As soon as he grabbed her, she felt a change in his personality, perhaps this was the reason that he didn’t use it very often, or at least very often around her. She felt the pain in her leg and when she drove the needle into the jutsu and it ‘popped’ She breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked to his skin, it seemed like it was peeling off, and she would need to repair his wounds soon or it would get out of control, spiral into something that he couldn't tame anymore. She grit her teeth against the pain in her own wound. She looked between him and his wounds, feeling torn between helping him and the duel that they were enjoying, and her blood boiled, burned inside of her. It was a war drum that told her to keep fighting, don’t lose no matter what. Don’t back down till he surrenders!
She shook her head, closing her eyes and forgetting her surroundings for a moment, a long and deep breath filling her lungs and when she let it out she opened her eyes. No, it wasn’t going to be like that. It was a sparring match. Best not to give into her short fuse.
He’d ensnared her. Suddenly his breath hitched. His eyes were wild. He could swear in these moments. It was like he had no control. Like instinct ruled over his mind, and he was just a bystander. Her own wound started to flake off, sending black ash into the air. Just what was this jutsu?
Xion complemented her and she smiled a bit, a wry smile was all that she could muster as she still thought that he had the intention of continuing. The smell in the air was that of the bodies that Takao had left in his wake. How many did he kill? How many did konoha kill in order to slake his thirst for… what, vengeance? Doubt crept into her face as she felt torn between the past and the present. The past roared its way into her vision, into her hearing, and all she could see and hear was that battleground. Shaking herself visibly she nodded, “Thank you. I have been practicing. It’s been a while since we got that coffee. Perhaps the next time we spar, you’ll far have surpassed me. It seems to be this way with the world. One wave rises and another rises to meet it.”
Then he said something odd, something that threw her off balance. What did he say? Did she exhibit violence? Or perhaps that was not… what he meant? She looked tenuously towards him as the tendril shot out of the boy’s back and buried itself in the ground. He said that it would be probably bad for them to continue, and, looking him over, she nodded. “I agree, I think we should end it with the next move.” She rushed towards him, making hand seals. She was going to surprise him. These were the hand seals for her Guanyin Sutures, Ram, Boar, Snake, Snake, Boar, and she rushed towards him. The technique would heal his wounds, but she didn’t want to tell him that, she wanted to show him a good thing, perhaps prolong the duel a bit.
It was because she wanted a good fight out of him, and she had used her crux de grace before she even had started the battle. Silly of her, might she add, because she wanted to test his skills. She rushed at him, at her highest speed and tripped over a root, tumbling and landing face first, knocking herself out. Her eyes went white.
Outside of her head, it looked like Chiaki had fallen flat on her face, and while she had knocked herself out, giving Xion the technical ‘win’ a war raged in her thoughts. For what happened before in the war brimmed to the surface during the duel, and now it raged behind her closed eyelids.
- 18+ Gore. PTSD dreams.:
“I need you to treat that man over there.” What? What man, what man was he talking about. The burned man outstretched his hand and his jaw fell off and she screamed, she screamed but no one could hear her. Whipping around she was caught by the nice kunoichi that she had been saved by. The pools of her eyes swallowing her whole, and she dropped into them, deep deep into them, deep into the cave where she was rescued by the otters. She looked around and manifested a red senbon to see. A figure loomed over her, the burned man. She tried to scream as he smacked her to the side with his bony hand, sending her into the water. The water was cold. It was cold and she couldn’t breathe.
She sat upright in a hospital bed, wearing nothing but a hospital gown. Looking around, she saw the people she had treated in the war, and then the man that had begged her to kill him. She was teleported back to the battlefield, sitting over him, but still in a hospital gown. "K-kill m-me.." They asked, looking up and gasping for air, "Kill me and let me die for Konoha." She looked around, "Medic! Medic!" Another, more experienced ninja looked over and just shook their head at her. The face twisted into something not of this world. Something horrifying and filled with too many teeth. The eyes melted out of their head, leaving only the visage of the burned man. She looked back to the man who gripped her arm almost to the point of breaking, "Do it!" He grit his teeth and stared into her eyes. The sheen of sweat that beaded on his grey skin let her know that he was ready to die, and was already dying no matter her own medical skill. "I can still sav-" she was cut off by his whimpering moan. The moan turned into a laugh, and then a cackle, and then the man’s face started to melt slowly, bit by bit until the burned man was the only thing left.
"Right." She set her jaw, and then Chiaki took her first life by plunging a kunai into the man's heart, feeling the tendons around it snap under her weight. Then she looked at him, he laughed louder. The laughter resounded in her dream-ears. This was all wrong, he was supposed to die right? She grit her teeth and threw him to the ground. A terrifying, horrifying scream, half man half beastial scream cut through her unconscious dream, resounding all throughout the land of nod, and she knew it well. It was the sound of the dying man. The burned man.
Speech was beyond him, reason was beyond him, and all that he could feel was pain. Chiaki looked on in horror for another scream and then took out her kunai and plunged it deep into his skull. A shriek filled the air as she did so and the man clawed at his face, raking the handle of the kunai and the back of her hand as she drove it in, her face a mask of raw rage, hatred, fear, and disgust. She had no idea if this was a leaf ninja, or whether it was a Kumo ninja, but she wanted it dead. Wanted the screaming to end. Wanted him to stop the high pitched inhuman noise that he was making.
Her kunai retreated and she stabbed him in the other eye, then the throat, then the chest, and then the face a couple more times. He stopped moving after the second stab, the clearing was all but mercifully quiet though, the screams and moans of the dying permeated the area and where his voice was quiet, more rose to meet the crescendo that raked at Chiaki’s ears. She covered her ears and started crying, holding herself over the burnt man’s corpse, great sobs running through her from the base of her head to her tailbone.
The burned man got up, dusted himself off, which also took off chunks of his skin, his muscle, and his liquified fat. He gave her a look, one of confusion before it twisted into a mask of malevolent glee. He screamed at her again, in rage, in hurt, in anguish and in malicious joy.
She screamed along with him. She could only scream, scream as loud as she could. He gripped her head hard, the bones digging into her cheeks, the smell of burning flesh overpowering all the senses. She looked into where his eyes had been, the whites of them boiled like eggs, and she screamed. He screamed back and then he took his jaw and bit into her face. She reeled in pain, trying to pull away, but he held her there, chewing the part of her face he had bitten off, then spat it out and went in for another bite, this time, one of her eyes.
She pulled away at him frantically, desperately trying to escape him. The people that she had killed on the battlefield because she couldn’t save them started to appear behind him. In a panic she called out for them to help, “Help Help me! He has gone mad! Help me!” Then they all smiled, a malevolent smile that the burned man had made and they all screamed in unison like the burned man and then they all laughed as his teeth sank into the skin above her eye, and below.
((TLDR: Chiaki has dreams of the war.))
She woke with a start and pushed herself off of the ground. Looking around she had broken into a cold sweat and her eyes flashed with fear. What was she doing here? Who was she attacking?
Chiaki’s palms sweated and her hands shook. Her whole body was shaking, and she gripped her head, taking a deep breath, trying to calm down. It was only a dream. Only a dream. She couldn’t save them now. Deep - She inhaled - breath - she exhaled. Opening her eyes she wove the hand seals again for guanyin sutures, this time, applying them to herself before gesturing for Xion to come over to her. If he did, she would treat his wounds as well with another iteration of guanyin sutures,
“I am sorry. I must have tripped.” She sounded embarrassed.
“All I know is, you won. If that had been a real battle, I would be dead. So congratulations.” A bright smile leapt to her face as she closed her eyes and looked xion’s way.
She hoped that, in closing them and presenting her brightest smile, she might fool him into thinking all was well in her mind. All was well with her.
“I admit it’s my loss.” She sighed and looked to the ground,
“But I want a rematch whenever you’re ready.” This time a grin bubbled to the surface, untainted by the previous fever dream that had plagued her,
“alright?”WC: 4052
Jutsu used:
Guanyin sutures x 3-5 uses.
Name: Guanyin Sutures
Origin: Personal Creation
Rank: C rank
Type: Offensive/Supplementary.
Element: N/A
Range: Touch
Specialty: Medical Ninjutsu
Duration: N/A
Cooldown: N/A
Hand Seals: Ram, Boar, Snake, Snake, Boar
Description: The user pays 15 chakra and weaves the hand seals for the jutsu. Sutures spring from the user’s fingertips and they must place a finger to the target. The sutures will wrap around the victim’s wound and close it up to a C-ranked wound. If used with polarization, this suture will create an incision on a part of the body of the user’s choosing, the sutures spreading to that area and ripping the tissue apart in that area 3 cm deep over a 3 cm long area. The user can heal 1 instance of a C ranked jutsu or wound or two instances of a D ranked jutsu or wound.
|EXIT THREAD! To be continued in a different thread!!|Using word count to train:
- Sixteen pillar bind:
Name: Lightning Release: Sixteen Pillar Bind (雷遁・十六柱しばり ~ Raiton: Jūrokuchū Shibari)
Origin: Library
Rank: A-rank
Type: Defensive
Element: Raiton
Range: 80m
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 1 post
Hand Seals: Monkey > Snake > Boar > Snake
Description: After weaving the required seals the user places their hand on the ground and sends their chakra through the ground at a speed of 80 m/s. Loads of pillars rise out of the ground and create an oven like structure where the inside of has a radius of 40 meters. The walls are sturdy, are present on all sides, and require two technique of equal rank or below in order to be broken. Furthermore, if a jutsu interacts with this jutsu and it's capable of interacting twice (example: chidori/rasengan) the first one is negated. This effect can only occur once. Finally if the user pays the activation cost at the beginning of the next post the structure will remain standing.
- Plasma barrier:
Name: Lightning Release: Plasma Barrier (雷遁・荷電障壁殻 ~ Raiton: Purazuma Bōru)
Origin: Library
Rank: A-rank
Type: Defensive
Element: Raiton
Range: Self
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 3 posts
Hand Seals: Snake > Ox > Tiger > Snake
Description: After weaving the required seals the user exudes raiton chakra. This chakra exudes to a maximum of 1 meter away from the user and is capable of defending against a single technique of up to a rank higher.