Is this Village an Illusion?

Yoko · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: Is this Village an Illusion?

No, not even my Genjutsu could forge a place as beautiful as this. the young man thought to himself. On the far side of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, there was a small tavern. Despite looking a bit run-down from the outside, and there was a cracked sign out front (Displaying the words "The Winding Root"), it was actually quite nice on the inside. Various ninja, (probably on their day off) and common villagers littered the establishment, filling up the many tables as young waiters and waitresses appeared here and there to take their orders. The food and drink they served were great, and cheap as well.

Sitting away from the crowded areas, in the corner of the room was a shrouded man leaning forward in his chair, facing out the window. A dark cloak and straw hat masked his appearance, and some of the customers began to take note of it. "Isn't it odd for someone to be so incognito while eating at a tavern?" one woman spoke to her husband. "Strange." he spoke back to her. "There's a shuriken holster on his leg, but I didn't see a Konoha mark anywhere on him."

The stranger was now leaned far back into his chair, which was now on only two legs. His soft humming was unheard over all the talking, but some people close by caught the tune. "Hey, I remember hearing that before." one man spoke to his brother. "Yeah, you're right. That song... the people from that clan used t- Yoko began coughing uncontrollably, nearly falling out of his chair in the process. He fell forward onto the table in front of him, spitting up a bit of blood as one of the two brothers rushed over to him. The sick man's straw hat fell forward, off his head. The ninja recognized his face, as he quickly turned his head over to the wall. There it was. Yoko's bounty poster.

Yoko turned his head up to the ninja, who seemed to be readying for an attack. He coughed very loudly this time, a large amount of blood spewed out onto the hunter-nin's face. With this small distraction, Yoko leaped out of his chair and began dragging himself slowly towards the door. Forming a hand seal, he muttered "Breaking Floor Jutsu." Most of the people in the tavern became very unsteady, giving him more time to get out of there. Unfortunately, some of the more advanced Ninja dispelled the illusion and gave chase.

"Fan out, FIND HIM!" the (possibly strongest) ninja yelled, as the handful of other shinobi who had left the tavern with him began to search the streets. Yoko's breathing began to grow louder, faster. He heard footsteps approaching, and held his mouth shut. They walked right past him. He decided to wait there for a while, hiding under the safety of a cardboard box that he found. He felt... safe inside of it.
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Roleplaying Characters:
Yoko Mai
Blank

RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: B-Ranked Missing-nin (A-Ranked) | E-Ranked Chuunin
Village: None | Iwagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: Fan, Shougeki Shuuha | Katana, Bow (15 arrows)
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 15

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Sench · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

OOC: Where is your Gates post?
Also, cardboard box >_>
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I-no
Suija, Enja, Igniz

Roleplaying Characters:
Tachibana Ukyo
Mutou Kazuki
Frederick
Henshin Ellen
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Hokage (SS) ~ Jounin (A) ~ S-rank Missing-nin (SS) ~ None (C)
Village: Konoha ~ Konoha ~ None ~ None
Training Points: 325
Inventory: 20 Shuriken, Silver Moon, Dark Sun ~ Renkinshou XXXIX, Kris ~ Fuuenken ~ Medical Supplies
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 6

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Lavathing9 · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject:

Lava sat in the damp alley-way as he heard shouting, and a ruffling of footsteps near him. He had been woken up by a loud shinboi yelling, "Fan out, FIND HIM!". He now was readjusting his mask around his face, as he never slept with it. "Someone sure knows how to start a ruckus." Lava started to inch along, placing his hands on the side of his overturned cardboard box to push it as his cramped legs moved his body.

Lava suddenly bumped into another object and Lava laid down, as much as he could, in his cardboard box and lifted the edge of the box enough to barely see another cardboard box in front of him. "Hmm, I've been needing a new one, this one is starting to sag a bit, and doesnt hold up like it used to." Lava quickly threw his box up in the air and grabbed the one in front of him, as he lifted it up he noticed someone under the box. Lava made a handseal and a large exclamation mark appeared over his head.

Lava placed the box on the ground next to the other person. Lava knelt down and turned his head in order to get a better view of the person's face...he quickly noticed yellow eyes, and then immediatly recognized the person. "Yoko! Still hiding in the old cardboard boxes I see." Lava extended a hand to greet the fellow Mai. "Now, I can hook you up with a great box dealer in Kirigakure if you'd want, he makes extra sturdy boxes to last even through the winter." Lava pointed with his free hand to his old box that he threw, "See, that one lasted me 2 years!"
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The Box

Roleplaying Characters:
Mai, Lava
Miyazu, Sano
No 3rd RPC
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Sannin (SS) ~[-]~ Jounin
Village: Kirigakure ~[-]~ Iwagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 15 Kunai, 25 Shuriken, 2 Katana Strapped To Back, 8 Scrolls, Po-Med Stuff.
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: N/A

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Yoko · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

Strange, I feel... relaxed in here. the hidden nin thought to himself, despite feeling a bit cramped. My coughing has gone away as well! Does this box possess some sort of magical property!? Before he could theorize anymore about this unique new device, it was pulled up over him. The feeling of the outside world was terrible, as if being stabbed from all sides by senbon. The confused man looked upwards at the diabolic villain who dared to rob him of his magic box. An exclamation point appeared over his head, and Yoko could not help but let out a hard laugh.

The missing-nin pushed his straw hat backwards off his head, as it hung by a string from his neck. He stared blankly at the ninja in front of him that had extended a welcoming hand. "Huh, LAVA?!" he shouted from the silence, grabbing the fellow clan member's hand with both of his own. All the Mai members were supposed to be dead. It was more than refreshing to see a living relative.

"We haven't talked since our childhoods, and now that we finally meet again you're advertising boxes?" Yoko chuckled loudly. "We really are from the same clan!" Staring at the box that was rudely pulled off of him, Yoko took a moment to analyze it as something more than just a convenient storage device. Quite frankly, a box can be used in various different ways, in and out of combat. It was... the perfect Ninja tool!

Snapping himself out of his trance, Yoko struck the first obvious question. "So, what have you been up to all these years?"
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Roleplaying Characters:
Yoko Mai
Blank

RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: B-Ranked Missing-nin (A-Ranked) | E-Ranked Chuunin
Village: None | Iwagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: Fan, Shougeki Shuuha | Katana, Bow (15 arrows)
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 15

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Lavathing9 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:21 am Post subject:

OOC: Someone else join in this, we wanna pwn you via boxes.
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The Box

Roleplaying Characters:
Mai, Lava
Miyazu, Sano
No 3rd RPC
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Sannin (SS) ~[-]~ Jounin
Village: Kirigakure ~[-]~ Iwagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 15 Kunai, 25 Shuriken, 2 Katana Strapped To Back, 8 Scrolls, Po-Med Stuff.
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: N/A

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OzanaruSyra · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

OOC: Okay? I'll join as long as you're not going to kill me.

IC: The deep darkness was lit alive from the thousands of pinprick street lights. The whole village was aglow with the painful bathing, remiscient of the sun. It made her disgusted, made her yearn for the dark forest. She didn't know why but she felt as if she was trapped in this village, caught between two forces beyond her control. Forces which she couldn't escape. The feeling shifted itself from her head to within her arm. Her hand trembled as if she were an inexperienced student. She attempted to stave off the unfounded fear with a grand scoff but it could not push through. There was something wrong in the air and it was too powerful for her to ignore.

As she turned a corner she knew it laid out in front of her. Two shinobi stood; not out of the ordinary for the time of night. Yet they had an aura of wrongness. Not quite evil but enough to make one shudder. Her right hand slid over the jutting hilt to thumb the guard. She was unsure of whether it was a nervous tick or warrior's intution but the mystery was insignificant to the more pressing problems at hand.

" Hello," She said softly. She was extremely relieved to hear it flow steadily. One must never show weakness to shinobi. " Fine evening?" She could feel electricity in the atmosphere even as she spoke. She had a suspiscion they were here to attack the village. If it was just the two of them they would be very powerful indeed. She shuddered inwardly.

Roleplaying Characters:
Syra Ozanaru
Kidaku Itichi
No 3rd RPC
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Jounin
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure
Training Points: 185
Inventory: 1 Katana
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 5 FC

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Lavathing9 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject:

OOC: Note, this is non-canonical to Lava's actual personality...

"Huh, LAVA?!" Lava shaked Yoko's hand greetingly as his fellow clan member was surprised to see him. "We haven't talked since our childhoods, and now that we finally meet again you're advertising boxes? We really are from the same clan!" Lava nodded to Yoko, "Well, it is the perfect ninja tool is it not? Why, you can hide in it, trap people in them, and for some reason I feel so relaxed in the box. I dont even feel cramped!" Lava peeked his head inside of Yoko's box. "Hmm, you got the special storage pocket one, very nice. I've been wanting one of these. How long have you been wandering in Konoha? Its seems you've attracted quite the crowd, but when do we ever not." Lava chuckled at Yoko.

"So, what have you been up to all these years?" Lava released his hands from Yoko's and sat down next to Yoko have his box. "Well, nothing much I suppose. I wagged a war against Oto, which was pretty fun. I was also a Sannin for a short period of time, before the Great Shinobi Nations dissolved them, and I stopped doing anything related to Kirigakure."

"Hello, fine evening?" Lava's head suddenly jerked up to see who was talking to them. He was a Kiri shinobi. Lava turned quickly to Yoko and his box, he lifted Yoko's box and jumped inside and quickly closed it and made a the tiger handseal and whisper "Through the Fire and Flames". Nothing seemed to happen to the box at all. Lava tilted his head towards Yoko, "A Kiri shinobi, they are probably looking for me. So, how have you been?"
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The Box

Roleplaying Characters:
Mai, Lava
Miyazu, Sano
No 3rd RPC
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Sannin (SS) ~[-]~ Jounin
Village: Kirigakure ~[-]~ Iwagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 15 Kunai, 25 Shuriken, 2 Katana Strapped To Back, 8 Scrolls, Po-Med Stuff.
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: N/A

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Uchiha Katsuga · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject:

OOC: Posting as an NPC!

IC: After some time of traveling non-stop, using nearly all of his Chakra just to get there in the shortest amount of time possible, a Chuunin comes up to where Syra, Lava, and Yoko are at, having some kind of trouble trying to find them at first, but finally did. Stopping where they're at, panting to death, and sweating like a drunken pig, he falls to his right knee, using his left hand to keep himself up, he reaches into his pocket with his right hand, then takes out a message to hand to them.

I have... a message...from...Mizukage-....sama!!! The Village...is under...attack!!! Please...hurry!!!

He tries to get his barrings straight, but is far too tired to really do anything other than breathe heavilly and sweat to death, but he's still standing, per say, waiting for them to take the message from him so that he can rest himself completely, or at least start to.
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Lammergeier (Pet-Nin)
Shigane, Makoto (Kempo Master NPC)

Roleplaying Characters:
Uchiha, Katsuga
Shikami, Aoshi
Raptor "Hagetaka", Zetsumei
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Mizukage [SS-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]
Village: Konoha (originally), now Kiri; Konoha; Konoha; Pet-Nin (Konoha)
Training Points: N/A
Inventory: 10 Shuriken, 10 Kunai, 10 Senbon, 2 Fumma Shuriken, 5 Windmill Shuriken (small), 10 strands of Chakra Wire, 2 Kodachis (Ranpu and Ankoku)
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 6.5

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OzanaruSyra · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

IC: Syra turned sharply, ripped from her reverie. A flash of familiar control worked its way into her and left her in a state of relative normality. Her memory flooded back into her mind, filling the empty recesses which lay dormant. She was Syra Ozanaru, Clan Leader and noble shinobi of Kirigakure No Sato. Everything appeared more vivid in her mind, most notable the immediate aura of extreme danger.

She reached forward and ripped the letter from his hands. Reading quickly, she started walking briskly off along the street. " Come along," She motioned at the Chuunin. " We've got a train to catch." She spun around to wave at Lava and Yoko, her new aquaintances. " You up for a fight?" She said, a wide grin splayed across her face.

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OOC: Ugh, that was a horrible exit. Sorry for my poor RPing. I'm a little rusty.
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Syra's Theme - 463

Roleplaying Characters:
Syra Ozanaru
Kidaku Itichi
No 3rd RPC
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Jounin
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure
Training Points: 185
Inventory: 1 Katana
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 5 FC

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Sench · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: