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The moonlight gleams down unabashed over the young couple, playfully clasped together amidst the long grasses and summer flowers on the hilltop. It shines behind her own head as she finally pins him. Once more, her strong, stubborn violet eyes are illuminated just like that day long ago.

But...in that moment, she looks at him more tenderly than ever before in the past six months of his recovery.

"I couldn't imagine a better night with the man of my dreams. I never thought a treasure this great could be pulled from a riverbank but...
Hoshirou, I...think I love you."

"Maria..."

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The grey, bearded old man throws a chair at the hidden turncoat he'd sheltered in his home for nearly the past year. The same boy he'd raised like a son. The same imp his own daughter nursed back to health.

A freshly rolled cigarette lies smoldering on the floor by his feet as he stands protectively over the figure of his cowering, violet eyed daughter sobbing behind him. The young traitor stands pleadingly at the door as the older father screams obscenities at him.

"We take you in and this is how you repay us? You impregnate my daughter and reveal yourself as a murderer!? What, you thought she would run away with the same men who killed the rest of our family, even her own mother? You...GET OUT! LEAVE! NEITHER OF US EVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE HERE AGAIN!"

"Katashi, please! M-Maria, I didn't...those nights, all that time we spent together! You believed in me...you said you loved who I am! I'm just a hired arm, I'm not a bad person! We can still le-"

"Don't TALK TO HER, YOU SNAKE!" A club smashes across the young boy's face and he is pushed out of the front door of the small hovel...and out of the family he'd been adopted into over the course of the past year. The man who he had come to know as a father points the weapon accusingly at the young mercenary.

He looks one last time to the girl, the love of his life.
She doesn't look back, ashamed of herself.
Ashamed of falling in love with a man so unabashedly vile.

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He stares horrified at the burning village. The place he had once called a home. The once charming hut he had spent months being tended to...having his heart slowly stolen by the girl who lived there.

This...this was supposed to be a job. It wasn't supposed to be here. It wasn't supposed to be like this!

His former companion looks back to the shocked young man, annoyed. "C'mon Hoshirou, don't tell me the time off has made you soft now?"

Her lifeless body lies among those killed by his former friends...his own brothers-in-arms.
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"Please! Please, I'll give anything! Help her! Save her!"

The runaway mercenary begs unabashedly to the wisened monk within the Temple. The limp, bloodied body of his former lover rested gently on the stones of the meditative garden in front of the sage.

Myatsuu shakes his head, sadly. "Nobody can revive the dead. I'm sorry, but-"

"ARRGHHHHHH! WHY! WHY THIS, WHY HER!? DO SOMETHING, OLD MAN! I'll...GIVE MY OWN LIFE, I'D GIVE MY SOUL! JUST PLEASE, P-P-Please...."

He breaks into tears, unable to speak another word. A gentle hand rests on the mourning boy's shoulder. "...Nobody can revive the dead, child. But, their memories and dreams, their soul, will always live on inside you. A life may have been lost by your own mistakes, but...it needn't be wasted."

The young man looks up, eyes full of regret, anger, tears, and self-loathing for everything that had lead to this point. The old man speaks to his heart, his very soul...

" Learn the tides of the Ninshu. Leave your own life behind with the ones who have passed. Join the order here at this Temple. Take on a new name and become the man...she wished you to be."


He looks up to the sky, the same they had spent that perfect night under together. For her...for all of them...he would right these wrongs. He would change the evils he once propogated, starting with those within himself. He would fight them with fist and force and soul every waking day of his life...

For her.
For what could have been.

"...then from now on, call me...Tai"
You look up from the dreamlike memories swirling about in the waters to the open red eyes of the wraith looking directly at you. A tear falls from your cheek and ripples the water as you feel the ghost of your friend pass through you like a cold, winter breeze.

As I said before...the day would come when you call to me for help

More images ripple in the waters below the two of you. Flashes of smiles, laughter, screaming, blood...

Your companions.

Have you come to accept the consequences of your decisions...or shall I show you more?

>Look at the image of the young, straw-blonde woman in the water. She is kissing the forehead of a man, though you see his own body caked with blood nearby.
>Watch the rapid scenes of the young girl with her teammates. The sunny days of rewarding training and companionship...all shattered on a mission gone awry.
>See the past of the ingenious young boy, tinkering in a workshop with a mustached older man.
>The Village Hidden in the Clouds...a happy, carefree life...a call to arms ignored...the grave of her younger sister.
>Reject all of these! You won't linger on the past when you can change the present! You won't have your way, Bishamon!
>Write in

>Anons Choose: "Reject all of these! You won't linger on the past when you can change the present! You won't have your way, Bishamon!"

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These precious memories of your friends...they only strengthen your resolve to be there for them, to aid them in their time of need! You stand determined once more against the evil spirit lurking within the depths of your own soul.

"No, Bishamon. That day day will never come, because as long as I have my frienda- as long as they have me- I could never need anything else! No matter what you show me...they won't change what I see. While alone we may be weak and succumb to pains of the past...together we are strong! Together, we can change the present; together, we all can make a better future, a better life for everyone!"

The wraith shakes his head mournfully as he chides you once more. Nine streams of dark red flow from the circumference of the room, encircling the ancient spirit

FOOLISH BOY, YOU STILL HAVE NOT YET LEARNED A SINGLE THING
YOU WILL SOON LOSE....EVERYTHING.
WHEN THAT DAY COMES, WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF AT YOUR WEAKEST...
WHEN MY STRENGTH RETURN FULLY...NOT EVEN YOUR BUMBLING ATTEMPT AT A CAGE WILL RESTRAIN THE PARADISE TO COME.
I SHALL ASSUME MY DUTY, AS DIVINE PROVIDENCE DEMANDS.
AND YOU, BOY, WILL THANK ME FOR IT.

Darkness envelops you. You think you hear...someone crying.
You open your heavy eyelids to an unfamiliar sight.

Smoke, ash, and the vestigal remains of a great fire score the clear night sky amid the hollowed, collapsed ruins of the tall casino. Rubble lies all around, the ground cracked and shattered in places. A wide sinkhole, filled with stone and metal, seems to have formed along the outside of the Casino foundation- where and how it came to be is unknown to you.

Teams of volunteer citizen firefighters rush towards the ruined building, as small emergency response medical teams rush back and forth. But, in front of you...

The blonde-haired Lady Tsunade is collapsed onto her knees in front of you, staring shakily at her blood-covered arms. Her eyes are glassy and haunted, her body is shivering with fear in the cold night air. You manage to heave your neck up an inch with a twitch to look at your own chest. Large scars run up across your chest and shoulder, fresh blood still seeping from them and across your blood-stained body. Together with the maze of tattoos covering your body, it looks as though you've been engulfed in a web of red and black.

Yeah...the battle with Hoki, you remember now. Tsunade...Tsunade must have thought you...

>Try to get up and hug the woman. Thank her, comfort her and tell her you are okay.
>Tsunade is clearly traumatized and unaware of the world around her. Find a docter, Shizune if possible!
>Write in


>Anons choose: "Tsunade is clearly traumatized and unaware of the world around her. Find a docter, Shizune if possible!"

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The dust and cold ash sweep about on the midnight wind, Tsunade shuddering even more from the forgotten memories it carries.

The ground itself seems to push your own body up, like a friendly hand from below. You shuffle over to the shell-shocked woman, your closed wounds reopening slightly as the newly formed skin tears from the effort. She doesn't look up, oblivious to reality, as you carefully crouch to one knee... and hug her.

Tsunade gasps frightfully, jumping back to the nightmarish reality....and a sensation she had not felt - that she hadn't realized she had so desperated craved- for a long, long time.

The feeling of security, of hope...the warmth of being held in another's arms, driving away the cold fear of the night. It's...so familiar. She doesn't need to look up, this feeling in her heart...this man hugging her...this must be a dream of some kind.

"I-I thought I failed. I'm sorry. I...I let you down, I let you...I let you and your dreams die."

She buries her head in your chest, her shaky eyes closed. Tears stream down from them, washing away the dried blood on your own torso.

"I couldn't live with myself when you passed. I couldn't think. I couldn't breathe. Your dream...why didn't you stop? You could have saved yourself! We still needed you! I...I still needed you! "

She finally looks up, eyes puffy from her choking sobs.
But...it isn't him, is it? No...of course not...he's gone. This is reality, a mistake after all.
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Tsunade sobs in your arms, before finally shakily looking up...hope and confusion drawn into her face- then disappointment and shame.

She slides back a bit, embarrassed from her break in composure. But, you still hold her lightly by the shoulders.

"I...I couldn't have stopped myself from rushing into danger, Tsunade. It's who I am. I want to protect those closest to me. I will always be there for them, leading them, protecting their dreams; I'll happily give my life for a brighter tomorrow, a happier future where the people I love can find peace. I may not be the one you'd expected to see...and I won't ask if you don't want to tell. But...thank you, for everything you've done. I can be there for you too, if you need me."

She looks at you, an odd expression on her tear-soaked face.
She looks as though she's remembered something from a long time ago.

You nod and take your leave, letting Tsunade recover from the shock of the situation.

You...
>Approach the sinkhole and Yoru, leading a large team of volunteers in something
>Approach Shizune, she's treating someone at the medical tent it seems. They aren't moving.
>Asa is nowhere to be seen. Go check the wreckage of the building?
>The two Kumo ninja are standing back, talking amid themselves. Go see what they are planning.
>Go search the town, ignoring everything mentioned previously
>Write in


>Anons choose: "Approach Shizune, she's treating someone at the medical tent it seems. They aren't moving."

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You walk over to the medical stand where Shizune is treating the burnt, unmoving...

W-wait, RIN?

You move as fast as you can, pushing aside the few idle bystanders in your way. As you approach the immobile, heavily injured Rin...Shizune takes notice and stands in front of her patient, arms outstretched.

"Amon, no! She's badly injured and needs to rest! You can speak-"

"A-Am...on? Please...please let me...I.."

Shizune looks back to the young girl, then to you. "Just...be gentle with her, Amon. I'll give you a few minutes before I continue the treatment."
She steps back to assess another one of the survivors.

You approach the small pile of rags and cloth, Rin lying on top of it. She looks exhausted, her eyes are sunken and blank. Her breaths are ragged and wheezing. She hold out one of her burnt arms, punching you weakly in the stomach. She gasps painfully though and you softly take her hand in yours.

"I-Idiot...going off and getting hurt like that, after I let you all get out. All of it had to...stop. Yoru was...they were..."

"It's okay, Rin. You're safe, that's all that matters. A promise is a promise."

She coughs as she tries to chuckle. "I just wanted...I had a...dream, you know? I...I saved...you, for once. It made me...happy...when I finally realized I could do the same for you. I'm just...I'm just glad you...no, everyone...got out okay."

>Ask Rin something else (?)
>Ask Rin about the Fire?
>What happened with the plan?
>Tell Rin she did well, regardless of what happened.
>Talk to Rin about her seal, tell her to be more careful in the future.
>Go see someone else (See post above)
>Ask Shizune about the others...where is Tai?
>Write in(?)


>Anons choose: "Ask Shizune about the others...where is Tai?"

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>Your name is Amon Shuu, a humble monk of the Water Temple.
>You have no family to speak of, another one of the many casualties of the 2nd Shinobi World War. Your luck pulled through when a wandering monk, Myatsuu, snatched you from the debris of a border skirmish between Konohagakure and Kirigakure. Your village was reduced to rubble in the midst of battle when you were no older than 4 years old. The monk, Myatsuu, brought you back to the Water Temple in the marshy coastlines of the Land of Water.

>Nearly 14 years later, the Temple- your home- had fallen to attackers from the Village Hidden in the Mist chasing after a young girl, Rin. Leaving to honor your duties, you travel across lands to deliver the merchant, Yoru, safely to his destination.

>After a heist gone wrong, you and your companions lie in the wreckage of a disaster. You were greviously injured in the escape by an unexpected face, though the fate of your friends remains a mystery...

Character pastebin:
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Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ninja%20Monk
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You pat Rin on the head. "You did alright, Rin, don't worry. Just rest for now."
She smiles happily, turning her head back over as you move to talk to Shizune. She looks up from her patient, a man you...slightly recognize from earlier, "Johnny" you think? Oh, right. You punched him in the face.

You feel bad on seeing his nervous expression when he recognizes you.

"Shizune..."

She turns around straight-faced to look at you. "Oh, done? Good, I'll go back to treating Rin then."
You stop her before she does. "Shizune...what happened? Where are the others. Everything was going so well..."

Shizune brushes off your arm, hiding her own disapproval. "Rin was apparently being trampled by the mob Yoru accidentally caused. From what she and the others told me, she quickly got battered by the crowds and pinned. Her tag was ripped from her when being manhandled by the rioters. She could only watch as Yoru was beaten senseless by one of the Kumogakure ninja, and was left to assume that we were in similar situations."

"She came up with the idea because of you, Amon. In a desperate pitch to give us an opportunity to escape, Rin started that fire."

"M-Me? But that doesn't make any s-"

"Doesn't it? The others told me about you, your own self-sacrificing personality. You think that your actions wouldn't influence Rin? You think that she hasn't been watching how you've acted all this time? While it had a slim chance to- and luckily did- bring attention to where she was trapped.... Rin probably set that fire hoping to give the rest of you an opportunity to escape, regardless of what would happen to herself...does that sound familiar?"

"I...I wasn't trying to..."

"Of course you weren't. But being oblivious to it all- to how she feels- is your fault. Maybe I'm wrong...but based on how the others have talked about you, I'd have thought you were a more experienced leader than this. Having them constantly vying for your affection and attention...unknowingly making them change their own priorities to gain the whim of your favor... that only ends up with what you saw here tonight."

"Hold on, Shizune. Who- no- What are you talking about? I'm not any sort of leader! I'm not influencing anyone!"

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THREAD IS LIVE!


Shizune leans in sternly, hands on her hips. "Rin, Asa....they both have feelings for you, Amon. Are you so unaware that you didn't notice even the most obvious signs? For some reason I don't understand, they all hang on your words. I could see it only after the short amount of time I spent with your group...that you are what binds them all together and drives them forward, a leader."

"Tai, Asa, Yoru, Rin...Amon, whether you realize it or not, you are responsible for them. Whether it is charisma or something else, these people are drawn to you like a magnet. Your own lack of leadership and direction is what this group needs- and clearly lacks. If you continue to throw yourself in danger, if you continue to selfishly sacrifice yourself...I'm not even sure what will happen to them. You need to decide now- will you lead them, or will you abandon them for some sort of martyrdom complex?"

"It's not like that!"

Shizune just gives you a disappointed, judgemental look before she shakes her head and turns to treat Rin. "Yoru was hurt in his own riot, he's fine besides some bruises. You saw how Rin was. Asa is hiding for some reason, she won't answer when I call out with the seal. Tai...I think you should figure out for yourself."

She stops, before looking back to you coldly for a last time. "And also, Amon...leave Lady Tsunade alone. She's been hurt enough already. She may not be precious to you...but she's everything to me. I've seen how you treat the others and she deserves far better, someone who will always be there for her. If you hurt her, if you string her along only to let her down...I won't forgive you."

Shizune walks away as though nothing happened, continuing her treatment of the various injured victims.

What...does she mean by that?
This makes you feel rather uncomfortable.

>Go find Asa
>Go to Yoru
>Go speak to the Kumogakure pair
>Write in

>>877488
>Go find Asa

>>877488
*Your own leadership and direction

>>877488
>>Go find Asa

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>>877084
Slight QM correction:

>*Anons choose: "Try to get up and hug the woman. Thank her, comfort her and tell her you are okay."

Have an apology Asa

>>877488
>Go find Asa
Knew I wouldn't have enough time to get back home before Red finished. Fuck mobile.

Slow-ish night, but that was expected.

>Go find Asa
Writing!

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Roll me 1d2, first number to repeat is the result

1) Everyone's favorite flower boy
2) Jetstream

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>877610

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>877610
Red's ride never ends.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>877610

>>877627
>>877638
Damn, I wanted to see sperg rage Han.
I was less excited to see the potential dysentery Han.

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The knot in your throat left from Shizune's scolding doesn't leave. Rin....
Asa.

"You...you care about...me?"
"Amon...don't wander too far, now."

You call out to her through the Hear-No-Evil seal still plastered on your mid thigh. For a while, there is no response. Disappointed and somewhat ashamed, you start making your way over to Yoru by the rubble-filled sinkhole. It seems like there are quite a few people bustling in and out of the area, some carrying rubble and others calling out to Yoru, who seems to be coordinating whatever activity is underway.

Before you can go any further, a meek voice mumbles in your mind.
...I'm in the casino. Please don't bring anyone else with you.

You begin climbing through the ruins of the once tall, luxurious building. While you're unsure due to the blood loss at the time it happened, you vaguely remember your fight with Hoki ending in a long series of explosions. Between that and possibly the others' battles...the casino must have collapsed from the damage to its support structure. You maneuver around jutting rubble, marble, and small fires yet extinguished as you pass by some rescue teams and the volunteer fire squads.

You go deeper and deeper into the wreckage, through twisted metal and chunks of stone larger than yourself, before you start to hear something.

Sniffling...a girl's quiet crying.

Behind a particularly large pile of metal and rubble, you find her curled into a ball, sobbing silently. Her bows and arrows are strewn carelessly on the ground in front of her.
Asa...

She looks up to you, her eyes puffy and full of suffering. She has several wounds, not all scabbed, and strange burns across her body and looks pained.

>Bring her back for medical treatment, talk with her after. It probably isn't safe here.
>Sit next to her here, let her say something if she wants to. She just needs comfort.
>Ask her if everything is alright. Where is Tai?
>Write in

>>877845
>Ask her if everything is alright. Where is Tai?

>>877845
>>Write in
Amon takes off his shirt and rips it up to make bandages
le funni xD
>Sit next to her here, let her say something if she wants to. She just needs comfort.

>>877845
>Bring her back for medical treatment, talk with her on the way.

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The dreaded tie returns

>>877935
You did that on purpose.

>>877845
>>877878
I'll change to
>Bring her back for medical treatment, talk with her on the way.

>>877943
Not today.

>>877845
>Sit next to her here, let her say something if she wants to. She just needs comfort.

>>877845
>>Bring her back for medical treatment, talk with her after. It probably isn't safe here.
There will be no ties today.

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>>877952
>>877958
If I hadn't changed there would've been. It's like the universe loves NMQ ties.

>>877948
>Not keeping vote for heart-to-heart with best girl

>>877984
I mean, can change back for the tie... But I really want it...

Fuck it, 1 yes, 2 it 3 no.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>878008
Fucking how. First my wifi dies then I fuck up dice.

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Looks like taking Asa back wins

>Writing

>>878075
If only she wasn't perfect and the universe didn't like that.

Of-fucking-course my internet signal comes back now.

I swear that first roll would have been a one if I hadn't had to post it from mobile. The universe is a bitch.

Post in 10 mins

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You hold out your hand to her. Asa at first warily considers the offer, then with only a single shudder of hesitation takes your hand. She wipes her eyes and sniffles a bit when you help her up. Her wounds ooze thin streams of blood as she goes to grab her bow and arrows. That won't do...

You remove your tattered shirt and expose your scarred, tattooed torso to the evening sky, sparking Asa's own curiousity. You rip large ribbons of cloth from the ragged garment, making makeshift bandages to hold over until you get back. You look towards Asa, motioning for her to come closer so you can dress the wounds adorning her shapely body. She doesn't object at all.
Despite all her teasing and posturing...she trusts you.

...but that doesn't mean she'll make this easy for you.

When you tell her you'll begin with her arms, she holds them out...and places them on your shoulders. You feel your face beginning to go hot, but when you start to protest the unfitting timing of the subtle flirting...

You see Asa's eyes, they're lacking the teasing warmth and flirtacious spirit normally in them. Her expression is innocent, trusting, and melancholic. She has trouble meeting your gaze for any longer than a second or two.
Maybe...this is her own way of feeling some amount of control with everything out of hand, how she feels secure.

You tie the bandages around her arms carefully. Asa doesn't stop you as you continue up to her exposed shoulders. There's a long wound across her exposed midriff, her own clothing having been tattered from some sort of battle too. You get on a knee to wrap the cloth around the injury, your face level with the girl's ribs and below her ample...let's not think about those.

You begins to gently tie the cloth around her, when you feel a hand skims through your short hair and around the back of your neck, pulling you closer into an embrace.


In a rare moment of austerity, Asa gently whispers to you. "Thanks for, you know...caring about me, Amon."

"Always, Asa."
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You walk back alongside Asa, the huntress barely in front of you.. She clasps her arms around herself in a hug. As you shuffle through some flatter debris, paying attention to the ground underfoot, you feel a weight *thump* onto your shoulder. Asa, still holding herself, leans into you, resting her head on your shoulder as the two of you walk together silently for a time. She finally speaks up, voice still unstable as several fresh tears fall.

"Tai...Tai is dead, Amon. It's all my fault. I didn't want to say anything. I didn't know what to think or if you'd ever forgive me. I'm...I'm so sorry. Do you...still want talk?"

>Yes
>No

>>878490
>Yes

>>878490
>Yes

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>>878490
As always, if you have anything in particular you want to say or a certain way you'd want to frame a response, Write-In's are accepted

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>>878439
*begin to gently tie
*you feel hands skim

>>878490
Woah, late update. Thanks /qst/
>Yes
>How could it be your fault?

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>>878490
>Yes
Oh Tai...
>Asa you can not blame yourself for Tai's death

>>878490
>>Yes
>Just tell me what happened.

>>878543
>>878496
>>878497
>>878523
Amon's pretty quick to forgive the death of his last remaining brother today.

>Writing

>>878568
We will mourn alone, probably attempt to smoke a cigarette and yell in a empty area and cry. Well those are my thoughts on it at least I loved Tai

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>>878568
>Amon being a fuck even though it wasn't her fault
Not the Best Monk I know

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Your blood turns to ice. But...a small voice inside you says you knew it was the case all along, you just couldn't accept it without knowing for sure. Tai, somewhere Maria was always smiling down on you, proud of the man you'd become for her, for all of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRU-mPnHW4

...if today is the day he's smiling with her, then...he's deserved that final rest. Even if your heart is wrenching with tearing, wracking pain...for him, you'll bear it. For him, you'll stand proud as the last of your brothers, the final living monk of the Water Temple.

The last alive to carry their memories, their legacy...the teachings of Myatsuu, the man who accepted you as a father.

Asa blinks, surprised when a drop of water falls on her arm. She looks up to Amon, a single wet streak running down his right jaw.

"You can't blame yourself for Tai's death, Asa. He was...in pain for a long time. Just tell me what happened."

So Asa does, recounting the story of the colossal battle from the beginning, where she had been caught by surprise leaving the vault by the horrific Kakuzu, to the end, and Tai's finest hour.

"I got away...but at what cost, Amon? How could I let him stay...how could I someone else die for me again? I should have stayed behind, but I was too weak, too scared to take action. If I had, maybe... Tai still would be..."

"You can't blame yourself, Asa. How could it be your fault? You did what you had to, what Tai asked you to."

Asa pushes herself away, face contorted in anguish as she cries. "What about what I want, hunh? Since when did I ask for anyone to die for me? I don't want that sort of weight, that guilt on my shoulders! I...I can't live up to those kind of expectations from them, from you!"

She closes her eyes in deep heaving sobs. You hug her as loose tears of your own drop for your fallen brother. "He didn't expect anything from you. I don't expect anything from you. To me, you're Asa...and that's all any of us could ever want. I care about you, Asa...not what you can do. Tai sacrificed himself because it was what he wanted...and he wanted you to live on for yourself, nobody else."

Asa clenches her hands tightly around your arms as she stifles her tears of shame, survivor's guilt weighing heavily on her spirit. As you walk towards clear ground and the main response area, you witness a stretcher held by several volunteers rush from the site of the sinkhole to the medical tent.

On it is carried a broken body...the ghost of his last smile and a crumpled cigarette still on his lips.

>Follow the stretcher to the medical tent, where Shizune is hurrying herself.
>Yoru is trailing behind the procession solemnly. His silent expression speaks a thousand words...you should let him share some with you
>Get Asa medical attention first, she probably doesn't want to see this.
>There is a figure limping out of the rubble and ruins far across the way, purple robes tattered. Go confront him yourself.
>Write in

>>878740
>Get Asa medical attention first, she probably doesn't want to see this.
I want the Tai option but Asa needs help. I just want to sit next to him and remember the good times

>>878740
>>There is a figure limping out of the rubble and ruins far across the way, purple robes tattered. Go confront him yourself.
We can't miss this opportunity

>>878740
Get Asa medical attention first, she probably doesn't want to see this.
>Yell "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME HOKI! YOU AND YIUR LITTLE KABUTO TOO!"

Don't actually listen to my shitpost this time.[\spoiler]

Fucking internet connection went out again. In the middle of my best Titanfall game yet. 20 kills with 2 minutes left.

>>878762
Thanks Android. You're 100% garbage.

>>878740
>Follow the stretcher to the medical tent, where Shizune is hurrying herself.

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>Getting Asa the good meds
writing!

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>>878827
Your leadership and direction is what this group needs- and clearly lacks.

Shizune...Shizune can handle what is left of Tai for now. As for the long-haired figure swiftly hobbling away into the distance...you're sure you'll meet him another day, from what he told you during your battle.

"...I've lost him, and with it a beauty greater than I ever realized I possessed."
"Whatever it takes, whatever ugliness I must submit myself, whomever I must cut down in order to find that boy again...I will do it all. That child is my world, a gift I never truly valued until it was lost."

He is living for another too, now. You're still not sure what to think of the swordsman, whether or not he his a circumstancial enemy or conflicted ally. You support Asa as you walk towards the pile of blankets and medical equipment where Shizune once treated the steady stream of injured individuals. You lead her to a small pile of blankets and turn to get some sort of medic. As you do, Asa stops you by your waist and turns you around to face her.

...You think you know what she intends to do next.

>Pull Away?

>Y
>N

>>878876
>>Y
Go see Tai and say our goodbyes.

RIN 4 LYFE NIGGA!

>>878876
>N
Oh yeah, she's still in the leather suit...
Amon has the willpower of a god.

>>878876
>N
Man it's pretty fucked up to not go see what's up with Tai. Wtf guys? We need to make this quick because I like Asa too and rejecting her right now would destroy her but damn.

>>878913
I mean, "shrug" would probably be the most appropriate for how I feel. Either he's not dead and Amon would just get in Shizune and Tsunade's way of trying to save his life, or he is and we know Asa needs help right now. I would've voted for it if it made sense to.

>>878876
>Y

Begone, wench!

>>878926
You did that on purpose.

>>878876
>N

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>>878926
>>878896
"B-Baka" Waifu squad

>>878898
>>878913
Asafags

I'll uh...let ya'll settle this

>>878876
>Y
I didn't want to vote earlier because it would've been a tie and now there is a tie I'm sorry everyone

>>878938
Well now there's another. Great job.
Just delete your post. Please.

>>878933
What did I do, anon?

Pray tell.

>>878947
Tied the vote.
Then it untied. Then retied. So it doesn't matter.

>>878949
Red can roll for it. I simply voted with my *heart*, anon.

>>878955
>Rolling for waifus
This isn't /a/

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>>878955

I ain't touching this one with a ten-foot pole

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Posting your current NinjaWaifuWars™ choices

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>>878973
Best girl.

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Where's my scrolls and monk lifestyle choice, Red?

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>>878986
You can reject all of them eventually, let's just eliminate one at a time...
They won't see it coming

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE EITHER CHANGE THEIR VOTE OR A LURKER COME IN AND VOTE!

Well I gotta go to bed now Red. Thanks for returning after that mini shitstorm last thread and good luck with this waifu vote.

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>>878994

Well, looks like we have a stalemate on our hands.

I'll wait around for a bit in case a random vote comes up, but I'm not gonna be the one to break this tie. If nothing happens, I'll just continue tomorrow evening and leave this vote open

>>878996
>>Pull away?

>YEE

>>878876
>>879002

>No
Well I'm late and this'll tie it but here. Someone else'll vote eventually.

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What a shitshow guys

>>879002
>Y

If Tai wasn't dead originally, he sure as hell is by now.

>>878827
>N

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>Red wakes up
>"Oh boy! I can't wait to see what choice anons decided on!"
>Sees votes
>Tai'd up yet again

Being Red is suffering. At this rate I'm going to railroad/ship you with Glub, the most beautiful and fertile of her noble line.

>>878876
>Y

>>879466 ASA A SHIT GLUB BEST GRILL 2016
My vote was serious though

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>>879466
Well yes did break the tie more than once, so your suffering is of your own doing.

Glub is a girl?

A-are we free?

>>878876
Another

>Y

Vote for posterity.

>>878876
>N

>>878876
>>Y
Missed last night because sleep. Let's not let it get tied up again.

Just a quick question, does this vote represent a route lock or not?

Because between the fucked up visions, shizunes advice/revelations, and tais death there is no way anyone could make level headed decisions

>>879589
>>879516

Calling the vote this afternoon when I get back.

>Just a quick question, does this vote represent a route lock
Basically...yeah. Red will include cheeky little divergences in future options, but this will more or less be the main route choice between Rin/Asa

>there is no way anyone could make level headed decisions
That's the point.jpg

Decide where Amon's emotions are at right now, where no person could think rationally/logically and getting of a love interest for possible drama and regrets later, as well as ending the pseudo-harem

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Also...
>20 "unique" ID's besides Red
>Max score in archive for NMQ is 16, with any recent threads at around 5.

I can practically smell the samefags here. YOU AREN'T FOOLING ANYONE, RIN SQUAD

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>>879728
Implying is isn't you Asaholes doing the samefagging?

I'd settle for Goldie though.

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>>879662
>Tfw I just got off work
>Y

>>879740
>>879728
Also, If you want to disregard my vote as potential samefagging I wouldn't mind. I've stolen too any gifs to get angry at you, red

>>879740
WAIT... I thought you were an Asafag

Thread will continue in a bit.

Red is deciding this is gonna be "Let's see how many threads of Ninja Monk Quest we can finish" week

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>>879885

>>879907
Just don't try to force an ending. If you wanna take a break then just take a break from the quest. Or just make it a once a week thing. Just don't burn yourself out, I enjoy your writing.

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Calling the vote here, Rin-jobs rejoice.
[spoilers]Yoru boutta score a trophy kunoichi on the rebound[/spoiler]

First post of the afternoon/evening at 5pm.

>>880176
probably the best way I've messed up spoiler tags, desu

>>880176

>Asa: This bald motherfucker doesn't want my chocolate mocha muffin at this very moment. Better go fuck the crazy inventor.

>Amon: Bitch, I cheated death for the second time today, you're cut up and dirty as fuck, and the only family I had left ORA'd himself to death!
I AIN'T IN THE MOOD FOR PUSSY!!!

At least we have Goldie.

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>>880237
>"chocolate mocha muffin"

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Once more, you can almost feel the brief heaven of Asa's soft lips meeting your own, but...
You pull away from Asa, shaking your head as you gently push the staggered girl back.

Rin, Asa....they both have feelings for you, Amon.

"Asa...I'm sorry; I just can't. You're beautiful, but I can't do this. I'm just too uncomfortable by it all. With everything going on, with everything happening around us...I care about you and want you around, but this isn't what I had in mind. Can we please just be friends?"

A number of emotions run through the poor girl's face: shock, anger, sadness, confusion, and...

"O-oh, okay" Asa meekly states as she takes a couple of shuffling steps backward to sit on the makeshift cushion. Her emerald eyes are glassy and open in disbelief, still trying to process the rush of feeling from what that just occured. This may be the first time she's ever been outright rejected.

She looks crushed from it.

Having them constantly vying for your affection and attention...unknowingly making them change their own priorities to gain the whim of your favor... that only ends up with what you saw here tonight.


You feel terrible at first on seeing the full extent of Asa's reaction, but you remember Shizune's bitter advice from earlier. She...was right, then. Asa did have heavy feelings for you. Maybe you do need to be more of an impartial leader to them too. This...there is too much going through your head right now to think straight. You had to have made the right choice though, one for Asa's own good...right?


As you turn to leave, you hear a quiet sigh and rustling of clothing from several feet away. You glance to see the "unconscious" Rin has shifted positions in her makeshift bed of various linens, a relieved smile barely visible on her face.

You quickly walk away, your thoughts and emotions chopped and whirling together as though stuck in a blender. Unable to immediately locate Tsunade, you find a nearby volunteer, a younger, androgynous child just managing to perform what looks to be basic medical jutsu, and send the kid to do whatever possible for Asa.

For now, you need to...

>Go to Tai in the medical tent
>Gather yourself and meditate, if you've come into contact with Bishamon that could only mean two things, either he's getting stronger or you are becoming weaker
>Go speak to Tsunade, now exiting the medical tent pale-faced and taking several steady breaths.
>Write in

>>880663
>Write in
Go beat the shit out of Yamato

Wonder how some random person knows medical ninjutsu and what they're doing here. Then remember there's a black ops group after us and go watch Yamato.

>>880663
Tiny Tenzo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDMhxrreThc
But seriously. Baba Yamato in the general vicinity of Tsunade has potential for shenanigans.

>>Go speak to Tsunade, now exiting the medical tent pale-faced and taking several steady breaths.
I also like how we can immediately locate Tsunade after being unable to immediately locate Tsunade.
Like finding your car keys moments after you give up looking, only instead of keys, it's a traumatised supermedic killing machine.

>>880663
>Go to Tai in the medical tent
Rin a shit, Tsunade route time

>>880721
>Not pseudo-harem Rin/Amon/Tsunade
No ambition

>>880699
Why would Danzo want to fuck with Tsunade?

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>>880678
>Wonder how some random person knows medical ninjutsu and what they're doing here. Then remember there's a black ops group after us
Perfectly valid write in

>>880699
That comparison is actual pretty great lol

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Gonna wait for this to not be a tie and maybe more voters to show up

>>880663
>Go to Tai in the medical tent
I'm at work but I'll do my best to try and post Red

>>880781
Just humor me with the being paranoid thing and pick between the others.

>>880785
Never mind then. RIP Asa.

>>880663
>Gather yourself and meditate, if you've come into contact with Bishamon that could only mean two things, either he's getting stronger or you are becoming weaker

>>880790
Don't want to mourn the man who was basically our brother and closest friend? I want Amon to choke his way through one of his cigarettes and cry hot manly tears

>>880805
You want Asa to die so we can see Tai a little sooner?

>>880814
Not really Asa is great I'd hate to see her die

>>880822
Vote to watch Yamato then. ROOT has it out for us.
>>880678

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Seeing Tai, ignoring the harmless little kid

Writing!

>>880869
RIP Asa.

>>880822
GG no re anon. GG no re.

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The pain in your heart can no longer be ignored. You need to see Tai, see his body for yourself. You can't avoid this harsh truth any longer. You can't afford to be oblivious to reality...for the others. For what Tai sacrificed, for his heartfelt belief in all of you and himself, you need to become stronger.

You pass by the nauseated Tsunade towards the entrence to the tent, asking her to take a look at Asa when she gets the chance. Before you pass through and inside, you spot a reassuring sight- Yoru sitting on the ground with a broken Asa, holding her in his comforting arms as the child you sent over approaches the two of them.

The odor of disinfectant, blood, sweat, and dirt muddies the air inside the temporary field hospital. As you enter, an assistant tending to one of the three patients notices you and breaks off to escort you out. Only, he is stopped when Shizune, visibly exhausted, calls out to you from the largest gathering of medics and attendants at the center table.

"Amon, I expected you'd show up sooner. He's here, just don't get too close. You haven't been disinfected, you may contaminate him."

Contaminate...but why would that- unless...

Shizune nods wearily on seeing your conflicted expression. "Yes, Amon...Tai is alive, but just barely."

She waves away the handful of assistants to treat the other two victims as you approach the table...and the shattered body of your brother.

His torso is visibly indented in places from falling rubble, as well as shredded apart by pressurized forces unknown to you. Fresh skin and sinew has replaced entire chunks of his body here. His face is drooped on one side, the bones likely crushed to dust in the lower half of his jaw on the right side. His arms...

...or more appropriately, his arm is black, red, and has fragments of bloody bone jutting from it in places. The stump at his upper bicep where his other should be is wrapped securely in fresh, white bandages, slowly stained by the seeping red of blood. One of his leg is crooked, the bones jutting in directions they aren't meant to. The other leg is colored in mutliple, bloody, bruised shades...the soft tissue in it nearly shredded apart entirely. While he's lying on his back, you can see the discolored, alternating patches of blackened and sickly white skin crawling from around his sides and shoulders. His back must be torn apart as well.

He's barely held together, but...

The unmistakable, whispering, wheezing whistle of a small of breath can be heard. For all the trauma...Tai is holding on, possibly through sheer willpower alone.

>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>What are the extents of his injuries? What does this mean for Tai going forward?
>Has he said anything? Is he awake?
>Tell her about the young child outside performing basic medical jutsu
>Ask her how they managed to recover him at all
>Why isn't Tsunade helping with this? Can anyone else heal Tai?
>Beg Shizune to do whatever she can to save him
>Write in

>>881040
>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>Why isn't Tsunade helping with this? Can anyone else heal Tai?
This seems to lead into
>Beg Shizune to do whatever she can to save him

And tack on
>Tell her about the young child outside performing basic medical jutsu
because I'm already suggesting 3 so I might as well go for 4.

>>881040
>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>Tell her about the young child outside performing basic medical jutsu
>Why isn't Tsunade helping with this? Can anyone else heal Tai?
>Beg Shizune to do whatever she can to save him

>>881040
>>Ask her how they managed to recover him at all
>>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>>Tell her about the young child outside performing basic medical jutsu

>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>Tell her about the young child outside performing basic medical jutsu
>Ask Shizune what you can do for him
>Why isn't Tsunade helping with this? Can anyone else heal Tai?

Looks like this is it

>Writing

>>881180
>*Beg Shizune to do whatever she can to save him

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"Shizune, can I do anything for him? Can I help Tai at all? I-I can't...I can't just look at this. Can't Tsunade heal him? Why doesn't she do something?!"

Shizune shakes her head grimly. "Amon...by any merit, Tai shouldn't even be alive right now. Tsunade can only do so much as well, but...well I have to help her before she can do any major recovery of his body and organs. She's human, after all. She only has so much chakra. I stymied most of the bleeding and open wounds before regenerated a large portion of his torso and liver, but..."

Shizune looks down mournfully, before looking at you with a tortured expression. "I'm Tsunade's own apprentice and I can barely handle some of these injuries myself. Nobody besides us could handle something of this magnitude. I don't think...I don't think it is possible for Tai to recover from this fully though, Amon. That's if he doesn't die from his injuries first."

You tell Shizune of the child performing medical ninjutsu outside. Her eyes narrow and she calls for one of the handful of attendants in the room to find and question the boy.

As you struggle to grasp the weight of the extreme news, a deep, sonorous hiss hums in the corners of your mind.
MORTAL COIL AND FATAL FLESH?
HERE YOU STAND AGAIN, CHILD, AT THE THRESHOLD OF MAN'S LIMITATIONS.
WILL YOU BE SO CRUEL AS TO CONDEMN YOUR BROTHER TO OBLIVION?
WE CAN HEAL SUCH PALTRY WOUNDS...TOGETHER.
RELEASE THE LOCK, USE THE POWERS BESTOWED UNTO YOU.

Release the seal and try to treat Tai?
>Yes
>No

will continue after this vote

>>881290
>No
Eat a dick Bishamon.

Also this may kill everyone around here. Amon wouldn't want that.

>>881290
>>No
I don't trust Bishie.

>>881290
>No
I really really want to, like really really want to Tai...

>>881290
>Yes

>>881290
>>No

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Letting Tai live on as a handicapped, crippled shadow of the man he once was....

>Writing

>>881416
Yoru can design him a prosthetic or several.
He'll need the practice for Tsuki.

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>>881416

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Gimmie 2d100

>DC 65
>DC 70

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>881442
DC would probably be lower if you guys had listened to me~

Rolled 19, 15 = 34 (2d100)

>>881442

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>881444

Rolled 26, 42 = 68 (2d100)

>>881442

Rolled 37, 47 = 84 (2d100)

>>881442
>>881444
It just reeked of metagaming to me desu

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>>881444
>>881446
>>881449
>>881459
>>881461
>not a single roll over 50

>>881444
>>881446
>>881449
>>881459
Jesus christ.

>>881461
Red literally said it was an OK write in. It's based off things we know. Not any random person can learn medical ninjutsu, it's difficult. And since super secret operators are after us...

>>881465
But you wouldn't have come to that conclusion if you aren't already tipped off by your meta knowledge

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I'll let you have one more roll of 2d100

Pray to whatever dice gods Bishamon you believe in

Rolled 33, 63 = 96 (2d100)

>>881481

Rolled 100, 19 = 119 (2d100)

QM will roll 2d100 for the Tsun

so when is the pure misery arc over?

>>881473
That's what it's all about desu. We use meta knowledge to help fill in the blanks we have because we don't live in the universe. Anyone who uses chakra would know medical ninjutsu is really difficult. If some kid can do it, he's special, and some powerful shadow ninja are after us, it's a logical conclusion. Especially for someone as smart as Amon.

>>881486
Well shit she just fucking turned him into paste.

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>>881486
...so. Much. Tsun.

>>881495
I still think it's a stretch. Like if Red hadn't posted his picture you wouldn't have been suspicious at all.

>>881502
That's the meta knowledge to fill in the holes. Amon would know a child genius is special. It's why I voted to watch him, not confront him. Amon would be suspicious to all this, he didn't assume it for fact.

>>881531
>didn't
wouldn't

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You shake the voice from your head vehemently, feeling the spirit fade to the depths once more. Oddly...Bishamon doesn't even fight your efforts, a lingering sense of resigned disappointment in your decision is all he leaves behind.

"Shizune, please, I beg you! Do everything you can to save Tai. Bring him back, don't let us lose him!"

Shizune looks away, uncertain. She begins respond but is interrupted by the shout from outside, then a man shouting in pain.

>>881446
>>881459
>>881461

(37, 63)
(Failure!)

The sharp cry wakes you from your revelry and internal conflict. You rush outside the tent. On throwing open the cloth entrence, you see...

Yoru, bleeding from a large gash in his arm, grimacing in pain as he's crumpled in front of a newly alert Asa. Right as you observe this, a small shadow darts right past in front of you. "Amon! The kid is a ninja, don't let him escape," Asa yells to you. But by the time you register the young boy dashing by you, he's already far out of reach. You see a flash of red and black clutched in his arm as he looks back at you with his uncomfortably large, intelligent eyes.

>>881486
Leaving the would-be assassin completely unaware of the earth-shattering fist until he sprints headfirst into it. "NOT. TODAY!"

With a crushing impact that would leave a wrecking-ball envious, the unfortunate assailant is rocketed straight back into a pile of rubble and onward past it, the force crumbling the stone behind his back. When the dust has settled, the young boy lies empty-eyed and hanging on a straw metal girder nearly 50 meters back, his crushed body impaled in midair.

You're left dazed by the display of inhuman strength.

Tsunade casually tosses the recovered scroll back to you as you stare on, accidentally hitting you in the head. You recover to your senses and snatch it before it falls. As you look at the poor child, you watch
the corpse disfigure slightly...then slowly become discolored. Its features and distinguishing marks fade into a cracked, obliterated, fine-grained wood.

It was a...clone, of some sort?
(1/2)

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The Sannin passes by you as she approches the injured businessman, stopping only briefly to narrow her eyes at you curiously...and disappointedly. "...You'll never protect anyone with reactions like those- stop playing pretend. You'll only get yourself killed."

She walks up to Yoru and crouches down, inspecting the wound. She removes his hand, but on seeing the blood running forth she flinches and looks away. In a flash of handsigns, her palm is glowing with a bright, green light. Within seconds, the wound is healed without another look from her. Her hands are shaking slightly, a look of nausea and discomfort clear on her face as rests for a moment.

Without her around...it seems a lot of things would have gone worse recently.

>Talk to Tsunade about everything that has occurred thus far, your deal, and moving forward
>Go see Yoru, check up on what happened and if he is alright. You haven't spoken with him since the Heist itself.
>Go search the crowd, you don't know what kind of people are watching you after that.
>Go inspect the "body" for any clues.
>Open and read the scroll
>Write in

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>>881640
*steel metal girder
how did that typo even happen

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>>881494
>Implying Red's ride ever ends

>>881647
>Go search the crowd, you don't know what kind of people are watching you after that.
Then
>Check to make sure Yoru's OK then promise to catch up with him later, when the female ninja with super strength isn't pissed
>"I'm sure you understand."
>Talk to Tsunade about everything that has occurred thus far, your deal, and moving forward

>>881647
>Open and read the scroll
Amon a shit, I don't wanna be the leader anymore. We're just the seals guy.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>881647
>>Talk to Tsunade about everything that has occurred thus far, your deal, and moving forward
>>Go see Yoru, check up on what happened and if he is alright. You haven't spoken with him since the Heist itself.
I'm torn. Rolling for it. 1 = Tsunade, 2 = Yoru. Let the dice decide.

>>881652
>*steel metal girder
...when I read that bit, I assumed the w was meant to be a y. Now I'm just amazed at autocorrect.

>>881647
Also that was pretty mean. Amon cheated death earlier. Of course he's out of it.

>>881669
>Amon cheating death
>Not Tsunade saving his ass again

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>>881662
also...
>4 options AGAIN

>>881674
It's basically the same thing. And both at the same time. His luck pulling him through.

>>881676
It's 3, did you not read? The third's part of the second. The rationale.

>>881679
Nope! Just skimming until more votes arrive

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>>881683
Why do you treat me like this? Is it because I take all of your pictures?

>>881647
I guess I'll start including this again.
>Pick Two

>>881689
Oops, forgot.
>MFW new NMQ thread.

>>881691
Fiiinnneeeee, just cut out the Yoru then. Or maybe just say "we'll talk when Tsunade isn't mad" or something.

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>>881691
>>Pick Two
...well okay then. If you insist.

>>881665
Ignore that dice roll. It is now superfluous, because both.

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So, we're definitely talking to the Tsun...no consensus on the second choice though. Where are all those 21 voters now?

>>881751
I've been playing BF1, forgot about thread. Speaking of which
>>881647
>>881665
This anon's suggestions

>>881751
Working Red, I'll be busy until 12 but

>Go search the crowd, you don't know what kind of people are watching you after that.
>Go inspect the "body" for any clues.

>>881781
Eeh, no more ties.

>>881751
Just switch me to talking to Yoru. No looking at dead bodies.

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Yoru and Tsunadere it is

Writing!

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Yoru exhales a sigh of relief from the quick medical attention. He isn't a combatant by any mean, and the painful injury was surely grueling for him. Asa clearly realizes this as well, concerning herself with his former wound with a guilty expression on her face. He grins at her before waving her off and standing up to come talk to you.

As the two of you join up finally, he pats you on the shoulder with his unhindered arm. He flashes you a tired, yet consistently confident trademark grin. "Today's been quite the experience, hasn't it Amon? Glad to see you're doing all right, friend; though, Tai...was most unfortunate. Not a stunning victory, but it'll pass- things could have been worse."

You ask your perky friend what exactly happened. Yoru shrugs, unsure himself. "One moment a kid is treating Asa a bit, the next he attacks us! I tried to shield her, but I think I only ended up worrying the fine lady. I know she's more than capable of handling herself but...ah I just couldn't help but worry for her well-being when it all happened, I suppose."

His face lights up suddenly as he recalls something. Reaching inside his well-trimmed (and newly cut, unfortunately) suit, he pulls out several items and hands them to you. It would seem the attacker had gone after the one specific scroll...but Yoru was more than successful on his own end, if the stray bills fluttering out of his stuffed pockets are any indication alone.

[Amon recieves:
>The Goblet of The King (The Golden Cup)
>The Akatsuki Scroll
>The Wen Qu Scroll
>The "Uzushiogakure" map
>The Uzumaki Earings
>A Silver-Trimmed Scroll (Asa's successful burglary!)
>An odd necklace with a chipped, metallic purple fragment hanging from it (Asa's successful burglary!)
>Tsunade's debtor records ]

Yoru solemnly tells you of his search for Tsunade after escaping the building, thanks to Shizune (he found her at the bar, predictably). On returning and hearing of Tai's fate, he used his newfound wealth to hire a team to excavate the site as fast as possible. They managed to find Tai buried under a small mountain of debris, the immediate rubble encasing him wet and softened to mud for some reason.

Additionally, they've begun excavating the casino's vault as well. According to Asa, it was filled with large stocks of precious metals and various treasures as well as the expected reserves of legal tender. Since it is on the property as well...Yoru may have just stumbled into an additional, small fortune on top of what he won. There were no other bodies recovered.

Yoru, seemingly antsy to return to comfort Asa, gives you another grin as he motions to Tsunade. "Good luck with that one, Amon...I get the feeling you'll need it."

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You hesitantly tiptoe over to the buxom Tsunade, her eyes closed as she slowly steadies her jittered breathing. She cracks open an eye, hearing you approach. Her eyebrow raises in an incredulous look. "I'm not going to bite, you know."

You scratch your thin scruff of hair sheepishly. You guess you were treating her a bit differently after seeing everything she's done. She's a person too, in the end.

>Talk to Tsunade about everything that has occurred thus far, your deal, and moving forward
Any write in's? Ask Tsunade something, say something to her before continuing? Would you like to phrase this a specific way, or QM choice?
>Yes
>No

>>881964
I got nothin. Sorry mang

>>881964
Well be Amon for starters. Thank her for everything she's done. Even if it's her fault all this went down in the first place. Amon's too nice to think that though.

I've no idea after that. Give her the records?

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>>881974
No worries, just figured I'd let the Tsuna-m8's take charge on casting off their own ship

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>>881982
>implying everyone isn't on the RinxAmonxTsunade ship now

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>>881989

>>881982
Yeah the worst part is I like Tsunade but my brain is too tired to think of anything
>>881989
That's just you m8

>>881999
It's twice the waifu man.

>>882010
Begone shitposter, your bait-fu is weak

>>881964
>Yes
I want to tell her everything we've gone through even Bisha, as far as a write in I'd like to ask her to train us. We need to become stronger to help protect all our friends also I think Amon would like medical ninjutsu since he likes to help people.

What do you guys think?

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>>882016

>>882016
>thinking this is bat
>implying shitposting isn't my normal posting
It's all I've done for the past 11 threads.

>>882019
Man we've already got two medics on the team here. She could train us in other stuff though. Other than that I like this write in

>>882031
Pretty much what this guy says

>>882019
Like >>882031 said we don't need a medic. If she's feeling nice/particularly drunk though her teaching us how to punch as hard as she does would be epic.

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>>882019
>>882035
>>882031
>>882037
You got it!

>>882019
Oh and maybe add something about needing her help to become a good leader since apparently we're shit at it

>>882041
I wonder what her reaction to us meeting Mr. Snek

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>>882041
mfw something not depressing might finally happen

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>>882056
>being this naive about Red
Being Amon is suffering and Red will make sure of it.

>>882056
This reminds me of the clash of ninja credits

We should make some kinda seal to give Amon a fake arm. Like combine the part of the adamantine chain seal that let's us move the chains freely with something else to give him an arm he can control with a thought.

>>882157
That starting to sound like it's going into forbidden technique territory.

>>882163
It's not forbidden, we haven't even invented it yet

>>882163
Let's be real, nobody cares about forbidden jutsu that are only dangerous to the user. Well, not including using it to attack people with.

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You hand the records to Tsunade gingerly, but she takes them with only a minor interest on her face. Even she knows the cost of getting these wasn't worth whatever balance is written on them. With a deft bend at the waist, you bow humbly. "Lady Tsunade, thank you for everything you've done for us. You've saved my own life several times now."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycEqu9NcbFU

You feel a firm hand cup your chin and jerk you upwards until you're standing straight and tall. Tsunade stands back, satisfied at the change. "First things first, stand up tall and proud. A real man knows he embodies the strength of his own dreams. UP!"

"Y-Yes ma'am!" You jump at the command, holding your head high. She smiles at your eager response.

"Better, but we'll have to work on it some more. Don't thank me just yet. Actually, speaking of our deal..."

Tsunade barks out for Shizune, who promptly comes running to her side. "Yes Lady Tsunade!"

"The fine young man seems to have fulfilled his part of the deal. It's time to hold up our end of this bargain. I want you to stay behind and treat his friend, Shizune. I believe I'll have my own hands full in the days ahead."

Shizune's face contorts in confusion, before finally dawning with realization. She begins to protest out loud, before quickly remembering the present company and audibly whispering instead. "B-BUT LADY TSUNADE, WHAT ABOUT THE P- what about the plan? Hadn't you decided to leave once you cleared the records? Traveling back to Konoha and along the roads during the middle of a war would only put you in d-"

"Are you suggesting we let these efforts and sacrifices be in vain, Shizune?"

"N-No, Lady Tsunade, I didn't me-"

"Besides, I can't just let another young fool pass me by. He'll end up heading straight into disaster without my help, is all."

Shizune looks to Tsunade with a soft expression, seeing right through the Sannin's hard front. The assistant understands exactly what the legendary woman means, even if she doesn't herself. "Tsunade..."

"Are we clear?"
Shizune glances to you, a new, uncertain look in her eyes, before turning back to her own teacher. "...Yes, Tsunade, if you are certain. Just...be careful. I'll stay behind and do what I can to treat Tai back to health."

Tsunade nods, thanking the assistant. You seize the moment. "Tsunade, if you'll be traveling with us I would like to request something extra. Please...please teach me. I realize just how stronger I need to be to protect my friends and my family; I need to grow stronger in every sense to lead them and help them achieve their own dreams."

Tsunade smiles, brushing her loose hair behind her ear in a moment of subtle, soft beauty. Just as quickly, she regains her strong expression. "Haven't you been listening at all?"

Wait, so she wasn't just messing with you? Your time spent with Asa's teasing seems to have changed your perspective a bit. But that would mean...

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"You'd better be ready. Your training starts first thing tomorrow, no complaints!"

You can't help but light up like a miniature sun, a wide smile spreading across your own face as you nod.

There is still the rest of the evening, though. You...
>Head back to your room. It has been a long day, you could use the head start on rest for what lies ahead. (Small Bonus to rolls during the next segment)
>Take the rest of the night to study the items and scrolls you acquired
>Join your newest companion and dazzling teacher at the bar, where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while. Get to know her better and discuss your journey up to this point. Although...you haven't really drank before...
>Write in, other (?)

>>882229
>Join your newest companion and dazzling teacher at the bar, where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while. Get to know her better and discuss your journey up to this point. Although...you haven't really drank before...
Don't drink Amon, don't do it! or just sip on one

>>882229
>where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while
HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>Head back to your room. It has been a long day, you could use the head start on rest for what lies ahead. (Small Bonus to rolls during the next segment)

>>882229
>Join your newest companion and dazzling teacher at the bar, where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while. Get to know her better and discuss your journey up to this point. Although...you haven't really drank before...
I doubt Amon can get drunk

>>882229
>Join your newest companion and dazzling teacher at the bar, where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while. Get to know her better and discuss your journey up to this point. Although...you haven't really drank before...

>Drunk Amon
I can't not.

>>882229
>Take the rest of the night to study the items and scrolls you acquired
Seals are better than any waifu

>>882229
>>Join your newest companion and dazzling teacher at the bar, where she will undoubtedly be going for the last time in a while. Get to know her better and discuss your journey up to this point. Although...you haven't really drank before...
Let's see it

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Rolled 91 (1d100)

Well, look like it's time for a night with Tsunade

Roll for Amon's ability to drink.
Rolling for Tsunade

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>882270
big money no whammies

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>882270
Holy shit she can actually hold her liquor for once.

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Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>882270
Jesus

>>882273
sweet jesus that was too close anon

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>>882273
>>882277
PFFFFTTTT HAHAHAHA

All my luck really did go away with all the crits I rolled.

>>882277
Not wanting Red to deliver on the who's after Amon's dick roll.
What are you, gay?

>>882281
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about

>>882285
What you missed the thread a while back? Can't remember which one it was. Basically someone rolled to see who was after Amon's dick (their words) and Red decided to roll for them, and rolled Tsunade. So Tsunade's going to try to get it on with Amon.

Well, looks like Amon is going under first.
At least he put in a good fight.

>Writing

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>>882288
Actually, I'll begin this and the full training segment tomorrow.

Consider this the pause for tonight's thread.
Thread tomorrow night too.

Twitter: @TheRedL4dy for HAPPENING

Mid-Thread discussion away. Thoughts so far? Questions?

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>>882298
>Thoughts
Cliffhangers are bad, M'kay?

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>>882299

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>>882301
You're always so mean to me.

>>882298
>Thoughts so far?
Newer posts are flowing better. They feel right. I take it you're enjoying writing more than you were?
In-story, I like that Amon failed to catch on to what was happening with Kinoe/Tenzo/Yamato/whatever he's calling himself these days, and then that he just couldn't react in time - it fit the character, had that sluggish feel of exhaustion - and then Tsunade got that crit out of nowhere.
Amon failed hard, and did it fair - but someone else picked up the slack. Got rid of that faint feeling that the world revolved around our viewpoint a little too much I noticed in the past few threads.
On the whole, your writing seems to have matured. Feels cleaner, more focused.
I may be overthinking this. Gist is, good thread.
Now, I'm going to sleep before I get too much more introspective. Night.

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Tsunade carefully eyes the scene past the boy for one, last time. She's done what she could both here and for the injured man recovered from the debris. The fires have been extinguished and the rescue teams seem to have pulled anyone trapped in the wreckage, out. Wounds have been healed and the injured are relaxed...it's time for her to unwind too. Tsunade yawns, stretching before she turns to amble back to her own, preferably well-stocked, sanctuary of choice.

"Would it be alright if I joined you, just for tonight, Lady Tsunade-sama?"

That boy, Amon, just doesn't know what he's in for yet, does he? While you respect his enthusiasm...well, if he wants to start his training off with the mother of all hangovers, it is his choice. You almost consider ignoring him, but decidedly wave him over without looking back and he quickly jogs to catch up.

He's going to need that energy for when he faces tomorrow's rough start.

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A teacher of your own. You haven't ever been taught by anyone other than Myatsuu before. What are you supposed to expect? What will it be like to have Tsunade instruct you?

"Lady Tsunade, where will we be heading tonight, exactly? Meditation on a lake? Observing the ambient flow of life in the city at night? Perhaps practicing our control of chak-"

"The Bar."

"A...a bar? Are we fortifying our constitutions against various poisons of the body and mind, or-"

"No, the only thing fortified around here is gonna be poured in a glass. I need a drink after that."

Speechless, you follow Tsunade back through the winding streets, abuzz with life and gossiping chatter after the recent catastrophe befalling one of the largest business in the area. She walks through the curtained doors of a different, unassuming residence as if by habit. You hesitantly follow to find...

...a rather dingy sort of restaurant. Your new teacher waveds to the barkeep, who- by now familiar with the returning face- reaches behind the back of the bar and prepares several glasses of a rose-colored liquid. Tsunade sighs audibly as she ungracefully plops down in a wooden-planked booth. You join her, albeit much more reservedly, inching into the seat opposite the rough woman. A waiter nonchalantly walks by, dropping off more than several of the glasses of what look to be liquor.

Tsunade notices your behavior, ignoring it for a moment as she quickly downs one of the glasses with a grimace.

Priorities.

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"What's with the face, hunh? You look like you're worried someone is going to steal your last shirt."

She grins at her own joke, reaching for another of the handful of glasses at the table. "Speaking of which, I require shirts for training. What's with your getup anyway? You look like you took the neighborhood priest's robes."

She puts down yet another good portion of her drink, relieving her condition of chronic sobriety to a more tolerable level.

You eye the drinks warily.

>Join her in drinking, it would probably be impolite not to
>Ask her if this is somehow involved in training
>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple
>Maybe she's the type that respects machismo, like Tai? Jostle her right back
>Try to match Tsunade's pace, you should try to emulate your teacher in whatever ways you can
>Protest the whole shirt thing. It's been an accident this entire time, okay?! You swear!
>Admit you haven't ever drank before
>It's monk not priest, actually
>Ask her a question right back, who was she talking to back there when she revived you?
>Write in

>>884722
>>Admit you haven't ever drank before
>>Try to match Tsunade's pace, you should try to emulate your teacher in whatever ways you can
>>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple
If it's your first time, tell your drinking buddy so they know to stop you replacing all of your blood with booze. That comes after years of practice.

>>884722
>Admit you haven't ever drank before
>Try to match Tsunade's pace, you should try to emulate your teacher in whatever ways you can
>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple
Myatsuu probably told Amon something about not trying to drink a lot, right?
Eeh, fuck it.
I need my giggles.

>>884722
>Join her in drinking, it would probably be impolite not to
>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple
>Protest the whole shirt thing. It's been an accident this entire time, okay?! You swear!

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>>884744
3meta knowledge

>>884797
Alcohol is certainly a vice warned against...but Amon hasn't really seen or had it before, if you disclude that one time with Yoru a ways back.

Plus, why would his sensible, honorable teacher ever possibly encourage something bad?

>>884722

>>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple
>>Try to match Tsunade's pace, you should try to emulate your teacher in whatever ways you can
>>Protest the whole shirt thing. It's been an accident this entire time, okay?! You swear!

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Looks like Amon's liver is going to be the real casualty of this arc, sorry Tai.

>>Try to match Tsunade's pace, you should try to emulate your teacher in whatever ways you can
>>Tell her about your upbringing in The Water Temple

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Tsunade taps her finger against the wood of the table somewhat impatiently. You hope you aren't the reason why, but...

You...you're thinking too much. At the Temple, you had been warned of the dangers of alcohol but here Tsunade regards it as casually as you would a scroll. Your honorable sensei knows best.
With a deep breath, you take the nearest glass and down it in a single gulp as you saw her do just moments ago...

...only to end up in a fit of sputtering coughs as the hard liquor burns down your throat, a pungent, bitter taste left to sour the inside of your mouth. Tsunade regards you with a bit of genuine concern in her expression as she downs the rest of her own glass with nothing more than a sharp inhale. "Hey, you alright? Go down the wrong way or something?"

You cough harshly, pounding your chest with your fist as the burning rush makes its way past your tonsils and through the back of your skull. "Y-Yeah, I think so. I haven't really drank before, so it kind of took me by surprise, sorry."

On Tsunade's face is painted an expression of pure disbelief, with then turns to a barely restrained, honest laugh. "Wait, wait, you haven't even drank before? Just who are you, anyway?"

"Amon Shuu. I'm just another, humble monk of the Water Temple, Ma'am."

Her eyes widen, before regarding you with an odd expression slowly converted to cautious suspiscion. "A Monk? What is a m-"
"......how old are you."

"About seventeen, I don't know my own birthday, sorry."

Tsunade blinks three times. She blinks once more, eyes still such stuck in the same spot they were staring just moments prior. She breaths in deep, looking for the nearest glass. She finds and downs it in record time- nodding vigorously at the much more comfortable burn.