[07] north country winters keep a-gettin' me down

[thethundersaid]

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.

Comments

[breakfastmetaphors]

Foster a better environment for my mind?

[It's surprising how much that throws him. In fact, it may well be the first time someone has offered to try to make any accommodations to suit him. For a second, he's not sure how to react at all.]

If you think it's necessary.

[yatteyanyo]

I suppose it must sound silly.

[breakfastmetaphors]

No, I can understand the sentiment, I'm just not used to that sort of accommodation.

[He shuffles through the papers he's taken down, just for something to look at. He's not sure whether to take it as kindness or flattery. He's received the latter before, but the former is not something he's used to dealing with.]

[yatteyanyo]

Well, the offer is there should it be needed.

[breakfastmetaphors]

Understood.

[He would probably never ask for such a thing even if he did know what to ask for.]

I think it would be more effective to try to impose some sort of order on the rest of the crew, though. I can tend to my own needs.

[yatteyanyo]

Well, that sort of thing is really up to the captain. I'm just the watchman.

[breakfastmetaphors]

It's something the captain has failed to do, so it may fall to the crew if we wish to have any sort of organization.

[There's no punishment for insubordination, as far as he knows, so there's no incentive to follow the chain of command.]

[yatteyanyo]

Hmm... Captain Marvelous is not conventional by any means, you are correct. For those that desire more order and less chaos, he is not ideal.

Still, he has earned my respect. In the absence of my Prince, I have no trouble giving him my loyalty, for now.

[breakfastmetaphors]

I don't transfer my loyalty so easily. I offer my services to whoever gives me the best advantage, that's all.

[There is, after all, only one person he is truly loyal to.]

[yatteyanyo]

Are you implying I did? -Tojiko gives him a rather direct look.-

[breakfastmetaphors]

I'm not implying anything.

[He feels he was quite straightforward.]

[yatteyanyo]

Good. I'd rather there not be a problem.

[breakfastmetaphors]

You've chosen to be loyal to the captain, so I don't see how there would be one.

[It's not an issue for him if she wants to be fickle unless she decides to betray the crew, but such a thing seems unlikely.]