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Post by TyDie » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:32 pm

Ume had been on the run for what seemed like forever, constantly watching behind her to see if her pursuers were gaining on her, but as far as she could tell she was safe for the time being. Still, there was no sign of Koyama yet, which was incredibly strange... the man could fly after all, she expected him to find her by now. Maybe he was still asleep... or maybe something else got him? Her captors said that they hadn't killed him, but if he was asleep for a long time, anything could happen... The thoughts were no doubt a distraction, and after running at almost a full sprint for at least a half hour, fatigue was beginning to set in.

And while she might have known the path she was taking, these bandits knew the woods far better than she did. They were much closer than she thought, and she began to hear voices yelling out through the woods... How did she plan on handling this?
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Post by Willoria » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:43 pm

Ume was getting more than antsy, she was downright worried. She could hear the voices of her captors, and she still couldn't see Koyama. She knew what this meant, she had to start making a plan that didn't involve finding Koyama. Taking a deep breath, the girl dropped to the ground and skidded to a stop. 'Tell you one thing... if he's going to try for my shiin he's going to have to pry it from a corpse or try to find the pieces. I won't be taken alive.' Her and Koyama had discussed more than once what kind of tactics to employ in a situation where she was outmanned and out maneuvered.

Death was a better alternative to being eaten alive for an Akari.

Her hands moved into seals, charging the earth around her as she tapped her foot on it. Then she formed additional seals, ready to form the final seal when her targets would dare try to get close enough to her.
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*Doton • Landmine
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After performing the correct hand seals the user will tap their foot on the ground charging a 2 meter radius around their foot with explosive chakra. This is armed at a speed of 10. For the next three posts if anyone steps on that area it will explode with a force equal to a standard C-Rank explosion.
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*Kouton • Pellet Storm
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After performing the required hand seals, the user will expel a cloud of metallic pebbles in a cone reaching 10m from themselves and expanding to 5m wide at 5 speed. The pellets strike with 5 strength and have spiked edges for maximum damage.
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Post by TyDie » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:09 pm

It only took a minute or two for one of the men to break through the forest edge, take a look at Ume, and smirk before yelling out. 'FOUND HER!" A few seconds later, more and more men appeared, totaling about a dozen or so. Their blades were drawn and at the ready, and they were clearly not looking to take her alive this time. But they also weren't stupid; a ninja holding their ground? There must have been something else at play here... but what? "You know you're not getting out of this alive... Just come quietly, we'll make it quick I promise." The men began to close in on her, circling around her to make sure there was nowhere else to run... 15 meters, 10 meters...

And then a faint sound could be heard... Screaming? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Everyone froze as the yell built in volume, and suddenly one of them looked to the sky just in time to see 450 pounds of muscle crash into his ally, leaving a bloodstain on the ground where his body used to be. Their eyes looked up to the sky and found Ume's ward, Koyama, flapping his wings to hover while half their ally's corpse hanging off of his Phasmashiin, blood steadily dripping from the severed torso. His eyes appeared white with rage and steam flowed steady from his mouth. "Don't. Bother. Running." He chucked the body back at the men before diving in again, whipping the men into a frenzy as they tried to come up with a plan for this new menace.

Ume, on the other hand, was almost completely forgotten as a result of Koyama's explosive entrance. How would she use this to her advantage?
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Post by Willoria » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:29 pm

Ume grinned as Koyama dropped down on his enemies and soon went back up for what was probably another dive. "About time you big lug!" she yelled at him, that grin still plastered on her face. She finished her hand seals for her previous technique and fired on the group of men while Koyama was still in the air. She couldn't move, the earth around her still explosive, but she could at least attack from a distance. Her hands moved into another set of seals and moments later she was holding about six small shurikan in her left hand, throwing them one at a time towards her enemies, but there was something she had noticed at this point.

Kaska was still missing, so where the hell was he?
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*Kouton • Projectile Creation
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After performing the necessary hand seals, the user can create up to two projectiles out of metal. This includes kunai, senbon, shuriken, chakrams and other similar sized throwing weapons.
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Post by TyDie » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:37 pm

Koyama charged once more into the group of men, his Lacriishiin absorbing any stray blows aimed against him as he ripped into two more of the men with his gigantic Phasmashiin, tearing them to pieces and leaving gore along the ground. The only serious wound he received was a wing clip, so flight was no longer an option... That was fine, he wanted to rip them apart with his bare hands anyway. Letting out another raging yell, he cleaved yet another man from shoulder to hip, as more attacks bounced seamlessly off of his powerful armor. At this rate it wouldn't be long before they were all dead.

But even in his rage, he knew that that bastard who cast that genjutsu on the two of them would be back soon. "Ume, ears!" He called out to his ward, knowing full well that it was only a matter of time before he came back. If she started covering her ears now, or blocked them with some cloth or something, she'd be better off. He, on the other hand, was far too busy laying waste to these fucking bandits to take the time to do that. He'd deal with it somehow...

Ume's bolts of metal were more than enough to catch some attention from two men, who realized that she was a much less threatening target than Koyama was. Looking to each other and picking a bolt or two out of their flesh, they raised their weapons and charged... right into Ume's trap. The blast of earthen shrapnel and the explosive force were both far too much for those men to take, and even Ume was caught in the outer shockwave, taking no major damage but a few scrapes from stray rocks. In total, between the two of them, there were maybe 5 men left, and they were clearly shaken.

But a moment later, a whistle could be heard throughout the area...
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Post by Willoria » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:50 pm

As Koyama shouted to her, it dawned on Ume that she hadn't even thought about the fact that Kaska could use genjutsu. Quickly she tore pieces off her cloak and put small ones in her ears to stifle the sound, before taking a longer piece and tying it around her head. The cloth covered her ears and came up to her forehead so at least it wasn't covering her eyes or anything. It was as she finished tying it off that two of her enemies tried to run through her trap, and sent her flying back on her butt. She rolled, but came up to her feet and looked around wildly as she checked for any remaining enemies.

Thanks to her ward's quick thinking, she didn't hear the whistle, but she did notice a bandit wavering on his feet. She rushed over to Koyama and tore another piece of cloth off her cloak as she went. She jumped up with her wings, and pulled herself up on his shoulders to tie something around his ears as well in desperation.
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Post by TyDie » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:01 pm

Ume's quick thinking on plugging her ears was good enough to protect her from Kaska's genjutsu. Koyama, on the other hand, was not so lucky, as he heard enough of the whistle that he was caught before she could plug his ears. She sat on his shoulders, a weight that was hardly even noticed by him, while he began to wobble back and forth as sleep tried to force it's way on him. Kaska, the bastard, walked out from the bushes of the forest, still whistling to cast the genjutsu. His men had already dropped to the ground. His legs felt like limp noodles, his eyes fluttered, and his yells of rage had calmed to grunts. Clearly, he was about to pass out.

"No worries ward... I'll be sure to take from you as well. But first, that lovely Astrashiin will be mine." Kaska began to close in, but with a sudden burst of lucidity Koyama did the unthinkable. Raising his left arm out towards Kaska, he lifted his Phasmashiin and, with a yell, lopped his own arm off. The pain was immediate and incredible, blood gushed from the wound immediately, but the sudden exhaustion dissipated as quickly as it had come. "Over my DEAD BODY!!" Koyama then charged at the man, not bothering to see if Ume could hold on or not; he saw red, and all he wanted was to take that stupid smug grin of Kaska's and slam it into a rock.

The look on Kaska's face was priceless... pure terror.
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Post by Willoria » Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:52 pm

As Koyama began to wobble, Ume placed her hands on his shoulders again and pushed herself off. She knew once he started to go there would be no helping him and her energy would have to be spent elsewhere. As if on cue, Kaska came out of the treeline and finally revealed himself. Ume's eyes narrowed as she glared at the man. "I"ll blow myself to hell before you ever get a taste of it!" she snapped at him, her eyes going wide in shock as she noticed what Koyama was doing. Ume's breath quickened in a kind of panic at his actions and she realized how far Koyama was willing to go to protect her.

'No... he can't do this...' She whipped her cloak off and in a strange move she grabbed the arm Koyama had lopped off and wrapped it in her cloak before setting it aside. 'Maybe we can get someone with Iijutsu to help him when we get back...' she told herself.
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Post by TyDie » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:40 pm

Kaska tried desperately to avoid the raging charge of Koyama, but Koyama was beyond stopping and his speed outmatched Kaska. The Akari traitor drew a Kunai in a vain attempt to slash at the mans' Lacrishiin, while Koyama reached out with his one good arm and grabbed him by the arm. He then proceeded to swing him around by his arm like a ragdoll, slamming him into the ground over and over again, yelling with ferocity the whole time before finally throwing him towards a tree. The bastard hit the tree, cracking the trunk and his back all at once as terror crossed his face. He was trapped, with nothing but a simple Kunai held between him and this beast of a man. He held it out, point towards Koyama, in some sort of threat... as if Koyama was rational at this point.

Blood still gushing from his amputated arm, the mountain of an Akari let out a raging yell before running body first at the man, lunging towards him with a thunderous leap before tackling him through the tree itself. The stump shattered before his might, as did Kaska, and the two went through the tree to land on the ground behind it. After a few moments of laying on the ground over this crushed, battered and beaten man, Koyama let out a small sigh before standing up and turning to Ume. "Alright... fucker's dead. Now let's..." The man paused for a moment, stunned by the sudden drop in his adrenaline and the pain that coursed through him... especially in his chest.

His chest? that couldn't be right, he didn't sustain any wounds to his... The Kunai.

Looking down, he saw the large hole in his chest, blood pouring from the wound that had sunken through his Lacrishiin deep through his chest. Kaska wasn't strong enough to puncture his armor, but in his blind rage Koyama had broken the armor himself by charging body first into the man's outstretched Kunai. As soon as he realized what was going on, a faint spell hit him and he dropped to his knees. Suddenly he coughed, a glob of blood coming from his mouth and more dripping down his chin. Shit... was this it?
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Post by Willoria » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:00 pm

Ume had learned a long time ago just how violent a man Koyama was, and she had next to no problem with it. She watched Kaska's horrible death at the hands of her Guardian with a grin on her face, and kept an eye out in case any more of his men came up. She knew Koyama was in a blood rage of his own, so intent on the man's death he might not have noticed if someone else approached. Though on the flip side of the same coin, she knew better than to try and stop him or touch him when he was like this or he might strike her in his blind rage. She waited, she watched, and when he finally turned to Ume she was still smiling. She was still worried about his arm of course, but also knew if they hurried back it could probably be reattached in time. But as he spoke and his words faltered, she noticed something far more concerning.

The girl swallowed hard as he dropped to his knees but rushed in beside him, already forming hand seals. As he knelt she put one hand, glowing green, on his chest and focused on what she saw. "Lie back, I can't help you on your knees, Koyama." she stated, her voice shaking as she gained information from her jutsu. She knew immediately this wasn't something she could fix. One of his lungs had been more than just punctured, the kunai had practically shredded it. Going through what she knew of Iijutsu she started making a mental list. 'Chakra stitching... oxygen flow... numbing... skin regeneration...' First she started channeling jutsu to numb him and put both hands over the wound. "Focus on me, Koyama." she told him, not even realizing tears were already spilling down her cheeks. She might have been doing all she could do, but clearly she knew none of it would be enough. 'I have to try...'
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*[Iijutsu • Medical Diagnosis Technique]
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Prerequisite: 5 Iijutsu
Perhaps one of the most important Iijutsu techniques to date, the *[Iijutsu • Medical Diagnosis Technique] allows its users to probe another's body in search for medical answers. After focusing chakra into his/her hands, the user will begin to channel it into the patient's body. Using this chakra as an internal extension of his/her hand to feel for abnormalities and other issues, the user is often able to determine the problem after some time and concentration. In order for a thorough examination to provide sufficient answers, the user will focus for up to one (1) post, seeking signs of internal and external damage, organ malfunction and disease among other ailments. Although skilled medical-nin have the possibility to work faster, skill cannot be substituted in for thoroughness.

*[Iijutsu • Numbing]
C-Ranked Ninjutsu
This field-oriented technique is used in place of typical anesthetics when they're not at hand. After focusing chakra into the hands, the user will place them over a group of muscles. As the chakra is channeled through the chosen area, numbness will begin to creep throughout it, beginning with the flesh before seeping into the muscle below. Small areas of numbness require very little time, while medium-sized areas (equivalent to half a limb) require one (1) post to numb, and anything larger than an entire limb requires two (2) posts of concentration to numb. This numbing begins where the user has placed his/her hands and spreads outward until the hands are removed. The numbness can only cause pain equivalent to being stabbed with a kunai to be nullified. Once numbed, the effects last for four (4) posts before fading.
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Post by TyDie » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:09 pm

Koyama was already choking on blood, coughing over and over as drops sprayed the ground. Still, he laid back as Ume came to him, and tilted his head towards the side so as not to drown in his own blood. He didn't even know she knew Iijutsu, but judging by what little she was able to do thus far, he wasn't expecting a miracle. He wasn't a medic, but he knew a fatal wound when he saw one... there was little hope of surviving this. "Ume... Don't..." The man coughed some more as he tried to choke words out. There was no sense wasting her chakra...

"I need you... To live." He managed to get more words out before letting out a particularly heavy cough, painting the ground next to his head red. The numbness helped with his pain at least, he wasn't crippled with it anymore... But that didn't change the fact that he was practically already dead. In fact, he was probably only alive because of how much of a tough bastard he was, a normal man would've died instantly. "I don't know... How long I have girl. Take it... Take my Shiin." She should know exactly which one he was referring to... his birth shiin, the red bladed shiin from his right arm.
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Post by Willoria » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:23 pm

Seeing the amount of blood he was coughing up, she helped Koyama to his side to keep him from suffocating on it, but continued her work. Even as she heard him trying to stop her, she worked. When she finished the numbing jutsu she started going through what she knew in her own head to try and sort what to do next, and then he said something she didn't want to hear. She shook her head vehemently. "No... it wouldn't be unique anymore with me, Koyama, its yours and I'm not taking it from you. You have to... you can..." Tears ran down her face all the more as she looked down and realized the amount of blood covering her hands, the blood pooling beneath him.

For a moment she just stared at him as reality hit her. "This is my fault..." she whispered, closing her eyes briefly. "I was distracted and because of it you...." She shook her head and took a deep breath. 'He had to save me... and now he's dying for it... and I can't save him. I'm not strong enough, and I don't know enough, to save him...' She opened her eyes again and looked at her guardian, suddenly shifting to face him entirely. She might've tried to pull him back up to a seated position but she knew the man was too heavy.

She put her hands on either side of his face and leaned forward, nose to nose with him. "I'm so sorry..." she whispered, her mind going over near every moment she'd ever spent with the man even as she leaned in and kissed him deeply. She didn't care about the blood, the presence nor taste of it, as an Akari it wasn't an unfamiliar thing. But still she was determined not to take his shiin, until she heard something.

"Holy hell what happened to the boss??"

Past Koyama's body the two men who came on the scene hadn't seen Ume yet, and she felt an unfamiliar rage building within her.
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Post by TyDie » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:16 am

Of all the things Koyama wanted Ume to be doing, feeling sorry was definitely not one of them "Damn it Ume... We don't have-

And of all the things he could think of that could have interrupted him, her kiss was definitely not one of them. Still, he smiled and kissed her back, stifling the urge to cough as she leaned into him. He wasn't able to hold it for long however, before he pulled away and coughed up yet another glob of blood. "Heh... Of all the times..." He shook his head, coughing with his mouth closed to hold back the spray of blood so he could instead spit it out to the side. "We don't have... much time. I'm still a warrior... You'll give me a warrior's death... And you'll take my shiin. That way... I'll always... be your ward."

He reached with his giant hand and wrapped his fingers around her wrist, directing her hand towards the wound in his chest. "While i'm numbed... Take it. Now. And use it... to kill those fuckers..." He chuckled under his shaky breath, then directed his attention towards the poor bastards who had happened upon the grisly scene. He wanted to watch them bleed, and he wanted to watch her be the one to do it... He wanted to know that she could protect herself... before he went.
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Post by Willoria » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:49 am

Despite the situation Ume couldn't help a small smile at Koyama's complaint. "Any other time and you would have stopped me." she reminded him, shaking her head. "...stubborn bastard..." Her hands remained on either side of his face as he continued about his shiin and she couldn't help closing her eyes a moment again. The last thing she wanted to do was take his shiin. Certainly he was already dying, but she knew that would be the end of it. Even as he moved her hand and she opened her eyes once more she found she didn't want to do it at all. '...he's right though.' she hated the thought and even looked forward to kiss him again. But this time as her lips touched his, her fingers sunk into the wound. By time she brought the kiss to an end, she could feel her hand around the Phasmashiin that was so dear to him, and had been the exact reason he was chosen to guard her.

She didn't have to give it much of a yank, and could hear the two bandits talking as they had finally noticed her. Neither had moved towards them, watching in horror as this woman pulled a bright red organ out of her companion and brought it to her lips to consume. Her shiin were still manifested from before and she stood, her eyes going to the two men as she felt the change take effect. Along the bottom edge of her wings formed a brilliant red serrated edge that a moment later took on the same blue hue as the rest of her shiin and she stepped around Koyama.

Blood coated her lips, her chin, her hands and up to her elbow on one arm. The men seemed so horrified by her visage they froze in place, and a moment later she pushed herself forward between them and spun. Her wings knocked one to the ground and with her new serrated edge she sliced straight through the other. Her spin continued as the first tried to stand but with a scream he was rendered helpless. Her back to him Ume dropped to a knee and her wings came down hard, cutting through the man at his belly and his knees all at once. She did it all without a word, turning to return to Koyama as blood now too soaked her wings.
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Winged Assault
C-Ranked Maneuver Taijutsu
Type: Eroshiin
Requirement: Wing Flap
In this Maneuver the user spins at the target with their Eroshiin wings out, aiming to assail them with strikes from the wings and cause injury to said target.
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One for Another

Post by TyDie » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:43 pm

He could only laugh as she mentioned him stopping her any other time, which was absolutely true. As her ward, he could never afford to let himself get so attached to her. He was a bodyguard, not a lover... but that didn't mean he didn't care for her. He practically adopted her after her father went berserk, lived together with her to ensure her safety. He even cautioned her against her relationship with Tatsuo, not because he wanted her to be unhappy but because he wanted to protect her. And now, he had protected her for the last time... in life, anyways. As she kissed him, he grunted and shifted with pain as she reached within him and took hold of his shiin. Even with the numbing, the pain was intense, but he focused and powered through it. He was a warrior; he would not balk now.

She removed the shiin from him, and oddly he didn't feel as empty without it as he thought he would. Because he knew who it was going to, and he knew that she would make great use of it in his name. In fact, she was already doing so; the shiin manifested along the edge of her wings, serrated blades capable of shredding through flesh with ease. And in true form, she utilized them to rip those bastards to pieces, bringing a big goofy smile to Koyama's face as he watched their gore spill across the dirt. "Good... Now i'll always... Protect you. Come here." Once she came to him, he'd reach up with a single hand and grip her hand in his own massive hand.

"Do not... Be sorry Ume. Be better. Be stronger. Be... Happy..." His hand fell limp, his eyes glazed over, and one last breath of air escaped his lungs. With that, his pain was gone...
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One for Another

Post by Willoria » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:54 pm

Ume's shiin seemed to slowly dismiss themselves as she walked over to Koyama, kneeling beside him. She took his hand with both of hers and held it against her, turning her head to rest her cheek against it as he spoke for the last time. She swallowed hard, tears spilling from her eyes as she felt his grip loosen and she let his hand drop. She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. After a couple of attempts she shifted herself and pulled his head into her lap, leaning forward as she held him and finally began to cry on his chest. She let the tears spill, not caring about the blood, about the scene, or how it all looked. She simply held him and cried, realizing a horrifying fact.

'I'm alone.'

Before they had left on this mission she had cheated on her boyfriend with one of his best friends by kissing him. She had struggled with feelings for both boys, but committed herself to her boyfriend. She had given him everything she could but still couldn't find a way to bridge the chasm she felt like still existed between them. She felt like trash who didn't deserve to live, and she had lost the boy she had kissed too, even as a friend. Koyama had been her sanity, the one person she knew she could trust in it all and knew that no matter his thoughts on the issue that he would stay at her side.

Until this very moment, she hadn't even realized that in a way she loved him, perhaps not romantically, but he had meant far more to her than a simple bodyguard. Now he was gone, and in her gut she felt like she had nothing to return to.
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