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Post by U Metal on Sept 6, 2011 17:42:34 GMT
The choice at hand is obvious, Touma wants you to leave: What can you do but go against him? Going against his wishes would only anger him. You do not want to anger him, that much you know. Plus, there is absolutely no reason to do anything but abide his wishes in this case: After all, this little girl WAS his sister. However...
Can't deny the fact that this was something that you had to report to the current Kage of this village, your mother. A previous hostage of Tsuko, recovered... This might in many ways be a trap, no matter how horrible it is to see a girl like this, you had to be cautionous. You had to tell your mother about this. "Okay, Touma... take care of her." you say as you quickly head toward the door, however, as you reach it, as you open it to leave, you hear his voice echo out. "Rica, be careful around your mother." he spoke, your head turns to face him for a moment.
...Why...?
"...It's better if I keep it a secret. Just, be careful!"
...
Huh?
You nod at him, wondering what his words meant, as you travel towards the Gekkokage's office. Why would you need to be cautious around your mother? Did he find anything disturbing...? Did he hear anything in Shiroyuki's technique? Whatever it was, it was something you couldn't quite ignore, as you open the door to the tower and step inside. "Mother... I have something important to say-"
"Yada, yada. I told you to drop that tone. You sound amazingly pathetic that serious. I know your seals prevent you from adding emotion, but dammit!" the first thing she did was complain and rant upon you, as you was used to her doing by now. Her legs were kicked over the table, but a quick kick up set her back on her feet with her arms on her hips. "First Reiz's daughter came in for something, now you? This better not be something as minor like a meteor threatening to hit this planet!"
"I found a girl... it seemed like she was previously Fath- Tsuko's hostage." your stomach felt upset the instant you approached calling him 'father', and thus switched to calling him by his real name. "Touma's little sister, she's in a bad shape."
Erika sighed, softly, shaking her head and rubbing her forehead in frustration. "Trap. Calling it. He's not stupid enough to leave something like that behind!" emotionlessly, she drew the obvious conclusion, but you shake your head for a moment-
A: Follow your tightly sealed emotions: Tell her it isn't a trap and she needs medical attention.
B: Follow your emotions, tell her it isn't a trap, but don't tell her wherabouts just yet.
C: Be logical: It's a trap.
D: You cannot go neither the logical nor emotional way, stay silent.
E: Other
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Post by Yushinoki on Sept 6, 2011 17:57:34 GMT
A
It's not like we can hide where Shiroyuki is, Touma's house is the first place Erika would look. As Shiroyuki isn't in much of a condition to be moved around, Touma doesn't have much of a choice but to stay there. Even if he did move her, Erika's kinetic vision would likely be able to locate her, or at the very least limit the possible locations. Also, judging by Erika's previous reaction, she may actually be impressed by Frederica doing something illogical.
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Post by U Metal on Sept 6, 2011 18:24:56 GMT
Oh, while I'm keeping this alive, I'm making an alternate universe reboot on the CoN boards. This will be the main, original story, while the other one will just be a fun side project.
i'm keeping very little the same in the reboot, bar Shiko, Frederica and Neru.
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Post by taziatusga on Sept 6, 2011 22:02:42 GMT
A
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Post by Mizu on Sept 6, 2011 23:20:17 GMT
A
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Post by U Metal on Sept 7, 2011 6:51:47 GMT
"It's not a trap." you say, your eyes roll down to the ground momentarily, not wanting to catch your mother's denied gaze for just one moment; there was nothing neither as painful nor terrifying as it. "I'm fairly certain it isn't. She needs desperate medical attention, Mom! We can't leave this to chance! C'mon, we need to go to Touma's house and get her healed right now!" you say, as your face finally moves up to look at her.
Erika's face is surprisingly amused. "Are you doing away with pure logic for emotion? How is that even possible, in your situation? Nevertheless, I'm the Kage of this village. Can I leave stuff like this up to pure emotion? This is far too dangerous." a small smile appeared on her face as she paced towards you, nay, towards the door: What she completely ignored was in fact your presence.
Her hand pushed nonchalantly on your face to deflect you from her path. "For the safety of Gekkkogakure, I need to execute her. Someone as intelligent as you should be able to understand. Please don't be too angry." her voice was teasing, quite obviously, she was seeing this as a game! You feel your rage boil up as you move your hand to your side, attempting to summon your scy-
Oh, wait.
Erika's head turns around to face you. "I felt that, dear. Unless you want your lifespan dramatically cut short, do not stop me." she spoke, her face once more turned forward as she stepped away "I'm impressed that you're using your emotions again; a Shinobi's strongest weapon, but please, don't be too much of an idiot." she says as her hand waves backward, and her foot moves to step out of the door.
...
Was this... what Touma meant?
Goddammit... Did you just betray his trust? Did you just...
Your hand moves to cover your mouth as a nauseous feeling builds up. Useless, useless, useless!
A: Stop her. Verbally.
B: Stop her. Physically.
C: ...It's no good, you can't do it.
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Post by taziatusga on Sept 7, 2011 11:06:00 GMT
B
Momma respect strength
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Post by Yushinoki on Sept 7, 2011 11:37:10 GMT
B
As usual Erika's hard to read, but she seems to be taunting us to see how much we're able to follow emotion over logic. And I think[/b] she has enough motherly love to not flat out kill Frederica... may give her a trip to the hospital, but not kill.
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Post by Mizu on Sept 7, 2011 17:38:17 GMT
B, she just said emotion is a shinobi's strongest weapon. Well, time to follow our emotions.
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Post by U Metal on Sept 7, 2011 17:49:57 GMT
"...I won't let you do that." you object, sighing softly. Of course, you can feel a certain amount of fear saying this. This psychopath was your mother, but you know that she wouldn't hesitate to kill you at the drop of a hat. Plus, she said emotions were a Shinobi's strongest weapon... Time to let them out. Just once, can't be that bad, right? After how you've been forced to ignore them... "I'll stop you."
"No." Erika simply says, a curly smile appearing on her face as she stepped forward. "Don't you leave! I told you I won't let you!" you repeat once more and step at her, without even bother to look at your face, she hooks her left foot up... And kicks you straight in the stomach. "Emotions are good to a point. If they make you stupid, abandon them, 'kay? They are making you quite stupid." you kneel with your stomach in your arms... Coughing up a light amount of blood. That wasn't a regular kick. She used some sort of kinetic technique to screw with your insides!
...
But screw that. You struggle up once more. Your mother seems not to care, she thinks you don't have the guts to stop her, but that's where she's wrong. You rest your hand on her shoulder and pull her back slightly. She turns at you, a bit surprised, before you reel your fist back.
"Why don't you SHUT THE FUCK UP!?"
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...
What just happened?
Why did your fist... hurt?
Why was your mother laying on the ground in front of you, obviously dazed, knocked into a wall?
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Post by U Metal on Sept 7, 2011 18:08:11 GMT
...
"...that happened?" Erika muttered in surprised a her left hand moved to her cheek. She should've been easily able to block that. See it coming. Dodge it. Break your hand. She shouldn't have been hit... but it seems like her ego prevented her from dodging. A slight watering in her eyes was even apparent. If you hit her any harder, you would've probably broken your fist.
Tears have swollen up in your eyes as well, of rage instead of any other emotion. Your hand moves to the side once more as you clench your teeth. "I've had enough of your endless condescending!" chakra forms into your hand. You cannot draw on your scythe, but you could remake it's form as a weapon, right!?
"Assholish!" however, the weapon slowly starts to gain actual form as Erika's hand shot to her chest, obviously in pain. A string of chakra moved from her to your hand. What was...
Your scythe starts to slowly get more material, more solidity. Obviously, it was turning into something more than just kinetic chakra. "Retarded!" and after moments, it already started to resemble the old form of your scythe. You can even feel it draw in kinetic energy like it used to.
"AND OTHERWISE FUCKED UP ATTITUDE." Erika lets out a scream of pain, whatever pain hit her, is stunning enough to render her unable to move. A rip appears on her upper chest, just below her neck, ripping through her shirt as well; where originally the mark of ownership of her scythe was. Instantly, however, said moves to you. You can feel your weapon return to you. You can feel your true power return...
No, you can feel it amplify. "If you don't start acting like a normal person!" the scythe suddenly starts to grow, two meters, no... Three? Six? It keeps multiplying, until it burst out of the side of the tower: After the explosion of power, however, it quickly reverted to it's original size. The kinetic energy of the part of the tower you just destroyed was absorbed into your weapon. "Anyone, anyone respectable! Or even my mother!" at this point, you are truly clouded by rage, and raise your scythe above you. Ready to strike down on her.
"I WILL FUCKING MURDER YOU!"[/SIZE]" your calm, collected attitude was nowhere to be found as you say that. Your rage is, at this point, simply far too much. you strike down the scythe with all your force, cutting down on your mother...
....
And sending a massive ripple of energy through the tower-
No, through the entire village. From the point where you hammered down your scythe, everything is perfectly split in two. And it just keeps on... splitting.
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Post by U Metal on Sept 7, 2011 18:28:55 GMT
...
You fall down to your knees
Okay, what the hell did you just do?
...
Pent up emotions... They must've gotten to you. Your eyes gaze through the enveloping dust for a moment. Erika had probably crawled to the side at the last moment, as the large slash-shaped crater. A large expression of shock was on her face. She was twitching... In shock? In fear? In anger? You have no idea, "...What?" was all she could mutter, her composture completely shattered as you fade out your scythe, back into you.
You start panting from exhaustion moments later, your hands pushing down on the ground to keep you up, that took more out of you than you thought it would... But at least your shut her up for once, right? You blink at the ground softly. Surprisingly, your eyes aren't extinguished yet. Your ability limit must be finally increasing, huh?
Suddenly, you feel a foot on your shoulder, pushing you down onto the ground. "...When? This powerful...how?" she spoke, her face still slightly twitching, her appearence, composure, everything, still completely broken.
"The Nega-Earthrender... Just..."
Heh...
...
How did you learn that, really? It works on the concept of vectors; the blast fired constantly deflects outward. Cutting forward, splitting everything in it's path by reflecting their insides. Anything trying to move away from it would normally feel their kinetic energy removed and sealed, before their deflected halves would be deconstructed into very fine kinetic energy.
Basically, a perfect opposite of the abilities used in the Earthrender, and almost as powerful.
"How the hell could you master something I couldn't!?" you finally notice that a bit of her left twintail had been cut short. Probably wasn't fast enough to save her hair, huh?
You smile softly at that.
"...Kuu... I'll leave her alone... for now..."
A: Thank her.
B: Stay silent.
C: Mock her inferiority.
D: Apologize for your actions.
E: Ask more about the Nega-Earthrender.
F: Other
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Post by Yushinoki on Sept 7, 2011 18:42:45 GMT
...That...that was a lot more than what I expected...
A
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Post by Mizu on Sept 7, 2011 18:57:30 GMT
F:A proper mother doesn't wear twin tails anyway
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Post by taziatusga on Sept 8, 2011 14:45:06 GMT
F
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Post by U Metal on Sept 9, 2011 15:09:20 GMT
Erika softly removes her foot from you and gets ready to pace of. You sit up, smiling, your hand moving to rub the painful mark that was left behind on your face... But you smile, your eyes looking up at the despairing form of your mother. You didn't like to see her like that, however, she needed that little reality check. "Hey, mom..." you softly mutter. Erika's face slowly turns to you.
For once, she's acting motherly, not looking down at you. Her face was actually curious.
"...Mothers shouldn't wear twintails." you say with a smile. Standing up. Erika's face jumps to infuriated as she spins around and starts shouting. "Oh you SHUT UP, a REAL woman takes care of her hair, instead of letting it fall down like you do! It's undignified, and... and..."
"Mom. You're in your thirties. You're wearing twintails."
"..."
You smile and step toward the long scar you've created in the entire landscape... Looking across it. "It's time for some things to change, isn't it?"
Erika's hands begrudingly move to her hair, as she removes the small pieces of cloth keeping her hair in tails. "...I agree with that one." a soft sigh came from her lips once again, before she turns around and smiles. "Finally speaking up, saying your emotions, saying your mind... You're finally seeing it, huh?" your eyes suddenly shoot up to your mother. Is she being... respectful!?
"Good job, daughter of mine. I'm proud of ya."
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That has to be the frst time she really praised you, nay, even called you her daughter. You smile, as you feel a soft trace of water roll down your cheek...
"...Mom?"
A: Timeskip!
B: No, we still have stuff to wrap up! (specify)
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Post by Mizu on Sept 9, 2011 15:23:03 GMT
B: Still have to see how Shiko telling Neru what she learned about Satori goes, and POV switch to Neru.
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Post by Yushinoki on Sept 9, 2011 16:53:52 GMT
Mizu's
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Post by taziatusga on Sept 9, 2011 17:29:59 GMT
Mizu's
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