Bluest of skies

[Xixi]

Vellenous ventures out upon her own. Though this world is far different from what she is used to. The trees are not as tall as in Rain and in Leaf. The ground seems moist most of the time because of the mist that coats everything. There is also a chill in the air she just isn't accustomed to.

All in all it would perhaps be the least expected location that someone from the Village hidden in the Rain might actually come to. The land is just too far the opposite. And the humidity here is a cool humidity. Almost as if the air can freeze at any moment. According to some of the things that were explained to her by the couple this morning, that land could become far colder at a moment's notice. This alone makes the huntress a bit more alert to what is going on around her.

Her own senses seem a bit pealed and apprehensive as she moves a long. She feels as though if she doesn't pay attention, that she might miss some important detail in weather change. Such as it is, she almost misses some up turned ground and makes herself stop some thirty miles from the Inn.

A careful examination shows hoof marks of various degrees, as if a herb of caribou or deer came through here. She switches her hands to Hell's Ears and closes her eyes, sending her chakra to her ears to listen at the most mute sound that would indicate how far away the prey is. After a few minutes of normal forest/grass land like noises she goes back to her tracking.

On occasion as she follows the over turned earth, she would look around with the skill fierce sights to try and find any signs of the herd so that she may kill a few for her benefactors back at the Inn. Still she follows the herd, heading north.

[Xixi]

The terrain changes periodically as she moves along. The ground isn't that even and that is to be expected, though she is used to the forest covered surroundings, she manages alright. Hiking up a group of small hills, she finds herself on a platu. With a level surface that seems to be elevated, she would focus Chakra to her eyes as she checks her surroundings. Her eyes would narrow down and the Eagle Eye technique would become active. Shoving her sight forward by several yards. She looks forward, then to her left and then right before the jutsu fails and her vision goes blurry.

Rather then wait for her vision to clear, the kunoichi would then use a handsign and conjure her chakra to her ears while she waits for her eyes to come back to her. Her hearing extends for a large distance. And as her eyes solve their problem, she would release the Hells Ears and move on.

Knelling at the sight of some tracks, she would run her palm along them. Where the ground is soft, the track itself seems to lead off into no where. Already a small failure in what she has always meant as a hunter. It is obvious to the girl that she would have to shift her ways on how to deal with this terrain.

She would sit now among the misty ground, as if trying to get her mind to adjust to the major change. the ground is soft under her due to the moisture in the air. Also the cold air allows her to see her breath. Now with a death march over her head, Xixion has no choice but to become Vellenous and forget the past. What else can she do? She isn't strong enough to save Rain from herself.

Vellenous would stand up and continue to the north to learn her way around.

[▐Shibu]

::NPC'ing::

There would be one man gracing his presence in this area. Why? It would become almost a mystery towards almost anyone but as he continued to walk he would be around 20 meters of this random girl. Or was it random? Did he have some purpose of walking up on her; did he know who she was? Or was it just some strangers meeting in some odd terrain as this. No real trail so if he didn’t know her, this would become odd in deed. While walking he would have his Katana’s on his right side, well Katana and Wakizashi and they would be clamping together. The sheathes would be clamping together as he would continue to walk. His hands by his sides and his hair down, his footstep calm, slow in pace.

Upon coming closer and closer to this woman he would give out some slight smirk, why? Wasn’t known but one would wonder if he had some bad intention or maybe he just saw someone he knew and just gave out one of those ‘well, look who it is’ type of faces. Or, he could have simply been doing this just too well, be doing it. None the less he would be walking behind her still and upon getting no less then 10 meters from her he would speak. Simple words would grace his lips, exiting towards the woman, younger then himself.

“Are you lost?”

Very simple, but what did the question mean? Was she supposed to be somewhere else or did this man imply that she shouldn’t be here to begin with? Again, the questions would arise and the answers would not be given.

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[Xixi]

She hadn't been walking but only a few short moments when the voice rang out. Being missing, one would perhaps think that her run had come to a premature end, but the the voice....

"Are you lost?”

It seems to echo through her mind like a small gateway unto a past that seemed far too distant for the girl to remember. Some familiar yet a sense of surprise that she would ever hear it again. Had it truly been that long ago. The long bow would fall from her shoulder almost as if forgotten.

Somewhat defensively, she would turn to face the one who had spoken and the emerald eyes that make people think predator, suddenly widen in a sense of recognition. The Kunoichi does know this man...time hadn't really changed him one bit since she had seen him last, but how could it be him...she was only eleven last time she had seen him. Eight years ago.

Vellenous would swallow a bit, "More then you could ever possibly know."

She tries to keep her voice steady, though there still ended up to being some crack to it. To disguise oneself means pretending and right now she isn't doing a very good job with it. Still she would try to recover. "Sorry for the shock. For a second there you looked like someone...." Her voice would train off regardless. What if it is him? My father...there was never any reports of catching him...dead hunters but never any word...

[▐Shibu]

The man would continue walking up towards her more and he would stop around no less then 5 meters. An eye to eye exchange could become as simple as counting to 3 and by this time the smirk had left the smirk had left the mans face. Now he would simply just be looking out her, no emotion so in turn, no sign of what this man was thinking. He would listen to her words, she seemed out of place. A woman with a bow and she seemed scared, or confused, something like this. His thought would make him think she was carrying this bow for show but maybe at the same time, he knew why she was speaking as if she was shocked to begin with. Maybe he had expected this all along, maybe it was like; once you’ve known and seen someone for so long, even in growth you’ll be able to pick them out.

If he did expect that type of speaking from her he wouldn’t show it. If this was some family or friend reunion he would seem like it wouldn’t cross his mind to approach the situation happy, nor sad. Did the man simply not have any emotion or was he just as tough as a rock? Not showing any emotion to anyone he could supposedly have just met. Either way, after hearing her talk he would speak, still not smiling but not seeming angry. He would look at her eyes and have words escape his mouth, almost like he now knew who she was and he didn’t care if she knew that he found out…

“Are you searching for someone? Or something?”

Some slight pause would be met when he said these things; however his attention was to continue. Now however seeming harsher, more like that sensei that trains his students mentally by trying to get in there head. You could say that he had become something of an asshole on these next comments.

“Little ones that aren’t trained should not be roaming this world without guidance… Xixion.”

Now it was time to test, would she seemed shocked again and come off in fear or would she rebound from the so sudden announcement or his saying, that was telling her he knew exactly who she was and possibly the only person that would or could know of her true identity. Upon him saying this however, even if she wasn’t searching for her father, she found him and he wouldn’t allow her to leave without explaining herself she he would use 1 Shunshin to appear towards her left. Simply using his blades would prove too much then what his intention was which was simply to knock her out, and take her with him. So upon flashing at unmatched speeds to her left he would use 2 Sugizous, one with unmatched speed to raise his right hand and then another to make the swift and cutting chop towards her neck.

If landed this should prove to be enough to knock her out cold so he could take her to his home and upon her awakening she would need to answer questions. Questions that will not go unanswered to him.

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[Xixi]

Xixion would take a step back herself but only a step before stopping. His smirk would leave and that would make her slightly concerned in that alone. With the fact that she is on her own, it would no doubt make him curious enough. But she really should have known that it would be some place like this where he would end up. The cold is actually helping her hide a shiver at this time as the air seems to cut right through her.

“Are you searching for someone? Or something?”

"No", she would say. Her eyes would relax now, almost shedding the shock, "But it would seem that...someone found me." Her hand would shift and she would catch hold of the long bow by the shaft without looking, bringing the weapon to her side and free from her shoulder. His foot falls would bring him within five meters.

She on the other hand would take a step back, perhaps the intimidation that comes with memory. The fact that she was raised by anyone other then him and mom because they were always away, but he always seemed intimidating. They few times she has ever seen him she was intimidated. Though according to one of the people the lady would end up bunked with as a child, when she was a baby he did hold her when she was born but she couldn't help but always wonder.

“Little ones that aren’t trained should not be roaming this world without guidance… Xixion.”

Her name being said, she would gasp, recognition complete in that respect. It IS him. But before she could begin to react, her own reflexes a a D rank being far slower the his ranking and the fact that he was a high B rank when he vanished, who knows what he is now, she lose track of him in the time it would take to bring in a breath, a sharp pain would strike her neck.

The ground would rush to meet her falling form as she falls into unconsciousness. Her bow landing at her side.

[▐Shibu]

Her now known father would watch her fall as he stroke her neck. The fast and quick strike had to be something like a bee sting, hitting the neck and then falling unconscious for no more pain, until she had awoken; whenever she did. Before she could fall towards the ground face first, he would stop her. Using another Shunshin he would bend down and have her stomach land against his right shoulder. Once doing so she would fall against his right shoulder and be over that very shoulder. He would rise towards his feet as his right arm would clamp the bottom of her legs so she wouldn’t fall towards this rugged and rough ground and her father would start to walk up this inclined hill that just so happened to be towards the direction of his house.

If she was here that had in fact meant that she had left the village and that would also mean he didn’t know who was after her, so watching over her for now would become a must. So with her over his shoulder he would continue walking with his pace not being slowed down. She was light, lighter then he had first originally thought but none of that mattered. His steps had been bringing him to familiar ground; home to him was just around the corner.

::Exit with Xixion::

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[Xixi]

-Exits with Dad-