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Post by Yuki on Mar 16, 2008 5:27:07 GMT -4
Yuki was looking to the side, and at least didn't seem to notice Lenore looking at him. Through his dark glasses though, it was very difficult to tell where he was looking, or even most of the time, his reaction to anything... He seemed to be contemplating something, but seemed content to let the talk of prophesies be at rest for the time being...
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Post by kumar on Mar 23, 2008 20:06:01 GMT -4
Lenore considered it all for a moment. She leaned back her head and sighed. She looked at the older boy. "Does any of this ever get easier?" She asked, quietly. "Not that I'm complaining, I can handle it, it's just nice to dream of a time when it doesn't grate on the soul so much."
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Post by Yuki on Mar 24, 2008 9:24:16 GMT -4
Yuki shook his head. "No... It only ever gets harder. But once in a while... Just... By chance. A great distraction comes along, and you can at least forget about it all... At least for a little while..." Yuki had a urning quality to his words, and seemed to be remembering a time like that if nothing else...
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Post by kumar on Mar 24, 2008 18:04:19 GMT -4
Lenore snorted. "It's the distractions that are bothering me. I think the only good distraction I've had recently is Kaliri and Kumori. Now even Kumori is gone." Lenore shook her head. "I'd love to live here without distraction, but unfortunately, I can't."
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Post by Yuki on Mar 26, 2008 7:04:33 GMT -4
Yuki smiled at her. "Then you need another distraction... As do I..." It sounded very much like he had an idea... "Care to join me?" he asked as he stepped up out of the water and pulled on his shorts... Which was weird since through the henge no-jutsu it looked as though he were already wearing them and these new ones simply melded into place with the illusion...
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Post by kumar on Mar 26, 2008 21:45:45 GMT -4
Lenore raised her eyebrow, but followed him out of the water, pulling her towel tighter around her, and waiting while he dressed himself, and maybe taking a moment to watch him getting dressed. No harm in looking. He had seen... more than his share, and she thought this was the only fair trade-off. 'Not bad... not astronomical, but not bad,' she thought to herself.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 26, 2008 21:51:21 GMT -4
Yuki either didn't realize, or didn't care that she was looking while he dressed, and certinaly didn't comment on it. He gave himself a quick pat-dry and pulled on his jeans, threw on his shirt, and tied his forehead protector back into place. After that, he secured his katana to his side and looked over to Lenore. "Going to change up?" he asked, waiting for her to be ready to go...
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Post by kumar on Mar 26, 2008 22:27:26 GMT -4
Lenore cottoned onto what he was doing, and took a few steps back. She ran at some rocks beside the fence, and using them for height, vaulted herself over. She searched around for a minute or so, then changed, vaulted over the fence again. This time, though, the edges of her ninja garb were hanging out her pack, while she was now wearing a half dozen earrings in each ear, a chain running from her ear to her nose, and roughly four each pair of bracelets and necklaces. All were gold, which set off the red silk dress and robes nicely. The edge of her dress made a faint, fuzzy flapping noise as she sailed through the air, and landed on the ground with a light click, and her bag running out of slack with a soft whooshing sound. All in all, roughly three minutes over the fence didn't feel like enough time to do as she'd obviously done, from the jewelry, to the slight makeup, to the long, thick braid. "Done." She announced, dryly, and unncessesarily.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 26, 2008 22:37:07 GMT -4
Yuki nodded and started walking out of the hot springs and towards a rather large building which made up a compound of itself. It was a mansion, and absolutely beautiful from it well groomed agriculture, to it's museum-like interior which was visible through the large, slightly tinted, glass walls. Inside could be seen a huge library through the glass. The building seemed even larger than the Hokage's residence...
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Post by kumar on Mar 26, 2008 22:58:58 GMT -4
Lenore, when she first walked out of the hotsprings, it was clear she was a little unused to the garment, and was slightly clumsy in it. Walking along, she seemed to forget the consistancy of the fabric, and try to take too many steps, bundling the fabric around her ankles and catching her up a bit. But when they began approaching the magnificent estate, she seemed to alter, completely. She found the right rhythm to lengthen her stride, gliding along serenely. She fell to a half step behind Yuki, angled her eyes a slight fracture downwards (Not too far, but far enough to be polite) and folded her hands in front of her.She had gone from looking the outdoors ninja girl, to the well brought up daughter of good standing in a manor in the space of heartbeats.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 26, 2008 23:03:40 GMT -4
"Welcome to my place," Yuki said holding the door open for her. "I board with Ebisu-sensai, just before you get the wrong impression of me from this house..." He kind of chucked a little bit and brought her through the inside, passing through the museum portion of the house, many armours, books, flags, weaponry, and all manors of artifacts on display in glass cases. He walked over to a wall, and it started to open for him almost instantly, revealing a large winding stair case downward. "This is my room," he said, leading the way...
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Post by kumar on Mar 26, 2008 23:15:29 GMT -4
Lenore looked around eagerly at the artifacts. Imagine being able to study them, any time one wished. She waved aside his explanation of the place, and mumbled something akin to "irrelevant", and didn't even notice the wall slide, as her eyes were glued into the prior room, only turning when he spoke. Without a word, she followed him down the steps.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 27, 2008 7:54:31 GMT -4
The downstairs area was a complete training fascility complete with olympic sized swimming pool and running track. There was a sparring area, a weight training area, and mechanical ninja opponents to practice on. The entire underground area was one huge industrialized creation with one purpose; to create ninjas who did nothing else but be ninjas, to transform the regular into the machine...
Only one small space of this whole area seemed even the least bit home-like, and that was a small walled off room in one corner which held a bed, a few book shelves, and some art as well as personal pictures; Yuki's small personal space in this athletic center...
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Post by kumar on Mar 27, 2008 8:24:31 GMT -4
Lenore looked around at the training equipment, and smiled a small, private smile. 'This looks eerily familiar' She thought. ' Just like underground.' "And they shall spring forth from the earth, and dozens shall lead the charge, and they shall take their opponent in their teeth and crush him..." she intoned, lost in thought.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 27, 2008 8:40:41 GMT -4
Yuki missed the fact that she was speaking out her own thoughts and thought she was just playing a harmless joke about Yuki's underground, hermit-style training facility since he was walking in front of her and not really paying attention. He laughed a little. "There's not usually a 'they' down here. It's usually a 'me.' he said with another little laugh. "Ebisu comes down once in a while... but that's usually about it..."
Yuki walked into his room and rummaged behind a couple of the books on his shelf - which to no surprise were mainly text books, linguistic books, and a few fairy stories by odd juxtaposition. "It's not warm... but that distraction is open if you want some?" he asked, holding up a small bottle of sake...
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