A Cloudy Place [O]

[Kaifuu]

It was about noon, still daylight and slightly sunny, by the time Akuma, one of the Hidden Sand Village’s most powerful warriors, arrived in the Land of Lightning. He was an ironclad soldier, covered head to toe, with a dirty white man around his neck, and attached to his helmet in the form of a mohawk. His eyes beamed red, and, while he kept a grin across his face, for the most part, his visage had been concealed. His two weapons, Gladius, were strapped tightly to his back.

The parchment^1A he attached to himself previously was still situated, for safety measures. He had not been too sure if his village and theirs were allies, so he was better off safe than sorry. His steps could be hard slamming across the ground, even by ears in the distance. With each thud, he breached through the forest, heading toward the Upper Yard. It was there that he could find out information about where the Hidden Cloud Village was, allowing him to seek help.

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1A. ?

[Etherion]

Kai grumbled as he moved through the forest taking in the cool feel of the moisture along both his skin and his black iron piercings over his body. Apparently there was someone spotted entering Kaminari and lucky Kai gets to check it out. He shook his head annoyed as he whipped through the forest feeling his studs shift as he went.

He came to the clearing of an old copper and iron mine and leaned back against one of the minecarts as he felt his power echo into the cave and through out the mountain. Kai wasn't a very 'active' person so he would wait for his company to arrive at the clearing. His intel stated that he had been wandering the land searching and from that he knew he would end up at the clearing soon enough.

[Kaifuu]

Up ahead, as Akuma continued forward he approached an old copper and iron mine, probably filled with things of little value once used in the old days. Its darkness consumed him as he breached the vicinity, stepping upon a rusted railroad track, kicking up dirt beneath his feet. The heat^2A from his body had been searing off, displaying his resilient^{2B 2C} skin. Keeping frontward, he could see a light at the end of the tunnel, his escape back into the rejuvenating daylight.

Passing the opening, to either side, he saw a man of muscular size with pitch-black hair, and luminous orange eyes, beaming at him like the sun, as he started him down. Gazing at his headband, Akuma could easily identify him as a Cloud shinobi. However, not being too sure, he would question him, and find out. If it were as he thought, he would ask him to take him to the Raikage, where he would be able to tell him the tragic news. The Hidden Sand Village was in trouble, and needed help.

“Are you, by any chance, a shinobi from the Hidden Cloud Village?”

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2A. Pyromancer's Aura [C]
2B. Ironhide [C]
2C. Heat Resilience [C]

[Etherion]

Kai tilted his head quietly and flicked his headband as it was set upon his arm the resounding metallic clink echoing across the clearing as an indication to his question. The area had seemed to grow warmer with the man's entrance and as such his mood grew hotter. in response to the heat Kai could faintly hear a sound, a combination of falling sand and clinking metal, coming from behind the man within the cave.

"I am, what are you?" Kai asked somewhat disinterested as the mine cart had subtly shifted from rusted bronze to pitch black over the course of time that had passed as its surface had now been turned to iron sand.

A-Jiton Domain
iron sand conversion

[Kaifuu]

“I’m from the Hidden Sand Village,” he said, watching as the man flicked his headband displaying his allegiance to Hidden Cloud Village. Akuma, himself, removed his own headband from under his tattered robe, proving that he, too, had been from where he had said he had been. He stepped forward, out of the way of the debris that had been falling due to the heat that emanated from his body. Walking past the man, roughly five meters to ahead, he turned to him.

“I have an urgent message from the Kazekage for the Raikage,” he said, turning his back to the man, and looking down the path onward. The sooner he made it to their village, the sooner he could head back home to either rebuild his own. He, and his adversary at the time, had caused plenty of damage to the Kazekage’s Office. That would be the first on his list of things to fix. If asked about it, he would lie, fabricating a story to cover up his destruction.

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2A. Pyromancer's Aura [C]
2B. Ironhide [C]
2C. Heat Resilience [C]

[Etherion]

The sound would worsen slowly becoming more like running water as Kai stood up straight watching the man as the mine cart fell away from him like a black cloud of dust as it came to hover around him gnashing together with the sounds of steel. "What's the message, 'urgent' is different depending on the person."

Kai cracked his neck as the mine rails seemed to disappear from where they were disappearing into the cave. The sound was harmonious as the deep sharp sound echoed out of the cave while his hands rested on the pommels of his katanas, suspicion was a basic part of the ninja world.

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[Kaifuu]

It would seem that the guy got weary of Akuma, but he had every reason to be. Not many people knew how to respond to somebody his size, donned from head to toe in armor, with information of urgent status. Every word of what he said was true, but how could he be sure that this man, even with the headband, is from where he say he is. The only way to find out is for him to be lead back to the village, where he could confirm it for himself.

“That information is for your Raikage to know,” he said, not willing to tell the man what he knew. He had nothing against him, but not everybody needed to know of their affairs. If his leader wanted to tell him, which would most likely happen anyways, he would, so it did not matter. Turning his head to the man, he could see him clenching his blades. He did not think too much of it. Had the man been a killer, like himself, he would have already struck.

“You can relax. I won’t kill you,” he continued, snickering a bit, though inaudible to the man standing before him. The bloodlust would always be there, but for just this moment, he would control it enough to allow him to get help. He had been looking at things from a different perspective, and well as securing the loyalty of his village. There were many things were still needing to be done for him to ascend to the highest position, and this had been the first.

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2A. Pyromancer's Aura [C]
2B. Ironhide [C]
2C. Heat Resilience [C]

[Axcel]

“Of course not,” Akuseru’s voice was loud and sudden, the white haired shinobi speaking with no intentions of masking his presence. “Suna shinobi aren’t capable of such feats.” He mocked with a grin on his face. The Hyuuga was always one to make jokes, having thoroughly enjoyed getting underneath people’s skin in the past he had honed the art of agitating others while maintaining tact.

Him being there was a direct result of his encounter with the young Konoha shinobi earlier. After having realized his teammates were indeed not coming to meet him, he set out to leave. The area was desolate enough that their echoing words carried far enough that the passerby, Akuseru, ear’s had perked up enough to warrant the nosy usage of his famed Byakagun. A quick activation and deactivation would be all that occurred before he came to take a look for himself. Having planted himself merely fifteen meters away from the foreigner’s left. The boy had taken no efforts to hide his approach, and with all his equipment it was likely that the two were aware of his presence before he had even spoken.

“You don’t get to come into a country and expect an audience with the Raikage,” Akuseru said, stifling laughter at the notion that he thought it would be as simple as that. “If it were that easy, then we would go through more kage’s than the Leaf.” It was true—information that was truly only for the Raikage’s eyes were delivered through birds or other animals with official seal marking the letter or document being delivered. A foreign shinobi’s word is not to be trusted so easily.

Of course, Akuseru hadn’t been there for the whole conversation, so he could have missed something. His points were more than valid, though.

[Etherion]

"You can't enter my country and demand to be lead to my village and my leader." Kai said quietly glancing up at the newcomer from the corner of his eye catching the glinting symbol of the Cloud upon him before nodding acknowledging him and looking back at the suna shinobi.

With a dismal twitch of his wrist a massive flood of black would pour out from the cave mouth doubling the size of the black cloud around him as well as covering the ground of the full clearing with iron sand.The sharp scent of iron calmed the Zantetsuken as his eyes seemed to shift to crimson and he thought of dismantling that armor as well. "You're right, though presumably in a catastrophe they might not have had time to send a bird and had to settle on other means."

His stage was set now, Upon The Lake of Iron Sand...

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OOC: hey ax lol

[Kaifuu]

Turning his head west, he peered deep into the eyes of the newcomer, a member of the Hyuuga clan, and a wielder of the legendary Byakugan, an all white eye that allowed them to pierce through most defenses with ocular dominance. His skin was pale, and his size frail, though still about his height. Akuma did not pay the jokes any attention, shrugging them off as if they meant nothing. He turned to face the man, providing an explanation.

“You’re right. Iwa has—,” he paused, halting his speech before he finished his sentence, allowing them to ponder his next few words. He began to turn around, heading back where he came from. Through the mine, if they were not going to cooperate, he would leave, not willing to tell them the information. If their village would not send aide, he would go to another. He would keep going from country and country until he found help.

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[Axcel]

“Wait!”

To be honest, he didn’t care about the Suna shinobi’s agenda regarding the Raikage a single bit. However, if he truly did have information for Eiichiro, regardless of how nonsensical his method of delivery was, Akuseru wasn’t simply just going to let it slip away so easily. His tone was not one of request, but command. Already having armed himself with a kunai, if the foreign shinobi intended on simply walking away like nothing happened then he would quickly find the marked projectile striking him in the neck, leaving him to rot away among the many skeletons that rested within the mineshaft.

“You have two options—I can take you to the Raikage blindfolded and bound or,” Akuseru paused for a moment, allowing the shinobi to think about his first option before continuing. “Or you can tell me what you have to say, and after I’ve verified it as the truth, I will relay it to the Raikage word for word.” The veins around his eyes protruded as his already featureless pupils faded away.¹

The options Akuseru had laid out for him were his only choices—simply leaving wasn’t going to fly.

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Byakagun - Low x2

[Forsaken]

Kai followed his comrades lead and made a black wall of sand within the tunnel within the shadows so that it couldn't be distinguished from the darkness as he his hands braced into the familiar stance of bending the metal sand to his will. "No matter the case if there is a chance of threat to Kumogakure we wont let it go blindly..."

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OOC: sry for crap post im sick

[Kaifuu]

Of course, they would not let him leave, but it was not as if he did not know that. In fact, he anticipated them stopping him, and it went exactly like that. Before he could even breach one meter, the Hyuuga spoke out, asking him to hold up. Turning around to look at him, he would hear him out, being given two options. He had already been in favor of the first option, but he had been skeptical about trusting them. Just because they were not enemies did not mean he they would help him.

Nowadays, people had their own intentions. Even Akuma fell into this category as somebody who wanted something for himself, working for his own motives, and doing his own thing. While the village had been important, it could not ensure his prosperity, and adaptation into society. The lust to kill others had been thriving deep, hidden for now, but if they tried something suspicious, he would not hesitate to take them out. Placing his hands behind his back, he waited for one of them to bind, and blindfold him.

“Go ahead. Sunagakure needs me. I’m the only one who can save them,” he said, intent on speaking with the Raikage, and delivering the message from his Kazakage, one of the utmost importance. Hopefully, they used caution. Because of his genetic inheritance, it had always been hot around his body. The temperatures had reached far higher than average body temperature. He waited for them to move.

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x1 Massive / x2 High

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2A. Pyromancer's Aura [C]
2B. Ironhide [C]
2C. Heat Resilience [C]

[Axcel]

The Suna shinobi agreed to the first option Akuseru had laid out for him. The foreigner definitely had strong feelings towards how classified his message was, to have chosen to be bound and blindfolded and taken into Kumogakure opposed to relaying his message to Akuseru and being on his way.

“You have my word that you will arrive at Kumogakure unharmed,” he spoke as if he a shinobi’s word was to be trusted. Akuseru was one to stick to his word, but he knew a stranger wouldn’t be so quick to trust what he said. It mattered not, though, for the ‘hostage’ had no choice in the matter.

As Akuseru approached the heat that had been radiating from the foreigner was slowly dying down (two turns have passed) and it was safe to blindfold and tie him up. “If you try anything—you’ll die,” the Hyuuga hadn’t intended on sounding threatening, but rather letting the Suna shinobi know that he wasn’t going to play any games. In order to blindfold him, Akuseru removed the Suna shinobi’s hitai-ate and tied it around his eyes, the metal portion of the headband being more than enough to block all vision. Using the wire he had been carrying with him along with the rest of his equipment, Akuseru tightly bound his hands together in a manner that would disallow any handseals to be formed.

“Follow my lead, we’re headed to Kumogakure.” Of course, being blindfolded, it would be difficult for the Suna shinobi to actually follow him. Akuseru directed his comrade to stand behind their prisoner and guide him. This would ensure that if he attempted to make a break for it, the genin would easily be able to incapacitate.

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Low x2

[Etherion]

The nin agreed to being taken and his comrade then warned the nin as he felt the heat bellowing from his body before securing him. He then signaled for him to take up the rear.

Kai nodded and took up position drawing the iron sand from the mineshaft and the surrounding clearing using it to nudge the Suna nin forward so that he wouldn't have to worry about the heat. The metallic sand would create a grayish black mist around the trio as they moved out.

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