Safe For The Moment....

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Ejiki figured heading into the city was a hell of a bad idea, and instead kept running, her sight coming back about half-way to Taki. She looked around, everything in her peripheral vision slowed to a crawl and the color red and black. She had to find somewhere quick, lest she drop here. Though she didn't want to, she ran into the swamp, trying to find a clearing of some sorts she could set her family down.

She stopped in the middle of the swamp, and set her family down. It was then she noticed that Uson's entire body was shocked. Badly. Oh god, she had to do something...Wait. She could.
"Oh, please forgive me for this."
She quickly dropped to her knees, her breathing heavy from running so much, and stared down at him.

Oh, please let this work.

Ejiki pressed her lips against Uson's, the feeling vaguely familiar, and began forcing the lightning chakra out of him and into her, being careful not to take any of his chakra. Once this task was done, she sat up, and felt a sudden bang in her body. What-

"Oh shit."

Those two words were all she managed to get out before she keeled over. She had too much lightning in her body and no way to discharge it, so it was attacking her system. She closed her eyes and bit down on her lip as her heart started slowing down.

Well, isn't THIS a bitch?

'You got that right...'
Well, she went down helping him, she guessed. Not too bad a way to go down. Ejiki looked up at Uson as her Mad Rush ended and smiled.
"...See ya. Be a good father, and sorry for what I did."

The shock combined from the excess lightning her headphones couldn't absorb along with the sudden rejection from her Mad Rush's aftereffect combined. Ejiki stopped breathing, closed her eyes, and dropped.

OOC: Posting for Xin with permission.

Xin was proud of his kin for being able to handle his last training regimend. As he watched his clones get tossed about, he would notice two new beings enter, one familiar. He turned around to see Jana Hyuuga, his cousin who he had sent for from the Iron village, and looked into her eyes, slightly surprised she was here.



Ejiki was about to make a comment when she as well noticed two new people enter the scene, one...seeming familiar. Ah, those eyes.
"Hello, kin. It is nice to see you."It was then that she would blink as she noticed this second person staggering. He wasn't near the area to be seen. It was more of...She could feel him move, hear his heartbeat. The technique Uson had taught her....He...felt like a young boy, a teen though still young in her eyes. Then she felt the vibrations.

...The boy....was panicking?

"...Shit...."Immediately she ran to the source of the suddenly frantic heartbeat, and called out.
"Hello? Can you hear me?"

The devastation was complete, where there was once a living breathing eco-system, now there was nothing, the terrible grasping winds of the Puppet's wings had sheered away much of what was their, repeated strikes even wearing away rock.
Now as a single sheet of paper escaped Kaku's body and enveloped the Dragon with it's seal, it then turned around to return to Kaku, who's springtime guardian had taken a vacation.
Now he turned his attention to the two newcomers, and his single apologetic eye suddenly mutated and warped as it brushed aside the various layers of baggage to bare the soul for all to see.
Death.
Pain.
Destruction.
Terror.
Fury.
And above all a glint to the gleaming orb that suggested one thing, he had enjoyed it all. And now coming more from the back of his throat then the stomach. Was a laugh, a sheer primal laugh that echoed around. A laugh the a hyena would make when it had downed it's pray and was about to feast.
As the laugh died in his throat, the gaze of the orb swiveled up and the lids of the orb closed around it, and the body of Kakusan collapsed, he was fine, just a bit tired and had chewed up a massive amount of chakra.

Searing pain ripped through Riku's body. Starting from his head then working down to the marks on his back, the marks glowing red right through his shirt. His pupils shrunk and narrowed, the pain causing him to fade in and out of unconsciousness. He was starting to remember something. A black mark running the length of his father's chest all those years ago. His eyes twitched as the mark started to run all over his back, making a demonic face on his chest as he roared out in pain, his canines elongating into long fangs, tears of blood running down his face. His eyes stayed the same color, but they seemed wilder. "Mother...don't go...mother..." A voice echoed from him as his lips moved. It seemed hollow, full of sadness. A red third eye opened on his forehead, looking out at everyone.

A black pillar of energy swirled around him, then dissipated. The marks, the eye, and everything from the incident was gone. He shook uncontrollably, the pain still ripping through his body though fading away slowly. He fell to his hands and knees, coughing up a pool of black blood, looking at the woman in front of him in pure fear. His vision was blurry from the blood, and his head was foggy. "M-Mother?" Riku said, his arms shaking as he tried to get up, managing to get to his feet before falling back, his eyes blanking out. He had passed out from the stress.

Jana would witness the boy, Riku, through her chakra sensory jutsu felt him stumble in carrying what was a highly weighted strain. A boulder perhaps till he started to have pain and his chakra spiked and she knew that his body was shutting down. She wasn't a medical expert but this much she could tell as she would get up on her own and then witness another person, the puppetear boy, drop down but his body and chakra were fine, just exhausted. She would look at Xin and Ejiki only to see Ejiki running over to the boy whom started to shut down as Xin just seemed to have surprise written on his face as she too would run over to the boy and seeing the marks her own eyes widened as she would run after him hering him utter something about Mother while Ejiki and herself made it over and then black blood was coughed up. "Water! I need water!" She would yell in her head as she would run though her ruck sack and embedding her chakra into the small bottle. She would pour the water into a cloth she wripped from her sash as she would lay it onto the boy's forhead. She would then do one palm to restabilize his chakra by poking the one pall into his solarplex, afterwards she looked to Ejiki as Jana would then tell her, "Does he mean you when he speaks of his mother?" Jana was unsure but now that the chakra was restabilized the boy needed a motherly figure to take care of the rest.

Xin turned to his son and motioned for him to follow, then came over to examine the two as they tended to the boy. Who was this intruder, and what relation did he have to his cousins? It was a question that he wanted an answer for indeed. He would rest his hands in his robe's sleeves as he stood a little ways over and watched their actions and movements. What was this boy doing out here with a boulder on his back?

Ejiki had made handsigns as her cousin had gotten some water. Immediately, her hands began growing a warm green as the brushed them over the boy's skin. The cuts and bruises on the boy immediately began fading and closing up, healing his beaten body to a pristine condition. She would then rest the boy's head in her lap and begin cleaning off his face. She sent just a tiny bit of electricity through him to try and wake him up as she looked down at him with caring and worried eyes. She had been called his mother. What did that mean...? Regardless.
"Wake up, dear child. It's not healthy to sleep out here, you know."
She smoothed out his shirt and adjusted the cloth on his forehead as she looked down at him, hoping he would awake. She needed to know why such a boy would be carrying a boulder on his back. And what had happened to him.

OOC: Your getting better at RPing as Uson, Kyo.

What was this young boy doing on the ground? Resting as it would seem. Yet his duty had no yet reached it's zenith so he was beckoned from sleep's sweet embrace to the hard reality of day.
Feeling the urge for sleep within his bones, he sighed, and stood up, several loud retorts of skeletal abuse where clearly heard.
Now Kaku still had one trick left up his sleeve, he could tell that the female who had newly arrived was in decent condition. The male specimen, ah he was something that was going to require work. Especially since Kaku's black eye-patch was gone. Left in the heat of battle. He stooped to retrieve the garment, before replacing it.

Yawning mightily, he proceeded to follow his Father down to the crisis zone. For now he stood, watching and waiting. Every muscle in his body tensed, ready to spring into action. By his Father's side the said person would easily be able to hear the jumping heart beat of his youngest, and oldest child.

Riku slowly opened his eyes, feeling warmth all around him. Several people, who looked like blobs in his disoriented state, were around him. His head felt like it was on something soft, and it felt warm. He felt at ease for some reason. The embrace of his own mind was soon being lifted, his vision becoming clearer and clearer. The marks that were on his body were slowly receding, a purplish mist coming off of his body. His narrowed and shrunk when he finally fully came to, jumping up and backing away, literally scrabbling away from them. Fear. Fear deep as the deepest well was in his eyes. His fangs went back to canines slowly, shaking uncontrollably. His breathing was ragged, and he coughed up droplets of both black and crimson red blood.

The words of the woman who's lap he was laying on slowly came to him, the fear edging out of his system. But then his eyes narrowed, not in fear, but in pure pain. A soundless scream came from him as he grabbed his head, feeling an immense pain ripping right through his skull, a burning sensation on his back. He kept one eye open, looking at the crowd of people, managing to get out one phrase: "Who are you people?"

Jana would be the one to awnser that when she had fully initialized her sensory status of all the ninja around her as she would then simply say, "We are the Hyuuga. What remains of our grande family line." She would then smile lightly and then turn to Xin, whom had the most chakra, "And if I am right you are Xin Li, Leader of the Hyuuga and the one whom told me to come here as soon as I have. I now want to know what you meant by this 'love' letter you sent to me." She could tell that Ejiki was a motherly figure but what was herself, Jana's self, to anyone. She knew she could easily be a political tool but what else was she?

OOC: Aww, thanks V! I really am trying! :3

Uson would raise an eyebrow at the large amount of chakra resonated from the boy Ejiki held tenderly. His heartbeat had slowed down considerably, meaning he was stable at least, and Uson then turned to the female who accused him of writing a 'love letter', and glared at her. He had send her a formal request to come to the Hyuuga household under the escort of his son and Ejiki, which would not happen now. He held out his hand and motioned for them to come. It was time that they left for their household, where he would be able to...'discuss', in a sense, what it was he had wanted Jana to come for. And as a father, he also needed to have Kakusan rest for all the training he had done today.

Ejiki looked down as the boy coughed up a bit more blood and she wiped it off his mouth. He looked so hurt...broken, even. She couldn't take it. She didn't even NOTICE the chakra that the boy had released a few moments ago, for she was prioritizing a whole other thing. When he asked who she was, the first words out of her mouth were pure instinct. And something she wouldn't go back on.
"I am your new mother. I will take care of you, unlike whatever vile woman who would let you be like this. Don't be afraid...I'll take you somewhere safe..."
She picked the boy up, resting his head on her shoulder, and turned to Uson.
"I won't leave him here. And I will gladly fight you over him if I have to."
She didn't care if he could kill her easily, she'd just keep coming back again and again to care for this boy. Because that was the way Ejiki was for children and those like them. She was someone who had to protect them. A hint of a smile however did come upon her face. She had a pretty good guess that he would agree.

OOC: It doesn't show, keep it up and I think you'll be able to pass for him without a doubt!

Well it appeared that everything was in order, however looking at the two new additions to the family, Kakusan decided to impart a few words of wisdom to the more physically injured arrival.
It was obvious that Uson and Ejiki where both of a kind, the type of people who had parenting instincts that where truly massive. But hopefully Ejiki would be able to see through the haze of her hormones to determine that Kakusan wasn't a threat as he made his way towards the pair.
He stopped a few meters away, and looked straight at the boy, wondering what was the message he had wished to convey, and how best to do it.
Deciding on one he spoke his head filled with the number of pets he had taken in as a youngster, the ones that lived, and the ones that died. The ones that had lived, where the ones that had a purpose in life, they had a reason to not cross that invisible line of death, simply because living was too painful.
So he spoke his voice filled with the pain of loss, ::.On the hills of lore and wonder, there's a stormy world up there, you can't whisper above the thunder.
Travel light let the sun eclipse you, 'cause your flight is about to leave. And there's more to this brave adventure, than you'd ever believe.::
With those final words he waved to the devastation he and his family had created. There was more to be learned in life then death, which could be found in observation.
Turning, Kakusan made his way up the hill before also collapsing, making a small cloud of dust rise around him, before settling.