A small village in the unclaimed lands near the nation(empire?) of Fires borders, although is outside any countries protection or borders for various reasons mainly involving the expense to mount any sort of garrison in such a remote town and due territorial I stabilities of the unclaimed lands. It consists of about 1750 people of all ages, mostly farmers or other basic country style professions exist. Bordering the village about a twenty minute walk from its perimeter where the land much harder to farm, a little out of site and a few dozen meters from a small river does a small band of apparent ronin live, although they are generally accepted and commonly can be seen working in town or offering to escort merchants and the like they are technically considered criminals from the land of iron and their presence there might have some standing in the villages not being integrated or approached by the fire nation, although no real reasons have ever been disclosed and the topic hasn’t come up in the past several years.
The town has a large stable and Inn due to being in a decent position for merchants to travel through.
The only defences this town has is a basic town militia and an appointed group of deputy guards, none wielding ninjutsu, although a basic handling of swordsmanship can be found in some of the residents whom have been taught by the ronin that live just out of town. The ronin could also be considered a form of defence as well as their little mistress Tomoe. The main entrance to the village is a small bridge that goes over the ten foot wide and about seven foot at its deepest moat that surrounds the town up until the hill some of it is built upon, which was dug by and under the local ronins insistence to assist with potential flooding and to act as a boundary marker and good security.
”Ohhhh this Liquor is the best you cheap b*****d, how’d you come by that Yagiiii, Gamblin I bet right?!” The underage girl chimed roughly as she slammed a shot glass on a wooden table and shoved it forward to indicate another be poured. Two men sat with her, one easily In his sixties, the other around middle aged, the younger man was clearly Yagi as he held the bottle securely and poured her another shot, the older mans glasses sliding up beside hers as the man poured indicating her pour another for him to. The younger man grinned and said “Little Oujo-sama is wrong!! it wasn’t through gamblin, I accompanied a merchant to the border, he gave it and two other bottles too me as a tip for my diligence De-gozaru!!” He said proudly, taking a drink himself but right from the bottle. The old man laughed at this point saying “You know he only took the job when he heard the guy was transporting alcohol, probably bugged him till he gave him some to quiet him up hehehe.” The older man cackled, grinning to reveal missing teeth, he and the young girl slamming their glasses down in unison and pushing them toward Yagi, who refused, holding the bottle close “You mock me and expect my liquor, damn you both!!.. but I jest, I can’t give you anymore oujo-sama, boss’’ll beat my a** if you skip out on your trainin’ drinking, take this and start swinging!” He said, clearly smug as he tossed her his Katana and pointed at the poor tree they were about to have her whale on.
She clicked her tongue at this, the b*****d would be finding a random limb when he got good and drunk later, but that could wait. She drew his sword after attaching the sheathe to her belt, pointing the weapon in front of herself and slashing into the tree with a overhead diagonal strike, flipping the sword over and cutting upward, the swiftly downward again all in one fluid seeming movement, instantly scarring the tree with a deep and wide marking. “You’re cutting down the tree remember!!” She heard a chime from behind her, sonova could have just complimented her warmup strike, she knew what she was meant to be doing, sheathing the weapon, before redrawing it, whilst spinning to face the other two will a sarcastic gaze, flourishing the weapon at the before cocking her head and the tree shifted, sliding out of place before falling away from her and crashing audibly into the ground behind her.
After the dust settle she rose one arm, her threads exploding out and latching onto various limbs of the tree before she lifted the limb and pulled back forcefully. The result was rather spectacular as leaves and thin twigs and branches were trimmed from all of the gripped trees appendages, the force of this blasting a large portion of the debris to the side. It took about three more attempts of this to totally strip the tree of basically all the leaves before the threads withdrew and disappeared into her wrist and forearm, the skin beneath writhing slightly as everything fit back into proper place and she flexed her fingers as a final check, before turning back to the tree.
Brandishing the sword again, she marched over to the tree and brought it down on the first outcropping branch, separating it with a thunk and a thud of it hitting the ground, flicking her toes beneath the branch she gave it a solid kick, lobbing it away. Using a sword like this was bad for the blade, that is if you can’t cut with samurai level training, although most wouldn’t do this, they were basically Ronin and she was something else entirely and hence she hacked away. Clearing branches from the fallen tree and flicking them away with her toes was way she did for the next five or so minutes until the main body of the tree was naked of any. The next part was slightly important, so she used two hands this time and sliced a segment off about two feet in length, the strike blasting away stray leaves that had stayed beside the fallen tree.
It was then the older man has moved to the Branches she’d cut off earlier and picked one up, before tossing it at her, the girl lifted her arm to deflect the object with her forearm, throwing her arm to the side to displace the weighted object before lifting the sword in an upward hack. The first cut was not the only one, she snapped her wrist down and around, yet again turning a single cute into three, before a final horizontal slash, that cut through the dead centre of the segments before they had a chance to disperse, the force of the last blow separating them and sending them cascading away. Just as they left her line of sight a new branch entered, nearly catching her off guard as this time the first strike was a downward blow, however the rest was basically a repeat, just her movements inverted.
This time when the wood left her line of sight, the new branch was almost right in her face, she knew she wasn’t meant to dodge this and with irritation ejected some threads to intercept and catch the branch. As the thread tendrils grasper around the branch, they yanked in different directions, stopping its movement and breaking it to pieces in the same motion, her arm swinging as the threads launched the fragments in the general direction of the old man who needed at her for using her threads, which she responded with a middle finger, before readying for the Old mans next volley. This time she twisted the blade last second, catching the branch with the flat of the weapon before flicking her weapon swiftly, catching the branch with its momentum before throwing it right back the way it came! This cause the branch and the next the old man threw to collide and burst due to the force, Yagi swore at her and told her to use his sword right as she laughed it off, pleased she got the old man back who landed on his a** in surprise.
Besides the playing around they repeated the same motions until there were no more branches, the old man pulled out a Jutte at this point and went in for the attack, a little defensive training before the delivered the resources would be good for them. The man thrust at her, which she casually blocked, pulling her sword down quickly after impact to avoid the man catching it as his wrist turned to twist the weapon. Using the opportunity the stepped into him, around the weapon and released her sword with her off hand. Using her hand she swung a powerful backhand, which was ducked and the jutte lowered past her guard and brought up to strike her neck. She was forced to lean backwards, to a point of being off balance, place the hand the missed its mark on the ground and booting the man in the ankle, knocking him onto her, the girl releasing the sword to avoid any harm coming to him as the geezer fell into her chest.
(Mission: collect firewood for the locals, Rank: D .)
“Offf old man before I hurt ya.” She said shoving the man from her bosom a flushing a little “Be more careful, ya did that on purpose I bet, to much liquor!” She pulled herself to her feet and turned to Yagi “guess ive got some work to do now so help me out would you.” She requested of him as she sheathed his weapon and threw it back to him, before lifting up two of the trees logs and carrying them to a wagon and cow they had gracefully borrowed from a local for this job. She walked slowly as she went, not used to such cumbersome and awkward weight, although not unable to handle it, her threads extended and placed the logs one at a time at the front of the cart, stacked on top of on another neatly.
Raising her hands after hearing one of the others beckon her, the threads extending to waist her in catching a lot cut, before snaking it beside the first two and placing them down, catching another and piling it atop the most recent addition. As repetitive as this work was, she didn’t mind, frightening her uncle to all her by firing an arm straight at the log cut her was reaching for, appearing out of nowhere and latching onto the log, he yelled in fright almost falling over before shooting his niece a look of annoyance, her hand retracting with the log in tow, slapping it forcefully down with the rest. This Took them a while to transport all of the logs but a few onto the cart.
At this point Tomoe pulled out a rake and started gathering up the leaves, leans forward as she scraped the tool across the ground, slowly creating piles as she went until finally she had gathered most of them and other small debris up, sitting down to take a momentary break. After a moment of lolygagging she got up and pace to Yagi, snatching his bottle from him and the bag of jerk she spied at his waist “Share more uncle, I’m doing most of the work here, you’re pretty drunk. Can’t even stand, you should go home, me an the geezer can handle it from here if you’re gonna be useless.” She threw a piece of jerk into her mouth and followed it with a swig of the man liquor, coughing because of its harshness and wheezing, the yellow of her eyes becoming slightly bloodshot. With that she stumbled toward a pile of leaves and using her threads, although a little more careful than useful, dragged them into her grip before waddling over to the cart and tossing them in the centre that was devoid of log chunks.
“No more for you!” She slurred at Yagi who came for his bottle, the girl making it vanish within her person, and spreading her arms apart offering him to try and take it from her as she laughed, jogging away from him as the man tried to smack her with his sheathed weapon. She yelled in protest as she approached another pile of leaves and fell into it to avoid the main. Yagi whacked around the leaf pile but she’d already escaped to a different one with one of the log fragments still around and instead netted up the closest pile of leaves again and carted it over to the usual place and deposited it, yelling at a defeated Yagi “you have two other bottles and I need those leaves packed, move it or I’ll tell Dad you gave me some ojji-sama will back me.” She said looking got he old man who lay lazily on the table they had been sitting at, smoking a pipe, nodding in agreement with her statement. Yagi grumbled, garnering up the effort to get up and help, clear ya little miffed but good spirited about the blackmail.
The two of them worked quickly, Yagi re-raking the remnant leaves and debris into a final likes which Tomoe dragged in like the other piles and securely netted them with her threads before hauling it from the ground and marching diligently to the cart and dumping the future kindling into the rest of the pile. Yagi walked over to the cart and hopped into the passenger seat as the girl marched over and used her threads to drag in the remaining log fragment clumsily, slapping them on the ground beside the cart before she started placing them atop the kindling pile, crushing down the log fragment as she did so before fitting the remaining ones in one at a time. Finally She hopped on the cart and pointed toward the small village and yelled “onward ya bastards de-gozaru!” She declares as the old man took the drivers spot and grabbing th e reigns, goaded the animal into action. (Complete, 5 paragraphs = 90 exp + 900 ryo)
After drinking some water and about fourty minutes boring travel the girl had managed to sober up and sat up from a lazy sprawled out position, crossing her legs and closing her eyes, disappearing into a state of meditation. Slowly she became less and less aware of her uncles talking, also the wheels on the ground, the steps of the animal and even the wind on her body. At this point her mind started delving toward the idea of battle and death, her death to be specific, like how she’d reacted so reflectively with her bloodline to defend against the old man earlier.. she much would have preferred having still relied on the blade she was holding, if not at least have been confident enough to dodge or even just take it head on.
She saw herself in the same situation and the branch crushing into her and her body getting severely hurt as a result, her body laying twitching on the ground. She then suddenly realized she was in the moment where the branch tore toward her, she reacted the same way as she had before, cursing herself as the vision went back to her fearfully being struck and injured but with a different reaction than the first... again she then found the branch coming at her after seeing this, this time trying to stand firm but dodging last second, again by way of her bloodline. The fear of being harmed was deep, that she couldn’t imagine herself reacting in a way that didnt have the safest possible result, then she found herself staring at the old man as opposed to herself.
She saw Nagi draw his sword and lunge at the old man, her eyes widening the mental image of herself reacted, threads stabbing forwards and hardening, impaling into Nagis arm, the man looking at her horrified. It was then the old man questioned what she was doing, the girl explaining it was to her him, the old man asking her why she didn’t understand and had to react that way, blaming her fear for what had happened. Inside her mindscape the girl was perplexed and panicked, about to ask the old man what he meant before she appeared at the beginning of the exact same scenario, her mind racing to work out how to react, again the only conclusion she reached being one that had the safest outcome from her, she fired and arm at shunshin speed, grabbing the man and tanking him out of nagis way last second.
The result was probably worst than the first, the attempt had broken or crushed the old mans throat, leaving no options of how to immediately save him at her disposal as Nagi asked why she would do something and again why she was so afraid. Now she was annoyed, she didn’t get how this meant she was afraid and as the vision restarted her brain was wracked for what she needed to do, then it hit her. Watching Nagi approach the old man again with his drawn sword she decided that there was only one remaining option. At the last moment before nagis posture would move to strike, the young girl body flickered, appearing between the two of them, the sword boring through her, missing the old man entirely as she collapsed to the ground backwards.
For a vision this felt way to real, her mental image grabbed at her chest, then suddenly realized there was no pain, looking at both spectral versions of her comrades, who both looked back at her beaming. She opened her mouth but no words came, reaching out her hands the other two pulled her too her feet, the injury on her chest feeling warm, before both of them decayed in front of her whilst smiling. The girl felt herself smiling as well, as if happily seeing them off, as the wound on her chests bubbled and healed over, a glow appearing. Reaching towards the glow and grabbing hold of it, a brilliant light shone and in her mental images hand a sword of her spirit appeared (First Virtue: Integrity gained)
At this point her mind wandered towards the pain of her life, as visions of her suffering and traumatic memories resurface, she felt a familiar despair creep across her, the light of the weapon almost vanishing as she turned to run from the ocean of negativity that had just resurfaced. Visions of people she knew old and new who had said bad this about or pre judged her flashed across her mind, people she knew cared about her speaking things she feared they would, the pain of hunger and more flashed across her mind. All these negative parts of her mind coalesced in a mass not unlike her threads but chased her like a wave, writhing and grabbing after her as she ran, swinging the sword every so often to fend of tendrils that touched her.
These were things she had to accept? Not easy, she copes and was used to such concepts and fact but she was not able to easily give respect to something that allowed that to befall her, why could she, ego have nothing to do with it either this was principal In her eyes. The place she came from was not pleasent when she lived there, it was bigoted, racist and unaccepting as well as fearful and built a system where the lesser people barely counted. The amount of suffering she had received from there was boundless. Not to mention her biological parents being scum that she couldn’t even remember, abandoning her, although she suspected she was a b*****d from a fling, which was also unpleasant.
At this point the mass swallowed over her, the only thing allowing her to breathe and not get crushed in the mass was the sword of her spirit that was slowly beginning to fade. Why should she accept any of this, why did the universe deserve her respect? She cursed, feeling like there was nothing to get her through such a milestone. Even coming her had only brought limited acceptance she had to work her a** for, yet still only some of the people in the village had accepted her and didn’t view her with fear, this was how it was.... She remembered the days of waking catatonia, waiting for the day she would die, her heart empty and emotions numb, barely a concept she understood... all of this would crush her to her lowest point.
She remembered the days she’d been abandoned, well so she though and that despair, the suffocating crushed end of her chance for happiness, the sword flickering out as the darkness consumed her much like back then. Then.. also much like back then, a hand broke through that darkness, a hand attached to the body and face of her whole world Ryuta, her unofficially adoptive father. The memory of his arrival that time broke through the vision like a wrecking ball, forcing the mass to recede greatly as within her vision, the sword of her spirit re-ignited surrounding the figure that she looked up at, who started to pull her up were the rest of her uncles, including those lost when they crossed the Yokai territory.
All of them beaming they turn to face the mass of darkness the bore down on them and her, the girl pulled to her knees, gazing in awe like she did back then at them draw their weapons on her name. Slowly a smile crept across her lips as she smiled, tears rolling down her face. She could thank the universe, her life, even those who mistreated her, at least she could show respect, as if it were not for them she could not have met her family and been loved, meaning that the universe knows to some extent what it’s doing, that karma does come. As she smiled and her eyes were closed all of the silhouettes of her family swung their weapons, destroying the black mass, light rushing in from behind it as she suddenly inhaled, her eyes snapping open as Nagi was gripping her shoulder and shook her. They had arrived at their destination.
(2nd virtue respect learned.)
Stamina 400/400 | Chakra 200/200
( 6 bukijutsu paragraphs, 2 ninjutsu/bloodline
18 buki with modifiers 18 ninjutsu/bloodline With modifiers
Snapping out of her trace, the girl smiled at the man who brought her too and thanked him, without elaborating and bounced off of the wood pile, indicating for the other two too start unloading all of the wood and to pile it up, she observed them do so without much assistance given to them. Finally when all was said and done they looked to her with mild annoyance and anticipation as the girl stepped forward, lifting her hand above her head as if armed and hacked both piles in an instant, cutting them into quarters as the pile collapsed. At this point her uncles applauded, rather stunned as to the feat she pulled off, something she hadn’t been able to do earlier that day, Nagi expressed she could keep the bottle as a present for her success, the old man said he’d teach her how to fight unarmed later on as she finally managed to get what both he and Ryuta had attempted to drill into her finally bearings fruits.
Some of the children came over fascinate, one asking how she had done that, being a little pleased with herself she told the kids to pick up quarters of wood and to grow them at her, making a game of the last part of her work. By the end she had about twenty of the villages children chucking these pieces of wood at her as she cut them apart with a grin, clearly enjoying their fascination with this trick. After near an hour of this they were all exhausted and she was quite tired, huffing and puffing as she noted that basically all the wood had been properly cut and pointing towards their home she said “I’m gonna go and take a nap before dinner ya punks I’m tired. Yo kiddies, I gotta go, get on home now, the sun seems to be fading which doesn’t feel like a good sign, so you should go where it’s safe.” With the, before the other two could speak she was gone. (Mission complete)
Upon getting home, their moderately built two storey house in front of her, she noticed someone was waiting for her. “Auntie Kyoko, watcha out here for, darks makin it cold ya know?” She asked as the woman greeted her with a welcoming hug, which she returned. Kyoko smiled and said “I heard you can summon your spirit sword, meaning it’s time for you to learn how to craft scrolls.” Tomoe a grin faltered as she gave her aunt a drastic look “Auntie, it’s been a long day i..” “A long day of drinking young lady? Hand it over.” She said, interrupting the girl and not missing a beat, “I’d say I’m proud of you but you were drinking again, learn what I have to teach and maybe I’ll give this back and keep it from Ryota.” The woman said turning toward a small shed like building, expecting Tomoe to follow. Tomoe gave her a death glare from behind, beginning to think of a threat before Kyoko paused and said without turning “And you can wipe that look off your face and stop what you’re think right there if you don’t want to be in trouble Oujo-sama.” She said sweetly, the inflection in the way she said “young miss” holding a weight that made Tomoe quell her thoughts there and then, muttering defeated acceptance.
The various tools that littered the small shed, which had a workbench and shelves at the far side of the little room was quite cramped for the two people, they however didn’t have the chance of going anywhere too professional so their resources and equipment slowly acquired, money for her logging would actually be contributing to some of this, the Botha would bring the back those. Pulling out different tools, the woman set about showing Tomoe how exactly the frame of a scroll should be constructed, she had picture diagrams which, although taking Tomoe a little longer than some to understand, didn’t require to much explanation and demonstration.
so much technical writing it’s hard to grasp, lucky Kyokos the one explaining it, the guys reading is worse than mine de-gozaru.. She though to herself as she finished carving away to create an end piece to a scrolls frame, looking at her result with nigh disgust, the to Kyoko who reframed from insulting her vulgar creation and began to show her how to shape it properly. Tomoe was quite disheartened by this failure, hence Kyoko pulled out the previously confiscated liquor and told Tomoe if she did it right she’d get a shot but just one, she needed to be able to focus. Bribery often works wonders and Tomoe being raised poor is a sucker for a prize and hence set down to work with renewed effort.
She requested Kyoko carved one whilst she herself mimicked the woman’s movements, copying her as she went, her black and yellow eyes keenly looking from kyokos to her own. Her eyes critical examination was performed upon every shave of wood that her knife carved, following it kyokos for a few seconds then turning toward her own, her hands rocking and shifting as she did so. Careful to avoid cutting herself but more careful to accurately replicate Kyokos work. After half an hour she earned herself a shot, yet there was much more to learn, the alcoholic incentive had done it trick and the young girl focused much more come the point.
Going over the diagrams it was not an easy process to get through, even for one who knew what they were doing with the cheap equipment they were using and this was getting in her way... however it was around then a knock on the door came, Kyoko literally grabbed Tomoe by the head and turned her to face back to her work before getting up to answer. Returning shortly after with some brand new supplies, The old man and Nagi had remembered to bring some and in fact purchased a little extra tools to make it easier. “You tell them thank you when we get inside for dinner, now work your a** off, you’re going to make a novice level scroll before we leave her sweetheart.” Tomoe scowled at the concept, however quickly changed her time when she felt Kyokos gaze and buckled down again. (5 posts learning to craft scrolls, apprentice rank achieved.)
By the end she hadn’t succeeded this attempt either but now she had something she needed, the valuable experience of failure, as at least now she had a grasp of what to do and where she went wrong. She also had better and more appropriate equipment to use, so she set to work. Her hand moving much more confidently about shaping the wood, fitting the parts together, providing the paper and using the correct amount took some time, well over two hours of work, this being said some of the parts were already completed, so in the future she would need to practice doing them herself, as well as attempting to make more unique and useful effects through them. It was by the end of this she gave a smile and slammed her first complete scroll down on the table “There ya go ya b*****d, done an done!!! ******** yeah!” She went to stand up but get her eyes cross in pain as Kyoko cracked her upside the head with a folded fan, Tomoe turned to protest but saw Kyoko was genuinely proud of her, the woman congratulating her and bringing her and her scroll to the house so as to show what she had done.
(Crafting mission complete, created summoning scroll to be approved.)
As the family laughed and enjoyed their evening dinner, congratulating Tomoe on her merits and generally having a good time, even Ryuta, her surrogate father turned the other way over her alcohol at least for today, he’d implied some rigorous training to make up for it later but not today at least. Tomoe lay lazily like a man, with her lap in Kyokos lap as the woman brushed her hair and trimmed it, commenting that Tomoe should try and look prettier for herself and for others considering her age, Tomoe tried to laugh off the comment and ignore in, closing her eyes and hoping to go to sleep. However that was not to happen as they head hoofbeats approaching and Gyoka lifted his large frame off the ground and went out to inspect.
Hearing a frantic voices Tomoe, Ryota and the old man went out to see what the commotion was about, the others waited to hear what the issue at hand was all about. Apparently the local bear that most people including Tomoes lot did their best to avoid, was a big sucker, ferocity blooming from it vigorously when provoked and apparently the eclipse had disoriented the animal, it had come into town and someone was hurt. Tomoe opted to leave to check it out but her father stopped her, handing her his sword before bidding her wait a moment. The members who could move at shunshin would go ahead and check things out, Kyoko could hopefully care for the wounded, so they made the plan that the rest would escort the man back and go from there.
The result was Tomoe and three others vanishing as the rest preparers to leave. Arriving at the village shortly they immediately began searching until they hear people yelling, they proceeded to rush to the source of the noise. “I smell blood guys.” Nagi pointed out as they approached the people, noting a large amount of blood, they rounded on the citizens quite unintentionally. “Where the injured, take us to them now, also where was the bear last seen, Tomoe and Nagi are going to scout for it.” She said, no one protesting or dismissing her words. Tomoe and Nagi watched her leave as a villager pointed where they’d seen it go, problem being struck he way they indicated had a lot of options behind it meaning the two would be stuck splitting up. “Shout if you need help ojou-sama.” He said, smirking as he went to jog off, Tomoe speaking after him “You too, don’t get eaten Uncle.” She said before jogging off herself.
Tomoe skulked allong the rooftops of the village, less unwilling to do so like her ronin family. Her journey took her toward the centre of town, her eyes noticing a few objects had been moved or knocked over and she took those as signs of the breaks presence. Hopping off of the roof she gazed around the town-square before a noise caught her attention, it was whinnying and cool of nervous horseshoes.. “******** the stables.” She said turning and bolting in the direction of the aforementioned location just as a panicked neigh rang out, taking her stance as she approached the wooden wall of the stable she could she the bears shadow from a lantern and proceeded to act, quite aware the bear would probably notice her approach but also confident it had no idea what was about to happen.
Her blade stayed sheathed as she gripped it by the handle and about ten feet from the stable wall launched herself toward the wall whilst rotating so her shoulder would strike into the Wall first. Bulldozing into it the wall I dead crippled and exploded inward as the girl spun, her foot landing as she completed turning, barely having time to register the bear that’s head turned in shock right before her fist powered Into its face with a loud slam, her body skidding back the way it came about ten feet as she used reverse striking to immediately gain distance, which she intended to immediately close again. As she skidded back her knees bent and she grabbed the hilt of the sheathed weapon with both hands, the annoyed bear turning toward her and becoming to lift itself off of the ground to stand she shot forwards again so fast the bear didn’t realize she had moved until the tip of her sheathe smashed just beneath its neck, sending the bear crashing diagonally upward, the girl landing one more powerful fist whilst it was lifted off the ground to cause it to go flying back and through the opposite wall of the the stable ******** got Nisi, Shuta will be sad, poor kids been raising that thing for a while.” She said to nobody as she looked at the dying horse and as a kindness, struck it in the skull, ending its life in that powerful blow. Turning to the opening she noticed no bear came charging her, it ran? Hell no! Would be akin to her thought process before, instead of yelling for Nagi or getting held she went and ran out the opening and after the running bear. Bearing down on it quickly, no pun intended she had little problem catching up to the creature with the speed augment, charging into a ally behind it, finally belting the sheathe and gripping the handle with her right hand she turned the bend and ohh s**t the bear is swinging.
The bear had rather quickly turned and stood up, to bring its arm in for a massive swing as she rounded the corner. “Fu-..!” Was all she got out as her left hand lifted to counter the oncoming blow, deflecting the claws with her arm plate and technique but not keeping herself firmly planted on the ground as she was lifted and tossed violently, whizzing up and crashing into the corner of the building before dropping to the ground hard. She opened her mouth to curse but was winded, noticing the bear coming in for the kill she swapped locations with a nearby trash can, behind the creature and holding steady trying to get her breathe. Then she heard someone coming round the corner asking what the commotion was all about.
“Get inside you idiot!” She yelled as the bear turned toward the new person, who hadn’t yet noticed it, the dark hiding it’s form and partly the building wall as they questioned why Tomoe would bark orders at them. Tomoe rolled her eyes “******** it! Haunting attack, Crashing Oni!!” She yelled as the bear lifted its massive arm and swiped at the idiot, Tomoe rushing like an arrow between the two, her weapon arm raised almost as if she was going to attack the villager, her eyes intense and a grin of excitement upon her face as she turned last second and flicked her sword hands wrist almost lazily at the bear with some terrifying results in the villagers viewpoint.
To the poor villagers sight, the weird zombie like girl who lived with the ronin on the edge of town was doesn’t something extremely loud, they came out to inspect what slammed against their house only to have her yell at and insult them. Only then did they just notice the bear, then the girl suddenly fired toward them wild and swinging her sword, the person belived they were about to die and shamefully although unbeknownst to their rescuer, wet themselves from what happened next. This bear that stood near ten feet tall on its hind legs immense clawed paw came hurtling bat the person as Tomoe spun, her sword narrowly missing the villager and crashing into the bear letting of a heart stopping demon like wail that echoed across the village as instead of the girl who idiotically partied a bear getting torn into, the bear was yes again dent hurting away, a spray of blood emitting from where her sword struck, a claw shattering off as the animal bellowed and was tossed away.
The windows on the two local building shattered as the buildings vibrated from the shockwave, the civilian went to fall but Tomoe quite literally lifted them by their shoulder and led them to the entrance of their house and shoved them in without a word, slamming their door shut to indicate not to come outside. Looking around she realized the bear had ran away again, although tracking it wouldn’t be to hard considering the injury she inflicted. Killing the thing would be her responsibility at this point, it killed a horse and injured a villager and Tomoe as well, both her arms screamed from the stress they had endured meeting with the bear and being pushed beyond her natural abilities, hence she headed back to see what had come of the victim and to report in, plus get a little treatment.
(Mission end)
Stamina 450/450 | Chakra 250/250
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▰▰▰ |SHINOBI • INFO| ▰▰▰ • Nagarashi, Tomoe| C | Wanderer | Bukijutsu | Bukijutsu Important appearance notes :
•The picture is a rough idea on her appearance, due to her bloodline her appearance has some drastic differences than normal people, key ones being as followed: • Black sclera, yellow iris, slit pupil when they contract • Her skin is notably light blue • she has stitches at each wrist, ankle, upper forearm just below and just about the elbow and shoulders, around her neck, and slits stems from her mouth but are skillfully sewn shut and the threads and slit is hidden by makeup. • looks perpetually tired with bags under her eyes (not really important but mentionable. • X stitches on her back • her canines are slightly bigger, longer and sharper along with the teeth behind them.
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When Tomoe returned to the others, she was met half way by Nagi and Gyoka, both having heard the loud wail of her technique and had come running. The both fussed over her, insisting the let her carry the rest of the way, she way a little out of it, she’d fought to hard to fast and thoughtlessly and wasted energy. Really though it had been. That one hit the bear got on her combine with the strike she parried had done a real number on her after all the days work and practice, she had been a little tipsy and just eaten when having fought it, these might sound like excuses but were in fact valid facts. Her body ached and she felt sick, so in the end she was thankful to be carried, now her adrenaline had stopped going she felt the full brunt of it all.
She was sat down in a chair inside the injured villagers house, her head swimming she looked around, until she finally managed to guess why it was she was there. The mans arm had been severed, noticing this she slowly got up and paced over to the sluggishly “So I’m guessing I’m here to fix that back o eh.. “ She said reaching for the arm, looking to Kyoko for confirmation, the woman nodding and prompting the girl to pick the arm up and set about work. She neglected to mention to the family she’d only done this Once before to anyone other than herself. She placed the arm again the wound and threads slowly wound out of her wrist and began to sew the limb back into place, Tomoe focused as all hell. Finally when she was done she stood up and turned to walk away, knowing that she wasn’t going to get any immediate thanks as being fixed like this wasn’t normal. “You wanna wrap it up and try and secure it, Kyoko will help with the healin’.. you neees to see her every day for like a week at least to get healing treatments, don’t try moving the arm for a minimum of that long and don’t use it for any normal activity for a monthhhhh.” The last word was followed by a resounding crash as the girl collapsed, completely overtaxed from this technique and her poor exhaustion’s, the poor table and all its contents clattering to the floor along with Tomoes form as she passed out with a bang. (A Thread of Connection [ Ichimyaku ] | Rank A and one ninjutsu learned.)
(Upcoming mission Lets kill a bear coming soon.)
Her Awakening was sudden and swift, the girl sitting up a great speed as her mind was racing from a nightmare of fighting the bear. She grabbed her injured arm and noticed that there was no pain, it was just stiff as was the rest of her, she was also quite hungry but currently feeling shaken. She rolled her knees up to her chest and hugged onto them, taking a couple of minutes to find herself before she started feeling a little better.. then her eyes widen as she looked herself over. “Alright who the ******** changed me!!” Was the first any of the others present herd and she was quickly greeted by Gyoka and Maiya, Maiya raising a hand to indicate she took the liberty of changing her nice. The woman and Gyoka then grinned and both slapped her on either shoulder “Good job scaring off the bear, you were a proper warrior Ojou-sama!” Gyokas baritone voice rumbled as Maiya added “Didn’t faint until you treated thomasz, bloody well done girl!”
(Mission:Time to kill a bear.) Tomoe smiled for a moment but then shook her head “Not a good job, things still alive, I saw the bastards eyes, he will be back if he hasn’t been already.. is there any food I’m starving?” The non sequitur followed the slightly dire sounding statement quite expectedly by the other two as they helped raise her. She was shoved into a room and told to take a bath whilst she waited on some food as she stunk like sweat and day after liquor. Tomoe agreed completely, grabbing some bath salts and herbs and tossing them into the water that was awaiting her, they had kept a fire to keep it ready for her, awesome! Coming out half an hour or so later, her hair dangling around her as she wore a towel, her body feeling much better as the bath had really help her muscles recover and the herbs and bath salts helped too. She abstain from drinking today, at least until after she did what she wanted to.
After eating breakfast the girl got dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, wearing cheap runners and collecting her armor gloves and sword she bade the other two to enjoy themselves as she vanished off to the village, more specifically to where she’d last seen the bear. The first person she saw when she appeared on scene was Ryuta, her gave a grinning welcome and asked pretty straight out “you here to finish what you started or what?” To which Tomoe smiled politely and spoke with a touch of affection and a lot more her age “Yeah Dad, thanks for not going after it with the others.” She said as she looked to him expectantly, “Well, any idea where it is?” She asked as the man finally relented and gave her a hug, which she returned and whispered “Im a bit afraid though..” to which he responded “that’s normal Tomoe, anyone in you shoes would have been.” He muttered quietly before adding with more volume “Yeah if you go up past the stags pasture, half a km North east east is where is lives, although be warned your cut was only enough to lightly wound it, much like you it’s probably more dangerous than ye...” Tomoe punched him forcefully on the arm “Shut it old man, I just needed the location not your worry.” She chided with a smile and mouthed a thank you before setting off to kill the bear.
Upon reaching Stags pasture, she could definitely spot the tell tail tracks of animals and definitely signs of a very large animal that was most likely the bear. She started to follow these tracks, slowing down for the sake of caution. Making her steps quiet with some practiced effort and placing her right hand just below the guard of her sword on the sheathe, her thumb poised to pop the sword on a moments notice as her eyes scanned around. The bushes here were to think to easily identify damage from the creature or to spot our any of the tracks, it may have left behind, although the occasional trace was visible enough to confirm she was on the correct path still. As she walked she became aware of a peculiar sensation, attempting to put her finger on it she believed it was apprehension, although much more intense than she was used to.
She then realized she was mistaken, this wasn’t apprehension or anticipation, it was concern at the fact it was dead quite, the wind and her own rustling were the only noises she noticed and this caused her to free in place.Its here somewhere nearby, is it watching me? It probably knows I’m here, but not precisely right...Alright let’s find you, ya b*****d! She thought her eyes narrowing as she gazed around, the additional darkness from the current eclipse was impeding her a bit but not much. At this point she started stepping in an odd way, by stretching her dominant leg out about half a steps distance and taking the step swiftly and quietly and immediately pausing afterward at the ready. It was then she her a noise indicating something had been disrupted within ten or so meters, Foliage rustled and their was a minor impact and a bit of scattering to debris to be heard and now she was at full alert.
She waited in a mind state where each second dragged by slowly as her senses tore into the local environment, straining as it were to pick up some other continued sound of hint to the exact cause of what had happened. One choice was left after two or three minutes of unmoving silence, that was to go and check the source of the sound herself. She slowly angled herself until she had reached an appropriate poise before stepping quickly, again one at a time and slowly so as to produce absolutely minimal sound. Shifting her thumb gently she near silently popped her sword a few millimetres out of its sheathe and craned her right hand toward the weapons handle and placed the fingers around it when they arrived but applied next to no pressure And here we go! she thought to herself when she was about four meters from the sound as she took her swordsman stance without drawing her weapon and shot forward with a chakra assisted speed increase.
What she discovered was disappointing and annoying, t’was an acorn that had fallen from tree above her. Tomoe had only taken a few seconds to realize this, this first sensation she felt was surprise as to the fact there was no hulking bear to attack or be attacked by, secondly there was nothing to attack at all. Her eyes had search almost desperately, her blood pressure increasing as she almost managed to believe the bear could turn invisible, then It hit her. She considered how dark it was and simply looked at the ground closely from where she stood and almost chuckled when she realized how simply the answer was, however she didn’t because it was extreme aggrieving as well. So now she didn’t know where to start, it was still eerily quiet even the wind had died down, the only sign of it was a light amount of shifting air to her five.
Eyes snapping in that direction she realized what was happening in the nick of time, she’d stepped right past the bear which had been waiting for her as it could smell the girls approach. The moving air sensation she felt was of it standing up from cover on all fours and shifting to lunge silently at her, it’s jaw opening and grasp toward the young girls shoulder. Luckily for her she could react in time, jumping sideways and twisting her body to flip away and over the bear, punching it once with her left hand on the top of its skull pushing herself a good ten feet from the creature In doing so and landing safely on her feet as the bears nine. The bear grunted, she could see it was fluctuating between putting it’s full weight on its hurt paw and stepping careful, although it didn’t seem to be to impeding of an injury. “Ok you b*****d let’s do this.” She spat at the bear as it turn and leg out some gutter growls before letting out a threatening and loud exhaling noise from its mouth, snorting and shaking its head, it’s fur bristling as it began to posture, ready to react to or attack her at any moment.
The two stared each other down, Tomoe pointing the sword at the ready, the bear keeping away cautiously, this making Tomoe realize this thing was smarter than she’d originally thought... which also meant won’t be easy to trick with anything basic and she didn’t feel like throwing hit and run tactics at this thing, instead she decided she was just going to demolish it face to face and overwhelm the creature. She burst forward swinging her sword in an upward slash before to catch the bear in the chin, the animal with surprising ability dodged this strike, it had obviously seen humans fight before but that wasn’t to much for her to handle.
Taking its opportunity It struck at her with a bite, she slammed her armoured forearm into the path of its bite before the creatures jaws wrapped around her arm. The material withstood the bite but the bear had a hold of her, the creature began to shake its head so Tomoe begrudgingly loosened her arm and let it come free from her body, steeping around to the bears flank quite suddenly and to its surprise as she laid into it with a solid punch to the side of the face and another in quick succession to its shoulder, the effect of the second strike lesser than the first. “Let go on my arm you rabid beast!” She growled through her teeth as she punched it and almost as if listening the bear did so, the girls threads catching it before it’d hit the ground and reeled it in as she jumped back a few feet so the detached limb could arrange and set itself in place securely, her wrist twisting and realigning the grip on the sword the removed hand had been carrying.
Now her opponent was standing again and it swiped at her lightly with its injured paw. The girl was stunned when she realized this was actually a feint as the creature tried to fall forward and grab her as she stepped back from the initial swing, cause her to swiftly roll sideways across the ground to dodge it, swiping the sword as she did so to deter pursuit. Swiftly she stepped forward as she rose to her feet and wham! Her fist once again drove into the base of the bears jaw, lifting it off the ground and onto its back. This would have been an ample opening had not one of the bears hind feet kick out as it left the ground and rammed her off of her feet, the girl rolling across the ground to cushion the fall and then pulling herself up just as she her it’s landing come to an end.
Blowing her hair out of her eyes Tomoes legs tensed, chakra flooding them and her muscles bulged and she yelled rocketing forward and coming down upon the bear with her sword. She brought her sword down in a slab on the animals side as it attempted to right, the sword cutting in but not deeply enough, she brought it up for another one handed slash and the. Buried her fist into its shoulder, skidding away to avoid a swipe laughing “Kssss, I’m getting tired of you De-gozaru! Shinu IKU!!!” She yelled spinning her sword before thrusting from where she stood, a lightning bolt tearing from her sword into the bears flank, the creature turning as the electricity momentarily built up on her blade and clearly intimidating the animal which turned to retreat.
“Don’t bother running.” She stated as the bears left leg had lost a last amount of its mobility and the burns left behind across its shoulder region didn’t help the creature either. Tomoe leapt through the air, well above the the bear as she cane down with her sword swinging at the creature exposed back, taking advantage of the opening her Jutsu had opened up. She landed on the bear, cutting the bear with a two handed swing of her sword, cleaving in nearly a foot before her blade stopped suddenly. About ready to plant her feet and yank out the sword she found herself swinging round quite forcefully before getting whooped forwards, her hand releasing the weapon and herself getting thrown fifteen feet or so away, crashing into a tree and grunting in pain, falling to the ground flat on her face. “Urgh, getting tired of ya THROWIN ME ABOUT!!” She yelled as she got to her hands and knees and then pulled herself up.
The bear as if responding with a similar intent roar and came charging as her, the girl stood straight and raised her head and stood straight as if to take the attack, until her body was enforced by a demonic visage, the bear faltering as it was clearly disturbed by this but pressed on, unaware of her intentions. She leapt forward quite suddenly as it came, instantly passing by it and grabbing the hilt of her sword before pulling it out and spinning to ensure she landed another slash before landing and turning, placing the sword in its sheathe before extending her hand in front of her and closing her eyes, tapping into her recently awakened power. And just then, the first and second virtues came into play and cloaked her body, the sword of her spirit appearing in her grasp as she opened her eyes “It ends now bear, fire style, flashfan & Virtuous swipe!” She yelled as the bear charged her again, swinging her sword horizontally and with force as trees, bush, ground, other debris and most notably the bear all vanished in a cataclysmic rupture.
Trees split and crashed to the floor, the ground gutted, bushes exploded and flames washed through them all, Incinerating the smaller flammable debris and igniting the slightly larger debris. A large fissure was cleaved across the ground, spanning around twenty five feet and around five deep, every tree between her and this crater was cut down and everything beneath the cut was ablaze. She dismissed the spirit sword as she observed, noting the bears halves in two different places and burning. She wrinkled her nose at the smell and bowed at the bears corpse lightly saying “You were tough, sorry this weird eclipse caused you to mess with us.” She clapped her hands together and gave a brief prayer before turning on her heels to return to the small village.
(Lets kill a bear! C-rank, complete)
Stamina 610/610 | Chakra 400/400
Strength 2 | speed | agility | endurance 4
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:40 pm
▰▰▰ |SHINOBI • INFO| ▰▰▰ • Nagarashi, Tomoe| C | Wanderer | Bukijutsu | Bukijutsu Important appearance notes :
•The picture is a rough idea on her appearance, due to her bloodline her appearance has some drastic differences than normal people, key ones being as followed: • Black sclera, yellow iris, slit pupil when they contract • Her skin is notably light blue • she has stitches at each wrist, ankle, upper forearm just below and just about the elbow and shoulders, around her neck, and slits stems from her mouth but are skillfully sewn shut and the threads and slit is hidden by makeup. • looks perpetually tired with bags under her eyes (not really important but mentionable. • X stitches on her back • her canines are slightly bigger, longer and sharper along with the teeth behind them.
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Tomoe sat talking with Ryuta about the sensitive subject of feeling weak, despite her recent victory over the bear. This had led them into having a discussion over her becoming contract holder or sage with some of the animals in the sage lands, that type of support would be invaluable to villageless punks like themselves. So as a result she’d purchased some heavy armor from a merchant and packed some provisions for a trip to the sage lands. She’d been given advice on trying to speak with the monkeys whom were both great warriors as well as pranksters just like herself and that they could probably get along, that she’d need to show them some serious respect if she wanted them to take her seriously. Tomoe bade them goodbye for now as they told her to be careful and saw her off.
•The picture is a rough idea on her appearance, due to her bloodline her appearance has some drastic differences than normal people, key ones being as followed: • Black sclera, yellow iris, slit pupil when they contract • Her skin is notably light blue • she has stitches at each wrist, ankle, upper forearm just below and just about the elbow and shoulders, around her neck, and slits stems from her mouth but are skillfully sewn shut and the threads and slit is hidden by makeup. • looks perpetually tired with bags under her eyes (not really important but mentionable. • X stitches on her back • her canines are slightly bigger, longer and sharper along with the teeth behind them.
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(Mission: B-rank, name: A first time.... | purchased an art of sale and utilizing it for 1.5x ryo rewards.)
Sitting upon her might moose, Tomoe returned, smug and in a good mood from her time with the monkeys. She was kicking her legs casually off of the side of the creature comparable to a tram in size, Tomoe wasn’t wearing her helmet and her hair was blowing in the breeze that flowed at the twelve or so feet height she was. The view was real nice, finishing up this scroll and finding the moose were big bonuses for her during the time she spent at the sage lands.. the hills that concealed the village was rolling in closer, even in this eclipse it felt peaceful... or did it? A feeling struck her, something she’d only recently learned to detect...that was killing intent. “What the heck, are the guys having a fight? Moose, catch up with me!” She said hopping off of its side and flickering to the location of concern.
Arriving close to the edge of town she stayed out of sight and try to take in the situation, her expression slightly grim, the first thing she noticed was the entry checkpoint and adjacent house has been torn down, probably by an earth style technique. A few villagers and Gyoka were digging someone out of the mess, Kyoko was tending to two of the men who usually volunteered to do the gate work, no that was wrong.. she was only tending to one of them, she immediately realized on the double take that Katos head was covered in blood and he seemed unnaturally limp and pale. Tomoes eyes darted to the others as a pang evolved into a dropping sensation in her sternum and stomach, this was different than with the bear, someone had died her for sure, someone she knew and she began to shake. Before letting herself get upset she steeled herself to the emotions of grief and fear this brought and instead put those to the side to work out a resolution. Ryuta, Nagi, Maiya, the old man as well as a few of the towns people militia behind them gripping swords, Nagi was injured on his left leg and side, Ryuta and Maiya seemed a little shaken up and no major injuries and the old man was clearly tired meaning he’d probably been one of the first on scene.
Opposite them was fifteen others, a group of bandits by the look of it.. no more like a gang, the had matching green armbands with three leaf clover crests on them, they were armed with an assortment of weapons, six carrying bows, three spears, two clubs, a katana, a staff were what the clear lackeys were wielding. The the in front seemed more concerning, one had a nine ring broadsword and was shaved bald, wearing his crest tattoo’d on his left breast wearing a sleeveless unbuttoned shirt and a beard face, Another was sitting in front of the aforementioned, holding a baton or stick, she could not tell, but she could tell he was injured in the torso, the guy wearing a black cloak and muscle shirt with cargos, although was not buff like the bearded guy. The last stood in front and sported a ******** head band, that wasn’t good... the white duster jacket felt out of place until she realized this guy was also shirtless and decently built, a pompadour and sunglasses, some bandages wrapped around his stomach and writing declaring the importance of his rank in some gang, ohh dear god did he scream biker hoodlum cliche.
Tomoe did not have time to give scrutiny on the guys appearance, as she noticed that he was performing handseals and Ryuta and the others all stood and braced for whatever was to come, bloody inflexible old men and stubborn samurai attitudes.. she’d need to make them some new armor so they could get away with this crap. Tomoe launched into action without an instant of hesitation, her sword came from its sheathe and her body enjoyed a mantle of twisted chakra flood across her body and into her legs as she bounded forth with spirit assault. Literally not one person expected what happened next to take place, the route shinobi in front was opening his mouth but felt a horrifying presence come from nowhere and appear just above his left shoulder staring deathly intent at him. Managing to peer out of the corner of his eye, he managed to make out the imminent threat, his brain firing warning signs to run but this was all to late.
What he saw was a fully armoured girl covered in black, purple and pink chakra that gave no other implication or feelings than menace and dread, a screeching visage of death enshrouding this armoured girl who’s black eyes glared at him with anger and intent. The only message coming from this girls grim expression with fierce eyes and strained effort was that his death was nigh as a blur flicked from her body and her arms had switched from one side of her body to the other instantly, a faint “schwick” sound. The rouge shinobi went to speak but no sound came out and his body didn’t respond, a cold chill passing through him as he swallowed and his vision started to darken, pain erupting for less than a fraction of a fraction of a second before Girls turning body started to create another blur and everything ended. Tomoes swipe has cleaved right through the mans neck cleanly and with so much speed and force it almost appeared she missed, realizing the man didn’t noticed he had just died, Tomoe spun and slammed her foot into his head, the head and coming loose as she kicked it forcefully off towards some of the lackeys in the back, before landing on the ground beside his corpse, smashing her fist into it before it fell causing it to careen at the bald beard guy, knocking into the man and dragging him to the ground.
Snapping her sword to point at the intruder, her eyes wild, her hair flailing, blood pumping as her heart pounded violently. She’d just killed that man, holy s**t for real?.. this b*****d was going to try and kill her family, in fact he had killed someone she knew and hurt a few others, destroyed property and was probably here to rob the place whilst the eclipse threw all the villages into high alert to protect themselves her home was last thing being thought about. Despite that she felt an intense discomfort about what she had just done, this was a time for action but a warm sensation spread across her face and hands, it being the blood of the man, her teeth grit and eyes widened is shock, until something snapped her out of the momentary freeze up.
An arrow exploded off of her breastplate, causing her torso to flinch but her armor easily staved off the attack, two more whizzed at her swiftly only to meet the same fate, Tomoe look at the people who shot at her then her breastplate and back up again. The men with bows had barely managed to fire off those rounds, the ones with melee weapons hesitated much like she did but for much more intense reasons. She’d killed one of them from nowhere and the aura she has rippling from her was throwing their minds and morale into disarray, so it was her who stole the initiative, the arrows snapping her back and her mind and anger deciding that the fact she killed this guy was less important than these guys had killed and injured locals and attacked the weak, that was something she deemed unforgivable and decided to take matters into her own hands, stepping forwards and throwing a mighty kick into the good on the ground and booting him a few feet back, the man releasing the strange stick he’d been holding which she identified as some form of technological weapon like a baton.
Snatching the baton out of the air she threw it with a mighty overhanded toss, the object whipping at one of the archer with a rough sounding crunch and a yell, the man snapping backwards into the ground neatly before convulsing. A this point her intimidating technique had expired and her personal visage wasn’t quite enough to prevent them rushing forwards. The bearded man finally relieving himself of the decapitated corpse of his friend and was frantically trying to wipe the blood out of his eyes and clearly agitated. “Naive!!” She yelled just like Ryuta would at the first who approached her, as she spun away from his first swing, rotating her sword as she did before finishing her turn and whipping her sword diagonally upward towards the mans weapon as it came for its second strike, her hand not releasing the blade as she performed the swift action before as she unleashed some serious fury on these guys.
Now many shinobi in these situation might not even expend more than basic or minimal effort on these sorts of guys, many wouldn’t stoop to wasting chakra and some might give the the option of surrender or diplomacy. In this scenario however; Tomoe was one of the ones who weren’t so kind or forgiving, believing if you pick up a sword you should be ready to die, as well as that one should protect the week, meaning she didn’t hold much care for these sorts and her mercy existed only in the form of these guys unconditional surrender which basically involved them fleeing, or their dropping to the ground and surrendering themselves to arrest. These guys were not going to be allowed the second option as was clearly evident with the spectacularly sudden and short work she was about to make out of the majority of the group at this point. Her sword glowed and let out the demonic chakra as roars pierced the air causing people to falter at the first attack connected with Tomoe sword to sword and discovered his weapon shattering and the man getting blown away twenty feet before finally hitting the ground and rolling the remainder to a halt.
Tomoe was not done there, this had caused pause in her opponents like she had intended it to, her eyes closed for a mere instant before opening with a glow as her vitrines came to light and their aura did to, a pink gold flicker appearing around her as she held out her empty hand and forward the spirit sword and swiping her arm across her chest, the large sword of the virtuous swipe invisible and destructive coming into being as did her spirit warrior avatar as she pumped in the additional chakra to at all the power she could to this, least of all the electrical charge thundering around her blade as she swung. The ground dissolved from the impacted as everyone in front of her disappeared due to the viscous power behind the attack, a loud roar of sound from the ground tearing and the men screaming as they were caught up. Debris raining down, some from the road, some from the bandits as Tomoe turned her head to look at where she still felt life, however they made a run for it with some form of Shunshin, their presence be wishing with them.
(Complete)
Tomoe turned to the others breathing with the same amount of labour one might after a short job. Turning with the same serious expression on her face to look at the townsfolk and her family, she jogged over to them to see how everyone was, then noticed that The old man and Maiya both rush towards the collapsed building to help Gyoka with what he was doing, Tomoe noticing at that point that one of her uncles wasn’t there, her eyes darting left and right to identify where he was before realizing without needing to be told who the others were pulling out of the wreckage, Tomoes chest where her normal heart was suddenly felt like it was crushing. Her jog slowed to a walk that decelerated even further as she dropped her katana, trying to open her mouth and speak and instead just making a guttural exclamation that died into a squeak before she fell to her knees. She starred as the others pulled out the limp and mangled form of Kinshero, pulling out a heavily injured guard shortly after whom the man had died to protect. Tomoes hands reached to her mouth as the hot tears fell and yelled sorrowfully before Ryuta got to her, taking a hold of his daughter as she buried her hands in her face and started to cry gently.
( b rank mission 10 posts = 600 exp 6000ryo + 3000 from art of sale)
Stamina 1020/1020 | Chakra 800/800 | Nature chakra 1500/1500
Strength 6 | speed 4 | agility 4 | endurance 6
Ryo:8000 - 400 = 7600.
Equipment
(The tools are mostly accepted, as no other player is involved ima use them but omit the parts that haven’t been approved.) Moose scroll Contract scroll ▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Jingasa hat supreme ▰ Armour Type: Helmet ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy ▰ Armour Weight: 25lbs ▰ Description: a splinter circular helmet vastly simmilar to its wooden or straw counterparts but with metal plates. It nearly covers the eyes and thus has small sight holes in the front for when looking downward. Black with blue trim • Element Lightning • stats +2 Endurance ▰ Ability Summary: Crouching wall [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Bukijutsu [ ]| Cost [ complex ] The user may choose to lower their body and crouch partially, leaning their head down and bracing their helmet with an arm, their other Leaning on a leg for support, the user can turn but effectively shielding herself and her armor from any attacks that would be of a lower Tier than this techniques activation cost, the users Foregos any and all actions that round and on consecutive posts may pay an D-ranked cost in resources and spend all their activations to maintain this technique, the user may hop a total five feet as the only movement they can perform during this action besides turning. This technique can not be activated the post after its end.
Break away [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | supplement [ Element ]| Cost [ Simple ] The plates are layered in such a way that causes parts broken to flake away, this allows her to pay an equal amount of chakra to the technique that would degrade the users armor to suffer the degradation but allows the user to avoid the damage of the attack at no additional activation, although can only be used once any given post and applies only to strikes against this.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Life hands. ▰ Armour Type: Gauntlet/ arm armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | set ▰ Armour Weight: 38lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting armor from fingers all the way to her elbows with claw like tips and knuckle serrations, special red half orbs exist in the palms. Element Earth stats +2 Strength ▰ Ability Summary: Jutsu absorption[ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spiritual] Once every three posts when defending against spiritual techniques, she can choose to pay the chakra cost of the technique being used, this will absorb the chakra involved in the technique and add it too her own reserves, nullifying the technique, this ability can be sustained for free against continuous ninjutsu, however can only do so for up to three posts, on the fourth if the user doesn’t stop immediately, the crystal and the gauntlet used will break three ranks of durability. The orbs in her armor are treated as one rank lower in durability and defence than the armor rating of her gauntlets, every level of durability lost lowers the efficiency of the chakra draining by 1 rank, meaning if she could perform up to b-rank absorption and they were damaged she could on do so at c-rank and so on, this applies to life drain as well. Costs a defensive activation to use and same to maintain on other posts
Life drain [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spritual ] Alternatively and not limited in use the user can activate these gauntlets when gripping a person By paying the activation cost of this technique, this absorbs resources equivalent equal to the activation cost as if it were Complex, this ability stacks with her energy vampire Jutsu(when it gets approved that is.) and can be maintained each post constant is continued at no cost until the opponent is released, although In the case of it being channeled through her sword voracities ability, she must pay an d-rank upkeep unless the blade is embedded into the person and they can’t get her to release it.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Weapon Name: Voracity ▰ Weapon Type: Katana ▰ Weapon Size: 28.5 inches ▰ Inventory Information: [ Medium ] ▰ Weapon Weight: 1.4 Kg ▰ Stat Increase: + 2 Strength ▰ Elemental Affinity: Lightning ▰ Description: ▰ Ability Summary: channeled consumption [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Passive [ Element ]| Cost [ simple ] This weapon can be used to channel any chakra draining abilities that require an activation and contact. This allows her blade to drain with the same force through striking techniques, she is capable of activating life drain by paying its cost for no additional activation when making a strike
consume their essence [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Passive [ Element ]| Cost [ Passive ] Upon a successful strike on an opponent with this sword and the life drain ability is active, she can opt to immediately use the gained resources and inject it directly into her life force. Instead of gaining any resources she can cure one status effect she suffers up to a tiered rank of one below the amount chakra of chakra used to a minimum of one tier of status cured, she can only be if it from this once a post.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Steadystride Greaves ▰ Armour Type: Foot/Legwear ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy ▰ Armour Weight: 55lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting armoured boots and greaves that go a bit beyond her knees. Again black and dark blue trim. Element Wind stats +2 Speed ▰ Ability Summary: Mean streak [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank C | Augment [ ]| Cost [ simple ] The armor of her foot is designed with sharper folds and razor edges sharpened into any thin edge that could cut if moved right when being touched. When a kick based attack lands she may pay the costs of this technique at no addition activation to add an additional tier of trauma and counts as a bladed attack. This causes significant pain to light armor level opponents(and non armoured) who don’t successfully defend the attack.
Burst [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Augment [ Element ]| Cost [ Complex ] This can either be activated alone or as part of a technique that augments movement speed. It increases movement distance by 10 feet per rank used, doubling any stat bonus to movement speed or leg oriented attacks for 3 posts, during this any bonus to the users speed stat bonuses are mirrored to their strength stat for kick or shoulder check/tackle type attacks during this abilities duration.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Rouge plate ▰ Armour Type: Body armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | Set ▰ Armour Weight: 85Lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting samurai armor, front and back, complete with shoulder guards. black coat with blue trim.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Rouge plate ▰ Armour Type: Body armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | Set ▰ Armour Weight: 85Lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting samurai armor, front and back, complete with shoulder guards, it is also black with blue trim • Stat increase +2 agility • elemental affinity Wind ▰ Ability Summary:
Chain undershirt [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank - | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ - ] The armor comes complete with a chain undershirt that treats the exposed parts of her arms and body, down to her hips are protected by medium armor. form fitting [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spritual/Complex/Simple ] This armor is finely built and much less cumbersome and bulky than it might appear, this allows her to be able to wear loose robes and/or cloaks overtop over her armor and hide the majority of its bulk, needing someone of equal body rank to casually perceive the armor, although a few posts of studying her will make it apparent. She can remove the shoulder guards and her front and side armoured flaps to make the armor worn only detectable upon search or any reason they could see through the clothes or physical contact, although lowers all areas affected a armor value down to medium
•The picture is a rough idea on her appearance, due to her bloodline her appearance has some drastic differences than normal people, key ones being as followed: • Black sclera, yellow iris, slit pupil when they contract • Her skin is notably light blue • she has stitches at each wrist, ankle, upper forearm just below and just about the elbow and shoulders, around her neck, and slits stems from her mouth but are skillfully sewn shut and the threads and slit is hidden by makeup. • looks perpetually tired with bags under her eyes (not really important but mentionable. • X stitches on her back • her canines are slightly bigger, longer and sharper along with the teeth behind them.
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After about half an hour, she couldn’t be called better by a long shot but at least Tomoe had managed to calm down enough to start helping with the injured. Beside the small guard hut/registration office, two other building had basically been all but destroyed, the stables damaged and a couple of other building in need of minor repairs and a lot of broken glass. Seventeen people dead, 8 injured, 3 of which were in critical states, not including any of the ronin. A single member of the Tri-clover gang remained, the one that was previously injured before Tomoe arrived. Twenty six dead out of the group that came, several killed before Tomoe had arrived, most cleanly dispatched along with a twenty five foot scar across the road in front of the bridge. Kyoko was now exhausted and spent of chakra completely just trying to stabilize everyone and her lack of using these abilities to often had come at a toll and the woman was suffering from chakra depletion.
Tomoe had assisted piling up the dead, she’d collected the head of the low brow missing-nin she’d decapitated as well as his headband, also gripping the one of the injured rouge. Each of these headbands was from the Konoha but scored over with and X, the material attached to the metal swapped out for the hands colours, Tomoe throwing the head into a burlap sack and the forehead protectors into a pocket she silently went about getting ready to go get help for the injured. The issue was being in a “lawless” area not protected by another country, she would need to go get the help of a hidden village and she had just the one in mind, her moose awaiting her to mount it. Tomoe had been convinced by the Robin, specifically Ryuta her father that she should go get them some help for the wounded, that most of them could not make the journey due to injuries and the want to be around if someone came back.
Hence before leaving Tomoe pulled out her large contract scroll and called forth a couple of the greater monkeys from mount huang. Son Huo & Son Tu coming out from the cloud of smoke that was produced from the technique. They looked to her, Huo immediately stating, loudly one might add Knowing us for such a short time and calling for us already, remember you need to earn some of our respect!! Looming in as he spoke and getting face to face with Tomoe. She clicked her tongue and stepped forward as well to press her head up against his and spoke just as aggressively “My town was attack, my uncle killed and many others injured, I don’t have time for your pissing contest you p***k ape, leave if you’re going to be trouble but I’d rather you did not b*****d De-gozaru!!!” Were the blunt response as she signalled about at the damage “I need you two to protect this place while I’m gone, Please... I don’t want to lose anyone else.” She said, backing off a step and sounding more fragile and pleading for a moment. Snorting Son Huo strolled off toward the hill that overlooked the town, not stating he’d do so but choosing too.
Son Tu was more understanding and nodded her head, telling Tomoe that they would stay around and look after the town whilst she was gone. Tomoe thanked her and headed toward her moose, waving at the other “I’ll be back soon with help I promise, don’t anyone die De-gozaru!” She said before leaping on its back and heading off towards the border
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Stamina 1170/1170 | Chakra 950/950 | Nature chakra 1500/1500
Strength 6 | speed 4 | agility 4 | endurance 6
Ryo:18950.
Equipment
Moose scroll Contract scroll ▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Jingasa hat supreme ▰ Armour Type: Helmet ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy ▰ Armour Weight: 25lbs ▰ Description: a splinter circular helmet vastly simmilar to its wooden or straw counterparts but with metal plates. It nearly covers the eyes and thus has small sight holes in the front for when looking downward. Black with blue trim • Element Lightning • stats +2 Endurance ▰ Ability Summary: Crouching wall [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Bukijutsu [ ]| Cost [ complex ] The user may choose to lower their body and crouch partially, leaning their head down and bracing their helmet with an arm, their other Leaning on a leg for support, the user can turn but effectively shielding herself and her armor from any attacks that would be of a lower Tier than this techniques activation cost, the users Foregos any and all actions that round and on consecutive posts may pay an D-ranked cost in resources and spend all their activations to maintain this technique, the user may hop a total five feet as the only movement they can perform during this action besides turning. This technique can not be activated the post after its end.
Break away [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | supplement [ Element ]| Cost [ Simple ] The plates are layered in such a way that causes parts broken to flake away, this allows her to pay an equal amount of chakra to the technique that would degrade the users armor to suffer the degradation but allows the user to avoid the damage of the attack at no additional activation, although can only be used once any given post and applies only to strikes against this.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Life hands. ▰ Armour Type: Gauntlet/ arm armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | set ▰ Armour Weight: 38lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting armor from fingers all the way to her elbows with claw like tips and knuckle serrations, special red half orbs exist in the palms. Element Earth stats +2 Strength ▰ Ability Summary: Jutsu absorption[ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spiritual] Once every three posts when defending against spiritual techniques, she can choose to pay the chakra cost of the technique being used, this will absorb the chakra involved in the technique and add it too her own reserves, nullifying the technique, this ability can be sustained for free against continuous ninjutsu, however can only do so for up to three posts, on the fourth if the user doesn’t stop immediately, the crystal and the gauntlet used will break three ranks of durability. The orbs in her armor are treated as one rank lower in durability and defence than the armor rating of her gauntlets, every level of durability lost lowers the efficiency of the chakra draining by 1 rank, meaning if she could perform up to b-rank absorption and they were damaged she could on do so at c-rank and so on, this applies to life drain as well. Costs a defensive activation to use and same to maintain on other posts
Life drain [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spritual ] Alternatively and not limited in use the user can activate these gauntlets when gripping a person By paying the activation cost of this technique, this absorbs resources equivalent equal to the activation cost as if it were Complex, this ability stacks with her energy vampire Jutsu(when it gets approved that is.) and can be maintained each post constant is continued at no cost until the opponent is released, although In the case of it being channeled through her sword voracities ability, she must pay an d-rank upkeep unless the blade is embedded into the person and they can’t get her to release it.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Weapon Name: Voracity ▰ Weapon Type: Katana ▰ Weapon Size: 28.5 inches ▰ Inventory Information: [ Medium ] ▰ Weapon Weight: 1.4 Kg ▰ Stat Increase: + 2 Strength ▰ Elemental Affinity: Lightning ▰ Description: ▰ Ability Summary: channeled consumption [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Passive [ Element ]| Cost [ simple ] This weapon can be used to channel any chakra draining abilities that require an activation and contact. This allows her blade to drain with the same force through striking techniques, she is capable of activating life drain by paying its cost for no additional activation when making a strike
consume their essence [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Passive [ Element ]| Cost [ Passive ] Upon a successful strike on an opponent with this sword and the life drain ability is active, she can opt to immediately use the gained resources and inject it directly into her life force. Instead of gaining any resources she can cure one status effect she suffers up to a tiered rank of one below the amount chakra of chakra used to a minimum of one tier of status cured, she can only be if it from this once a post.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Steadystride Greaves ▰ Armour Type: Foot/Legwear ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy ▰ Armour Weight: 55lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting armoured boots and greaves that go a bit beyond her knees. Again black and dark blue trim. Element Wind stats +2 Speed ▰ Ability Summary: Mean streak [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank C | Augment [ ]| Cost [ simple ] The armor of her foot is designed with sharper folds and razor edges sharpened into any thin edge that could cut if moved right when being touched. When a kick based attack lands she may pay the costs of this technique at no addition activation to add an additional tier of trauma and counts as a bladed attack. This causes significant pain to light armor level opponents(and non armoured) who don’t successfully defend the attack.
Burst [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Augment [ Element ]| Cost [ Complex ] This can either be activated alone or as part of a technique that augments movement speed. It increases movement distance by 10 feet per rank used, doubling any stat bonus to movement speed or leg oriented attacks for 3 posts, during this any bonus to the users speed stat bonuses are mirrored to their strength stat for kick or shoulder check/tackle type attacks during this abilities duration.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Rouge plate ▰ Armour Type: Body armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | Set ▰ Armour Weight: 85Lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting samurai armor, front and back, complete with shoulder guards. black coat with blue trim.
▰ Character: Tomoe ▰ Link to profile: [x] ▰ Armour Name: Rouge plate ▰ Armour Type: Body armor ▰ Inventory Information: Heavy | Set ▰ Armour Weight: 85Lbs ▰ Description: Form fitting samurai armor, front and back, complete with shoulder guards, it is also black with blue trim • Stat increase +2 agility • elemental affinity Wind ▰ Ability Summary:
Chain undershirt [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank - | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ - ] The armor comes complete with a chain undershirt that treats the exposed parts of her arms and body, down to her hips are protected by medium armor. form fitting [ Japanese Technique Name ] | Rank X | Class [ Element ]| Cost [ Spritual/Complex/Simple ] This armor is finely built and much less cumbersome and bulky than it might appear, this allows her to be able to wear loose robes and/or cloaks overtop over her armor and hide the majority of its bulk, needing someone of equal body rank to casually perceive the armor, although a few posts of studying her will make it apparent. She can remove the shoulder guards and her front and side armoured flaps to make the armor worn only detectable upon search or any reason they could see through the clothes or physical contact, although lowers all areas affected a armor value down to medium
