โฆGood luck when youwake up and realize all that you've lost.xxxxxxxxxxShining lies are what you're made of. I hope it'sworth the price that it costs.โฆ โFunny how history ends in an instant, how something so close can end up so distant.โ
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[x] After the event with the eight tails, I opted to take my time before checking in. As far as I knew, the twin Kages hadn't returned yet, and given the looks I'd received from the police officer konin, I wasn't trusted still by some, despite the time I'd been in the village. Not that I could necessarily blame them. I kept to myself, used village resources, took jobs from the Arashikages, and wasn't even a member of the village's shinobi. But I intended it to stay that way. If even a hint of Junan cropped up, I had no intention of hanging around where lives could be put in danger.
Regardless, I was on borrowed time out of the kindness of the village's leader, which required me to at least check in to see if even the temporary Kage had a job for me. If not, all the better, and I could go back to training or honing other skills.
Making my way up the tower, I couldn't help thinking about what happened just before we left the village. I'd done so well keeping myself hidden for so long, and just one mission ruined all of it. I was partially to blame for not going the extra mile in changing my name or something along those lines. But I also hadn't anticipated Kirigakure shutting down and all of its members having to be relocated. I hadn't imagined I would ever run into Kagerou again. The other part of me blamed the weird man wearing gray, Toso--who I'd managed to slip past somehow on the way in--, for being so persistent in getting in my personal space. Then of course Jeon gave away my name. Still, I hadn't seen Kagerou again since then, nor had I run into any other members of Kiri I recognized.
I couldn't help feeling a small pang of disappointment, though, that she hadn't sought me out. Then again, I made it clear I wanted nothing to do with her. Maybe that was the wrong signal to give. But human interaction wasn't exactly something I was good at.
A rather colorful girl was escorted past me as I reached the top of the tower. By officers nonetheless. Apparently some sort of drama had gone down. Either that or our temporary leader had a trigger finger when it came to judging others. A small frown formed on my face, but I remained silent. There was someone else present. Given the age and energy to his step, a newbie maybe. Though age wasn't really a determining factor if I was any sort of example. After all I was a Jounin at his age. Anyway, he'd arrived there first, so I would await my turn.
__ Kenshin smirked righteously as Yuno finally tasted justice. She was escorted out of the tower and towards the compound behind the Spire to serve her sentence. Immediately after that, two more shinobi arrived, he assumed because they needed mission assignments. He looked up out of the doorway and would summon them both in. "Enter Kojiro and Shadow." He was still suspicious as to why this person's name was Shadow. When he permitted them both entry he would question. "Kojiro, you first, what do you need?" He asked taking a short break from the paperwork.
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Technique Used: โข [ Technique Name ] ___โ [ Rank ] Technique Active: โข [ Technique Name ] ___โ [ Rank ] Reductions: โข Gentle Fist of the Law PA: -10 chakra and stamina from gentle fist techniques โข Bloodline class specialization: -10 chakra and stamina from bloodline techniques. Byakugan Status: โข Dormant
Souta wandered into the office, headband gleaming on his forehead, spotless and new. He had been hoping to find, at the very least, his mother here at the office. After all, it had been quite a while since the Arashikage left on their outing. Alas he was told that Kenshi was still in charge, a bit of news that he greeted with no small amount of dejection. He hadn't expected to see Kaneo around following graduation, as his father often left on long covert missions. He'd hoped he'd be able to talk to his mother though. Partly so he could receive an approving hug, and partly to figure out what he should be doing next. Instead he was directed to the office, and told that others were also there awaiting assignment.
The boy quietly slipped into the office, standing at attention just inside the door while the others who had gotten there first were tended to. Unlike his sibling, Souta was not one to loudly assert himself ahead of others who had come before him. He preferred to let his work do the talking, and it definitely checked his ego that Jeon was quick to deal with him whenever he took after his sibling. She could, after all, come waltzing through that door - or perhaps more likely one of the windows - any second and put him in his place if he acted out. He had to work harder at most shinobi skills anyways, so he found it made his life easier if he just didn't attract the attention that Yuno often coveted.
Having now become a Genin, and wearing the sparkly headband to match his rank, Kirisei came to the office in search of... something to do. He hadn't exactly been assigned to a squad upon becoming a Genin, nor had he been given any task or objective to follow. Not content to fall into relative obscurity, the shinobi made his way - uninvited - into the office of the Arashikage, and sought out someone to give him... some form of guidance.
He immediately noticed that... several people were here. All of them looked fairly strange - though one was familiar, not in the least upon his first considerable glance at the man's eyes. A pale white, with the faintest overlay of a soft purple. The Byakugan, unreleased; much like his own. They had no pupils to speak of, yet saw better than any other.
He recognized him. Perhaps he'd seen him at one of their clan meetings. A name faintly lingered in the back of his mind, but he was uncertain.
"Um - hello," he said quietly, from the corner of the office, before stepping forward and eyeing the other Hyuuga in the room. "I'm Kirisei Hyuuga-Uzumaki, 'teibaisa," he introduced himself. "Will I... be receiving a squad?" he asked.
Having garnered some free time from work thanks to the terrorist attack upon her household, Mizuki was able to head to the office for once. However she was aware that her lord husband was not within the walls of the village. Though she hadn't learned it from him, she was aware that the twins were off training after their successful sealing of a demon. Today she needed to discuss something with Kenshin since he was running things in their absence. Mizuki was able to stay with her own mother but the woman's apartment was tiny and no place for children. Kaneo was out on another of his long missions so he was at least taken care of for the time being in terms of housing. Upon reaching the top of the Spire she headed to the desk of the secretary and leaned on it with both of her elbows. Her hands were folded neatly underneath her chin as her emerald eyes looked over the secretary. "When you get a chance darling please connect me with Kenshin-kun. My house had a bit of an explosive release thanks to some unruly men or maybe... women, I'm not really sure to be honest. Either way my daughter and nephew need a place to stay until the damage can be fixed." It was actually quite troubling to have found her house in smoldering ruin upon returning home from work. All things considered she was in rather high spirits about the whole ordeal.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:33 am
__ Kenshin grunted in frustration when Kojiro did not answer him. "Do you have stuffing in your ears? What do you need?" People were flooding into his office when he already had plenty of other matters to deal with. It was in this moment that the secretary would nod to Mizuki and escort her to the door, opening it for her. This would allow Mizuki to enter and discuss with Kenshin about their situation. The police captain decided to address each person at roughly the same time for efficiency at this point. "Son Souta, I see you have your headband. I'll mark your name in the registry. Do you need anything else?" With a stroke of his pen he marked Son Souta as an official genin in the records. When he looked at the registry he saw that this Shadow person was still not an official ninja. "Shadow, there must be a mistake in our records. You are not registered as an official shinobi of Arashigakure. Care to explain why?" Kenshin's tone was barbed in his questioning. He looked over to Kirisei who already started talking for some reason. "If you're going to speak out of turn then speak up, people don't mumble when they talk to me. Also, there are no genin squads at this time. Do you need training or a mission?" He asked as he marked the new genin down on the registration as well.
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Kirisei raised a brow. Out of turn? He had spoken when no other voices intersected -- but apparently, that was out of turn. The Uzumaki bit his lower lip in frustration, as he had expected some level of Hyuuga camaraderie from the other man, but in fact received none. He supposed it was not wise to expect anything -- sometimes, fellow clan members were the most strict on their peers.
"I'm sorry, tattebaisa. As for training or... missions, well... that's okay. I can just go to the mission board, I guess. I was hoping for a squad, 'tebaisa. If that's not up for grabs, I'll... figure something out. Thank you, Kosei-sensei," he called him by name, making clear his recognition. But Kirisei was not wholly interested in being led if not by his squad-leader; there was plenty enough to do to become oriented within the shinobi world.
"I'll see you," he said, stepping out of the office and down the hall, leaving to seek his own adventures.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:09 pm
The boy suddenly felt the grip of indignation that must have driven Yuno to her antics. Perhaps it was his age, and relation to the office, but something about being treated like a nuisance to be dispatched rubbed him the wrong way. That only momentarily distracted him from the bigger point of interest, Mizuki's arrival to the office. As far as the boy knew, she preferred to stay at the hospital, at least insofar as work was concerned. Where else she got off to, he didn't know, but she rarely came to the office, and there were even fewer reasons to be in the Arashikage's workplace with the twins themselves absent. So why was she here? His staring likely betrayed his curiosity, but he was never one to hide that. He did, however, ignore Kenshin's question of if he needed more, since it seemed obvious that the interim village leader was more concerned with clearing his workload.
At some point or another, probably about when Kenshin started being Kenshin, a bolt of lightning lit up the sky in the office such that everything else became dull as far as light sources went. Between the people gathered at the office, the many things on the sill of the open window, and the grand chair several shadows stretched to claim everything below them. The loud rumbling crash that followed was violent if short lived... almost like a chuckle. Such things were common given the places namesake, but it was likely that the people in the office could feel that something was off. The air felt... energized. It smelled of ionization. Kirisei had turned to leave, but by the time he made it to the door, a smiling face would be looking down at him.
Behind her, Jay offered a flat handed slap to the rear end of the green haired beauty he'd come to love, and in the ensuing confusion place a loving kiss at the back of her head, breathing deep in the second most missed thing during his sabbatical. A hand wrapped around her waist, and he embraced her deeply as Jeon turned Kirisei back in, having heard all of what was going on from just outside the window, and then pulled a Jay and Jeon and turned ALLL the way to come in another window from another office to be sneaky and dramatic. While Jay offered his wife some loving, Jeon meandered forward like she hadn't been gone for a whole week their time, two months her own. Her hand ran through Souta's hair, pushing Kirisei along as well as she nuzzled them both. "Kenshin, my friend. Don't be so sour. I hear I missed Souta's graduation? And yours as well Kirisei. Congrats!" She pulled Souta into a hug, almost lifting him off the ground but, in what had become common for her, she thought about it before she acted. Still, she smiled and looked to Kenshin. "A Hyuuga, and my own little boy. Who better to form your first squad?" she spoke, the order implicit in her words. Jay came walking in then after having done something in secret that probably would make Mizuki giggle when combined with a whispered word or two in her ear. "Now. What's become of our home?" Jay said, lightning flicking its way down the long, twosided greatsword on his back and the longsword on Jeon's hip as they both crossed their arms triumphantly.
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:18 am
[100th post is mine.]
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:12 am
__ As the lights dimmed Kenshin raised an eyebrow but before he could prepare himself a loud boom from a lightning strike thundered through the office. The ever-vigilant Kenshin jumped instinctively and and accidentally flipped the desk over in the process. "AH!" He yelled in a way that was startling out of his control. When he was on his feet his clutched his chest and began breathing hard and quickly. For the genin in the room the quickness with which Kenshin moved from behind his desk to his feet was likely too fast for them to register immediately. The loud boom reminded him of the artillery cannons that pounded Seizan and the carnage that he saw in that trade town on the day when everything changed. Kenshin's breathing was elevated as the painfully intrusive memories cut through him like a knife. He felt his hands tremble and immediately worked to regulate his breathing and focus on the present moment. A secretary entered the room to fix the table and gather the pages that scattered. Kenshin nodded to her appreciatively but could not speak through his regulatory breathing exercises that he always implemented whenever the attacks started. Thankfully, he was able to compose himself eventually but did not hear Jay's words. With the desk upright once more and the papers on the desk thanks to the office assistant he stepped out from behind the desk.
Kenshin walked to the twins and bowed deeply before them to cede authority back to his superiors. Unlike some of Arashigakure's greenhorn genin, Kenshin had a deep appreciation of his place in the hierarchy. The shinobi of Arashigakure are a military and the first grade genin are its foot soldiers who had not earned valor nor Kenshin's respect yet. When Kenshin was a genin, he was a private who served on the fields of war against the UHV for Kumogakure. He made great sacrifices and earned his place of authority through diligence. As a result, he would not tolerate insubordination or petty things like hurt feelings from the peons like Yuno or some of these others. "Lord Jay, Lady Jeon, welcome back. We have much to discuss." The adviser spoke formally while indicating that they would need some privacy to discuss his village report and classified information.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:26 am
The... Kage was here. Well, the two of them. Jay and Jeon -- the joint leaders of their village. Kirisei stared quietly, focused on their shapes, their voices. They were commanding and... powerful. Falling onto one knee in respect, the Genin -- now an official shinobi -- attempted to present himself well. "Arashikage-sama..." the Uzumaki whispered, with a reverent acknowledgment.
He was congratulated. The Uzumaki immediately blushed, glancing upward to thank them with a small, unassuming grin. "Thank you. I feel... very proud to be a Genin." And he would be placed in a squad? With Souta? That didn't sound bad at all. Kirisei rose onto his feet and nodded.
"If that is your will, Arashikage-sama, I would be glad to oblige." He said this with no degree of falsehood; Christian felt extremely giddy in this moment. He had always wanted to roam with a squad like a real ninja -- doing good things across the country, the village . . . for their people. For, really, everyone. But he did not wish to speak too much in the presence of the Kage, so he only lingered where he stood, observing quietly until proper orders were given.
He wondered who their squad leader would be. Kenshin? He would be great for learning . . . how to be a Hyuuga, how to be a proper fighter. But he was likely too busy to lead them. The Uzumaki bit his lower lip, pondering.
Souta eyed Kenshin with a look of incredulity as he lost his composure. Earned or unearned, it was still an odd way for someone who so clearly looked down his nose at everyone else to act. The boy had little time to actually consider the events though, as his mother wrapped him in a hug. "MoooOOOOooom." He protested weakly in what was becoming a regular occurrence. For the rest he offered up only curious glances as people talked around him, busying himself with resettling his clothes after the embrace. It wasn't that he didn't care, or wanted to seem better, the boy just preferred not to speak out of turn and rarely protested decisions made by his mother. He'd grown accustomed to Yuno just speaking over him anyways, and had simply found waiting for the right time, as opposed to finding the earliest time, to enter a conversation or speak up normally worked out better. Needless to say, with all the things that needed tending to, now was probably not that time.
Kojiro entered, giving a slight bow. " Sir! " He exclaimed. " I am reporting as requested to be given a mission lead by you with the Police Force, Sir!" He said in a boisterous tone. He would look eagerly into Kenshin's eye. Surely he would have surmised his clone had given him such an assignment.
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_โ โข Specialist Discipline _โ :Restricts to one chakra type. Lightning Ninjutsu gain the overwhelming property and have no elemental weakness. _โ 2 Additional Ninjutsu slots are gained each body rank up. โข Mystic Hero Discipline _โ Can use Ninjutsu at the user's body rank and lower without hand signs while wielding weapon. _โ Grants 2 extra ninjutsu slots per rank. โข "Raijin's Blade" PA _โAll complex and spiritual Bukijutsu gain a lightning element. This additional lightning element added to the technique reduces the opponent's speed by a slight amount [1] per contact made between the technique and the target per rank of the technique.
