[table][row][cell][color=#A1B41B]Location: Training Ground 31[/color][/cell][cell][color=#A1B41B]Gorudo Hikigae[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][center]
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[/center][/cell][cell]Silence.............[i][b][color=#A1B41B]Gasp![/color][/b][/i]Body reflexed and convulsed against his will, sending him forward onto his hands and knees; much like how he was when Koji let go of him. His last moments were still playing in his mind as if it was still happening to him in slow motion. He still felt cold steel on his neck, blood flowing out of his body, his brain still simulating the feeling of what he thought to be his neck being cut. Gorudo was heaving and gasping trying to breathe, his brain still certain that he couldn't. his entire body and senses being consumed by the pull of death [color=#A1B41B]"Na....Na...Naruko! I...I'm Sorry!!"[/color] 

Garudo cried out pathetically, his throat horse and rasp. His whole body felt cold, like the steel that was at his neck, His ears began to start ringing as the many sharp scrapes and clangs of Koji's kunai barrage began to pile on top of Garudo's weakened mental state, things he was trying to block out... began to consume him. desperately heaving air in and out of his body rapidly, tensing the muscles in his neck, combined with the stress and anxiety forced Garudo's body to vomit onto the ground near him, falling off his hands and knees. opening his eyes briefly seeing Naruko's face before falling unconscious a second time. 

But this time...there was space, there was peace, a peace he was attuned to. He felt the warm comfort of his bed. His mother's arms embraced him. There was no sound, no intrusive thoughts crowding his mindscape. A little Garudo began running around with their arms out pretending to fly with his new friend Naruko, which quickly turned into an impromptu game of tag, laughing, the world around him shifted to nighttime. Suddenly Garudo and Naruko were dressed in makeshift ninja outfits, only just a few years older now. [color=orange]"Okay! Garu, dis is a tawp seqwet mission, stwait from the Hokagy himselfs!"[/color] Little Naruko said to him as quietly as she could but wanted to emphasize the seriousness of the mission. Garudo said nothing and gave her a serious nod in return, appropriate to the level of serious seriousness that this mission required. [color=orange]"In your daddies room is a secret thingy that holds all de secrets in the entire woooooorld! I knows because I saws where he puts it, he didn't want anyone seeing where hehehe"[/color] 

Suddenly time seamlessly leaps forward, Garudo and Naruko were ninja crawling across the tatami mat floor of his dad's "meditation" room. Garudo and Naruko gently lifted a loose panel in the floor revealing a secret storage compartment! Garudo's face began to scrunch up in confusion at what he was looking at. Because it currently didn't look like something that had all the secrets in the world. Naruko giggled as she grabbed the magazine titled [i]Bare Kunoichi #17[/i] and just as she held it in her hands his dad burst into the room! 

Suddenly Gorudo awoke again just as his dad was about to lecture them. Gorudo awoke again, a smell filling his nose. He reflexively rose to a sitting position with his knees up. Opening his eyes he could see Naruko and Nijira awake and alive, this sight brought him instant comfort. but that was short-lived as the feelings of his recent traumatic experience began to flood back into his mind. Garudo clenched his hands around his head, trying to push the coldness of death away, but along with that coldness was a strange satisfaction that scared him even more. Similar to the peace of his own dreams. Quiet, solitude, nothingness. Garudo could now fight back against the quiet, feeling his neck was closed made it seep back farther. Quickly searching to find his other wounds have been tended to, he continued to try and gain more ground. 

He felt something in his nose[/cell][/row][/table][right][img]https://i.imgur.com/wkXHBzW.png[/img][/right]