Just a Thought.[Private, training topic.]

Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:55 pm

Another body is flung away, twisted and fractured like a broken doll, chest caved in from a powerful blow, his fellows roll away before they can be hit by their comrade who was briefly an improvised projectile against them...They can't believe this, it was just a caravan shop with some kid riding along..How could they have planned for something like this?
Their eyes are locked onto the diminutive figure, standing barely above three feet tall with a thin arm still outstretched from the punch thrown, standing in a protective hunch in front of the married couple, who merely give them a somber look before turning their heads away, why do they look so sorry-?
His vision is filled with a shock of white, cutting off his line of sight, his gasp of shock being drowned out by a hissed distorted roar that erupts from the manged maw of the little monster wearing the skin of a child, a sound that will fill his nightmares for years to come...

"Ẇ̷͉̬͇̂̈̀R̸̡̧̬̈͋͑͛͠ͅͅR̷͇̲̞̩̩͂̿̄̚Y̷̘̞̩͓̓Y̸͚̌͑̐̓̈́Y̸̫̰̋̈́͝Ÿ̶̰̤̬̠́̕͜Y̶̘͕͑Y̶̠̲͓̯̔͘Y̸̛͔̦̠̓̐̈͘!̵̭̏!̷͎͎̜́̇̃!̷̣̬̖͈̈́!̴̱̎̅́̃!̴͉͉͔͕̀̋̀!̵̝̥̺͛͗!̶͙̟̐͌͊͘͘!̶̡͔̯̽͐͂́̊!̶͍̥̃̇!̸̧̠̓̃̀̋͝"

The ivory Demon yells out, ice cold terror washing over him like the hand of a Kirigakure assassin gripping his heart with a frigid hand, the childs fist draws back before being rocked forward, it is only the roll of his shoulders and the leap back that saves his life...
However he'll never be able to travel again, exerting himself too much will become too painful to bare.
Who is this Child? The Jaws paid them to watch the roads for a child with white hair in a carriage, was this what they were looking for? Some kind of Monster?? Skin fair and already growing red from the rays of the sun above, slitted eyes like hellfire which seemed so round and full of wonder when gazing upon the couple, now filled with nothing but cold malice as they stare into his own.
Blood erupts from his lips as he's sent away from the Monstrous child who doesn't even flinch as the splatter of blood splashes over his face, merely turning to the last of them with a snarl, wisely...The third one turns and runs.

He can feel himself dying, yet as he begins to lose his conciousness, he can hear the muffled voice of the woman calling out to the child, he witnesses the child wince and frown before he casts a suspicious glance towards him...The last thing he see's before he wakes up in a town ten miles away, is the childs hands glowing as he steps towards him.

The air is fresher out here, without the stench of rotting blood, it's more peaceful without the sounds of pained screams, moaning and flesh being beaten and torn apart.
He prefers this, admittedly...He misses the Fruit Loop sometimes, but something about the man has changed lately, and he didn't like the changes he saw, so he left a few months ago, wandered off to go to Konoha, ask Samuru for advice...Braggart and a fool or not, he's the only one he thought would understand him at least a little bit. He however did not expect to get so..lost..
I-it's not his fault! The sun kept coming up! And he didn't bring a map..!! So he couldn't read the stars anymore and then a storm picked up and he couldn't find any mossy stones or the forest and then there was a few bad men and then he ended up finding Mrs. Kurono and then she fed him and was nice and he forgot where he was going!
He likes Mrs. Kurono and Mr. Kurono, he met them after he slipped down a cliff and passed out, they fed him and helped him find new bandages and taught him how to read.
He likes reading, he really likes the white books that talk about the science of biology and the effect certain chemicals has on the human body, specifically reading on how vaccinations can mitigate and outright prevent diseases fascinates him to an extent he didn't know was possible.

He likes reading about Medicine and the Human body, Mrs. Kurono seems lost whenever he starts talking about some of his books, but she always gives him treats and listens so he thinks it's fine, he's kind of sad that he can't stay with them, but they said they were bringing him somewhere where a bunch of nice people were that would have lots of books and that they would let him practice some of his jitsu if he were good...
He's...a Ninja..? Kind of, he's not sure what that means, Fruit Loop said that Shinobi are loyal to a country and a place, but he can't see Fruit Loop being loyal to anyone, and the Village has only been getting worse as time goes on..
And he doesn't wanna go back, so maybe he's not a Ninja..? But apparently he does things that Ninja do, or at least that's what Mr. Kurono says, but he also says he's not a Ninja so he's not sure.
He likes Mr. Kurono, that's why he took the venom out of that snake bite, it hurt a lot, and he didn't feel so good after that, but Mrs. Kurono looked happy and Mr. Kurono started being really nice to him after that...
He liked the songs Mrs. Kurono sang for him, they were nice and made him sleepy..
She said songs sang at night time like that were called Lullabies and that they're supposed to help people feel safe so they can sleep better...
He likes lullabies, he sang one for Mr. and Mrs. Kurono when they said they had to take him somewhere he could be happy, they seemed sad at that...
He doesn't like to see them sad, they were really nice to him, they told him that people who can do what he can need to use it for a good cause, he wasn't sure what that meant, but they said he should help heal and protect people...

He liked the look in their eyes when he said he'd do his best, he liked the look their neighbors gave him when he helped heal their son too...
Nobodies ever looked at him like that before, nobodies really treated him the way the Kurono's do, took the time to talk to him like they do..
Shouten taught him things, but not the way the Kurono's do..He's-..
He lived somewhere else before he as locked in that basement, didn't he..?
The thought occurred to him one day as they rode on the wagon down the road, he came from..
A really far place away from Volcano, with forests and fields and long patches of farmland...
He remembers Him and the scared people, He always tried to hurt him, so he hurt Him back...
Do they think about him...? He remembers something else..Words, that the scared man told him once, he remembers them because it was the first and only time he heard steel in the man's voice and saw pride in his eyes...
But what were they..? They seemed important...He-..can't recall them..
Not in their entirety...But he thinks he will, he's not sure why he's thinking about these things, but they make his tummy feel weird and his throat feel tight.
Mrs. Kurono hugged him after he noticed the feeling, he's not sure why, but it made him feel a little better.

When the mean men showed up the first time, the Kurono's tried to hide him behind them, but he just said he knew how to handle mean men, 'Bandits' he's run into his fair share and they all react the same way everything else does when he hits them..
They break.
After draining the first one, the others ran away, the Kurono's were really silent after that, until they made him promise he'd only do that to people who wanted to hurt his friends or the place they were taking him too...He agreed, he didn't like the looks in their eyes, he used to like that look, but he doesn't like it when it's in their eyes, not at all.
They knew about his need for blood, which made them act weird the first time they found out, but when he started giving them jerky from local game they said it was okay, as long as it's only animals that he's allowed to hunt..
After they mentioned this place, they said certain people might be given to him too, which is good..
Animals only have a little bit of the stuff that makes the blood feel so good, it helps him breathe better and makes it easier to think and move...
Even if the Sun isn't helping much, but that's okay, Mrs. Kurono gave him an umbrella..It helps a lot.

The second time the Bandits showed up he was more gentle, rather than punching them, he shots holes through their thighs, careful to avoid the arteries and bones with his own blood, which he fired from his eyes with a bit of chakra..
Mrs. Kurono slapped Mr. Kurono on the shoulder when he said his laser eyes were cool, he told them he calls them his 'Space Ripper Stingy Eyes!'
They giggled at that..
He thinks the name is cool..
They wanna be there to help him explain his presence to the people at the place, so they said he shouldn't go on ahead, even if it'd be faster, that's fine, it gives him time to practice all of his different techniques, like his bloody blades, his ripper eyes, which still need a bit of work, and the technique he used to help Mr. Kurono...Who looked nervous when he told him that it was the first time he did something like that.

He turned out fine!

...The animals didn't, but he's sure he can do it again with a bit of practice! It's just a matter of timing the chakra fluctuations along his hands and creating a thin enough film of it that it doesn't disrupt the flow as he shifts his molecules and cells to match that of the target and softening the skin up so he can slip underneath it more reliably!
But still, the fur makes it difficult and the bears don't like being shaved...
When he showed up back at camp with a bear pelt draped over him they laughed and joked about it...
Who's the Kazekage? And why would having a bear pelt make him like them?
They never explained it, so he just decided to eat.

The Third group of bandits threatened Mrs. Kurono....
He took offense to that, he sent the first one flying with a punch, the second he remembered to be more gentle and the third one ran away after he threatened him..
He was gonna leave the second one down, but Mrs. Kurono said that he's probably not a really bad man and that he might die with how hard he hit him...
So he took what the Fruit Loop taught him and helped heal the unconscious man before hauling him to a doctor the next town over, he's not sure he cared much that the injuries the man sustained would hinder him for a long time afterward.
Especially when Mr. Kurono said the man was wanted for several instances of stealing and killing.
His comment that he should have hit him harder got him a lecture...

He didn't know Mrs. Kurono could be that scary...
She made him do more exercises with his blood and chakra after that, firing his Space Ripper Stingy Eyes over and over again, collecting the blood, asking him all sorts of questions about how it feels and coming up with neat ideas, like she told him how it might be a good idea to flow the chakra using those hand sign things every Ninja does, it took him awhile to figure out the proper ones, but he did! It helps alot when his fingers are curled in...
Mrs. Kurono said it looks kinda like he's posing when he does it...

He didn't wanna respond to that, but the amused look she gave him means she probably knows already..
They're getting closer now, and he's..getting kinda nervous, he's not sure why, but Mr. and Mrs. Kurono say that the people here will help him find a place, that if he listens to them he can help a lot of people.
He doesn't know much about all of this, or this place but he knows he kind of likes helping people, and that he really wants the Kurono's to be proud of him.
Even if their leaving once he gets settled, he'll come and visit them all the time one he's got everything set up!

He promised them that much.

[Wordcount; 2,122. Requesting Ninjutsu spec, 100 words towards Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, 12 words towards Crows Claw and 10 words towards Painless Leech Finger transformation.
<--[To Be Continued |\|]

Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:05 am

Approved training <3

Sun Apr 23, 2017 9:13 pm

So here he was, Kenshin Uzumaki, Chunin of Hoshigakure out on yet another one of his bandit bandit hunting trips, but unlike most of the other times that he did such a thing he was most certainly not in a good mood, why was this you may be asking yourselves, well, somebody had gone and killed off all of the FUCKING BANDITS IN THE AREA. They were his to kill, they were his prey, and whoever dared to take them from him was going to die for their transgressions, and that was why if one were to see Kenshin right at this very moment, they would be able to see a dark glare on his face, his silver eyes glowing ominously due to the sheer rage he was feeling right now. He had his Minds Eye of the Kagura active as he searched for the one who had been killing all of the bandits in the area, whoever it was had also been killing a lot of the animals that inhabited the area, but that meant absolutely nothing to the silver haired young man, the only thing that mattered to him was that this unknown had gone and stolen his kills. That...was when he felt it, a chakra signature that he had never felt before...it felt quite strong, not as strong or large as his own, but still more powerful than most he felt from his fellow Hoshigakure shinobi, save those higher ranked than him of course. This had to be the one who had taken his prey from him, this was the one who was invading HIS territory, this...was the one who was going to die in order to sate his blood-lust.

With a dark smile on his face Kenshin would begin make his way in the direction he could feel the chakra signature coming from, walking slowly and steadily, making sure to stay silent, like a predator stalking ones prey. They were in one of the more heavily forested parts of Haven Country, or more specifically, the area where Haven bordered Forest country, so it only made sense that there would be an abundance of trees there, something that was both good and bad depending on how one were to look at it. The midday sun was shining down upon the earth, and while the tree's did provide some shade it was not much. Due to the heavy foresting in the area he was unable to see his prey, he was relying solely on his chakra sensory right now, but it only took a couple of minutes for him to reach the edge of the clearing in which stood the one who had stolen his prey. He was a little surprised to see that he was actually a child...but at the same time that did not mean that Kenshin would act any different...he had killed children in the past, and they had been completely defenseless, this one possessed a chakra signature almost as strong as his own, so he would not feel bad for what he was about to do. Still, the fact that a child possessed this amount of strength was more than a little curious to the teen, he would definitely have to study the young boys corpse when he was done with him.

At his full speed (95) Kenshin would form the Ram hand seal, utilizing the Body Flicker technique to close the ten meter distance between he and his young prey, vanishing in a blur of pure speed and appearing directly behind him at superhuman levels of speed (185). As soon as this was done Kenshin would shoot his hand forward at his full speed (95) and grab hold of the back of the young boy's neck, once this was done he was activate his Earth Grudge Fear and use the threads to pierce through the boy's neck, completely severing the young man's spine at the C2 Vertebrae as his threads pierced through both flesh and bone. If this maneuver worked then the youngster would be killed immediately, it would be completely painless and he would be dead before he even managed to grasp what was truly going on right now. His body would be almost completely free of any damage as well, something that Kenshin himself was going to great lengths to achieve due mostly to his desire to examine and experiment on the young childs corpse. While he did not truly need to keep the body unmarred in order to do this, he was still going to try to take the boy out while damaging him as little as possible, besides, he may as well make it painless if he could, no need to make the kid suffer a slow and agonizing death.

WC: 796

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OOC: Voiding the Private tag, as one may not create private tags in the Country Borders. Just to explain what's going on here, Kenshin found the dead bandits from Shank's little encounter at the beginning of the topic, and he did not take kindly to someone stealing his prey. From there he has been hunting Shanks, finally managing to find him in the forest as he was practicing his jutsu on the animals (since you never specified when or where that took place I filled in the blanks).

Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:21 pm

And thus ended the tale of young Shanks, the last remaining member of the Kyuuketsuki clan, the once feared and respected bloodline dying out with him, his death delivered by a teen he had unknowingly slighted whilst saving the life of the Kuruno’s from bandits that sought to end their lives. To think, this was all just a tragic misunderstanding brought about solely by the deep seated blood-lust held by the Earth Grudge Fear user, Shanks had truly done nothing wrong, the villain in this situation was none other than the Shinobi of Hoshigakure...but nobody would ever know that. He could twist the story however he liked, there were no witnesses to say otherwise, the Kuruno’s being safely back in their campsite, eagerly awaiting the return of the young boy that they had come to see as a pseudo son….the young boy that they would never see again. This truly was a tragic tale, whilst trying to turn over a new leaf Shanks had been slain in cold blood, his young body slumping to the ground before he even knew what had hit him, his last thoughts most likely being of returning to the campsite of the Kuruno’s.

None of this mattered to Kenshin though, the one who had dared to steal his prey had been found and dealt with, he felt no shame or remorse for what he had done, he regretted nothing about snuffing this young flame out before it had the time to grow. In fact, if anything, he was happy for doing so, happy that he had effectively ensured that this accursed world could hurt this young boy no more than it already had, as there was simply no way for one to be so strong at such a young age without some terrible things happening in his life. Besides, this boy was no shinobi of Hoshigakure, so he could effectively tell whatever tale he wished when reporting this incident to the higher ups of the village...provided he actually chose to tell the higher ups about what he had just done. Hmm, well, first things first, he had to get out of the area before anyone managed to see him with this dead young boy...his newest research subject...oh boy would he have some fun dissecting this corpse and seeing what made it tick, perhaps he had some ability that Kenshin had never seen before, why the very thought made him giddy.

The silver haired young man would reach into his pouch and pull out one of his latest acquisitions, the Corpse Storage Scroll, which he would waste no time in unrolling in order to seal away the extremely fresh corpse of the recently murdered child. Before he did that though, he would begin to search the corpse of the young boy for anything of value, and boy oh boy was he surprised about the rather hefty coin pouch that he carried...this child was absolutely loaded, and while the money itself was indeed good he was also interested in the strange gauntlets and scarf that the boy was wearing. Hmm, he had gotten more out of this than he had ever suspected possible, and that was a very good thing in his books. Kenshin would then place the gauntlets in one of his two weapon pouches while placing the scarf in the other, the bundle of fabric only just managing to fit inside. Now that he was sure the boy had nothing of value left on him Kenshin would drag the body of young Shanks on top of his scroll and activate its effect, sealing the corpse of the boy away within the scroll for ease of transport.

Once this was done Kenshin would grab the scroll and place it within the same weapon pouch as the gauntlets, before making his way back to Hoshigakure a great deal richer than when he had left.

WC: 653

[Exit]

TWC: 1449

1400 words towards 14 AP, claiming

Claiming body of Shanks (sealed inside a Corpse Storage Scroll), his 54k ryo, and both the Blazing Knuckles and Crest of the Overlord that were on his person

Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:56 am

Approved. <3

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