Aikou had asked questions about the boy who had knocked her down that day. She had wondered who he was and why did Rei fear him so much? She had been concentrating on ways to keep Rei under control, but they never lasted for long.
A warm rain drummed the ground loudly, as a slight breeze, was stirring the air. Aikou looked down from her tree and saw him, Eisuke, her pupils dialating under the fractured light. The slight hum, that Rei had become recently, began to grow slightly louder, but Aikou jumped from her branch to land face to face, only a few yards away. "Hey, Eisuke right? You might not remember me, but thats not important. I have searched you out for answers." The rain suddenly stopping, made Aikou's last words sound too loud, as she winced.
Eisuke stops before the girl having just appeared before him, his eyes pass over the young girl, assessing her threat, and determining her to be harmless, "Curious..." he thinks to himself... "Answers... Cannot be given... Without questions... I assume you have those? What is it you want from me?" The wind brushed through Aikou's hair, as the sun began to come out again. "I was told you're from sound village. Do you know any other Otonin?", the girl asked. The cool breeze causes Eisuke's damp hair to shift slightly, momentarily showing his blank white eyes before draping back over his face. "I may...".
Aikou visibly tenses as she takes a step forward, and startles a rabbit out of the bushes. "You- You must help me... We are of the same upraising. His blank gaze never falters, his eyes never blinking as he watches the girl approach him. "The same?" Eisuke asks, "And what would make you think that?". She resumes her former spot, by taking a step back, as she looks around. "Well I thought, you... are Eisuke, right? People say you are from Sound. I am from sound too...". Rei's humming by now was audibly decipherable, "Shh girl, keep away from this one." Aikou's eyes narrowed as Rei slowly became just a slight hum again.
"Yes, I am Eisuke... And yes we are both from the sound village..." his eyes follow her as she takes a step back, still unblinking, slightly hidden beneath the damp white hair draped over his face, "But how this fact makes your upraising similar to mine, I fail to see...". Aikou looks back behind her, before attempting to meet Eisuke's gaze again. "All I want is help. I must become a strong shinobi, so I can prove to everyone I'm not just a waste of life! That I do belong here, for a reason! ... But I can't do that alone.", she said lifting her voice as she went on, but dropping quietly near the end. Eisuke asks, "And where do I come into this?"
"I already knew that would be your answer, it is why I have driven you to say it. I wish to know of other Otonin. My search has failed and, now, I come to you.", Aikou said flatly. "It was no
chance meeting we had.", she continued, realizing that if she died now, than that was the way fate would have it. Eisuke growls quietly, stopping himself as he remember what Takaioto told him, "Fine... The one named Takaioto is who you need to be looking for." A lively breeze cooled the area, as grey clouds masked the sun. "Takaioto... I will remember, thankyou.", Aikou said gratefully, before disappearing into the forest, leaving Eisuke to himself. He growls to himself, "Stupid Takaioto... I should have killed her."
Aikou and Eisuke
Another episode of Otogakure's Otonin!
Warm rain pours from the sky and there is not a breath of wind in the air, as the sun sets lazily. Aikou pushes off her hands, focusing energy into her wrists before doing so, she somersaults into the air to land on her hands on the top of one of the wooden poles. Her body arched as her knees bend to keep an easier balance, she swirls around on her fingertips before hopping, nimbly, to another log. There in mid-air, her body jerks slightly, before she bounces down the poles, in a crouched position. "You can't bother me while I'm training!", the young girl said to seemingly no one. Her voice becoming heavier, "I sometimes wonder why we're friends!! ... Well FINE!", the young blonde finished loudly. She harumphed and turned her back, as her eyes squinched up and her forehead creased. She looked around and smiled, before hopping onto one hand, to do finger pushups.
Eisuke shifts his weight from one foot to the other before leaning against the gnarled back of the tree trunk as he watches the young girl silently, and unnoticed. "Interesting..." he thinks to
himself, "Who's she talking to I wonder..." and with that he hops down from the branch he was perched on and makes a steady approach towards the training field.
The falling rain, turning to snow, melts before it hits the ground, as a small breeze wafts through the area. "- one hundred and twenty three, one hundred and twenty four, one hundred and twenty
five, one hundred and twenty six, one hundred and twenty seven, one hundred and twenty eight, one hundred and twenty nine, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty one, one hundred and thirty two, one hundred and thirty three, one hundred and thirty four, one hundred and thirty five.", Aikou goes on, not stopping.
Disgusted that the young girl still hasn't noticed his presence, Eisuke draws a kunai from his waist pouch and hurls it at the girl, the shiny metal blade flying straight infront of her eyes, less
than an inch from her face before lodging it self in one of the trees at the edge of the field's clearing.
Aikou twirls as she flips back to her feet, looking for the source of the intrusion. "Shutup.", she whispers audibly angered, yet still not looking at Eisuke. She turns around again, to spot the
other otonin, "Oh, its you, come to push me down again?", her voice full and bitter with sarcasm. "Or are you just throwing kunai around for no reason?", she adds hastily, moving her hands slowly
into her own pouch. Rei was still pestering Aikou about killing the boy across from her, but the blonde girl paid no attention.
Eisuke strides determinedly towards the girl, not needing to mask his intentions in the seclusion of the training field, an angry scowl across his face, as he reaches the girl face to face he
extends his right arm and slaps the young girl hard across the face, a loud smack sounding through the field, "You little bitch! How dare you use my name like that in front of Heishi! What the
fuck did you think you were doing!? And don't ever take that tone with me again, I am your superior, and you will treat me as such. Don't tempt me to kill you.".
Aikou's eyes widen as she holds her reddening cheek, "Oww, why'd you do that?", the young girl asked. Slowly backing away from Eisuke, "I'm sorry... I didn't realize you were keeping your identity a secret. Why? I don't even know what your a superior of!", she finished, looking away as her cheek stung. Rei's voice gained in pitch and volume, as the pain set in, "He hit you!
Drink his blood... while he's still alive!! Make him pay!", the figmentary character yelled down at Aikou.
Eisuke sneers. "What do you mean you don't know what I'm a superior of?" Suddenly the boy disappears, "I'm faster than you." He says from behind the girl, "I'm stronger than you." he continues as places an open palm between the girls shoulders, shoving her to the ground. "And untill you can prove you're not worthless, you will show me some respect. Now tell me who you were talking to.".
Struggling to get up, Aikou growls, "The girl who's standing behind you! Her name is Rei.". Sitting up, Aikou suddenly throws 5 kunai towards Eisuke as she twirls herself mid-air to land on her feet. Before the kunai can even reach their target, she starts heading for the top of one of the training poles, "Eat that!"
Eisuke turns away from the girl to look behind him, "What girl? We are the only two here you foolish child." he growls, unphased as he reaches up behind him with his left hand, catching the first of the kunai, using it to deflect the following four blades, as they clatter about his feet with shrill clanks.
Grumbling silently, Aikou stops, "Of course she's there! She's always been there!". Somersaulting off the top of her pole to land about 20 yards away from Eisuke, she takes a step towards him, "She once said... Well, she is there, looking at you!", the girl said slowly.
"Are you that eager to die? DON'T FUCK WITH ME" Eisuke screams, hurling the girl's own kunai at her, passing her by, less than an inch from her neck..
She frowned, as her brows furrowed. "She's there, I swear it!", Aikou said, as she fell to her knees dejectedly. "Look at her, look at her please.", the young girl said, almost pleadingly as she
reached out towards Eisuke, her vision growing dim.
"Very well..." he smiles, as he draws a kunai from his waist pouch. Suddenly Eisuke disappears again, making his presence known once more as he kneels down behind the girl, running the blade of his kunai softly along Aikou's cheek, "I'll ask you one more time... Surely Takaioto wont mind if I take you out, you're pathetic, but you do smell oh so sweet...".
Aikou stands there with her eyes closed, as Rei disappears, her eyes open, a slightly darker blue than they used to be. "Now its time!", Aikou said, her voice deeper and much more ridged, as if
she were being strangled. Her hand closed around the shinai she had tied up wrist with a leather thong, "DIE BITCH!", she screams as she thrusts the shinai upwards, over her head behind her..
Eisuke smiles and he katches the blade of the kunai with his right hand, blood dripping down his fingers and into the young girls hair, "Better, but you'll need a lot more than that to kill me..."
he syayes calmly as he wrenches the kunai out of the girl's hands.
Eisuke stumbles and takes a couple of steps backwards as each and every one of the girls blows makes contact with his body perfectly, before a soft poof sounds and the boy's figure disappears in a cloud of smoke and is replaced with a small log. "Now what has that poor little log ever done to you?" Eisuke says in jest, from behind her once again, "Besides, I told you to hit ME!".
Brief gusts of wind punctuate the air, as Rei screams loudly at Eisuke. The girl ducks into a sweep, and rebounds with two fingers directly aimed for the chest. She swings her left arm, then her right, before attempting a head-butt. She snarls as she backflips her right foot aiming for your chin, before she half-flips a couple yards away. Aikou begins to stir for moment, then goes limp again.
Eisuke stumbles and takes a few steps backwards as each and every one of the girl's blows connect with his body perfectly, but then a soft poof sounds and the boy's figure disappears and is replaced with a small log. "Now what did that poor little log ever do to you?" Eisuke asks in jest, "Besides, I told you to hit ME!"
Rei growls louder, as she pulls her fist back, jumping at Eisuke. Aikou begins to wake again, and sits up, "Rei?", was all she could manage as she saw Rei, not her own body, fighting Eisuke.
"What are you doing?, Aikou asked softly..
"Is it my turn yet?" Eisuke says calmly as he tosses the two kunai in his hands to the ground either side his feet, "BAIKYUU KESSON!" he shouts, as his hands begin to eminate a soft blue glow as
he concentrates his chakra and directs it into his hands, before dashing straight at Rei, his hands in an open tiger claw position, directed at her shoulder he shouts, "DRAGON PUNCH!".
Rei doesn't move as Eisuke charges her, seemingly frozen, until Eisuke makes his first contact... *POOF* A log takes the force of Eisuke's attack, while Rei, in Aikou's body smirks up above ontop
of a training pole. She throws a kunai down at the boy, timing it so it would land just as he made contact with her kawarimi..
Eisuke 's figure disappears as it makes contact with the log, sending it smashing into a tree on the field's outskirt, the kunai landing in the ground where the boy stood just seconds ago.
"Kawarimi's a nice trick, but plain old fashioned speed is nicer, BAIKYUU KESSON!" He yells again as he drives his right elbow into the pole the girl is standing ontop of, smashing it clean in
two.
Rei struggles to keep her balance as it falls, clinging to it, waiting for the moment to jump, before she springs off at an angle, onto another log, the whole time twirling in the air raining
kunai down on Eisuke. Aikou looked at the battle before her, as she screamed out, "NOO Stop!", but Rei began to tune her out, just like Aikou did her.
Eisuke stands calmly where he is as the kunai approach him, he draws a smooth wooden staff from his backpack and begins to twirl it around in his hands infront of him, a series of clunks sounding as wood connects with metal, each of the kunai being caught and lodged either end of the staff, and before the girl has a chance to land he flicks the staff twice, dislodging the kunai, sending
them back towards her.
Rei's eyes shoot up in surprise, as Aikou drops her outstretched hand, "I told you it wasn't a good idea Rei...", was all she could manage. Rei, unable to avoid the kunai, in mid-air just stares
at the approaching Kunai....
"Stupid girl" he mutters to himself as he draws several kunai from his waist pouch and hurls them full force at the kunai already heading for the girl, a series of clanks sound and several kunai
clatter to the ground as the rest whizz by her harmlessly, lodging themslved in nearby trees. He then dashes forwards and catches the girl just before she lands, "Like I said... You're far to
slow, you need training" Eisuke says, looking down at her before dropping her flat on her ass.
Rei snarls as she struggles into a sitting positon, "Then train me. I have no one to tell me what I'm doing wrong, or to help improve my style.", she says. "Rei...", Aikou Aikou says pleadingly,
but Rei doesn't even look at her, she only has eyes for Eisuke, waiting on his answer.
Rei stands up slowly, grimacing, "I don't like this anymore than you can, but sound needs to make a comeback. We are the rightful rulers, not Konoha, nor Sand, or even Time. The others are too
weak!", she says scornfully. Aikou begins to pout and sniffle, on her knees.
"First things first" Eisuke says slowly, his voice calm once more, as he draws a fresh kunai from his waist pouch, gripping it firmly in his right hand. "From this point on... I own you." he then
pushes the kunai into the lower left section of his chest wound, fresh red blood seeping over, the blade, his hand, and his bandages, he then removes the kunai and extends it to Rei, "Do it.".
Rei jabs the kunai into her left thigh, near the pelvis. She grimaces again, as the blade pierces her skin, "Is this necessary?", she asks, slightly annoyed. Aikou sighs, and doesn't stop
crying, "Rei...".
Eisuke reaches out with his left hand and slaps the girl across the face again. "You will not question me.".
Aikou sniffles, as Rei holds her cheek, "I will not question you.". "I will kill you however, when the time is right.", Rei thought bitterly.
Eisuke shifts his weight from one foot to the other before leaning against the gnarled back of the tree trunk as he watches the young girl silently, and unnoticed. "Interesting..." he thinks to
himself, "Who's she talking to I wonder..." and with that he hops down from the branch he was perched on and makes a steady approach towards the training field.
The falling rain, turning to snow, melts before it hits the ground, as a small breeze wafts through the area. "- one hundred and twenty three, one hundred and twenty four, one hundred and twenty
five, one hundred and twenty six, one hundred and twenty seven, one hundred and twenty eight, one hundred and twenty nine, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty one, one hundred and thirty two, one hundred and thirty three, one hundred and thirty four, one hundred and thirty five.", Aikou goes on, not stopping.
Disgusted that the young girl still hasn't noticed his presence, Eisuke draws a kunai from his waist pouch and hurls it at the girl, the shiny metal blade flying straight infront of her eyes, less
than an inch from her face before lodging it self in one of the trees at the edge of the field's clearing.
Aikou twirls as she flips back to her feet, looking for the source of the intrusion. "Shutup.", she whispers audibly angered, yet still not looking at Eisuke. She turns around again, to spot the
other otonin, "Oh, its you, come to push me down again?", her voice full and bitter with sarcasm. "Or are you just throwing kunai around for no reason?", she adds hastily, moving her hands slowly
into her own pouch. Rei was still pestering Aikou about killing the boy across from her, but the blonde girl paid no attention.
Eisuke strides determinedly towards the girl, not needing to mask his intentions in the seclusion of the training field, an angry scowl across his face, as he reaches the girl face to face he
extends his right arm and slaps the young girl hard across the face, a loud smack sounding through the field, "You little bitch! How dare you use my name like that in front of Heishi! What the
fuck did you think you were doing!? And don't ever take that tone with me again, I am your superior, and you will treat me as such. Don't tempt me to kill you.".
Aikou's eyes widen as she holds her reddening cheek, "Oww, why'd you do that?", the young girl asked. Slowly backing away from Eisuke, "I'm sorry... I didn't realize you were keeping your identity a secret. Why? I don't even know what your a superior of!", she finished, looking away as her cheek stung. Rei's voice gained in pitch and volume, as the pain set in, "He hit you!
Drink his blood... while he's still alive!! Make him pay!", the figmentary character yelled down at Aikou.
Eisuke sneers. "What do you mean you don't know what I'm a superior of?" Suddenly the boy disappears, "I'm faster than you." He says from behind the girl, "I'm stronger than you." he continues as places an open palm between the girls shoulders, shoving her to the ground. "And untill you can prove you're not worthless, you will show me some respect. Now tell me who you were talking to.".
Struggling to get up, Aikou growls, "The girl who's standing behind you! Her name is Rei.". Sitting up, Aikou suddenly throws 5 kunai towards Eisuke as she twirls herself mid-air to land on her feet. Before the kunai can even reach their target, she starts heading for the top of one of the training poles, "Eat that!"
Eisuke turns away from the girl to look behind him, "What girl? We are the only two here you foolish child." he growls, unphased as he reaches up behind him with his left hand, catching the first of the kunai, using it to deflect the following four blades, as they clatter about his feet with shrill clanks.
Grumbling silently, Aikou stops, "Of course she's there! She's always been there!". Somersaulting off the top of her pole to land about 20 yards away from Eisuke, she takes a step towards him, "She once said... Well, she is there, looking at you!", the girl said slowly.
"Are you that eager to die? DON'T FUCK WITH ME" Eisuke screams, hurling the girl's own kunai at her, passing her by, less than an inch from her neck..
She frowned, as her brows furrowed. "She's there, I swear it!", Aikou said, as she fell to her knees dejectedly. "Look at her, look at her please.", the young girl said, almost pleadingly as she
reached out towards Eisuke, her vision growing dim.
"Very well..." he smiles, as he draws a kunai from his waist pouch. Suddenly Eisuke disappears again, making his presence known once more as he kneels down behind the girl, running the blade of his kunai softly along Aikou's cheek, "I'll ask you one more time... Surely Takaioto wont mind if I take you out, you're pathetic, but you do smell oh so sweet...".
Aikou stands there with her eyes closed, as Rei disappears, her eyes open, a slightly darker blue than they used to be. "Now its time!", Aikou said, her voice deeper and much more ridged, as if
she were being strangled. Her hand closed around the shinai she had tied up wrist with a leather thong, "DIE BITCH!", she screams as she thrusts the shinai upwards, over her head behind her..
Eisuke smiles and he katches the blade of the kunai with his right hand, blood dripping down his fingers and into the young girls hair, "Better, but you'll need a lot more than that to kill me..."
he syayes calmly as he wrenches the kunai out of the girl's hands.
Eisuke stumbles and takes a couple of steps backwards as each and every one of the girls blows makes contact with his body perfectly, before a soft poof sounds and the boy's figure disappears in a cloud of smoke and is replaced with a small log. "Now what has that poor little log ever done to you?" Eisuke says in jest, from behind her once again, "Besides, I told you to hit ME!".
Brief gusts of wind punctuate the air, as Rei screams loudly at Eisuke. The girl ducks into a sweep, and rebounds with two fingers directly aimed for the chest. She swings her left arm, then her right, before attempting a head-butt. She snarls as she backflips her right foot aiming for your chin, before she half-flips a couple yards away. Aikou begins to stir for moment, then goes limp again.
Eisuke stumbles and takes a few steps backwards as each and every one of the girl's blows connect with his body perfectly, but then a soft poof sounds and the boy's figure disappears and is replaced with a small log. "Now what did that poor little log ever do to you?" Eisuke asks in jest, "Besides, I told you to hit ME!"
Rei growls louder, as she pulls her fist back, jumping at Eisuke. Aikou begins to wake again, and sits up, "Rei?", was all she could manage as she saw Rei, not her own body, fighting Eisuke.
"What are you doing?, Aikou asked softly..
"Is it my turn yet?" Eisuke says calmly as he tosses the two kunai in his hands to the ground either side his feet, "BAIKYUU KESSON!" he shouts, as his hands begin to eminate a soft blue glow as
he concentrates his chakra and directs it into his hands, before dashing straight at Rei, his hands in an open tiger claw position, directed at her shoulder he shouts, "DRAGON PUNCH!".
Rei doesn't move as Eisuke charges her, seemingly frozen, until Eisuke makes his first contact... *POOF* A log takes the force of Eisuke's attack, while Rei, in Aikou's body smirks up above ontop
of a training pole. She throws a kunai down at the boy, timing it so it would land just as he made contact with her kawarimi..
Eisuke 's figure disappears as it makes contact with the log, sending it smashing into a tree on the field's outskirt, the kunai landing in the ground where the boy stood just seconds ago.
"Kawarimi's a nice trick, but plain old fashioned speed is nicer, BAIKYUU KESSON!" He yells again as he drives his right elbow into the pole the girl is standing ontop of, smashing it clean in
two.
Rei struggles to keep her balance as it falls, clinging to it, waiting for the moment to jump, before she springs off at an angle, onto another log, the whole time twirling in the air raining
kunai down on Eisuke. Aikou looked at the battle before her, as she screamed out, "NOO Stop!", but Rei began to tune her out, just like Aikou did her.
Eisuke stands calmly where he is as the kunai approach him, he draws a smooth wooden staff from his backpack and begins to twirl it around in his hands infront of him, a series of clunks sounding as wood connects with metal, each of the kunai being caught and lodged either end of the staff, and before the girl has a chance to land he flicks the staff twice, dislodging the kunai, sending
them back towards her.
Rei's eyes shoot up in surprise, as Aikou drops her outstretched hand, "I told you it wasn't a good idea Rei...", was all she could manage. Rei, unable to avoid the kunai, in mid-air just stares
at the approaching Kunai....
"Stupid girl" he mutters to himself as he draws several kunai from his waist pouch and hurls them full force at the kunai already heading for the girl, a series of clanks sound and several kunai
clatter to the ground as the rest whizz by her harmlessly, lodging themslved in nearby trees. He then dashes forwards and catches the girl just before she lands, "Like I said... You're far to
slow, you need training" Eisuke says, looking down at her before dropping her flat on her ass.
Rei snarls as she struggles into a sitting positon, "Then train me. I have no one to tell me what I'm doing wrong, or to help improve my style.", she says. "Rei...", Aikou Aikou says pleadingly,
but Rei doesn't even look at her, she only has eyes for Eisuke, waiting on his answer.
Rei stands up slowly, grimacing, "I don't like this anymore than you can, but sound needs to make a comeback. We are the rightful rulers, not Konoha, nor Sand, or even Time. The others are too
weak!", she says scornfully. Aikou begins to pout and sniffle, on her knees.
"First things first" Eisuke says slowly, his voice calm once more, as he draws a fresh kunai from his waist pouch, gripping it firmly in his right hand. "From this point on... I own you." he then
pushes the kunai into the lower left section of his chest wound, fresh red blood seeping over, the blade, his hand, and his bandages, he then removes the kunai and extends it to Rei, "Do it.".
Rei jabs the kunai into her left thigh, near the pelvis. She grimaces again, as the blade pierces her skin, "Is this necessary?", she asks, slightly annoyed. Aikou sighs, and doesn't stop
crying, "Rei...".
Eisuke reaches out with his left hand and slaps the girl across the face again. "You will not question me.".
Aikou sniffles, as Rei holds her cheek, "I will not question you.". "I will kill you however, when the time is right.", Rei thought bitterly.