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[X] What if those three, unlike you, were not the only ones who remembered their past lives? Investigation~
- - [X] Naruto seems to have vanished again... where did she go? Follow the Fishcake!
Hinata Event - 1d100 → [77] = Hmmmm! Hmmmm!
There has been something vexing you for the last few days. Something that should have been... impossible and yet was.
Somehow, Naruto was able to give you the slip. She had been running off into the city now and then for the last few days for a few hours.
At first, you had given no thought to it, why would you? Then you got curious because... she had managed to vanish from your byakugan sight. This was something patently impossible, but it was something that kept happening.
Each and every time, Naruto went out into the city, she didn't run out of your range of sight. Rather, she did... something. Something which momentarily disrupted your sight in the area she was in and then... she was gone as if she had never been.
You had tried focusing with your fully activated byakugan. But the result was still the same. Which your byakugan wasn't as powerful and able to focus in on the finer details, it was more capable at the larger picture. Your father had praised your ability to observe everything around you.
That there was a way to disrupt the byakugan, even if unintentional, that was... it made you concerned. It hinted that your eyes were not as perfect as they could be, should be, had to be.
Still, that didn't mean that Naruto could hide what she was doing! Indeed, if one's bloodline limit wasn't sufficient, one merely had to go back to basics and work one's way back up! This was just common sense.
And when you found her doing whatever she was doing to disrupt and escape your byakugan, you were going to slap her silly and make her stop it. And slap her even more afterwards.
Ah... this was far too stimulating.
...
No, it wasn't.
Not really.
It was, however, giving you more material; Bloodline limits failing a legendary princess or some such as she struggled to find her sister, facing a bloodsucker and his harem. And along the way... some animated statues in the service of a legendary demon would also show up.
You mentally nodded as you made your way to where you last saw her before she vanished.
Looking about, you can't find a trace of her.
It was... vexing.
Yes, you were growing attached to that word.
Still, as you searched for Naruto, you kept an ear open and your eyes gazing... everywhere.
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Wandering about by yourself... proved to be less useful than expected, even with your eyes to provide a roving point of view, you sighed.
You could keep count of everything within your sight. But you could not find one girl. It was as if she never was.
It appeared that Naruto would once more escape your sight once more. You huff out a breath as children around ran about the street around, urging each other on, saying something about how that story teller is back, and... stories. At least if your ears were right in the words that they caught from the cacophony of voices as house-wives and the common folk who walked about.
You blinked once before giving into your curiosity, for while you could read lips (somewhat) and your eyes allowed you to see everything... there was something to be said about hearing a tale directly.
Thus, you found yourself with a group of children, both younger and older than you, some dressed poorly while others were dressed as nicely as you were.
Seated upon a makeshift seat from cleaned up rubble beneath a tree while a cool breeze blew about in the shadows cast from the ruined towers about the plaza, was a man.
His slender build and appearance harkened to that of the old blood from the west and north, there was a certain cast to his mien that spoke of classical well breeding from the Country of Earth. Refined and gentle, if somewhat scruffy and bearing the dust of long travel. Your caretakers and family would be scandalized to see you in such company.
Listening to the whispers about you, it is clear that none knew from whence this teller of tales came from. Only that he was but newly arrived. Scant days even, and yet... and yet, his tales, they brought forth visions of what once was.
High above in the blue skies amidst the golden ryou of Amaterasu-ômikami lay slow moving white clouds and falcons that flew high above commoner birds such as gulls.
As you settled down to listen, the this teller of tales sipped a a drink of water from his gourd before brushing away the dust from his dark pants.
With a smile and a nod at the children... you had the feeling he was smiling at you, for some reason, he spoke up. "Between the time when world came into being as Pangu separated the heavens and the earth, and the coming of the Sage of Six Paths, there was an age undreamt of, when the gods walked the world, and a keen sword can bring the darkest of evils to justice."
The silence from his audience allowed his voice to whisper and slip about, that rasp... it spoke to you, and you closed your eyes. You could see the world he spoke of. "And unto this, hither came Linghu Chong the carefree swordsman, black haired, laughter upon his lips and a song in his heart, sword in hand, an orphan, swordsman, hero, villain, a warrior without peer."
"It is I, who, alone can tell you of his saga once lost to the winds of time. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!"
And thus did the day past by as you listened to something new. Something you had never heard or read before. You wanted to claim that the tales were just flights of fancy, and yet... something inside you stated that they were truth. Just ones that had been forgotten by time.
Before you knew it, it was dark once more and you had returned to the Hyuuga mansion for dinner and a tale of heroism from days long past.
You found yourself putting to paper the story that had been told you, that it not be lost once more.
Vexingly, Naruto was also back with a smile on her face and an absolute refusal to say where she had been.
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Lavender Blossom Quest - Nothing beside remains.
[X] Keep trying to follow Naruto?
- - [X] Keep an ear and eye out for that story teller?
[X] Give up on following Naruto, she can keep her secrets... really, you're not wanting to know them. O.... or anything.
- - [X] Keep an ear and eye out for that story teller?
- - [X] Do something else, see below?
[X] Have fun with your peers?
- - [X] Exploration of the forests and catching of beetles. No cheating now~.
- - [X] Go swimming.
[X] Interview Haruno and Ino?
[X] Haruno Sakura is asking around for people to spar with...
- - [X] Give in and spar with Sakura?
- - [X] Watch Naruto give in and spar with Sakura?
- - [X] Watch Ino give in and spar with Sakura?
- - [X] Watch someone else give in and spar with her?
- - [X] Wait... how did we end up in a free for all? Oh gods, property damage!!!
[X] Write In.