Starring:
Date: August 29, 2013
Summary:
Hibiki, after recovering from his wounds, encounters an intruder of his sanctity in the Forest of Death: a fellow Kiri nin. Except there is be camaraderie here.
"Third Promotion Exams - Duty & Revenge: Hibiki vs. Sakuryu"
Forest of Death - Opening
Sakuryu carefully sets the rigging before settling back. "There we go….perfect." She grins and ruffles back into her hideout. She had just set a series of ninja wiring across the entrance to the Tower, it would soon be opened and that was when she could take the best opportunity of assassinating anyone coming by. Upon tripping the wired she would be notified of their approach and be able to be in an advantagious position to get her assassination position
On his journey to the Tower anew is too: Hibiki.
Dusk is fat in the trees - growling and full of rustles - but of the clearing, a simmering shift of moonlight gushing behind clouds. Thus, dark is it still — the world around turned to moths, fuzzy and unsure. The Genin is moving slowly, with ill consideration, a pondering pace towards the lightening of the forest: to the clearing but paces ahead. He stops, planting a hand against a tree, leeeeeeaaaaaaaning into it with ragged breath. Though healed, the spirit itself takes waste of the body, and it was not yet so that Hibiki was… himself, again.
"Where now are you, mmm? Your strength cast away in time's need?"
The boy spits against the bark, and it's hard to see if there's blood in it when it splatters in the dark.
Sakuryu's lines are tugged lightly. They're not heavy lines, and they're not rigged too taught but it is still a great way to find trespassers. "I guess it's time… Maybe next time I do this it will be with a mask…." She grins a little bit before carefully getting into position, she looks out across the clearing and focuses in when she sees Hibiki. "Kiri ninja….sad.."
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with STEALTH…24
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with STEALTH and rolls a 24. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against STEALTH(24) attack from Sakuryu with a PERCEPTION…19
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 0 damage.
Hibiki is unaware in his stupor, of the pressures guarding his ankles at the slightest trace. He is too caught forward in his own regard to be concerned yet with the regards of others. To the clearing is still his goal, that clouds should pass beyond the still moon, to bath in stagnant light the ending of day, and the beginning of night. The youth tucks his coat closer about himself, his arms folded inside now, the sleeves hanging lifeless. The boy looks ragged: his forehead protector is scuffed, the headband askew; his coat is cut in places, tickling with blood, rumpled in others, singed and crackling — the ideal of ninja, Hibiki is now not.
But the clearing thus arrives before him, the clouds finally parting from the moon, and into the bathing light of creatures of the night does the young man swoon. The boy lifts his head to the moonlight, as if it were the sun warming his face on a spring afternoon.
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu sighs. "First tactic of a good ninja, ambush the enemy and exploit any weakness…" She frowns and moves deeper into the trees to gather her energy and allow her body to take on it's inherited form. Her skin would become cold as a corpse, the pale tone flushing any color as her naturally blue eyes take on an icy tone, and her long white hair sparkles like fresh fallen snow upon the ground. The air temperature around her dropping as she prepares for her attack on the fellow ninja
RP: Sakuryu transforms into SHIRAYUKI-RELEASE.
COMBAT: Sakuryu focuses 4900 stamina to turn it into usable chakra!
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
Hibiki remains unawares, casting himself knees first onto the thick rolling grass. The light of the moon rolls over his pale flesh, the boy's eyes closed and his head cocked skyward. Yet, with Sakuryu's approach comes to the gripping chill of the air around.
Hibiki's eyes snap open; he whisks to his feet, his eyes dancing malevolently 'round, scanning the surrounding for signs of intrusion. His giant coat hangs to one side, one arm hidden, the other bared with a gripped fist. The boy's jaw clenches, taut, his teeth grinding together, pressing even the enamel for whatever vigor they may give. Hibiki's neck suddenly spasms, his fingers jolting open a moment, yet quickly is it done.
The boy's eyes narrow, and for a moment he seems beyond the situation at present.
"You greedy, greedy…"
And the corner of Hibiki's mouth lures into a grin, his eyes again roaming upward, but with nowhere near the fear of before.
RP: Hibiki transforms into DYOU-I.
COMBAT: Hibiki focuses 3500 stamina to turn it into usable chakra!
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu growls. "How did he…" She sees his wandering eyes. "Ahh…the cold then.." She smirks and forms hand signs before dashing around the tree tops letting out a needle rain fly as well as throwing a single rose at his heart, continuing to move to keep any possible tracking down." She had aimed the needles for vital points the best she could while taking the dashing movements.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE…36
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-ROSE…20
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE…24
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE and rolls a 36. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE(36) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…35
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 382 damage.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-ROSE and rolls a 20. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-ROSE(20) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…22
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE and rolls a 24. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE(24) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…32
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
The first of the needles come raining down, pricking through Hibiki's coat and into his flesh, plunging into his arms and legs, and with a gasp like a jump into cold water, the youth becomes aware. First the rose, and to the right Hibiki moves, his coat trailing, the sharpened ice petals neatly snipping by; then the other needles, which glisten in the moonlight, and the Genin is moving again, invigor'd with the new contest, arranging away from the intended path of such intent defeat. There are bags beneath his eyes, and blood dappling his skin, but he grins up so into the wide maw of dark within the trees.
"Mmm, Hibiki, Hibiki, yes, yes."
The youth plucks the last of the needles free, and then his hands are together, and then his mouth exhaling out, breathing into the night a rolling mist, wild and gray.
COMBAT: Hibiki attacks Sakuryu with HIDDEN-MIST-TECHNIQUE…28
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu defends against HIDDEN-MIST-TECHNIQUE(28) attack from Hibiki with a REVEALING-MIST…39
COMBAT: Sakuryu wins the roll.
Sakuryu sees that she's made a mark and smirks. "Perfect…." She plans her next move before seeing the mist coming towards her. "I don't think so…" She uses her own chakra control and water manipulation to infuse her chakra into the mist, using it as a feedback to *see* her opponent. "He should know not to use water against Ice…" She chuckles before forming the hand seals for her signature trap, the ice needles bursting forth into large lotuses of ice, moving to capture the enemy in a beautiful prison. As they blossom Sakuryu would push her chakra into her sacred weapon of the Shirayuki. The kusarigama of ice and bone would elongate..the chain extending and the sickle becoming a sickening scythe with barbs and a keen edge that the moonlight would softly glint off of. "And now for your head." She grins and spins the blade fast before whipping it at the boys head aiming to take a swipe at his neck.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON…31
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with FROZEN-SHARK-FANG…19
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON and rolls a 31. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON(31) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…40
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with FROZEN-SHARK-FANG and rolls a 19. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against FROZEN-SHARK-FANG(19) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…30
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
No fool may Hibiki be now. Awake, aware — en garde. As the blossoms begin to boil beneath his feet, up he leaps, into the thick of the trees, back into the dark of night's full bosom. And it is there, in the swallowing, clawing darkness, that the rattle of chain erupts from the quiet, assailing the ears before the eyes of the boy, who flicks his head aside at the last moment, grabbing the chain as it paddles past.
"Hoo hoo, got you."
Rushing forward the boy leaps, following the line of chain to it's origin in a crushing pace, his fists cocked back inevitably upon finding her, raw with delight, and swing he does, and as so another arm erupts from his own, drawing level to with the original punch… just beyond dismayingly noticing the rippling crests rolling upon her neck.
RP: Hibiki transforms into DYOU-II.
COMBAT: Hibiki attacks Sakuryu with POWER-PHYSICAL-II…24
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu defends against POWER-PHYSICAL-II(24) attack from Hibiki with a TWISTED-GALE-PARRY…43
COMBAT: Sakuryu wins the roll.
Sakuryu snickers as she sees him come closer. "Very bad choice…" She smirks and uses the wind force around her to knock him to the side. She quickly snaps her wrist to draw the chain and blade of the Kusari gama back towards herself , pushing her chakra into the blade more to make it a little more wicked, curling it to slice into his spine before she whips her hand out to send a rain of needles across his body from close range with a grin.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG…22
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE…21
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG and rolls a 22. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG(22) attack from Sakuryu with a BLOCK-II…47
COMBAT: Hibiki takes 509 partial damage.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE and rolls a 21. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE(21) attack from Sakuryu with a BLOCK-II…33
COMBAT: Hibiki takes 426 partial damage.
Hibiki is staggered upon seeing the logo of his Village stamped into the metal taut over the head of the one attacking him — he can but clutch himself together, absorbing as much of the blows as he can, his wounds freezing and his body getting papered with needles. He crash back against the hulk of nearby tree; freely bleeding.
"Why are you…"
The boy's eyes are gasping in their look towards Sakuryu, puzzled then.
"Why would you still…"
The boy's eyes narrow. His neck twitches, his right shoulder rolling up to touch his ear. He stands straighter up now, the blood from his wounds a living flag unfurling down his clothes.
"I am of Kirigakure. Cease!"
RP: Hibiki transforms into DYOU-III.
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu spins her Kusari-Gama, letting the blade tip regenerate since the last blow had left the tip lodged in the other ninja. "I am Shirayuki Sakuryu, Daughter of the Snow Prince. I am here to become a chuunin and take on the responsibilities of a full ninja. I have failed once and cannot again or I will be disowned. I ask that you relinquish your scroll and I will give you amnesty, heal you and aid you in gaining your scroll back." She nods before holding up the Kusari, seems as if these amnesty terms were the best she could do for the other ninja
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
Hibiki bleeds into his laughter, a slow rolling thing with madness lapping at the corners. But it is not long to last, at least only so much as the rolling vapor of a lingering chuckle, for around the wound the Genin's hand goes, shivering at the baring cold of the icy blow.
"A scroll, mmm? A scroll."
Another soft chuckle rustles the boy, flopping back against the tree trunk, and the night is filled with life again now that the rushing sound of fight has gone the air.
"We…"
The youth shakes his head. "We have no scroll."
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu looks at her as she narrows her eyes. "Prove it…or I'll have to take measures…The kirikage will not accept me back in the village if I do not get into the next part of the exams.." She breathes out. "One last chance…. I will heal you and help you out if you give me the scroll…if not I may be forced to take your life.. You know the rules of Kirigakure as well as I! If you die at my hand it is because you are too weak…please relent.."
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
Hibiki's cherubic balance stills. He cocks his head at Sakuryu.
"Hmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Hibiki agrees. It is the way. But…"
The boy takes a step forward on the large branch of the tree he was resting against.
"Mmm, yes, yes, Hibiki is right, I believe. I believe indeed."
The boy takes a single longing look at Sakuryu, and then cackles.
"Yes, to whom does duty belong!"
Another pair of arms - one beneath each already - sprout at Hibiki's side, and in a dash they barrel through hand seals, and in their finish there is naught but the hard rustle of wind, and then Hibiki himself rushes forward, his fist held high behind, white and veined with intent.
COMBAT: Hibiki attacks Sakuryu with PRESSURE-BLAST…55
COMBAT: Hibiki attacks Sakuryu with POWER-PHYSICAL-II…21
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu defends against PRESSURE-BLAST(55) attack from Hibiki with a ICE-CLONE…33
COMBAT: Sakuryu loses the roll and sustains 393 damage.
COMBAT: Sakuryu defends against POWER-PHYSICAL-II(21) attack from Hibiki with a TENSE…11
COMBAT: Sakuryu loses the roll and sustains 561 damage.
Sakuryu gasps and feels the heavy pressure around her, unable to move as he smashes into her, sending her small body flying with the second hit. She carefully refocuses her attention before finding a branch to bounce off of pushing and flipping before landing away. "Whew…..that…was unexpected." She winces and closes her eyes before forming the handseals. "Submit to a beautiful death…" She forms the ice before her and throws the razor edged rose at him, her own blood trickling onto it, staining the petals red as it flies at his heart. After it impacts, whether into him or the wood Sakuryu would send a flash of chakra into it, the closed flower blossoming forth, the petals flying out and flurrying in a storm of razor edged fury.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-ROSE…27
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-ROSE-BLOOM…38
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-ROSE and rolls a 27. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-ROSE(27) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…27
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-ROSE-BLOOM and rolls a 38. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-ROSE-BLOOM(38) attack from Sakuryu with a WATER-WALL…27
COMBAT: You lose your stamina for 1 attacks.
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 404 damage.
With a snort, Hibiki dodges the oncoming ice flower, giggling, one eye drawn larger than the other. But his back is to the icy blossom when it explodes at his spine, bursting into his flesh by clawing crystal and flake. The youth drops forward, barely clutching onto the branch upon which he had just been standing, his body full of holes, draining weakness like too much blood. The youth can but stare as he gathers his strength, whatever is needed to remain, for there is purpose now, there is draw: Sakuryu was right — there is duty; there is death.
Hibiki struggles himself upward upon the branch. To duty then.
COMBAT: Hibiki attempts to ESCAPE from Sakuryu's stun and fails!
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu smiles as she sees him underestimate her. "Never forget that even the most beautiful roses have jagged thorns." She smirks a bit more before watching him get distracted. "An opportunity." She says before swinging that deadly instrument of ice and bone once more, letting it sail across the moonlit sky with it's jagged edge once more, looking both deadly and beautiful as she swings it in an arc to tear deep into his flesh, pulling it hard in an arc before spinning in place, the chain swirling in a circular arc above her before a flurry of needles go for his flesh, aiming at his vital points to incapacitate him.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG…33
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE…29
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG and rolls a 33. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against SOUL-STEALING-ICE-FANG(33) attack from Sakuryu with a TENSE…9
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 585 damage.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE and rolls a 29. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against ICE-NEEDLE-TECHNIQUE(29) attack from Sakuryu with a DODGE-II…23
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 390 damage.
The onslaught is too much for Hibiki, the ice blade roaring into his flesh, then a flurry of icy needles seeping deep, deep into skin. From the loss of blood already, and now the drawing icy wound, the youth stumbles from treetops, the ground gasping when he descends directly into it. There is a murmur left, but it's only rustles: the cognition of defenselessness — the realization of how scorched white the skull of death is. Hibiki stares into the forest floor, moving to get himself up, but with only as much strength as can barely be given.
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu jumps from the treetops, sailing through the night silently before landing with a soft touch. "I ask now…out of the kindness of my heart that you give your scroll over…I will bring you back from this precipice of death… Or I will be forced to kill you." She sighs. "I wish to take on the rank of ANBU but not at the cost of our thinning ranks."
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
Hibiki does not move, but listens, dropped to a knee, struggling with every bleeding shiver.
"If you cannot…"
The boy shakes his head; shakes it again, for the words are stuck. He coughs to free them — blood.
"If you cannot do what must…"
The boy shakes his head again, and with a mewl pushes himself fully to his feet. A grimace comes.
"If you cannot. Then you do not deserve the duty."
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu looks at her. "I'm not going to reduce the numbers of our ninja…but I will punish you." She says with a flick of her wrist letting the needles that are scattered about the field come up to encase the man in a blossoming lotus of ice. She takes in a deep breath and blows it out across his face, the chilling air would knock him out but not kill him.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON…26
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with CHILLING-WIND…35
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT Hibiki is poisoned (3 rounds) and loses 52 health.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON and rolls a 26. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON(26) attack from Sakuryu with a WALL-OF-WIND…40
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with CHILLING-WIND and rolls a 35. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against CHILLING-WIND(35) attack from Sakuryu with a WALL-OF-WIND…58
COMBAT: Hibiki wins the roll.
Hibiki grimaces a grin, his body aching with every move. Their is no will, but there is - within so bleating, baying to be free, at least, once before - and forth comes a second head, much like Hibiki's own, sprouting from the boy's neck. Both heads cough, spitting gravely blood into the dirt as the needles which were so shattered aground come whipping up towards.
"You are not deserving."
And the second set of arms whips through hand seals, a whisk of wind blowing away the crystalline needles; blowing away the icy spray.
"You daaaaare be of Kiri."
As if Meruin would allow such frailty within the ranks. Hibiki grins deeper into his failing body, mad in adrenaline and the morphine of war. There will no more than this — the darkest before the dawn.
The boy's hand flash together anew - once more slugging through seals - to erupt from the sky itself lashes of sickling blade, cutting the sky: at the Sakuryu.
And then he is gasping, down again upon the floor, a monstrosity of being, but defeated.
COMBAT: Hibiki attacks Sakuryu with WIND-CUTTER…24
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
COMBAT: Sakuryu defends against WIND-CUTTER(24) attack from Hibiki with a ICE-CLONE…47
COMBAT: Sakuryu wins the roll.
Sakuryu sighs as she watches him struggle, his attack easily blocked by a quick ice clone. "Stop resisting." She growls before looking at him with her ice cold eyes. She looks around and pulls chakra up turning the last of the needles into lotuses to capture the ninja man. "Don't move now…" She growls and once again takes in a breath, thinking over the freezing breath before just relaxing. "One more move and I will kill…" She sighs
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks Hibiki with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON…35
COMBAT: Sakuryu finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Hibiki's turn.
COMBAT Hibiki is poisoned (2 rounds) and loses 52 health.
COMBAT: Sakuryu attacks you with BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON and rolls a 35. Action?
COMBAT: Hibiki defends against BLOOMING-ICE-LOTUS-PRISON(35) attack from Sakuryu with a TENSE…4
COMBAT: You lose your stamina for 1 round(s) starting on your NEXT turn.
COMBAT: Hibiki loses the roll and sustains 0 damage.
Hibiki smirks as the crystals begin to run along his body, the prime head flicking its eyes at Sakuryu.
"You won-"
But there is no more, for covered is the boy, frozen in a thick rime. He truly is motionless now, save for the slow, slow beating of his heart, that nearly gone as well. There is no more to tell of him, for - as he is encapsulated - there is currently no more.
COMBAT: Hibiki finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Sakuryu's turn.
Sakuryu sighs and nods. "I'll have Yuki bring him from the brink of death." She says to herself before moving close to look for his scroll, carefully reaching through the petals of the ice flower to find his scroll. Upon seeing that he does not have a scroll she curses. "What the…" She grumbles with a sigh.
