the super summon meet and greet! (kinda) - nk

Hysterio was still thinking over how he could improve his Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari technique. While he did so, he had learned that there were better ways to try to regain lost Yuumei than trying to catch it from out of thin air. Instead, it seemed, after referencing some rather unspecified sources, that it worked better to let the Yuumei feed on his own chakra, that would work better. Much better.

He hoped his boss showed up soon as he had some stuff he needed to know, most importantly who was really in charge. He summoned Frank Sinatra, after doing the appropriate chakra manipulation and movements, Frank Sinatra, the short duck, appearing with a Leek in hand. Forming a Rock Section Cane, Hysterio placed a Mark Seal on the little duck and then began sparring with the Duck, practicing his swordsmanship.

If anyone else should come across the pair in the midst of their sparring, well, depending on where they entered the clearing they might accidentally get struck.

(+5 Yuumei due to being in combat without any Yuumei Techniques)
ap: 291-150 (Frank Sinatra) -5 (Rock Section Cane) -5 Mark Seal = 131 remaining
(ttl wc: 167)

Mitsui would be following Hysterio. Mitsui had managed to learn a few jutsu. Mitsui would be walking with Rakdos and would see Hysterio and a duck which Mitsui would guess was a summon since there is no way that they would actually be with each other otherwise. Mitsui would see Hysterio in the clearing and would quickly say, "Hi, Who is that with you?"
(717 ap - 150 = 567 ap remaining)

Mitsui walked into the clearing, and due to not paying attention to where he was entering, as nearly skewered by a leek. Hysterio held up a hand, signaling to Frank Sinatra that Mitsui and his summon were allies. Frank Sinatra did the equivalent of sheathing his leek – holding it upright with one wing, one end resting on the ground, and quacked, and warbled in bird song. Hysterio turned to Mitsui and the summon, whose name he still had not received and said “I am Hysterio, this is Frank Sinatra.” As he ended his sentence he gestured towards the duck, which attempted to pull off what looked disconcertingly like and unlike a bow. “He understands human speech but is unable to directly communicate back, though his hand, well, wing writing is pretty good actually.”

Hysterio glanced at Mitsui’s summon and said “And who do I meet again now for the third time?”
His thoughts were slowly coalescing, he had finally seen how he might perform the Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari technique without using hand seals to manipulate his chakra, it was all so clear to him all of a sudden, it seemed some light exercise had helped a lot. He picked up a rock and began thinking through the process needed to make it a Rock section cane, pausing to regain some of his lost stamina. He could feel he was getting close to a breakthrough for the genjutsu he was attempting to learn better.

He calmed himself for a while and began letting the Yuumei regrow within his body, feeding itself on his chakra.

*****
Yuumei (115)+10=125

131 ap+10=141

167+263=430 ttl wc

Xyxer had recently left the confines of his new ship, certain that the obediance of his new crew would prevail thankfully to their fear. Fear was an effective tool, Xyxer had discovered ever since his days in Kirigakure. It was a tool that the Mizukage had been weak with, a skill he was unversed in.. Despite containing a demon inside of him, he had not been intimidating. He had to rely on his ANBU to be intimidating, and as such, one of the greatest incarnations of psychopathy was bred in the abyssal grounds of the Kirigakure Hunter Ninja. He had caught feeling of a familiar chakra signature not too far away, one that belonged to a subordinate of his, and an even more queer one next to it. One that he did not know. Of course, it did not take long for him to notice a, you know, gigantic fucking daemon lurching beside the person he did not know as well as a duck with Hysterio. Standing in a clearing of trees, approximately 20 metres from the entirety of the group, he
stared quietly for a few seconds, assessing the situations before speaking in a low tone, one that required silence to understand,

"I send you with Takeo Tadashi.. And you return with a different person? Hysterio, are you incapable of following orders?"

Mitsui would hear that Hysterio's little spiel and then Mitsui would then notice another large chakra signature. Mitsui had no clue what to think about it. Mitsui would not answer Hysterio since Mitsui would proceed to turn his head at 125 speed. Mitsui was already getting nice and worried and was wondering what to think. Mitsui would see this man about 20 meters away talking in a rather low tone. Mitsui would hear, "I send you with Takeo Tadashi.. And you return with a different person? Hysterio, are you incapable of following orders?" Mitsui would wonder about who this Takeo Tadashi is and where he was supposed to be going. Mitsui would let Hysterio do the talking since Mitsui did not know any of it. Rakdos would also be wondering about what is happening too.

Hysterio had been talking to Mitsui when the other man suddenly seemed distracted. Hysterio paused, and noticed his leader and he did not seem happy, if the words he quietly muttered were any decent indication. Hopefully Mitsui had the sense to not irritate this guy, the boss had a rather nasty reputation among those of Tengakure and he had no doubt Mitsui could get into serious trouble. He glanced at Frank Sinatra who paused, and tried to look unaggressive and harmless

He knelt where he stood and said “I apologize if my actions were not as you had intended, Lord Tenkage, my explanation must needs be slightly lengthy but I will try to make it as succinct as I can. If the shinobi you had speak of, Takeo Tadashi, was the one who had destroyed our previous village, then? If memory serves you had asked him to accompany me, not the other way around. Shortly after you left, he introduced himself as being THE Tenkage, and told me if he heard my voice again he would cut out my tongue. This would make things rather difficult for me, if I were to try and point out that he might be going in an unhelpful direction as he seemed to be heading. It is true, that heading east will take you to the sea, but this allows for quite the variance in direction and it appeared to me that he might be about to head towards the fire country. I could be wrong but it looked like he was headed that way, intentionally or not. From his tone of voice I figured he might cut my hands off too if I were to try and pass him a written note or gesticulate, which would prove hampering towards further communication attempts It would also seriously reduce my capabilities as a ninja, so I instead began heading towards the sea without him, towards the Land of Lightning. It seemed to me that if you were to meet us at the sea as you had stated before, it would be most likely on the way towards the Land of Lightning and not in the opposite direction along the coast.”

Hysterio paused for breath, hoping that the Tenkage was not too annoyed so far by his explanation. “This other fellow here and his summon I encountered in my travels and through various methods, won us a new ally. He has some interesting abilities that should prove useful at the “party” at Kumogakure.”

“So in short, your orders for me were to meet you at the sea, Takeo escorting me seeming a secondary objective, considering this was to unite again before arriving at Kumogakure. Takeo did not seem like he wanted me to communicate with him at all, and he seemed to be going the wrong way. Instead of pursuing what seemed a futile goal, I decided to try to make the best of the situation and headed in the direction which would probably have the best chance of finding you. This new fellow should prove a reasonably helpful ally. As far as I know I did not disobey any of your orders and tried to make the best of the situation. I would humbly ask though, that any punishment you deem fitting, are enacted after we visit Kumogakure, otherwise my helpfulness to you will be potentially quite diminished.”

He paused, having run out of breath from talking so much. If the boss seemed like he would not mind hearing questions, he would ask “Will we be the only ones visiting at Kumogakure? Also, Takeo mentioned he was the Tenkage, but I have never heard of him before, though I spent a short time in our previous village. Were the two of you sharing the title? Or did he inherit the Tenkage title while you instead take the Mizukage title? I wish to know whether you are joint leaders or if one of you supersedes the other, as having bosses with dotted lines, not being able to know whose orders take precedence, would possibly prove detrimental on the battlefield.”


*****
(max yuumei reached)
ap: 141+10=151

ttl wc: 430+683=1113

The man cocked his head tentatively to the side, listening to the speech that seemed to be prepared by Hysterio and sifting it for the information that was actually useful. A few seconds into the narration, the eyesbrow of Xyxer would perk upwards somewhat with a faint outline of a smirk becoming prominent on his thin lips, "If I recall correctly, Hysterio, I said that Takeo would indeed be escorting you. There was a reason for me to have you cling onto the former Tenkage, his strength would have been valued in the events to come." He paused to scan Mitsui once more, throwing one hand lazily up to the midsection of both he and the demon, "Instead you bring me a person I do not know, his combat prowess untested and unable to be tested as our mission here must ensue immediately." Xyxer frowned softly, although no movements for a maiming occurred as of yet As he started to walk from the scene and towards Kumogakure, he spoke simply, "I am the leader, Hysterio, and my imperatives outrank all others you'll ever hear in this bleak thing we call life. Now, come; both of you. We'll make names for the faceless yet."

[Exit]

Mitsui and his summon would be rather surprised about what was happening. Mitsui would hear this rather long speech about this Takeo Tadashi and how he seemed to only actually want to do his own thing. Mitsui would be quite unhappy about what would be happening next since he would notice that Mitsui was already going to be helping fight it seemed because one of the first things that came out of the man who seemed to be Hysterio's boss. Mitsui would listen to Hysterio talk and hear the lovely ability he has to go and almost waste time. This was something that Mitsui wished he could do. It seemed as if Hysterio was trying to make Mitsui bored or something since it took so long to finish the talking in Mitsui's eyes. Then the man who Mitsui would not know is Xyxer, would proceed to go and tell Hysterio that this Takeo Tadashi was a strong person. Mitsui for now would simply follow Xyxer.

Mitsui would wonder about medical spec. He was always a little interested in it and he would want that to do things such as transplanting or the like. It was a kind of difficult to do since that meant that he would need to go and see what he would be able to do with this spec. He thought that he could do more with the spec then to simply heal people. Mitsui  was not that kind of guy, he was the kind of person who enjoys destroying things more. Mitsui would wonder if it was remotely possible to go and see if he could go about learning this spec while walking. Mitsui would think taht if he could, it would be quite the accomplishment that Mitsui could actually be quite proud of. Mitsui had the thought that it would be quite useful to be able to go about regenerating oneself. It was something that Mitsui wished he could do. The unfortunate part would be the fact that did not have much time. Mitsui thought that he might try healing something. He would see a tree as he would walk and he would stick his arm out and attempt to heal it. Unfortunately, the tree was dead and Mitsui did not know what he was doing, thus instead, Mitsui would destroy the tree. The tree did not fall on anyone and instead would simply disintegrate. Mitsui thought that was awfully strange. This was not what Mitsui expected and would realize that he had used the chakra like it was an earth jutsu. Mitsui had accidentally managed to pull the chakra in the tree apart and thus make it lose its structure and break apart. This was nothing like what Mitsui had hoped for. Mitsui would keep walking along and see another tree. Mitsui would notice that this tree though was clearly not hurt. Mitsui wondered how he would go about making the cells replicate. It was not a simple task at all, in fact it was quite hard to do if one has never done medical spec before.
(Exit, 713 words towards med spec + 300 ryo)

Time to leave apparently. Hysterio was pleasantly surprised to be still alive and largely and entirely unharmed after speaking with the boss. It appeared Xyxer trusted him enough to let Mitsui go with them, or at least privately believed he could keep Mitsui in check. On the way out, he tested the Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari for a moment, on a some what willing volunteer, Frank Sinatra, after asking his permission, since after all summons were partners and allies, not pets. Being able to cast the genjutsu was a great boost to his confidence fortunately, he seemed to have it well in hand, so to speak.

Time to get back to the other genjutsu he was attempting to learn, from ages ago in Tengakure, one he had never even started working on again after his initial go at it. The Genjutsu: Bringer of Darkness genjutsu was a subset of the technique he had just been working on mastering, and frankly, it was nowhere as useful. However, it did happen to be able to blind the opponents, a helpful skill in itself as it activated automatically and this would help those allies of his, Mitsui and Xyxer, and possibly anyone else they found to help them against kumo, especially the melee people. The issue though was that he had to separate out the Yuumei chakra and change the methodology with which he casted the genjutsu, as he needed to cast it over an area and he needed to figure out how to do this. Ah well, nothing like learning on the fly, huh?

(exit)
ttl wc: 1113+261=1374
claiming: +5 stats, +100 ryo (since the 5 stats put me at the stat cap)
1046 towards mastering Genjutsul: Yuumei Shibari
the rest (328) towards learning Bringer of Darkness

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