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 Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:54 pm
"Of course I'm worried about him. The boy tried to kill himself... is something going on in Tsuchi, Iri?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:51 am
She nods, and doesn't give any other form of a response at first. A moment later she blinks and her eyes are back in focus.
"Ren's back. The student that was kidnapped by Bao Steel and Kansou. It doesn't seem like he's been followed. And he doesn't look injured. He's sleeping in Tsuchi right now. Something's strange about that, but at least he isn't dead or hurt. I can tell Lenora to call off her search now..." Iri blinks again and shakes her head. She was starting to trail off. Why's she so tired as to start ranting all of a sudden? Shrugging it off, she turns to look at Reeve. "As far as Dalcon goes, I don't think he just up and decided to off himself. It was probably part of however Nekojiri's tampered with him. If he's anything like you, fixing that should be within the realm of possibility, right?"
"Jin. Go to Tsuchi. My spies have found Ren there. I don't think he's hurt, but he looks tired. Be prepared for a struggle, just in case."
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:41 pm
"Yes, ma'am."
Jin looks to Ookamimaru and gives him a short nod.
"Gotta get, buddy. Iri got orders fer me. Come if ya like. She says Ren be at Tsuchi. Ah'mma go check on 'im."
Without waiting for a response, Jin exits the kitchen. He makes his way through the halls and up the spiral staircase into the Kaze Dojo's main floor. Once there, he stops and closes his eyes.
The dragon man has a few spies floating around the room in which he had slept the night Ookamimaru changed. His armor is still there. As Jin focuses, his spies alight upon the pile of armor and empty their sparse amount of energy into it, converting the armor into an air form. The ethereal mass loses shape and exits the Rai Dojo via a crack in a window. Moments later, after swiftly making it's way to the Kaze Dojo, the object of Jin's concentration forms a mist around himself. The mist glows and takes a vague shape. When Jin opens his eyes, the glowing ceases and he's back in full battle regalia. Jin cracks a fanged grin. It just doesn't feel right going without his armor and sword both in place.
As prepared as he can be, Jin walks out of the Kaze Dojo door. He casually bows first to Iri and then to Reeve. Then he takes on his air form, dissipates, and speeds in the direction of the Tsuchi Dojo.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:50 pm
Arriving at the Kaze Dojo, Tutsumi tilted his head to the side a little and gave a small sneer. His eyes closed for the briefest of moments as he checked for the amount of people in the area, including those he might not know. Luckily the majority of them, he did.
Sliding his fingernail against his arm, cutting it fairly deep since his nails had grown out a bit due to his long sleep, he let the blood ooze down his arm before covering it with sakura and rose petals. The petals quickly started to eat away at the blood as if they were feeding from him, his life force, his blood.
It didn't take him all that long to locate the others, but kept quiet as he stared down at the ones he didn't know.
"..."
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:11 pm
Scraping off the last bits of meat of the bones, Ookamimaru nods and follows Jin.
He wans to see how it goes with Ren really badly, he lost his Sensei after all, and then being kidnapped by HIM...
He didn't really looked surprised when he saw Jin's armor appear, though he didn't have an idea the armor came from all the way back to the Rai dojo.
Walking after Jin out of the dojo, he saw Iri, Reeve and a boy he hadn't seen before, lying unconsious.
he quirks a brow, and was about to get to then when he noticed Jin had disappeared.
He must have dissipated again...
Ookamimaru didn't have a clue to where the Tsuchi dojo was, but he could still smell Jin, and keeping his nose up, he ran into the woods.
After quite some time, he would be able to smell Ren too.
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:53 am
Iri watches her students leave, then looks at Tutsumi. In her head, she quirks a brow. Something seems off. His expression. And what's he done to his arm? She recognizes the sakura petals. And they aren't associated with fond memories. But she keeps all of this in check, and doesn't let it show on her face. Instead, she gives him a friendly nod of her head.
"Hola. You doing better, Tutsumi?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:40 pm
Nodding, he looks between Iri and the new people a few times, as if asking her to explain who they were. After awhile of the petals' feeding time, they started to flake off and dance around his fingertips. He flexed his fingers a few times, as if trying to get them to shoo, but they seemed quite keen on staying by his side. With a light sigh, he grabbed a handful of them, then looked down as an old tool of his came around; his black katana, based off of the petal's power and strengths. He quickly sheathed it and put it in his belt's side.
"Er..?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:35 pm
Iri gets the hint and gestures in the direction they had left. The display of the petals doesn't bother her anymore, so she leaves it alone.
"Two of my students. The tall redhead with the antlers is Jin. He's half dragon. The boy that followed him is Ookamimaru. He's... Well, he's a little complicated. Something like a werewolf. The both of them are good students, and good natured. Right now they're checking up on Ren, the Tsuchi student that Kaimen left behind."
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:20 pm
"...We certainly do get the weird ones now, don't we?"
His eyes dimmed for a moment as he asked the next part.
"Or of my dear wife, Ishira and the man trying to take it all away..."
After, he shook his head, his eyes vibrating slightly for a moment, as he then tilted his head and gave a gaze out towards the forest, far in the distance.
"What happened to the boy the fool left?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:43 pm
(( He gave the three a visual check? My current understanding of the situation: Jin is in the Tsuchi Dojo with Ren. Ookamimaru is somewhere in route to the Tsuchi Dojo. So it's just Tutsumi, Iri, and Reeve standing there. Iri's standing next to Reeve, but he hasn't posted in a while. I was trying to wait on him. ))
"Erm..." Iri looks sympathetic and shifts her weight. "The last I heard of Ishira, she had left and joined up with Nekojiri. That's all of the information I have on her."
She looks in the direction of the Tsuchi Dojo and tilts her head. For a moment, her eyes are a little glassy. Then she blinks and looks back to Tutsumi.
"Ren was kidnapped by a man named Bao Steel. I had already assigned a reliable person with the task of locating him. But he's back now. He showed up just today, and he hasn't even been gone long. He's not injured. And he doesn't seem to have been followed. It's a strange situation. Jin's guarding him right now."
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:48 pm
((Editing...XD
Guess that's what I get for not reading back fully.))
At the mention that he had returned unscathed, and just out of the blue, Tutsumi's eyes turned into thin horizontal slits as he gently placed his left hand on her shoulder.
"Does he happen to have any amulets or jewelery on him? Anything...he didn't have before or that could be used to store something?"
His mind raced back to when he and Ishira were talking privately in the medical dojo, with that...thing...relaying information to someone, that someone more than likely being Neko.
"Watch him. Do you have anyone that can sense or see energy trails, even faint ones?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:38 am
(( It's all good! ))
"That struck me, for sure. But I haven't noticed anything. Not that my spies can pick up, anyway. That's why I sent Jin to Tsuchi. He's there to guard Ren and look for anything out of the ordinary. But, to be honest, I'm not sure what would be normal for Ren to carry and what wouldn't. And Jin's already checked for unusual energy signatures. He caught residual ones from Ren being in contact with those people, but nothing really stuck out to him."
Iri looks in the direction of Tsuchi and concentrates again. She seems to move her mouth a little, pauses, and her lips continue to move. It's like she's having a conversation with someone, and it's not via telepathy. After about five seconds of this, she looks back to Tutsumi and shrugs a wing.
"If you want to check the boy out, go for it. All I ask is that you be tolerant with him. Ren's young, and he's had it pretty rough. Harsh treatment isn't what he needs right now."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:32 am
At the shrug of her wing, Tutsumi rubs her shoulder slightly and then moves his hand to under his right elbow, using his right hand to scratch the right side of his chin.
"Iri, you should know me by now. It's rare that I play good cop."
A sigh as he closes his eyes fully now.
"Residual energy...it certainly is a lot like that. Ask, what was his name again? Jin? Mm. Ask Jin to look for spikes in the residual energy, times where it suddenly jumps even just faintly."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:55 pm
"Okay..."
Iri looks in the direction of Tsuchi again. After a few seconds, she tilts her head and looks curious. When she's done, she gestures in Tut's direction.
"He wants to talk to you, show you what he's seeing. Give it just a minute."
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:19 pm
"Tutsumi, is it? Here it be."
And Jin starts to relay what he's sensing to Tutsumi. Ren's energy is foremost. Then Jin seems to filter that out. He concentrates on the older, fainter signatures. Anyone that's been near him, particularly while wielding any form of energy, shows up in his senses. He filters out the signatures of allies and focuses on those he knows are unfamiliar and hostile. From there, he points out that one signature isn't really residual. It's just very, very faint. And though it may not be entirely comprised of Bao's energy, that's the source of much of it.
"It nah be an amulet er sommat like tha'. No curse er anythin' fancy. Too lil' power fer tha'. But it be remindin' me of sommat else. Ah come 'cross pre-made spells afore. Pieces o' paper tha' got incantations er symbols, us'lly. E'ry once in a while stone tablets used intstead, but nah as common. They store energy well. From user, carrier, 'n caster. Mebbe Bao slipped it on 'im, hopin' Ren'd get curious 'n cast it?"
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