A clean slate (Private, Suicide)

Leaves 500 Ryo on the floor

"For your services."

(He is not killing me, I asked for this)

Mack walks through town, his mastered byakugan activated. Mack is feeling particularly depressed today, something deep inside of him is bothering him greatly, it's irritating, an unknown emotion bubbling up inside of him, ready to burst in a mixture of hate, fury, and despair. It takes every ounce of willpower for Mack to refrain from slaughtering innocent civilians that he walks by on the street. Even Mack the Knife, the cold creature who had numbed himself from all human emotions is becoming weakened. A demon inside of him is working it's way up, ready to completely take over. Mack looks up at the gray and dismal sky, just in time to see rain start pouring down in sheets. He takes off his fedora and gazes up into the sky, pleading with any god that might inhabit the heavens to end his suffering. The rain falls from the sky and soaks Mack, slicking back his hair and mingling with the tears that begin to flow down his face. The cold and numbed Mack is caught in his moment of weakness, standing in the middle of Kumogakure and crying like a bitch. The sobs slowly shake his body and he closes his eyes as his face is turned up towards the sky. All of a sudden he stops crying, letting out a scream of rage and fury. Mack is enraged, he refuses to give up on life, he doesn't need any god to help him, he is god, he is above god. Mack, filled with a sudden fury and desire to kill, scans the area for any chakra signatures worthy of a fight. He notices one a little less than a mile away, a good quarter of a mile into the mountains. He sprints off in the direction of this signature, knowing that he can kill whoever it is without being seen or getting in trouble, he will unleash his fury on this unfortunate being. Mack arrives at the mountains in about a minute and hops on top of a shallow cliff. He calls down to the boy standing on the ground beneath him, seemingly placing all of his money on the ground.

"Hey," he says in a mocking and sarcastic tone "What's your name?" Before bursting into laughter. He draws his golden katana and laughs maniacally, waiting for a response from the boy about 5 meters below him...

[TWC = 401]

"My name? You need not know of my name. You must only know that you are doing me a great favor."

Giotto quickly gets down on his knee, ready to be killed without needing to speak again.

Mack is greatly puzzled by the speech of the child, they had not yet exchanged 20 words, and yet the boy was expecting Mack to do him a favor? He was also talking to Mack like they had met before. Mack watches in bewilderment as the boy gets down to his knees. Mack is not very easily puzzled, yet this boy's speech and actions continue to bewilder him, who is this strange young man and what does he want. Mack leaps to the ground, katana still in his right hand, and stands 2 meters away from the boy so that they are standing face to face. The sky is still dismal and the rain is coming down hard now, making pattering sounds as it hits the ground, water is running around their feet now, the two are standing on a large rock face, in the middle of a small valley in the mountains, they are surrounded by 5 meter high rock walls on each side, nobody would be able to see them unless they were above them and flying.

Mack says to the boy in a curious tone, "What is it that you want me to do child?" As he speaks, he takes note of the strange expression on the boy's face, he is blank, but hints of depression show. It seems as if the two men share many of the same sentiments. Mack awaits a response from Giotto...

[TWC = 640]

After hearing the man speak Giotto realizes that he will indeed have to speak again.

"I want nothing more than a means to an end. This world is ridden of nothing but evil intent, including that of my own. In order for me to not go against my own ways I must cease activity. Permanently."

Mack thinks for a second before realizing what the boy is requesting; this kid wants Mack to kill him. Frowning, Mack knits his eyebrows and points the tip of the katana towards the boy, channeling his wind chakra through the blade, making it razor sharp. Mack was a bit put off, he was hoping for more of a challenge, a hunt, a game. He was not some sort of scavenger who preyed on children with a death wish, it was no different than a vulture eating an already deceased animal's carcass. Mack was not a scavenger, he was a predator, he was not a vulture, he was a tiger. Mack the Knife hunted and killed his prey, he didn't kill people who wanted to die. Mack was stuck in quite the predicament, he wanted to kill this boy to fulfill his need for bloodshed, but it went against his code. Mack merely shrugged, he did not have a code, he did not have honor, he operated for power and power alone, he would kill this boy. The question was, how were things going to go down? Mack wanted a fight, not a pointless murder of somebody who didn't want to live. He did not want to skip the pleasure he got from seeing the pain and fear on the face of his victims, of smiting them in fights and destroying their arrogance.

"At least put up a fight, entertain me," Mack says, the tip of his katana, now with a blue aura around it, still pointing towards the child. All of a sudden, Mack's eyes grow wide and he raises his eyebrows, he shouts loudly, "FIGHT ME! COME AT ME BITCH!" The inner demon in Mack is beginning to break it's why out of the constraints of Mack's spirit. It is starting to show itself externally. Mack feels a surge of power. His bloodlust has reached new proportions, he wants to hurt, to maim, to kill, to slaughter. Mack also feels a sense of heightened awareness in battle, he takes notice of his surroundings. There is nothing but bare rock on the ground, not a single log, not anything that anybody might be able to substitute with. The water has reached Mack and the boy's ankles, flowing around their feet as it continues to rain and the water level continues to rise. Mack was ready to begin this fight, he doesn't take his eyes off the boy, waiting for him to make some sort of attack...

[TWC = 1,059]

After Giotto see's the blade pointed at him he takes the chance and move's forward, impaling himself with the blade.

"Tha. . .nks"

Mack watches as the boy begins to walk the 6 meters towards him, he tries to jump forward and impale himself on Mack's blade. Mack is much faster than the boy, so he has plenty of time to react. He moves out of the way and aims a kick at the boy with his left heel as he jumps forward. The boy is already off balance from trying to jump forward and impale himself on Mack's blade, so, if the kick hits, it will knock the boy on his face, to the ground. Mack will then jump up on top of one of the 3 meter tall rock walls.

"NICE TRY YOU LITTLE PUSSY!" Mack will roar in an enraged, but amused tone. laughing maniacally when he is finished speaking "DON'T THINK YOU'RE GETTING OUT OF THIS THAT EASILY! FIGHT ME!!!!!!!" Mack will now be roaring with laughter, in a deep, hellish tone. He will gaze at the boy with eyes like the devil's himself. He will wait for the boy to try something else, ready to toy with the kid a bit more. There is no way he is letting this kid die that easily, he is going to make him fight before he dies, he is going to show him true power...

[TWC = 1,281]

"Fight? You want me to fight you? No thanks, I'd rather live than do that. I don't challenge people 10x stronger than me."

After uttering these words Giotto makes a fist in his right hand and smashes it against his throat in an attempt to make his windpipe cave in and thus making him die within a few seconds."

Mack watches as the boy beneath him punches himself in the throat, crushing his windpipe. The boy desperately gasps for air, before tumbling to the ground, dead. Mack's eyes grow wide, all traces of the demon fade, any anger and amusement fade, a blank expression fills Mack's face. Mack is a bit disappointed, he was hoping to have a bit more fun with the kid, but it was too late now. Mack had witnessed the true despair of a human being, a site that was quite disheartening. Shaking his head, he jumps down to the ground and collects all of the boy's ryo. When he has pocketed the money, he forms the ram seal and body flickers off into the distance.

[Exit]

[TWC = 1,402, +500 ryo, 7 stats, 14 JP]