Shifting Through Grass [O]

[Pwn]

Nemuru had ventured off to another land, displaced far away from his own. Kusa no Kuni had been lavish, its forest decorated by plump mushrooms, and thick bamboo sticks raised high into the sky. He had made this a personal mission, it being to find the location of Kusagakure no Sato. With them being a fairly new village, after their recent construction, gathering information, and delivering it to the Mizukage held the utmost importance.

It would be best to wait for somebody from their village to show up. If they were true shinobi, then scouting their country had been a task to complete. However, it had looked bleak, as there had been nobody within eyesight. He had been walking upon a dirt road, about five meters wide, which trailed down. Dust kicked into twirls with each step, he dug balled fist into his pockets, and continued his observation of his surroundings as he headed forward.

“I should relax,” he said, speaking in a whisper to himself, pondering about resting, spotting an empty bench up ahead. His footwork hurried with eagerness as he pushed onward, almost against the will of his body. This way, he could just examine whoever came by. There would not be an exertion of wasted energy. Approaching it, he wiped it off, and sat down, in a slouched position, propping himself up with his hands on his knees.

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x1 Massive / x2 High

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0?. Equipped

[KEITH]

GM: Random Zombie Encounter
THEME: Requiem for a Dream

{Rise.}

Unbeknownst to the traveler, something evil had been stirring up, that he would only great to see once it was complete and ready to face him. He must've not known of the war between Kusagakure and Iwagakure that had taken place so many years ago, and the land he had walked upon was one of the many that had fallen. A famous Iwagakure shinobi of this battle had fallen here, though his bout against the Kusagakure forces had made him a legend among those of Iwa, but now, his story had become nothing more than an urban legend. The man was known as Sōkyō Reisūyō, and he had received another chance to make himself famous, someone would have resurrected him from the dead.

An unknown caster of the secret technique, Edo Tensei, was hidden within the trees out of the traveler’s sight. Before he would have known it, as he would watched the branches, and probably the sky, he would notice the sky beginning to turn dark fairly quickly, and the moon would have been within the night sky, blood red. You would feel the ground tremble before your feet, shaking violently, as a coffin with emerge from the earth, ten meters before you, and once it had finished it's ascend, it had opened. Inside of the coffin, had rested the shinobi who was claimed to be an urban legend, now alive again, with his eyes set upon his new prey.

{Feed.}

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[Pwn]

Daydreaming into the night, the convention of the thoughts within his mind had suddenly vanished. The earth beneath him began to quiver, convulsing his body as he rose from his seat. A coffin emerged from the ground below, immediately prompting him to perform seals. Watching its lid fall to the floor, five parchments within his satchel began to rustle upward. Stepping five meters closer, outstretching his arms, he had been prepared to strike.

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x1 Massive / x2 High [-1 Low]

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1. ?
2. ?

[KEITH]

{Feed. Feed. Feed. . . .}

Sōkyō Reisūyō had been raised from his grave, to his own surprise, stepping out of the coffin as you would have prepared yourself for an attack, without understanding what was going on. Reisūyō hadn't acknowledge you yet, he simply looked at his hands, surprised that he had been alive, remembering his demise at the hands of Nara Uneri, in the battle at the swamps when the war between Kusa and Iwa had raged on. “Why am I alive? I thought that bastard Uneri killed me. . . .”

He would have thought to himself, his body had felt the same as before, but as he looked at his hands, he would realize that they didn't look the same as he would have remembered. He had remembered that such a technique had existed, one that allowed those who have passed on to be brought back to life, though it had mostly been a legend in its own right. His head would slowly rise, and set upon the one who would have been a meager ten meters away from him, wondering who he was and why he was here. “Did he resurrect me?”

He would have continued to think to himself, if that was the truth, then this would mean that this man had been his rightful master. He would begin to feel an impulse within his head; it kept repeating a command, one that he would have thought the one before him was giving. Was he commanding him to feed. . . ? But, upon what?

{. . . . on flesh.}

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[Pwn]

Halting his vigilant approach, Nemuru lowered his arm against both flanks, gripping them in bewilderment as he observed the man. He had been perplexed about the state of the man, but they seemed to have felt the same way. Even so, that would not prevent him from asking the appropriate question. The curiosity within his heart had been set ablaze with interest upon the vessel of his foe. He had never seen anything like this.

“Who are you?” Nemuru queried for the name of the man. He had never seen the man before, and from the looks of their flesh, they could not have been alive. The image of his parents envisioned within his mind. It had been fleeting, vanishing from existence the moment given birth. His parchments had slipped upon the outside of his satchel with the twitch of his fingers. Keeping his hands behind his back, he patiently waited for an answer.

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x1 Massive / x2 High [-1 Low]

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1. ?
2. ?

[KEITH]

Reisūyō had stared upon the boy before him, the great intent inside of him had been slowly raising. The command continuing to echo through his head, it was almost painful, he felt like he needed to bash his head into a stoned wall to end his torment. But, at the same time, he had wanted to do what the voice had told him, starting to feel a great hunger come upon him. He would have stilled wondered if the man had been his master, slowly making his advancements toward you, his gait was slow, he was getting use to walking again, and it had been so long.

His body wasn't what it had used to be, but as he would have advanced, he would have slowly sped up to a normal walking pace, recovering and getting use to his reanimated body. With the question of the boy's on his plate, he wondered if talking would have been as easy as it was for him before, though he hadn't used his mouth to talk in over twenty years. He would open his mouth, trying to speak words, but before words were released, he had revealed a black liquid from his mouth which resembled words. The liquid had been infested with worms, maggots, vomit, and all types of bugs and fungus which would have accorded within the rotting body of a human or animal for that matter.

It would have been truly disguising to watch, but after a few more attempts, he would manage to say his name. “R. . . . R. . R-Reisūyō. . . .” He had managed to say, cutting the five meter distance between the two, and his right arm would have slowly rose up as his index finger pointed at you, in a gesture of returning the question, in movement for his lack of speech.

{Feed. Feed. Feed. . . .}

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[Pwn]

Reisuuyou had been mistaken if he thought he could approach Nemuru without caution. Flinging his arms forward, there would be no more questions from him to the zombie. He would send him back to where he came from, and then kill their master. Something of this value would have to be researched. Five parchments were intricately sent forward at the man’s face, arms, and legs. He would take a hasty step back, performing a single seal as he landed. This was all he needed to detonate the notes attached to his opponent. He would follow up his assault, if needed, digits congregating swiftly.

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x1 Massive / x2 High [-1 Low]

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1. Exploding Note [x5]
2. Manipulate Advancing Blades [C]
3. Body Flicker Technique [D]
4. Exploding Seal Method Formation [C]

[KEITH]

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I am feel so stupid for thinking that you would abide by my advice that I had given you on YIM. You had just ignored all of it, even though I had overlooked some of the things you had already done in the past and here. But, for that, I will never handle anything for you again. Begin Nemuru's lament, please.

With the right index finger of Reisūyō's extended, pointing at you, in a gesture to ask who you were, you would attack him. You had attacked him because of your own paranoia of the man and what he was capable of, though you didn't know exactly. This would ultimately be your downfall, and unfortunately, lead to your very death. It was a shame that you wouldn't had bothered to talk to the man, to see what he was, you could have probably found out some viable information about him or the village of stone, but you had given all of that up by attacking.

As your explosive notes would have been released from your hand (you didn't mention the use of any blades or whatever been attached to them, since you said the tags landed upon me, not kunai or whatever piercing my body) floating into the air, as they would have taken their time to float toward the ground, being paper as they were. Of course, Reisūyō was able to identify what they were immediately, explosive tags hadn't changed a bit since they were first created, and with that, he was able to decipher that you were an enemy, and not his master. With your notes fallen just between us, as you would have made a hasty step backwards after you thrown them, causing them to detonate with you still within the range of the blast, it would without a doubt claim your life. As for Reisūyō, he had been caught within the range of the blast, but unlike you, he would have been able to recover, besides, he was already dead, your attacks would have been futile from the start.

He wondered why you had attempted to do such a thing, and then decided that he truly didn't care much. Your mistake was that you were too hasty, and you acted as quickly as you could to finish your assault, rather than wait, time it, and see how it all played out. Reisūyō made his way over to your lifeless body, and begun ripping it apart and stuffing large amounts of his flesh into his mouth, chewing it as his blood ran from his mouth.

{Feed!}

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[Hotaru]

Tags wont fly like kunai or shuriken. They waft forward to where circa positioned them. However, since you're character isnt stupid enough to follow through and detonate them while he is in the blast radius. Tags are in play, on the ground half way between the two of you.

Pwn is alive. zombie is alive. play continues with pwn redoing his post below. 5 meters separates you. Go.

[Pwn]

Although Reisuuyou had not been caught directly by the explosion, it did not matter in the least. The man being in the immediate area had provided Nemuru with enough satisfaction. He could observe the effects of this mysterious jutsu from his next position, five meters away. Finishing his seals, as his opponent proceeded to regenerate, a thick mist would circumvent the area, swallowing both of them. The visible between the two had been reduced to five meters, but something had been different.

Nemuru had no problem seeing through this as he darted off to the right, circling the man from his western flank. With each step, he performed seals, stopping after the third step, now directly to the left of the man. Executing his next technique, he crouched upon the ground, hilt upon blade, before standing up, and charging forward. A shadow creeping elsewhere, he had thrusted outward, aiming to stab the man in his stomach, pulling upward before leaping back three meters away.

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x1 Massive / x7^1/2 High

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1. ?
2. ?
3. Tanto

[KEITH]

Reisūyō watched as you filled up the area with a strange mist. He stood in place, looking around the mist, to see if you would reappear within his immediate area. But, to no avail, his eyes could not pierce through the mist, not just yet, anyway.

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[Pwn]

Because Reisuuyou had decided to remain stationary, he would be stabbed by Nemuru’s sword. A figure stood ten meters to his rear, performing seals. From behind the man, a tree would emerge from the ground. It would surround the man, restricting his movement by binding him in place. Another set of would follow. He would hold the final one, waiting to see if his attack had been successful.

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x1 Massive / x7^1/2 Mid [-1 High] [-1 Mid]

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1. Tanto [C]
2. ?
2. Tree Binding Death
3. ?

[KEITH]

Stabbed and captured by a tree, Reisūyō hadn't responded to any of the actions that you had done. He was unharmed, and your moves had remained ineffective, but he would continue to wait. He had known that his chance to strike would show its gruesome head soon.

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[Pwn]

/exit

[~Kohana <3]

Circa- 32
Yots- 27