The Bird's Nest [Public/NDE]

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Learned ~

The Truth A Devil Would Tell

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A boy, growing up to be a man must first learn to make decisions on his own, to overcome obstacles and challenges. If he falls, he must be able to pick himself up and stand on two feet.

Reddo, a boy seeking to be a man, was faced with his final obsticle when he entered the house once more. He stood, face to face with a tall man, black hair reaching down to his shoudlers and blue eyes that cut through his bangs just like Reddo's 'mother'. Mathias, stood before him, waiting just at the door with a kunai in his right hand and tears on his face. A hate in his eyes that stabbed deeper than any knife could.

Mathias, didn't hesistate in his attack, the first thing he did was swing that blade, aiming for Reddo's throat. The battle that came next was gut wrenching. The blades of the two men clashed together, Reddo's katana and Mathias' kunai echoed through the house as the moved through the rooms, falling through the paper walls and kicking over tables. Even half the front door was destroyed when Reddo fired a low moving Daitoppa in an attempt to trip Mathias.

Reddo's live was put on the wire when he was disarmed. This man's ability to use the wood release, forming it from the house itself from various angles, turning the place into a maze and an acrobatic contest aswell as a fight, caused Reddo do trop his katana, and Mathias made it unreachable.

Using the obstacles Mathias himself had created however, he hid in the master bedroom and rapidly formed hand seals. The kaze no yaiba came first, the ghost blade forming around this hand, but six more came next, and it solidified further, a solid, clear orb, that could only be seen if the light hit it on just the right angle, sat in his palm. The blade held the same property.

"Reddo Reddo Reddo..." Mathias called out, stalking the hall that led up to the master bedroom. "Why'd you do it?" Mathias voice was song like, even joyous. Reddo knew this man was truly happy when doing something evil, he saw it in his eyes, through the tears he had used as a front before. "You know we loved you~" He was mocking him. Mathias was outside of the bedroom, watching Reddo's silhouette through the rice paper walls. "And even though I'm going to kill you, you should know that I still love you~" Mathias was smiling as he gripped that kunai and knelt down to be level with the figure. Smiling as it tore through the paper. Smiling as he felt it hit the target. Smiling when the blade came back out, and on the end was a pillow, stuck like a pig. Mathias' blue eyes looked through the hole in the paper to see Reddo on the other side of the room, with his right hand in the air. Faster than Mathias could move, Reddo's arm came down, and a line appeared in the wall, and along the ceiling. The Diamond Blade had fully extended, and it cut through all that stood in it's way, including the right arm of Mathias.

His scream was agonizing, blood sprayed from the open wound, and he held the stump that his right arm was once attached. Reddo stepped out of the hole, raising to his full height of 5'3". He wasn't tall, but he towered over the cowerig mathias who moved backwards slowly, trying to drag himself away from Reddo and to the front door.

"You wouldn't kill me... you wouldn't... I'm your father!" Reddo followed him, keeping up the same speed as he was, letting him crawl, watching him, giving him hope that maybe Reddo would be sympathetic. "Could you kill me? Really? We had such good times Reddo-shi. I'm a person too! I live, I have feelings, Dreams!" Mathias was pleading with him, and his pleading filled Reddo with something like delight... a delight that would probably make him sick on any other day, but not today. "Tell me the truth Reddo..." Mathias was only a foot or two away from the door. now, and He knew it. Maybe he was thinking of making a run for it, but Reddo lifted his hand and pointed it at him, ending his movement, and studding him. Any fear that he was feeling before was now magnified by the sudden ripple of power in the air, a power that made breathing hard, made him feel cold, weak, helpless, and completely under the mercy of this blood splattered titan that stood over him. "Could you really kill me?"

Reddo thought about it, stood with his hand pointed at Mathias , the blade at it's resting distance of three feet. He thought, for almost a full 3 seconds before Mathias began to repeat his question,but was cut off by a scream of pain when Reddo's ghostly blade pierced his right lung. The wound didn't kill him straight away, he knew it wouldn't, because Reddo wanted him to hear the answer. "I asked myself that question every day since I left. If it came down to this moment, me standing over you, weak and defenseless, would I kill you? Could I kill you? My FATHER, a man who was more of a father than you who bought me of an orphanage for a few Ryo, a man who taught me to defend myself, who sent me to school, who cared for me and raised me... what would he think? I'm a ninja. If I thought I could be a ninja and not have to kill someone, I would be delusional. My answer to you, despite the honor my father had given me, Mathias, is yes. I will Kill You."

Mathias spat blood, hardly alive with his heart pumping the fluid into his lungs, practically drowning himself. "Then You're nothing but a MONSTER! The Devil!" This comment coming from him carried so much irony, Reddo couldn't help but smile, despite holding this man's life in the palm of his hand. "Then I'll be seeing you again soon." Reddo's hand swung casually to the right, severing Mathias' spine, cutting into his left lung, and splitting his heart in half. Reddo cut this chest completely open, and let his blood drain out onto the houses floor. Reddo's past was gone. Dead. It's blood was on his hands, and that was more comforting that with them clean. Maybe he was a monster, a natural born killer, but this needed to be done, and if Arekkusu was watching him, maybe he would forgive this young bird for flying through this dangerous path. Maybe.

"I just killed my foster parents." th callousness of his own voice was foreign to him, he didn't even think it was his own voice at first. He looked at the girl with the blue hair, the girl from the celebration. She was blurry for some reason. The Diamond Blade disipated and so did the pressurized air. Reddo blinked and his face felt wetter than it was. His hands brushed his face and he looked at it, covered in blood and another clear liquid. Tears.

"I..." What he had just done was now crashing down on him. It was true, maybe he could kill them, but would he survive the aftermath? The tears were lowing freely now and he couldn't even get out his words when he fell to his knees with his hands on his head, clutching it tightly.

Reddo took deep breaths, slow and heavy thanks to his wind training. After a few, his voice quivered slightly, "N-No..." He took a few more breaths before his voice evened out, and his shaking slowly came to a stop. "No it wasn't." Reddo said as he stood up and wiped his eyes. He'd just broken down in front of a girl, and despite what the house looked like, and what he looked like, and what he had just done, he was still most embarrassed about that. What a disgrace.

"Uhm..." anythign he wanted to do? What did he want to do...? Where could he go? The home he'd lived in for so long had burnt down, and now this one was the only thing left he had to call his own, he couldn't leave it. Simply destroying this house wouldn't be the same as 'them', the ashes would still be there, a new house would be built on this ground, the location would still call him and haunt him.

Running form it was not an option.

"I want to restore it." He said with a slight quiver in his voice. "I want to restore it." He repeated, forcing his voice to be still. Could he explain to her why he would want to stay here where this happened? Could she understand he was facing his fears like he had faced 'them'? It did not matter. "Thank you... and... I did not realize you were the kage now, Ina." He said with a bit of a smile. A hollow smile, near voice of motion, forced to look kind. Strange, he never would have guessed she would be so.. nice to him, despite what she had said to Ace.

A mission with the new Kage. Could he handle that? Then again, she didn't seem like a kage, she seemed like a normal person. No air of authority about her, nor was there one of superiority, she was comfortable. "I won't tell anyone." Reddo said with a smile after wiping off his face on his dark sleeves. "I guess we could do a mission... Or train... I need to get my mind off this for a while." Reddo remembered something in the house and went back in, dodging the splashes of blood, some of it his, some of it his fathers. Through a maze of mokuton he reached out for his sword and plucked it from it's resting place, locked in between two wooden rods. Sheathing it, he turned and left the house. "Maybe you can use your kage powers to have this place cleaned?" He said with a bit of a laugh.

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Reddo's sat in his kitchen with Lasa at his feet. He was fully clothed and ready for battle, only with his mask turned around to the side so he could have another cup of coffee. He sighed and waited for Ace to arrive. He had left the door to his home unlocked in anticipation.

Helping leaf again. The face of that damn girl and her bird was locked into Reddo's mind. She'd be there. Reddo remained calm though, focused, collected.