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Post by Shikamaru on Jan 25, 2010 15:00:42 GMT -5
~Entry 31~
Finally found my Journal seems Kenta found it and put it with his toys. Found it under his blocks seems things are going to become more and more interesting now that he is walking and able to run off with things. I spent the morning going too and from town buying cabinets and lock boxes to store things in the training room at the house. Last I want is for him to get ahold of one of my kunai.
So its been a week now and its offical. Kanya and I are married, I've moved most of my things into her "our" home, guess I need to get used to saying that more often now. Things are going good for once but its too quiet. It's like the Akatuski, mainly Anhura and Aeita, have fallen off the map. I don't like it. That old saying of "the calm before the storm" has me nervous on how quiet its been. Lets hope I'm wrong.
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Post by Shikamaru on Mar 8, 2010 20:10:04 GMT -5
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Post by Shikamaru on Mar 24, 2010 19:39:04 GMT -5
~Entry 32~ : "The next in line. A new Sage rises."
Seems it was only time. It feels like an eternity since the meeting with Lord Kazekage and Lord Katsuo. To watch Katsuo ask that day that I be relevied of my duties to study amongst the scorpions feels so long ago. I've finally returned...
as a "Sage".
I feel no different then the day I started training but there is also the obvious power of being a Sage that drains a body so quickly. I see now why only in the most dire of times did I watch Takida and Adrai go into what the scorpions called a "sage mode". I have entered the state twice in my training with Katsuro and the Elders and both times left me unable to move several days after as my body "reformed" and rested. I can only imagine what Kanya's response would be if she saw me in that state.
I only plan for her to ever see me like that once as i plan to use that "sage mode" only once and it will be the day I finally put an end to Anhura and Aeita.
Now that the training is over I have nothing to do. My squad has grown and I am no longer "needed" as a Jounin to teach in Sunagakure. Perhaps its time I broaded my sights and did a little walking, just as long as I'm home before supper most nights. I have a wife and children I intend to spend many of my waking hours with...
till that day comes.
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Post by Shikamaru on Apr 7, 2010 8:58:40 GMT -5
~Entry 33~
Boredom has over taken me, the idea of retiring at the time didn't sound all that attractive and now it really doesn't. I understand why I needed the extended leave from Suna to study with the Elders and Lord Katsuo but this is rediculous.
Came across
Ok I found Ok I went looking for two lower rank Missing shinobi I had heard rumors of still being in Wind Country and soon after three days walking in the dunes found them. I wonder how long I can keep up the act that I'm out studying more of my Sage like stuff from the rest of the world, especially Kanya. She knows me far too well.
Anyways, I apprehended the two shinobi with no sweat at all, seems the training that I under went did more then just train my abilities. I left the two tied up near Sunagakure where they would be easily found avoiding all my tell tale signs and "trademarks". I don't know how some would react to knowing I'm still walking the dunes doing my "old job" of tracking Missing Nin.
Stopped off in Konoha the other day to visit some contacts I had there and came across a large group outside the gates. Not sure why I did it but I decided to play with them a little. I acted drunk for a while tormenting some random kid before Dotu walked up and I had my target. I tormented him for a while, even picked him up and hugged him before faking passing out and falling ontop of him. If only I could have gotten away with peeking from behind my eye lids to see his face. Oh well its nice to also relax and cut loose more now.
Maybe I should pick up a hobbie??? nah...
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Post by Shikamaru on Apr 24, 2010 14:40:55 GMT -5
~Entry 34~
So the Chunin exam is coming up again and I recommended that Stella attend. I just started training her on the jutsu that I was taught just before the Chunins as well. I would have won with that justu if not for the medical healing jutsu I was facing. She's had more attention to training and conditioning then I did when I attended so she should do very well. It's funny to think back now to that rainy day and remember how my path begain. Mist of all places, who knew years later the only way I'm allowed through their gates is with an escort. Well when you held a grudge for as long as I did and swore to burn them to the ground if they every tried another war people don't tend to like you much. Oh well...
But thinking back all I can remember is his name "Aoi". I've not seen him since nor do I know if he is alive but seems my opponent that day has vanished. I remember that fight so vividly as well, a Suna and Kiri genin going toe to toe in what I was informed later to be one of the most stubborn and unwilling to forfeit matches my Sensei and others had seen.
We had such a drag out fight that it came to a point where people were asking the judges to just call the match. Never did I think someone who could use medical ninjutsu fight like that. If it hadn't been for his healing himself every five seconds I'd have ripped through him like paper. Anyways after going at it for so long we both ran out of chakra, panting and wheezing on both sides of the line we resorted to exchanging blows. As the match wore on the spectators asked for the judges to call the match as we exchanged punch and kick till we were so tired our attacks became wild and desperate. I was later told that the Kages sat across the arena eying each other more then watching the fight as if waiting for the others genin to fall. Sadly after what seemed an hour of punching and dodging, kicking and blocking Aoi slide right under my arm and slammed his fist into my ribs cracking several and breaking two laying me out. I remember the pain of the final blow but I remember the pain of not winning more. A medical shinobi leapt down to my side quickly healing my injuries before I was carried off to the stands to be further treated. Later as I regained some consciousness I watched the last of Akane's fight laying on a bench in the stands as I was treated. She won, of course. She was always stronger then me back then.
Later to my surprise when I returned home I was summoned by Lord Kazekage. I just knew I was gonna die back then, we all feared Gaara, but I lost in the arena to a Mist shinobi. I stepped into his office and was surprised after a short conversation he was going to promote me to Chunin simply for my tenacity and will to not give up. That I had reminded him of someone he knew but he never said their name. I was happy. I made Chunin and not only that but Lord Kazekage himself promoted me. Since then I have alway met with Lord Kazekage about my station and ranks receiving each from him personally. I no longer fear him, I respect him without measure...
And now here I sit retired, watching as the new kids grow older and into wiser shinobi then I once was. Some with no guidance at all. Maybe it's time I talked with Kanya about my retirement, perhaps its doesn't need to be permanent.
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Post by Shikamaru on May 1, 2010 20:02:30 GMT -5
~Entry 35~
"The shinobi who would do wrong to others never sleep, and the just must never rest."
Seems I am going to come out of retirement, the "children" have returned home. And I see in them something I never saw till now, not the next generation of shinobi but the future of our world. All of the best and worst to come, its a brave new world. HaHa...
Mithra' has returned from his journey still lacking in any skill, though when I measure him I compare him to me and perhaps that is unjust of me. He is a good man with a pure heart, something I lack, perhaps the next generation does not have to be as viscous as we were. I know I lived many of my years blood thirsty and vengeful, hopefully they don't have too.
Stella is home roaming around taking a break from her missions long enough to attend the Chunin exams soon. Even as a Genin she shows the skill and determination I showed when I was her rank and age. Perhaps there is a successor other then Akane, I will have to watch them both closely to make my descion one day when the time comes.
Akane is as much of a goof as ever, still roaming around the village and going on random missions when she can. But I have seen very little of her lately and it saddens me, I wish to see her progress.
Shouni has also returned from his journey and I get a sense that perhaps his days of wondering are over. Maybe now his true trials will begin and we will see where he goes from here.
A new Genin has caught my eye, like Tsu she is a Hojo as well, Sera. She was persistant the other day in my test of the three's abilities and how they had grown. Sadly her tactics need work, I continued to put Mithra out using a genjutsu when she should have done something to wake him. I think I'll work with her some to see what kind of a shinobi she will become.
Seems the war still rages, one I cannot sit idley by while I grow old and weary. Someday Anhura and Aeita will resurface, I can't grow stale sitting on the couch at home playing mommy while Kanya works. I will continue out on my journey that started so long ago preparing myself for the end. All the peices have been set into place, my father, the Gotenkan's, Adrai, everything has lead to this inevitable path.
Someday I and Anhura will face off for the last time. When that day comes one of us will not walk away but untill then I will spend as much time as I can with my family and that means all of them.
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Post by Shikamaru on May 12, 2010 20:51:54 GMT -5
// Custom Items posted \\
// >.> better late then never...
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Post by Shikamaru on May 15, 2010 22:37:05 GMT -5
~Entry 36~
It's started, the chakra disease that would have claimed Adrai's life has started to develop in me. Carrying the sword has its burden and price but I have to be ready for the inevitable.
That is IF he ever shows his face again...
Seems partially entering the Senin "state" the other day with Katsuo to train started the proverbial ball rolling. If the Mountain Sage, or "Sage of Wonders" as the pompous midget likes to be called, is right? I have a year to live before the disease will consume my chakra system and I'll die.
I know Tsunade of Konoha has the treatment to cure me of the disease but its not the disease that worries me, it is the cure. If what the Mountain Sage says is correct going through the process to cure me will render my ability to wield Seal of Ikaurga null and void. The sword itself will reject me.
So I'm left with two choices. Continue to carry the burden and unfinished business of my former Master and Sensei and possibly die in the process if I do not kill Anhura within the year OR likely give up the only chance anyone will have to kill him...
Adari said it himself... Him, the "first" Akane who died, and me are the only ones who have been able to touch the sword and not been "rejected"...
Where are you hiding? Stop hiding ba@#$% and come out and face m I have too hide it for as long as I can, Kanya would likely try to do something to stop it. At what point do you draw the line?
Possibly save hundreds or more in the time to come after ending his spree?Or save yourself? I have to find him and soon.
Time to go back to work... Sera passed out from her training...
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Post by Shikamaru on Jun 13, 2010 11:28:37 GMT -5
~Entry 37~
Fates help us if I'm wrong, I've gone to visit Tsunade and asked her to prepare the cure for the chakra disease. I'll go through the procedure if it progresses further. I've agreed to work with Jirayia and Tsunade and turn over the blade if I do not encounter Anhura before the time is up. At which point I have agreed to letting them study the blade and possibly find another way to kill Anhura. In the end I'm turning over the last thing Adari gave me, his final lesson. During my Sage training with Katsuo and Elder Kurno I learned to master the Ikaruga, I learned exactly what the last words Adrai spoke meant, "Focus, remeber to focus Tong".
I know the war that has raged across the dunes of Wind and what spilled into Fire country has been left to me. Would Adrai really expect me to give up my life and leave behind my newborn baby girl, Kenta, Kanya, and the whole village just to end it all? I thought I knew him, the Adrai I knew would have left the Waterfall Nin's to their own internal affairs and wouldn't have intervened that day. Even when I reminded him about the prophecy and his death he smiled at me like he "knew" and agreed to help them. He knew the prophecy but did it anyways.
I sat this morning at his makeshift gravesite at our old training camp wondering many things. I'm going to hold onto the sword but if Tsunade doesn't hear from me once a week then to come looking for me. I'm sure Jiraiya-sempai will have no problems finding me, the weirdo has a knack for sneaking around and following people. How do you develop such... "stalking" skills, anyways he's gotten the jump on me one to many times if I go missing or fall ill it wouldn't take him long to find me. I've asked that the matter remains amoung us three, no need to worry anyone especially my family. The injections Tsunade has been giving me seems t stop the fever and coughing so I don't show any outward symtoms but they are still there.
On my way out into the dunes I left flowers on Akane's grave, the first time in a long time. I can hear her screaming at me now that I'm being stupid to follow Adrai's request even if it was to cost me my life with a family at home. Oddly enough as I started to walk away from her gravesite my mind turned to Yukiko. I know me and Akane wanted children someday and now I have an adopted son and a daughter of my own. Akane would be so happy but thrashing me within inches of death for risking losing all of it. If the disease progresses any further I'll go through with the procedure. I just worry what will happen as I do, the last time me and Adrai trained when he was trying to force the Ikaruga to acknowledge me he said something thats haunted me since his death. "If I die boy its up to you to finish this, don't let my mistake continue to destroy the lives of those we live to protect."
I sometimes worry what kind of people I train. What kind of person they are, what they will become. I know Anhura was once Adrai's student many years before my time and that my father was friends with both of them. People think I'm hard on my Genin because I'm some sort of sadistic bastard. I've seen what can become of people and I do not want to follow in Adrai's shoes in that area. Hopefully my students will never become like that.
"Student", funny how when I say that I think of Kenta and Yukiko. I don't know what the future will hold for them but if Kenta develops Aikanaro's bloodline I'll have to try and teach him the best I can from memory fighting along side Aikanaro.
Yukiko... sweet little thing I pray she doesn't develop my eyes. Many would think I'm crazy saying that but these eyes have been nothing but a curse since they awakened. The things I've seen and see on a daily basis, I want to spare my little girl those horrors. If she does though I will have to teach her how to control them. I know Kanya wants them to be medical nin and I know her reasoning behind it. Many would think it's because she is the head of the Corps in Suna but they would be wrong.
Kanya lost Aikanaro and though she moved on with me, Kenta is all she has left of him and the idea of sending him out on missions I'm sure worries her. I'm sure the same thing will happen with Yukiko too, got to love a mothers protectiveness. I don't know maybe I'm weird, Kanya would protect them keeping them locked behind the walls of Sunagakure. I would protect them by taking them out into the dunes and training them harder then I've ever trained a student in the past. I suppose both work to a degree, she would "sheild" them and I would "arm them with a long pointy stick". In the end I will let them decide, with parental suggestions of course.
Kenta is getting big and causing all sorts of mayhem, little Yukiko is so precious to me. Just like Kenta I fell asleep with her on my chest on the coach last night and woke up to Kanya taking a picture, evil vile contrapstions just like needles.
Jeeze I've started rambling again I'll stop here.
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Post by Shikamaru on Jun 20, 2010 17:22:35 GMT -5
~Entry 38~
Kanya,
By the time you read this dear I should be halfway through the dunes, I'm sorry. I'm sure your wondering why I left my journal on the bed and it was in hopes that your curiousity gets the better of you. Which I know it will, its one of the things I love so much about you.
There is something I need to look into. I was going to tell you yesterday but it was Fathers Day and tell you it was just a mission but I can't lie to you. You would have figured it out anyways when I left the house with "that" sword instead of my own. I couldn't bring myself to interupt our day as a family, as a normal family. I know and you know we will not be normal till one last demon is put down and my past is buried. I'm sorry I have to break my promise I'm going to look into these rumors. Some intel has surfaced that Anhura and Aeita are lurking about Rain, or at least two Akatsuki figures who match their description.
You can yell at me later. I'll be home in a week, I'm only going to investigate the rumors to see if there is any truth to them. If there is I will contact those who are going to aid me. I won't risk fighting him and her alone.
In the off chance that I don't return I placed a book in with yours in your study. On the bookshelf with all your medical manuals, second shelf third book over, you'll know it when you see it. It is a second book I wrote along with my journal here. It chronicles everything I experienced and learned after my eyes had awakened. I'm sure you can guess who it is for in the off chance Daddy doesn't come home, but I will dear this isn't goodbye. I grew up without a father, Kenta and Yukiko won't experience that if there is anything I can do about it. Next to that book will be another detailing as much I could put into words pertaining to genjutsu. A sort of "how too" for the kids, I know you want them to be medical shinobi but all kiddng and joking aside babe we both know what the other side of their possible inate talent will be.
I'll be home in a week maybe a little more. When Jirayia comes looking for me which I know he will due to mine, his, and Tsunades deal show him this entry. And I'll explain the deal later when I get home. When he sees this he will know what to do.
I'll see you in a week dear, sorry to dump all the diaper changing on you for a week or so but I'll make up for it when I get back. Give the kids my best, I'll see you all in a week or so.
Love, Tongu
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Post by Shikamaru on Jun 28, 2010 10:06:21 GMT -5
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Post by Shikamaru on Aug 3, 2010 14:21:47 GMT -5
~Entry 39~
My arm still aches. You would think that it wouldn't be this sensitive but it is. Tsunade thinks that it hasn't fully reverted by now is when I so hurt as bad as I was it ceased the reversion. I'll keep it wrapped up and hidden when I can. Pale gray and leathery skin, black plates that look like the chitinous armor of a scorpion. As I have time to look at it and take in its ugliness I can only imagine what I look like when I am in that Senin state. It still functions I can seal with it, eat with it, and many other things its just so sensitive to the touch or its just the fact that my mind is so centered on it.
Anhura and Aeita have returned as I expected they would. They've picked up a few new tricks that I'm not surprised with but they haven't seen the tricks that I have developed. I'll continue to down play my abilities till the time comes. At that point I'll not only tip the scale in my favor I intend to knock it over. Anhura apparently kept his information networks open and knows that I married Kanya and adopted Kenta. He apparently doesn't know about Yukiko yet though I'm sure he will in time and I hope to solve our issue before any harm comes their way.
I see now why the Sages thought me marrying Kanya was a bad move. Each of them are single and live solitary lives, now with the war raging on again my home and family sit on the front lines. I had to lie to the best of my abilities to down play my concern for Kanya and Kenta. Even if Anhura thinks I only married Kanya for money finding out about my daughter and how close I really am to them puts them at risk.
I'm going to return to the dunes. It has been a long time coming. I need to return to what I once was if this battle is going to be won. I need to distance my family from me and safe guard them.
Kenta will be the easiest to explain the seal on his foot, Yukiko will likely cry while I work so I'll have to wait for Kanya to be at work. I'll place the seals on the bottom of their feet and hide them away till they are used. It is my only card to deal that they remain safe. I'll have to inform the Elders so they will know what to do if the time comes.
Damn you Jehago and Adrai for making me clean up your mess.
I wish you were here...
This war will end.
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