Our Other Business

Fri May 17, 2019 4:53 am

?? Spring 419AV

It was much cooler inside the Kazekage building than standing outside in the scorching desert heat. Thankfully she hadn’t spent much time out there, choosing to track down Kenshin as soon as she could in order to finish up their other business. Unfortunately, the man was quite difficult to track down without emitting a chakra signature and she had yet to place a mark seal on the original. So, after an hour or so if searching in vain, Alice decided to just pay a few kids in the village to find him for her and send him here, to the Kazekage chambers.

Whenever Kenshin were to arrive, he would find the young Nara sitting on top of the desk and kicking her legs back and forth like a child as she faced the door. Behind her, a corpse could be seen laid across the desk. It’s head was obviously detached, but she had placed it where it used to rest nonetheless.

Fri May 24, 2019 5:39 am

27th of Spring, 419AV

The haggard form of Kenshin could be seen moving through the halls of the Kazekage’s tower with a small smirk on his face, as despite how exhausted he felt both physically and mentally he had done it… Namikaze would live, or at least the very least she hadn’t died from her injuries. He had severed her crippled and necrotic limbs, removed all the other dead or severely infected flesh, and regenerated everything that he had removed… but this time it wasn’t actively killing her. She had been pumped full of antibiotics in an attempt to fight the bacteria that was running rampant through her bloodstream and was hooked up to an IV in an effort to return some fluids to her system. He had cut the crown of thorns from her head and cleaned both the blood and waste from her emaciated form. Once he was certain that she would live and needed no more surgery he had left, allowing the team of nurses and other hospital employees within the operating room to do the rest. The silver haired sage had been quite annoyed by the crowd that had gathered in the room as he worked but he knew that allowing them to watch him save the pest would do wonders for his reputation around the village, so he had done nothing to dissuade them.

He had entered the hospital with Namikaze a few hours before sundown, but by the time that he left the hospital the moon was quite high in the sky… so he had been in there for hours, and for a good deal of that time he had been keeping his Mystical Palm Aura active, so it was no wonder he felt as tired as he did. It was an A-rank technique for a reason, and even before that he had used his Scarlet Spheres to heal a good deal of the damage done to her as she appeared. Not to mention the rush of information that he had gained from the Shadow Clone that he sent to met with Alice and her minions… all in all it had been a very long day for the Ragdoll, and he was desperately in need of sleep. He had a rather comfortable couch set up within the Kazekage’s Office that doubled as a fold out bed, and for what felt like the first time in a long time he truly needed to rest. Thankfully The Immortal no longer possessed the same limitations as normal humans or he knew that he would wake up hungrier than ever, as regardless of whether he had to eat or not he knew that he wouldn’t have done so before passing out.

When he entered the office he would come to a halt, his smirk fading as he took in the sight of the unfamiliar corpse that sat upon his desk… but he was at least relieved that no blood was staining the rather important piece of furniture. He could hear the soft breathing of someone coming from his bed, and the breathing was far too soft for the person to be conscious… but that still meant that some fool had gone and dumped a headless body on his desk and decided to sleep in HIS bed. Unconsciously his eyes would activate, the mismatched orbs moving towards the bed so that he could see exactly which fool he was about to butcher for their ignorance… but when he caught sight of Alice’s petite form he would resist that urge. She was, unfortunately, too valuable of an asset for him to simply slaughter for something this minor… but that didn’t mean that he was going to put his sleep on hold simply to perform the transplant that she was obviously waiting for right this minute. No, that was something that could wait until he was more well rested… performing something as complex as an ocular transplant in his current state was not exactly a good idea anyway.

With a slight scowl on his scarred face The Ragdoll would make his way over to the occupied bed, and for a few moments the pale figure would simply stand over the sleeping woman… he contemplated how easy it would be for him to end her as she slept… easier than it would be if she was conscious, and even that would’ve been rather easy for a monster such as he. But he wouldn’t act on those thoughts, simply lying down on the large bed next to the femme fatale that had left a headless corpse on his desk. The bed was more than large enough for the two of them to sleep without brushing up against each other, and he knew that until he fulfilled his end of the bargain she wouldn’t attempt anything too foolish. He held absolutely no trust for the woman that was lying next to him, after-all it would be foolish of him to come to trust the little devil so soon after meeting her… but he had seen enough to know that she wasn’t foolish enough to risk killing him until he had done what she wanted. Even then she likely wouldn’t act until she believed herself to be strong enough to actually end him, and if she was even a fraction as smart as he was giving her credit for then she would realise that such a thing wouldn’t happen for quite some time.

“Try anything foolish and I will not hesitate to vapourize both you and this building” The Immortal would state as he turned to lay on his right side, allowing his back to face the woman as his eyes deactivated and closed. He suspected that the shifting of the bed would cause the woman to stir enough to hear his words, but perhaps it wouldn’t… either way it didn’t matter.

WC: 973

Fri May 24, 2019 10:16 pm

Movement on the bed woke Alice from her sleep, something she normally would have killed over, but not this time. She knew who it was and knew she still needed him. Even if she didn’t, killing Kenshin wouldn’t likely be possible for the rogue kunoichi in her current state. Unfortunately she was much too weak to pose any sort of a real threat to him, and he knew it.

There was no point in opening her eyes to check, or even in responding to the pale-faced demon’s threat. She would have to get used to doing things on someone else’s time rather than her own, though she wasn’t exactly sure she could. This was a good place to start, at least.

With no other options available and Kenshin clearly looking to rest before he addressed their business, Alice did the only thing she could in this situation. She went back to sleep. She’d know when he woke up, and they could begin their other business when he did. Until then, it was time to fall back to dreamland.

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Several Hours Later

When Kenshin finally woke, he would find Alice sitting atop the desk again, this time with her legs over the edge as she faced him and her head resting in her hands. It would be clear that she was impatiently waiting for him to get up as she stared at the sleeping Ragdoll like a creep.

Sat May 25, 2019 5:40 am

28th of Spring 419AV

The Ragdoll had woken up the moment that the little devil began to shift her weight off the bed, and his silver eyes would watch was she moved to sit on his desk, elbows on her knees and hands holding her chin. The sun had yet to rise so there was a chance that she hadn’t seen his eyes in the dark… well, at least until he activated for a split second, just long enough for her to register the glowing orbs that watched her from the darkness. A light chuckle would escape his lips a moment later and The immortal would move to sit up from his laying position, a few quick handseals activating the Chakra Cleanse technique and cleaning his body from any grime or sand that had accumulated while he slept.

“You are quite impatient aren’t you.” he would say, more of a statement than a question, his voice a little more gruff than usual due to having only woken up a few moments ago.

He hadn’t slept for longer than a few hours in what seemed like months now… not since the night that he shared with Genevieve… and this night was no different. It wasn’t as if he needed much sleep regardless, his unique physiology giving him more than enough sustanance from his chakra alone to ensure that he never truly needed much rest. But he had used quite a bit of said chakra yesterday, a lot more than he had used in quite some time now… and as a result he ended up feeling quite exhausted, a feeling that he hated due to how weak it made him feel. During the hours that he had been unconscious his chakra had built itself back up to respectable levels, but he could feel that he was still an hour or two of sleep from being completely topped up… but with reserves as large as his own he didn’t need those few hours. Besides, he could simply use his right eye to regenrate everything that he was missing if he truly found himself needing it later on.

“Which eye would you like the Byakugan to replace?” The half-blood would ask as he stood up and made his way towards the desk that both Alice and the body were resting upon. He suspected that it was going to be the eye covered by the eyepatch, but he felt that there was no harm in asking just in case.

When he reached the desk he would turn on the lamp that was sitting on it, illuminating the part of the room that he actually needed light in.

“Remove your shirt.” The immortal would order, all the while picking up the severed head of the Hyuuga.

He would toss the head upwards and form a series of three handseals, catching the head with his left hand as blue ‘flames’ formed on the fingers of his right. Provided that Alice had complied with his order he would jab all four fingers and his thumb into the center of Alice’s Sternum, the fingers themselves sinking ¼ of an inch into her flesh and allowing the chakra on the tips of Kenshin’s fingers to flow into her body.

“With that you won’t feel any pain, but this will still be rather uncomfortable for you. I will be using my threads to sever your optic nerve and push the eye itself out, and using the threads I will insert the new eye and attach it to the severed optic nerve.” Kenshin would explain, placing his free right hand over whichever eye that Alice had mentioned wanting replaced.

“Are you ready?” He would ask, allowing her to say when she was comfortable with him starting the proceedure, not because he actually cared, but because he knew that any sudden movements from the woman while his threads were in her skull could be quite disasterous.

WC: 649

Wed May 29, 2019 11:24 am

Two glowing orbs pierced the darkness. A slight chuckle broke the silence. It would take a moment for Alice’s own eye to adjust and take in the sitting form of Kenshin Uzumaki, now risen from his lengthy rest.

”It’s more that I’m used to getting what I want when I want it. Doing things on someone else’s schedule is going to take a little adjusting.” She knew it was more of a statement from the Ragdoll than a question, but she felt like answering him nonetheless.

”My left,” she said, sitting up straight on the desk she was on and removing the eye patch so that Kenshin now had clear access to it. Instead of removing her shirt like he had ordered, however, it simply began receding on its own to meld seamlessly with her skirt without any visible signs from her. The gift from Valen was extremely useful indeed.

As the blue ‘fire’ from Kenshin’s fingertips touched her skin, Alice felt a strange sensation overcome her similar to a numbing effect. She tried not to focus on that, though, and only paid attention to the Dark Doctor’s explanation of the procedure. She would need to remain perfectly still for as long as he was performing the surgery if she didn’t want permanent brain damage or something. The Nara took a deep breath and steadied herself. ”I’m ready.”

Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:45 pm

As the woman's shirt began to shift away and merge with her skirt The Immortal would release a deep chuckle, of course she was in possession of a set of Manipulated Fabric, the ingenious creation of the former Hogokage Denkiteki… and with the death of the man something that had only been available within Hoshigakure. Considering just who the little devil had arrived in his village alongside Kenshin wasn’t exactly surprised to find that she possessed a pair, especially considering the man had received a set from him as he left… but to think that the Akari would be naive enough to actually give a set to Alice. It seemed that the excuse she had given for her impatience was true, she must be quite used to getting her own way… especially if Valen truly was foolish enough to simply gift a set of Manipulated Fabric to someone that clearly didn’t think very highly of him, at least if the words she had spoken to his clone was any indication. If it was as Kenshin suspected and Valen had indeed given the Black Widow the set that he had parted with when he left Hoshigakure… then he had given her a powerful gift indeed. He had studied that set and the stones within and knew that they held quite a bit of power… they simply hadn’t meshed well with his own powers, so he hadn’t bothered removing the facets that held them and placing them in his own set.

“Oh you’re good. Tell me, how exactly did you get Valen to part with something as valuable as a set of Manipulated Fabric? I’m unsure if you’re aware, but what you are wearing is extremely valuable to my former village… so valuable in fact that most shinobi of the village would likely try to kill you if they found out that you possessed your own set.” The Ragdoll would explain, a small smirk adorning his pale lips. He knew that his old ‘friend’ could be rather foolish at times… no, the man could be downright stupid and it was quite a frequent occurrence, but depending on what Alice said his opinion of the tanned fool could take quite the nosedive. As the woman spoke Kenshin would continue with the actions described in the previous post, using his Chakra Anaesthetic to numb the nerves of the woman and placing his right hand over her now exposed left eye. When she gave her ready Kenshin would allow his threads to emerge from the palm of his hand, the almost sentient tendrils effortlessly pushing themselves under and around her eye, severing the woman's optic nerve and gently plucking the organ from the orbital socket.

With his left hand he had been doing the same with the severed head of the Hyuuga, and upon removing the eye he would allow his threads to bring it up to her now empty socket. From there he would push the organ into the empty socket and use his threads to align the optic nerve with Alice’s own. With that done he would activate his Mystical Palm Aura and begin to heal the optic nerves, reactivating the eye and allowing Alice to see with her newly obtained Byakugan. With that he would retract his threads and remove his hands from above her eye, revealing a small black mark visible just above her eye for a split second before fading into her skin, and should she be paying close attention she would take note of the fact that his threads were removing the remaining eye from the severed head of the Hyuuga. Within his own body his threads were moving to perform their masters will, severing the optic nerve that connected the Seigan and carefully extracting the eye from his head, which he would hold gently in his right hand alongside Alice’s original eye. He would place both the now eyeless severed head on his desk and the two eyes upon the stomach of the corpse, all the while the threads that held the Byakugan placed it into his now empty eye socket.

From there the Ragdoll would go through the hand seals required for the Mystical Palm technique and bring it up to cover the still blind Byakugan, his threads connecting the two optic nerves and allowing his technique to essentially merge them and heal it, bringing light back to the eye. He hadn’t needed anaesthetic as he was used to the feeling of the threads moving about within his body, and while severing the optic nerve and removing the eye itself had hurt quite a bit, he had been extremely careful when doing so. Also considering the fact that he had essentially used the threads to push the eye out gently compared to actually tearing it from his skull… it wouldn’t have hurt him quite as much as it would have hurt Alice. And even if it had… he was quite sure that his resilience to pain was much higher than the Black Widows own.

“If that is all I have some business that I must attend to. I trust you can show yourself out.” Kenshin would then say, clearly dismissing Alice as he made his way over to his desk and the body that was laying upon it.

WC: 881

Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:25 pm

”I can be very persuasive when I want to be,” she answered, smiling mischievously. The Nara wouldn’t say another word from then on, remain as still and quiet as she possibly could while the demon performed the surgery to replace her eye with the one she had brought.

When it was finished, she simply hopped down off the desk, nodded to Kenshin with a smile and walked away leaving the room while willing her very valuable set of manipulated fabric to return to its usual state and covering her Byakugan with her eye patch.

[exit]
TWC: 665
Claiming byakugan In Alice’s left eye
3 stats
665 wc toward Alice’s Storeroom putting it at 2,855/3,000

Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:43 pm

I don't think that Dojutsu require you to do the flip, so approved unless Kenshin yells and says otherwise.

Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:56 pm

When the little minx left Kenshin would bring his macabre bag out of his storage displacement and pull out a certain scroll that he had received from Valen, the one that held the corpse of a certain ape loving oaf… as well as one of the many empty scrolls. He would seal away both the entirety of the corpse and the eyes that were resting upon it, before unsealing the corpse of Snow and performing the hand seals required to use the chakra scalpel. Using the technique Kenshin would slice the man open near the left hip, and from there he would feed his threads into the body. The threads would slice all the connections keeping his kidney within his body, all the while his threads did the same with his own original kidney, ensuring that he didn’t accidently remove the transplanted Uzumaki organ that he had implanted so long ago. As he withdrew his threads holding Kyousuke’s organ the ragdolls threads would open in a similar spot as the slice he made on the foolish giants corpse, all the while his own manipulated fabric opened a decent sized hole to allow him access. From there he would replace his own discarded kidney with the one gained from Kyousuke, again using the Mystical Palm technique to heal the ‘wound’ properly. With that done The Immortal would seal the corpse and his kindey back within the scroll and place said scroll with the others in the bag.

WC: 246

[Exit]

TWC: 2749

If coin flip is successful, 1500 words towards Jugo Transplant adjustment (max stat discount), claiming.

960 words towards Miasmic Chakra, claiming ((25% max stat discount) other 540 words trained here)

289 words towards Byakugan adjustment, 1711 words remaining

If coin flip is unsuccessful 1249 words towards reflip, with 251 words from my 10k refund to complete

Regardless of success, claiming Byakugan but not putting any WC towards adjusting it just yet

Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:04 pm

Making flip now. 1 for success 2 for failure

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