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 Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:13 pm
Mifune slowed to a stop as he saw the horse drawn carriage. There were three or four men standing next to it, as well as Machante and Ibara who were talking to the driver. Mara handed him a piece of paper, (Mifune guessed it to be the directions to Mist), then he saw Ibara put his headphones on and crank up the volume a bit. Mifune grimaced. He was gonna get stabbed in the back if he kept those headphones on during missions. And Machante... What was her deal?
Mifune walked up next to them, and sighed. "Alright, lets go. When are we leaving?" Machante turned to him, giving him a slight scowl. "Hidi-Chan isn't ready to go yet." Mifune arched an eyebrow, then titled his head to the side. "She's not ready yet? When does she get to decide when we take her?" Machante took a menacing step forward, but stopped when a small voice halted her.
"Ready!"
A small girl popped out of the carriage, wearing a neat little kimono. She looked like a china doll, all wrapped up and happy-like. Machante and Ibara looked over to her, and immediately bowed out of respect. Mifune was just staring at her, wide-eyed. He stalked forward and put his hand on her head and smiled as he knelt down next to her.
"Kawaii..." (cute) He said, his face neutral and expressionless.
She titled her head to the side and smiled. He couldn't help but grin.
Even though he was a big scary Ronin... He still enjoyed children. They were his joy, they made him smile, and he wondered if he got that trait from his dad or his mom...
***
The day was cold and foggy as the three shinobi travelled alongside the carriage, with the guard surrounding them. Four guards, and the three of them, made a pretty good defense from attackers. Even still, they were at a disadvantage... Mifune was on the carriage's right side, while Ibara was on the left. Machante stayed in front of the horse, keeping a faster pace than everyone else to make sure if there were any traps, she would set them off herself, giving the driver time to stop. It was a cruel way to go on about things, but it was a risk they had to take... for the good of the mission...
Mifune was getting antsy. His toothpick was swishing from side to side, and he buttoned and unbuttoned his shirt three or four times in a row. That calmed him down, usually, but this time he was doing it more than 11 times. He sighed then just stopped altogether. Once he stopped, Machante was immediately on him. She stopped in her tracks and turned around, starting to yell at him.
"What are you doing?! We need to keep movin-"
Machante was sent flying over the carriage and onto the ground behind the carriage. Mifune's eyes went wide, but he jumped into action. He ran over to her, then kneeled next to her. "Hey, are you ok?" She was gasping for air, having the wind knocked out of her and landing back onto the ground was a terrible combo. She managed to choke out, "You idiot! Get back to your post, now!" Then she fell limp. His eyes grew wide. She was bleeding, but that wasn't what scared him the most. He turned back around, seeing that out of the mist, men charged with swords, spears, and other weapons. He didn't want to leave her, but the girl!
"Raiton... Raikou... Kami... No Jutsu." A wall of electricity surrounded the carriage, Mifune, and Machante. He quickly looked at Ibara, who had his hands in the shape of a ninjutsu sign. "Sugoi Ne." Mifune said, speechless.
For now, the men were held at bay, a few of them stupid enough to try and charge the electric wall. Mifune looked down at Machante, trying to analyze the damage. For there being so much blood, the wound was very small, he found out, and used a rag from his pocket to tie it up. Machante was still out cold, so all he could do was lift her up and set her next to the driver. "Watch her." Mifune said, then walked over towards Ibara. When the driver tried to argue, and say: "But I-" Mifune shot him an angry glance, "I said watch her!", he would yell.
***
Ibara was cursing under his breath, but held the jutsu. His music was pumped louder than ever, and his adrenaline must've kept him going.
"I won't lose this..." He said, staring right into Mifune's eyes. Then he whispered. "Kill them." Mifune nodded, as Ibara dropped the jutsu and fell to a knee. After he had a breath, he faced the charging men along with Mifune, and the two fought the group head on.
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:54 pm
Mifune slung his sack off of his back, and beat the person in front of him over the head with it. He swung it back around and knocked a second person in the chin with it, sending him flying backwards. Mifune twirled and felt a spear graze his back, thankfully not touching him. The person did stab mifune's coat off of his back, which gave him a few seconds of cover. Mifune swung his foot around and nailed the guy in the face with his clog sandal. He set his sack of Katana on the ground, then stood on it, flipping up into the air and sliding his Coat back on his shoulders. He landed back on his sack, staring at all the dumbfounded opponents around him. He saw one guy started to inch toward him, slowly. Mifune grinned, then with ease, spit his toothpick right between the rogue's eyes. He was dead in a second.
As the guy's body hit the ground, Mifune twirled his feet in a half breakdance- half gymnast move in which he kicked all of the enemies around him in the face, chest, throat, and other parts of their body.
He landed and then took out a single katana, unsheathing it and using both sword and sheath as weapons. He blocked with his sheath, stabbed or beheaded with his blade, then shook the blood off with ease.
13 men later, Mifune was done. He shook the blade off, watering it down with his drinking water. He'd rather die of thirst than allow a single of his blades to rust. Once he finished, he sheathed it and looked over at Ibara.
He was helping Machante with her wounds, dressing them properly. (Mifune's not a medic).
As Mifune approached, Machante turned to him, awake and highly aggrivated. "You should have stayed at your post. What the hell were you doing straying from your orders?!" Mifune looked away, sighing. "Trying to keep you alive? Caring for someone other than myself. I don't know..." She reached out and grabbed Mifune's shirt, and pulled him close. "If Ibara wasn't here, that little girl would be dead right now. Because of you." Her grip loosened, and she fell against the carriage, breathing heavily. She was in a good amount of pain, and Mifune couldn't help but feel sorry.
"We need to rest." Machante looked and him oddly in disbelief, then jumped up. "Umm, no?! We need to get to the castle. We can make it in two days if we continue nonstop."
Mifune shook his head at her concern. "You can't be of any use to us with that wound. Besides, everyone's tired. Lets find a good spot, then we'll set up camp. No fires though." Mifune had decided on it before Machante had a second to answer.
***
He cleaned off his toothpick, cursing at the thought that it was just inside an enemies brain. He shrugged though, and once it was decent, stuck it right back in his mouth. He turned to Machante and Ibara, who were sleeping on each side of the carriage. 3 guards on Ibara's side, four on Machante's side. More guards had been placed there to keep her from being hurt further. Mifune's eyes peered off into the distance. Realistically, if they had continued moving, they would've gotten there within a day. But... More attacks surely would have come. So the only choice now, was to wait. Mifune rested his head against the tree behind him, and closed his eyes. They shot open, when heard a tiny cracking sound. He looked down next to him, not moving at all. A snake was slithering through the leaves, past him, and towards the carriage. Once he was out of its sight range, he reached inside his sack, and pulled out a katana. Unsheathing it soundlessly, he walked over to the snake and beheaded it before it could do any harm. With a sigh, he went and sat back by his spot...
***
"I think I'll call you Miffy... And your Mara, and your Ibi!" The three sighed, turning to the little girl with a slight smile. They all three hated nicknames, but didn't want to displease her. She was sitting next to the driver, having refused to sit inside the carriage. She clapped happily in satisfaction as the three smiled at her.
It took Mifune a while to notice that there was a traveller behind them, riding a pure black horse. He had a hood over his head, and his hands were not seen. Mifune looked over at Machante and Ibara, who returned his stare. "Don't do anything yet. If he passes us, we don't worry about him. But if he stays with us and keeps our pace, we question him..." Machante said with a low voice. Ibara and Mifune nodded with a quick: "Hai!"
***
10 minutes passed, and the rider had not tried to pass them, and only kept there pace. Mifune stopped, standing still in place and let the carriage go on. He turned to the rider, facing him fully with a hand on his hip and his swords slung over his back. "Hey, you. Sorry, but you'll have to pass us and run on ahead." The rider didn't stop, and only moved forward passing Mifune. Mifune reached out to grab the guy's hood, then his eyes went wide as he pulled. The rider, who seemed to be a middle aged man, was dead. His mouth was agape, and he had a large senbon in his throat. Dried blood was pooled around his mouth, giving the hint that he had been dead for a while. Mifune turned back to the carriage to shout: "He's
Dead-", But his voice cut out before he had the chance.
The carriage had stopped, and Machante and Ibara stood with their kunai drawn. In front of them, two figures blocked their path.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:07 pm
Mifune rushed to Machante's side, Ibara on her opposite side. "Driver, get her inside..." Hidi struggled, but she was soon locked up inside the carriage, her yelling still reaching their ears. Machante called out to the two men, trying to get them to leave. "Stand down! We are merely passing through, please move!" Machante took a breath afterward, struggling to not immediately put her hand at her side. Her wound was starting to bleed again. All that walking put too much pressure on the wound, and it was bleeding lightly again.
The two men were whispering to each other until Machante said something, then the red haired man laughed. "Hah! Merely passing through? Give us Hidi or we'll kill you all, with the exception of Hidi, of course." Mifune stepped forward. "Get out. You won't be warned again."
The two began to form hand signs, and then they grabbed each other's shoulder. "Katon-Suiton, Twuju!" A stream of fire and water shot from the two's hands, and it flew right at the carriage. The shinobi refused to dodge for Hidi's sake. Mifune's sword case immediately slammed down onto the stream of fire, disappating it with one swing. Ibara's electricity Jutsu travelled up the blue haired man's arm and diffused the jutsu, doing no extra damage. "Get real. You guys are way out of our league..." Mifune slammed his metal sack onto the ground then took a single katana out. He unsheathed it, and charged the two. The red haired man met his challenge, and ran at him with his own katana. Ibara circled around to the side to fight off the blue haired man. Machante backed up against the carriage and slowly formed hand signs. The fight had to be split up from this point.
"When are you guys gonna call it a day?"
"We just want the girl, give us HIDI!!"
As Mifune unsheathed, he swung at the guy's neck, but missed. The red-haired man fell to the ground and aimed a kick at Mifune's gut. Mifune felt the kick collide, and he flew backwards but caught himself before falling onto Machante. "Sorry..." He said with a whisper. He rushed right back into the fray and threw his sheath at the guy, throwing his sword immediately after it in a straight line. The redhead deflected the sheath to the side and pinged the sword up into the air with his handguard.
Mifune took his chance and aimed both legs at the guy with his clogs in front. An overhead strike with his katana forced Mifune to change his attack and use his clogs to block it. As he fell to the ground, the guy got closer and in his face. "Heha! Your gonna die, your gonna dieeeee~!!!"
He sang the last part, pissing Mifune off. As the guy got within inches of Mifune's face, he took his chance and spit the toothpick into the guy's face. With a howl of pain and anger, He jumped backwards, tearing at his face and trying to remove the toothpick.
***
Ibara aimed a solid punch at the guy's face, but was tripped before he could land the hit. As he fell, he placed his hand on the ground and flipped back onto his feet. "Tch..." He said, rushing back to deliver an electrified punch at his stomach, faking, then delivering a regular elbow strike to the guy's chin. Angered, the blue haired man retaliated with a stab from his odd weapon. Ibara jumped back, his leg having been sliced by the weapon. "Mifune!" Ibara shouted, grabbing at his leg.
***
Mifune jumped back towards his Katana case, and nodded at Ibara's yell.
"Got it!" Mifune yelled, slinging the katana out of the sack and letting them fall to the ground. All the swords clanged and slid perfectly into the ground. Mifune's toothpick was thrown back at him, but not hard enough to stab. Mifune grabbed it and stuck it back into his mouth with a grin.
The redheaded guy was pissed, his eye bleeding profusely. Both of the redhead's hands were consumed in fire. "Katon, Fisu Yari!" The Blue haired man opened his palms and water swirled around them, covering it in liquid. Mifune stepped back next to Machante, a grin on his face. "Those idiots are already dead. They left out one fatal flaw..." Machante looked grim and turned away. "I don't wanna watch it again."
Mifune turned to her with an odd look. "Again...?"
Ibara grinned, limping away from the two assailants and aimed both of his hands at them. "Hah, this is what I talked to Mifune about last night... This was the whole reason we were chosen for this mission... Raiton,
Rai-Katana!" Ibara's hand were raised into the air, and electricity bolts shot from them. (Think Majin Buu's Genocide move where he raised his hand and killed everyone on earth).
Ibara's hand slowly fell by his side, and the two men looked around oddly, then back at him. "So? Feh, forget it, just die."
They raised their hands and fired, but the lightning struck down from the sky, using the katana as lightning rods and causing the three mixtures of elements to send an explosion in the entire area. Mifune didn't flinch, he didn't move his hands over his eyes, he didn't turn away. Ibara watched with no expression as the two were torn apart by their own jutsu backfire.
***
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:07 am
Jake found himself a nice tree and relaxed, his head on his hands.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:38 am
***
"They were Jounin..." Mifune blinked awake. He hadn't move, 3 minutes even after the explosion. He took it all in, then zonked out. It took him a minute to stabalize himself, and turn to Ibara. "What?" He asked, blinking several times. Ibara sighed, having kneeled down and picked something up, showed it to Machante and Mifune. "They were Jounin. Here's their headbands... They were from the Waterfall..." He dropped the bloody thing back onto the ground, disgusted. "Lets go..."
***
After picking up all of his Katana, Mifune took Machante's place in front of the carriage, and Machante sat inside with Hidi. The guards and driver opposed to this, but Ibara and Mifune got them to understand the circumstances... wink
Ibara looked over at Mifune, and said: "If you learn anything from this entire mission, what would it be?" Mifune looked behind him, and shrugged. "I don't know... I guess... No matter who you are, we're just human, and we can die easily... Those Jounin had lists upon lists of jutsu, but they were cocky, and made one false move too many."
Ibara nodded, seeming to take it in, then said: "Yeah, thats right, but look at it from this angle. You, I, Machante, and Hidi are still alive because of their F*ck-up. Appreciate that. Someone else is rooting for us on the sidelines, I'm sure..." Mifune gave him an odd look. "Sidelines...?"
***
After returning Hidi to the Feudal Lord's castle in the Mist, Mifune and the rest of the group returned back to the Cloud village. Unbeknowst to them, a dark plot was developing, and they would be the pawns in a much bigger game... -Mission... Complete
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:27 pm
a clone of futashi was waiting in one of the rooms for some students to come in. he was reading a book, and this anbu clone had his mask off. he was in the teachers chair, still waiting.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:29 pm
[Enters from Main Gate]
Sho walks up to the enterance of the Acadamy and looks around the grounds just taking in everything. He then moves up to the front door and walks in. Steping inside he turns and shuts the door behind himself.
Sho drops his bag and looks around for anyone who may be in charge.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:31 pm
the clone looks at sho then back at the book. he then smiled. "please take a seat. i will be testing you with some stuff." he said, not looking at him.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:45 pm
Jake arrived in the class...late, "Hey, whens the genin exam?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:51 pm
the clone smirk when he herd the genin exams, but sighed. "well.....our raikage is not here. and our co-owner right now is not around. so we have to wait for another week. im sorry but you will have to wait." he said, still reading his book. he then turn the page.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:54 pm
Jake sighed, "Another week?...cant we like, send them a message or something by the hawks?" he asked hopefully
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:56 pm
Jake, getting bored of the class, left the academy, heading to the main gates, seeing if anyone intresting would enter.
[exit to BORDER GATE]
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:40 pm
Sho looks at the man behind the desk and says, "Sir, I have traveled many weeks to get here. I am hungry, tired, and would like to check in and maybe get my room before I take any tests if that is possible. Also ... you should look a person in the eye when you talk to them. That is a sign of respect .... sir."
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