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Post by Uchiha Sasuke on Aug 20, 2007 14:54:54 GMT -5
Sasuke noticed the girl's way of saying her blood type had gained a slightly unusual manner, almost as if she wasn't sure of her answer. But apparently, even though she pondered, she believed in her conclusion enough to actually voice it out in the end. And luck was apparently on her side. If her blood type had been anything else than AB, his entire plan would have been invalidated.
"So is mine," he said calmly, letting Rinsaku make her own assumptions about what he had in mind.
That simplified the process the snake had described, turning it into a mere crude exchange of blood with a time interval between its two halves. It could, maybe, place him at a minor risk, but nothing that would potentially lead to death or other grave consequences. His blood type would suffer any other to mix with it, so even if she was wrong about hers, nothing could happen to him. However, in Rinsaku's own case, an error would be fatal. She was the one taking her chance.
The snake shifted its weight at Sasuke's feet, slipping its own tail through one of the coils it had formed and disrupting its perfectly circular shape only to form another. Its head rose a little more, to keep looking up at Sasuke with slitted intelligent eyes. It was going to once again caution him against doing this, so Sasuke brought his own gaze back down to meet the scouring reptile eyes. That silenced any forming protest.
He didn't need any of these two things that met here anymore for the time being, and so a handisgn was formed expertly, with hands that didn't falter in the slightest. With a small puff of smoke that covered the most of its form, the snake was gone completely from before his eyes. The same that, as they rose to Rinsaku again, were now darkened to black, without the slightest trace of the red and the tomoe from before. The only property they had retained was that same lack of emotion or expression.
Sasuke considered that those few seconds had been enough time to allow Rinsaku to make up her mind.
"We'll need a multi-shot syringe," he spoke again, still unaffected. "And someone who can handle it properly."
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Post by Ogata Rinsaku on Aug 20, 2007 21:54:00 GMT -5
Rinsaku's heart practically stopped when Sasuke said that he had the same blood type. That chance was so slim, she was lucky. Very lucky, she had once again sidestepped death, for now at least. She wasn't fixed yet. Rinsaku let out a slow breath. Inside, she was so grateful.
Rinsaku had been staring at the ground when the puff of smoke caught her attention. She lifted her eyes to see the snake Sasuke had summoned disappear with it. She looked at him, still picking a spot just above his mouth to concentrate on so she didn't chance looking in to his eyes. His eyes. She looked into them, they had been faded to a dull black, much different from the vivid red that was once there. So he did have something going on with his eyes. She wondered what their reason for changing was. Was it some sort of power? Possibly. A blood trait or even a jutsu? She didn't know. She didn't ask. He probably wouldn't have told her anyway. His dark eyes conveyed that much to her.
Sasuke's eyes were emotionless, very quiet. She could tell they'd became that way and perhaps they've been like that for quite some while, but then again, she really didn't know.
His eyes were hard to read. Normally, when she'd came across a person who had tried to hide their emotions, they stored them in their eyes. She guessed Sasuke had seen a lot. She also guessed he had secrets. He probably didn't trust people, he was strong, and that he was smart. Rinsaku's view was that you could tell if someone is skilled by the way they conceal their emotions.
For a moment she wondered if her eyes spoke. She guessed that they were quiet like her. Although, she did speak with her eyes. She knew that she could never hide her curiosity though. Rinsaku thought that her eyes were inquisitive.
Sasuke mentioned a multi-shot syringe and someone who knew how to handle one. The first person that came to her mind was her mother. She'd been a medic-nin. She wondered if she still remembered about that stuff. It had been years, to Rinsaku's recollection, but she had no doubt that she ever would forget. Although, Rinsaku wasn't sure if she still had syringes. Rinsaku thought some, could she do that to her mother? She was sure it'd break her heart and she'd force Rinsaku to stay. Again. But Rinsaku never did, she was desperate. Why? She knew why, but no one ever really understood.
Rinsaku went back and forth with the idea. She reluctantly decided that if need be, she'd go to her. Her mother lived in a lonely house on the outskirts of Iwa.
"I know one person. She knows how to handle a multi-shot syringe, but I don't know if she still keeps them," Rinsaku chanced it, "I trust her, but I don't know if she'll remember, she's been ill. For a very long time," she said that last part with a mix of sadness and anger, but she brushed away the oncoming memories.
"If she can't, would you know anyone?" She asked in her normal voice.
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Post by Uchiha Sasuke on Aug 20, 2007 22:28:22 GMT -5
The gaze that he met had no particular traits beyond the fact that it studied him more intently than any he could remember since Orochimaru's, at their first encounter. The setting around them, though as quiet and deserted by humans, was far different from the one back then, whose silence was ominous and ill-bearing. Just like then, civilization was close at hand, yet not quite there, within their immediate grasp.
The same way with how Rinsaku looked at him. There were similarities with Orochimaru's own intent study, as he could recall it, attentive and full of a curiosity that would never find its rest, as no matter how many answers it got it would only find more questions. Sasuke guessed it was people's nature to be insatiable, and some had chosen knowledge as the thing they craved with such insistence.
Yet, though it resembled as much, this was not Orochimaru's look he saw there. It lacked that more important side of it that wished to integrate him, to dominate and to control something that would never be its own. In other words, what was missing from Rinsaku's study in comparison with the former Sannin's was the egocentrism. With that, she reminded Sasuke of someone who was strong or informed, yet without disgusting him by clinging to things it couldn't have.
It was a pertinent question that she asked: did he know someone? And yet, it was one that he ignored for the time being, as his mind focused more on what she had said before that. And even more, on how she had said it.
"You and the person you mention have shared a bond some time, different from the one you have now," he drew his conclusion without seeming like he cared about it, but only that he saw it there.
It was difficult to tell whether he thought that to be a good or a bad thing. When people shared bonds, things normally tended to become unstable quickly, or they were so from the beginning. It was the kind of thing that drowned practicality and made goals more difficult to reach, because it used the heart to sidetrack the mind. The very same things he had renounced and broken, and that he was now avoiding.
So in that case, the question arose again: did he know somebody?
Karin.
The girl was going to have vehement objections to his method of choice for doing things, but surely she would be able to handle a simple syringe. She had helped Orochimaru with his experiments since as far back as Sasuke could remember knowing her. Still, she was out doing what he had told her to, away from this place, and she would be difficult to find until the actual time for their meeting came. He hadn't given her a place to meet in, because she could track chakra and would be able to find him by herself.
"As an alternative, yes," he finally replied, deciding to make that the second option, in case Rinsaku's own didn't work.
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Post by Ogata Rinsaku on Aug 20, 2007 23:58:00 GMT -5
Sasuke was right when he said that the bond she held with her mother was different from when it was long ago. Long ago, her mother had been happy. That story was complicated and she didn't let herself dig deep into it. Since Rinsaku had last visited her, she didn't know how much worse her mother could've become. Last time, it seemed like her mother had forgotten about her. Then, when she remembered, she was angry with her. Rinsaku couldn't blame her. All she knew to do was love her. If her mother slipped from her, then she'd dwindle. And would ultimately be lead to her demise. Or that's how she pictured it. Couldn't say for sure so she shrugged it off. She knew when she got too far into her mind.
Rinsaku pushed herself off the wall with her left hand. She stood up straight and stepped forward, she could feel nothing in her whole right arm and an uncomfortable tingling sensation, like when your foot had been asleep for way to long, had drifted to the muscles in her upper shoulder and the top right part of her back. The fatigue from battle had set in long ago and she felt somewhat comforted by it, she thought of herself being odd for feeling so.
Getting to Iwa would be simple enough by foot. Simplier if she could go by air, but she wasn't going to risk it. Since she couldn't feel one of her arms she didn't want to come to with out an arm. That was the downside of her way of travel, you could lose yourself. Literaly. If one wasn't cautious and experienced then they danced with a chance of killing themselves.
She was glad that Sasuke had an alternitave. There was a chance her mother could refuse to help her. She didn't reply to his statement, but she nodded her head.
"She's in Iwa, on the south end. It's a house by itself, easy enough to find on the outskirts."
"There's a chance she may not have a syringe, but that wont be hard to get a hold of."
Earlier, Sasuke's summon said it would be some while before the venom reached the left side of her body. How long 'some while' was she didn't know. Getting to Iwa wouldn't take too long, it just counted on her mother. And if that didn't work, Rinsaku didn't know what kind of condition she'd be in before they could rendezvous with Sasuke's alternitive. Hopefully, she wouldn't need that though. With her left hand, she picked up her canteen and put it around her neck and shoulder, she then picked up her bag and placed it on her the same way. Rinsaku took another step forward, she was ready.
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Post by Uchiha Sasuke on Aug 22, 2007 3:33:35 GMT -5
She was silent to his first remark. That, in itself, was a better answer that told him he had been right than any words could possibly form. Silence oftentimes spoke more efficiently than anything.
So, there was a bond, with a female person. Sasuke inclined to believe... a blood relative. He would not judge it until he saw it at work upon the situation. But he expected unfavorable effects from such things, if they had been estranged.
Sasuke listened to Rinsaku's indications, making note of each detail to himself. She probably had the same possibility in mind as the reason she was giving such information away from the very beginning, while she still could. Soon, she might be disabled from providing it later, and Sasuke would be the one who had to find the place she spoke of.
He had been to Iwagakure before, just recently. He had only gathered basic information on it, but it was yet another village that he had next to nothing to fear from. Yet another non-ally of Konoha, who would much rather be glad to see him act as a missing nin than have him retrieved by the village he had deserted. That, if anyone there even truly managed to recognize him.
He studied Rinsaku's moves, nodding to her last note. Any pharmacy would have a syringe, and they were sold to anyone, as they served many purposes. One should be particularly easy to obtain in no time. They could even pick one up on the way, in order to address even the possibility that whichever person she had in mind might not have one already.
The girl seemed weakened, but still capable enough, and she could move almost flawlessly, which was to a great extent an act of willpower on her part, if he had identified it correctly. He watched as she secured and checked her possessions with the expertise of someone who had done it plenty of times before. She wasn't wasting any time, and as for himself, he had no such arrangements to make at all. Finally, they were ready to move.
Without a word, Sasuke took the lead for himself, not looking behind to see if she would follow or not, when he already knew the answer. He had read her intent to walk in the testy character of her moves, and so he complied, beginning to pace. He kept a steady rhythm, each footfall causing the same sound in monotones against the cobble that punctured the ground and formed the narrow alley they were on.
He knew the way well enough to Iwa. She could direct him when they were close, if she was still conscious by then. If not, he would see on the spot.
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