Naruto Saigen Roleplay

[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 ...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a certain satisfaction in watching someone completely engrossed in their element. Tousha had watched Nakamura at work many, many times during his stay in Ishikari and was eternally impressed with the master carver's ability to negotiate wood into any shape he pleased. It was as if the timb...

Something had changed. Tousha stared across the table at his dinner companion with what he hoped was a pleasant expression but his thin, dark eyes twitched here and there, trying to glean what he could from the Kunoichi's change in demeanor. Her movements seemed less confident and refined, her voice...

Tousha shrunk into himself a hair as he watched Tsubaki struggle with his question. He felt horrible in that moment, thinking that he'd overreached into uncomfortable territory for the young woman. The Shinobi couldn't stop himself from holding back a wince as she sighed deeply and dug around in her...

Tousha's eyes would flicker to where Chiaki was resting her hand on his. There was warmth there, but it felt... Strange somehow. Almost as if the heat from her body wasn't entirely natural. It was like feeling the warmth of a steaming cup of tea through a smooth, fired cup. The Vagabond's brief conf...

"Mrrmph Mrrlcmff," Tousha replied through what some would call an irresponsible helping of broth laden noodles. He did not take the time to cover his mouth like the Kunoichi, the muscles of his jaw working dutifully to deliver the life saving ramen to his old and failing body before he withered awa...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwW7C8BTjg[/video] Tousha gave the slightest of nods to Kota when he mentioned the 'creepy one', but his sharp, dark eyes remained fixed on the tallest of the triad. He heard something growing out of the Iwa Shinobi standing next to him, a sound that might ha...

You had me at Redwall. Welcome aboard.

Tousha slipped into the pool next to Tsubaki with his patented old man sigh, the warm, mostly clean water soothing the seasoned Shinobi's joints and road weary feet. He dipped a hand towel in the water, wrung out most of it, and then slapped it over his eyes and part of his forehead before resting t...

"You know, I believe that I probably would be a better person, having met you before now, and I hope to be a better person going forward." The Vagabond blinked, wide eyed and brows pulled high, at the Kunoichi's genuineness. Tousha admittedly had a difficult time catching what she had said after sp...

The Vagabond's back straightened as Tsubaki pressed a warm, soapy sponge to his back and started scrubbing. "Oh... Thanks," he said, still keeping his eyes on the wall. Tousha's shoulders straightened as well, hoping that his posture would make the Kunoichi's efforts easier. Even through a sodden sp...

Tousha allowed himself to be corralled away from the soaking pool, barely managing to keep his footing and sliding on his heels at Tsubaki's efforts. The Vagabond's rear end found the wooden stool as Tsubaki's voice softened, explaining that he didn't need to worry about her. He frowned at that, his...

Say one thing about Tousha, say that he was having a difficult time deciding if this was tragic or funny. If they weren't in such dire need of a good washing Tousha would put money on Tsubaki choosing to run headlong back into that storm than join him in the bathhouse. In fact, the Vagabond opened h...

The Nara's face remained impassable as Kotaru took a jab at his inability to help the injured girl himself. Some part of him knew that he had helped her in a way. Tousha had noticed that she wasn't dead for starters, and that he prioritized helping her over chasing after Kota and the thug in the nex...

With a kind smile and what he hoped was a comforting pat on the shoulder, Tousha said, "You're doing fine, Tsubaki. As someone with a lot of experience with looking weird and disheveled in public, you're wearing it a lot better than I ever have." With that he gave the Kunoichi some space and pulled ...

"Wasn't entirely faking," Tousha muttered as he spotted the blood on the ground where Kota pointed and followed it westward. There wasn't much of a trail, but even in the dark it was more than enough for two seasoned Shinobi to follow. Tousha also figured the amount of blood the thug was losing was...

Tousha stopped dead in his tracks as Kota turned to face him, grinning in a way that made his blood run cold. A scene of quickening chaos unfolded around them as villagers screamed and barked orders in the night and the licking, leftover flames from the Iwa Shinobi's jutsu began consuming the far wa...

Tousha shot a glance down at himself at Tsubaki's critique of his appearance. The aging Shinobi opened his mouth to attempt a passable defense, shut it, looked down at his bare, plodding, dirty feet, raised a finger, and said, "You're not wrong but that doesn't mean my feelings aren't hurt, young la...

Tousha's head snapped towards the noise coming from the back of the building, his eyes growing sharp. "Stay here," the Konoha Shinobi said flatly to Hiroshi and the two villagers tending to Ginta before following after Kota deeper into the Elder's dwelling. Now on high alert, it took a single breath...

"If I don't find a bath I'm going to die," Tousha shot back, looking deeply unamused with walking through the wilderness for a lifetime. His expression was grim, his clothes were filthy, his shoes were gone because a raccoon stole them, and there were small twigs littering his long, unkempt hair. T...

With a small wave towards the tea shop's waitress, Tousha followed Chiaki to the table. Every step further into the charming establishment revealed new and compelling scents that intermingled wonderfully with the soft orange lantern light that bathed the entire shop in a perpetual aura of autumnal s...

The man and woman hesitated for a moment at Kota's glance, but only for a moment. Without a word they gently maneuvered Ginta onto his back and began tending to him. Hiroshi, visibly rattled by the vile chakra that had haunted the room like some malevolent specter, gathered his composure and walked ...

While Tsubaki laid back and rested Tousha got to taking stock of their salvaged supplies. Thankfully they'd managed to save most of it: their clothes, Shinobi equipment, some campfire cooking tools, a few blankets, some loose comfort items. However, their tents and sleeping bags had been swallowed u...

Laying there on the cavern floor, Tousha resigned himself to remain still and quiet. Even though they'd found a moment of peace from the storm he remembered Tsubaki screaming in her tent before the landslide overtook their camp. The way she'd fought against him in the darkness of that tent, a terror...

Tousha willed the rest of his Firefly Torches to bobble and weave their way into the cave before setting the fallen log in place, leaving only the smallest sliver of a gap between the timber and earthen rock that made up their shelter's entrance. He followed Tsubaki deeper into the ground, content t...

There was a shred of a moment in which Tousha was certain Kota wasn't going to help him. The Konoha Shinobi could practically hear the boy's mental gears whining over Ginta's pained wails as he weighed his options and, mercifully, walked over to the table rounding off a string of hand seals. Tousha ...

Tousha's expression slipped into curious solemnity when Chiaki mentioned her condition and doubted her own fortitude to live the the way she wished. As the Kunoichi stood there, looking up and smiling at the lanterns that hung above them like fulgent ghosts, the vagabond felt a pang of sadness for h...