[LOCKED]

[hakabana]

[a few hours after this, it's mostly stopped raining. And if Itachi and Raphael go back to their rooms, they'll find a hastily scrawled note on their desk:

Help me. I know wh --- but it --- be at ---

It's wet, and the ink had bled, making some of it illegible. Where is Raikou tonight?]

Comments

[healingcock]

... hell. Raikou.

[necessaryevil]

*ninjas his way to the Merkaba*

Raphael.

[healingcock]

[whirls around, still clutching the paper-- not even going to ask how Itachi got in]

Where is he?

[necessaryevil]

I don't know for certain, the ink is smeared. We'll have to seek him out.

[healingcock]

[presses a hand to his forehead and closes his eyes]

I'm searching.

[necessaryevil]

Do you sense him?

[healingcock]

... yes. West.

[opens his eyes]

[necessaryevil]

All right. Let's go.

[hakabana]

[in the middle of the woods, alone, soaked to the bone]

[hakabana]

[...talking to thin air]

You're not real. You lost any right to tell me what to do, what to think when you died!

[hakabana]

[pause]

[hakabana]

You're dead. You've been dead for years. I KILLED YOU.

[healingcock]

[had been running at breakneck speed to where he sensed Raikou's presence, screeching to a stop once he spots him]

[necessaryevil]

*took to the trees like the ninja he is, but drops down next to Raphael as they arrive*

[hakabana]

You're an illusion, aren't you? So if my will isn't strong enough, then pain should be.

[pulls out one of his smaller blades, flipping it and raises his hand, obviously intending to stab himself with it]

[healingcock]

Raikou!