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I...







[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]

So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?

Date: 2010-03-20 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Blinks. Got it in one, most likely. Staring resolutely at her hands again.]

So, when... um... I was just - [Pause.] My grandfather died peacefully. It seemed like things were okay. But we started hearing about this upstart sword school gaining power, going around and taking over dojo, killing the leaders and taking the students who wuold go with them under their wing, and putting the rest to the sword. My father was really worried about it... this group was called the Itto-ryu.

Date: 2010-03-20 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
You're ignoring the question, but continue. I assume Anotsu is connected to the Itto-ryu.

Date: 2010-03-20 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Winces very slightly, and then snaps a bit.] I'm not ignoring it, I'm giving you background information. And yeah he is, he's the head, in fact.

Date: 2010-03-20 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
[slightly raised eyebrow, but calm enough:] Then acknowledge the question before you continue, instead of getting worked up about it. Continue.

Date: 2010-03-20 06:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Deep breath.] You're gonna find out about it anyway. So. [Shakes her head for a moment, trying to calm down, and changes her mind. Being mad might make it easier. She can just ride that momentum through.] So yeah, of course, we were the dojo that threw Anotsu Kagehisa's grandfather out in the first place. Naturally, they came after us.

Date: 2010-03-20 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
I just wanted to confirm what your body language was conveying.

[he relaxes in his seat a bit more, paying close attention.]

Date: 2010-03-21 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Doesn't relax a bit. Just barrels determinedly onwards.] So Anotsu came in with a bunch of guys, and killed my dad and - [Brief catch, lying here, sort of, and then - adelante.] my mom. So I decided I'd kill them for that, only I couldn't really do it on my own, I spent a couple years wandering around looking for Itto-ryu but they were the best, it's not like I would have been able to do anything really. And then I found Manji and started making progress, and went to Kaga, and met Doa and Isaku, and things went crazy with the bakufu, which brings us to the last thing I remember.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
I get the distinct impression you're leaving things out. After all, years cannot be summed up as "I met some people and things were crazy."

What did he do to your mother?

Date: 2010-03-21 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Rolls her eyes, very theatrically teenage for a moment, and folds her arms.]

He didn't do anything. Exactly.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
...He let his guys hurt her.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Glare.]

So I wandered around for a couple years after that. I'd decided I would kill all of them. Except then I realized I'd need help to do it, someone to back me up, and that was sort of how I ended up finding Manji.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
One teenaged girl on a death mission, turning to whoever she can find to help. Why did Manji agree to follow along?

Date: 2010-03-21 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Calming again. Relaxing the slightest bit. Ow it hurts.]

He said I looked like his little sister.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
And such a thing would spur him to becoming your personal hitman?

Date: 2010-03-21 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
...She's dead. [Shrugs a bit.] The whole thing... it's more his story then mine. So... I think he maybe wanted to look after me the way he couldn't look after her.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
[Steeples her fingers and considers the next bit for a second, glancing over at him.]

I needed someone who was the best, because the Itto-ryu... those men who destroyed so many dojo... they were the best too. And Manji was definitely the best. [An awkward sort of shrug.] He's immortal.

Date: 2010-03-21 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
Interesting. [And it is.] How?

Date: 2010-03-21 04:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
Creatures called kessen-chu. Bloodworms. If he gets hurt, limbs can be reattached... just stick 'em back on. Spiked through the head... it'll be repaired. It's a good thing, too. If he hadn't had that immortality, we'd both have died right away.

Date: 2010-03-25 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
Interesting. If he ever comes to Paradisa, I'd like a sample.

Date: 2010-03-25 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
You could take a sample, I guess. You can't detain him.

Date: 2010-03-25 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illusionist.livejournal.com
If I chose to detain him, I wouldn't ask your permission, Rin.

Date: 2010-03-25 04:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payback.livejournal.com
I busted - I'm on my way on busting - him out of one prison already. All right?

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