[Graded][Plotboard] Noble Warfare

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Post by Fake » Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:42 pm

Truth be told, Yato absolutely detested nobles--in his eyes, they were the authors of wicked, man-made laws that corrupted the people of the world. His gut instinct upon meeting one, he thought, would be to go immediately at their throat.

And yet, he found himself in front of one--not with his hands crudely rearranging their organs, but instead, he stood bowing to a noble in the most uncharacteristic manner possible. He and Hisato had taken on a contract that involved rival nobles, and although Yato's personal values completely went against such an act, it seemed that there was a price for everything--including one that bypassed Yato's integrity. The contract held prospects of heaping sums of money, which would translate to resources. He hated it, but at the end of the day, things he hated would have to be done in order to fulfill his plans. Everything was a stepping stone, and this was no exception.

"So we're clear then, Yato of the Leaf?" The noble raised an eyebrow at Yato, who had been bowing for an awkwardly long amount of time. However, the truth was he was only doing so because he was hiding his expression of disgust for the noble by dipping his face towards the ground. Gritting his teeth, Yato stood up with a smile. "Yes, Lord Koyozu-sama..." As he spoke, his words were restrained and careful; one who didn't know Yato would assume this was out of courtesy, but in reality, he was just holding back curses. "And you're sure you can do it with just you two?" Yato would simply nod in response before turning and walking away.

He and Hisato were posing as shinobi of the Leaf on a travelling excursion, which was the only means by which they would have been able to obtain the contract in the first place. Koyozu was a keen noble who focused primarily on controlling trade in his domain, and the contract entailed assassinating a rival noble in the area who was impeding on Koyozu's economic expansion. It was a simple contract, but difficult in its own right; the exorbitant payoff, however, suggested that it wouldn't be as easy as it sounded. While Koyozu himself did not have many retainers that seemed to be combat-privy, that didn't mean the other noble wouldn't.

Yato walked out of the noble's palace room groaning and stretching his arms out above his head. As he yawned, he turned over to Hisato. "So... Got any plan in mind? I was thinking we just take the place by a storm. Or maybe..." He took a single finger and clicked it against the fake Konoha-engraved protector around his neck while smirking. "We can just pretend to be your friendly neighborhood Konoha shinobi." He cackled as the two would leave the noble's building and be out in an open forested area. It was just beginning to hit night time, and the weather was moderate; no clouds inhibited the large yellow moon from illuminating the forest.

Turning to Hisato once more, he whistled cheerfully. "I don't suppose you could use those beetles of yours to scout out a safe path for us? I'd assume that there might be guards or traps along the way."
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Post by Zao » Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:10 am

Hisato had to hold back the urge to want to laugh at his comrade throughout the brief visit with this nobleman who it turned out wasn't so noble after all, but like Yato the former Konoha-nin didn't believe that any of these so called nobles were better then the criminals that he had been confined with during his time of imprisonment. But during the chat he had completely zipped up his jack to the point that even his nose was concealed behind the high collar and the forehead protector concealed the scars upon his forward and even held his normally messy looking hair in place for once. "Heh, by storm. Well my swarm is a bit hungry but perhaps you're right. It would be more fun to slander the village's name at the same time." The man reached up unzipping the collar back down to about his chest now as a cigarette had somehow already found itself within the man's mouth that was almost concealed by the beard upon his face now.

As the night slowly consumed the sky and darkness fell upon the two shinobi, the man smiled lightly as he spoke aloud now, "Darkness suits them well, disperse my friends and search ahead." The words were partially for his bugs and partially for his current ally whom he walked side by side with keeping both hands within the confines of the jacket pockets for a moment. With just the simple task a cloud of dark beetles droned from their black container as about twenty synch worth appeared first forming a cloud of darkness above the duo as they walked along. Then a moment later they dispersed from one another and shot forward at speeds that even Hisato had trouble following and with the night as cover and them not being in a large group it would be difficult for even a shinobi to notice them.

With a little hundred half his swarm out and about searching for anything that might lay in front of him the man held an unlit cigarette between his lips, as much as he wished to light it the man held back his cravings for the moment as it was night time and the orange glow that wouldn't have been noticeable in the day time stood out like a sour thumb at night. "That guy was even willing to hire shinobi for this..." Hisato pondered out loud for a second pausing between his words while shifting the unlit cancer stick to the opposite side of his mouth now before continuing. "...perhaps my bugs will be able to have the delicacy of the chakra enhanced meat of shinobi tonight. They like that the best, you know?" His mouth curled into a smirk as they continued to walk as he shot a glance to the side at Yato as he finished now.

The darkness was the man's favorite time of day, it allowed for someone like himself who preferred to linger in the shadows and allow for the powerful swarm under his control to do the majority of the heavy lifting, after all their was a reason that he put so much blood and sweat into training the insects. His gaze shifted down into the earthen color container in which he had placed the hornet queen within already after binding her loyalty with his chakra, he could since that she was already hard at work attempting to rebuild her hive from within. Though it would be sometime before her and the Suzumebachi Swarm would actually be of any real use to him sadly, but all good things come in time, and he would still need to slowly train them just as he had done with the guardian beetles in his combat style. But his eyes bright blue eyes seemed to almost glow as he removed them from his face at the prospect of using both swarms at their max strength in combat.
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Basic Movement - Dispersion
D-Ranked Maneuver
Requirements: A Swarm and 5 Instinct
Upon the command 'dispersion' the swarm(s) will begin to spread out from their normal grouped up appearance in the swarm allowing the user better vantage of the battlefield and increase the coverage of the field with the insects by decreasing the height covered by the swarm and increasing the ground area covered. This also allows the user to set up a variety of follow on actions.
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Tsukino Hisato - Kiri Chuunin - Seven Swordsman Dagger

Saisuko Zao - Suna Bannin - Spirit Weapon Saint

Kyōhō Ken - The White Snake Sage - S Rank Assassin/Bounty Hunter

Aburame Hisato S-rank Mn / Inactive

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Arashiyama Ning - Kumo Chuunin - Weilder of the Ghost Spear

Yami Kasai - Mizukage - The Black Reaper - DEAD

Genso - Elemental Crafting Shaman - A Rank Monk - Inactive

Aburame Akiro - Konoha Jounin - ANBU Member - Inactive

Hyōryū -- Suna S-Rank / Dead / Used as Inheritance.

Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Sato - A Rank, "The Cleaving Swordsman " / Inactive

Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

Arashiyama, Toushi - Kumo Bannin / Dead

Hitachiai - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Ji Ning - Iwa Genin / Inactive

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Post by Fake » Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:03 pm

"Guess it would be, huh?" Yato shrugged in response to Hisato's declaration about slandering Konoha, chuckling all the while.

Hisato's smoking habit was one that Yato had taken into consideration, and he sneered at the man shifting around the unlit cancer stick around his lips. "Tempting, aint it?" he taunted. "That nicotine's got shackles on you, Hisato-kun." He cackled with a hand covering his mouth, as he watched the tiny beetles scatter off like specks of dust. The two continued to walk and Yato tilted his head, as the hand over his mouth shifted back into his pockets. He too, wondered whether or not they would have to deal with shinobi. Most of the time there were usually samurai that tried to apprehend him when it came to nobles, but his gut instincts told him to think otherwise.

"Mm. Koyozu 'sama' didn't tell us too many details, did he? The contract is an expensive one; I'm willing to bet more than not that your bugs will get their fill..." His intonation when he spoke of the nobles name was exasperatingly sarcastic. "At any rate, if we don't get paid enough, we can just..." Pulling his hand out of his pocket, Yato made a quick motion towards Hisato, with his thumb across his throat, smiling all the while.

"We'll get what we need. And even better, we'll get what we want." Cackling as he stuffed his hand back into his pockets, he stared on into the darkness of the forest with a blank gaze; although he couldn't see anything further than a few feet ahead, he was more than confident that he would be able to deal with any issues that would arise. His lax posture and slow pace would indicate this sentiment, more than anything.

Yato turned to Hisato and cocked his head at the man staring intently at the large hornet he carried around with him. Although he was unable to comprehend why Hisato was so obsessive, he knew that he himself had vices that shackled him in the same way--lately he had delved into the idea of immortality, something that was a prior obsession of his in his younger days. "Any leads yet? Those beetles are quick as hell." His eyes darted up to the moon, which was for some reason much larger than usual. It shined onto his eyes in a way that made the purple irises glimmer like water in the sun. It was hypnotizing, really.

"Ah..."

Yato's movements would halt suddenly. He stared down at his legs, which were bound by vines that protruded from the dirt beneath their feet. "Guess your question's answered." He jerked and tugged at his legs, but they would not budge. Of course, Hisato wouldn't be able to see the vines, and to the man Yato would seem like he was playing around--the white-haired nukenin was trapped in an Illusion of Force Genjutsu, with the caster nowhere to be found. "Hmm..." Two hands lifted off of his shoulders and easily ripped the vines off as if they were tangible, freeing Yato from the bindings. He stumbled forward as that happened, staring around into the darkness that surrounded them.
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Post by Zao » Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:26 am

Hisato could only nod in approval as the man made the motion with his hand about how they would deal with the other man up on returning from this 'mission' of theirs as Leaf shinobi. "They should be returning soon, I had them scout out the next mile or so." The slightly older man of the two didn't both to look over towards Yato as he spoke in return to the question if his bugs had managed to discover anything ahead of them at the moment. While they were abnormally fast he had tasked the large portion of bugs to scout out a fairly large piece of the dark forest in front of them and they still needed a bit of time to do so and return with their results. Both hands remained in his jacket pockets for the moment as he spoke with the still unlit cigarette within his lips as he could taste the tobacco within the paper wrapping. But he was to discipline to actually light it up at a time like this. "Hmm?"

Suddenly he was brought out of the thought of lighting up the cancer stick when the soft foot steps of his comrade stopped and an 'ah' sound had managed to escape the man's lips. Casually he look over his shoulder, having stopped for a second in order to turn his body a quarter of the way around in order to see what the man was doing. With his sunglasses pushed up into his messy hair the bright blue eyes that were revealed took in the situation as it seemed he was stuck? A light sigh pushed through his lips as he looked down to his feet observing that their was nothing on them and the soil here wasn't wet enough to pass as mud.

The hair on the back of his neck stood up lightly, as first he thought perhaps the man was just messing around as he had a strange sense of humor but now it appeared to the man that their was something amiss at the moment as he closed his eyes. Yato's hands had told him everything that he needed to know as they had removed something that wasn't even there, it had to have been some form of illusion and the only form of illusion that relied on the victims own personal strength to break out was an illusion of force. 'How sneaky...I must meet this shinobi.' It was hard to actually tell the strength of the technique due to how strong his ally's strange hands were but bothered him more so was that this person was very adept in triggering the technique without changing anything about the environment to drastically.

But it meant that he had to be somewhere nearby and as the man closed his eyes and found himself becoming one with the surrounding, having lived within the forests mainly as a missing-nin he had become intimately familiar with the sounds of nature and at the same time knew how to focus only on his hearing while temporarily disregarding his sight. 'Return my friends, if you encounter a fleeing person wound them but do kill them.' Everything within a thirty meter radius became all to obvious to him as he had also mentally sent out the order for his bugs to return to him from their searching now as if the shinobi attempted to flee back towards the noble's house he would encounter the swarm. While they would not kill him most likely the stranger would wish himself dead if attacked by the swarm that flew through the darkness like a invisible predator just waiting to strike. "Jin, everything good?"

Hisato truly wasn't that concerned with the man's well being but under the guise as a Konoha shinobi he felt that it would be best to attempt and play the role incase someone was still within the area watching or further away attempting to eavesdrop on the pair of former shinobi while also avoiding using the man's real name as well. This was also a small ploy to keep anyone who was attempting to leave the area to stop for a moment in hopes that he would be able to hear either their movement or perhaps if they were within the initial thirty meter radius he could catch the sound of their beating heart. Perhaps even Yato would be able to give him some information about the technique that had caught him off guard.
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[Sounds of Nature]
A-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 30 Instinct
By closing one's eyes and focusing (half a post) the user is able to greatly enhance their sense of hearing. Even subtle sounds such as breathing and heartbeats can be detected within a 30-meter radius. It can also be used to determine the intent and state of fatigue of individuals based off of these audible cues. For every post that the user remains focused with their eyes closed the range of this hearing can be increased by ten meters to a maximum range of a hundred meters.
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Tsukino Hisato - Kiri Chuunin - Seven Swordsman Dagger

Saisuko Zao - Suna Bannin - Spirit Weapon Saint

Kyōhō Ken - The White Snake Sage - S Rank Assassin/Bounty Hunter

Aburame Hisato S-rank Mn / Inactive

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Arashiyama Ning - Kumo Chuunin - Weilder of the Ghost Spear

Yami Kasai - Mizukage - The Black Reaper - DEAD

Genso - Elemental Crafting Shaman - A Rank Monk - Inactive

Aburame Akiro - Konoha Jounin - ANBU Member - Inactive

Hyōryū -- Suna S-Rank / Dead / Used as Inheritance.

Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Sato - A Rank, "The Cleaving Swordsman " / Inactive

Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

Arashiyama, Toushi - Kumo Bannin / Dead

Hitachiai - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Ji Ning - Iwa Genin / Inactive

Naegi, Chin - A-rank MN / Inactive







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Post by Fake » Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:21 pm

Hisato called out to a man named Jin; squinting his eyes, Yato could only assume that the man was covering for him. He fought back the urge to laugh at the name--Jin was a terrible name by his standards, and even in a dire situation like this, the name gave him an itch to gag himself with his finger. Still, he kept to the act and replied back, "Yeah. I'm alright, Zingyizang," smirking as he stared straight at Hisato. He had to have a bit of fun with it.

Still, the issue stood that there was one--or potentially more than one--shinobi that was actively ambushing the two nukenin. The mission already proved to be a lot more of a nuisance than it seemed. He peered around the area once more, but to no avail. "Tch..." Without any way of being able to see in the dark, Yato was practically a goner to these types of ambushes. Turning back to Hisato, he was about to mention the bugs again, but found that the man was closing his eyes, trying to focus on something. His eyes glowed purple as they focused on Hisato, tagging him with chakra and allowing Yato to emulate the man's senses upon himself.

Suddenly, the two would hear heartbeats simultaneously. "Ah, so that's what you're doing..." Yato whispered to himself. His senses then returned to him--all except for hearing, as he cracked his neck and began to run in the direction of where the sound was coming from. "I got this one," he growled towards Hisato playfully, licking his lips as he jumped between the trees. Although he wasn't able to see much of anything at all, Hisato's enhanced hearing was to a degree of inhuman power; through Hisato's ears, Yato could ear his own breath from meters away.

It wouldn't be too long until Yato found the single shinobi who had attempted an ambush at them. The shinobi wore a dark garb much akin to a traditional ninja, with a mask that covered all of his facial features save for his eyes. Without so much of an utterance, Yato leaped out at the shinobi and spit into his eyes, before hands shot out from his robes in tandem and bound the man's limbs, while a single hand covered his mouth. "Shh..." Yato whispered, slowly pacing towards the shinobi. "Hisato-kun... Over here." He continued in a soft whispering tone, for he knew Hisato could hear it.

"Let's play with this man and figure out the in's and outs of the path we're taking, shall we?" Yato licked his lips once more as he spread his index and middle finger out to a width that perfectly aligned with the trapped shinobi's eyes. He smiled innocently before proceeding to stab them straight into the sockets, as the hand that muffled the shinobi's mouth let out subtle, muted cries. "Shh shh shh," he continued, pulling out the slimy spheres before flicking them to the dirt. The man continued to scream muffled noises, but only Yato and Hisato would be able to hear his helpless pleas.
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You're It ★★★★
A-Rank Ninjutsu
Pre-Requisite: Kyōkangan
By channeling to his eyes, Yato can 'tag' an individual with chakra, assuming they are in plain sight. Whilst tagged, the senses that the affected individual experiences can be emulated upon Yato, up to a limit of 4 senses. This 'chakra tag' expires if the individual leaves a range of 200 meters.

One For All
S-Rank Ninjutsu
Using the chakra receivers embedded in his body and the hands, Yato is capable of making the hands move according to his chakra control so long as he focuses on them. Channeling chakra into the receivers allows him manipulate the hands independently of his body. These hands can travel up to [(Ninjutsu + Control)/2] meters from his body. These hands move with a speed and strength both equal to [(Ninjutsu + Control)/2]. Yato must maintain concentration upon these hands to use them, meaning techniques outside of Ninjutsu, Iijutsu, or those dedicated to these hands will cause them to go dormant and return to his body to their proper positions. It should be noted he can only manipulate a number of hands equal to his [Instinct/2.5]. This jutsu does not require the use of handseals. This jutsu is required to be used prior to any other jutsu regarding Transcendent Hands.
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Post by Zao » Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:37 pm

If they weren't working together then the name he had so casually of chosen for Hisato would have definitely have caused the two to break out in a verbal jousting, but sadly this wasn't the time or place for such meaningless things as he attempted to focus on his surroundings. The man hadn't even turned to his partner when the man suddenly shot off in the direction of one of the three nearby heartbeats that lingered at the edge of his hearing as the man pushed himself a little to expand the range of his hearing more. 'How did he know?' This was something truly unexpected as Hisato had not been privy to the knowledge about Yato's ability to sense through the senses of others, something that had been rather useful in this type of situation.

"Aye." A single word response was the only thing that slipped through the almost beard covered lips of the missing-nin towards his ally now as the man disappeared off into the thick darkness of the forest while he focused on the other two men. One seemed to understand that danger was eminent and swiftly darted away from the area while the other hesitated just a moment to long as a portion of the swarm that had went out doing a recon patrol returned enveloping him as a blood curling scream echoed out in the night. Though it was not a single one as the screaming seemed to continue as the while the former Konoha-nin smiled as their was no longer any need to keep his position a secret and no need for him to comply with using light discipline either.

Yato would be able to hear the strike of the flint within the zippo as the flame flickered to life and illuminated the man's face in an eerie orange glow briefly before the cap snapped back down extinguishing the flame. All that was left was the small cherry glow at the end of the cigarette as the man took a much needed drag from it before exhaling slowly. It was to bad that his comrade was not still linked with all of his other senses as it would have been interesting to see his reaction at this point. Casually putting his hands back in his pocket he sighed as the bugs were chasing after one who seemed to be able to move rather quickly and he quickly ordered them to drop back and follow as the five synch size portion began to lurk in the man's shadow from a distance in an attempt to follow him back to where ever he was going.

As if strolling through the forest on a moonlit stroll, the raven haired man made his way through the brush towards his partner in crime now, dipping around and weaving through the thick underbrush off the trail now until he walked about twenty meter to find a masked shinobi pinned down. Arriving just in time to see the free hand jab into the man's eye sockets now as the screams of pain were muffled by the hand holding tightly down upon the unknown man's mouth. "But of course, guess this means we only need one of these guys." 'Devour him...' A simple order was given to the remaining active portion of the swarm that was returning to their host now as the painful screams of a man approaching death by being eaten alive once more filled the forest in the distance from the pair.

After finishing up after about ten seconds the droning sound of thousands upon thousand of beetles faintly began to fill the air as they encircled the duo in a twenty meter radius making sure that no one would be interfering with them for what happened next. "Please continue...my bugs are tracking the friend of his that managed to flee. The other man wasn't quite so lucky I'm afraid." A sinister smile was illuminated as he drew in a drag from the cigarette which glowed for only a moment as a slow exhale caused for dark grey smoke to swirl around his face and up into the air, seeming to under stand that his comrade didn't appreciate his lovely habit. A bit of respect sent his way...
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Tsukino Hisato - Kiri Chuunin - Seven Swordsman Dagger

Saisuko Zao - Suna Bannin - Spirit Weapon Saint

Kyōhō Ken - The White Snake Sage - S Rank Assassin/Bounty Hunter

Aburame Hisato S-rank Mn / Inactive

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Arashiyama Ning - Kumo Chuunin - Weilder of the Ghost Spear

Yami Kasai - Mizukage - The Black Reaper - DEAD

Genso - Elemental Crafting Shaman - A Rank Monk - Inactive

Aburame Akiro - Konoha Jounin - ANBU Member - Inactive

Hyōryū -- Suna S-Rank / Dead / Used as Inheritance.

Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Sato - A Rank, "The Cleaving Swordsman " / Inactive

Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

Arashiyama, Toushi - Kumo Bannin / Dead

Hitachiai - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Ji Ning - Iwa Genin / Inactive

Naegi, Chin - A-rank MN / Inactive







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Post by Fake » Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:36 pm

"Oh Hisato-kun. Smoking again? Tsk tsk..." Had the man in front of Yato still had his eyes, he would be giving him a stare of confusion. Yato's face neared the man's face once again before he took his finger's to the man's socket and gave it a nice wide spread open, revealing a fleshy, blood muddied hole. He then proceeded to stick his tongue into it and swirl it around, as the bound man shivered and screamed, in a bout of disgust and pain. Yato pulled back and wiped his mouth once more before whispering into the man's ear.

"Doesn't feel good, does it, shi-no-bi?" His pronunciation of the word 'shinobi' was long and strung out, making it a point to ridicule the title. The man mumbled back some profanities, but none of them were paid heed to as they sounded the same as anything else the man tried uttering. There was a sense of serenity that came to Yato in extorting people for information; the way he did it was with psychological warfare. Sure, there was pain involved, but the moment people were deprived of their senses, and only allowed to talk when they gave him the information he needed, some how they all seemed to do the same thing at the end of the day. That is, betray their villages with the last words that they would utter in their pitiful lives.

Off in the distance, it became evident that Hisato's work was done. All they had to do was slap the man around a bit and they'd be done with him--of course, that was a severe understatement as to what Yato was really about to do. Yato peered around the area as bugs surrounded them. "Ahh. Guy, you're lucky my partner isn't the one dealing with you. He's not as nice as me," he muttered to the eyeless man with a chuckle.

"Such a shame... You're working for the wrong side, you know?" His finger tapped against the man's forehead in intervals of exactly 3 seconds, and continued to do so without any sign that it was going to stop. "I've got... Talents. Yeah, talents. In the medical field, I mean. Your eyes can come back to this little noggin of yours, and we can go on about our day. You live to try another day, and me? Well..." He cackled briefly as the man tried his best and struggled to free himself from the grasp of Yato's hands. "I leave you alone. It's a good deal, isn't it?" The man let out muffled screams once more, to which Yato frowned. "You're really stubborn, aren't you? What's next? Your ear?" Without so much as a warning or pause to let the man respond, a hand flew off of Yato's arm and ripped off the man's ear in a split second.

Again, muffled screams. And the process continued.

"We can keep going. Or we can stop before your precious body that you spent years training is nothing more than a little nub. It's your choice..." Yato continued to tap on the man's forehead, and for the first time since his torturing had begun, the man stopped moving, and was silent--he was subservient. "Ah. Good choice." Pulling his finger away from the man's forehead, the hand that covered the man's mouth released itself and allowed for a couple of inches of breathing room.

"It's a straight path. That's it. We were just hired to scout out the other noble, and you caught us at a bad time. I'm telling the truth. Please. Please. Please..." The moment the man began to plead, he let out cries of urgency that would seem all too sincere, despite the fact that he couldn't physically tear up. "So be it." Yato smiled at the man despite the fact that he wouldn't be able to see the devilish grin.

In an instant, several hands entered through the man's mouth and seemed to plunge into him--they quickly traveled down his throat as lumps expanded the throat and let out a grotesque cracking noise before they pushed and pulled from inside his intestines. "Cover your mouth, Hisato-kun. Don't want to be smoking this stuff," he warned with a cackle. Yato jumped over to a different branch as the hands inside the man's body did their thing. The hands pushed a hole through his chest and escaped from the cavity before returning to Yato's body. And just like that, the man was dead. "Shall we go on the straight path now?" He cackled; this mission was a bit too easy for his tastes, but it was moments like these that he relished.
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Post by Zao » Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:36 pm

"Don't judge me, I haven't had one in a few hours." The man jest back at Yato now, though he really hadn't been able to smoke one of the cancer sticks since darkness had fallen upon them for the reason of keeping at least somewhat stealthy during their approach to the noble's land. But a feeling of relief slowly filtered through the raven haired man's body now as he was able to enjoy the wonderful feeling that warmed his lungs at the moment before fixating his gaze back onto the highly unusual actions of the young man who was more or less rimming the pinned shionbi's eye socket. An act that even caused for Hisato to question his pairing up with this man, though the man had done a number of things himself in order to extract information from those who sought to end him and instead looked on never batting an eye at the action. [b]'I always manage to end up with the weird ones, it must be a requirement to be a missing nin these days.'[/b]

The smoker seemed to just casually watch the torture of the unknown shinobi now as one hand remained in place in the right jacket pocket as the left hand went back and forth between holding the cigarette between it's fingers and resting in place at his side. The information gather only took a few short minutes as the man before him seemed to be even more adept at talking to the man and putting just the proper amount of pressure and hope for release into the mind of the man. What a pity it was for this kid to have fallen into the hands of a duo like Yato and himself. 'This seems to line up with the path of egress the other shinobi took, guess its at least somewhat true.' Hisato confirmed the words spilling from the injured man's mouth now as the hand had finally removed itself allowing for the shinobi to speak and his words matched with what his bugs had brought back to him about where the noble's place of residence was located. 'Shield me...'

Speaking mentally to a nearby portion of his swarm they seemed to almost instantly appear between himself and the body of the shinobi as the hands went to work doing the dirty deeds of their master now, the bugs interlocking with one another to the point that not even water could easily push through their tight web. "Bit dramatic, no?" The light drizzling sound of blood falling down onto the forest as it fell from the wall of bugs off to Hisato's right side as he turned to look up at his comrade whom had moved over to another branch in the tree now. 'Devour...' With a single word after his slightly snide remark towards Yato the bugs swarmed from every direction now as they began to feast as the sound of puncturing skin and the crunching of bones being bitten in two filled the air of the immediate are.

Hisato himself has already turned a blind eye to the bugs devouring the corpse upon the ground as he started to slowly walk forward through the dark forest as he awaited for his company to rejoin him now as he started to speak taking a drag of his almost finished cigarette now. "Seems he was telling us some of the truth at least, my bugs are still tracking the one that we let flee. He's heading straight ahead, though I guess our element of surprise is all gone." The bearded man said indifferently now as he took the last drag from the cig and tossed it down stopping it out with a twist of his foot not even seem to miss a step as the bugs once more returned into a encirclement around the two men. Being more of a stealthy type of person who truly didn't place himself out from the shadows losing their element of surprise brought forth a small amount of fury within his chest. He was the one who was suppose to be launching ambushes not them...
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Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

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Post by Fake » Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:13 pm

His style was dramatic, apparently.

Yato shrugged with a cocky smirk at Hisato as the blood splattered in every which direction. "Sometimes it's more fun to see the last look on their face; it's hard to see them crying when they're surrounded by a bunch of beetles as they're dying." He cackled at the small jab he had made at Hisato, watching the bugs devour the remains of the shinobi at a rapid pace. Clapping at the display, Yato gave Hisato an over-exaggerated look of surprise, as if he was saying, "my stuff looks cooler". Alas, the fun was over, and the two would be on their way in just a moment.

He shrugged yet again at Hisato's next statement. "Surprise is fun, but it's more fun if they know you're coming and they can't do a thing about it... Keke..." He wasn't caught off guard in the slightest at the fact that the shinobi had been telling the truth to them the whole time; in his eyes, all people had a breaking point, and he was more than capable of finding anybody's. "Shall we go... Um... Straight, then?" Cackling once again before leaping down onto the forest floor, Yato yawned before beginning a slow pace in the direction that he was tipped off to. It was ironic, really--despite how powerful he was, he wasn't nearly fast enough to catch up to the shinobi that Hisato's insects were trailing. That part would be up to Hisato, at the very least.

As he paced through the forest, Yato stared on at the darkness around him. Although he was well aware that he and Hisato would be able to handle just about anything that came their way--as evidenced by their most recent encounter--he couldn't help but shake off the feeling of paranoia that came with... Well, being a nukenin. He wondered if Hisato felt the same way.

"Oi, Hisato-kun. You ever get paranoid?" Again with the vagueness. Yato was great at getting lost in his own thoughts and not explaining himself. He figured that if someone was crazy enough to be on the same wavelength--and subsequently be his comrade--they would be able to understand his strange whimsically unclear patterns of speech. Of course, this was far from the truth; nobody really understood Yato all the time.
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Post by Zao » Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:54 am

"Perhaps so, but of course this could also have just been the welcoming party..." Hisato casually spoke back in return to his new partner's words, but in truth it would take a rather strong or exceptionally crafty shinobi to be able to deal with both of the men presently walking towards their destination. The bearded man had seen first hand the incredible strength of Yato's ninjutsu prowess during their first exchange and he also know that this man wasn't like any others that he had encounter. Not only did the man have a dream in mind but a rather interesting and well thought-out plan to achieve the end goal. "I suppose their isn't any harm in just taking the front door approach." Though he agreed with his partner at this point with them already expecting their arrival now it was just as each to push straight in without wasting to much time, plus Hisato had the added aid from his swarm recon that had followed the fleeing shinobi ahead of them.

Shrugging his shoulders for a moment to loosen up his body now the man refrained from drawing out another cigarette as he knew that he didn't have but about half a pack left at the moment and needed some for the return trip, instead he closed his eyes briefly before reopening them after having focused on his senses of smell, hearing, and sight. After doing so he began to casually walk forward no as his footsteps didn't release the slightest amount of sound into the outside world as they had only moved about fifteen meters before he was able to pick up on the trail left behind by the one that had escaped temporarily. Currently four fifths of the maximum swarm's capacity as spread out around the two men and had descended to the ground to make their movements less obvious to through and to silence their movements somewhat from the droning sound of their wings fluttering in flight.

Of the ten synch of the swarm not involved in forming the perimeter five were contained either on his body or inside the containment jar and the other five had been the ones scouting ahead and following the fleeing individual towards the noble's estate that was about two kilometers ahead of their current positions. A portion of the swarm that he been among the tracking section returned and reported the distance to them not long after the pair had stepped off and were on the trail. 'I see, we aren't to far away then.' The conversation was simple and brief with the bugs as they joined into the tens of thousands of bugs spread out within the forest around Hisato and Yato now as the man removed his dark shades from their position within his ravel locks atop his head and tucked them into an interior pocket of the jacket as he turned to his partner in crime now. "We're only about one and a half kilometers from the noble's estate according to my recon bugs."

It was a simple status update and he didn't expect any reply in return and at the most perhaps a gesture of his head or some other type of body language perhaps now as he stuff of his hands into the jacket pockets as the pair continued to slowly advance down the trail with the cordon of bugs being there to serve as the first line of attack and defense for when they encountered a threat to either one of them. Yato would be a priority for the bugs to help out and assist in defense if need but he was a far second from their actual host and the precedence that his protection took. It was only a short while after the brief update that he head his name being called by Yato, the addition of 'kun' onto his name was a bit irritating but Hisato was starting to get a slight understanding of the strange patterns of speech that the man threw out from time to time and simple chose to ignore it for now.

"Paranoid? Honestly..." Did he ever get paranoid? That was an understatement for a missing-nin, as to an extent those like Yato and himself were always a bit on edge about things just do to the life they had chosen and all those whom they had offended in their past who wished for nothing more than to erase them from this world. Pausing only for a moment to withdraw a cigarette despite the low amount of them he had left, the raven haired man glanced over the cig briefly with his brilliant blue eyes before placing it carefully between his lips now but refrained from lighting it in that moment. Instead he turned his bright gaze over onto his comrade and continued to speak. "...sometime I do, man. But I use these to help keep myself focused and to relax a bit. Obviously not the best habit to have started but it gets me by. " A faint smirk appeared on his lips as he contemplated lighting the stick or waiting a bit longer trying to way out the pros and cons in his mind for a few moments as he turned his gaze back onto the trail. Able to sense that they weren't to far away from the tracking portion of the swarm now.

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[Silent Footsteps]
C-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
A fundamental skill in a hunter’s repertoire, the user has learned to move at a walking pace without his steps making any discernable sounds. Even in thick foliage he can identify and navigate around fragile twigs and dry leaves and step on vegetation in a way as to not make a sound.

[Following the Path]
C-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 15 Instinct
Having spent great effort in the art of learning how to track animals and man alike in a variety of environments. The user can easily pick up on most trails, observing and analyzing footprints, scuff marks, broken branches and the like. Unless heavily marred by environmental factors, the user can follow the physical sign of a trail even if it is several days or weeks old. In some rare instances where tracks have been preserved remarkably well this timeline can even extend to months.

[Like a Dog]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
The user's sharp senses allow them to pick up on slight sounds within a 15 meter radius of themselves. This can range from the sound of a weapon being drawn, a projectile in flight or subtle footsteps and sounds of moderately heavy breathing. In terms of eavesdropping they can discern a conversation at such a range as if the user were standing next to the person whom is speaking.

[Canine Smell]
B-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 25 Instinct
The user has developed a nose keen enough to rival that of an Inuzuka. They are able to pick up on faint scents that average shinobi wouldn’t even notice to the point where the user can distinguish individual body scents of people as well as determine specific species of animals even by just a strand of hair. The passive range of this ability is about 30 meters though if the user has picked up on a trail they can continue to follow it to its source assuming there are still scent particles in the air or physical remnants of a trail.

[Situational Awareness ]
B-ranked Taijutsu Discipline
During his time in prison and on the run, Hisato found out rapidly that it is imperative to be able to distinguish between the sounds of nature and those that are unnatural for the sake of one's own safety. To that end the user has gained enough experience to be able to tell the difference between natural sounds and those of a battle. Additionally, he may tune out sounds to focus on specific sounds and noises making him much harder to fool.
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Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

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[Graded][Plotboard] Noble Warfare

Post by Fake » Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:39 pm

Yato raised an eyebrow at the fact that Hisato just admitted that smoking cigarettes wasn't 'the best habit to have started'. With the way he had interacted with the stern man up to this point, he wasn't so sure whether Hisato was opening up, or coming to a point of realization. At any rate, it was strange that the bearded Aburame was, in a way, rejecting a significant piece of his lifestyle.

Interesting.

He licked his lips in a subtle manner that would be masked by the darkness of the forest. Small utterances like that were of no significance to most people, but to Yato it meant everything, for someone's identity was directly attributed to the things that they said about themselves. What began as small talk had opened up a small peeping hole for Yato to peer into Hisato's inner being.

The kilometer and a half it took to walk to the other noble's domain hardly took much time to get to, despite the slow pace the two shinobi were taking. Unsurprisingly--or surprisingly, depending on who was concerned--there was no further resistance that opposed Hisato and Yato, and they remained unscathed as they approached the doors of the palace. Yato formed two hands together in a seal before glancing at Hisato as an urge to do the same. In a split second, a dash of smoke arose around the white-haired shinobi, as he transformed. The smoke disappeared, revealing a copy of the same shinobi that he had just tortured moments ago.

"I'm hoping you remember what that piece of trash looked like," he cackled, staring at Hisato as his newfound appearance masked his normally-demonic eyes. His own recollection of the man was accurate for the most part, with only a few variations here and there--the truth was, he hadn't thought of transforming into the scouts that were sent after them until they were already at the doors of the palace, and because of that his transformation wasn't exactly seamless. It would be easier to get to the noble's throat masked as the scouts that came from the palace, at any rate.
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E-Ranked Ninjutsu
After completing the needed handseals, the user of this technique will be able to alter their physical appearance to match that of another person. By consistently emitting chakra throughout their body, the user is able to keep their appearance adjusted at the cost of their stamina draining over time. As this technique is quite strenuous to uphold, experienced shinobi may see more clearly through this delusive disguise. This technique lasts for a number of posts equal to that of the user's (stamina/2).
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Post by Zao » Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:40 am

The remainder of this leg of the pairs journey was filled with idle chit chat between the two criminals as they continued at a slow but methodical pace, since they knew the pair were coming then it was fun to make them wait on them for a change. After his bugs had scouted out the remainder of the trip ahead finding no immediate danger they then began to return in small waves that flew back inside the matte black container that hung from the bearded man's left side off his belt. The other shinobi had fled upon contact and hadn't gotten a good the skills of either of the two missing-nin so it was best to hid ones true strength as they began approaching the end of the road now.

Yato forming hand seals caused for the blue eyes former shinobi to glance over, their speed was rather impressive but the simple series of seals was one that even someone lacking in the ninjutsu arts like himself could even recognize at a moments glance. 'The transformation technique, very well...' Hisato gave a simple nod as he watched the younger man transform now into the shinobi that Yato had tortured the information from about the way to go a short while earlier. Seeing the man's appearance cased for the man to smirk a bit. He had not been able to see what the other looked like as he simple had hit companions deal with the threat, "Yeah, no idea what that bitch looked like."

Exhaling slowly the man made the same simple series of hand seals now and their was a poof of white chakra smoke that enveloped the man for a moment before it blew away with the gentle breeze that pushed from left to right, it revealed a battered looking version of himself with what appeared to be wounds from a battle and yet the unlit cigarette hung from the man's lips. Hisato's hands appeared to be bound from the wrist by some rope, thought it was last minute the man's attention to detail was as impressive as always now as he shook his head lightly and turned to his comrade. "Well, this will have to due, I guess. Ready?"

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Post by Fake » Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:01 pm

Yato smirked at Hisato's quick witted improvisation. Criminals like him weren't noted as 'A-Rank' for nothing; it was deceptive traits like these that set them apart from the rest. He stared at Hisato's wounded appearance and took it in for a moment as he thought deeply.

"Hmm yeah, I'm ready. But... One more thing." He reached towards Hisato's cigarette in a joking manner as he pretended to snatch it from the man's lips before pulling back and cackling to himself. "No, but really.."

Placing his two hands together in the form of a seal, a clone of his real body appeared in a poof of smoke. Similar to Hisato's appearance, the clone of Yato was battered, bruised, and tied at the wrist. With Yato disguised as the scout, he would be the talker of the group as he tugged along the beaten up Hisato and clone of himself. He sighed as he began to pace toward the building, shaking his head at the ground. If only he had thought of this earlier, he would have gotten a trace of the man's personality or speaking patterns prior to mutilating him.

Oh well.

The three approached the front of the building, where two armed samurai were perched on either side of the titanic doors that lead into the throne room. The building itself was but a single building, and not necessarily a palace, but it was large enough for anybody looking at it to know that it belonged to a noble. From the looks of the building and its narrow composition, one could only assume that past the doors it'd be a straight shot to the throne. One of the samurai noticed Yato and immediately darted towards him, the sounds of his armor clinking away all the while.

"Hey, what the hell happened? Where's Kotatsu?" The samurai stared at Yato with eyes of concern, rather than suspicion. Perfect.. Yato took to acting the best he could as he took in deep heavy breaths and stared into the samurai's eyes. "Dead... These fuckers got him... I had no choice but to leave his body there while it was eaten alive..." His voice was husky and broken up--a product of Yato pretending to be exhausted. The samurai looked at Hisato and Yato's clone with a look of disgust before putting his hand on Yato's shoulder. "C'mon. Let's report your findings to Yaboku-sama."

With a single motion, the samurai that stood next to the door pulled a lever that opened the giant doors slowly, as the thunderous creaking noises from its hinges resonated throughout the forest. The doors peeked open to reveal the luxurious palace within: adorned with red carpet and gilded accents, Yaboku's palace was nothing short of extravagant. "Quick, quick, it takes a while to get the doors closed again." The samurai nudged Yato in before giving Hisato an expression of disdain, and slapping the back of the Aburame's head. "We should have known better than to trust Koyozu... You're scum trash, you know that?" He growled at Hisato as the giant doors slowly closed behind Yato and company.

Yato slowly paced down the long carpeted hall while muttering quietly to Hisato. "... See that?" He was referring to a single retainer standing beside the noble who was seated in a large golden throne at the end of the hall. "Once we get close enough... Let loose." Yato then stiffened his back straight and let a smile wash over his face as he walked towards the noble, who held a rather stern expression as he looked back at Yato and Hisato.
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Post by Zao » Sat Jun 23, 2018 3:24 am

"Oh hell no!" The moment that his younger comrade performed his feint at snatching the cigarette hanging from Histao's mouth the raven haired man instantly pulled his head back and away from the slender fingers of the fellow missing-nin. His cancer sticks was something that he didn't play around with at all and found it truly unfunny at the moment when Yato had teased that he was going to take it away. Shaking his head the man took additional measures and put another step between the pair of them as the other man formed a hand seal and produced a clone of himself that appeared to be in a similarly distressed and wounded manner as the former the former Konoha-nin had taken, as well.

Only giving the man a simple nod of approval for his last minute addition to the group he then turned and walked alongside the clone of Yato now, both men appearing to be bound and injured from battle as they traversed the last portion of forest arriving at a small mansion style building that was fit for a noble with money. While not amongst any of the grander building that the man had seen in his lifetime it was easily noticeable that it wasn't just some average business man who owned the estate and it seemed to have a single guarded entrance being made up of two large doors and a pair of samurai whom stood guard at the moment. 'Only two out here, wonder how many are inside this place.' The calculating man was already working no determining his next course of actions as their had been at least these three shinobi in the noble's pocket and he couldn't help but wonder if their were others.

But at least the ones who had been sent out as scouts weren't on the same level as Yato and himself or it would have been a much more intense exchange so deep in the wilderness. Though Hisato's appearance was worse for were the dark shades had once more fell onto the bridge of his nose as they arrived aiding in hiding the disconcerting gaze of the man as their first interaction went very smoothly as it appeared that their had been some comradery between the samurai and the shinobi that they had killed. Yet, he wondered where the shinobi that had managed to escape had gotten off to at this moment. After all, his beetles were still a bit hungry as such a tiny meal was far from being sufficient for them. Seeing the figure before them open the gigantic doors that would have been a bit troublesome for them to bypass by force the man almost smirked.

Concealed within the doors was actually a very luxurious palace that surpassed some of the other residences of nobles that Hisato had done business within the past, catching him slightly off guard as he wondered if he had underestimated this man or not in that moment. As the samurai nudge Yato inward Hisato whom was at the back was still analyzing the room before he saw the hand coming and in that moment he had to force his swarm to hold their position within the container as they were half a second away from attacking the threat to their host out of instinct alone. Focused on stopping the swarm from revealing themselves prematurely the hand smacked him hard on the back of the head and actually knocked the cigarette from his mouth as it spun through the air and landing on the ground breaking into two pieces now.

Hisato had to forcible exhale to remain calm as impact ad pushed his sunglasses to the tip of his nose revealing the deep blue eyes that had instant shifted to the left corner taking in the samurai, the killing intent within them was so overwhelming that it actually caused the samurai to take a step back out of fear. It made one wonder just how many people one had to kill in order to possess such a large amount of murderous intent. 'It will be a slow death for this one, I'll make sure of that....' The bearded man had to slowly force a few more breaths in and out of his cirgarette less mouth in order to calm himself down to not break their plan early and kill the unnamed man on the spot over the incident. It was funny to Hsato that they were now all sealed within the palace where they would be unable to run or hide once his hungry swarm was released but he had already given them mental orders to no kill the man who had smacked him, that pleasure was reserved for him.

With the massive doors behind them closed the two were being escorted down a long hallway as the muttering of his comrade could be heard in a tone below a whisper but with his enhanced hearing it was as thought the missing-nin was having a typical conversation with him. The appearance of an injured man that he currently held on to was kept up to the tee as his gaze lifted from the floor to meet the stern gaze of the noble who's head they had come for, still around his neck was a Konoha head band that the two missing-nin had brought with them to demonstrate their 'loyalties'. Finally their escort had ended as the clone of Yato and himself stood side-by-side with one another as the true Yato stood just to their rear. Perhaps his friend hadn't even noticed but on the back of Yato's pant leg was a single small beetle that was being used to mark him as an ally at this moment. When they had entered the throne room he had released two beetles, one for the true Yato and the other had stealthy made its way around the room and was currently climbing up the back of the golden seat in which the noble set.

The noble was reserved for Yato to play with, as it appeared that was something he would enjoy based on the previous encounter with the shinobi in the forest. This was close enough as a light bomb that had been removed from a kunai earlier appeared within the Aburame's hand and was tossed straight up above his head in the room before a brilliant flash of light filled the large room in an instant. It was within that instant that a single word exited out of the wounded looking man's lips that had curled upward in the corners forming a devious smirk at this moment in time. "Devour..." With that single command forty five synch worth of flesh devouring beetles emerged from the matte black container like a mist of death sent from the grim reaper himself as a droning sound of millions of wings filled the large room.

The speed and power of the completely matured swarm was beyond the measure of the normal individual, only those at or above the two missing-nin's level of experience would be able to contend with such a force or nature. Everyone not marked or spoken for would be attacked relentlessly and in the end devoured, starting with the retainer at the nobles side. A single portion of his beetles, five synch worth, were kept in reserve as the circled around the true Yato and their host now...
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Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

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Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

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Post by Fake » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:08 am

Although Yato had been expecting Hisato to do something with his bugs, he certainly had not expected a flash bomb to go off. With the sudden burst of light, he was forced to cover his eyes with both arms as Hisato let out an all too familiar utterance.

"Devour".

Grimacing, he turned toward Hisato with eyes shut tightly and cursed at him. "Could have fucking told me you were going to do that asshole!" Although his words were like knives, his tone of voice was like a balloon--high pitched, playful, and nowhere close to serious. He stood still for a brief moment as the sound of beetles began to roar around the room, and laughed in place as his vision began to return to him. "Devour, he says..." His laughter escalated to a cackle as he turned back to the noble and the servant that stood beside him.

"Sir, we're messengers from Konoha here to uh..." He stopped speaking and put a finger to his lips exaggeratedly as if he was thinking of what to say next. "Hmm... Oh yeah! Kill you! We're here to kill you. Kekeke." His transformation then came to an end as the clone behind him dissipated as well, revealing his demonic figure that stood beneath a shadowy veil of chakra.

As the beetles sped towards the noble and his servant, the two would seemingly disappear for a brief moment in a poof of smoke. However, in Yato's domain, no one could hide. "Behind!" From behind, the retainer--robed in similar clothes to Yaboku--jumped at Hisato from above while forming handseals. A giant fireball would erupt from the retainers mouth and fly at Hisato at a decent speed, before the man would disappear in a poof of smoke once again, appearing on the ground 20 meters away from Hisato. "Rats like you should know your place."

He quickly turned as hands loosened themselves from his body and flew in the direction of the noble, who was sat on top of a beam near the ceiling of the palace. Although they clearly didn't have synergy in mind with this excursion--with the light bomb and all--Yato knew all too well that Hisato would want a slice of the pie. The retainer would be all Hisato's, and Yato would be tasked with the noble. "You're making this too easy for me." He cackled, as the hands wrested upon the noble's body and began to bring him down towards Yato.
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[Graded][Plotboard] Noble Warfare

Post by Zao » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:39 pm

A smirk found its way onto the man's lips as the bright flash began to fade and the majority of the swarm had already spread out across the entirety of the thrown room to attack the priority targets within the area, mainly focused upon the actual throne location where the noble and the shinobi that gave the Aburame a hint of danger within his senses. Now as the light faded a cigarette had somehow appeared within the mouth of the raven haired man as the transformation technique poofed out of existence. Their was a violent screaming coming from their pair's six o'clock as a portion of the swarm had already attacked and pinned the man who had smacked Hisato to the ground with such force that cracks splintered out from the floor but the screaming more so came from the fact that they were devouring the man's limbs starting from the tips and working their way towards the torso.

'Hmm?!' The retainer appeared to truly have some skill, perhaps even on the jounin level but without getting into a full out battle so that he could test he man's skill he wouldn't know for sure. He had managed to not only avoid the first wave of insects but also move the noble with him, very interesting. As his comrade warned him the man had already heard the movements from above them in the rafters and the sound of flames filled the room now as the insects nearest Yato and Hisato flew upwards in a shielding pattern as the ball of flames crashed into the beetles. Though the bodies of the beetles were extremely tough their wings weren't as strong and upon impact of the powerful flames the wings of the insects struck were injured and fell to the ground after forcibly stopping the ninjutsu attack upon. 'Seems he wants to play..'

The swarm had already shot forward as they attacked from three directions. Left, right, and front with amazing speed and ferocity as they pushed forward now assaulting the man but not at their full speed and strength. No, Hisato wished to have a little bit of fun with this man as he was forced to flee around. The edge of the room as the different portions of the swarm that numbered around eight in total smashed through and destroyed everything in their wake as they grew closer and closer to the man as he formed hand seals launching a series of fireballs at the portion closest to him causing a series of small explosions that created a bit of a gap between the swarm of hungry bugs and their prey at this moment. 'What a spry one.' The bearded man had already lifted the zippo with its wavering flame up to the tip of his cigarette now and with a strong inhale through the cig the tip grew bright orange as the tobacco within began to burn.

Their was a sweet, refreshing taste of the smoke as it entered his body and was drawn down into the lungs before being naturally cycled out in a plume of wispy grey smoke that created a bit of a haze around the missing-nin. His 'friend' had already captured their main target with his strange hands and all that was left was to deal with this monkey of a man as he landed behind the two in the distance and was already forming hand seals once more. "Know you place..." A puff of smoke slipped through the bearded man's lips as he spoke in a low tone now as before the man could complete the series of hand seals the floor burst upwards at his feet now as the bugs had tunneled from underneath the floor as a hole about six inches across could be seen between the man's feet now.

He had used the movements of his swarm and their attack patterns to judge the skill of the man and anticipate what his next move would most likely be and in doing so used the swarm to force him into an advantageous position for his swarm that had chewed through the stone floor to tunnel underneath where they were forcing the shinobi's position. Then at the right moment he willed the creatures to burst forth with their maximum speed and strength to catch the foe off guard now as the swarm was so thick around him that one couldn't see what was happening within it and only the screams of agony told the story to those not within the jaws of death now. Exhaling slowly the man turned his attention away from the man an slowly walked to his left now as the whimpering man who had smacked him and caused for the former Konoha-nin to break one of his precious cigarettes was laying there in shock from loss of blood as he had four stubs where his limbs once were.

"This will be painful and slow..." The words were slow as they slipped through his thin lips and a wave of smoke pushed down upon the dying man's face as the bugs began to crawl in through the wounds starting to eat him from the inside out as a set of two screaming men filled the room with their wailing screams of pain for a short while as Hisato turned to rejoin the company of Yato and the noble. Turning what seemed to be a death ear to the two men who were being devoured alive by the beetle swarm and their powerful jaws. Only the man on the floor was being devoured much more slowly then the other who's screams had already ended as he arrived at the young man's side shifting his bright blue gaze upon their main target...
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Basic Movement - Frontal Attack
D-Ranked Maneuver
Requirements: A Swarm and 5 Instinct
Upon the command 'frontal attack' all or a portion of the swarm(s) will begin will rush forward at their top speed and strength to meet a threat or target head on. This also allows the user to set up a variety of follow on actions on his part or with the remaining portions of their swarm.

Basic Movement - Flank Attack
D-Ranked Maneuver
Requirements: A Swarm and 5 Instinct
Upon the command 'flank attack' a portion of the swarm(s) will begin will sweep out to the side of the target at their top speed and strength in order to strike the target from the side.

Advanced Movement - Tunneling Ambush
B-Ranked Maneuver
Requirements: A Swarm and 20 Instinct
Upon the command 'Tunnel' all or a portion of the swarm controlled by the host will begin begins to tunnel underground at a speed of their synch making their way to their target. These tunnels are roughly three-to-six inches in diameter and when the swarm is at a location the Aburame wants them to burst forth from they will be giving the command 'Emerge' at which time they will burst forth from the ground at a strength of their synch slicing and penetrating with their mandibles at the target's lower body attempting to ultimately completely envelop the target(s).



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Tsukino Hisato - Kiri Chuunin - Seven Swordsman Dagger

Saisuko Zao - Suna Bannin - Spirit Weapon Saint

Kyōhō Ken - The White Snake Sage - S Rank Assassin/Bounty Hunter

Aburame Hisato S-rank Mn / Inactive

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Arashiyama Ning - Kumo Chuunin - Weilder of the Ghost Spear

Yami Kasai - Mizukage - The Black Reaper - DEAD

Genso - Elemental Crafting Shaman - A Rank Monk - Inactive

Aburame Akiro - Konoha Jounin - ANBU Member - Inactive

Hyōryū -- Suna S-Rank / Dead / Used as Inheritance.

Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Sato - A Rank, "The Cleaving Swordsman " / Inactive

Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

Arashiyama, Toushi - Kumo Bannin / Dead

Hitachiai - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Ji Ning - Iwa Genin / Inactive

Naegi, Chin - A-rank MN / Inactive







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[Graded][Plotboard] Noble Warfare

Post by Fake » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:58 am

The noble slowly floated down towards Yato with a look of spite at the white-haired nukenin. It was evident that despite the situation he was in, the noble felt as if he was higher, or more important, than his assailant. Yato grimaced back in response to the man's expression as the two floated down to the ground level where Hisato and his 'stub' were. Yato cackled menacingly while staring at the man who had smacked Hisato before, pointing and stamping his feet on the ground all the while as to mock the people who dared to be so audacious.

"Smack the smoker's head again! Smack it again!" He snorted between his words as he continued to taunt the man being eaten by Hisato's bugs.

Through the chaos and echoing of screams in the room they stood in, one thing resonated loudly--clearer than anything else: the noble's subtle grumbling was the hidden undertone that made the melody of death all the more pleasant to Yato's ears. Ceasing his laughing, Yato smiled and turned his attention back to the noble before placing a single finger on the man's forehead. The noble stared back at Yato with an unchanging, solemn expression of superiority.

"It's things like this that made me come to realize how shitty the system is, moneybags. Imagine being born into a position where you have to work for what you get. And when you do something that the people 'above you' think is wrong, you're suddenly put under trial and marked as a criminal. Terrifying, isn't it?" He leaned in forward and licked the restrained noble's eye, as the hands that restrained the noble tightened and covered his orifices so not a single sound would be uttered by him. "I'll give you a taste of the oppression that you so tightly adhere yourself to... Today, I'm the law, and you're the citizen." Cackling, he turned back to Hisato, who was presumably done with this feasting at this point.

"Let's go Hisato-kun! I have a terrific idea. We'll be... Hmm... Visiting... Yeah, visiting our contractor."

Giddily, Yato skipped on and out of the door of the noble's domain, as the floating hands carried said noble behind him like a carriage.
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[Graded][Plotboard] Noble Warfare

Post by Zao » Sat Jul 07, 2018 3:16 am

They had indeed been very audacious to think that they could do and say what ever that wanted to a man such as Hisato, seeing that the bugs who were devouring the smoking man had managed to devour the 'three legs' of the man before he went into shock and the pleasant screams of agony finally ceased. Inhaling slowly the cherry of the cig burnt up to only about an inch from the filter as the ash fell from the end of the cigarette now and the man shifted his bright blue gaze around the room feeling the refreshing sound of millions of droning insects. With a light tap upon the edge of their swarm container they returned from whence they came without a verbal command as the man turned and started to walk over to where his comrade was still standing having hear him mocking the man who had smacked him earlier. "These two are done..."

After finishing up their fresh meals, it was like a vortex was formed from the insects as one could watch the smaller end of the vortex swirling into the jet black container that hung from the missing-nin's left hip now, following their host as he moved to close the distance between Yato and himself now as the words directed at the noble were entering into his ears at this moment. 'Again with the licking. Perhaps this man has some strange licking fetish?' It was at this moment that he once against saw the white haired young man lick the Noble that they had captured, but while it was strange it didn't even cause for the older of the two to even bat a single eye at the actions. Having seen many strange things during his time in prison and on the run he simple disregarded it was some odd habit of the man. All the man cared about at this point was that this man had strength and with that strength combined with his own they had the potential to help him not only achieve his petty goals of revenge on the Aburame and Konoha but also the other life goal he had, as well.

"A terrific idea?" Hisato actually shook his head slightly at the mention of Yato having a terrific idea but only spoke mainly to himself about the words of his friend and listened to determine just what kind of good idea the strange little man actually had. "Hmm, I am actually interested to visit this other noble you speak of. Perhaps he can even be of use?" In truth, the former Konoha-nin was very interested to find out who the fellow missing-nin's client was that wanted this smaller fish out of his way, though the reasoning why wasn't what the bearded man wanted to know and instead he desired to know if they would be able to use this man for their own personal goals. That was the reasoning behind the casually spoken question at the end of his reply to the multi-hand using shinobi that was holding onto their prey at the moment.

Taking one last drag from his cancer stick as it burnt the contents all the way down to the filter within the raven haired man's mouth, he then spat the filter onto the ground where a blood stain of the one who had smacked him remained after the bugs finished their meal earlier. Placing both hands back into his jacket pockets the man turned on his heels and opened his stride to catch up to the rather giddy young man who was actually skipping out the door of the noble's mansion at this point. Hisato was never truly sure that he would be able to understand the constantly changing mentality of Yato but at the same time he wasn't sure it was worth the trouble of even allowing for a smart man like himself to try. This guy was truly 'unique' but he had goals that aligned with his own to some extent and that was enough for now. After only a few moment the leather jacket wearing shinobi stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder with his comrade as they moved back into the darkness of the dense forest with the captive noble tightly imprisoned within the numerous hands that floated behind them like a trophy from their brief hunt.
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Tsukino Hisato - Kiri Chuunin - Seven Swordsman Dagger

Saisuko Zao - Suna Bannin - Spirit Weapon Saint

Kyōhō Ken - The White Snake Sage - S Rank Assassin/Bounty Hunter

Aburame Hisato S-rank Mn / Inactive

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Inactive/Dead

Arashiyama Ning - Kumo Chuunin - Weilder of the Ghost Spear

Yami Kasai - Mizukage - The Black Reaper - DEAD

Genso - Elemental Crafting Shaman - A Rank Monk - Inactive

Aburame Akiro - Konoha Jounin - ANBU Member - Inactive

Hyōryū -- Suna S-Rank / Dead / Used as Inheritance.

Xi - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Sato - A Rank, "The Cleaving Swordsman " / Inactive

Akujin - Konoha Genin, Art Ninjutsu Guy / Inactive

Toukai Touma - Kiri Genin / Inactive

Arashiyama, Toushi - Kumo Bannin / Dead

Hitachiai - Iwa Jounin / Inactive

Ji Ning - Iwa Genin / Inactive

Naegi, Chin - A-rank MN / Inactive







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