Seeing Red [Naruto]
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It behooves me to remind people that senjutsu is an enhancement package.
It does not, in and of itself, provide you with the ability to fite gud; it just gives you a supermodo(another supermodo in the case of Hisana).
Naruto still got his senjutsu-channeling ass kicked by Pain until he went Kyuubi, and Kabuto still lost to the Uchiha bros who were explicitly trying not to kill him.
Furthermore, actual senjutsu is an S-class technique in canon.
That's 310 XP in a relevant rating, not just let's talk to the Ravens.
Make your plans accordingly.
I'm personally betting the applicable rating is Ninjutsu, Chakra Control or Fuinjutsu, with possibly prereqs in Strength/Medicine/Intelligence/Chakra Capacity, depending on the route we take to it, of which there are multiple in the Narutoverse.
This is something I didn't even consider, and which is a pretty big deal.
Being able to request chakra from a teammate without the immense wastage that happened after the Zetsu fight improves the versatility of everyone on our team, including Kakashi the lightweight.
Or having a Shadow Clone do it to enemies to extend it's lifespan in combat.
And at high levels....well, remember how Pain disabled Sage!Naruto by draining him?
Imagine doing the same thing and simply dumping the chakra in a storage seal.
In each of the three major battles we've been engaged in so far[Mizuki,Caravan,Running Battle] each of our opponents has thrown waves of hostiles at us. Our only recourse there was the use of chakra-intensive AoE ninjutsu, and only Naruto's reserves kept us going through things like fixing Kakashi.
Killing mooks cheaply without running short of juice is going to be important to our survival going forward.
We know that Orochimaru, who has shown uncomfortable interest in us and ours, has waves of minions to command.
Zetsus literally grow on trees. And neither the Trenchcoats nor the Cloaks have evinced a manpower shortage.
Those are just the enemies we know about.
And that's without considering the utility of being able to emplace an explosive of variable size on any surface, from a booby trap to blowing open a fortified area. Or the possibility of unlocking other paperless seals.
Not particularly.
Temari is a tessen user; her Wind techniques are channelled through her warfan.
Not all that many Suna nin use war fans; we don't see any more till the Fourth World War.
Baki, for example, was barehanded, and used the only Wind technique we saw as a blade.
Even outside Wind users, prepping for Temari would do nothing for helping you against a Puppet User, or someone wielding Scorch Release.
And it most definitely does nothing to prepare you for the armies of
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AU man. Transmigrants all over the damn place.
The timeline likely looks nothing like canon if we've seen nothing of Akatsuki, but have seen/heard of two similarly powerful NGOs.
Hell, while I expect an Invasion because Orochimaru is kinda predictable that way, I don't expect it to be anything like canon.
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I'm aware of the other inserts running about, I just find Akatsuki showing up on the first mission and swarming with Zetsus in particular to be too fast from a pacing perspective. And I generally dislike everything to do with Zetsu and the Kaguya plot, one of the many excesses of Part II canon.
Speaking of plot, I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get Curse Sealed. Would've been interesting to have our protagonist struggle against its effects, since I feel we've coasted sort of too easy despite the huge threats before us (tying back into my concern about sheer power scaling). I guess Orochimaru didn't bother because of the 1/10 kill rate, or some other reason. But that didn't stop him from marking Sasuke in canon, so...odd.
Fair enough.
Quest, not story, so different limits.
Can you imagine a situation where Hisana gets curse sealed and player priority doesn't turn to grinding the requirements to rip it off?
I certainly can't.
And from Orochimaru's perspective,the curse seal is supposed to seduce the vulnerable to join him, or give his footsoldiers an immediate power boost.
Curse sealing someone so opposed to him that she was willing to go into a cage match with him is pretty pointless; at best, she dies from it, at worst, she figures out to reverse-engineer it and becomes stronger. And she's a seal user, so that risk is significant.
It would be like curse sealing Kakashi; even if you're strong enough to do it, he isn't a traumatized kid who will listen to vague promises of power from an S-class nukenin known for cutting people up.
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I'd actually expect player priority to become 'learn senjutsu and also how to usurp control of the seal - expelling Orochimaru's influence but keeping access to juugo's enzymes'
For the eternal sage mode.
I mean, the lynchpin of Orochimaru's influence and soul link to the cursed seal is that it contains some of his senjutsu chakra to feed your own power to, and to attach it to his soul.
What happens if you replace that with some of your senjutsu chakra? Profit?
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Eh.
Not sure how usurping the contents would work, and you run the constant risk that Oroochimaru knows a weakpoint you don't.
Ask Anko.
Doubt that; nothing's for free.
If it was indeed a straight power boost, I can't really think of why Orochimaru would not be all over it personally like white on rice.
Instead only Kimimaro and Sasuke got it of his potential hosts.Every other recipient was a mook.
As in, if pre-crazytown Kabuto didn't take it....
First stage was a torturous process which risked killing the recipient, and had no true guarantee of success.
Second stage CS involved temporarily killing the body and putting undue stress on the recipient. Likewise, no guarantees.
I can see Orochimaru preferring not to risk it, especially when his bodies are, in some ways, very fragile.
Second stage CS involved temporarily killing the body and putting undue stress on the recipient. Likewise, no guarantees.
I can see Orochimaru preferring not to risk it, especially when his bodies are, in some ways, very fragile.
azoicennead
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The Sound Four were mooks?
The actual idea was "talk to the Ravens, find out what we need, and work on that", not just "talk to the Ravens, get Senjutsu".
One major action is not a useful sample set for determining an organization's numbers (aside from confirming that, yes, they can bring in at least that many people for an operation).
The fact that Orochimaru only got the seal to a 10% survival rate before declaring it a success makes the fact that he gets characterized as genuinely scientifically-minded really irritating for me. That's just so damn lazy and wasteful.
(Also, Kabuto used his knowledge to straight-up give himself Juugo's bloodline, which caused him to passively gather natural energy, giving him the benefit of the cursed seals [i.e. natural energy] without involving Orochimaru's sealwork.)
I personally think Kabuto was a ridiculous genius even in comparison to Orochimaru. Orochimaru seemed to be the guy who does experimentation where no one else does experimentation (things other villages got up to were about equivalent except Orochimaru had a lot of personal power to go with it too), but the things Kabuto got up to were incredible individual efforts.
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If you just want to talk to the Ravens about Senjutsu, that dosen't need an entire project.
Ayyup; loyal but disposable.The Sound Four were mooks?
As disposable as Kin and her team, who were pretty high performers in canon. Consider what it takes to lose your scroll to another team, get one of your teammates injured, and still manage to find and beat two other teams for their scrolls, and still make it to the tower before the deadline.
Orochimaru used them for Edo Tensei sacrifices after Gaara killed their team leader.
But that's not what the voting option says.
It says learn Wind from the Ravens. That's all.
People seem to be reading shit into it that I'm not seeing.
True.
But when you are willing to drop in the region of 100 troops at the walls of a Great Village in the knowledge that even with success of the primary objective, there is a very high likelihood you won't get most of those guys back?
I think I'm justified in thinking your bench is deep.
Hey, it's Orochimaru.
Kabuto literally only tried this after he went nutbar.
Before this, before Orochimaru got killed and he literally ground up his body to strain it for juice, he did not.
Or could not.
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Meh, it is a success. since it has a (apparently) reliable 10% success rate, that means the underling principles are valid. Being able to apply the theory is a side-benefit.
It's like today's medicine, just because we know a molecule works for this or that sickness, doesn't mean you have a treatment viable to comercialization. You still need to filter out side-effects and come up with a viable vector among other things.
I think it does fit with how Orochimaru is said to be a scientist, and not an engineer.
Can we have a mini-update for it than? I think everyone will agree that broaching the topic should be something to do. We could adjust our plans based on what Ravens tell us (how far we are from starting to learn it, benefits of training and such).
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Vote Tally : Seeing Red [Naruto] | Page 178 | Sufficient Velocity
##### NetTally 1.9.2
[x] Plan Redshirt
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
No. of Votes: 16
[X] Plan Papercut
-[x] Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[x] Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
No. of Votes: 13
[X] Plan I STUDIED THE BLADE
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
No. of Votes: 11
[X] Rounding Out Alt V2
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
--[x] - focus at least partially on defensive and countering techniques against other Wind attacks, against lightning, sand, projectiles, and if possible fire.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] Plan be a sword sage
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[X] Ask Ravens about senjutsu, and spend the available time doing whatever they tell you to get to start learning it.
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Rounding Out
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
No. of Votes: 1
-[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[X] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more Wind Release techniques.
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal.
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more wide area Genjutsu
-[x] - Learn more Fire Release techniques
-[x] - Learn more Wind Release techniques
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
No. of Votes: 1
[X] - Attempt to improve your Mystical Palm jutsu.
[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] Yoroi's Chakra Draining Jutsu
--[X] Sakura's Incomplete Chakra Scalpel
[X] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
[X] - Learn more Fire Release techniques
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Plan: Kabuto Insurance.
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
--[x] In order of decreasing preference Chidori, Yoroi's Chakra Draining Jutsu, and Gunshot Barrage.
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
No. of Votes: 0
Total No. of Voters: 46
##### NetTally 1.9.2
[x] Plan Redshirt
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
No. of Votes: 16
[X] Plan Papercut
-[x] Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[x] Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
No. of Votes: 13
[X] Plan I STUDIED THE BLADE
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
No. of Votes: 11
[X] Rounding Out Alt V2
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
--[x] - focus at least partially on defensive and countering techniques against other Wind attacks, against lightning, sand, projectiles, and if possible fire.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] Plan be a sword sage
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[X] Ask Ravens about senjutsu, and spend the available time doing whatever they tell you to get to start learning it.
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Rounding Out
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
No. of Votes: 1
-[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[X] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Improve the ranged aspect of your chakra flow
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more Wind Release techniques.
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
-[x] - Paperless exploding tags seem like a very useful skill, and one that you might be able to develop.
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal.
-[x] - Try and utilize your fuinjutsu knowledge to improve your sword.
-[x] - Learn more wide area Genjutsu
-[x] - Learn more Fire Release techniques
-[x] - Learn more Wind Release techniques
-[x] - Learn Wind Release techniques from the Ravens
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
No. of Votes: 1
[X] - Attempt to improve your Mystical Palm jutsu.
[X] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
-[X] Yoroi's Chakra Draining Jutsu
--[X] Sakura's Incomplete Chakra Scalpel
[X] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
[X] - Learn more Fire Release techniques
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Plan: Kabuto Insurance.
-[x] - Learn some of the jutsu you've copied with your Sharingan (See character sheet)
--[x] In order of decreasing preference Chidori, Yoroi's Chakra Draining Jutsu, and Gunshot Barrage.
-[x] - Learn more Sharingan genjutsu
-[x] - Try and create a system of parallel storage arrays instead of one central one for your Final Hurricane Seal
-[x] - Attempt to learn the Chakra Scalpel to a level allowing medical use.
No. of Votes: 0
Plan: ◈Kabuto Insurance.
Total No. of Voters: 46
Just 3 votes. Ah well.
Just not a priority for him, it seems.
Orochimaru is sufficiently bullshit that if he wanted to improve it, he could.
Just not a priority for him, it seems.
Plan.
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azoicennead
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Okay, Orochimaru is a scientist. After extensive testing, he found that his "final" version of the Curse Seal has a 10% survival rate, and then he stopped.
As far as we can tell*, he didn't begin looking at variables that determine who survives, so even if he can't refine the actual seal to improve the survival rate he can refine the selection process. The lack of scientific curiosity ("why does this work the way it works?") is rather disappointing.
* I do realize that we're missing a lot of information about the process he went through, but 10% is such a terrible result that I doubt it.
I wonder if the reason he didn't continue developing the curse seal was because he couldn't afford to. It's not like Orochimaru gave all of Sound cursed seals even though the increase in strength would likely make up for the loss of 90% of his forces. I suspect that given a only 10% survival rate he just couldn't create the hundreds to thousands of cursed seals needed to get an accurate representation of survivors vs. non-survivors.
That can't be accurate.
We know that one of the facilities Sasuke visited when recruiting his team in canon was full of people who could activate Level 2 curse seals, and they only began to break out after Orochimaru died. I'm willing to bet he either didn't care very much, or simply spread his attention around a lot of different subjects.
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That's the difference between the mentality of a scientist that what to know how stuff works, and a technician or engeneer that whats to accomplish something with that knowlegde.
The first one will see the experiment as a success as it proves that seals can affect natural energy, and steadily implant it in the target (and all that mind-control/soul revival bullshit from part 2). And the huge increase in success compared to the original method.*
The second one will see the survival rate, the cost/success rate and try to improve it to get more super soldiers.
I agree that it's disapointing that orochimaru didn't continue the research on natural energy in some other ways. Other than pushing it to phase 2. Maybe there' some out of story stuff that shows that it's not a viable option ?
ie: spliting his own soul for each seal weakens him, and having no backup control mechanism is a bad idea either due to the inherent madness induction of the seal from Jugo bloodline (as seen by how unhinged they become when they use phase 2), or just in general.
That would even explain why Kabuto didn't get a seal for himself.
* the original sage mode training kills most people that try it. Not 90% of every random smuck around (remember he used lowly orphans for this), but the vast majority of the highly trained masters that attempt the training. And even then not killing the dude, it's not always successful (see Jiraiya).
Can we blame this on part 2 general bullshit ?
Because honestly, there is no reason for Orochimaru to not use them on Konoha's attack. Even if they were uncontrolable, the sheer destruction would have make it worth it.
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azoicennead
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No, it isn't. If presented formally, what I described would be a series of hypotheses regarding various variables that may effect the result, followed by experiments where the variables are considered in different ways. You may recognize that as an implementation of the scientific method.
Exams 4.12
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Exams 4.12
Team Seven arrived home just as the sun was beginning to set. Hisana was pleased to note that the Uchiha district hadn't burnt down in their absence, and that everything seemed to be more or less in order. She was the one who did all the paperwork and organised things like rents and groundskeeping. Though, really, it was more like she organised the people who organised those things. Itachi's strike on the Uchiha clan had been to the letter of his orders, and most of the clan's civilian infrastructure had been left intact.
That is to say, Hisana was essentially mayor of a small district within Konoha. The village had originally been set up as a series of clan compounds, with unaffiliated shinobi, civilians, and hangers on living in between. Each clan district varied in size, from the largest such as the Uchiha, Senju, and Akimichi to the smaller such as the Yamanaka. The clans began buying up property and investing in stores near them, creating stable sources of income that was somewhat more stable than the ups and downs of mercenary work.
The trio of genin flopped onto couches as one, with Naruto lazily flicking on a - to Hisana's mind at least - horribly outdated television. Konoha got the same television stations as the rest of the Land of Fire, so it wasn't like ninja television or anything. It probably had a whole lot in common with Japanese television in the 60s and 70s, if everyone dressed like they were in a historical drama, Hisana thought.
"Can we just sit here forever?" Hisana asked.
"Our glorious leader has spoken!" Naruto shouted, nearly falling off the couch as he did so. Sasuke merely mumbled something in agreement.
"Now now, kids, you all have things to do. Like having a shower sometime soon... seriously, five days in the forest of death," Kakashi said, seeming to appear out of nowhere. After one of the world's most feared killers had managed to goad a trio of preteens into showering, Team Seven reconvened back in the central room of the building the genin of the team were living in. Now with damper hair and less odor, they started to eat lunch as Kakashi talked.
"So, all three of you got through to the finals... really, that's pretty inconvenient. Since you could go up against one another if you win your matches, you'll need to train separately this month. That means I can't train you all. Naruto, I found some old geezer for you-"
"Hey! What's the big idea, Kakashi-sensei? I'm the one who's gonna fight the crazy sand guy, and you saddle me with some random old dude?" Naruto shouted. Hisana had to keep herself from grinning. Getting Naruto trained by Jiraiya was as good a preparation for fighting Gaara as she could think of.
"Did I forget to mention that he trained the Fourth Hokage...? Anyway, he'll be waiting for you at, uh, the hot springs. You'll know him when you see him. Off with you!" Kakashi said, making a shooing motion at Naruto, who looked slightly stunned at that fact.
"So what about us, sensei?" Hisana asked.
"I'll be training both of you, since I'm the only Konoha nin with a sharingan left at this point. Unlike your teammate, I think you two can be trusted to work by yourselves for a day at a time... anyway, Sasuke's first so shoo, Hisana," Kakashi said, and Hisana rose to leave. She had projects of her own to work on.
Team Seven arrived home just as the sun was beginning to set. Hisana was pleased to note that the Uchiha district hadn't burnt down in their absence, and that everything seemed to be more or less in order. She was the one who did all the paperwork and organised things like rents and groundskeeping. Though, really, it was more like she organised the people who organised those things. Itachi's strike on the Uchiha clan had been to the letter of his orders, and most of the clan's civilian infrastructure had been left intact.
That is to say, Hisana was essentially mayor of a small district within Konoha. The village had originally been set up as a series of clan compounds, with unaffiliated shinobi, civilians, and hangers on living in between. Each clan district varied in size, from the largest such as the Uchiha, Senju, and Akimichi to the smaller such as the Yamanaka. The clans began buying up property and investing in stores near them, creating stable sources of income that was somewhat more stable than the ups and downs of mercenary work.
The trio of genin flopped onto couches as one, with Naruto lazily flicking on a - to Hisana's mind at least - horribly outdated television. Konoha got the same television stations as the rest of the Land of Fire, so it wasn't like ninja television or anything. It probably had a whole lot in common with Japanese television in the 60s and 70s, if everyone dressed like they were in a historical drama, Hisana thought.
"Can we just sit here forever?" Hisana asked.
"Our glorious leader has spoken!" Naruto shouted, nearly falling off the couch as he did so. Sasuke merely mumbled something in agreement.
"Now now, kids, you all have things to do. Like having a shower sometime soon... seriously, five days in the forest of death," Kakashi said, seeming to appear out of nowhere. After one of the world's most feared killers had managed to goad a trio of preteens into showering, Team Seven reconvened back in the central room of the building the genin of the team were living in. Now with damper hair and less odor, they started to eat lunch as Kakashi talked.
"So, all three of you got through to the finals... really, that's pretty inconvenient. Since you could go up against one another if you win your matches, you'll need to train separately this month. That means I can't train you all. Naruto, I found some old geezer for you-"
"Hey! What's the big idea, Kakashi-sensei? I'm the one who's gonna fight the crazy sand guy, and you saddle me with some random old dude?" Naruto shouted. Hisana had to keep herself from grinning. Getting Naruto trained by Jiraiya was as good a preparation for fighting Gaara as she could think of.
"Did I forget to mention that he trained the Fourth Hokage...? Anyway, he'll be waiting for you at, uh, the hot springs. You'll know him when you see him. Off with you!" Kakashi said, making a shooing motion at Naruto, who looked slightly stunned at that fact.
"So what about us, sensei?" Hisana asked.
"I'll be training both of you, since I'm the only Konoha nin with a sharingan left at this point. Unlike your teammate, I think you two can be trusted to work by yourselves for a day at a time... anyway, Sasuke's first so shoo, Hisana," Kakashi said, and Hisana rose to leave. She had projects of her own to work on.
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Inaho gave Hisana an odd look as she knocked on his door later that afternoon.
"Kie said you wanted to talk about swordsmiths? If you want something done before the third exam, you're about three months too late," Inaho said, opening the door as gestured for Hisana to come in.
"No, I know that. I had an idea I wanted to go over with one, see if it was possible - that sort of thing. That reminds me, I have something to go over with you," Hisana replied, moving into the house and taking her sandals off.
"Oh? So the student believes she's outgrown her master, does she?"
"In one area, perhaps. Of course, I am an honourless ninja who is unafraid of cheating her way to victory; so that was inevitable,"
The two of them moved to a more suitable part of the house for demonstrating kenjutsu, and soon enough Hisana had unsealed her sword from her palm and a boulder from a scroll. She took the sword out of it's scabbard and showed it to Inaho. Along the blade there were black lines of what looked to be dried ink, though on closer inspection it was revealed that the interior of the lines was made from kanji. The uncompressed seal ran the length of the blade, and was similar to the lines that formed when Hisana's Final Hurricane seal activated.
"What have you done to her?" Inaho exclaimed.
"Try attacking with it," Hisana said, handing the sword and it's scabbard to him. He sheathed it, and rushed forward into a textbook iaido strike; the sword glowing a sickly green. Inaho sheathed Hisana's sword, then turned to face her once more.
"That seal... it allowed me to activate my chakra flow far faster than even a chakra conducting sword should be able to. You're fast; faster than me in my old age, certainly, but not fast enough to need this,"
"Aren't I?" Hisana said, appearing behind Inaho in a flicker of shunshin.
"Kie said you wanted to talk about swordsmiths? If you want something done before the third exam, you're about three months too late," Inaho said, opening the door as gestured for Hisana to come in.
"No, I know that. I had an idea I wanted to go over with one, see if it was possible - that sort of thing. That reminds me, I have something to go over with you," Hisana replied, moving into the house and taking her sandals off.
"Oh? So the student believes she's outgrown her master, does she?"
"In one area, perhaps. Of course, I am an honourless ninja who is unafraid of cheating her way to victory; so that was inevitable,"
The two of them moved to a more suitable part of the house for demonstrating kenjutsu, and soon enough Hisana had unsealed her sword from her palm and a boulder from a scroll. She took the sword out of it's scabbard and showed it to Inaho. Along the blade there were black lines of what looked to be dried ink, though on closer inspection it was revealed that the interior of the lines was made from kanji. The uncompressed seal ran the length of the blade, and was similar to the lines that formed when Hisana's Final Hurricane seal activated.
"What have you done to her?" Inaho exclaimed.
"Try attacking with it," Hisana said, handing the sword and it's scabbard to him. He sheathed it, and rushed forward into a textbook iaido strike; the sword glowing a sickly green. Inaho sheathed Hisana's sword, then turned to face her once more.
"That seal... it allowed me to activate my chakra flow far faster than even a chakra conducting sword should be able to. You're fast; faster than me in my old age, certainly, but not fast enough to need this,"
"Aren't I?" Hisana said, appearing behind Inaho in a flicker of shunshin.
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Hisana stalked across the rooftops, sword at her side. She made no sound as she did so, her chakra tight and compressed. Through the red filter of her sharingan, she could see the night sky with a clarity that she had never achieved in her old life; even thousands of kilometres away from the nearest city. The red-tinged sky was a beauty confined solely to the Uchiha, and so few had taken much notice of it made her sad.
She was determined to save Hayate Gekko from the fate that awaited him on the moonlit rooftops of Konoha, to show herself that she could challenge the will of history; that she could be the butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil. She'd kept watch on him with a shadow clone and her chakra sense, keeping some distance away from him to prevent him from realising that he was being followed. Now, she sensed his presence out amongst the rooftops - and that of Baki, Kabuto, and a few others that she didn't recognise, that seemed to have simply appeared.
More chakra signatures seemed to simply appear on the next rooftop over. Six people, four men and two women, now stood there. Strange chakra seemed to be bleeding off them, as whatever jutsu that had transported them here faded. Hisana didn't recognise it, nor did she feel it amongst the six new signatures. They seemed to have the same uniform as the ninja from the graduation battle - trenchcoats over armour, no headbands. Three of them carried oversized katana, two steel bows, and the last a kusarigama. The archers aimed their bows at her, the swordsmen drew their blades, and the one who appeared to be their leader stepped forward.
"We cannot allow your interference, Miss Kingston. Hayate Gekko must die tonight. We have led him here to fulfill his role, as you should have done," the leader - the woman with the kusarigama said. Hisana felt like she'd been stabbed. They knew her old name, they knew what she was. This could not be allowed, nor would she let them lead Hayate to the slaughter. Her hands went to her sword.
"Step aside, please," Hisana said, her voice radiating a calm she did not feel. Her eyes glowed red, and she stepped slowly forward. The archers fired arrows of pure chakra at her, the swordsmen leapt forwards, and the leader simply stood there.
The world slowed down, Hisana's lightning blood seal enhancing her reflexes to an unfathomable extent. She sped forwards in a shunshin, taking a step or two up the side of the next building instead of jumping such was her velocity, and unsheathed her sword in a perfect iaido strike. Her razor wind raced up the blade as it extended from the sheath, fully formed as it cut the leader in half. Next, she struck down the archers, and after that the swordsmen.
She finished her attack by sheathing her sword once more, and only then did her seal fade and the bodies of her fallen foes hit the ground. The leader's top half slid forward at the clink of the guard of Hisana's sword hitting the top edge of the scabbard, and the ninja gave barely a glance to the strange ninja lying dead on the rooftops behind her. She had a comrade to save, and history to change.
Does Hisana attempt to fight both Baki and Kabuto, or does she concentrate solely on saving Hayate?
[x] - You try to prevent their escape as well as saving Hayate.
[x] - You let them go, focusing solely on saving Hayate.
A/N: So I made a discord for my various quests, Seeing Red obviously amongst them. Check it out if you like. Character sheet updates should be going up soon.
She was determined to save Hayate Gekko from the fate that awaited him on the moonlit rooftops of Konoha, to show herself that she could challenge the will of history; that she could be the butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil. She'd kept watch on him with a shadow clone and her chakra sense, keeping some distance away from him to prevent him from realising that he was being followed. Now, she sensed his presence out amongst the rooftops - and that of Baki, Kabuto, and a few others that she didn't recognise, that seemed to have simply appeared.
More chakra signatures seemed to simply appear on the next rooftop over. Six people, four men and two women, now stood there. Strange chakra seemed to be bleeding off them, as whatever jutsu that had transported them here faded. Hisana didn't recognise it, nor did she feel it amongst the six new signatures. They seemed to have the same uniform as the ninja from the graduation battle - trenchcoats over armour, no headbands. Three of them carried oversized katana, two steel bows, and the last a kusarigama. The archers aimed their bows at her, the swordsmen drew their blades, and the one who appeared to be their leader stepped forward.
"We cannot allow your interference, Miss Kingston. Hayate Gekko must die tonight. We have led him here to fulfill his role, as you should have done," the leader - the woman with the kusarigama said. Hisana felt like she'd been stabbed. They knew her old name, they knew what she was. This could not be allowed, nor would she let them lead Hayate to the slaughter. Her hands went to her sword.
"Step aside, please," Hisana said, her voice radiating a calm she did not feel. Her eyes glowed red, and she stepped slowly forward. The archers fired arrows of pure chakra at her, the swordsmen leapt forwards, and the leader simply stood there.
The world slowed down, Hisana's lightning blood seal enhancing her reflexes to an unfathomable extent. She sped forwards in a shunshin, taking a step or two up the side of the next building instead of jumping such was her velocity, and unsheathed her sword in a perfect iaido strike. Her razor wind raced up the blade as it extended from the sheath, fully formed as it cut the leader in half. Next, she struck down the archers, and after that the swordsmen.
She finished her attack by sheathing her sword once more, and only then did her seal fade and the bodies of her fallen foes hit the ground. The leader's top half slid forward at the clink of the guard of Hisana's sword hitting the top edge of the scabbard, and the ninja gave barely a glance to the strange ninja lying dead on the rooftops behind her. She had a comrade to save, and history to change.
Does Hisana attempt to fight both Baki and Kabuto, or does she concentrate solely on saving Hayate?
[x] - You try to prevent their escape as well as saving Hayate.
[x] - You let them go, focusing solely on saving Hayate.
A/N: So I made a discord for my various quests, Seeing Red obviously amongst them. Check it out if you like. Character sheet updates should be going up soon.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Somebody trying to put things back on the rails, in a bad way? No thanks.
[x] - You let them go, focusing solely on saving Hayate.
He needs to be put under witness protection afterwards, for I'm sure those two would try again.
[x] - You let them go, focusing solely on saving Hayate.
He needs to be put under witness protection afterwards, for I'm sure those two would try again.
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