HOLY FREAKIN CRAP!
I leave for five days and suddenly I get quadruple the reviews I had before? Sweet jesus this story must actually be pretty good. When I saw it I was so inspired, I stopped writing the story and loaded up chapters seven and eight. I probably won't get back to writing until tomorrow. I freakin love you guys. Shang, thanks for continuing to read man.
Quick list of things I dont own: Naruto, Jesus, Family Guy, a crime syndacate, and enough pants to last me a week. I guess I just have to forge ahead.
"Why are you keeping those forehead protectors" Ayane asked Junichi with an almost childlike curiosity. They had long since cleaned out the bodies but now, knowing no danger would find them for a while, Junichi sat next to the fire with the hitae-ate next to him while he scribbled in his notebook.
"I'm trying to work out a way to use these as armor" Junichi replied simply "It's a difficult technique that would require a few seals and a massive amount of chakra…And it would only be useful if I could manipulate the position of the protectors."
Ayane thought for a second. "Why don't you use an electric jutsu and manipulate the position of the forehead protectors using the attraction and detraction force of magnetism?" she asked as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
Junichi stared down at his paper for a second. Then in a flurry of motion he began writing as fast as he possibly could with an eager look on his face.
"It would be very possible" he said to everyone's astonishment "but it would take a lot of chakra and near perfect control of all of it…If only I could make it independent" he idly went back to his writing.
"How the hell did you come up with that idea Ayane chan?" Saotome said rather loudly "usually you're not good at anything, let alone thinking"
"Saotome" Kanoe said quietly "just because you do nothing and get everything doesn't mean that everyone else is below you. Ayane's clan even has a blood limit, though even she may not know it."
"Whoa!" Saotome exclaimed, sounding a lot like some wigged out surfer "I didn't know you had a blood limit? What is it?"
"Well…" Ayane stammered shyly "Its not really all that useful, see." Ayane then threw a rock into the air. Midway through its flight the rock disappeared and reappeared flying back towards Ayane who caught it with a smile.
"Not useful!" Saotome yelled, "With that you could kick some serious ass! Man I wish I had a blood limit or something"
"Its not really all that great" Ayane said, shrugging off the attention she was getting "It could basically only be used in throwing the opponent off for a second."
"Right before you make the killing blow" Junichi said while he still kept writing "In a battle, a second is all you need to win."
"What about you Junichi kun, does your clan have any special abilities or jutsus that you use?" Saotome asked excitedly.
"I don't know" Junichi admitted in an almost melancholy manner while seeming determined not to show it "I'm an only child, my mother died giving birth to me, my father left me when I was three, all of my family on my mother's side blames me for her death, all of my father's family died during missions or wars."
Kanoe looked at him thoughtfully for a second. "Junichi, how old are you exactly" she asked him almost warily, as if she were afraid of the answer.
"I'm thirteen" He replied simply.
Kanoe bit her lip. "Do you know if you look anything like your father?" she asked, again almost afraid of the answer.
Junichi looked up at her with an almost hateful glare in his eyes. "Yes, I do look like the son of a bitch who made my childhood a living hell. I resemble the bastard I will kill without mercy if he ever decides to show his cowardly face within five miles of my vicinity. Why do you want to know?" he said once again giving everyone around him the creeps.
"No reason" Kanoe said looking down at the ground "I was just wondering…well we better get moving."
"I think that would be a good idea," Junichi said coldly as he packed up his book and the headbands before bounding off into the trees before him.
"What's wrong with him" Saotome asked as Ayane went off after Junichi "Were you aware you were pissing him off?"
"Remember that guy I told you about that took a couple of villages to kill?" Kanoe asked, the very memory of the guy sending chills up her spine "It seems he was Junichi's father…and from the account of Junichi, he's alive still."
Ayane bounded after Junichi. It took all of her strength to catch up with him. He seemed to be moving as fast as he could through the dense foliage. At last she caught up with him after much work.
"Hey, why did you flip out back there" Ayane asked him, trying to be as tender and caring as possible.
"The bastard left me" Junichi said angrily "He was all that I had…I never really liked him all that much because he was always yelling at me…but all the same, he pushed me into solitude…you don't know what that's like. I swear, one day I will kill him…I'll kill him and I'll enjoy it."
"Don't talk like that!" Ayane snapped at him, slapping him across the face quickly "I may not know what it's like to be lonely, but I do know that to wish for one's father's death is a horrible thing to wish for, no matter what he did to you! I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to live with that pain, but I do know that it's thoughts like those that turn people into wretched evil beings, and you'll only end up being worse than him!"
Junichi felt the side of his face where she slapped him. It was an odd sensation. It stung slightly, but he felt like now he would be all right. Curious. As he looked up he noticed that she had tears welling in her eyes. He didn't understand that either. Was she mad at him? What was going on? Then Junichi did the only thing he thought he might be able to get away with.
She gasped slightly as he put his arms around her and held her close to him. It was so out of character for him. Junichi, the cold and ruthless and powerful was really just a regular person who had lived his life without any solace or comfort, and while you had to dig deep to reach it, there was an entire reservoir of pain below the surface.
"Thank you, Ayane" Junichi whispered to her "You are right. By hating him, I only become him…I just felt so lonely, and I blamed him for all of it. It was so easy to hate him. I don't know that I'll ever forgive him, but I do know that should he and I ever meet, I'll keep your words in mind"
She was blushing deeply as he pulled away from her slowly. It was probably the most emotional moment in his life. She was a girl, and thus, subject to such emotions all the time. For him though, this was new. She stared at him as he walked off through the forest. Did she have feelings for him? Did he have feelings for her? What should she do now?
With a shake of her head she jogged up to Junichi's position. They kept walking for the rest of the day in complete silence. For some reason, they felt like they were both talking the entire time, but neither had said a word…curious indeed…
Shang: hohoho devilish laugh I think you like this story Shang. You were my first reviewer and from the looks of it you kept on reviewing. I gotta tell you, it looks like Junichi's the overlord now...and he kinda is...but later everybody else gets alot stronger, especially Saotome. I even have plans for Ayane, very, very good plans my friend. And he's actually not that strong, He just plays by different rules. If you end up in cambodia and somebody hands you a stick and a ball and says 'play the game. if you lose you die' you're probably gonna end up dead.
Youkai Ryuu: ahhh, you're a perceptive one. I like the way you think Ryuufriend. And I did take your advice and mess with the review blocker. Thanks for that one. As for the rating, I just wanted to warn people really. I read ALOTof Hellsing and Priest, so people get like...eaten alive later...yeah. My writing style is horribly flawed. I could have told you that. I hate reading books that give too much detail, so when I write, I tend to not discribe things properly and I skip through stuff I probably shouldn't. I don't claim to be a wonderful writer, though I wish I was. I just have a nice story to tell. I'm glad you noticed the plot similarities. I did that on purpose. I was having trouble coming up with my own format, so I just copied mister Kishimoto's and made a few modifications. I'm lazy. I do thank you for being so honest and trying to help. Everything get's alot better later. I already have it written just into part two. Right now, it's at a phase where I was doing alot of rushing and not putting enough consideration into EVERY chapter like I do now. Hope you can excuse my flaws and enjoy the story anyway.