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 Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:03 am
The group had looked at each other for a moment, almost as if there was some level of disbelief at what the girl was asking them. A thin man with a gnarled scar that dove down under his chin and ran halfway down his throat looked at Uani to answer her.
“It’s closed because it’s ******** broken, you dumbass.” He snarled, though the man with the young girl on his knee just grinned, he continued to pet the girl’s hair as his gaze fell on Uani.
“Now now, there is no need for that, clearly the girl is from out of town… so naturally she would be curious about the major landmark of this town. Aren’t you, my dear?”
The old man broke into a cackle that was cut off by a wet cough before he paused and spat something out of his lungs. He turned back to Uani.
“The tower is actually the bell tower of a cathedral that this town once had until it sank. It was said that it was carved by the hands of the sage of six paths himself, and the bells were blessed by the monks of that man. The bells are gone now and needless to say that the building is long sense closed and rendered condemned for demolition. You best stay clear of there, little missy… we wouldn’t want such a… lovely… young thing like you to get hurt now.”
Most of the men had relaxed, convinced that this girl was far too dimwitted to be a threat of any kind, though the two burly men that stood behind the old man still had their hands in their coat pockets, looking as though they had something in this hands and ready to use.
“Can’t say as though I’ve seen your friend.” The old man continued. “But you could stay with us until you find him… we’ll take good care of you.”
“Maybe the Flayer got him.” One of the others said before most of the rest of the group burst into laughter, though this wasn’t a joking laughter as it was much more sinister and malicious. It was as though they were laughing at someone they hated having a great misfortune brought onto them. The young girl on the man’s lap flinched at the mention of this Flayer, she squirmed a little uncomfortably until the old man grabbed a handful of hair and roughly pulled on it, settling her down. Though the girl was still obviously shaken, she seemed to obey the silent warning from the old man.
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:21 pm
Location: Senju Compound ~~~~"Every failure is a chance to improve yourself...
~~~I'll never give up until I'm the best that I can be!"~~~~~~~Uani Theme: Kiseki Hajimari
As the man with the scar yelled at her, Uani seemed to nearly jump out of her shoes. It was clear that the man frightened her, or at least that was what Uani wanted them to think......Nah, he really did scare her a bit there, she wasn't expecting him to be so hostile. However, the creepiest creeper of them all seemed to be much...nicer? Yeah, thats what she'd call it, being nice...
As the old man mentioned the sage of the six paths, Uani tilted her head quizzically, raising an eyebrow at the mention of the name. It seemed like she didn't even recognize it, she just had a complete blank look on her face about her. It was another great deception on her part, made more easy by the fact that she truthfully had no clue.
"The sage...of six paths? Who's that, does he build roads or something? Well, I guess its not that important, if its just a broken down building, I'll just stay away!"
Uani put on a bright, clueless smile as she spoke, forcing herself not to react to the way the creeper called her a lovely young girl. The more clueless she made herself seem, the less these guys would be expecting the shift kick to the face that she could deliver. Uani did get an interesting bit of information though...the Flayer...she wondered exactly what this thing was.
"Flayer? That doesn't sound too nice...what is it?"
Uani noticed a bit of a reaction from the girl as this Flayer thing was mentioned. Uani looked towards the girl, the friendly smile still on her face as she spoke to her.
"You don't know anything about this Flayer thing, do you? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize how rude I was being! I didn't even introduce myself! My name's Uani, what's your name?"
Uani hoped she could get this girl talking, hopes she could get her to ask for help so she had a reason to help her. And if this Flayer thing had anything to do with the tailed beast they were searching for, she would hopefully have valuable knowledge about it.
-------------------------Status------------------------- General Mood: Creeped out...
Actions: Trying to pretend I'm not creeped out...
Thoughts: Being bait sucks...I should remember that for later...
Accompanying/Accompanied by: Inari Aramori
Techniques Kekei Genkai - Photon Shift (A)
Ninjitsu - Henge (E)
Genjutsu
Taijutsu - Soryuken (C)
Soryuken: Counter Stance (D)
Soryuken: Shift Axe Kick (E)
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:39 am
The girl didn’t respond to Uani, she didn’t even look up to catch the smile that was being offered her, the girl seemed broken and seemed to have given up on everything. The old man looked down at the girl before returning his gaze to young female shinobi. An almost sick smile crossed his face. “I’m afraid she doesn’t say much anymore these days… she’s had some… unfortunate events happen in her life.” The old man explained with a hacking cackle. “If you want to know about the Flayer… it’s… kind of a local haunt in this town. Most everyone has a story about it, someone they know was a victim of the Flayer or someone’s friend of a friend saw it and barely escaped alive. I’m not much on the legends concerning this creature though. To my understanding, Mai here saw him… though she say anything about it.”
Every face in the group blossomed into a sick and damning grin as the girl started to tremble on the old man’s lap and tense, her hair fell to further obscure her face. Another of the gang spoke up, his voice was airy, as though he had to talk through his breath, this man’s lower face was covered in a wrap where multiple scars could be seen jutting up over the lip of it. “He comes from the south every night at 11:45pm to ring the bells of the tower, and every night at midnight the bells toll despite not being there. If you want to know more about the Flayer, you could ask Old Man Bonto, he claims he lost his family at the hands of the Flayer, he’s drunk him insane sense.”
The old man went back to stroking the young girls hair, the effect seemed to oddly calm her down a little bit. The old man leered at Uani while this discussion turned to ghost stories and urban legends. “That’s, unfortunately, all the information we can give you on the Flayer… at least for free. Everything has a price her, my sweet…”
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:15 pm
Location: Senju Compound~~~~"Every failure is a chance to improve yourself...
~~~I'll never give up until I'm the best that I can be!"~~~~~~~Uani Theme: Kiseki Hajimari
"...Unfortunate events? That doesn't sound very good at all. If there's anything I can do to help her..."
Uani was getting tired of playing this game with these men. It was like they were just trying to prove that they were bad people and she had to keep trying to ignore that and play stupid. But hey, being a kunoichi wasn't all about kicking peoples' asses. She had to remind herself to be patient. This Flayer business might actually be a good lead on the tailed beast they were looking for. It couldn't just be a coincidence that they were looking for a tailed beast and there were rumors of some strange monster in the area.
Uani listened to everything that the man had to say. The Flayer comes from the south every night at 11.45 to ring the bells at the tower...that meant the tower was definitely the place to go to wait for it. Though this Old Man Bonto that he spoke about was also a good lead. And this girl, Mai, if they could get her away from these creepers and get her talking, maybe she'd have information for them as well.
Then the next thing the man said set off every alarm that existed in Uani's mind. She was already chit-chatting with the worst kind of strangers, and now if she wanted more information, well she'd most likely be putting herself in even more danger. But Uani decided that she had to trust in Inari and her own abilities to get her out of a tight spot
"A...price? Well, I don't have have much money...hmm... But I really want to know! Okay then, how much is it going to cost?"
-------------------------Status------------------------- General Mood: Creeped out...
Actions: Playing stupid...its surprisingly easy...
Thoughts: This could go badly...I hope it doesn't go badly...
Accompanying/Accompanied by: Inari Aramori
Techniques Kekei Genkai - Photon Shift (A)
Ninjitsu - Henge (E)
Genjutsu
Taijutsu - Soryuken (C)
Soryuken: Counter Stance (D)
Soryuken: Shift Axe Kick (E)
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:19 pm
Inari
Aramori  Inari was growing very uncomfortable with the conversation. Not so much the topic Uani was sucking these guys dry when it came to info. The only thing she had given away was that they were from out of town he was her friend and her name was uani. Meanwhile they had gotten a lead on some monster called the flayer and a guy who had supposedly seen him. However the whole situation set off it's own alarms in inari's mind. He didn't like these people, he didn't like this town, he didn't like this situation. Every inch of his being screamed at him to just level the entire block, grab uani, and make a break for the nearest exit. Still she wanted to help this girl... unfortunate events pfft he's probably the reason...shady b*****d. he thought bitterly. Don't take everything so seriously
If you ignore the fun in life it slips away
and you miss out on your chance to truly live.
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:53 pm
A sickly smile bloomed across the old man’s face as Uani asked how much it was going to cost for the next bout of ‘information’ every alarm going off in the shinobi’s minds were pretty well right on. The old man eyed her up and down slowly one more time.
“Not a ryo dear… not a single ryo… Just follow me and we’ll get away from the prying eyes and ears so that when we give you the information it will be yours and yours alone. Why don’t you come right this way?...”
The slimy old man more or less threw the girl off his lap and stood up, placing a cane under his weight as he did so. The rest of the gang stood up as well and more or less made a slight parting of their bodies for the young Uani to get through.
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From the vantage point of the rooftops, Inari would be able to see all that was going on, at the same time, there was a slight movement in the window from the building across from him and two floors down. Two more windows over a flash of light was reflected from a small object, likely a small mirror or something similar, down the way a few more flashes of light traveled down a little ways before it disappeared altogether.
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:21 am
Inari
Aramori Inari's Eyes quickly darted away from Uani as he saw a flash go off and then another moving away from them. The first was obviously some sort of signal. The second likely someone leaving. He would have investigated Further, but right now Uani's safety was his first priority. As the man mentioned going someplace more secluded and everyone moved aside Inari Brought his hands together. He had to be ready, Uani couldn't move as well with baggage, he knew that much. So he had to be ready to cover her when she grabbed the girl. The old man had practically thrown the girl who had been on his lap. He would never let some sleaze ball like him, who obviously used and discarded whatever he felt like, lay a hand on uani. If it meant leveling this part of town Inari had no qualms in doing so. However he made sure to make a note of the second floor of the nearby building. He could investigate that later. Recon and tracking weren't hard for an aramori. They could find out what was going on with that story later easily. However first thing was first, it was time to deck this greasy old man. If anyone even reached for uani he would make sure they regretted it. Don't take everything so seriously
If you ignore the fun in life it slips away
and you miss out on your chance to truly live.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 6:26 am
Location: Senju Compound~~~~"Every failure is a chance to improve yourself...
~~~I'll never give up until I'm the best that I can be!"~~~~~~~Uani Theme: Kiseki Hajimari
As Uani saw the old man nearly throw the girl off his lap in favor of his new 'toy', namely herself, it was the hardest thing she ever did to hide her disgust. It was clear that Mai was just an object to him and nothing more, and he wanted to make Uani the same way. The fear that Uani had been feeling in her situation was gone. Not she was just angry...worse than angry. This old man pissed her off... She could only imagine what Mai had already gone through, and what he was planning to do to her... She didn't let her demeanor change, though Inari would probably take notice that she no longer had her hands gently crossed behind her back... She was tightly squeezing one of her hands, trying to force herself not to act.
"Really!? It won't cost me any money!? This must be my lucky day!"
Before she moved to follow the man, she made a slight signal to Inari. With her hands still behind her back hidden from the men, she crossed her hands, forming an 'X' with them behind her back. It was an Aramori symbol usually used when gathering information, though one didn't have to be an Aramori to guess its meaning. It meant she didn't want Inari to attack or follow her, most likely with her distracting the old man, she wanted Inari to try to rescue Mai.
Uani followed the old man into the back alleys where she would be completely alone. He was probably taking her someplace where he knew her screams wouldn't be heard... but that would work both ways, as if it came to it, his wouldn't be heard either. As she looked to the man, her bright, seemingly clueless emerald eyes and lighthearted tone of voice were hiding a darkness that was welling inside of her.
"So, mister, what other information do you have about this Flayer thing? And why did we have to come all the way here to talk about it, is it really that big a secret?"
-------------------------Status------------------------- General Mood: Pissed, but hiding it
Actions: Pretenting to be gullible and ignorant
Thoughts: I have this rising urge to crush this guy's throat...is that normal?
Accompanying/Accompanied by: Inari Aramori
Techniques Kekei Genkai - Photon Shift (A)
Ninjitsu - Henge (E)
Genjutsu
Taijutsu - Soryuken (C)
Soryuken: Counter Stance (D)
Soryuken: Shift Axe Kick (E)
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:26 pm
The old man didn’t seem too interested in answering Uani right away, and he wasn’t going alone it seemed, the rest of the men who were with him also seemed to gather and go along with him, either they thought that they might be getting something out of this or they were simply going to be a look out was hard to say, though these guys didn’t seem to hold any special interest in Uani like the old man did. Predators traveled in packs, it seemed.
They walked to the end of the street where one of the thugs raised his huge hand and knocked on the door, a few seconds later the door opened and all but two of the thugs disappeared into the darkness of the building, the remaining two stood look out at the door. From around the corner, Inari would be able to see a small group of men and women silently move with their backs to the wall, they seemed to have a uniformed look though from the distance that Inari was it, it was hard to tell if they were possibly rival gang members, the police force or some sort of vigilanty group that was in the area. The leader, a medium build man with a patch over his right eye and great sword in his hands, signaled for the others to stop, then gave another signal to which the woman at the back raised something and waved it briefly. It was hard to tell what they were doing, but these people also seemed to have it out for the old man who just disappeared with Uani.
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:49 am
Inari
Aramori Things had just become far more complicated. Inari was certain Uani could handle one old sleezebag but everyone else followed after him. On the bright side his jobe became far easier with the girl still on the ground outside. There were only two gaurds left now. That made things far easier. He was about to move when he noticed the heavily armed group approaching from nearby. "Yep action time..." he said. Placing his hands together he grinned. "Earth release: subteranian." he said before focusing his chakra around his body and jumping over the roof and into the ground vanishing from sight. It took him only moments to reach the two guards the ground around him turning to a liquid like substance at his touch instead of the hard rocky terrain. However the bits or rock still remained so he had to knock one or two aside less he lose an eye. Then a thought struck him... Taking a deep breath he launched himself from the ground spinning his body in mid air to plant two devastating kicks simultaneously to the jaws of both gaurds his hands gripping two heavy rocks to throw at and knock out any that got up afterwords. Once he landed he made his way over toward the girl. "Are you all right miss?" he asked. Then remembering her reluctance to answer before he sighed. "Actually never mind just know we're gonna get you outa here and lets leave it at that. Things are about to get all kinds of messy so get against the wall and stay there for a little bit." he said. Drawing his kunai he placed himself up against the wall of the alley waiting to see what this new party would do next. In his other hand he kept one of the large rocks. he could use it for defense, or worse case scenario he could always chuck it at someones head. Don't take everything so seriously
If you ignore the fun in life it slips away
and you miss out on your chance to truly live.
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Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 10:34 am
Location: Senju Compound~~~~"Every failure is a chance to improve yourself...
~~~I'll never give up until I'm the best that I can be!"~~~~~~~Uani Theme: Kiseki Hajimari
Uani had expected this old man wanted her to himself, and she thought she pulled off the naive little kid act enough so that the mad didn't have any fears about him. Thats why she was confused and quite upset when he had most of the men that were with him follow them. She would say it was just cowardly of him, but she had to admit it was smart, it was the only thing stopping her right now...
As Uani made her way through the door, she started counting her steps. She needed to know exactly how many steps it would take to get back to the door. Also she made sure it was a straight shot to the door. Just in case they decided to shut the lights out on her, she wanted to know how to get out. She had experienced what happens when she tried to shift blind before she was trying to be smarter about it this time. This was not the time to end up knocking herself out....
"Umm...mister? I thought you said you wanted to tell me the secret when we were alone... Why are all your friends here?"
Uani knew that she would be find as long as nobody got their hands on her. These guys were certainly heavy enough that she couldn't shift if one did grab her...and physical strength wasn't exactly her forte either...so if they did grab her she wasn't getting free... It would be easy to see even to the untrained eye that Uani was being a little more attentive to her surrounding than she had been before, almost like she was nervous.
-------------------------Status------------------------- General Mood: Regretting my decision...
Actions: Pretenting to be gullible and ignorant
Thoughts: Gotta be smart, or this will end badly...
Accompanying/Accompanied by: Inari Aramori, Creepy guys
Techniques Kekei Genkai - Photon Shift (A)
Ninjitsu - Henge (E)
Genjutsu
Taijutsu - Soryuken (C)
Soryuken: Counter Stance (D)
Soryuken: Shift Axe Kick (E)
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:21 am
Inari would see that the girl was broken, she was a more or less and empty shell and she gave him no response what so ever, in fact, she was so defeated to be away from that man that she was limp when he was interacting with her. This was the girl that he was risking his life for? Was she really going to be worth the trouble that both he and Unai were going through? Well, time would tell, but right now there were apparently some more important thing that Inari seemed to be investigating. The third party had yet to seem to make a full appearance but it was safe to say that they were still around. What was also still around were those goons that Inari round housed in the face. An ominous shadow was cast over the pair by one of the brutes who were more than happy to pay back the kid for the missing teeth that he now possessed. If Inari was paying some attention to his surroundings then he would notice those brass knuckles that were being swung at the back of his head…
Unai was having a few less problems where she was. The place that they were at twisted and turned a little bit and the deeper and deeper that the pair seemed to go into the building the less and less of the goons were hanging around until finally they were alone in a dingy old room in the center of the building. Unai would have no troubles getting out of here or remembering where the entrance was, thought the bodyguards of the old man might pose a problem if she wasn’t careful. The ‘door’ to the obvious bedroom was nothing more than a tattered cloth that was pulled shut by the old man who once more leered over the girl in front of him, a boney hand with long fingers ran through Unai’s hair for a moment before starting to trail to her shoulders.
”Such a grim topic my dear, why don’t you make yourself more… comfortable, you must be hot in those clothes…”
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:17 am
Inari
Aramori Inari was definitely on edge, Uani was in danger, he wanted to go after the others and ring that sleazebags neck. However there was no way he could do it. There was allot more at work here. There was the group he had seen running among the upper levels of the buildings and now this mysterious and heavily armed third party. As a dark shadow loomed over the two Inari's expression changed from on of worry to one of anoyance. oh yeah then theres these bastards... he thought. Turning he dropped the kunai running his knuckles along the ground pulling up a chunk of rock with chakra. Then lifting his left hand he braced his arm blocking the brazz knuckles with the rock already in his left hand and using the momentum from the mans punch to drive his fist, followed closely behind by the chunk of rock, straight into the mans jaw. "GO DOWN!" he sneered angrily before planting his foot and driving the rock in his other hand between the mans eyes for good measure hopefully knocking him down and out for a good long while. Don't take everything so seriously
If you ignore the fun in life it slips away
and you miss out on your chance to truly live.
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:10 pm
Location: Creepy guy's bedroom...~~~~"Every failure is a chance to improve yourself...
~~~I'll never give up until I'm the best that I can be!"~~~~~~~Uani Theme: Kiseki Hajimari
Uani's heart sunk more the further into this building they went. It wouldn't be simple to escape now at all...Sure she could find her way out, but there would still be plenty of goons to get through. She was also getting further and further from Inari...yeah, she might have really been wrong on this one... As they made it to the center of the building and she saw that it was a bedroom, she could barely contain the creeped out feeling, it was like her skin was crawling... Uani let out a short yelp of surprise as the man ran his hand through her hair and down to her shoulders. She instinctively pulled away from him, though that had her crashing into the corner of the bed and falling over it to the other side. She quickly got up to her knees and moved to the opposite side of the bed from the old man.
Uani knew that this point she needed to fight her way out of there...she was wondering if she should scream for Inari or what... But she had a bit of an idea...While her hands were hidden from view behind the bed, she made a few handseals, preparing to use a henge, and as she did she looked up towards the old man, a scared look on her face and tears forming in her eyes.
"W-what are you doing, mister!? Y-you can't just touch me like that! And I'm not gonna take off my clothes! You said you had information for me, s-s just tell me and don't try anything! If you do...t-then...I-I'll have to d-defend myself"
Now the man had been warned, even if her warning was anything but forceful... If the man tried something, Uani would just be defending herself...as for getting out of there, yeah there were tons of goons, but she was an Aramori...not only that, she was the head of the Aramori clan! If she couldn't handle escaping nobody could...
-------------------------Status------------------------- General Mood: Really regretting my decision...
Actions: Pretending to be scared...yeah...just pretending...
Thoughts: If this doesn't go smoothly, I'm screwed...literally... *gulp*
Accompanying/Accompanied by: Inari Aramori, Creepy guys
Techniques Kekei Genkai - Photon Shift (A)
Ninjitsu - Henge (E)
Genjutsu
Taijutsu - Soryuken (C)
Soryuken: Counter Stance (D)
Soryuken: Shift Axe Kick (E)
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:35 pm
The old man just let that sick smile spread across his face for a few moments, he said nothing but took a few more steps towards her. There was a hacking chuckle from him. ”Ah yes~ you shall do… you shall do nicely.” The old man lunged at her intending to pounce, though his old body wasn’t as spry as it once, a fact made obvious by this speed and movement.
The brute who got a face full of cobble stone from Inari made a grab for his face and cried out in agony blood flowed from his broken nose and he staggered back, he didn’t go down but he seemed to more than a little preoccupied trying to make the pain go away, the second thug seemed to have gathered himself and had grabbed his knife and a metal pole from the street. It was obvious that he was going to make an example out of this kid.
He was stopped by shrill whistle and the pounding of footsteps. Three of the armed personnel that Inari had seen earlier came charging towards them.
”Hault, this is the police, everyone drop their weapons and drop to your knees, slowly place your hands behind your head and no sudden movements!” The voice seemed to come from a woman, though it was hard to tell under the uniform, the pikes of the halberds were pointed at the group that was scrapping in the streets. The thug that was still fully operational dropped his weapons and attempted to flee from the area only to be stopped by another group storming their way down the streets, leading them was a middle aged man with a patch over his left eye and a sword damn near as big as he was. He had a sour expression on his face and shot the thug trying to escape a glare.
The thugs face drained of color before he promptly dropped to his knees and slowly raised his hands above his head. The leader made a sharp turn, raised his boot and slammed it into the door, causing it to fall off its hinges. ”Squad two and three stay here and secure the area, squad one come with me. We’re getting that girl out.”
”Yes Captain!” Came the unified response
The groups all split off and to where they were assigned, the Captain and his squad were disappearing into the building and taking out thugs that were in the way. Outside, a small group of guards had Inari, the girl and the two thugs surrounded with weapons pointed at them.
”You’re under arrest for assault, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law, do you understand?” The goons grumbled their yes’ though the girl remained mute.
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