Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
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- Yes.
Yup Minami's dead.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
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- Yes.
ARE YOU FUCKIN OMFG DID YOU SEE JIRAIYA'S REACTION TO MINAMI HE'S GOING TO KILL HER.
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
So can we do anything about that?
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- Yes.
Ok, so one of these things must happen:
- Convince Jiraiya that Minami will not or can not reveal the Mist Drain Incident.
- Prevent Minami from revealing the Mist Drain Incident.
- Make revealing the Mist Drain Incident not a bomb.
- Prevent Jiraiya from being able to kill Minami.
- Kill Minami.
- Reveal the Mist Drain Incident ourselves.
- Hide Minami away, as a missing-nin or similar.
- Silence or otherwise mutilate Minami such that she cannot reveal anything.
- Out-roll Jiraiya at Social, and convince him to not kill Minami.
- Out-roll Minami at Social, and convince her to not tell.
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- Europe
Amazing Chapter, I can taste his frustration. But doesn't he see the opportunity in using Minami Nikko, the secret prodigy? The first in the infamous Wakahisa-Minami combination , aka use the drain to power her jutsu at the same time to unleash hell on earth? I still want to test if this works, but if it works we can literally pull enemy chakra into her prisma and she can shoot back.
No he won't and the Minami Clan would be stupid to go against Jiraiya, sure it's not going to be perfect, but they are not going to risk a pro-Hyuga Hokage in office
@Dictator4Hire , Your cue.
I don't buy it.
Jiraiya can justify an awful lot of things to himself under the banner of protecting Leaf, but murdering Minami would be only a matter of claiming political advantage. How does he rationalize that to himself?
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IT IS NOT JUST FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE
IF MINAMI TELLS ANYONE ABOUT THE MIST DRAIN INCIDENT LEAF GOES TO CIVIL WAR AND IMPLODES IN ON ITSELF
Edit: It's only a step down from actually murdering Minami so it still applies.
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- Europe
She would only tell her Clan, who would use it as political leverage. CALM DOWN YOU DID A GOOD JOB WITH THIS PLAN.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
So why would Minami do that? Her clans best option is being loyal to Jiraiya but demanding more than he wants to give. It might cost political capital but isn't that huge of a deal
Frankly, I think Hazou is much more likely to tell someone about the Mist Drain Incident than Minami is, because Hazou is a gossip who can't keep his mouth shut.
TO PROTECT LEAF, CLEARLY HAZOU MUST BE SILENCED.
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- Yes.
Good point.
[X] Action Plan: Hazou kills himself
Exactly what it says on the tin.
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- Phoenix, AZ
Ask him if we should kill her in her sleep for real and list it as a casualty of the mission? But that's too late now.
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- Phoenix, AZ
Reason #2 Minami must die, which I think is clear from the chapter, but Hazou didn't tell Jiraiya. Once Jiraiya knows about it, he'll know he needs to kill her:
Minami knows we're the Stone Cold Killers. This invalidates the beautiful cover story Jiraiya is weaving.
Minami knows we're the Stone Cold Killers. This invalidates the beautiful cover story Jiraiya is weaving.
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- Yes.
Pretend we found another individual of value, and she died in the process.
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- Yes.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
*sighs, pinches nose*
The Mist Drain Incident gives Minami more negotiating power based on the threat that the Minami will reveal it. Obviously that's suicidal because the Minami pretty much exist at the whims of the Hokage, but nevertheless it is still some small amount of power.
I could see a pretty obvious way to negate it: admit it when the corrected story comes out.
After all, Kagome is a tortured Jonin who has very sharp lines about family, and Minami didn't really get the memo before doing something. In apology, Kagome is now working his ass off for the Minami.
Now, as for draining through Mist? Clearly you must be mistaken. The mists used by Jiraiya's clan are notably impossible to see through, and obviously it's all a very clever misdirection to hide the Water Whips in the fog.
The Mist Drain Incident gives Minami more negotiating power based on the threat that the Minami will reveal it. Obviously that's suicidal because the Minami pretty much exist at the whims of the Hokage, but nevertheless it is still some small amount of power.
I could see a pretty obvious way to negate it: admit it when the corrected story comes out.
After all, Kagome is a tortured Jonin who has very sharp lines about family, and Minami didn't really get the memo before doing something. In apology, Kagome is now working his ass off for the Minami.
Now, as for draining through Mist? Clearly you must be mistaken. The mists used by Jiraiya's clan are notably impossible to see through, and obviously it's all a very clever misdirection to hide the Water Whips in the fog.
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- Rockford, USA
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- They/Them
At the risk of sounding callous...is this a problem?
If J wants Minami dead we absolutely do not try to save her, because keeping J happy with us and as stress-free as possible is how we stay alive, and we need to be alive to save anyone else. We are not trading Minami for all the other people we will save once our FOOM is underway.