[X] SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
"Ararara, no no no you don't!"
Ignoring your own fear, you reach out with your sensing and clamp down on the tiny wild tune, gripping it with all your might.
You're a bullet. Stay a bullet. Stay-
Pain. Pain unending.
INO!
"INO!"
It's as though you hold five hundred thousand sandstorms in the palm of your hand. The dark fanfare doesn't spread. It merely, suddenly, undeniably, is.
And now your hand is not.
Panicking, you release your hold, but it's too late. Now it has a hold on
you. It will not leave.
Sainte Mère de Dieu it's the Kyuubi the Kyuubi's back the Kyuubi the Kyuubi's back Ino you have to move get moving run-!
You aren't even aware you've been screaming until Neji grabs you by the arm and forces his chakra into your tenketsu, blasting the other invading chakra with everything he has.
But he's too late.
Cursing, he falls back, his hands as blackened and useless as yours.
Abruptly, you find yourself wrapped tightly in someone's arms. The pain is dimming, now.
"Lupin?"
"It's okay, Ino. I promise, it will be okay."
The dream complex flickers around you.
"But... I'm not done! I have to get back out there!"
"Ino, I'm sorry. But in a minute there won't be an out there anymore." He clings to you desperately, like a little kid.
"Please stay with me..."
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Teach Us, Jigen-sensei!
"There's bijuu chakra in it, you idiots. You don't know a deathtrap option when you see one? Fuck, she spoils you.
"Okay, those of you calling bullshit? Shut up. If an alkaline battery started to crumble in your hands, would you try to put it back together or throw it away before the contents ate through your skin? Just because something was harmless to the touch in its normal state doesn't mean that once decay sets in it's still open season. That bullet isn't supposed to stick around; you'd have found that out if you'd voted to examine it back when Menka picked it up.
"Yes, tailed beasts can theoretically grant their chakra to other creatures. Note the phrasing there: grant. So just this once, pretty please, with sugar on top, don't touch the scary demonic energy unless Gaara explicitly tells you it's okay.
"... christ. I feel like I spend half my life telling Lupin not to fuck with the supernatural. >_<
"And just because I don't want to have to come back out here in ten minutes, the other two options are both fine. I don't want to hear any of you wishy-washy sons of bitches whining about how trying new things got you a Bad End.
"You, with the face! Bring me the 30-year-old Glenfiddich from behind the counter. The rest of you get back to your underage ninja girlfriend."
Thank you, Jigen-sensei! Congratulations, everyone, you've got the Together in Death sticker. Isn't it pretty?
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you requested a rewind...
[X] Shit, shove it back in the seal, quick!
[X] Whoa, the sooner the scary-chakra is dispersed and away from your hand and your friends, the better. Let it dissolve.
[X] Write in?
