Blue Demon

Naruto: True Peace. [ALWAYS ACCEPTING] [Cool guys club inside]

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Oh I will be. Let me reply to Blue and then I'm on to a sheet.

@Kal-El

I love me some replies :D

And speaking of replies, mine went up.

Naruto: True Peace. [ALWAYS ACCEPTING] [Cool guys club inside]

Cheiko Honma

Konoha Ame-Suna Border, Outside the Harvest Festival

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Cheiko had laid sprawled on a nice warm patch of grass. Eyes closed she had listened to the people around her giggle, laugh and generally enjoy life. Happily naive. Chieko lifted a land lazily and swatted at the fly as it persistently buzzed her face. Soon no one would be laughing. The Red Sages would take the festival, kill Lord Hamajō and pretty much win. Unless they all died.

Chieko exhaled in a long breath before spring to her feet in one smooth motion, a burst of movement. Her short red hair settled about her face as she turned around to look at the other Sages she was with. One was looking up at the sky with a bored look. It had been a long wait, but soon it would be over.

Soon.

Cheiko lifted her own face to the sky, raising her hand to shield her eyes from the sun. She briefly wondered if her sisters were on duty at the festival. If her parents were there, enjoying the festivities. Cheiko's stomach did a weird flip, but she ignored it. She had chosen her path, and there was no returning. Not even if she had wanted to. The Red Sages were her family now.

Chieko lowered her arm and sighed, making one of the other chunin raise an eyerbow.

"Nothing." Chieko said closing her eyes again and going back to listening. It was nothing. She would be strong. She would. She would not doubt. She would not falter. She would build a better world.

"It's happening." Another of the chunin said. Her voice was nervous.

Chieko's eyes flicked back open, her hands raised and making seals. She took a deep breath and three more of her appeared. "Then lets move." The grumpy teen said before she leapt off to join the battle.

Umary Honma

Konoha Ame-Suna Border, Inside the Compound, Harvest Festival

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There was no rest for the wicked. That was what Umary thought as she rubbed a kink out of her back. Both her and Noriko were on duty. Standing guard over a bunch of politicians wasn't the most exciting thing in the world, but it allowed her unprecedented access. If they discussed the Red Sages, she's hear it.

Over three months ago Chieko had vanished from home. All of the family had looked for her after she didn't come back home after a week. After two weeks it was apparent that she had left for some reason. Noriko believes that she was taken. Umary wasn't sure. She had been close to her younger sister in a way Noriko could never be. Saw how Chieko chafed and struggled. Umary hoped she was wrong. Hoped with a passion. Still, here she was volunteering when she could have been with her father enjoying the festival.

Of course she wasn't the only volunteer. Earlier the sisters had eaten lunch together before they had to separate for their shifts.

Umary shifted again on her feet, trying to keep them from getting too sore. She also had to stifle a yawn. She had got appointed to this position because of her skills on barriers. In fact she had tags up bordering the area, just in case something did go wrong. There were four other shinobi with her to help maintain said barrier in the event.

Despite all the preparation it appeared nothing was going to happen. They had been lulled into complicity with in action. So when a flare appeared overhead, Umary didn't give it much thought. Until people started screaming.

"We're under attack!"

"Help!"

"Kekkai!"

Umary, startled out of her horror, raised her hands. "Kekkai!" She shouted and a glimmering shield raised around her group of delegates, before settling, invisible. The other shinobi in the room had taken up similar stances to help maintain the barrier.

Noriko Honma

Konoha Ame-Suna Border, At the Harvest Festival

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Noriko was diligent. She stalked around the festival, glaring at everyone and everything, including the produce. Once she spotted her mother and father leaving one of the game areas and waved, but that was the extent of her impropriety.

People scattered out of Noriko's way as the chunin surveyed the area. Not that she minded, it was the opposite in fact. They recognized true power when they saw it. Unlike some people.

Noriko's thoughts were cut short when a flare flashed in the sky. The woman knew the itinerary. She knew it was out of place. Without a moment's hesitation she drew her Wakizashi and turned to the civilians around her.

"You will want to seek shelter." Noriko's voice was deceptively calm, but one look at her face and her short sword sent the crowd scattering. It didn't hinder efforts that people started screaming. Sounds of battle erupted quickly.

Noriko was able to quickly spot the red bands of the Red Sage. Morons, the whole lot. Murderers and Thieves and vagrants. They were the only ones stupid enough to attack the Confederacy.

Two Red Sages charged at her, tossing exploding knives. She flicked them away from her contemptuously. Still moving the woman swayed to the side and kicked out at the man on the left. He crumpled with a grunt.

Noriko turned her head and made the tiger seal and exhaled a ball of fire and set the right man on fire. He wailed but Noriko dismissed him to drive her Wakizashi through the left man's heart. Within a few seconds both were dead without any fan fare. With the two dispatched Noriko fell back on her standing orders.

As much as the woman wanted to find her family and hold them close, they were shinobi, just as much as they were. So she's stay and protect the civilians from a grisly death and worry about things she couldn't change later.

The Corrigan School for Advanced Learning and Development (A DC School RP)

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Christ, just back and I find out I gotta carry your useless ass again. What a terrible start to the New Year.

@BlackSam3091

Welcome back. Have a fun vacation?

I sadly went nowhere and moved family. :D

Horizon Zero Dawn

My #1718 post. I missed #1717 :(

Anyways, I'm glad I gave you enough to work with. And that statement did sound weird, but I understood. ;D

Naruto: True Peace. [ALWAYS ACCEPTING] [Cool guys club inside]

@Blue Demon It'll still depend on what OTHERS do. I think you'll have a handful with those coming your way already heh.

@Savato

Well, if there were no sages in the building at the beginning, Umary has a sage free barrier. They can feel free to break in or whatever, but it started off sage free. Which was my whole question.

Naruto: True Peace. [ALWAYS ACCEPTING] [Cool guys club inside]

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Right now, it appears not. But I may very well guide Arima, who may bring FagLord with him, to charge through a wall that so happens to be part of the room you are in. That sounds fun?!

@Savato

Then that's what I'm doing. :D Just wanted to see if I trapped any Sages in with them. Haha.

I already have Cheiko and Umary written then, but I need Noriko to finish off the set. But I'm logging off now. Ta.

Horizon Zero Dawn

It's fine. :D

I hope you like it. I tried to describe as much as I could to set the scene, which resulted it being kind of dry...

Naruto: True Peace. [ALWAYS ACCEPTING] [Cool guys club inside]

Question:

I'm thinking that Umary will be inside with the delegates, maybe not in the same room as Lord Whatever his name is but maybe in another room to stand guard and erect a barrier if needed be over various minor officials with a few other shinobi. Are there any red sages inside said building at the start?

Horizon Zero Dawn

Alliminum, pronounced Ally-min-um, worried the string of her bow with wax. The metal monstrosity was death incarnate. Yet it also gave life. The young girl frowned at her hands and tucked the wax away into one of the various pockets she had on her person. The endless plains that stretched forth were warm. Warmer than the forests her tribe had just gone through. Ally lifted an arm to shield her eyes from the sun.

The finger guards, lifted into her vision, made her even more unhappy. Her golden eyes narrowed at the offending hand guard before focusing back on the landscape in front of her. This was no ordinary hunt. Ally had been roped in because the machines and animals were mingling. Which meant there was more danger. Which meant Ally was here to help even though she had been labelled as useless.

Ally pulled back her lips in a feral smile. If their definition of useless was refusing to commit murder, than she was quite useless. Ahead the grazers where contently munching on the long grass. To the left there were the Watchers. The sun glinted off their blue eye giving away their position. The Tribe covered all their metal so the sun would never betray them. And everyone knew that somewhere there was a Thunderjaw. They always lurked around herd animals, or machines. A protector and a predator. A wall that occasionally ate you.

And in all that there was a herd of normal animals, deer. Deer that would provide meat and leather and bones, and well, you got the picture. The trick was to scatter the to herd different directions while not startling the Grazers or deer which would alert the Thunderjaw and then they'd have the run of their lives. Running and probably dying was not something Ally was prepared to do. So the girl stayed put and did what she was told, to watch the Watchers who had moved closer to her.

Ally lowered her hand and ducked back down into the grass and shifted another few feet before peering back over. Now there was a good gap between her and the machines. Perfect. She checked the knife in her boot and the tie around her hair before settling back in. Soon her twin, Taellana, and the other hunters would initiate their coordinated attack, driving the two herd different directions and allowing them to grab a few deer and return to the tribe. Who knew, maybe they'd even gather a few other essential resources.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Sounds good to me. I'm working on getting my first post up. Should be ready in an hour or so.

Or half that time. :D Set up complete.