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by Toshi
Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

Say one thing about Tousha, say that he was suddenly very overwhelmed. "O-okay," Tousha stammered as Chiaki mentioned getting him into a bath before peeling away the soaked through clump of fabric that was his Samue jacket. He watched as an organized swarm of butterflies up and carried his duffle ba...
by Toshi
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Tousha clung to Tsubaki as if his life depended on it, his body still shaking with each sobbing breath. As the Kunoichi spoke he could hear her voice becoming shallower with each passing word. He didn't even know how to answer her words of affirmation, it was too much to take in. He wanted to tell T...
by Toshi
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

The Hokage's eyes closed slowly as Tsubaki spoke, her thumb moving in slow, calming circles against his skin. His mouth grew taught and trembled slightly as she said that she didn't care about who he used to be and what titles he held, that he was just Tousha to her. Tousha didn't want to be anythin...
by Toshi
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

Tousha left the tea house grinning like an idiot. He still felt the Kunoichi's soft fingers pressing against his lips, a vibrant orange eye winking at him before leaving him to his task. He walked through the festival in a haze as people moved here and there, shielding themselves from the heavy driz...
by Toshi
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

The vagabond's thin, dark eyes tried to take in every small nuance as Chiaki spoke. The way sad understanding touched her smile, how her eyes brightened when she said he didn't have to spend the night alone. He didn't even look down as her deft hand slipped a key to her hotel room into his pocket, h...
by Toshi
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Tousha draped an arm over Tsubaki's shoulder as the Kunoichi helped him to the ground, his entire body shaking even with her assistance. He let out a weak groan as he laid flat on the muddy forest floor. A mercifully numbing chill shot through the Kage, the earth's cold embrace seeping into him and ...
by Toshi
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

For one, horrifying breath, Tousha thought Chiaki had been repulsed by the kiss he'd given her. The Kunoichi's eyebrows remained arched and in a look of shock, she brought her work-worn fingers to touch where his lips had met her skin, and she stared at him with an uncertainty he couldn't place. His...
by Toshi
Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

The thing that wasn't Tousha barely regarded Yuji's corpse as it sank into the shadows, consumed voraciously by the annihilation chakra that skulked within them. Fabric, flesh, bone, metal, it all hissed and disappeared the same. It fueled the apathy radiating from Tousha's technique like kindling t...
by Toshi
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Somewhere deep within the shadow silhouetted Shinobi, Tousha's consciousness struggled for control. He could only see what was happening on the outside in distorted fragments, like trying to peer through a window slick with oil. The shock of finding Tsubaki dead at the hands of the bounty hunters a...
by Toshi
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

Tousha couldn't help but laugh along with Chiaki, relieved that the perplexity he felt at her offer wasn't taken in poor taste. He'd genuinely meant no offense towards the Kunoichi, but Tousha had grown unaccustomed to maneuvering sensitive situations like these. A much younger Nara Tousha would hav...
by Toshi
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Rock Country
Topic: Alone by Your Side
Replies: 30
Views: 3910

Alone by Your Side

Melancholy blunted Tousha's cutting stare as the swordsman refused to back down or give him the information they needed. His opponent wasn't wrong, the Nara's hold was slipping. Soon enough the Haruko Shinobi leader would overpower Tousha's waning control over the shadow that stretched between them ...
by Toshi
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:58 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Silently, with reckless speed, Nara Tousha tore through the storm like a bullet. The wind, rain, and lightning seemed to shy away from the enraged Kage as he flew eastward astride the smoke particle blackbird. He was still silhouetted in shifting darkness that clung to him like a second skin, his sl...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:38 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

The thin man's eyes widened in terrible realization at the Kage's question. Tousha's thinly shadow veiled face hung in front of the chemist like an abhorrent specter waiting for his answer, its features carved by unrelenting indignation that seeped out of every pore. The mass of shadows that dominat...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

Chiaki's perfume, a fragrant blend of lilac and jasmine, filled his senses and dispelled any doubts he had about her intentions as the Kunoichi leaned in close to whisper in his ear. Her voice made his head swim pleasantly with its low, honey-sweet tones, luring him further from the tea shop's quain...
by Toshi
Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:45 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Two Shinobi bolted down the torchlit hallway, running headlong towards the thin man and the roiling deluge of grasping shadows that followed closely behind. One of the Guard Shinobi produced a kunai with mechanical, unthinking ease and threw it just past the thin man's ear as he continued franticall...
by Toshi
Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:52 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

Liquid fire scorched a white hot path through Tousha's mind. He begged his body to scream but the most he could manage was widening his eyes, tensing his jaw, and shifting the distant ends of his extremities under the thick leather bands that bound him to the stone slab table. The Kage had never fel...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Pebble Country
Topic: Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]
Replies: 35
Views: 2801

Apple Blossom Oolong [Festival]

Tousha shot the Kunoichi a confused look. 'By a human?' He did, in fact, start to ask what she meant by that when Chiaki continued speaking, answering the question before he could ask it. The Vagabond sat there on his overstuffed cushion, intently listening to his companion as she spoke of elemental...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

'Tsubaki. Where is she?' Tousha was screaming the question in his mind, begging the words to find their way out of his leaden body. He needed to know where his friend was, if Tsubaki was safe, more than he needed air to fill his lungs. Tousha's need was so desperate he could almost feel the dread b...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: Rock Country
Topic: Alone by Your Side
Replies: 30
Views: 3910

Alone by Your Side

The shadowstuck, deformed man's screams radiated outwards from behind Tousha along with Kotaru's searing hot flames. The Kage didn't need to take his gaze off the swordsman still struggling with all his might against his shadow's grasp to know the numbers were more even now. The wild haired Shinobi ...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Two Birds
Replies: 20
Views: 501

Two Birds

There was nothing. An endless abyss of inky blackness that pooled at the fringes of consciousness. Someone's consciousness. He was a someone, it seemed. But who? There was a muddled attempt to remember but there was also pain in the effort. It was so much easier to slip back into the primordial dar...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Tousha couldn't believe he was still hanging on to consciousness, infirm as the grip was. He watched through unfocused eyes as Tsubaki swam in and out of his vision and tended to his injuries. She was speaking to him with her unique brand of annoyed concern, though he was finding it difficult to foc...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

While Tsubaki tended to Yuji, Tousha was meeting a fusillade of arrows head on. The world shrunk to the size of the surrounding camp as the Kage's entire being focused on deflecting the incoming projectiles. The archer's goal was to kill Tsubaki, that much was clear, but their tactics had shifted in...
by Toshi
Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Tousha couldn't spare a moment to look back at Tsubaki as he heard her struggling against the effects of the manacle's seal. The bowman moved as one and launched a volley of probing projectiles at the two chained Shinobi. The Kage set his jaw and focused on the incoming ranged attacks, sharpening hi...
by Toshi
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

The bowman had retreated into the darkness that surrounded the small campsite. Tousha couldn't see him, but he could feel a cold, unyielding obligation to kill pressing down on them both from every direction. Would it be so simple that the young man had given up the hunt and disappeared into the wil...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

“ I'll go once you ease up on the seal. ” "What?" Tousha shot back, glancing at the Kunoichi over his shoulder and finding a deadly serious look on her face. He knew it all to well. She'd looked at him the same way the first time they'd met, when she was treating him for a bad case of poisoning and ...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:55 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

"You might have to save that man's life," Tousha replied, already short of breath. The lack of sleep and constant drain on his chakra was beginning to take its toll on the Nara. Just defending the Kunoichi was taking everything he had, let alone launching any counter attacks of his own. Still panti...
by Toshi
Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

[hr] Five days ago [hr] A flat, almost disc-shaped rock rests precariously on a craggy slope in the wilderness. It tilts and jostles as the roiling storm clouds overhead unleash a torrent of rain, wind, and lightning onto anything unfortunate enough to be in their path. This deluge of rainwater has ...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

"Do that and she’ll be alone with us. For a long time." The annihilation chakra at Tousha's fingertips hissed and churned at Yuji's threat. Tousha knew full well what would happen if he died here. Tsubaki was helpless and surrounded by men who only saw her as a tool to exploit, to take advantage of...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:51 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Shit. Tousha sat upright against the rock at his back, the Shinobi's cramped and tired legs bending ever so slightly for better leverage. The archer noticed the shift in weight and turned to the former Hokage, watching his every move with a hawk-like stare. Tousha's eyes darted from the young bount...
by Toshi
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Tousha watched with exhausted eyes as Goro approached where he sat, his back still pressed against the bark of the nearly petrified fallen tree. The bounty hunter looked down at him, frowning impatiently. Tousha sighed heavily and tried to shake some of the weariness clinging to him. It had been a v...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:51 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Tousha forced his body into a sitting position, his back leaning heavily onto the fallen tree and his face pointed skyward as pain lanced through his hand and up his arm. He didn't need to look at Tsubaki to know that she was suffering her own flavor of pain, once again because of him. The Shinobi p...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Every fiber of his being wanted to burn the man from the inside out. He wanted to watch what little life there was in those inexorable eyes fade away. The rage he felt, watching him touch Tsubaki knowing how much she must have hated it, sharpened the Hokage's eyes and mind like a bucket of ice cold ...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

One of the men who had been keeping Tsubaki upright moved towards Tousha and grabbed him by the front of his jacket before yanking him off the ground. The Kage's hair was disheveled and hung in front of his bloodied face as he found his footing, his jaw slack with the effort of maintaining the strea...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:40 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

In his darkest, most haunting nightmares, Tousha wouldn't be able to conjure the screams that ripped the town's silence to shreds. He could only look down at Tsubaki's writhing form in abject horror, his eyes shaking as he attempted to process what was unfolding before him. Even as the image of his ...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:08 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Seeing Tsubaki's blood spilling down her face thanks to his outburst forced Tousha to close his eyes and take slow, measured breath. Getting angry now wasn't going to help anyone, especially his friend. With no small amount of effort he willed the flames of rage building in his chest to dwindle into...
by Toshi
Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: May Death Find You Alive
Replies: 32
Views: 594

May Death Find You Alive

Blood pounded in the former Kage's ears, threatening to drown out the bounty hunter's words. The weight of the world pressed against Tousha and smothered each ragged breath that managed to escape his parted lips. That weight only worsened as he watched Tsubaki lift her head and stare across the way ...
by Toshi
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: The Dark in a Little More Light
Replies: 23
Views: 714

The Dark in a Little More Light

Something had changed on the way back to the inn. That easy silence that had become a comfortable companion to them both suddenly seemed polluted somehow. That feeling of unspoken unease only seemed to worsen as they approached their respective rooms. "Yeah, of course," Tousha would answer without t...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: The Dark in a Little More Light
Replies: 23
Views: 714

The Dark in a Little More Light

Tousha rolled his eyes dramatically at Tsubaki's cringle-nosed teasing, quickly followed by a mischievous and knowing grin. It was the smile of a toddler who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar but knew he was too endearing to stay mad at for long. That smile grew a little softer as the Kunoi...
by Toshi
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Rock Country
Topic: Alone by Your Side
Replies: 30
Views: 3910

Alone by Your Side

Tousha's gaze flitted to Kotaru as the young Shinobi turned to him, disgust etched into every feature, a fraction of a breath before the bandaged man leaped headlong into his chest. "Kota!" Tousha shouted, instinctively turning to help his ally as the lanky man carried the Iwa Shinobi more than two ...
by Toshi
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:59 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: The Dark in a Little More Light
Replies: 23
Views: 714

The Dark in a Little More Light

Tousha paid her smile back twofold, his thin eyes closing from the sheer force of his beaming grin and his well earned smile-lines proudly on display. He gave the Kunoichi one of his patented thumbs up and said, "All right! Tsubaki and Tousha, on the loose and out of control. I wouldn't want it any ...

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