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Post by Das Kirb » Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:14 pm

The sky was ablaze in vibrant tones of reds and yellows. The near mountains cast shadows through the vally to dance in the lingerly light. Chill was the air that greeted the coming night as the birdsong faded for the evening's rest. Upon the banks of a babbling creek insects found their drink as the fish found their meal. It was turning out to be a lovely, if very cold, night to come. One greeted by the tainted woman who lay upon the stones at water's edge.

Katsu watched the fish as they leapt for their meal. Crimson and jade orbs tracked their movements as a wicked blade coiled to strike. A particularly large creature was chosen to be the dusk meal, and she waited for it to come ever so much closer. With an idle hand gathering beetles to be tossed as lure, another supporting her body upon the elbow, and legs to the side she looked as a statue if not for the occasional flick. In time the wiskered fish began to surface though, it's body as large as her core. When it was just cresting the surface to snap at a locust she snapped back. The dagger impaling the monster through it's head. And after an hour of patience only a few seconds rewarded her with good eats.

Quite satisfied with herself Katsu gathered some nearby tinder and began making a fire. Lacking the skills for ninjutsu, it took some time to coax an ember to life, and then gentle feeding to build the blaze. However it was worth it. The fire burned with welcomed warmth and the coal bed formed quickly. Pieaces of the fish were torn off to smaller strips, skewered, and left to cook upon the heat. However, the beastial woman didn't wait for her entire meal. Instead digging fang into a hunk of bleeding flesh and savoring the juicy feed. At this moment, despite herself, she was content and happy. . . and blissfully ignorant of her surroundings.

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Post by Kanade » Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:57 pm

Kanade stumbled through the brambles, spitting out a leaf, making enough noise to let everything know she was there. "Now that's not where I left the damned anchor, who in all the Five Kage moved it?" She caught herself and said, "Four Kage. Who in all the Four Kage moved it?" She looked at the woman that was in the middle of a bite into a fresh fish. She ran a hand through her hair, which had fiery twigs alight because of her magmatic hair, grabbing them she tossed them on the ground, grinding them in the soft dirt with her boot heel.

"Must've been you then?" She tilted her head, "Strange, this is supposed to be an unpopulated area." Her bioluminescent burning orange eyes bored into the girl at the fire, motes of what could have been white sparks surrounded the woman, but upon closer inspection they were pearlescent butterflies, no bigger than a fingernail in size, which flitted lazily about her, not sensing any danger from the bestial woman at the fire.

"So what brings you to this part of the unexplored wilds?" She asked, pretending to have more bravado than she actually had. Her senses were on high alert for others that could be in the area. Her tension could be seen in the thin traces of tendon along her jawline, in the stance that seemed relaxed that she had learned from Shinjiro, all her weight on her back foot, ready to move forward, or backward. It could also be seen in the short, measured breaths to control her heart-rate. No one was supposed to be here.
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Post by Das Kirb » Mon Sep 30, 2024 6:18 pm

Slight annowed, Katsu looked up while still greedily bitting into the fish between her jaws. The sight caused some disturbance in her though. The fiery display almost caused a low growl to emenate dispite the obstruction in her mouth. Old fears coming to fruition but squelched readily. The unfortunately, the fire took up her nostrils with it's smoke, rendering her most favored sensory input moot. However, the woman seem flustered, powerful, and entirely unthreatening. Since Katsu already had a meal, there were other ways of handling this situation besides fight or flight.

"It is. Only monsters and beasts here. And the dead if that counts." the primal woman said before swallowing her food. "Judging from the look, which are you? Beast or monster cause you damned sure aint dead. Judging from the look, I'd guess an azure though the spirits being open to freely roam here is news. Either that or you're a shaman. Last guess would be shinobi. In any case, plop a squat and help yourself." The primal woman gestured at the fish sizzling over the fire before going in for another bite raw.

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Post by Kanade » Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:23 pm

"Looks can be deceiving." Kanade shrugged, it was an easy movement, like she was saying that the sky was full of stars, or that her daughter's name was Atsuko. It was as plain as day to her, though perhaps she was doing a better job at hiding the moster inside. Her core ached when mention of the dead came up. "But I would choose, if Dead isn't an option, a monster." She blinked and then chuckled, "I used to be a priestess, then I fell, and became a monster. I tried my hand at creating life, then took a life to save others. And now I am dead but not dead, a monster but human, and a lover of monsters, and the king of beasts." Kanade looked at the girl and then asked, "So I am assuming that you are one of the aforementioned." She looked at the hands, the feet of the girl and then, 'plopped a squat' as it were to join her.

"Thank you for the piece of your fire." She said, "So tell me a little about yourself, since it's only polite, and I don't usually share a fire in the wilderness without first knowing a bit about my-" She hesitated and shrugged, "Hostess." She looked around and motioned to some of the white flecks that surrounded her, almost like a nimbus that sped off like sparks from a firework and picked up a branch, snapping it easily in two with their strength and added it, gently, to the already stoked flames before settling on her shoulders.
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Post by Das Kirb » Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:37 pm

"Dead"

As if to emphasize the point she used the wicked blade at the end of her tail to gesture to her entire body.

"Or I was. No fucking clue what I am at the moment. Been called monster, beast, that fucking whore who needs to cover herself. Many things, really. That being said." Katsu crossed her legs and began tearing the first appart a bit more to sizzle on the fire. "Low be it for me to assume but imagine being a king implies something tween your legs. Either you don't give a fuck about that, which is fair, or you can grow one. And to be a king of something implies power and control. Having been a monster I broke that chain, but it came from someone else. And I damn sure don't wear one now. So enlighten me, your majesty. Why the title?"

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Post by Kanade » Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:47 pm

"Oh it's not my title." Kanade laughed, her belly rumbling with it. it felt good to be full with supper from home, not ten minutes ago, and to laugh. "It's my lover's title. I would call him my husband, but he never wanted to settle down. He's off fighting someone somewhere probably." She raised an eyebrow and looked at the sky, keeping the other in her gaze as she did it. Once bitten twice shy they say. "As for why he has the title, it's because he's the Jinchuuriki with that particular Genma in him." She shrugged, "Everyone knows it, so why hide it."

She looked back down, meeting the gaze of the woman at the fire, "And I live across from a brothel, where I cook for them every Thursday, and they come over to play cards in my restaurant on Saturdays." She smiled, an easy smile playing across white teeth in a dark, scarred but still beautiful, angled face. "As for what's between my legs, I gave birth to my daughter not too long ago, you can't do that if you don't have the right hardware."

There was something familiar in the rough ways of the girl, she had been harassed by thousands of questions from Hanako, laughed at dirty jokes from whores, bandied words with Sailors who were ferrying her across the sea, and had loved too many men and seen too many die to be a shrinking violet. It was comfortable, and so she might as well be as uncouth as the other, sitting across from her.
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Post by Das Kirb » Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:56 pm

The information caught in her throat. Bedded by the king of beasts, a jinch. . . . She fucking hoped this wasn't who Katsu was thinking about. If so then the new cage of her god had just showed up out of the fucking blue in the form of his fucking side chick. That. . . complicated things to a degree that made shit entirely too discomforting. Granted, it did bring a thought.

"Fair enough. Was hoping to find another who could grow and sling a dick bigger than any man's one a whim. Funny to fuck with them from time to time. Though, gotta ask. A jinch who's title is the king of beasts. Wonder if the name Shinji or Vorashu mean anything to ya. If so then I know exactly who you're talking about."

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Post by Kanade » Mon Sep 30, 2024 8:01 pm

"That's who I was talking about." Kanade saw the recognition in the woman's eyes and smiled with satisfaction. So his terror reached even this far, "So what have you heard about Shinjiro?" She wondered whether or not this would be a kind meeting after all. Announcing Shinjiro was a good way to either make fast friends, or faster enemies. The butterflies still flit here and there, though they had mostly settled on the tree behind her, amongst the branches over her head, and on Kanade's shoulders and her legs.

"As for 'growing and slinging a dick bigger than any man's'," She shrugged, "Those days are dead and gone, behind me. I am a good little soldier now. I don't deal with that sort of thing anymore." She tilted her head and wondered what Maido would have thought of it, or Kirari. The past clouded her vision for a moment before her incandescent orange eyes settled on the woman across the fire from her.
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Post by Das Kirb » Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:34 pm

The confirmation was met and as if a serpent coiling Katsu got a small but sick grin. A sickly crimson light emenated as emotions ran high with no attempt to check them. Anger manifest in a growl, but the prospects of excitement came forward as well. At this news, Katsu readily allowed herself to shift and ebb, flesh rippling across her frame. Tightening here, firming there. The sickly pale image of the dead faded as slowly the titan reclaimed herself, even temporarily.

"Karagata, Shinjiro. Host to Vorashu, the Katagenma. A god of change and adaptation. A god of life. The host is a skilled hunter, more skilled killer. A blade to shut down the immortals and his body a belt of many tools. His skills span the gambit from weapons combat to minor illusions. His ninjutsu is limited but potent. Vorashu typically makes the magics difficult. He didn't get struck as hard. A man of many faces, slayer of many foes. Including the Unbound Titan. . ."

Katsu let her eyes meet Kanade's straight on. Even if it was a facade as she was, she allowed every ounce of who she once was, the primordial monster, to seep throughout her frame and into that challenging gaze. She allowed the parasite's venom to seep into her next words to emphasize the point.

"Might need to ignore that last part. I'm a bit harder to kill than that."
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Post by Kanade » Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:17 am

"Hmm, God." She thought about the word, tasting it, rolling it around in her head and then shook it in a negative, "I wouldn't call him a god. He has a lot of power, but there are people that even he fears. Or at least, feared." She amended, "As for who the unbound titan is-" She looked the waif up and down and shook her head again, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I have heard of you." She was testing the waters, her butterflies humming now, rather than relaxed they were getting ready for a fight. They could sense the pheromones in the air, Kanade was ready for an attack from the woman, and had underestimated people too many times to think of this woman as anything but a threat.

She also, apparently, had been killed by Shinjiro before, and that boded ill for their prospects of being friends. Still, Kanade wasn't one to kill someone over something as simple as that. Scare them? Perhaps. Immobilize them temporarily? Absolutely. She thought through her vast arsenal for something to stop the girl from approaching her if she did spring. She could see the rippling of muscles, and regarded each movement, looking for the slightest hint of a warning that she was going to spring at Kanade.
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S-Rank Discipline Taijutsu
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Possessing immense battle sense and perception, Kanade is aware of even the most subtle details around her, to a point where she can even pick up on the slightest tension changes in an opponent’s body. This allows her to predict their movement before it is complete by tracking an amount of movements equal to her [Speed]/2.
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Post by Das Kirb » Tue Oct 01, 2024 7:44 pm

"It's good that you haven't."

The venom dripping from each word as barely constrained hatred and anger threatened to overwhelm her was acidic. The instinct to strike out now was threatening to take hold of better logic. The beast coiled the wicked blade behind her as if to lash out in that instant. However, growling became a dull hiss of agitation over the course of a few minutes. Several seconds after that the titan quelled herself. It was an uneasy process but necissary. This wasn't Shinji, it was just someone who bore his seed. And even then, all that'd happen is she'd die again. No, there were other things to gain, the plan had been malformed, but lashing out now would only make that impossible.

Artemisu, Katsu.

As the final sound came she had reclaimed herself, easing the tension in her shoulders and tail. The deadly blade whipped in the air behind her briefly as the last agitation was dispelled with effort. Eventually, she laid it before her in open sight at rest.

"It's good you didn't know me. I was the origional host for Vorashu. The bloodless cowards stole him from me and trapped him inside your lover boy. That was the first time I'd died. You can understand the wounds that piss me off."

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Post by Kanade » Tue Oct 29, 2024 7:49 pm

"Ah, another Vorashu hostess?" Kanade asked, tilting her head, "Shinjiro never spoke of you. It's a pleasure. I know of many of the current Jinchuuriki." She thought for a moment before asking, "You know, I saw an extraction being done," She lied, since she was an active part of the extraction team that killed the girl once the spirit was rampaging, "And it killed the subject, almost like she deflated and the genma left her body marred and unusable by the original host. How did you manage to make it out alive from the ordeal?" She asked, "Your natural regenerative powers must have saved you?" Kanade guessed.

"Either that, or perhaps you have a technique in the village hidden in the mist that I haven't been made privvy to that allows for people to come back from the dead, or mostly dead at least?" She guessed, giving Hatsu a look, trying to gauge which was the reason for her partner who had made the fire's presence there, rather than in the land of the dead.
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Post by Das Kirb » Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:46 pm

"Nope." Katsu said truthfully. "I died just like all the rest for a bit. Hurts like hell and where you go is empty. But Vorashu left something behind and I guess that saved me. Saved me again when Shinjiro and Yoru killed me for the second time." Katsu waved her tail over her entire body, stopping at specifically gnarly scars to point them out. "I've been turned into a pin cushion, ripped apart, burned, electrocuted, obliderated, had a sword shoved through my cunt and out my mouth, disembowled, and many many more things. Keep coming back. Like I said, I'm hard to kill. Shit, half of that I do to myself. Just like Vorashu I adapt." once again said in a matter of fact tone.

"All that being said. We share a man in common it seems. Granted for different reasons. So we can either sit here, compair stories of our various naughty outtings with him, or dig up dirt to fuck with him, or whatever accademy grade bullshit you like. Or could ignore the prick for a minute and talk about something else. Or you could kill me and I you. Dealer's choice really. But unless you're also immortal, that last one isn't really a good idea."

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Post by Kanade » Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:01 pm

"I haven't stress tested the immortality button lately." Kanade said, uncertain whether or not it would be something that she held onto, or whether she would wither with her new body and die like the rest of the cut-flower people that were born into this world just to die. She hadn't accomplished anything in particular, and she felt as though she would probably never achieve anything noteworthy. It was as if her flame were something that lit the darkness for a time, but as soon as it was snuffed out the darkness would be there, consuming all the space she lit as if she weren't even there. The only permanent mark she had left on the world was her daughter.

"As for talking about Shinjiro, I don't know that there's much to talk about. You seem to know a very different Shinjiro than I do." She said, as if it were the most true thing in the world, as if she were stating that water made things wet, and that the next minute would inexorably come after the previous one. She had met the man that this woman was talking about, had offered herself to him as payment for saving her life from the puppet master that hurled lava bolts at her and rained death in the area. She wondered, for a brief moment what had happened to that man. Her attention moved back to the woman in front of her.

She moved to sit by the fire and poured some chakra into a sake bottle that she produced from the void through a portal, poured herself a glass and downed it, before pouring the stranger a cup and offering it to her, "I collect stories about people as much as materials. I was out for a stroll and trying to find some materials for my latest project, and found- well- you." She pointed the bottle at the woman across from her named Katsu, "So Katsu, you still haven't said why you're out here in the wilds, far from civilization, instead of-" Kanade looked around and shrugged, "Literally anywhere else. I would think that you would find this boring, given your life and propensity for-" She stopped, hesitated, shrugged and decided to go for it, "Excitement."
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Iwagakure Jounin: Kanade Enkouten
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