Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Keep those filthy treacherous Sidereals FAR away from here, please.
The Princess of Blades (Naruto/Exalted)
- Thread starter Crilltic
- Start date
- Crossover
Keep those filthy treacherous Sidereals FAR away from here, please.
Week 2 - Investigation
- Location
- Massholistan
When you finally manage to make it to the Konoha archives it's already mid-morning, encroaching swiftly on noon. Meeting with Gai-sensei had taken longer than you anticipated. By which you mean he roped you into training anyway. So as you run underneath the stern gaze of the Hokage Rock your muscles are already sore from that ordeal. You honestly felt a bit bad for having to cut the session short, but this was more important.
You push through the simple green doors that heralded the entrance to the Archives, and nod to the chunin on duty. You don't know recognize her, but she evidently recognizes you though, as she waves you through almost immediately. Normally as a genin you'd need written permission from your Jounin-sensei to even come in here, but as a prospective chunin the rules are slightly laxer now. Not all of it of course, but the merely restricted sections were now open. A way to help Konoha-nin in the Exams, and more subtly a way to test how prospective chunin handle restricted information in a relatively safe and controlled environment.
As you pass through the sound-dampening seals that cover the entrance you are assaulted by the scent of aging paper and rows and upon rows of books and scrolls stretch out in front of you. The Archives extend deep into the base of the Hokage Rock, a veritable fortress holding the accumulated knowledge of Konoha. One entrance, one exit, and more guards stationed inside on the levels holding more classified intel.
You take a deep breath as you look out what must be thousands of books, scrolls and other documents. Somewhere in here are the answers you seek, you just need to find them. You clap your hands together in determination. You always did love investigating things like this, solving mysteries, answering questions. But now, now it's more important than ever. Before it was just a way you tricked yourself into halfway enjoying studying, or sat down with a good mystery novel in your spare time.
Now whether your best friend ends up crippled could very well depend on what you manage to find here.
You swallow a lump in your throat. No pressure.
It isn't until you begin combing your way through the aisles, your feet echoing quietly on the tiled floor in the silent hall, that you really notice how empty it is here. With most short-term missions suspended for the duration of the Exams, and it being close to the Finals, you're practically the only the one here. Your hand brushes past the faded titles on the shelf next to, their spines cracked and worn with age. It's almost overwhelming, being surrounded by so much information, with absolutely no idea where you should start.
Then you stop short as you pass the next shelf of books and scrolls, coming upon one of the slight alcoves containing tables they have set aside, as you spot a familiar head of pink hair buried in a book that looks bigger than your head. "Sakura?" You ask with a slight smile in your voice, looks like your in luck. You might have a partner in all this after all.
The girl jerks upward, and you catch a brief glimpse of the book she's reading, Advanced Chakra Techniques and their Applications, Vol. 1. She looks around somewhat frantically, before finally spotting you struggling to contain laughter. She strikes you with a mock glare, "Don't sneak up on me like that..."
"Don't get so absorbed then," You easily slide into the wooden chair across from her, "What are you doing here?"
She wiggles the book in her hand, "Kakashi-sensei is busy with Sasuke, so he gave me permission to come here and look through the advanced texts, so I don't fall behind." She places the book to the side and fixes you with a look, "But why are you here? Shouldn't you be out training?"
The chair groans slightly as you lean forward, "I'm here to do some research on Gaara's abilities, up for helping me?" you whisper rather conspiratorially.
She raises an eyebrow, "Shouldn't you be focusing on the opponents on your side of the bracket first?"
"What? You don't have confidence in me?" You say with a somewhat hollow laugh, but after a pause you continue quieter. "It's not for me though...It's for Neji. Something's wrong with Gaara Sakura, really wrong. There's something inside him, something powerful, and it's terrifying." You lay your head down on the table with a sigh, suddenly feeling like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.
Sakura looks at you with a creased brow, "I'm...not sure I understand? Something inside him?"
You sigh again, "It's like this..."
You run through an explanation of your day yesterday, and Sakura's face goes through several interesting expressions as you go over your new...you're not even sure it's a jutsu anymore...and your encounter with Gaara and Temari. Once you finish though it settles one somewhere between contemplative and suspicious. She rests her elbows on the table, the book she was reading long forgotten. "I...um...wow...that's...that's a lot to take in."
You awkwardly rub the back of your head, "Yeah, it's something I know."
She takes a deep breath, "So, let me get this straight. You now have a jutsu that lets you tell why someone is saying something, and no one can tell you're using it." She pauses, "That is so unfair."
"That's also not really the poin-"
"No, no I know, it's just..." she sighs "It just sounds crazy is all. All of it."
You rub your forehead, "Yeah, I know, but I swear it's..." You chew your lip, should you tell her about That Night? You did say you were going to open up to her more, and if she can help you with this... You exhale sharply through your nose. Dammit here goes nothing. "It's also not the only reason I know."
Sakura looks at your quizzically, and you glance around to make sure no one else is here. You drop your voice down to an even quieter whisper. "You know Dosu? The Sound-nin who died?" At her nod you continue, "Well, and you can't tell anyone this, I was there when he died. He...confronted Gaara. It was-Gaara just unfolded under that awful, awful moon. Whatever's in him, I think I saw it that night. It just tore Dosu to shreds, and he screamed, and screamed and screamed." You have to pause there, to keep your voice from shaking as those screams echo in your ear. "That's...that's what he was going to do to Lee, if Gai-sensei didn't stop him. Just tear him apart."
You glance down to find your hands are gripping the table so hard your knuckles as white. "I...I need your help Sakura, I need to warn Neji what he is. I-" You choke up slightly, "I can't lose another teammate to that monster, seeing Lee in that hospital bed...it's...I..." You shut your mouth and slump down in your chair.
"Hey. Tenten." You glance up to see Sakura pushing her book off to the side, "We should probably start in the Myths & Legends Section."
You give her a tremulous smile.
The next several hours pass in a blur, a flurry of books, scrolls and other semi-classified documents pass before your eyes, a fortress of information grows on the wooden table around the two of you. You learn more than you ever thought possible about schizophrenia, about various legends of possession jutsu, about other mythological creatures, but nothing matches up with what you've found. It's like something's missing from all the records you can find.
"Hey Tenten?" Sakura pipes up from over her own pile.
"Mmm?" You briefly glance up to let her know you're listening as you pull out another scroll.
"Do you think Sasuke would appreciate me bring him this stuff as well?" You glance up to see Sakura fiddling with one of her books, a noticeable blush on her face.
"Yes, definitely!" You nod, "Your his teammate after all, and I'm sure any help will be appreciated." Plus if the Uchiha can beat Gaara, that means Neji doesn't have too...
"Oh...okay" If anything the blush grows bolder. It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure that out.
"You like him don't you?" Then you glance at the open scroll in front of you and you fist hits the table "DAMMIT!"
"What?! You too?! I-"
You blink slightly as you process what you just said, "What? No, he's cute I guess but it's this scroll. This is the eighth one sealed by order of the Office of the Hokage. Plus all those books that have pages removed."
Sakura freezes, opening and closing her mouth several time before everything falls out at once "Oh...I'llgoasktheguardsifwecangettotherestrictedsectionberightback."
She flees the table in a cloud of paper, and you can only sigh as you bury yourself back into the censored scroll.
A short time later, you notice a figure returning and you half wave your hand in greeting.
"Fancy meeting you here..." Wait that's not Sakura, you glance up to see Ino looking at you with her head cocked, "Shouldn't you be out training?"
"Oh hey Ino, for a minute there I thought you were Sakura." Your hand gestures to the scrolls in front of you, "I ran into her here when she was catching up on some of her chakra usage literature, and she's been helping me with some research."
It's then that you hear another pair of footsteps approaching, "Tenten, Suzume says we need special passes too-...oh hey Ino"
You see Ino's eyes sweep over the table and she pulls out one of the extra chairs at the table, with a grin that makes her look like the cat that caught the canary. "Come on, you guys can't end it there. Spill."
You and Sakura glance at one another.
It doesn't take that long to get Ino up to speed. It turns out she was here to research Gaara on her own time as well. You don't go quite as in-depth in your story as you do with Sakura, but it's enough to get her on board. You're not entirely sure you like how Sakura and Ino both glare at one another when you mention Sasuke, but at least this time you manage to forestall an argument.
The work is grinding, you, Sakura and Ino tear through books and scrolls that look like they haven't been opened in a decade at least. A thin film of dust settles over the pile of books and scrolls as the day winds down and down. You begin to lose hope, after book and scroll come up censored and redacted, and even Ino can't get you into the more restricted parts of the archive.
Until Sakura opens up a one last book, a tome that's almost larger than your torso, completely caked with dust, that she found wedged behind several others. A Treatise on the Founding of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Mito Uzumaki.
"Hey Tenten, Ino? What's a Jinchuuriki?"
You push through the simple green doors that heralded the entrance to the Archives, and nod to the chunin on duty. You don't know recognize her, but she evidently recognizes you though, as she waves you through almost immediately. Normally as a genin you'd need written permission from your Jounin-sensei to even come in here, but as a prospective chunin the rules are slightly laxer now. Not all of it of course, but the merely restricted sections were now open. A way to help Konoha-nin in the Exams, and more subtly a way to test how prospective chunin handle restricted information in a relatively safe and controlled environment.
As you pass through the sound-dampening seals that cover the entrance you are assaulted by the scent of aging paper and rows and upon rows of books and scrolls stretch out in front of you. The Archives extend deep into the base of the Hokage Rock, a veritable fortress holding the accumulated knowledge of Konoha. One entrance, one exit, and more guards stationed inside on the levels holding more classified intel.
You take a deep breath as you look out what must be thousands of books, scrolls and other documents. Somewhere in here are the answers you seek, you just need to find them. You clap your hands together in determination. You always did love investigating things like this, solving mysteries, answering questions. But now, now it's more important than ever. Before it was just a way you tricked yourself into halfway enjoying studying, or sat down with a good mystery novel in your spare time.
Now whether your best friend ends up crippled could very well depend on what you manage to find here.
You swallow a lump in your throat. No pressure.
It isn't until you begin combing your way through the aisles, your feet echoing quietly on the tiled floor in the silent hall, that you really notice how empty it is here. With most short-term missions suspended for the duration of the Exams, and it being close to the Finals, you're practically the only the one here. Your hand brushes past the faded titles on the shelf next to, their spines cracked and worn with age. It's almost overwhelming, being surrounded by so much information, with absolutely no idea where you should start.
Then you stop short as you pass the next shelf of books and scrolls, coming upon one of the slight alcoves containing tables they have set aside, as you spot a familiar head of pink hair buried in a book that looks bigger than your head. "Sakura?" You ask with a slight smile in your voice, looks like your in luck. You might have a partner in all this after all.
The girl jerks upward, and you catch a brief glimpse of the book she's reading, Advanced Chakra Techniques and their Applications, Vol. 1. She looks around somewhat frantically, before finally spotting you struggling to contain laughter. She strikes you with a mock glare, "Don't sneak up on me like that..."
"Don't get so absorbed then," You easily slide into the wooden chair across from her, "What are you doing here?"
She wiggles the book in her hand, "Kakashi-sensei is busy with Sasuke, so he gave me permission to come here and look through the advanced texts, so I don't fall behind." She places the book to the side and fixes you with a look, "But why are you here? Shouldn't you be out training?"
The chair groans slightly as you lean forward, "I'm here to do some research on Gaara's abilities, up for helping me?" you whisper rather conspiratorially.
She raises an eyebrow, "Shouldn't you be focusing on the opponents on your side of the bracket first?"
"What? You don't have confidence in me?" You say with a somewhat hollow laugh, but after a pause you continue quieter. "It's not for me though...It's for Neji. Something's wrong with Gaara Sakura, really wrong. There's something inside him, something powerful, and it's terrifying." You lay your head down on the table with a sigh, suddenly feeling like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.
Sakura looks at you with a creased brow, "I'm...not sure I understand? Something inside him?"
You sigh again, "It's like this..."
You run through an explanation of your day yesterday, and Sakura's face goes through several interesting expressions as you go over your new...you're not even sure it's a jutsu anymore...and your encounter with Gaara and Temari. Once you finish though it settles one somewhere between contemplative and suspicious. She rests her elbows on the table, the book she was reading long forgotten. "I...um...wow...that's...that's a lot to take in."
You awkwardly rub the back of your head, "Yeah, it's something I know."
She takes a deep breath, "So, let me get this straight. You now have a jutsu that lets you tell why someone is saying something, and no one can tell you're using it." She pauses, "That is so unfair."
"That's also not really the poin-"
"No, no I know, it's just..." she sighs "It just sounds crazy is all. All of it."
You rub your forehead, "Yeah, I know, but I swear it's..." You chew your lip, should you tell her about That Night? You did say you were going to open up to her more, and if she can help you with this... You exhale sharply through your nose. Dammit here goes nothing. "It's also not the only reason I know."
Sakura looks at your quizzically, and you glance around to make sure no one else is here. You drop your voice down to an even quieter whisper. "You know Dosu? The Sound-nin who died?" At her nod you continue, "Well, and you can't tell anyone this, I was there when he died. He...confronted Gaara. It was-Gaara just unfolded under that awful, awful moon. Whatever's in him, I think I saw it that night. It just tore Dosu to shreds, and he screamed, and screamed and screamed." You have to pause there, to keep your voice from shaking as those screams echo in your ear. "That's...that's what he was going to do to Lee, if Gai-sensei didn't stop him. Just tear him apart."
You glance down to find your hands are gripping the table so hard your knuckles as white. "I...I need your help Sakura, I need to warn Neji what he is. I-" You choke up slightly, "I can't lose another teammate to that monster, seeing Lee in that hospital bed...it's...I..." You shut your mouth and slump down in your chair.
"Hey. Tenten." You glance up to see Sakura pushing her book off to the side, "We should probably start in the Myths & Legends Section."
You give her a tremulous smile.
The next several hours pass in a blur, a flurry of books, scrolls and other semi-classified documents pass before your eyes, a fortress of information grows on the wooden table around the two of you. You learn more than you ever thought possible about schizophrenia, about various legends of possession jutsu, about other mythological creatures, but nothing matches up with what you've found. It's like something's missing from all the records you can find.
"Hey Tenten?" Sakura pipes up from over her own pile.
"Mmm?" You briefly glance up to let her know you're listening as you pull out another scroll.
"Do you think Sasuke would appreciate me bring him this stuff as well?" You glance up to see Sakura fiddling with one of her books, a noticeable blush on her face.
"Yes, definitely!" You nod, "Your his teammate after all, and I'm sure any help will be appreciated." Plus if the Uchiha can beat Gaara, that means Neji doesn't have too...
"Oh...okay" If anything the blush grows bolder. It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure that out.
"You like him don't you?" Then you glance at the open scroll in front of you and you fist hits the table "DAMMIT!"
"What?! You too?! I-"
You blink slightly as you process what you just said, "What? No, he's cute I guess but it's this scroll. This is the eighth one sealed by order of the Office of the Hokage. Plus all those books that have pages removed."
Sakura freezes, opening and closing her mouth several time before everything falls out at once "Oh...I'llgoasktheguardsifwecangettotherestrictedsectionberightback."
She flees the table in a cloud of paper, and you can only sigh as you bury yourself back into the censored scroll.
A short time later, you notice a figure returning and you half wave your hand in greeting.
"Fancy meeting you here..." Wait that's not Sakura, you glance up to see Ino looking at you with her head cocked, "Shouldn't you be out training?"
"Oh hey Ino, for a minute there I thought you were Sakura." Your hand gestures to the scrolls in front of you, "I ran into her here when she was catching up on some of her chakra usage literature, and she's been helping me with some research."
It's then that you hear another pair of footsteps approaching, "Tenten, Suzume says we need special passes too-...oh hey Ino"
You see Ino's eyes sweep over the table and she pulls out one of the extra chairs at the table, with a grin that makes her look like the cat that caught the canary. "Come on, you guys can't end it there. Spill."
You and Sakura glance at one another.
It doesn't take that long to get Ino up to speed. It turns out she was here to research Gaara on her own time as well. You don't go quite as in-depth in your story as you do with Sakura, but it's enough to get her on board. You're not entirely sure you like how Sakura and Ino both glare at one another when you mention Sasuke, but at least this time you manage to forestall an argument.
The work is grinding, you, Sakura and Ino tear through books and scrolls that look like they haven't been opened in a decade at least. A thin film of dust settles over the pile of books and scrolls as the day winds down and down. You begin to lose hope, after book and scroll come up censored and redacted, and even Ino can't get you into the more restricted parts of the archive.
Until Sakura opens up a one last book, a tome that's almost larger than your torso, completely caked with dust, that she found wedged behind several others. A Treatise on the Founding of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Mito Uzumaki.
"Hey Tenten, Ino? What's a Jinchuuriki?"
*****
As you trudge through the small path out the training yards you have time to think about the what you discovered. The Kyuubi, a Monster strong enough to level mountains and kill armies, that ravaged Konoha. Probably what killed your parents. That was only stopped by the personal sacrifice of dozens of Konoha's finest and the Lord Hokage himself.
There are eight more.
Eight. More. All sealed inside individuals so they cannot wreck havoc on the land, entrusted to the Hidden Villages to keep contained. The pieces fit together all too well, Gaara, the presence you felt. Something akin to the Kyuubi, sealed inside him. Desperate to get free so it can kill...and kill... and kill. Despite the warmth of the late afternoon, you suppress an involuntary shiver. As you walk along the carefully manicured path, surrounded by the peace of nature, you can only think of the question the three of you couldn't answer.
What happened to the Kyuubi?
Did it die? Can it die? Was it just sealed away, and then the records burned? Is that why everything related to Jinchuuriki is classified? You don't know. You don't know if you even want to know. Sakura had been strangely quiet, but she just brushed it off as she left with Ino.
All you know is that Neji needs to know. He needs to know what he could end up facing. Which is why you find yourself here, approaching one of the training grounds furthest from the Village. You knew from Gai-sensei that Neji was using this one to train, and from the sounds you could hear in the distance, you can tell he's still doing so.
Suddenly there's a shout, and a sound like rushing wind, and crash as something tears its way through the underbrush to come to a rest at your feet. You glance down to find the tattered remains of a target dummy, torn apart by some calamitous force. You glance back up to see the path it carved through the underbrush...and standing at the edge is exactly who you came to see. Your own brown eyes meet pale white one, surrounded by the trademark veins of an activated Byakugan.
"Tenten?" His head tilts slightly, "What are you doing here?"
You try and ignore the massive pit that just formed in your stomach.
How are you going to do this?
[ ] - You need him to listen, you'll make him listen. You want to help him. You don't care if he thinks he doesn't want it.
[ ] - You refuse to lose another teammate to that monster, that's what matters most. Everything else is secondary.
[ ] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
There are eight more.
Eight. More. All sealed inside individuals so they cannot wreck havoc on the land, entrusted to the Hidden Villages to keep contained. The pieces fit together all too well, Gaara, the presence you felt. Something akin to the Kyuubi, sealed inside him. Desperate to get free so it can kill...and kill... and kill. Despite the warmth of the late afternoon, you suppress an involuntary shiver. As you walk along the carefully manicured path, surrounded by the peace of nature, you can only think of the question the three of you couldn't answer.
What happened to the Kyuubi?
Did it die? Can it die? Was it just sealed away, and then the records burned? Is that why everything related to Jinchuuriki is classified? You don't know. You don't know if you even want to know. Sakura had been strangely quiet, but she just brushed it off as she left with Ino.
All you know is that Neji needs to know. He needs to know what he could end up facing. Which is why you find yourself here, approaching one of the training grounds furthest from the Village. You knew from Gai-sensei that Neji was using this one to train, and from the sounds you could hear in the distance, you can tell he's still doing so.
Suddenly there's a shout, and a sound like rushing wind, and crash as something tears its way through the underbrush to come to a rest at your feet. You glance down to find the tattered remains of a target dummy, torn apart by some calamitous force. You glance back up to see the path it carved through the underbrush...and standing at the edge is exactly who you came to see. Your own brown eyes meet pale white one, surrounded by the trademark veins of an activated Byakugan.
"Tenten?" His head tilts slightly, "What are you doing here?"
You try and ignore the massive pit that just formed in your stomach.
How are you going to do this?
[ ] - You need him to listen, you'll make him listen. You want to help him. You don't care if he thinks he doesn't want it.
[ ] - You refuse to lose another teammate to that monster, that's what matters most. Everything else is secondary.
[ ] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
[ ] - Stunt?
Well that was long. And I'm super tired now, but hopefully it's decent enough? I don't know it's 1 AM. Anyway, Tenten, Sakura and Ino now know what Jinchs are. And Sakura is like 90% of the way to figuring out Naruto is one.
I'm sure that won't affect canon at all.
I'm sure that won't affect canon at all.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Go go mystery team!
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
[X] - You refuse to lose another teammate to that monster, that's what matters most. Everything else is secondary.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
This situation is made of limit break.
Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
Totally~
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
This is my first time trying to write out a stunt, so hopefully this isn't too terrible.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
This is my first time trying to write out a stunt, so hopefully this isn't too terrible.
OverReactionGuy
Verified Sanity
Welp... there goes the neighborhood and possibly Gaara since if we limit break we'd probably go after him as he's an immediate threat to our friends.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
[ ] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[ ] - Stunt?
The other two options just scream limit break, so one of these two seems like the best choice.
-[ ] - Stunt?
The other two options just scream limit break, so one of these two seems like the best choice.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
It is a valor based limit. That would get ugly even if we won.
matacusa
Hi!
- Location
- Home
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
- Location
- Panama City
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
For lack of a better stunt
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
For lack of a better stunt
Biigoh
Tanuki
- Location
- Tanukia
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
JadeKaiser
Uninspired Custom Title
- Location
- Under Your Bed
IIRC Crilltic actually said we had a Conviction-based Limit Break.
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
- Location
- Massholistan
Yes, Tenten's Limit Break is a Conviction one. And, yes, limit breaking is going to be messy. As all limit breaks should.
WolfKit
Pay no attention to the fox behind the keyboard.
- Location
- [█████]
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
-[X] - Stunt?
--[X] Time to take your rival's advice. You will make him listen to you, if that's what it takes. "I found out something about Gaara that you need to know if Sasuke doesn't beat him. But first, you're going to explain to me why you've been avoiding me like this lately. Training separately I can understand, but not even talking to me? Neji, we might be competitors, but we're still teammates. What's wrong?"
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- Location
- italy bologna
[X] - Something is wrong with Neji, he's never avoided you like this before. You need to find out what that is.
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
-[X] Stunt: You step through the underbrush, meeting Neji's eyes, questioning look pinning his gaze in a stare as few have ever done to a Hyuuga's white gaze, "So, Neji, what's bothering you?". He turns away, Sagacious Reading of Intent catching a flicker of his purpose in the motion, "Or would you rather have a spar than a chat?". You juggle a kunai with false casualness, getting into a ready stance, "Maybe we have a little stress to work out, going by the training dummy." Or as Gai-sensei calls it, communicating with our fists
Are we likely to be in danger of Limit Breaking, though? From our character sheet, we're only at two Limit, so we'd have to get our Condition triggered multiple times in the same scene in order for it to be a serious concern.
Although on the other hand, if anyone could perform such a feat, it would be pre-finals Neji.
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- Location
- Massholistan
Lee is going to give him some solid competition in his current quest to overcome his crippling through vigorous physical exercise.
I'd considered that that might be the case. Really, at this point in the series, Team Gai barring Gai himself seems like a finely crafted machine designed to generate Limit for Tenten.