so stay where you are; 02 | text; private
My seal hasn't hurt since the day I arrived. I'm going to take that as a good sign.
I can cover this city end to end in a few hours' running. It's maybe a little bigger than Konohagakure in terms of size, but it's much emptier. If there were as many people living here as there seem to be places available for them to live, I'd guess the amount of time it'd take to cover the entire city like I have would be more like a day's worth of exploration, instead of the short time frame it requires right now. Next time I'll run it under full stealth protocol, instead of trying to orient myself off the map this communicator provided me with.
The way things are right now I can get clear across town in less than half an hour at full speed.
Unfortunately anything that'd be that much of a threat could probably catch up to me without having any problems either. Setting up some traps for any future problems might not be such a bad idea, if I can find enough supplies to jury-rig the right equipment for it.
There's something limiting chakra flow in various minor but crucial ways in the atmosphere of the environment. I don't know what it is, but it's forced me to control it more consciously than normal so that I'm not expending more chakra than I actually need to - it affects basic tasks, though not nearly to the scale that it does even minor jutsu. Trying any jutsu on the scale of a summoning spell would be suicidal in this place - the way it interrupts chakra you'd probably blow your arm off as soon as summon anything useful.
The buildings are all wrong, too. Maybe the other people here like this kind of thing, but it's not a shinobi village and it's tricky adjusting. I've gotten too used to all the nooks and grimy handholds and scaffolding and crap that people cover their homes with in Konohagakure. You can't just clamber up the side of somebody's apartment and say hi like you can back home. It makes this place feel empty by comparison.
... Hell, it'd feel like that anyway, this just makes the feeling worse. There's maybe a hundred or so other people stuck in this place - from what I heard people telling the other newbies the number fluctuates, so it's not worth trying to keep any solid numbers on that - and this town's built to handle at least a dozen times that.
The weird thing is, as far as I've been able to tell, nobody here right now was born here. We all came from somewhere else - and most of them probably arrived the same way I did. There's no native population wandering around to explain the way everything feels dead.
If I had to guess, I'd say they all killed each other in whatever kind of combat it was that left all those rusted suits of armor and weapons stuck in the field outside the city, over the bridge near the forest. Whatever it was that killed them all, it was bloody. I've seen that level of destruction before - during the wars between the hidden villages before the accords were signed - and I've seen what the aftermath does to the villages that lose those conflicts. What I don't understand is why so much of the city stayed intact, if that's really what happened.
Much less why - or how - there's a giant hole in the sky.
There's a lot that I don't get about this place, but I'm nowhere near finished investigating it all. It's going to be a little hard doing that with the Uzumaki and Uchiha kids at each other's throats, so I hope I can minimize the risk of that a little. Man, mediation's never been my strong suit. Give me a good bloody fight and I'm okay, but ask me to handle personality conflicts between two other ninja and I wilt like a bad tomato. I just hope Sasuke takes me up on that drink offer sometime. I'll have to find a way to force the issue.
I hope I'm doing this right. Those two - they're the future of Konohagakure, that's what you always said, wasn't it, Sandaime? Someone's got to keep an eye on them, keep them out of trouble. I just never figured I'd be the one doing the observing. I'm not really cut out to be the responsible kunoichi in a situation like this. I don't even know if they need it anymore.
Three years. Damn. A lot can happen in three years. But it's my generation's responsibility to keep them all out of trouble, isn't it? So I guess that means I have to try.
Maybe I'll just get them both drunk. That might work.
... there's too many ifs and maybes in this thing. I need more concrete information to work with.
I can cover this city end to end in a few hours' running. It's maybe a little bigger than Konohagakure in terms of size, but it's much emptier. If there were as many people living here as there seem to be places available for them to live, I'd guess the amount of time it'd take to cover the entire city like I have would be more like a day's worth of exploration, instead of the short time frame it requires right now. Next time I'll run it under full stealth protocol, instead of trying to orient myself off the map this communicator provided me with.
The way things are right now I can get clear across town in less than half an hour at full speed.
Unfortunately anything that'd be that much of a threat could probably catch up to me without having any problems either. Setting up some traps for any future problems might not be such a bad idea, if I can find enough supplies to jury-rig the right equipment for it.
There's something limiting chakra flow in various minor but crucial ways in the atmosphere of the environment. I don't know what it is, but it's forced me to control it more consciously than normal so that I'm not expending more chakra than I actually need to - it affects basic tasks, though not nearly to the scale that it does even minor jutsu. Trying any jutsu on the scale of a summoning spell would be suicidal in this place - the way it interrupts chakra you'd probably blow your arm off as soon as summon anything useful.
The buildings are all wrong, too. Maybe the other people here like this kind of thing, but it's not a shinobi village and it's tricky adjusting. I've gotten too used to all the nooks and grimy handholds and scaffolding and crap that people cover their homes with in Konohagakure. You can't just clamber up the side of somebody's apartment and say hi like you can back home. It makes this place feel empty by comparison.
... Hell, it'd feel like that anyway, this just makes the feeling worse. There's maybe a hundred or so other people stuck in this place - from what I heard people telling the other newbies the number fluctuates, so it's not worth trying to keep any solid numbers on that - and this town's built to handle at least a dozen times that.
The weird thing is, as far as I've been able to tell, nobody here right now was born here. We all came from somewhere else - and most of them probably arrived the same way I did. There's no native population wandering around to explain the way everything feels dead.
If I had to guess, I'd say they all killed each other in whatever kind of combat it was that left all those rusted suits of armor and weapons stuck in the field outside the city, over the bridge near the forest. Whatever it was that killed them all, it was bloody. I've seen that level of destruction before - during the wars between the hidden villages before the accords were signed - and I've seen what the aftermath does to the villages that lose those conflicts. What I don't understand is why so much of the city stayed intact, if that's really what happened.
Much less why - or how - there's a giant hole in the sky.
There's a lot that I don't get about this place, but I'm nowhere near finished investigating it all. It's going to be a little hard doing that with the Uzumaki and Uchiha kids at each other's throats, so I hope I can minimize the risk of that a little. Man, mediation's never been my strong suit. Give me a good bloody fight and I'm okay, but ask me to handle personality conflicts between two other ninja and I wilt like a bad tomato. I just hope Sasuke takes me up on that drink offer sometime. I'll have to find a way to force the issue.
I hope I'm doing this right. Those two - they're the future of Konohagakure, that's what you always said, wasn't it, Sandaime? Someone's got to keep an eye on them, keep them out of trouble. I just never figured I'd be the one doing the observing. I'm not really cut out to be the responsible kunoichi in a situation like this. I don't even know if they need it anymore.
Three years. Damn. A lot can happen in three years. But it's my generation's responsibility to keep them all out of trouble, isn't it? So I guess that means I have to try.
Maybe I'll just get them both drunk. That might work.
... there's too many ifs and maybes in this thing. I need more concrete information to work with.