"Ever the..." His sentence cut off as Kore careened from his side, in her zeal, into the structure below.
His fingers pinched the bridge of his nose between them and he rubbed the inner ridge of his brow for a moment before he let himself fall to the ground below. Cardinal eyes focused on the particular structure his compatriot had fallen into, and a stark realization fell upon him. They had traversed over a floating city. As he neared the opening Kore had lobbed herself into, he relinquished the haft of his Bident and focused force into his palms just long enough to bound through the air on the way down.
A pallor washed over his near porcelain flesh and the chakra turned his skin blue with each step he took through the cyclones of air created to slow his descent into the village beneath. Wilted petals of white and blue flowers spread from the currents as he landed within the building and turned through the halls. A deft hand and fleet feet quickly and quietly carried him after Kore.
"As I was saying, ever the contrarian. Immortality does not equate to Invulnerability, simply ask any of the Jotunn, or my brothers." The man said in a calm voice as he adjusted his shawl, as the sound of clutter falling could be heard in the room they had both fallen through just moments before.
With a small flourish of his hand and a gathering of chakra among the motions made, his bident would be carried back through chakra enriched winds into his grasp. His eyes narrowed as he looked down the hall and attempted to reconcile where they were.
[ Techniques Learned: Wind Levitation [ Kaze Fuuchuufuyuu ] R:E, Retrieving Wind Technique [ Toridashi Kaze no Jutsu ] R:E, Wind Release Stream [ Kouryuu ] R : D, Flower Scattering Dance [ Hana Chirimai ] R:X[ B ] ]
Torture Me Softly
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:19 am
pup pup pupโฉ.Blessed is a mortal for they've nothing to lose.โฉ
"Oh, my." A glimmer in the rightmost corner of his eye a salicious, if not hungry gaze. Behind the oriental fan did a man momentarily lick his lips. For you see as the airheaded child did enter the hall would she bump into this fellow and for the moment would his unfound and uncomfortable aura emit itself in a momentary eclipse of the halls before fading. However, footsteps did imply another was on their way. Gaze was averted and shifted toward the other. Politely would he step aside as the ally spoke. Uninvited did this mysterious man who bore witness to the damage dealt and done chime in. "That depends on the 'type of immortality in question.' Or rather whomst its attached to. Mhmm hmm. Some say with enough faith once dead gods can return and be entirely unphased by the ilk of something so common as physical injury from the material." The man whom was currently sporting a disguise was one Senran Kaguya.
The sheer chaos this village had undergone not mere whiles ago had made an infiltration much simpler than anticipated. Many of those sensory types were sent to that gaudy tower that supposedly monitored the perimeter of the village. Deaths upon the dockyard made the collection of a plated insignia a simple game of pick up. What with ships absconded, beasts released unto house and home, and other invasions such as the yokai this haven what their leader believed a heaven was seeming more an more akin to a hell. What better place for a mortal man such as himself. How tantalizing was the pure aroma that exuded from the girl. It was almost enough to drive him into a stir but while he always enacted on what he wished to do, what he wished would be better saved for a more private endeavor. Had this bident bearing boy not been here how differently things would have played out. Oh, my how differently they would. Yet the blessings the girl received she if having the ability to should count them. So thusly would the man move past them into the very room they desecrated acquiring a scroll to peruse to sate the feeling that welled within him to try and orchestrate his magnum opus...yet as tantalizing as the wafting aroma of innocence was...there was something of an after scent. An after scent that DISGUSTED Senran. A shiftiness in his eyes looking back. As if implying knowing something. Then back to the paper. His appetite spoiled. Training Logged
---------------- Chakra:1390/(Reduced To 1390 Max Until Kotoba Targets Are Released)1430Stamina:1430/1430Exp: 2028/2028
โTriviaโ Personal Attributes: [8] Class [2] Natural [1] Event [Natural] โข Ambiguous Aura: Inherently Senran is an individual who seems to be a mystery when it comes to motivations and intentions. As such any technique or ability that would force the truth out of himself or discern lies is ultimately for lack of a better term 'scrambled' when it comes to the effectiveness of discernment. โข Hands What Weaved The Threads: Senran may perform techniques with single hand signs.
[Class] โข He Who Was Allured by Misery: Senran has an internal radar that can discern if an individual is for the most part 'miserable' or suffering from the weights of grief or traumas. While he does not know specifics he can discern just how much an individual carries within them to varying degrees. โข He Who Was Once Insatiable: Senran has attained the ability to 'feed' off the auras of those who are indecisive, insecure, arrogant, unconfident, or uncertain. Scenarios wherein an individual is not thinking calmly or rationally. When scenarios present themselves that fit this criterion his rate of resource regeneration doubles and aesthetically he appears to be able to make visible and inhale these 'fumes'. Subsequently, when doing so in a casual setting individuals seem to start feeling slightly better after he has 'eaten'. Senran can sustain himself without normal mortal nutrition by doing this. โข He Who Once Reigned Over Choice: In instances where there are two choices presented Senran can immediately discern what choice the individual will make. For example. If an individual is attacking and they begin to think "Should I strike then retreat." or "Strike and persist" Senran will inherently know which it is the individual is going to take at times even before the individual. Alternatively, this works for mundane choices as well and it is with this knowledge he will often make individuals deviate. I.e an easily irritable person deciding between fruits Senran will know he will select the banana but brings this up, as such the man picks the other fruit out of spite. โข He Whose Flames Burnt Threads: When using Katon the rate at which a Burning Status becomes the Burned status is lessened by [1] post โข He Whose Words Could Kill: When using Chikara Kotoba {Words of Power} Senran may imbue an element into the word so that it is treated as such in collisions โข He Who Spoke In Riddles: Senran can invoke or revoke the powers of his Chikara Kotoba {Words of Power} by simply stating the word or words in of themselves. This still consumes chakra and activations to do so and must be heard not unlike a Genjutsu. Emphasis must be made on the spoken Chikara Kotoba. โข He Who Broke Babels Curse: Senran understands and speaks any and all languages even those that are obscure. As such he can even speak the animal tongues. โข He Who Would Bait Breath: When using and activating a Chikara Kotoba that affects an individual in a compulsory manner the effects of it may be delayed for as long as the reserved pool spent on the word remains active until the point he desires to activate it. [Event] โข He Who Made Word Law: Allows the Weaponization and interaction of certain Chikara Kotoba. For example, the Kanji for Umbrella looks somewhat like an umbrella with a handle. Senran may grab this 'handle' and ultimately turn the word into a weapon that would be swung.
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"Oh no. Oh nooo." Nozomi buried her face into her hands as her chopsticks falls onto the desk below. Her clone just returned and oh my gods. What was going on!? Her face was so red that her hair was pale in comparison. She screamed into her palms which was muffled and no one would be able to hear it. Did... did she utter those words? "What did I just say, I cannot believe that. I would never say- Oh, s**t I'm saying out loud whatever is on my mind. Just great. Perfect. I should go hole up in my apartment while I can-" Her head remove itself from her hands as a loud crash vibrated throughout the hallway. "I cannot decide if I should check it out in case we are under attack, it could be a student training, or... Ugh. Why am I saying everything I'm thinking out loud!? I cannot do this. With this... odd thing, I can't just go out there and investigate. I have a job to do, however. I haven't quite left Arashigakure and I need to protect my students and my teachers." With a wince, she got up from the desk as she left the food behind. She only had a few bites. "Please, for the love that's all good, let it just be a student practicing.." Slid open her office door, her head poke as she only can see a bit. She needed to leave the office. "I'm quite scared to leave my office..Like a coward." Nozomi whispered under her breath. Whispering! She could do that! The red-haired glanced back into her no longer haven, "Curses, I left my mask at home.. Damn it all. I can't be hiding behind this doorway as if I'm some kind of child."
Walked towards the group, she saw three people she had never noticed yet. Well, make that four. The other one was leaning up against the doorway a bit further down. Her face stopped being crimson red a few seconds ago as her golden hues glanced up towards the hole in the roof as she sighed softly before looking at the three of them. "Right now, school isn't in session. The teachers went home for the day. However, the Academy is always welcome to teach those that are willing to learn, please refrain from causing damages on the structure. What are you three beautiful creatur- GAH." She covered her hand over her mouth as she mumbled a few more things before clearing her throat and coughing a few times. "Where are you from? I don't think I have seen you around here. Are we under-" Then Nozomi sputtered as she fights against the bloody curse, she didn't want to reveal the assumption of Arashi being under attack! Again. For the .... she lost count.
"Seduced by the charm in a charlatans arms If you don't know the mark you were it from the start..."
"Admirer is too strong of a word. I'm still trying to figure out who the ******** the drunk b*****d is, or how in the hell he's got such a cutie like you hanging off of his every word. Then again... Maybe spending some time with him would get me in the same graces." Kanjuro said as he kicked the bottom of the door and slid it open with a well-practiced motion.
Hands thrust into his pockets, he shrugged as he entered the room and sighed, avoidant of the gaggle of knuckle-draggers who crashed into the hall he just escaped. His eyes narrow as he adjusted the cigarette in his lips and crossed paths with Kagerou.
"How drunk is he, still got his kidneys?"
"Their profit, their yield, so repulsive to me I could not ever be just a pawn in the scheme.
"Hmph," Kagerou pretended offense at Severin's accusation, but the smile she had said that she didn't actually care, "excuse you, I was just here to make sure Nozomi was eating properly when I just happened to see you." A hand raised to gesture to Severin's side, where he would see a bento box. The two-stack of thin plastic boxes was wrapped in a green cloth. "Lucky coincidence, too," Kagerou explained, no longer teasing now but still smiling, "That's your share. Make sure you eat well while I'm away from the village, please?". She could, honestly, spend hours lecturing him on his self destructive habits, his nihilistic sloppiness, and everything else. However, right now at least, she would just be happy if he would watch out for his health even a little. Such way of thinking was depressing, however, and in a joint effort to think happier and also to get Severin to maybe smile a little bit, Kagerou joked around from a safe distance, "And also, I beg to differ. The popularity of the brooding tall, dark, and handsome is not to be underestimated. There are already rumors circulating around the hospital about the mysterious newcomer."
Several crashes followed right on the heels of Kagerou's words. First, the brusque entrance of the smoking individual that Kagerou's clone had invited in. Then, the crash landing entrance of a certain pink haired intruder and the sound of a more controlled landing by her guardian. Kagerou did not have a clear view, or much a view at all, of the latter two crashes. However, familiar with all the hijinks at an academy, she benignly assumed that the ruckus was from some sort of technique mishap.
As for the former, Kagerou met his eyes as they crossed her gaze, red orbs locking onto the other's blue slits as she smiled amiably. He was rough, but keen, and probably softer on the inside than he gave away, or at least that was Kagerou's first impression. Breaking eye contact with Kanjuro but watching for his reaction with her peripheral vision, Kagerou giggled light and short as she addressed Severin, "Oh wow, this doesn't happen often, Sev. Not only am I wrong, someone is actually hitting on me when we're in the same room." She gave one last short laugh before bouncing her eyes back to Kanjuro.
Making no attempt to hide that she was studying him, she answered his question, "The one with bad posture, Severin's, kidneys appear functional, but I do wish he would stop testing their limits." While he was sleeping, it hadn't been obvious that Severin had been drinking. As soon as he wok up, however, the confusion apparent in the glare he shot at her had led her to the same conclusion as Kanjuro. Severin had been drinking... again, and though she was worried for it, she hid her concerns behind a smile so that it wouldn't bother him.
Her eyes, once more, glided from Kanjuro to look Severin in the eye. With one green eyebrow raised, Kagerou lightly asked, "Though, I am curious, Severin. How did you get so drunk you couldn't even remember where you fell asleep without smelling even the slightest like it?"
A quite mumble of "I'll try" was all that could be heard from Severin as Kagerou asked for him to take care of himself in her absence. And he would certainly try, but ultimately fail the longer she was gone. The white haired male carefully grabbed the boxes of food offered to him-- Kagerou wasn't an eccentric cook, but she was still a damn good one, and Severin cherished anything she made for him.
The loud crash of, what certainly had to be someone either going through the roof or the wall, caused a fairly hungover Sev to flinch painfully and intake a sharp breath. He glared in the direction of the sound, taking a moment to let the pounding in his ears subside before answering Kagerou. "I went to finally be put back in active duty, only instead of the ridiculous Kage you're always telling me about, someone else was there. I don't remember his name, but he was purple and had a mask." Severin made a waving motion towards his face, symbolizing the mask he was talking about.
"The guy made me some type of stupidly strong drink. Got me stumbling drunk in like one glass." Pushing the chair back, Severin stood and stretched, then let his eyes fall on the kid. The kid with a cigarette in his mouth, which despite not being the poster boy for taking care of your body, caused even the Raigyo's corner of his lip to twitch down in a quick frown. Is this how Inka had seen him? Young, stupid, brash...
No this was not the time to think of Inka, his head hurt and he didn't need his heart to follow.
"As the "cutie" told you, the drunk b*****d's name is Severin. Severin Raigyo. I've been friends with Kagerou for a very long time, she took care of me during a very hard time in my life." Rubbing his face, he turned back to Kagerou. "You're leaving already?" His tone was guarded, trying his best to block out the absolute uncertainty and anxiety pounding away beside the hangover. Severin didn't like when Kagerou was gone, the Kiritani estate became too quiet, as so too did Arashi. It's not like Kagerou hadn't tried to prepare him-- she had been telling him for a couple of weeks that she had intended to leave the village for some time.
It felt like just yesterday, however. The drinking probably didn't help the loss of time.
The Abyssal Blade Rank:Genin ็ฃๆฐ | Classes:Bukijutsu|Bloodline ๅ | Body Rank:A ๅ | Elements:Water,Wind
tabโWas it like this, thenโฆโ Thresher mumbled to herself. As she sat on the floor, with one knee up to her chest and one arm hanging from knee, the sharkgirl had a plethora of scrolls laid out before her. Most had the start of something written in them, but only one had full text inside. The last one was blank and unrolled right in front of the Genin. The girl let out a disgruntled sigh as she dipped her pen into the inkwell. Thresher had been doing her homework ever since she became a ninja. Training with old man Kai was helping her get a grasp on being a ninja. And learning how to Summon with Kameyo helped the wild child calm down a little and start to really focus on her chakra control. All in all, Thresher was starting to use her brain more, which is how she started doing what she was doing. The Genin specialized in weapons and for her age she was pretty damn fluent in the art. But she found that, the more styles she learned, the more weapons she needed. Hammers, mace, multiple swords, spears...chopsticks! After a while Thresher got tired of carrying them all. So she did some digging and found a solution, which was proving hard because Thresher had never learned to read or write. Fuuinjutsu was definitely something that didnโt make much sense to the girl. How does writing some symbols on a paper store a buncha weapons? She thought. Once again, for the hundredth time, she girl copied the contents of the filled out scroll into the blank one. She did it slow, trying to perfectly copy the text. It took her a few dozen minutes, but after some aggravating time she did it! โAn' with the seal constructed, place the item on top and focus yer chakraโฆโ She read from the instructions. Thresher did as instructed, placing a large hammer, two more swords, and a pair of chopsticks onto the scroll. Then, with a single handed sign, the Genin sent her chakra from her hand to the paper. In an instantaneous poof of smoke, all of her weapons were gone! Thresher blinked in surprise; she didnโt think itโd happen so quickly. And, on close examination, there was a new inscription in the middle of the scroll. โI guess it workedโฆโ she mumbled to herself, still a little shocked.
โNow, where are they?โ She thought aloud, placing her hands on her hips as she looked around. It was a training day for her and the Twins. Thresher stood on the Academy grounds and had even changed into some training garb: a black loose fitting tank top and some cargo shorts. โI thought theyโd be here by now.โ She hummed, giving the air a sniff for any scents.
Techniques Learned: Base: Enclosing Technique Location x3: Unsealing Technique, Great Exploding Water Collision Waves, Bursting Water Collision Waves, Grudge Rain Bukijutsu x13: Two Swords Drawing Art: First Blood, Primary Stance, Secondary Stance, Shoulder Drop, Hidden Thrust, Blade Storm, Vortex Counter, Heavy Gale, Gale Force Twister, Flash Wind, Silent Breeze, Twin Blade Twister, Piercing Gale Bloodline x4: Water Shark Projectile Technique, Five Sharks Eating, Thousand Sharks Eating, Predator of the Ocean Suiton: Water Collision Destruction
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 2:55 am
Makoto & Itsuki Narukami Image:
| Makoto is the black haired one, Itsuki is the white haired one.
The Mad Twins
Slowly, the ambient sounds of the environment faded away. All sound in the room slowly turning into perfect silence, the only thing Thresher would be able to hear is her own breathing and heartbeat. Slowly, the whole room would grow pitch black as well; leaving no trace of light. Suddenly, the sweet scent of flowers would waft into the room. Following that: Beautiful, yet discordant, singing also found it's way into the the room. The sound had a calming sensation to it, though it felt eerie and starkly contrasted the utter lack of any other sounds. What made it even more eerie, is how it seemed to come from multiple locations at once; resonataing with itself unevenly, making the seemingly random singing slowly develope a pattern. At first, it started as a simple tune: Ichi, san, ni, shi. But slowly, it became more complex: Ichi, san, ni, shi, ichi, go. As the song went on, it became more and more complex: Ichi, san, ni, shi, ichi, go, ni, san, go, ichi. The pattern went on and on, becoming more complex as it went. It didn't pick up pace, it stayed as a slow and methodic sound; resonating throughout the room. As the song became more complex, something seemed to change inherently about the interpretable meaning. At first, it simply sounded like a song about learning your numbers. But slowly, it seemed to mean something much more complex. Words that were not numbers began to be mixed into the lyrics: Ichi, san, ni, shi, ai, ichi, go. The song seemed to become more about the love someone felt for another, though the slow shift in tone only made this somewhat... creepy. It stopped sounding so sweet, becoming somehow a little more... desperate. Like the wishes of a person about to die.
Slowly, the song became somewhat louder as the sounds of footsteps could be heard. Suddenly, the sound of a door opening cuts the song out entirely; leaving the whole room in pitch black silence. The sound of a door shutting seems to occur, though it's impossible to say from where. Quite abruptly, two pairs of glowing bright red eyes appear in the midst of the darkness; unblinkingly staring at Thresher, the glare of a predator emanating from them. Suddenly, the darkness around the eyes moved and shifted; becoming somewhat visually distinct from the rest of the darkness. Slowly, the now vaguely human forms seemed to act out... something. At first, it was just a pair of rather short, young looking almost, figures. They walked around the inky blackness, seemingly unware and uncaring of the great darkness surrounding them. Suddenly, the pair stopped as the glowing red eyes looked upon them. Quiet, nightmarish giggles seemed to eminate from the pair of shadows; filling the silent black with eerie laughter. A sudden movement could be both heard and somewhat seen a slight distance behind the shadows. They stopped giggling, and turned around to face the smaller shadow that seemed to move around quite sporiadically. The vague shape of the third shadow looked like a rabbit, and it appeared to find something on the ground. There was even the sudden scent of freshly dug earth as the shadow rabbit seemed to remove something from the ground. However, the rabbit didn't seen to notice the larger pair of shadows move towards it. Suddenly, as the pair grabbed hold of the shadow rabbit, a painfully loud squealing could be heard; seemingly coming from the shadow rabbit. Though it was hard to make out, the rabbit seemed to be putting up quite a fight; though it clearly couldn't keep up with the larger shadow pair. The second it stopped struggling as much, a tree appeared infront of the larger shadows holding it. They then slammed the rabbit into the trunk of the tree, causing it to squeal in pain. Again, the nightmarish giggling echoed throughout the darkness. The pair of shadows slowly reached into their inky blackness, retrieving what appeared to be kunai. The rabbit squealed loudly again, but was cut off by a sudden motion: The driving of the kunai into its' body.
A painful silence echoed throughout the darkness, the only sound being that of blood dripping; and the intense scent to pair with it. Slowly, the shadow pair turned around; dropping the rabbit's corpse. The pair looked at Thresher, their form slowly becoming acutely visible: It was Makoto and Itsuki. Though something was very wrong about their appearance. To start with, they were much younger; practically children. But they also had a tail trailing behind each of them, blood dripping from their hands, and horns coming from the top of their heads that spiraled upwards unevenly. Slowly, the monsterous pair walked towards Thresher; their eyes aglow, and utterly fixed on her. "Thresher..." the pair of them whispered painfully loud. "Come play with us..." They started chanting the words, their voices slowly becoming more and more monsterous. One moment, their faces were not visible: And the second they were again, an even more horrifying visage was to be shown. The form of a twisted dragon skull, covered in rotting flesh; giving off the scents as appropriate . The pair began to pick up their pace, moving towards Thresher with renewed fervor.
But suddenly, everything begins to slow down. The rampant, hungry motions of the little monsters before Thresher seeming to rapidly slow; almost to where she can perceive every single motion the creatures make. Though, for only a moment, it was impossible to tell if Thresher was simply reacting faster or if everthing else was simply slowing down. Until she heard her own breathing. With a painfully sudden shift, the darkness blinked out of existence: Taking the creatures with it. Sound began flooding in, horribly loud by comparison to the relative silence not even seconds before. Light returned, placing Thresher firmly back where she was; seemingly with almost no time change at all. Though now, the actual Narukami Sister's were standing several feet in front of her. Though their eyes still glowed red, and the air still smelled of blood. The both of them continued to stare at Thresher, unblinking. For a moment, it almost looked like they were going to lunge at her; but they didn't. Instead, a strange... blackness raced through their veins, causing the red glow of their eyes to suddenly shift partially violet. But as quickly as the change came, it left. But now their eyes weren't glowing. "... Where... are we?" Makoto said, looking around. "It... would appear we're in the academy." Itsuki said, her eyes oddly... unfocused. All of a sudden, Makoto spotted Thresher and her face lit up. The second before Makoto got to say anything, Itsuki quickly formed a handseal and Makoto lost her voice. Not that Makoto wasn't trying to talk, just that no sound escaped her lips. "Good... she's quiet." Itsuki says, a sigh of relief clearly passing from her lips. "Gods... I have a splitting headache..." Itsuki grabbed the back of her sister's robes, pulling her back towards herself.
Itsuki kept her sister under whatever silencing jutsu for a few more moments, clearly wanting to say something. "Thresher... What just happened? Something... feels off, and your face isn't helping fight the feeling. Something..." Itsuki suddenly cut off in the middle of her words, suddenly grasping the sides of her head as she doubled over in pain; nary a sound escaping her lips. Makoto quickly knelt down next to her, trying to help; but clearly unable to. Neither of them seemed able to speak, or make any kind of sound to begin with. Makoto held her sister tightly, clearly trying her hardest to help. But suddenly, she too fell over in pain.The two of them collapsed into eachother, literally fusing together slightly. Their eyes began to glow bright red again, but something felt seriously off this time; moreso than usual. They both turned to look at Thresher, tears streaming down their faces; which were contorted with pain. Suddenly, a blinding white flash eminated from their eyes; bathing Thresher in the static-filled light. Suddenly, Thresher would feel very strange. Like her blood itself grew heavy. Alongside this, the moment the light faded, the twins' eye's were unfocused: Seemingly staring off into nothing. In fact, their eyes looked... empty. The usual light to them, however sadistic it was, wasn't there. Their bodies appeared to be lifeless husks, doing nothing more than breathing. Though now that Thresher can actually get a better look at the twins, there seems to be a cut running along their right pinky fingers; which would explain both the smell of blood, and sound of the dripping from earlier.
(Learned: Shroud of Darkness, All Directions, Amplify, Nightmare Shadow, Leer of the Peculiar, Scent of the Peculiar, Scary Face Technique, Rotting Flesh Foul Smell Technique, Voice of Compromise, Moment of True Weakness)
"Seduced by the charm in a charlatans arms If you don't know the mark you were it from the start..."
"Hard as you drink, I'm guessing every time in your life is hard. Then again, livin' under Sir Bloop, we're all destined for hard times." The young Hojo said, with a sigh as he pulled another cigarette out from his pocket and flicked a lighter out from his sleeve to light it.
"But 'eh, it's whatever. You couldn't even finish a single glass o' whatcha had, I wanna drink of that, for sure. Now, seein' as you've given' your name, and the lasses, I'll give mine. I'm Kanjuro Hojo Ishikawa, a*****e extraordinaire." He chuckled, as he pulled out another cigarette and proffered it to the pair, should either of them be a smoker.
He approached the pair, still holding the cigarette out casually for either of them to take.
"Their profit, their yield, so repulsive to me I could not ever be just a pawn in the scheme.
Torture Me Softly
HeadlessKoko
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 4:28 pm
Kagerou wished she could stay longer to chat, her heart dropping a little when she heard the minute signs in Severin's tone that betrayed his dread, but also guiltily feeling a little happy to hear he would miss her. However, it really was time for her to go. No more teasing or bantering. She addressed Severin lightheartedly with a big smile, "Yep," as she turned around and opened wide the window she had been standing in front of. Facing the fresh breeze that blew in and masked the scent of cigarette smoke, Kagerou tried to reassure Severin's anxieties just a little, "but I'll be back soon, so don't worry! Besides, you'll probably find yourself so busy that the time just flies. Ahahaha." Leaving the window open, she turned back around to face the room with the hungover Severin and smoking Kanjuro.
"Now really isn't the time say anything to either, but I still wish I could..."
For the first time, Kagerou noticed that Kanjuro proffered a cigarette to herself and Severin. The object received her attention for a moment, during which her eyes flicked cautiously in Severin's direction and after which she calmly approached Kanjuro with a smile. Earlier, she had seen him express, silently, a negative reaction to Kanjuro smoking, but... Well, there was nothing to worry about, right? It was silly of her to super impose one onto the other just because they both had similarly colored hair and eyes (and self destructive tendencies). Gently pushing the hand that held the cigarette back in Kanjuro's direction, Kagerou politely declined, "No, thank you, but it's a pleasure to meet you, Kanjuro." Eyes bright and alert were, as usual scrutinizing something or other. "If you're curious about the drink, I believe Severin met Trefles."
She gave one more smile before releasing his hand and side stepping past him to leave the classroom, humming some nameless tune. Right before she turned into the hallway, the melody stopped mid-note and Kagerou suddenly swiveled her head, giving one last look over her shoulder from the door frame. With a deadly calm frown, Kagerou used two fingers to motion from her eyes to Severin as she scolded, "Severin, no smoking, control your drinking, eat your vegetables, and don't do anything Nozomi wouldn't do." The act dropping, Kagerou's true colors and her smile returned as she ended with, "Take care. I'll see you soon," and turned to Kanjuro, "And hopefully, the next time we meet, I'll get to know you well enough to start nagging you about your unhealthy habits, as well." Leaving that for both to look forwards to, Kagerou turned into the corridor and disappeared from view, her humming picking up from where it left off.
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As she waited for their response, she can feel the curse slowly leaving her body. Thank the gods. She really couldn't take any more embarrassing moments. Maybe she should go back to Treffles and apologize to him. Or she could just hide from him. Either way. Her honey hues glanced at a movement behind the trio and she saw her. Kagerou. Sneaking away and in her own little world. Not a hi or anything as she left. Must be in a hurry if she didn't check her surroundings. Few seconds after Kagerou had left, then there was a commotion and loud noises as the building itself seems to become dark. Nozomi was alert and ready as she goes to investigate. It seemed that there was a random eclipse out of nowhere. "Alright. Teachers, escort the students back home. Be safe. I'm closing the academy for now." Nozomi called out as she made some clones to escort some of the students herself to go back home. She can't worry about the three intruders right now, the kids are a priority along with the teachers. Though she wondered, where the three of them the cause of this?
"Seduced by the charm in a charlatans arms If you don't know the mark you were it from the start..."
"Some resist the future, some refuse the past / Either way, it's messed up if we can't unplug the fact / That a world covered in cables was never wired to last / So don't act so surprised when the program starts to crash." The young man began to sing as he sauntered out shortly after Kagerou.
As he stepped into the hallway, his eyes fell onto a rather odd assortment of personae, two figures draped in looser clothes, with odd emblems and mannerisms, and then a truly different man who seemed offput by these interlopers. Kanjuro sighed. It wasn't his business. He really just didn't give the slightest degree of caring for them, any of them
He produced another cigarette and his silver lighter snapped into his fingers. The flame switched quickly and he took a drag to start it off. The tune carried as he made his way down the stairs.
"How do I form a connection when we can't even shake hands? / You're like the phantom greeting me / We plot in the shadows, hang out in the gallows / stuck in a loop for eternity..."
"Their profit, their yield, so repulsive to me I could not ever be just a pawn in the scheme.
It was yet another beautiful day in the Arashigakure... at least for the youthful appearing Yokai Yua, one of the newest resident of the Arashigakure along with her other yokai โrelatives.โ The majority of Yokai who moved here were tengu and Oni, Yuki-onna like Yua and some others also came but in much smaller numbers. She currently had set up residence at the Storm villages academy on days she couldnโt find a friendly person willing to allow her to stay a night or whenever she had enough money to rent a hotel for a few days, she was trapped in this cycle as juggling her academy studies, work, human hours and getting used to mortal routine and things like sleep, she was not having the best of luck. However she was earnest and willing and did not see this as a problem, it was less stable but a lot more safe and without the need to terrorize humans to get what she needed to live and/or to keep them away away from her. Yua had just woken up, laying in a sleeping bag on the floor of one of the academies unused classrooms, a trio of privacy screen set up, giving herself about 5 by four meters of space.
Shaking her keeping bag out the window, built up ice fragments and frost shattered off of it crumbling as she hung it in the window to dry along with any other ice that had built up. The she changed from normal shorts and a t-shirt which she wore as night clothing she would dress and put on one of her Kimonos and grabbed her long scarf before throwing it on. She was still slightly tired and would have tried to sleep more if her body didnโt radiate cold and even if she didnโt mind the cold, it still helped wake her up. She grumbled a little and made herself some cup noodles and tea, consuming the food stuffs carefully as hot noodles could be uncomfortable going down. One of the teachers knocked and popped their head in, she waved and greeted him whilst eating with a wave of her hand. Slurping up her meal unceremoniously, she got up and cleaned up before leaving the room to go about her day
T H I S x I S x T H E x P A R T x O F x M E x T H A T x Y O U ' R E x N E V E R x G O N N A x T A K E x F R O M x M E x , x N O
THROW YOUR STICKS AND YOUR STONESxxxTHROW YOUR BOMBS AND YOUR BLOWSxxxxTHROW YOUR STICKS AND YOUR STONESxxxTHROW YOUR BOMBS AND YOUR BLOWS THROW YOUR STICKS AND YOUR STONESxxxTHROW YOUR BOMBS AND YOUR BLOWSxxxxTHROW YOUR STICKS AND YOUR STONESxxxTHROW YOUR BOMBS AND YOUR BLOWS
๏ผข๏ผต๏ผด xx ๏ผน๏ผฏ๏ผต๏ผ๏ผฒ๏ผฅ xx ๏ผฎ๏ผฏ๏ผด xx ๏ผง๏ผฏ๏ผฎ๏ผฎ๏ผก xx ๏ผข๏ผฒ๏ผฅ๏ผก๏ผซ xx ๏ผญ๏ผน xx ๏ผณ๏ผฏ๏ผต๏ผฌ
Kore stared at Aidoneous with a grumpy look, cheeks puffed out, pink eyebrows furrowed and arms crossed. It only lasted a moment however because when she opened her mouth to chide the taller male about being too on edge another voice joined by her.
She did not like this guy, she didn't like him at all, and when he made a disgusted look in her direction the female returned it mockingly as a dark red bramble appeared from her hair. With a huff, Kore turned on her bare feet and strode through the door with her head held high. "C'mon grumpy, lets get out of here. This room is too crowded."
Before she disappeared out the door, a tongue was stuck out in Senran's direction, almost as if to say "don't be smelling people then". One of the mortals that ran this place stopped them once they were in the hall, but she quickly left once some commotion began in the village. Kore pouted, hands on her hips, as she watched Nozomi leave. They coulda been friends... and she was so pretty.
Turning to look at her other half, Kore's face fell in to a more neutral state. She gestured down the hall with one hand. "Well handsome, should we stay and investigate a bit or continue on our way? I could eat, could you eat? I'm starvinngg."
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โข Legends and Legacies: Senju have a bonus of +100 chakra to their chakra pools. โข Naturalization: With their connection to natural energy, the Senju have learned to eliminate the usage of handseals for mokuton, instead able to form ninjutsu with simplistic somatic actions such as claps, waves of the arms, stomps etc. In addition, they are capable of creating their Mokuton techniques from any surface that isn't in use by another ninja. This includes their own Mokuton techniques. โข Green Thumb: Chiru members have a deep connection to flowering plants. This connection allows them to grow and manipulate them with simple gestures and movements, such as swiping their arm through the air or stomping their foot. Hanaton does not require hand seals and can be performed while in Sakidasu without needing to revert forms. โข Wildbloom: Casting flower techniques now causes ambient flowers to form around or on you. These flowers start out as E rank but will grow one rank stronger for every technique cast up to S Rank. These techniques may be used at any time with the user's techniques, combining with a ranked technique for a single activation to be treated as Korabo. Creating and strengthening these flowers costs one rank less than the original light technique used. โข I am the Spring: Kore can formlessly manipulate plants in her vicinity to do simple attacks, following formless/basic combat guidelines. ( ei: simple when colliding, unless otherwise specified ) โข Overgrow: Her chakra materialization manifests as physical, and acts as it's own elemental chakra structure depending on the type of plant it is. ( Trees/brambles act as Mokuton, flowers/blossoms act as Hanaton. )
โข The Senju is a clan rich in life energy which gives birth to their unique Kekkei Genkai: Mokuton. They passively gather 50 Nature Energy per post regardless of whether in combat or not. This results in a natural specialized sage mode that the Senju can access at B body rank. โข All Mokuton techniques that absorb chakra from demons do not confer that chakra to the Senju, rather simply naturalizing it and releasing it into the world harmlessly. โข Chiru clan members gain scent as a genjutsu resistance. This means that genjutsu which use scent as a sense deliver one less tier of mental stress or insanity, eliminating mental stress or insanity from techniques which only provide one tier of the status effect.
โข Dual Ancestry: Dual Ancestry allows you to have full access to two bloodlines upon creation including all techniques, abilities, and personal attributes associated with them. For biographical purposes, your secondary bloodline may be genetic or implanted at your discretion. This discipline gives you [4] bloodline PAs to be used only for the optional attributes of your dual bloodlines on top of the [2] personal attributes you receive at base for a total of [6]. If two elemental bloodlines are chosen then the primary bloodline's elemental affinities become your base elements and you gain full access to those elements while your secondary bloodline gives you locked elemental affinities that you cannot learn ninjutsu techniques from but you gain full access to the secondary bloodline. Locked elemental affinities can be unlocked through methods such as ninjutsu class or personal attributes. Elemental affinity personal attributes are automatically allotted to locked affinities. Jiongu users do not have access to Dual Ancestry nor can they be chosen as a secondary bloodline. Dual Ancestry users do not have access to the implant system including the Genetic Palette personal attribute. If you use multiple techniques from both of your bloodlines in the same post without Korabo then those techniques are increased in effectiveness by one rank. โข Blood Knight: Your bloodline techniques possess greater power, allowing them to overwhelm techniques of the same rank and preventing them from succumbing to elemental weaknesses. You can cast bloodline techniques through one-handed seals. {The Overwhelming Trait does not apply to anything above S} In addition, Blood Knights are able to Korabo bloodline techniques at varying cool downs depending on the technique ranks for a single activation. โข Bloodline Specialization: If this class is taken as the first and second class, you may pick 2 of its disciplines. Bloodline techniques the user casts are reduced by five chakra per rank of the technique. Gain an Additional 5 Custom slots dedicated to your bloodline.
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About this point a teacher noticed her and suggested that she consider leaving the academy for now, that the instructor Nozomi had requested teachers escort students home, Yua pointed out she was a graduate and technically lived in the academy as she had yet to be able to afford herself a place to live. However she would show willing and leave for now, that she could simply return later or even on a different day if need be. Yua went and collected a purse that contained some of her personal belongings and necessities and promptly waddled off down the halls, creating a light flutter of snow about herself for fun with her ice release as she went. Every day is so nice, why did some student have to cause a ruckus, humans or yokai at fault, I wonder if weโll ever know, as much like the winters drift, no evidence is left behind for snow can land but leave no trace behind!! But if I just so happen to, pin the blame on whoever is the swine, then in that case Iโll freeze them in place for authorities to find! She sang, conjuring the lyrics and tune on the stop and still create a pretty her ominous air to it, crafting another two versus by the time she had reached the academy entrance and left.
| Makoto is the black haired one, Itsuki is the white haired one.
