Event Ten.

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Little Willie, mean as hell, Pushed his sister in a well. Mother said, while drawing water, "My, it's hard to raise a daughter."

t's pretty dark and miserable down in the well. The cavernous area feels much larger than a well should be, bodies milling about in the darkness and knee deep, frigid water. So you're here -- and you're not alone, and the only way out appears to be the thin circle of sunlight from above, the opening of the well. (And elsewhere, in the Town, everyone's waking up to gifts of various usefulness, but hopefully they remember to check the well today even so!) What now? Welcome to Awash's tenth event log, and the intro log for this month, everyone! All new characters have found themselves waking in the well in the middle of the Town. Hopefully they can get a hand out! For more information, please go here! Meanwhile, the current characters have some new gifts. If there are any questions, please ask them here, and have fun! Thank you!

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[culpa]

Now you're starting to sound like Guren. A little.

( with his tongue sticking out between teeth, making a sour face as he waits for sasuke to. . get out of the way of the door. he's done getting the only thing out of here that he probably need needs. there's blankets and stuff he can come back for, later if he feels like it. probably someone else in here. . the place doesn't look abandoned, there's dust but it doesn't cover every surface. )

I've got Guren, and Ashuramaru, and Guren said everyone's here like family, too. So nothing bad's going to happen here. ( he'd fucking jump off a bridge if guren told him to, trusting these people because guren said they're all family's no biggie. ) Which means you're family now, too.

[ninjanature]

[Geez. He's plagued by too much Family now, thanks. Between his actual family and Naruto's dumbass and Boruto, he's got four Family too many.]

You don't know me. How can you possibly call me family? [Itachi is who he thinks about. The brother who sacrificed everything, pulled back and forth between two cowardice powers.] I could have done many terrible things.

[He relinquished the door for Yuu, however, stepping back in a flurry of cloak ends and waiting.]

[culpa]

We're all stuck here together. Unless we all work together, nothing's going to get accomplished.

( a loose lift of his shoulders, before he walks out the door and gestures for this guy to follow. )

What's your name? I'm Hyakuya Yuuichirou.

[ninjanature]

[Okay, Naruto. Settle down.]

Uchiha Sasuke.

[Really Yuu is the one coming and going. Sasuke can wander as he pleases. So Yuu gets the front, and Sasuke follows after in the same way he had followed the boy the first time.]

[culpa]

( that works for him. sasuke can follow as he wants. he's got a name now, he'll remember him. hopefully. who the fuck knows with all his memory problems as of late. )

What's with the cloak? You hiding stuff in there?

( laptop obtained, it's time to--start heading back to guren's place. again. )

[ninjanature]

[Escort missions are the worst.]

It's good not to give yourself away to the enemy. Surprise can give you the upper hand. [Sasuke doesn't sound bothered. His right hand parts the cloak and holds it open just a tad. The sword is still there, mostly hidden behind him.

The strangest thing about it perhaps is it's located on the right side, and it's only strange if Yuu paid attention to the limp left sleeve. Sasuke must draw with his right arm and, yet, the sword is still positioned on the right.

The difficulty in drawing may be a personal challenge which says something about Sasuke without anyone having to ask questions.] You can check if you'd like.

[culpa]

( sasuke could have no arms and yuu may find it a little weird to have a sword with no arms, but he's seen. weirder stuff. so he doesn't comment on it, even if his eyes immediately fall to the blade, interest piqued. )

Cool sword. You any good with it?

[ninjanature]

[Boruto vibes. He can't believe he left behind one rowdy soft boy and picked up another rowdy soft boy.]

I know a thing or two. [It isn't just for show.] Are you any good with yours?

[culpa]

( fingers wrap around the hilt of his blade with practiced ease and there's--an energy about him, notably darkish even if it isn't quite foul. )

Yeah. Ashuramaru and I are partners, we're super strong together. ( one rowdy soft boy for another, sorry sasuke. ) Wanna spar sometime?

[ninjanature]

A team, hm?

[The single, visible brow rises slowly, curiously. He still thinks the energy feels an awful lot like kinjutsu--upsetting. But he can admit Yuu appears to at least be able to manipulate and control it easily.

Maybe it's something like Susanoo--no, not a simple avatar. He thinks about Naruto, about Kurama. It's more like that.] Alright.

But I don't spar just anyone. [This is what you get. Teasing.] If you want to spar me, you have to prove you'll be worth the effort.

[culpa]

( for small stuff like this, he's got it all under control. it's when stuff gets really heavy that yuu starts fucking up, that he loses control of himself--of his demon, of his seraph, of something. but he always, always comes back from it. that's what's important. )

I'm really strong! I'll prove it.

( not that he's sure how. a quick look around the hallway before yuu's sprinting for the open door and hopping around on his toes, waiting for sasuke. )

Tell me what you want me to do to show you!

[ninjanature]

[Lord, help him. Guide him in trying to not be the shittiest sort of role models and father figures for impressionable youths.]

It isn't necessarily about being strong. [Yuu has a lot of energy and bounds ahead, but Sasuke... takes his time like an old man. He'll get there, listen. He's patient.] It won't be easy or quick.

But it'll show me you're ready.

[From somewhere beneath the cloak, Sasuke pulls out one of the starred shuriken and shows it to Yuu by flipping it back and forth once or twice between two fingers.]

The man you're here with, the one you called family. I'm going to give this to him. You have to take it and bring it back to me. If you think you can.

[culpa]

I can do that.

( sounds easy even if it's really time consuming. he'll have to wait for sasuke to find guren, to chase him down, wrestle him onto the ground and take it off of him, but that's manageable. he's sure. )

That's a throwing star, right? Can I see one?

( he wants to throw the pointy thing. )

[ninjanature]

Alright. The next time you see him, he should have it, and you can begin.

[Later, he tells Guren he wouldn't just throw the shuriken at anyone... but Yuu isn't the kind of person who is only anymore. Normal. It should be fine, right? Don't kill him.]

Catch.

[He doesn't throw the shuriken with as much speed and force as he does in battle, but he does throw it. Directly at Yuu, head-on, without any kind of flashy curves or rebounds.

He's hoping Yuu can catch it. If he does, it is, in fact, a simple throwing star. Have fun, soft child.]

[culpa]

( his eyes follow it despite the fast speed the shuriken's thrown at, tracking it as it heads towards him and easily catching it with his index finger within the circle at the center. )

Oh! Cool. ( yes hold on, he has to spin it around his finger for a while for prosperity's sake before he bothers tossing it straight up, catching it, and throwing it straight for a nearby tree.

all while his laptop remains tucked safe under his free arm. )

[ninjanature]

[Well, well. Yuu is a nonchalant dumbass, but the simple reaction tells Sasuke a lot about the boy's abilities and power. Strong and stupid. He can see why Guren takes a lot of interest regardless of whether or not they consider each other family.

Yuu is easy to move on the chess board.] Not bad. [He peers across to the tree where the shuriken is imbedded. His right arm lifts, hand raised. The rinnegan is visible through thick parts in his hair when he tips his head back.

The shuriken comes out of the tree with sudden force, spinning an arc back around the other side of Yuu and heading for Sasuke. He catches it between two fingers, and the arm disappears beneath the cloak.]

[culpa]

( what the hell!! eyes widen as he watches sasuke. . stare at the shuriken, and turns his eyes to follow his line of sight only for it to fly it's way out of the tree. that definitely doesn't seem. possible. at all. eyes widen as he follows it's path back into this dude's hand, and under the cloak. )

How'd you do that?!

( that's not normal. he's seen illusionists at work, seen magic, but nothing quite like that. )

[ninjanature]

[At an easy gait, Sasuke closes the distance between them as if he's continuing to walk, but he stops when he gets to Yuu. The boy had been the one leading anyway, so it's only fair not to take over.

He peers down; the strange left eye hasn't disappeared,standing out, soft purple from end to end broken up by several circles. It doesn't seem like Sasuke is able to make it normal.] It's a ninja eye technique.

One of the Six Paths. [It does require a good bit of energy, but one simple shuriken didn't tire him out completely.]

[culpa]

Oh.

( with a curious look to sasuke's eye when he gets close, leaning in as best as he can without. getting too much into his space. yuu knows about different eyes, his own shift and change when his seraph takes over, or when his demon does. but definitely not like that. )

Can you teach me?

[ninjanature]

I don't know. [He doesn't mind the inspection. Visually, there's not anything special about the eye except how strange it looks. Purple, rings of circles, and tomoe, six usualy, but five now after pulling the shuriken.] The rinnegan is -- kekkei genkai, something inherited almost. Receiving the chakra of a Sage is how I came to have it.

But it's still a dojutsu, an eye technique. If you can take my eye, you can have its power when you implant it in your own.

[Spooky.]

[culpa]

My eye exploded once and it just regrew, I don't think I'd have the time to put yours in even if I wanted to.

( but on the plus side of that--he does raise a hand up, covers his left eyelid with an index and middle finger. )

But if anyone steals yours, I can probably just yank one out? I don't really know how that works, but.

[ninjanature]

[Ah. Too pure...]

Your eyes are special. [Don't steal your sibling's eyeballs because you want to become stronger without repercussions... Or, you know, get the eyeballs of your dying friends as a parting gift. Don't become a Uchiha, Yuu.] You should keep them the best you can.

There are other techniques you may be able to learn. You have to get my shuriken back from Ichinose first, though.

[culpa]

My eyes aren't really special. My whole body's kind of like that. Punch through it and it'll just. . regrow. My heart got punched out once.

( granted he can't remember much of that. the human part of him detests the memories of the demon, the seraph is a complicated mess and yuu doesn't get it. it's fine. he doesn't need to. )

I'll get it back from him in no time.

( for now, he--starts walking off in some random assed direction. maybe guren's house is this way. )

[ninjanature]

[Yuu is such a weird, strange boy. Getting punched through the heart... Geez.]

You sound a little too reckless. [Yuu goes, and Sasuke follows, though he's aware it doesn't seem as if Yuu knows where they're going.] Someone as young as you with so much power should be more careful.

[He's talking to a wall, though, isn't he? Just like Naruto.]

When did you get your partner? The demon.

[culpa]

I'm not young, I'm sixteen. ( nts: sasuke is a second guren, probably stop telling him so much so he will stop berating yuu for being yuu. he even ruffled his hair. . the pieces are all falling into place now.

whatever, he's looking around. one day eventually they'll find where they're going. probably back to guren's now that he has his stuff?? who knows. it's an adventure. )

Uh, I don't remember? ( there are so many holes in his memory. he remembers getting ashura, remembers bonding with him and all that but time's weird when he looses bits and pieces of memory every time the demon and the seraph take over. ) Less than a year ago.