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Post by Clyde on Oct 20, 2010 18:19:52 GMT -5
Clyde, a human who allied himself with the powerful shinigami Ryo, found himself traveling a familiar path. A section of karakura park that he had woken up for the first time. Before that moment so many months ago he had not existed, at least he had no recollection of existing. It was something that effected the young man, despite his power and the way he acted he naive and confused.
He had power but was not sure if he was using it the way it was supposed to be used, or if it was even enough having failed to save a friend not too long ago. He had memories, but none that explained how he got here or what he really was. It left him feeling empty, doubtful. He appeared energetic and optimistic but those feelings were just fabrications, "memories" that had those feelings, memories that he tries to mimic.
It was weird, maybe even a bit scary when ever he stopped and contemplated on it, it was why he enjoyed sparing and training, it kept his mind on one of the few things he did understand, combat and growing in power. It was hard for him to understand truths and lies since he had nothing to go on. He was traveling blind, only slowly seeing people and the world for what it was. And now he walked forward, down the familiar path where this all started, despite how much stronger he was he felt very little had changed for him. He was still fractured, an empty vessel that relies on imitation to come off as human...if only he understood this concept. Instead he walked the path with the same naivety he started with.
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Post by Zakura Kessin on Oct 21, 2010 1:04:55 GMT -5
It had been a long time since Kessin last walked through the peaceful environment of the park... the very air helped calm the nerves...calm otherwise chaotic thoughts and harsh memories. It was a place of serenity... a place that Kessin had to come too before visiting the Manga shop.
He walked down the main path for a few minutes before spotting a familiar face up ahead, walking in the same direction. A slight smile lit Kessin's face as he shunpo'ed up to the human. "It's been a long time Clyde...." he would say to him. He saw his face...it did little to hide the distress in the boy's life and the elder recognized this.
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Oct 21, 2010 4:26:27 GMT -5
The park was the one place that Genno loved most of all. The reiatsu, he felt it was was very familular. He looked around and spotted Clyde. He was a human who wanted to fight and protect, there was only Ryo standing in between them, and Genno was planing in talking to him. It was just trying to find him. Since Ryo didn't spend all of his time at the Manga shop. Either that or he would of sensed him and didn't want to talk. He walked up and then saw Zakura there. What were the odds. To see him twice today.
'Hey Clyde... Hello again Zakura... It has only been... What five hours since i last saw you?'
What a turn of events as the wind blew by, giving Genno the shivers. It was so cold, even if he didn't want to admit it.
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Post by Clyde on Oct 21, 2010 11:55:54 GMT -5
Clyde felt Zakura's presence as he appeared near him with a shunpo. The boy looked over to him; his mind told him he should act excited to see his friend again and so he mimicked the action, exclaiming, "Ah, Senpai! You've come back! He gave a light bow to the Vizard, Kessin had been one he relied on like he did for Ryo. "You were gone for some time, the others were getting a little worried." He commented as he lifted himself up from his bow. He looked with confidence at his friend, but again it was a true feeling, just one his mind imitated."I knew you could handle yourself. Though, I am glad to see you're back." The boy took a few steps further down the path but as he was about to say anything else to his friend a cold wind flashed by and another appeared before him.
Genno stood not to far away, seemingly appearing from no where as he tended to do. Clyde had encountered him a few times, and from early actions he seemed to appose Ryo, even attacking Clyde during the last time they met. The boy took a step back and lifted his right arm, allowing his power to surge outward. Despite the boy's naivety his instincts told him to be cautious, he knew this man was dangerous. "Satsu..." The boy muttered, not sure why he had suddenly appeared before him.
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Post by Zakura Kessin on Oct 21, 2010 12:50:13 GMT -5
"I traveled north...to see some old friends." Kessin referred to the humans who he trained and were killed by the Onigami centuries ago. He made it a point to go to the spot it happened whenever he could on the anniversary of the event....as a reminder.
Just as Kessin was going to comment on Clyde's distress, Genno appeared. "You're history with this human is a bit tarnished... tread carefully Satsujin..." Is all Zakura would say to the ex-shinigami. He knew what Genno was here for and was expecting this appearance.
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Post by jake on Oct 21, 2010 13:11:20 GMT -5
As was his habit, Jake was in the park exercising, and had been doing so since the early morning hours. As he continued the spree of sit-ups he had been doing, he stopped midway through a rep, and moved himself into a proper sitting position as he felt the spiritual presence of 3 other people enter the park. Not particularly keen on his reiatsu perception, Jake could not tell if the presences were being hostile to each other, but one of them was a reiatsu he was familiar with; Clyde, the young man who was apprenticed to Hasaki Ryo, just as Jake was, albeit for a much longer period of time, but the other two presences were unknown to him.
Standing up from his sitting position, Jake grabbed his jacket from the tree branch he had hung it on earlier, and wandered off the see what was going on. Taking advantage of his weaker reiatsu, Jake used his years of stealth training to climb up into the trees of the park, and leaped from branch to branch carefully and slowly, until he had come into the presence of the 3 people.
He instantly recognized Clyde, and upon closer inspection, he recognized Zakura Kessin from the last time he had been to the Manga Shop that hid Ryo's underground training area. Looking at the third person now, Jake found that this person was indeed a mystery to him, but he seemed to be a Shinigami, or perhaps a Visard.
Realizing that he had neglected to grab his sword back where he had been training, Jake cursed himself silently, and waited in the safety of the tree a few feet away, to see if he could find out what was going between these three men.
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Oct 21, 2010 20:54:16 GMT -5
'Hey, hey c'mon! clyde didn't we talk about this after the hole dropping by thing...? Plus i was the one who introduced you to Ryo...
He spoke calmly with his hands out. Because for one thing he didn't want to hurt the boy, since there has been much learnt with this new body.
'There is many things to talk about, and why i acted. There is many things behind the mask that you do not know of....'
He turned to Kessin and looked at him dead in the eye.
'Zak... If you are thinking that i want to recruit this boy, you are wrong. He shares a bond with Ryo no one can brake. And i admire that...
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Post by Clyde on Oct 21, 2010 21:37:47 GMT -5
"Talk? I recall you attacking the shop and attempted to use my as a hostage. We never really got the chance to talk." The boy looked at Genno, the human did not look angry necessarily but was cautious. Genno never made sense to the human, one of the many things that did not make sense. His motives and actions seemed random at times, he never seemed to be on the shinigami side, nor his enemies side. He was something in between, it made the boy feel uneasy, it reminded him of his own uncertainty. Keeping his right arm raised he asked, "I'm acting this way towards you because I don't understand you..." he admitted to the rogue shinigami, "You have been appearing around me since I first woke up in this city... changing your appearance, sure, but always watching. You have extended both friendship hostility towards me, never making yourself particularly clear. " The boy shook his head, recalling their meetings with each other.
"If you have approached me now to explain yourself then I must know why, why now of all times have you appeared? Why couldn't you explain yourself any of the other times? What do you know that I must know, does it have to do with my past?" As the boy asked his questions impatience was showing, an attitude he never seemed to feel before. It was like all the aggravation waiting and searching for answers was beginning to surface. Was Genno toying with him? Could anything he say be trusted anyway? He clenched his right fist and waited for Genno to explain himself once and for all. Perhaps Zakura could help in verifying what this enigma would say.
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Post by Zakura Kessin on Oct 22, 2010 11:35:08 GMT -5
Kessin returned Genno's with his own stare of the pupils. "If Ryo is around, he doesn't want anyone to know for reasons unknown. I cannot find him either." He returned his sight on Clyde. He was acting differently from before. "His questions are legitimate Satsujin." He would just stand and listen, nothing else really to say at the moment.
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Post by jake on Oct 22, 2010 21:24:45 GMT -5
As the topic of the conversation became apparent, Jake would begin to wander how dangerous this Satsujin person was, and what information he could taunt these two powerful people with.
Moving slowly, Jake climbed out to the farthest part of a particularly thick branch of his tree, and positioned himself almost directly above the hostile Shinigami. Making sure he didn't spike his low reiatsu unnecessarily, and moving with barely audible sound, Jake prepared to jump down at a moment's notice. If the situation took a violent turn, Jake would be in a position to stall the enemy.
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Oct 23, 2010 8:39:05 GMT -5
'What are you doing....'
A voice would be heard behind Jake as Kei, Gennos mod soul was behind him. He wasn't there to harm anyone but if Jake was to harm his master Kei would take action.
Meanwhile down on the ground Genno grabbed his Zanpakuto and placed it on the ground along with his scarf. genno stood there still as he licked his dry lips before starting his explanaions.
'I left Ryo and all of you because i didn't want anyone to know what wass going on. Since i visited Jack Frost. He wrote a document giving me a
new appearance and my previous life as Satsujin Koumori to pronounced dead to everyone... Mr. Frost died fighting a Menos Grande.
He said taking a break from what he said. Because indeed Jack Frost was a great man.
'I went back to Soul Society to see what has changed from that last time i was there. I was a captain for a while, and saw them for what they truely were. Power hungry and blind. I left there again because i couldn't handle it. When i came back i did what i did to you to show you what the 12th divison has created. A robot that can copy the same power than anyone just by reading them... The captain for that divison is also trying to create a robot which can use a zanpakuto and the stages of shikai and bankai. Such a shame.
He had been saying everything from truth, and in some way it all made sense.
'You don't know which way i swing. But i support everyone but the animalistic hollows and the corrupted shinigami. Which is why i have chosen to create a group of mixed factions. Since the shinigami dispise all. They want the visards, onigami and anyone who apposes them. Dead. This group i formed with another three people is designed to protect and support everyone from the evil that lurks behind the shinigami.'
Genno finished as he looked at Clyde. He had been throughout his explaination. 'Believe what you want. I just hope you can understand where i am coming from. I did it to protect. I swore to protect after i looked at my father who protected me from an ambush of hollows. He hung over me and smiled with those saddened eyes. I want those eyes to be mine this time. I want to walk the path of my father but in a direction that just doesn't serve my own kind but many others...'
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Post by Clyde on Oct 27, 2010 19:33:13 GMT -5
"...If you wanted to protect those in between, you would have stayed with Ryo...from the beginning that is what he has wanted to do." The boy said after contemplating what Genno had explained to him. "I can not speak for the shinigami, as I know very little of my own people let alone theirs. However they have never given me a reason to mistrust them, not yet, and have even sided with Ryo and myself on a few occasions." He lowered his arm finally after a few moments, but the power still seemed to be seeping from his arm. His power had grown so much from when it started that activating it left a lasting impression the reiatsu directly surrounding him, it was certainly interesting to see for the others. "I promised to protect all who I could, but I would never do it as you do. You hide in the shadows, manipulate and even harm those who are innocent. Even so, the shinigami are not threatening the humans...it is the vizard organization, the arrancar, and Teisuke that are endangering us. Those are the ones I will fight." He rectified to the rogue shinigami.
As he talked, the power in his arm seemed to be growing stronger, despite not showing any hostile intentions, the ground beneath his feet was actually slowly decomposing into pure reiatsu, a side effect of his power on the environment. However, the boy seemed unaware, as if his body had tricked him into not noticing. "If there is some greater evil to be fought, then I will cross paths with them eventually. Trying to recover my memories and understand my power has naturally lead me to these threats anyway...I'm positive they are connected." He paused, his arm twitched very suddenly as he spoke, as if it reacted to his words unconsciously. "The truth is Genno I can not trust you...by trying bringing all of the sides together you have become enemies with all of them as well, you have harmed some of them even. ...And if you endanger the humans from here on you will have me as an enemy as well."
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Post by Zakura Kessin on Oct 29, 2010 0:27:38 GMT -5
Kessin watched the new development with a little awe and excitement however he knew that this couldn't go on at the moment. "Steel yourself Clyde!" He would shout at the human. He recognized that he was oblivious to what he was doing to the ground underneath him so he tried to snap him out of it verbally.
As these events unfolded, he watched both of them carefully, ready to do what was needed at a split second's notice. Even so, a part of him wanted to see out this unfolded... this new ability of Clyde's was very interesting to the elder. What was strange was his arm's spasms... they seemed reactive to what Clyde was actually saying. Several hypothesis would develop in the confines of Kessin's mind but he kept them to himself. He then would look at Genno. "Best be headin' out now Genno... you have a group to attend too correct?"
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Post by jake on Oct 30, 2010 23:12:18 GMT -5
Jake was startled as something spoke from behind him, but kept his body from jumping at the shock. Turning his head to look at the person behind him Jake replied with the truth.
"I'm watching to make sure my friend down there doesn't get hurt," Jake whispered to the person, "there's an old saying about friends in high places being a good thing, so I figured I'd watch from afar just in case."
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Oct 31, 2010 0:33:34 GMT -5
Kei looked at the human as he spoke...
'I am doing the same. So if you hurt my master... You will regret it...'
He spoke in a freindly manner, but at the same time he said it so joyful that it was creepy.
Meanwhile down bellow. Genno straightened up, as he heard what Clyde said, there was nothing he could do to persuade him that he was partically the good guy. But when he talked about vizards attacking humans he looked at him. He saw it once, and he didn't want to see that sight again. There was something that came into mind.
'Before you sau who is attacking you... You should be careful... Specially with Ryo, you don't know who he is... He isn't want you think. He is a good guy and he protects those around him. But don't judge people by factions...'
He only mentioned Ryo because he knew what he was, not in real sight, but through his eyes he saw, something scary, something disturbing to his eyes the first time he saw him. Genno bent down the grab his scarf and his zanpakuto which was in it's sheath.
'I have a Vizard who was a former shinigami on my side. And also an Arrancar in which fact hates killing humans... If you met him, you would understand. But think what you will Clyde, you walk your own path...'
All of a sudden Genno looked at Clyde, he didn't Clyde relized what was happening. He didn't know how to stop this, as he flash stepped upwards to grab Kei and Jake, and flash stepped next to Zakura. 'Don't worry, i can't think of anything, this is the only way for now... Just being cautious...'
Genno spoke pulling out his zanpakuto, as he did so it came out longer extending to the size of his body as he entered into his Shikai state. Gennosuke stabbed the ground,
and as he did the wind would pick up, spinning around them making a dome out wind. Anything that would try to penertrate it would be caught in the wind and spin around of deflect off. 'If you know what to do, it is safe for you to walk out of the dome. But i think he needs to figure this out for himself. I just don't want people to get hurt, this is just a precoution. I hope you understand my actions...'
He spoke waiting for what was going to happen next.
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Post by Clyde on Nov 3, 2010 12:12:59 GMT -5
The boy watched genno and ignored the warning Zakura gave him. This man thought he should not judge people on factions, but something told the human to disagree with this. Everyone working for Kuro has the choice to stay or leave, and in some cases like Kessin they do leave. It's the ones that stay that are enemies, the ones that, despite knowing the harm they are causing others, do not stop. If Genno was serious about a hollow among his ranks the boy did not think the hollow was trying to change his lifestyle, but wanted the same power that this rogue shinigami wanted. It was all corruption, and it was keeping people like Clyde from the truth.
"I can not judge by factions, I judge by what I have experianced. I don't understand this world enough to differenciate any other way. I'm going off my own experiances with them..." the boy explained. It was wierd perhaps to the others, he lived a "clean" slate. before this he had never been exposed to even humans, so he was experiancing each faction in a different way with no preconceptions. "If there is one thing these experiances have showed me is that "power" is the key. In fact everyone one here...wants power." He said as he looked at the entire group encased inside of Genno's wind dome, the reiatsu escaping his arm was more noticable now than before, and those with weaker reiatsu would begin to feel the pressure. It was like his power was having a direct effect on his state of mind.
"Power is what allows Kessin to control his inner demons, and Jake to save his family. It allows you to bring that group together, Genno, to have control over them." The boy's voice sounded unusual as he spoke, he did not sound like the usual Clyde. He lifted his arm and stared at it and through expresionaless face he spoke, "Even my body wants power. ...It wants all of this power so that it can change something...maybe change everything, I don't know yet." The boy lowered himself into a kneeling position and placed his hand upon the ground, his reiatsu surged through the grass and dirt they all stood upon, it traveled in all directions. Several trees and large rocks around them were "hit" by the surge of energy and were simply obliterated into reiatsu particles.
The energy finally began to die down after this and the boy lifted himself back up onto his two feet. He looked at the group of them, his face returning to it's more normal, kind, appearence. The boy sighed and looked down at the destroyed ground beneath him. "Stay away from the other humans, Genno." Clyde said to the shinigami, though his voice was much more calm than before, it was more of a suggestion than a warning. "...I'm sorry." He said towards Zakura and Jake, before he leapt into the air a great distance and left the area. He needed time to understand his power and what was happening.
[Exit]
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Nov 3, 2010 22:12:01 GMT -5
Genno listened to Clyde, as he saw the ground do what it did. Afterwards when it was all over he lifted the sword from out of the ground, and the dome of wind disappeared with just a breeze of fresh air. He ignored the others, as he only paied attention to Kei.
'Would you like me to stay here?'
'Yes... Talk on my behalf please Kei... Excuse me, but i will catch up with you later...'
Genno leaped off into the air, as Kei stood back with Zak and the Human.
'I know you don't trust Master Jin... But please... Give him a chance. His just trying to set things right in the world...'
Kei was looking apologetic as he watched Genno leave them.
[Genno Exit/Kei stays back to talk to the others]
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Post by jake on Nov 7, 2010 23:36:25 GMT -5
Jake would blink, and look at Zakura as Clyde and Gennosuke left, and then looked at the mod soul he had met up in the tree.
"I don't like your friend," Jake said to Kei as he recovered, "he clearly doesn't have any concept of personal space."
Walking away from the mod soul, Jake went over to Zakura and held out his hand for the man to shake.
"Jake Chen," he said nonchalantly, "I've seen you but we've never been properly introduced...mind explaining what just happened? Its not everyday I gets taken hostage then released without incident you know."
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Post by Satsujin Koumori on Nov 11, 2010 19:02:09 GMT -5
Kei interupted Jake just as soon as he said hostage and kidnap.
"Jake he saved you, as all from Clyde. Shade Master Jin posseses the zanpakuto of the wind. It creates a wind dome, a protective barrier that deflects everything on the outside."
The mod sould took refuge on a log.
"I have been with him from the beginning. He is struggling. Once he told me he was going to die... But he was fine. I took care of him. Shade Master Jin is like a father to me. So if you lay on fucking finger on him..."
The mod soul snapped as it abruptly stood up.
"I will tear you limb from limb!!!"
The mod soul jumped on the spot. Flying into the air he vanished...
(Exit)
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Post by jake on Nov 11, 2010 20:49:57 GMT -5
"I can tell why Clyde doesn't like them," Jake said with a frown as Kei left, "the TV in their heads' needs a color adjustment, because the black and whites are a bit mixed up. Last time I checked, abruptly taking someone out of a place where they were in absolutely no danger-say the top of a tree-was not saving them."
Looking around again, Jake turned to Zakura, and wondered if he might say anything.
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