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Post by Manah on Dec 18, 2012 21:10:15 GMT -5
Naruko
"Thanks Naruto..I'm sorry we had to meet again under such circumstances..tough..I am happy to see you again...you've grown a lot it seems..."
Naruko happily gave Haku a thumbs-up:
-You think so?... I mean... yeah, I must have, since last time you saw me I was basically a kid. Then again, so were you... how come you look as old as I am? Anyway... I'm very glad to see you, too!... I'm... ufff... man, that technique just took a lot of energy...
She wanted to ask her about the fact that she was now a girl, but before she could... Kurama pointed out something VERY interesting.
"Are you sensing the same thing inside the girl that I am?"
As she was catching her breath, Naruko looked at Haku with widened eyes.
-W-w-whoa! H-Haku!?... Haku! You're... the jinchūriki of Matatabi! How did that happen?
So many things to think about at once... which reminded her of one of them, very important. She dispelled one of her clones she had sent with Hinata in order to get a report of her situation and if she was back safe and sound in the village, as well as to know if Kakashi had been informed of the situation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I dispel one of my clones that went back to the village with Hinata to get her knowledge on the status of Hinata and to know if Kakashi was informed of the situation.
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Post by Mephistel on Dec 18, 2012 22:45:10 GMT -5
Haku
Haku was as much surprise as Naruko was at this point. It was the first time Haku had heard that voice. Haku knew this was in her head but it was still surprising. She winked for a second as Naruko pointed out at her.
-Huh...well...I'd say, it's a surprise to me...-
She said. Tough trying to answer the voice in her head, wich apparently belonged to Matatabi. The two tailed cat.
-Secrets? Oh...not to be impolite but...since when were you...in me?-
She asked in her head. She was curious to know to wich point her ressurection in this world had changed her.
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Post by Savant on Dec 19, 2012 12:07:17 GMT -5
"Well, I am glad every-"
Then an explosion tears the temple apart!
"Curses!" the monk says, punching a nearby pillar in frustration. He then focuses his attention on the armored man. He seemed to be educated on current events.
"Excuse me, samurai, but do you know what the Hand might be up to as of now? It is vital I confront them for their heinous actions."
================================= HEALTH: 3/3 ENERGY: 9/9 REGEN.: 3/3
ACTION 1: None.
ACTION 2: I'll use 3 stones of Social Skills (Good Will bonus) to grill Silver Samurai for information on the Hand.
MODIFIERS: Wealth [-1] Toughness [+2] Reflexive Dodge [+2] Mental Defense [+2] Energy Defense [+1] Magical Defense [+1] Sword [+4]
ENERGY LEFT: 6/9
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Dec 19, 2012 12:23:17 GMT -5
"I'm not suprised you don't remember." The Cat says. "You were still unconscious when they sealed me inside your new body."
Naruko dispels her clones to learn of what happend. She learns that Hinata is fine, just winded from the blow, and that Kakshi has been briefed and has dispatched a force to help you. You also learn something else. The Kurgan's body is gone from where you left it!
Silver Samurai speaks up. "The hand seem to be targeting superpowered beings, and costumed crimefighters, killing them, and ressurecting them as ninjas for their organization... I'm personally forming a task force of Japanese heroes to deal with them. I assume you want in outsider?" He asked clearly not trusting you.
(Fact, even today Japan is a very xenophobic place towards foreiners.)
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Post by Savant on Dec 19, 2012 23:16:22 GMT -5
"Hm...I suppose I could join if this gets me closer to fighting the Hand. Are there any specifics to this position?"
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Post by Manah on Dec 20, 2012 2:45:41 GMT -5
Naruko
Naruko had been paying attention to the Steel Samurai and Jago's words while she also received the information she wanted to know. It would have, no doubt, been interesting to follow them, but chasing after the Hand was less immediately vital for the Leaf Village than dealing with Haku's return, the discovery of Matatabi's new partnership with her, and the Kurgan. "Dammit... can't that guy stay dead? I was pretty sure I had defeated him for good...", she thought to herself. What did it take to keep that bastard down? At any rate, if the Steel Samurai and his brigade needed the help of Ninja from Konohagakure, he could always send a request to the village, as was usually their way.
-You guys do that. Me and Haku will take our leave... we have much to do on our own. Farewell, Steel Samurai... She waved hi to the ninja nobody introduced to her: Take care too, unnamed ninja guy! See you around!
Naruko turned around, looking at the hole she had made in the ceiling of the cave.
-You coming, Haku? I've got a lot to tell you on the way back to my village...
She then leapt onto the wall, using her chakra to run vertically on it until she was out. She was wondering who Kakashi had sent to meet up with her... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 stones (Efficient) into Acrobatics, 3 to jump and reach the "wall" created by my earlier tunneling; 3 to run vertically upwards...
...with 3 stones into Chakra, 2 to negate my weight and 1 to stick to the wall to make it possible.
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Post by Mephistel on Dec 21, 2012 9:16:36 GMT -5
Haku
Haku was still getting use to the fact that she had one of the tailed beast inside of her. She'd never tought she'd had one.
-Well...a pleasure to meet you Matatabi.-
She tought. She nodded at Naruto and followed her trought the hole in the ceiling, waving at the other two.
----------------------------------------------------------- 6 stones (Efficient) into Acrobatics, 3 to jump and reach the "wall" created by Naruko; 3 to run upward
3 stones into Chakra, 2 to negate my weight and 1 to stick to the wall.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Dec 21, 2012 9:42:56 GMT -5
Silver Samurai scoffs at Jago, but soon relents. "Very well... Even we need all the help we can get. Come with me, I will introduce you to the team, he says activating a rang that teleports you, him, and Rumiko to an unknown location where several police officers are waiting.
"These men will take you home, Miss Nonaka." Silver Samurai says. He then turns back to you. "Follow me, I'll lead you to the others."
He takes you down a hallway, where a man, and human in identical red, and white costumes are standing around. "Jago, meet Sunfire, and Sunpyre. This is Jago, I have recruited him to help us deal with the Hand Menence."
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You both rush through the woods where you encounter several Konoha ninja coming to help.
Sakura, Hinata, Shikamaru, and Lee.
"What's the situation, answer me." Shikamaru ordered Naruto with authority, and seriousness. After the fourth war, Shikamaru had stepped his game up. He knew if the Rinnegan was invloved things would get bad quick.
"What the-" Sakura rubs her eyes. "Haku, is that you?" She asked looking at the girl.
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Post by Mephistel on Dec 21, 2012 10:03:10 GMT -5
Haku
Haku rush trough the woods along with Naruto until they meet with the others from the village. She'd recognize Sakura tough she didn't knew the others.
She nodded to her.
-It is me in fact...tough what brought me back again is a long story...to wich details I do not know myself...-
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Post by Manah on Dec 21, 2012 12:59:11 GMT -5
Naruko
When Haku and Naruko joined with the force from Konoha, Naruko's first reaction was a large smile as she saw Hinata.
-Hinata-chan! I'm glad you're alright, she said as she mentally dispelled her other currently remaining clones. Now that she was sure Hinata was fine, there was no need for them.
Immediately after, Shikamaru asked for a report, which Naruko didn't waste any time giving him (in another situation, she would have joked about Shikamaru being waaay too serious, but at that moment, he had every reason to be, and so did she.)
-Right. You probably know the beginning of the story already, since you're with Hinata-chan and talked to my clones. After I managed to bring her out of the Kurgan's grasp thanks to my Kage Bushin no Jutsu, I kept fighting the Kurgan in the air as he was dragging me around with his Rinnegan. At one point, I felt a sharp pain in my eyes, worse than the one in the village. I couldn't see anything, so I focused on his chakra, and I used that to throw a kunai through his eye. We began to fall. I stopped my fall with a wind release jutsu, but then the pain in my eyes got so bad I lost consciousness for a while. When I came to... I had the Rinnegan, too. I avoided the killing blow he was about to give me, and then I slashed him three times, hitting his vitals. I was fairly sure he was dead.
She frowned, folding her arms:
-But he was gone when we came out of the cavern. It's possible he survived through a jutsu or another... or I only killed the Deva Path of a Six Paths technique, and his body was recovered by the original. His wounds were severe... he should have died, but he had that weird smile on the whole time. Like he knew he wouldn't die. Maybe he can't be killed through normal means?
She then looked at Haku:
-After that, I felt a chakra signature underneath the ground. I got to it, and found Haku-chan here. For those of you who don't know... Haku-chan is the first friend I lost. Not long after I became a ninja. Sakura and me... with met him on a mission with Kakashi-sama long ago. He died saving an important friend of his. And for some reason, he's a girl too now. But more importantly, Haku-chan is the jinchuriki of the two-tailed cat, Matatabi.
She concluded, looking back at Shikamaru:
-He said he was one of the Nine... not sure what he meant by that, but he wasn't a jinchuriki. He said something else... that I was "like him". Or was it "one of us"? I didn't get that part. I was distracted by the pain in my eyes.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Dec 21, 2012 13:24:12 GMT -5
(Will skip over Jago for this one panel)
"Haku, it's nice to finally see you face to face." Sakura says. "Mmmm... I... Like the new look." She admits trying to be nice.
Naruko!" Hinata cries rushing over, and hugging you. "I was so worried."
"I see." Shikamaru says. "I'd best report this to the Hokage. Let's get you... girls... home."
"So now you have the Rinnegan." Lee says with none of his youthful enthusiasm. He's been acting weird for several months now. He rarely talks to anyone anymore, and whenever he sees you he's trangely hostile... "Typical..." He says leaping off taking point. You can almost hear him mutter under his breath.
"Neji was right all along."
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Post by Mephistel on Dec 21, 2012 17:44:00 GMT -5
Haku
Haku looked at Sakura and smiled kindly.
-Thanks...tough I really don't know why I ended up as a girl...-
He couldn't help but feel a bit awkward, Haku wasn't from this village and despite been friend with Naruto, this wasn't his place, he didn't feel right.
-I don't want to be a burden to anyone...tough if I can help with anything...let me know...I am in debt to you Naruto...-
She said, bowing to Naruto.
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Post by Manah on Dec 22, 2012 0:49:18 GMT -5
Naruko
As Hinata runs up to her and hugs her, Naruko ends up thinking that this might be a great day after all. She holds the girl in her arms for a while:
-I'm... sorry to have worried you. I don't know what I would have done if that jerk had taken you away, but it wouldn't have been pretty. I'm just glad that you're fine.
She also waved Hello to Sakura; it was, after all, the first time she spoke to her since her return from her mission with Shikamaru... and being turned into a girl this morning.
-Hi Sakura-chan!... Weird day, huh?
Apparently, she had regained her usual enthusiasm.
"I see. I'd best report this to the Hokage. Let's get you... girls... home."
And Shikamaru hadn't lost his dry sense of humor. Unless he simply accepted Naruto's becoming Naruko with his usual absence of strong emotions showing? She could never tell, with him.
-Yeah... thanks. Many thanks. Sigh.
As for Lee's reaction, she had been expecting something along those lines. She even wondered why he had even bothered to come in the first place. In the last few months, he acted more and more like a jerk with her, well, him. As if he blamed Naruto for Neji's death, among other things. As if he blamed him to have survived while he had died.
"Still whining about that...", Kurama said in her mind. "Don't be so quick to blame him... We all lost good friends back then. Besides... I think he still cares about me, in his own way. He may still act hostile around me, but he did accept to come to my aid with the others." Kurama remained silent for a while, before shrugging it off: "Perhaps."
She looked at Lee leaping away, saddened a bit. Once, Lee was one of Naruto's closest friends. Now... it felt like he hated her. She was missing her good, optimistic and idealistic friend from before. The one who never gave up despite his limitations. The one who had proven time and again that one didn't need to be good in everything to be a great shinobi.
"I don't want to be a burden to anyone...tough if I can help with anything...let me know...I am in debt to you Naruto..."
Haku's words shook her from her thoughts, and she realized she had been hugging Hinata for like 20 seconds. Letting go of her, she smiled, blushed a little, and turned to answer Haku:
-Hey, you're not a burden to anyone. I'm sure we can find you a home in our village, if you want it, of course. If you want to help us deal with the Kurgan, your help would be most welcome too. Plus, we don't know what his motives are. If he's after the jinchuriki... which he might be... perhaps it is best for you to be among friends, right?
She finally added:
-Oh... and please, call me Naruko. According to Kakashi-sama, I might very well remain a girl forever. If that's how it's gonna be... well, 'Naruko' fits a girl much more than Naruto.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Dec 22, 2012 1:00:46 GMT -5
(OOC: GE: Consider Jago's adventure in this forum over. Post a response to to your last panel, and get ready for your own adventure. In the meantime take 3 lines.)
Haku and Naruko make their way back to the village.
(a short debriefing later.)
Haku is at a store trying on some new clothes. Her kimono was nice, but something more ninja-ish was needed.
She came out in an altered more feminine version of her old outfit.
"Nice new look, it does your newfound femaler form well." An old man in a trenchcoat, and a bionic eye says looking over you. "So you must be the new Jinchuruki of Mutabi... I'm not sure if I should be impressed or not."
"HAKU!!!" Mutabi yells in your head. "Be warned. I sense the Nine-Tails in this man... I don't know how, but it's in him as well as Naruko!"
(Not too far off.)
Naruko was sitting with Hinata finally ordering that Ramen. "Well Naruko... What did you want to say?" Hinata asks.
(OOC: Haku has all her equipment from her profile now, with the exception her Kiri outfit now has a wrist length Haori, and her pants are now a wide-hemmed skirt. Everything else is the same.)
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Post by Mephistel on Dec 22, 2012 9:09:47 GMT -5
Haku
Haku was trying on new cloths. If she wanted to move best, she needed something a bit more practical, she regretted her old cloth but somehow, she found something similar. Wich was impressive since her old cloth were from her own village. But no matter. Trying them on, she find them to fit nicely.
When some old man complimented her...and apparently knew more then he should. Also, Matatabi words came to him as a warning.
-What? The nine-tails? Shouldn't there only be one?-
She tought, quickly turning around. Her hand was starting to froze as she was on the defensive now. Who was that man and how did he knew her? She didn't recall any man with a bionic eye, even less with one of the tail beast in him...
-Thanks...tough...who might you be sir? I don't recall ever meeting you before...-
Tough she didn't look like it, her whole body was ready to move away from any attack or offensive this man might try. This was really suspect and strange.
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8 in acrobatics, shifted to defense.
4 in teleportation jutsu, all shifted to defense, to teleport myself in case this man get too close. I'll teleport outside the store.
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