Outside The Amekage's Temporary Office

[kujira]

As Riou entered the village a strange sense of satisfaction seemed come over him. Just seeing familiar faces and buildings seemed to make happiness well up inside him. With smile building on his face Riou strode carefree and happy towards the Amekage's temporary office. Seeing it brought a flash of memories through his mind, the days before he had graduated from the academy when the Amekage had done battle with that missing-Nin and a great part of the village had been destroyed , he had felt so...so....helpless in front of it all. But never again he thought, he was going to go to the Amekage and request that he be given the scrolls to teach himself the most forbidden taijutsu arts....the eight gates........

Approaching the small, but rather imposing building located next to the ANBU headquarters Riou approached the door guarded by two stern looking ANBU members."Hi,I am the genin Riou Genkaku, I come see Amekage-Sama if he will see me,it is about the previous mission and a request to look at the taijutsu scroll archive." Stern faced they both looked at him, masks covering the eyes that were sure to be burrowing into his soul at this very moment. In a clipped tone the one to the left spoke to him" The Amekage is busy with a messanger from Otokagure,you may wait inside and schedule an appointment with the assistant......do not disturb the Amekage's meeting,stay in the waiting room...thats all." Bowing ever so slightly Riou opened the door to the Amekage's office and stepped in.

Walking in slowly Riou gazed around in the drab,functional building,seeing chairs arranged near the wall and a jounin sitting at a desk he surmised this must be the entrance and waiting room,approaching the jounin Riou nervously spoke" uhhhh Hi! I was wondering if I could see Amekage-Sama after his meeting with the messenger from Otokagure is done! I need to be debriefed from my previous mission as I was uh..uhhh...Late! Coming back! Also...I need to talk with him about access to the Taijutsu scroll's in the archives." Eyeing him impassively the Jounin motioned towards the seats "HmmHmm, if the Amekage deigns it appropriete he will talk to you after the messenger has left, he has no other scheduled appointments today so it is up to him. Take a seat and don't speak." Nodding nervously Riou took a seat,clasped his hands and tried to relax.

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[raijutsumi]

Tenshin wandered to the site where the temporary office was, thinking about everything he had gone through in recent days. Each step was a flash of a memory: the academy; his first mission; Arkai and Kami; his clan. Holding the scroll delcaring his mission was finished, he continued following the windy streets to the office, where he saw the two ANBU standing outside. They both recognised him, giving him a stern look, then requesting to see the scroll in his hand. 'It's just a payment collection for the mission.'

They gave him a crude look and let him pass reluctantly - both of them had been among the guards he and his team had been watched by during the aftermath of their "disobedient" actions weeks ago. There was still some animosity towards him and Arkai, but he let that slide - one day it would be fine again, and he would not let them get into his head like this.

Eventually he reached the waiting area outside Kini's office, seeing that the door was open at the moment he arrived - inside he saw a Jounin he did not recognise with another ninja, and Kininata standing behind his desk. Guess a meeting just started then. He turned to see Riou, one of the newer additions to the Genin lists from the academy, and joined him in waiting.

'Hi there, I'm Tenshin.'

[kujira]

Hands still nervously clasped Riou watched as another genin entered the waiting room. Then the new genin turned to Riou and sat next to him in the waiting chairs." Hi there, I'm Tenshin", almost to excitedly Riou extended his hand in a handshake Hi! I'm Riou!" Clasping hands firmly Riou was happy to meet another ninja of the village. This tenshin had the look of an experienced ninja, you could tell from his eyes there had been things he had seen......withdrawing his hand Riou was about to start conversation when he yawned!

" O geeze haha! I'm sorry I must be getting tired, maybe its time for bed haha!" then Riou yawned again.....then again... Something wasn't right here. Brow furrowed Riou pushed of his chair, standing up unsteadily. Eyeing Tenshin with confused eyes Riou saw something was affected him also. Then a harsh melody flooded through the room, it was entrancing and drew Riou in like a fat spider spinning her web. Collapsing Riou felt his eyes roll up into the back of his head as the Jounin and ANBU member quickly attempted to help him.He wanted to tell them to run , to protect the Amekage but it was all lost in the all encompassing void that he was rushing into.

Soon Riou awoke and a harsh orange light assaulted his eyes, slowly opening his eyes Riou was confronted by the horrible visage of what his world was. The flat landscape rolled on for miles on a plain of ash and fire. The air smelt of brimstone and sulphur assaulting his nostrils with a powerful acrid stench. The heat was oppresive and unbearable almost making Riou flinch. Dark grey clouds covered the sky letting no single ray of sunlight go forth if there even was a sun....some ungod like light kept everything illuminated, here and there amonst the plains the ground would crack and hot liquid magma would pour forth and wrack the landscape. This was all Riou saw when suddenly an intense pain hit his legs.

Looking downward Riou was horrified to see his legs start to melt! Pooling and dripping the flesh melted like glue fusing with the barren landscape. Screaming in pain Riou began to let tears run down his face. Suddenly the pain stopped, Riou's entire legs and part of his lower torso was fused with the ground, a cold harsh lingering pain only where his legs were. Then out of nowhere Riou saw movement in front of him. From the ground something began to form as if it almost intangible. Then it began to take shape.......a horrifying shape...one that infested dreams , one that should never be real. A terrifying Oni stood in front of him , cruel eyed, horrible visage , leering smile , the very stuff of nightmares stood in front of him and approached, holding wicked saw like weapons in its both arms. Then a loud cackle alerted him to the fact that there was one behind him.....then another one to the side! Resolutely Riou tried not to scream as they approached him, but as soon as their cold weapons touched his flesh it was no good....he was stuck in a world of nightmares.

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[raijutsumi]

Tenshin smiled at him, being polite, and then something... odd happened. He started getting unusually tired; at first he thought it was because of the exertions from early, but within moments he realised it was unnatural. He turned and saw the genin next to him reacting in a similar way, but before he could make any real attempts to protect himself, he lost perception of the world around him...

...and found himself in the central chambers of the Sansutomu Clan at the Village. At first, he was confused, not understanding what was going on. Then he felt the solid, jaw-breaking fist hit him squarely, knocking him across the hall. 'That's what traitors get.' Before Tenshin could hope to recover, Kouushimei was next to him and pummeling his ribs... shuriken between his fingers. He screamed in pain with every strike, barely hearing his words of "you let me die" coming with each punch. The torture of bladed punches came all over his body, and his eyes caught glimpses of his fellow Clan mates cheering on Kouushimei as he continued to slowly tear the flesh from his body...

[Arkai]

[I hope this isn't metagaming, and my reason is that in Genkaku's post he said

Screaming in pain Riou began to let tears run down his face

. But if this is, I'll delete this. And I might hear the flute, but probably not.]

Arkai ran, his heavy spear and his katana making clinking sounds on each other. A scream had atractted him here. Not a scream of happiness or sadness, but a scream of someone being tortured. He jumped past people, and knocked over children. He slid into the area, and witnessed Genkaku and Tenshin on the ground. They were asleep, but something was wrong. They were... In pain? He couldn't possibly understand. What was happening?

His answer came from the tent. There was music playing, and it seemed to be the problem. A deep trance came over Arkai, and he no power to stop it. He managed to throw a single kunai at the building, where he thought the noise was coming from. At the very least, it would serve as a weapon. He fell, and hoped that the knife would work. But he had no time to ponder anything else, as his world turned into the world of the dream once more, with the white Arkai fighting him once more.

[Passed out, and under genjutsu. Watch out Kaj, inter-thread attack!!!]

[raijutsumi]

Tenshin roused slowly from the effects of the music, his mind addled with the images of his dead comrade torturing him for the first moments of his awakening. Riou was still on the ground at this time, and it seemed Arkai had arrived, also being caught by its effects. 'Kini!' His glance towards the office revealed an empty room, and all he could do for a moment was stare in shock. They took him from right under our eyes...

He quickly entered, seeing Hougatsu had been slain, and swore loudly. He left the office and started jostling both Riou and Arkai to wake them from their slumber, and hoped that something could be done. The Amekage had been kidnapped... again. And He found himself in the position of being involved in recovering him... again.

[Arkai]

The torturous dream had begun to fade, and slowly Arkai awoke. He managed to pull himself up from the ground, and look for the sorce of the music once more. But it was gone. What had happened?

"Kini!" Came Tenshin's voice. He whipped around, and saw his friend's face. He followed him to the temporary office, then gulped. Chunnin Hogatsu was spread-eagled on the floor, his head had clearly been mutilated. But the thing that horrified him more than that was the fact that... Kininata was gone.

He could now hear his heart pounding like a drum. This was crap. He could barely hold his emotions together before but now... There was only one thing he could do. He nodded to Tenshin, before taking two scrolls of paper and something to write with out of the desk. He copied down this message:

Dear Allies,

I would hope that our alliance still holds firm, because now it would benifit us more than ever. Our Amekage, Kininata Hyouketsu has been captured. We will need any assistance you can give us, it will be greatly rewarded. Be warned, our enemies are stronger than us, provide ninja whom are also strong.

Sincerely, Arkai Chikaraoni

He then ran down and out to the bird cages. He took two hawks, tied the letters to each of their legs, then sent them out in two directions. One to Kusagakure, one to Konohagakure. Then he took a deep breath, and went to the mission board.

[kujira]

From the darkness Riou's eyes fluttered open taking in the surroundings of the Amekage's office. Groggily he stood up and Saw Arkai and Tenshin hurriedly looking through the office. The office was devoid of the ANBU guards and the single Jounin secretary , no doubt they were already pursuing who ever had attacked the Amekage's office.....The Amekage! Hurriedly Riou got to his feet following Arkai and Tenshin. He just got to the open office door when they rushed out, peering inside he saw the cold lifeless corpse of Hogatsu. Holding back the scream that built within his throat he met eyes with Arkai and Tenshin and he understood what had happened....the Amekage was gone! Not knowing what to do Riou left the office in a daze wandering into the streets of the village.

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OOC: My character will be pretty easy to find, he's in a park near the building in case you need him for saaaay....a mission to rescue the Amekage?

[Masakuni]

Shiro's Shadow Clone, transformed to appear like a rain nin, looked around. It smirked. It observed the surroundings, taking in the various ninja around. They had noticed the kage's capture at least. It seemed that some sort of organization was occurring. In particular, the Shadow Clone noted two hawks, each bearing scrolls, exiting the office. It smirked, continuing to observe the actions of the Rain ninja.

Even if they somehow discovered it's identity and killed it, all it had learned would be passed on to the true Shiro. It smirked. Truly, a wonderful technique...

[remix]

[ Wow, that was major.. god modding?

Or was it autoing..? Im confused.

And Metagaming, I believe.

[The Asko]

All of a sudden as the clone on the missing nin stood in the clear the small tip of a blade could be seen sticking out of his chest. And in the other side of it stood Haru holding the shaft of his claymore. The boy had his chakra warmed up and was ready to fire off any jutsu he had. Well well well, what is a missing nin from snow doing here in the rain. doing some scouting no dout. since your going to poof away and bring this information back to the origanal ninja tell him I'm gonna hunt him down and kill him myself. after these words left his lips the clone poofed away.

Haru went and found arkai in the building that had obviously bee ransacked. What append in here and were is Amekage Sama.

DENIED

There is NO WAY you could know he was from Snow. That is Meta-gaming. There is also NO WAY you could magically appear with your blade through his chest without allowing him to counter.

Either re-post by the forum rules fairly, or don't post at all, because this doesn't fly with me, or any other decent member.

[remix]

[ I'll be clear, due to the fact this was mostly done while you were all asleep-- none of you know any of my allies. Thus, Saigo remains hidden, aswell as Kaj, Shiro, and Knoll. You haven't seen them, and you don't know where my hideout is. ]

[colbaltknight]

ya sorry I shouldv'e read it before I posted i'll delete.

[fina]

Nearby the gates leading into the secret parts of the rain, a messenger hawk would fly by, dropping a very important message intended for the originator of this political conversation, Arkai Chikaraoni.

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Arkai,

Life isn’t hard just for you; Kusagakure currently suffers similar dire fates, although nothing unfortunate such as the kidnapping of your leader. Although supplying you with able bodied troops right now is hard due to our own personal agenda, we will be willing to consider a joint operation, but only after the proper reconosaince has been done on the situation, and the identity and location of the kidnappers are revealed. I’m sorry if this isn’t what you expected to hear, but for the moment, it’s all we can spare. More to come in the near future.

Stay strong,
Council of Kusagakure

[raijutsumi]

Tenshin let his mind return to the present, taking in the situation more accutely; whomever was truly responsible for the kidnapping was strong, at least as strong as the Cloud Nin that destroyed the Tower... and likely had help from within. The Jounin who had been here - Saigo - was nowhere in sight, and was the most likely suspect of the attack, as were the two who were here from other villages; three at a minimum, one at least Jounin level in strength, skill and experience.

Turning to see the bustling traffic now running around the Village, Tenshin started running back to his home in order to grab his equipment, as little as it was, and prepare to head out from the Village. Scouts would be needed to find the hide out of these villains, and the eyes of the Sansutomu would be valued among any other during this search.

[Exit]

[Masakuni]

Shiro's Shadow Clone watched the nins continue to run about. He noticed a hawk flying overhead, no doubt a returning messenger hawk. He began to walk towards it leisurely. Perhaps he could procure the scroll...

(If no one picks up that scroll by 2 PM GMT - 5:00, I'm going to claim it.)

[logix]

[ Dood, no one saw Saigo even go inside the Office, nor was his companions seen. <<;; kthnx.

[Masakuni]

Shiro's Shadow Clone reached down and plucked the waterproof scroll from the wet ground. It had taken him sometime to reach where the scroll had dropped. It was a very secluded part of the village, almost unreachable.

He read the scroll quickly, then smirked. It seemed that the Rain Nin had requested the help of the Kusakage. He memorized the contents of the message quickly, then formed a few hand seals. A chill of normal strength ice crept over the message, freezing it stiff. Shiro's clone then crushed it in his hands, grinding it into powder. He smirked, then departed quickly.

-Exit Shadow Clone-

Kuri Buki
Rank: "E" "D"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates an ice weapon of any shape or size, depending on the amount of chakra the user has, from a body of water. The weapon's liquid-like structure is an excellent medium for sound and can use sound at a much larger capacity than just with your bare hands.
Special: -dragon- -rat- -dog-
Drawback: -Requires sufficient water per rank-
Description: The user summons up water from a near by body of water, the size of a fist; the water can then be shaped into a weapon of any shape, and any size depending on the amount of chakra the user has. Once the shape and size of water is determined, it is hardened into a dense ice, as if it was an actual weapon.
Limit: Blood limit of Haku
* E: minimal chakra: kunai sized weapons that are somewhat brittle
Estimated water needed: cubic foot
* D: small chakra: Any weapon creatable using two cubic feett of space, solid as ice
Estimated water needed: two cubic feet