1 Horizons (Private/Training/No Kill) Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:33 am
Tenmei
D-rank
"The Mizukage is dead"
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Four. Little. Words.
That's all it took to turn her new, meticulously crafted world and turn it upside down. To send it spiraling.... ricocheting back to those first few days and force her to walk those same scorched footprints once more. It didn't matter how much time she put in to releasing that furnace breath by breath. It didn't matter how much effort went in to controlling those searing fumes. All of it... every piece she had put together over the years came apart like a dying land under the force of a volcano. And Tenmei Sotsuji never saw it coming.
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It was about three days ago when Tenmei returned from restful walk across the untouched shoreline of Kiri's borders.
With bag slung casually over shoulder, skin of sand clinging to her calves, creeping to the damp bunched up trousers, gathered around her knees: It had been a long time since she wore that careful smile.
It felt good.... freeing. Almost like she was back to being her better self.
Without breaking her stride, the ebony haired female dropped the bag by the table top, placed the tea on the old wooden bench...and just as she was sliding the selection of novels back on to the dust free shelf, she heard it.... The multi toned voice parting it's ways through her thoughts. . It wasn't until the sounds had dissipated in to a vivid memory, did Tenmei understand just what those four little words meant.
And then everything changed.
Everything... Stopped.
The chaotically fluctuating heart beat, no longer sure of it's pattern. The gasping breaths only just refreshing her lungs. The nerves frozen by the late Kiri winds. All of it. All of her. It just.....stopped. Paused.
A marble stilled statue trapped in the moments of a partly opened door. Unable to move. Unable to breath......
That was until the shock was exhaled from her system and the painful reality broke through the numbing haze that kept her standing there.
She was cold. For the first time since that day; Tenmei was cold. Frigid. Freezing. Her trembling hands, as white as the sand around her ankles, could barely move to grab the wall as her muscles finally unclenched and she was lost to the ground.
It didn't matter that the open door was letting in the beginnings of an on coming storm, or that the cold that had wrapped around her had developed in to a deep ache. All Tenmei could do was crawl over on to a blanket and sleep until she was still once more.
Then Tenmei brought hell to the forest of Kirigakure
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She barely remembered the days after the incident.
Locked inside, curled up with woolen blankets and corner shadows. Hiding from the whispers that crept up to the window sill and snuck through the cracks. Avoiding the eyes that chased her to the front door. Even the walls with their scorch marks and stains seemed to judge her for the damage she had done. It seemed that the only place where the female could seek solace was the blissfully numbing world of sleep. The quiet abyss hidden beneath the state of dreaming where the images, the voices.....the cold couldn't reach her.
For the past two days Tenmei had barely eaten. She had stopped drinking, stopped going out. She had stopped caring about the people that stared through the cracks. Until that one day when yet again, things changed. But this time it wasn't voices or feelings that had forced her path. It was a rock. A simple hunk of solidified earth flying through her window and cracking in to the treated old table.
It wasn't much...but it was enough. A decision had to be made. And with the mocking rumours drifting about that she was alive....
The Special jounin new what she needed to do. She called for the twins and left a simple, blunt message.
"I'm leaving for a while. I will come back.
I just.....I just need some space.....Time. I'm sorry"
And that was how she found herself now.
Moving around the house, shoving clothes in to a bag, food, bottles of water; Finding which books to carry and which to pack up in the heavy wooden chest was the hardest choice she would have to make.
She packed up the tea set in a small wooden box and made sure both sword and knife were sharp and ready. Bandages, blanket, bangles, and the food for her pet. Within an hour the ebony haired girl was all packed and ready to go. Just as soon as she had....
A knock on the door?
Tenmei carefully adjusted the sheet over the table and dusted off her hands with edge of her shirt. She turned took one step...and paused. The only people to knock on her door were messengers and strangers. Neither which she had spoken to since that incident those days ago.
But today....today had been different. Full stomach, moving around, clear and direct plans for the horizon. The idea of saying goodbye didn't terrify her as it had done before. It was a new day. A good day.
...and then she opened the door.
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