Solitude [T|O]

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This thread is Open, but set in Kazue's home. Any may enter if they like, but at least have some reason to do so. Or just invent some bullshit reason. Whichever.

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The tormented girl awoke.

What was the point of such triviality, anyhow?

'You awaken.'

The haunter.

[/b] She responded, instinctively, screwing her eyes even further shut. Correction: Two variables; she was not in the mood for her tormentor's shit today. As ever, the wraith did not listen, hanging about her bed, a spectral image whose terror had long since faded. Now, he was merely a bother to her. 'The days pass; tomorrow, you are twenty years old, a survivor of almost two decades in a world you find most foul.' It went on to bespeak, and Kazue's jaw clenched in irritation. One could never fault Asoya on precision. "Fuck off." She moaned, seeking the refuge of her pillow and burying her head in it. Unseen but heard as the softest whisper of cloth, the purple wraith floated over her and settled down in front of her obstinately closed vision.[/ul]

'Even after twenty years, some things are only awakening for the first time.'

[/i] prophetic messaged intrigued the girl. She frowned over shut eyes, and, reluctantly, opened them.

The skeletal being was observed, peering at her through sightless sockets and poised... oddly expectant. The girl frowned at the apparition; what did it want of her? This was most curious. Usually she awoke to Ariak shouting at her like some maleficent, spectral drill sergeant, berating her for sleeping habits, or else Suolucidir would taunt her for the nature of her dreams, or else Asoya would merely ramble about today's weather and the state of her being. Never this.[/ul]

'POWER.' Boomed a voice.

[/i] was startling. With a bit more energy, Kazue rolled over onto her back to see the red wraith floating above her, staring down. The girl grimaced. Just what was going on here? And why did her eyes sort of... ache? She reached a lazy hand up to rub at her right optic, before scratching some unfortunate itch on her scalp, and again peered up Ariak, who was still there, saying nothing else. "What do you want from me?" She asked, irritably. The sightless, deathly grey of the floating, hooded skull gave her no response. Kazue felt the inclination to shrug, but did so only in her mind; she had not the energy.[/ul]

'Lookit, little Kazue, little Kazue growing up!'

[/i] Kazue's head sagged over her shoulder to see the green wraith, also, hovering motionless and yet still somehow looking excitable. 'Lookit them GLOW, they're GLORIOUS, brothers, seeing things like never before, gonna spy on some things, Kazue, oho, bad things, BAD, BAD THINGS, WHENEVER SHE LIKES, WHENEVER SHE WANTS!'

Miserably, the woman groaned; the volume of the specter's shouts was like a spear to her vulnerable, morning brain. She rolled over again, like some poorly operated marionette, and scraped for her glasses, which sat dutifully at her bedside table. She managed to pinch them, and rolled onto her back, sliding them down onto her eyes, past her ears -[/ul]

And it was only then that it occurred to her that she had been seeing just fine without them.

[/i] with a neon shine that she could not observe, but could somehow... feel. She tore her spectacles from her face and just looked at her hands, perfectly clear in front of her face. In fact, as she squinted, could she almost... see through them? Needless to say, Kazue Mika was alarmed, and only now was her post-sleep daze truly fading. Her breathing accelerated, and the illicit dream - describing the inner workings of which would have earned her a banning from at least one realm - that she had been previously attempting to cling to for some sanctity was snuffed out like a candle flame, forever lost to recollection and replaced by this new miracle.[/ul]

Ayosa chuckled.

[/i] his spectral countenace, she could actually visualize the fullness of her bookcase and all the tomes stacked into it. As she again squinted, terrified only so far as she was fascinated, she found she could actually read their titles with clarity: A Guide to Special and Otherwise Ethereal Regions, Basic Medical Practices & Their Application, The Psychology of a Schizophrenic, Understanding Compulsory Behaviors, Voices of the Mind... They were all there, through the wraith, and she had to actually adjust her focus back to even perceive the wraith's skeletal visage in any capacity... How did she know how to do that?!

The girl flicked her glance back and forth between her audience of three, though they were all oddly silent, terribly unhelpful. Realizing she still had them held up, the girl looked back down at her hands - she could see her sheets beneath her arms, and oh god, her legs beneath those, and her very muscle and bones and her mattress and the carpeted floor and...[/ul]

"MOTHER!"[/justify][/font]

[~Emi~]

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[/b][/u], B, A, S
Skill: Doujutsu
Effect: Allows a full three hundred and sixty (360) degree field of vision and some predictability to physical attacks. Unlike Byakugan, the user sees life in its normal colors during this tech, no details spared. Signs of life, thermal readings and X Ray vision is near perfect. Can also read a determine the difference of a regular shinobi to that of one with a bloodline or if they house any foreign presence by the different chakra waves displayed when observed through Tasukeru. This does not mean one knows the BL right away. Must have encountered the BL before in order to know exactly who they are. The ‘C’ ranked version grants the user up to 50 meters of observing. Each new rank for the Jutsu will add 50 more meters. This can be trained multiple times after all the ranks are achieved in order to add 50 meters onto one’s total. Each extra training is worth an S ranked training.
Special: Although one is born with this jutsu, one must activate the eyes through training.
Drawback: Heavy chakra drain over time, especially when multiple phases of the Tasukeru are accessed. While Taijutsu can be predicted, the Onigami are not designed to have fast twitch muscles. As such, perfect blocking simply won’t happen all the time.
Description: Summoned through will, the scarlet eyes of the Onigami will grow a very vibrant neon red and all life becomes theirs to fully observe. Once activated, the user has a three hundred and sixty (360) degree field of vision, as well as the ability to see into other people’s bloods. For those allied to an Onigami, this jutsu is revered for making the Onigami known as the ultimate scouts.
Limit: Must be part of the Onigami BL. [/ul]

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[/i], as well, applying the same sort of principle as focusing on an object around the border of one's vision, but it was as though her peripherals had been giving an extra dimension, and it was entirely not okay.

Actually, could she not simply... turn her vision to the left, and peer through the wall to her mother's room beyond, to see if she was there? The most horrifying factor of that question was that the answer was almost definitely in the affirmative. Dare she? 'TURN!' Ariak commanded, and whether he spurred her out of fear or something more direct, her head slowly twisted sideways, and she found that, if she sort of squinted - was she squinting, or just concentrating? - she could see past her tomes, past the type on their pages, to the backing of the bookcase, to the wall, and even beyond...

Though the form was vague and sort of clouded, as though through fogged glass, the woman saw the vague outline of a figure that could only be Sora Mika turn tail from whatever business she had been attending in her own confines and heard her burst out her door. From thereon in, Kazue was easily able to track her mother's movements till she came through Kazue's own, largely superfluous, door. The shock and alarm on her face was evident; the matriarch often presided over her daughter with insistence, but this did not mean that she was not concerned for her right down to the deepest levels of her being.[/ul]

"Kazue, what's the ma-"

[/b] The older woman stammered, which was not at all conciliating. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?!!" The girl shrieked her demand in utter fright, her patience non-existent at this point. Sora lowered herself down to the bedside, and gently, the two of them both transfixed, softly brushed at her daughter's cheek with her thumb, searchiing her eyes as though for... meaning.

Somewhat calmed by the touch, though still trembling to the core, Kazue repeated her question. "What's wrong with them...?"

Sora dropped her hand, and looked at her daughter with an odd expression, almost... apologetic, but at the same time, was it... elated?[/ul]

"Kazue... you have... the eyes of our bloodline..."[/justify][/font]

[~Emi~]

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[/s], B[/u], A, S
Skill: Doujutsu
Effect: Allows a full three hundred and sixty (360) degree field of vision and some predictability to physical attacks. Unlike Byakugan, the user sees life in its normal colors during this tech, no details spared. Signs of life, thermal readings and X Ray vision is near perfect. Can also read a determine the difference of a regular shinobi to that of one with a bloodline or if they house any foreign presence by the different chakra waves displayed when observed through Tasukeru. This does not mean one knows the BL right away. Must have encountered the BL before in order to know exactly who they are. The ‘C’ ranked version grants the user up to 50 meters of observing. Each new rank for the Jutsu will add 50 more meters. This can be trained multiple times after all the ranks are achieved in order to add 50 meters onto one’s total. Each extra training is worth an S ranked training.
Special: Although one is born with this jutsu, one must activate the eyes through training.
Drawback: Heavy chakra drain over time, especially when multiple phases of the Tasukeru are accessed. While Taijutsu can be predicted, the Onigami are not designed to have fast twitch muscles. As such, perfect blocking simply won’t happen all the time.
Description: Summoned through will, the scarlet eyes of the Onigami will grow a very vibrant neon red and all life becomes theirs to fully observe. Once activated, the user has a three hundred and sixty (360) degree field of vision, as well as the ability to see into other people’s bloods. For those allied to an Onigami, this jutsu is revered for making the Onigami known as the ultimate scouts.
Limit: Must be part of the Onigami BL. [/ul]

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...Dojutsu?

[/b] The poor girl begged, the fugue state of her paralyzation leaving her momentarily uncomprehending. Sora endearingly clasped the girl's hands with her own, her own carmine eyes meeting the cardinal of her daughter's much brighter, effluent optics, held wide and afraid, which now faintly bathed her features in their glow. The mother was more composed than her brood, but the ease in her eyes was marginally fabricated. It was an easy task for such a long-standing medic to mask their emotion, and even besides chakra-based skills, there were certain techniques that could lull a patient into a sense of security.[/ul]

This was perhaps an occasion in which this was necessary. Sora knew her daughter to be trepidacious in even relatively comfortable circumstance.

[/i]. "Don't be afraid, Kazue. It is not a permanent thing; it is a thing of your control." "I CAN'T -" "Settle, now. You know what a bloodline is?" The woman asked rhetorically, but assurance in one's knowledge was often comforting. Kazue knew she was being pampered, then, but still she nodded. "Well, I scarcely believed it to be true, but... your grandmother told me that our family is descended from a strain of the Onigami; hence our eyes. Your grandmother seemed to be able to use the Tasukeru - that's the dojutsu's title - in a very limited capacity. She fascinated me with little tricks when I was a girl, but I do not think she has the ability to fully utilize it. You, though...

"...I never saw her eyes glow like that." She finished, looking quite fascinated. This was another revelation to Kazue; her eyes were glowing? She began to pant again, where she had been absorbed into her mother's speech, and despite Sora's attempts to calm her with gentle hushes, she found she could not. Above her bed - oh god, she could see them without looking at them, how were they so clear in her mind, like more than just an imagination, but an image? - the three wraiths hovered, silent, and they had never seemed more like reapers of death, scythes or no. "WHAT DO I DO?" The girl demanded, frantic again, and Sora answered.

"Kazue, I know you believe yourself to be a terrible medic, but if you ever used the full extent of your abilities, you would nearly surpass me, and even if you will not accept that, your chakra control is, at the very least, adept. The Tasukeru is, as far as I know, a chakra-based technique, involving, obviously, your eyes. It is simply a more involuntary one. You can control it, Kazue. Just like any other technique." Said the mother, and grasped her daughter's hands a bit more firmly, smiling encouragingly.

Upon being granted this lifeline, filled with a bit of involuntary pride-born confidence from that speech that she had not the energy to reject, Kazue's breathing slowed, and she felt a temporary, experimental calm settle over her. Of course, she had to try. She turned her head away, almost without thinking, so she was merely facing straight forward. The comfort of her parent's warm grasp allowed her this brief equilibrium, in which, as random slices of the world around her - above, below, behind, in front of, underneath, through - all drifted about in her sight, none overlapping any others, she tried to bring the racing panic of the situation to a halt, and examine it for what it properly was.

Oh god. Oh god, oh god, oh god.[/ul]

"O-k-kay. I'll... I'll try."[/justify][/font]

[~Emi~]

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Exit.