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high_seas2014-03-11 11:13 pm
thethundersaid) wrote in high_seas2014-03-11 11:13 pm
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[07] north country winters keep a-gettin' me down
Who: Crew of Murderess/Howling Sabers
Where: West of Empieza
When: Month of March. Top post starts beginning of month; mark dates in new threads to maintain some semblance of continuity. :Db
What: Catch-all for March posts -- will include Captain fight at least.
Warnings: Violence as ever
Style: Anything that'll move!
Status: Open to anyone actually on board or nearby
They'd spent a month docked at Empieza, and finally they were on the move. Sasuke wouldn't deny that they had perhaps needed the time -- to get the ship back into shape, for one, and to pick up a medic-nin, even if that hadn't been in the plans. But an entire month of one small island and an even smaller ship had left Sasuke about as stir-crazy as he could get, and the presence of said medic-nin and her entourage only exacerbated it.
He'd told Naruto and Sakura that he hadn't been doing nothing since arrival, but in all honesty, in terms of real progress, he'd accomplished nothing. Nothing of use, nothing of real import, for all that they had a shard on board and no one had been possessed to kill everyone else recently.
So it was that Sasuke was in the rigging in a better mood than he'd been in all month as they sailed away from the island, heading for rendezvous with the crew of the sailboat that had gone to find fairies.
Where: West of Empieza
When: Month of March. Top post starts beginning of month; mark dates in new threads to maintain some semblance of continuity. :Db
What: Catch-all for March posts -- will include Captain fight at least.
Warnings: Violence as ever
Style: Anything that'll move!
Status: Open to anyone actually on board or nearby
They'd spent a month docked at Empieza, and finally they were on the move. Sasuke wouldn't deny that they had perhaps needed the time -- to get the ship back into shape, for one, and to pick up a medic-nin, even if that hadn't been in the plans. But an entire month of one small island and an even smaller ship had left Sasuke about as stir-crazy as he could get, and the presence of said medic-nin and her entourage only exacerbated it.
He'd told Naruto and Sakura that he hadn't been doing nothing since arrival, but in all honesty, in terms of real progress, he'd accomplished nothing. Nothing of use, nothing of real import, for all that they had a shard on board and no one had been possessed to kill everyone else recently.
So it was that Sasuke was in the rigging in a better mood than he'd been in all month as they sailed away from the island, heading for rendezvous with the crew of the sailboat that had gone to find fairies.
get healed
As much as she'd like to destroy the attacking ship with her bare fist.
She's low on materials though, only carrying what she has in her back pouch from the war, which is a couple small rolls of bandages. A lot of her medic duties she fixes with her jutsu, whittling down her chakra. As she works, she tries to get updates from her crew since she's unable to fight herself or even really see it since she's holed up in the safety of the ship.
"What's the enemy's status?"
[voicing in]
Easily overwhelmed. We're ... looting now. [That's the correct term, he supposes; there's not really any other way to describe it.]
Are there any medical supplies you want us to look for?
[voicing in]
She would help loot herself but there's a couple stragglers she needs to tend to.]
Anything you can find. Particularly bandages, I'm low.
But what about you? Are you injured?
[voicing in]
I'm fine -- [Or he starts, but suddenly there's the sound of the scuffle, the journal falling to the floor and distant shouting.]
[voicing in > action]
Sasuke-kun!! [But she's immediately summoning Katsuyu before he can answer with a quick bite to her thumb. The same version of Katsuyu appears when she had first summoned her to Isla Empieza to confirm her presence on the battlefield and the disconnect from the flow from time.
She's shoving her bandages back in her bag when she finally addresses the slug.]
Katsuyu-sama, please help anyone that comes in here with my chakra. I'll heal remotely.
[And then she's off, moving quickly to reach the other ship and search for Sasuke.]
[action]
She'll arrive to a mess on deck and below, with uninjured crew racing to free the surviving captured crew that even L-Elf hasn't had time to dispatch yet.]
[action]
From above with a fist burying into the deck and sending wood up in splinters.]
SHA--- NNARO!!
[It's probably too much in case they want the ship later but at least she held back enough that she didn't wreck the entire thing. There's just a new feature that allows fast travel to below deck.
She drops into that hole, looking around and calling out. If Sasuke was in trouble, then the rest of the crew was too.]
Sasuke-kun!
[action]
The sudden introduction of daylight via destroyed planking startles the other men, though, enough time for Sasuke to toss two in Sakura's direction (confident she'll be able to handle them without issue) and set on the rest, steel flashing.]
[action]
One down.
Sakura looks up just in time to arch away from a swing of a blade before she's shoving her hand into her pouch as she creates a few feet of disance between them. She tugs out one of the few kunai she still possesses. The next attack she deflects by swinging upwards, a loud clang of metal, and with it she throws her enemy off balance and onto the heels of his feet.
The first probably gets the less painful knockout because now Sakura lowers her body, curls her fist at her side, and uncoils powerfully to land a fierce chakra-infused uppercut.
The body flies comically up above deck through the hole she created to land somewhere where she can't see.
After her two are taken care of, she turns to Sasuke. You know her fists don't lie.]
[action]
Even after having seen her in those brief moments on the battlefield, Sasuke has to be impressed by the fluidity of Sakura's taijutsu. It speaks to a sense of combat flow that he doesn't remember Sakura having; evidence toward her claim that she is qualified to be Hokage in more ways than one.
He tosses the last of his group to the side, the man groaning before falling limply into a corner.]
They set up an ambush. There are probably more towards the captain's quarters.
[He gestures at the darkened end of the hall where he's assuming the captain is headquartered. Hopefully the supposed detectives haven't yet arrived on board to be ambushed as well.]
Have those two civilians come on board yet?
[action]
Her brow furrows. If they had the means to set up an ambush, then the enemy wasn't as easily overwhelmed as they originally thought. Then that means it's possible they're walking into a trap right now.]
No. I mean, not that I know of. As soon as you dropped the journal, I summoned Katsuyu and came to back you up.
[She pauses, alarmed.]
Where's Naruto?
[action]
They'd expected and forestalled the first set of would-be surprise attacks with L-Elf's guessing, but the determination of these lingering stragglers spoke to crew loyalty that would be a pain to deal with.
Sasuke makes a short noise of irritation at both the lack of information and her question, leaning down to pick up his journal and scan for any sign that the two he wanted to find information might be out of commission.]
Naruto will be wherever the noise is.
[True to form, there is a sudden chorus of identical yells from the deck, followed by a large number of splashes that are probably sailors falling into the ocean.]
Re: [action]
But a moment ago, it was down here. Her eyes do widen and she looks up through the makeshift skylight she created.
Sasuke isn't wrong.]
Re: [action]
[Unlike these sailors -- in the next moment there are suddenly men bursting out of trapdoors carefully hidden into the floor of this level of the ship. Sasuke is in the middle of knocking out the first set when several of them pop out of another trapdoor, throwing a weighted net at the two of them that is clearly meant to try to hamper their movements.]
Re: [action]
As she thought, it's a trap.
If anyone's predictable, it's the people from this ship. That is, until they think a net is going to contain or hinder them. They obviously don't know who they're dealing with.
CAN'T BE TAAAAAAMED.
But she does stumble backwards into Sasuke, bumping into him so they're standing back to back. Maybe if the rope sealed their chakra, it would be a threat. Now it's just sort of stupid.]
I'll take one half and you take the other?
Re: [action]
It's the groaning that makes him pause after turning to make sure Sakura has handled her share.]
L-Elf wants to execute everyone on board. [He gestures at the pile.] Do what you want if you don't want them dead.
[action]
What?
[It's not like murder was uncommon for a ninja but Sakura wasn't okay with genocide for no reason. They couldn't hurt them now, right? It would be easy to disappear in an ocean anyway.
She guesses as long as she doesn't have to do it...
Her eyes trail to their respective piles and gives him a sidelong glance.]
You're okay with that?
Re: [action]
It wasn't worth trying to review the same argument again. He's a strategist we need to keep, but there's no reason to follow his plans to the letter.
If he wants to round up and execute all the survivors when we're done, he can do it on his own. I have bigger goals here.
Re: [action]
She was right in suspecting that it wasn't going to be anything she was okay with.
Her eyes move back to the piles of beaten bodies. Her inner thoughts go at war; one side (logical/realistic) raises a point from before that as long as she didn't see it, it didn't happen. She's a ninja and people die all the time. The other (more Naruto/emotional/medic influenced) is telling her that there's no point in killing them if they were hardly even a threat to the two of them. They would be even less of a threat to the whole crew.
She makes her decision.]
I'll stay here and try to gather intel on whoever is the least unconscious.
[As if on cue, there's a pained groan.]
Do you think there's more hiding?