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16autumnroad) wrote2013-03-17 08:51 am
16autumnroad) wrote2013-03-17 08:51 am
[Voice / Action : Forest, 3/17] Arrival
Kai! [Sudden absence from the battlefield prompts Chouji's immediate attempt to dispel an illusion.]
Why won't the genjutsu break? It must be too strong. [Not to mention that genjutsu and fine chakra control are not his strongest skills. Pain should also work. It's hardly the preferred method for breaking illusions, but it's more reliable for anyone whose chakra control isn't near perfect. He reaches for a kunai, but none is available. Unarmed and unarmored in a genjutsu that could be used to do pretty much anything to him; somehow that isn't surprising. Chouji is starting to worry though. He crouches down, snatches a jagged rock, and slices open his left palm. Still nothing.
Unwilling to simply sit and wait, he pushes off lightly, leaping into the trees. Chouji conceals himself as well as he can among the branches, only now noticing the journal lying open on the ground below. Shivering from the cold, a twinge of pain between his shoulder blades makes Chouji twitch, wondering if the attack he's been braced for is finally coming. His eyes widen as he looks over his shoulder to see a pair of feathered wings. A little desperate now, Chouji makes one final attempt at breaking free. He stabs his thigh with the rock. Still trapped, he resigns himself to staying here until someone manages to free him, letting the stone fall back to the ground. Chouji keeps watch for any further signs of danger on the off chance the genjutsu's caster slips and gives something away.]
[Chouji can heard over the journal; he will pick it up as soon as he receives an answer. He can also be found in the forest or anywhere in the common areas of town after he eventually makes it there.]
Why won't the genjutsu break? It must be too strong. [Not to mention that genjutsu and fine chakra control are not his strongest skills. Pain should also work. It's hardly the preferred method for breaking illusions, but it's more reliable for anyone whose chakra control isn't near perfect. He reaches for a kunai, but none is available. Unarmed and unarmored in a genjutsu that could be used to do pretty much anything to him; somehow that isn't surprising. Chouji is starting to worry though. He crouches down, snatches a jagged rock, and slices open his left palm. Still nothing.
Unwilling to simply sit and wait, he pushes off lightly, leaping into the trees. Chouji conceals himself as well as he can among the branches, only now noticing the journal lying open on the ground below. Shivering from the cold, a twinge of pain between his shoulder blades makes Chouji twitch, wondering if the attack he's been braced for is finally coming. His eyes widen as he looks over his shoulder to see a pair of feathered wings. A little desperate now, Chouji makes one final attempt at breaking free. He stabs his thigh with the rock. Still trapped, he resigns himself to staying here until someone manages to free him, letting the stone fall back to the ground. Chouji keeps watch for any further signs of danger on the off chance the genjutsu's caster slips and gives something away.]
[Chouji can heard over the journal; he will pick it up as soon as he receives an answer. He can also be found in the forest or anywhere in the common areas of town after he eventually makes it there.]
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who was also Gore anyway, so she'd had to do it on her own. If asked, she'd say she wasn't the best airbender - she had faith in her skills, but she was learning still, and her grandfather and father were masters. And Jinora had more experience...although Jinora also hadn't had ten months training under Avatar Aang."People just arrive late sometimes. I think Shikamaru's really happy you're here, though. He told me a bit about both of you when I first met him. That was...wayyyy back on the day I first go here. We were at the fountain, and he did a shadow puppet show." Technically, Ikki tries not to talk about that, because keeping people's powers a secret was something she'd been asked to do - but Chouji clearly already knows Shikamaru's shadow thing, so she doesn't mind saying.
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in one of the many, many timelines, and that's the part he'll focus on.He laughs delightedly at the revelation about Shikamaru's shadow puppet show. "I bet those were the best shadow puppets you've ever seen. He'd be good at that. I hope it helped you settle in" Chouji knows where Shikamaru got his soft spot for kids, and seeing that he's been indulging Ikki here sends another wave of reassurance that things haven't changed, no matter how much Chouji missed.
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It was the best shadow puppet show ever - and though she hadn't realized it, that meeting had come shortly after the Asuma of the time had left. "It was! We were talking about the animals in your world and mine. Mine are like...combinations of your animals, mostly! That's what Shikamaru said." She's pretty enthusiastic about relating this information - Shikamaru is pretty smart, in Ikki's humble opinion, and she takes almost everything he says as Fact.
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"Really? What sort of combinations?" Chouji tries not to picture Akamaru with wings, or a toad with fur. Chouji is not about to disagree with Ikki's assessment of Shikamaru; his first instinct when in need of strategy, advice, or information is always to ask his best friend.
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"Liiiike, a polar bear dog! And a spider monkey!" She'd show him drawings, but she doesn't have any on her at the moment to display for the journal.