| Gestalt (closed to Kuromaru, Yasuo, Waki) | [Nov. 21st, 2008|08:05 pm] |
[Takes place in early March, two days after Just Promise To Keep Your Heart Broken, and at the same time as Ew, What's That Smell?]
Yasuo had been looking at his partner's partner for some time, gaze traveling up to the human body only to drop back down to his book again. There was something niggling at the back of his head. Something about the shape...
Tsume had been there earlier, and would be back again later. Watching her look at herself, so badly damaged, had been almost painful. He knew the form upset her and caused disorientation in Kuromaru, whenever he woke. He woke expecting a wolf-form, and instead he was still a man. The canine's chakra was weak and diseased--they were waiting for him to get a bit stronger before the next surgery. Yasuo understood that any jutsu that used Kuromaru's chakra would only make the rot spread now. It was why they hadn't tried to wake him up and change him back--they worried that even letting him release the jutsu would be harmful.
Yasuo looked back down at his book. In the corner near Kuromaru's head sat Tanaka, filling out paperwork from her last mission and absently petting the human-canine between lines.
Yasuo looked up again. "Tanaka," he called finally, "when our canines release the human-form jutsu, it doesn't use chakra, right?"
"Course not," she grunted without looking up. "It's like releasing any other jutsu. Just lets the chakra go."
He thought about that, focus turning inward as he imagined releasing a jutsu. To do so, though, he had to move his chakra ever so slightly before the jutsu broke... No, they couldn't do that. No unnecessary movement, the doctors had said, and they'd stick to that to keep Kuromaru from getting worse.
He went back to his book. Whatever was niggling at the back of his mind hadn't stopped. Finally, he looked up again, letting his gaze rest on the familiar.
Like breaking any other jutsu. There were ways to break jutsu. Generally it took a great deal of chakra hammering through, more than most people had. But generally you had someone working against you, not someone allowing it. Even so, it wasn't always possible... but this was a minor jutsu. They all had the same odd chakra with the same odd bonds.
"Tanaka," Yasuo said slowly. "I think I have an idea." |
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