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 Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:22 pm
Tsuzuki looked at him carefully. He didn't show any usual signs of lieing but she knew that anyone could cover up any physical response to lieing if they tried hard enough. But, keeping him in this cage wouldn't help her gain his trust enough to look at the scroll. She nodded and answered, "Fair enough. I'll free you from this cage and help you get away from the Fire Benders that persue you. But, only if you let me look at this scroll. I swear I won't take it."
After a moment's silence, she put her palm up against the ice and said, "Here, I'll show you that you can trust me."
She began to work heat into the ice and, only minutes after, the water from the ice was trickling back into the river. "Don't worry," she said sincerely, "I don't want them to get the scroll any more than you do."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:46 pm
Jing smirked, now that he was out of the cage he held the cards. "I'd be glad to show you the scroll," he replied, "but only if you can give me some clothes."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:51 pm
Tsuzuki shook her head. He really thought that he held all of the cards. "I only have girl's clothes but that should mean that they'd be perfect for you," she said with a grin.
She then put her hand up in the air and held a small ball of fire, "You might want to let me see the scroll or this ball turns into a steady jet that I can use to signal the Fire Nation terrorists that are after you. Then, they can either burn the scroll or send it off to the Fire Lord to help the Fire Nation in the war. Either way, you lose. Unless, you let me see the scroll and, then, I'll lead you to a safe spot."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:05 pm
Jing couldn't help but chuckle at the girls bravado. "I may have spent the last few weeks high off Cactus Juice, but even I know the war hasn't started.....yet. Besides what's the firelord going to do about it? he's practicly dead, and Kuzons to much of weakling too even try and sart a war.
"Anyway you wouldn't dare call the Ibiki," He said patting Kazuki, "unless of course you want him to die."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:10 pm
She shook her head, "The Fire Lord isn't going to start the war. Another, independent party, is. Probably these 'sons of Ibiki' you're talking about. The Fire Lord has no idea about any of it. And, he'll be able to get away. I do have a hiding place not far from here."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:18 pm
Jing sighed he was far too tired to bend, and without his bending there was no way he could take the Ibiki on his own. reluctantly he handed the child the scroll.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:26 pm
She took it gracefully and tucked it into the sash around her waist. She looked around and motioned with her hand as she said, "Follow me. We don't have much time."
She raced across the river. The deepest it got was only one foot at the center so the crossing was fairly easy. She then lead them through the trees on the other side, the branches wacking her from each direction before they reached a clearing where a dirt road lay. A little way down the road, there was a post with many bulitins on it. There were some about nobles coming to power, events that were taking place in nearby towns, and a few posters highlighting fugitives on the run but none of these were what she was looking for. Eventually, she found it: the sheet of directions. She scanned it quickly and pointed south, "This is the way we've gotta go."
Before she left to lead them further on, she saw that, under the list of directions, there had been a poster with her face on it as a fugitive of the Earth Kingdom. She quickly tore it down and stuffed it in her sash along with the scroll.
Tsuzuki then lead them into the forests until they reached a small cave opening in the base of a cliff. She lead them into it as she said, "This is what we're looking for. We'll be safe in here for as long as we need to hide."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:48 pm
Kazuki glared at the airbender but he sighed as he noticed the large gourd of water on his back was only half full. "Great, thats a problem....." he thought as he watched the airbender. "Tsuzuki. I think we should follow him and see this through, personaly I want to see these fire benders. If they are as strong as he says they are then I want to see it for myself." Kazuki said walking into the cave his hands in his pockets.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:09 pm
Tsuzuki shook her head, "We don't want to get involved with these guys. The sons of Ibiki are dangerous; very dangerous and we shouldn't be messing with them. If we fought them, we would lose."
She then unraveled the crumbled poster she had taken and looked at it, reading to herself:
Name: Tsuzuki Okami
Age: 15
Gender: Female
An enemy of both the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation; this girl is very dangerous and should be delt with by the proper authorities. If you have any information, contact the nearest officer.
She crumbled it up and lit it on fire. It would best be left for later.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:18 pm
Kazuki shook his head and smiled "Oh please we can take them. Besides they already think your dangerous when your not. Also your techniqaly my bride which makes you untouchable unless they want the water nation to take the opposite side. Right, so lets play along and find out what going on." Kazuki said as he keep walking.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:27 pm
Tsuzuki stopped and shook her head, "You don't get it, do you? These are Fire Nation extreemists. They kill everyone who's not a Firebender. They kill people who're for the Avatar. And they'll kill me for being a fugitive of the Fire Nation."
She sighed and continued, "I wouldn't put it past them to be the ones starting the war in the first place."
After a moment of silence she looked up, worried and angry, "They've committed mass amounts of genocide on many different people from all nations. If we go and face them, we'll either be slaughtered or taken as prisoners like him."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:32 pm
"Thats the fun of it Tuszuki, you never know I could be one of them and we just say where a gang of Firebenders." Kazuki said smiling and then faced her. " Look we play the part of bounty hunters go in get some info come out peice of cake. We just need the prisoner, which is were air boy comes in. You can where my Blue Fox Mask, they know the blue fox of the artic is not to be messed with. I have title around the world. Since you are wearing that I will also play the roll of a prisoner, I just will fix my clothes and make it look like I was a Earth bender. By using the water molecules in the air to lift a rock and fight that way." he said smiling
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:49 pm
Tsuzuki shook her head, staying firm, and continued to walk down the cave, "There's an exit through here soon that's next to a small village. We'll be safe there. After we make ourselves comfortable for a little bit, you can go bashing your brains out against the Sons of Ibiki but the Airbender's coming with me to Amayen. I have some unfinished buisness I need to attend to."
She thought briefly of Baolin and smiled. She missed his wit and yet also missed his simplistic lifestyle. Maybe she only thought that way because he didn't appear to travel much and he was also a nonbender. She may be a little biased in that way but she didn't know anyone who wasn't.
Tsuzuki sighed, letting her weariness show briefly, before snapping right back to her hard exterior. 'I can't show weakness. Not now,' she thought, 'I have to be strong and find a way to be accepted into the Fire Nation again. This is turning out wonderfully, isn't it? I've been banished from the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom thinks that I'm a fugitive. And, now, I'm starting to push the Water Tribe away for fear of anything familiar. Why, Tsuzuki, why do you have to be like this? Why can't you just accept things how they are?'
She stared back at Kazuki for a moment and sighed inwardly but still continued to keep a hard expression, 'He acts like he owns me now,' she thought bitterly while going further still into her brief anger and sadness, 'If that keeps up, this 'engagement' won't last for long. We're not technically engaged anyway. It was just for pretend, right?'
She continued her thoughts after another brief sweep of the cave in front of them with her fire. She felt the betrothal necklace in her pocket, 'I could purposely loose it. Maybe that would shut him up. I'm too young to be married anyway. I don't want to be tied down. If we did end up getting married, I'd probably just abandon him anyway which would probably give the Water Tribe reason enough to hate the Fire Nation. He's high enough up in the chain that I could see that happening. Then again, I'm pretty high up there too. I can't believe it! Why can't things just stay simple for once?'
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:31 pm
Kazuki sighed as he keep walking. "I wounder why she has to be so stuborn." he said as he started to run the other way. Kazuki keep running through the forest and stopped at a river. "I hope she did not think I was being controling. I should applogise but I am not going to she should trust me I have been pulling stunts like this for a long time." Kazuki said filling his large gourd and then walked into the slowly moving river and started to undress changing into an all black suit, then put a blue fox mask over his face.
He put his Katana in his obi and then the large gourd over his back and grabbed his bag of clothes and took off for the village to follow her from a far distance he knew something bad was going to happen soon he had a feeling. He then stoped as he saw a claw mark on a tree, Kazuki walked towards it but the marks seemed to have burned wood around it. "Fire benders and this is fresh." he said leaping into the tree and started to leap from tree to tree to reach the cave.
"They must have followed the air bender and now are after Tsuzuki. Just my luck we trick her parents and now she is going to die." he said runing pass flyers of Tsuzuki's face. "Oh great flyers too. I hope I am not too late."
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:17 am
arrow Treetops, following Tsuzuki
The figure moved silently, and only when a slight wind rustled the branches, so as to be undetectable to sight and sound... oddly enough, it didn't give off much of an energy signature larger than a bird's, either. Blending and flowing, it had tracked the firebender, airbender, and waterbender. It seems I found more than just a fight... today was an excellent day for an outing. How very curious...
Two crimson and gold eyes peered out from beneath the hood of a gray-mottled cloak, singed at the edges and scarred by blades...
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