talking to her. “No, I’m not hurt…” She then glanced at Akou who seemed not to care about her after all. She went about her business, trying to get the piece of wood in her hand to move like it did earlier. She still couldn’t understand what was going on with her. As she thought about it, the stick began to move again, this time; it began to spiral, making it look like a curly fry or a spring. ‘How…? How did I do that?’ she thought to herself as she just held it up for the others to see. “Uh… any explanations on how I did that?” she asked. She couldn’t understand how a straight stick just move and turn into a spring type thing.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:26 am
Sonnie [Majora], Tama | Akou [Ichazuki] "Politics?" Akou mutters to himself. Even though politics wasn't something Akou took much interest in, he could see what she was after. After all, his leader played politics as well but in a different way. So Tsutae was aiming to free Hidden Moon from the Angra Mainyu? Because if she did then she would more than likely achieve her goal much faster than chasing after minor threats like Hikai and Fushou. At least that's how Akou saw it. He looks over at Yuriko and winces noticing the bit of wood. He wanted to express how he thought the power she had was what he had had at one point in time, an Orochi Power. But he didn't want to jump to conclusions. She had obtained a power but it could be anything really. And it didn't help that, when Akou obtained his, is tore his body apart and he had to get it removed from him or he'd die. But Yuriko didn't seem to be taking the Orochi Power as badly as he had. Her body was stronger than his was. Akou shakes his head, having become lost in memories that he half thought were fabricated due to the lies of his adoptive mother; which, in truth, were actually truths that Naomi twisted into lies. But he didn't know that. He believed Naomi over his mother Reina because of small mistakes Reina had made in protecting him from the bad things in his past. Ichazuki:: Calculations: 107,800cp Majora:: Calculations: 31,200cp Words = 5,780 Accumulated in Konoha since last update.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:27 am
"Would you have any interest in investigating the invasion of Moon Village?" Tsutae asked, cocking her head at Akou's lack of response. "Or perhaps you already know all there is to know." But from the sounds of things, the situation was clear. Taking credit for driving the invaders out of Hidden Moon would mean assassinating people who likely wouldn't even find Tsutae a threat in a fight. Even approaching such a person with the methods of a Cloaked Shadow would mean death. She needed allies, a lot of them. Maybe this Akou could be the first one?
But Akou's attention was clearly taken by something else- specifically by the odd telekinetic powers that his friend was displaying. Tsutae quietly approached him from behind to get a better look at the scene.
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