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[Week 20 | Day 1] Video

Mar 08, 2011 11:02

[When the feed starts, it's dark, with just the last traces of sunset on the horizon. Iruka is walking through the grounds of Himorogi. His question is simple, and he's in full shinobi attire, a little worse for wear, ponytail coming loose and shoulders hunched. They hunch because Iruka breathes slowly, because he can catch his breath ( Read more... )

~maito gai, asano rin, ~rock lee, umino iruka, ~shimizu raikou, ~okuzaku akira, hatake kakashi

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[Video | Private ] ura_no_ura March 8 2011, 04:11:11 UTC

[ Kakashi is exhausted. Drained. He'd been operating over the past forty-eight hours under the assumption that Iruka was injured or worse. But with the rescues that needed his full attention, he'd had to put aside any worries or concerns and just hope Iruka was amongst those being held prisoner.

Clearly, that wasn't the case. ]

Where have you been.

[ Kakashi's tone is clipped. ]

[Video | Private ] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 04:18:21 UTC

[Iruka's voice remains steady, as does his expression.]

Home.

[Or what had been left of it, really.]

Home, Taichou. For a day.

[Video | Private ] ura_no_ura March 8 2011, 04:21:17 UTC

[ For a moment, Kakashi falls silent.

Home.

(Is no longer that house in the woods that you shared.)

Iruka may have some news about the war, then. ]

Report to the camp outside Raikou's cave in Mizusato for debriefing.

[ Kakashi's tone is cool, devoid of any tone or emotion. ]

[Video | Private ] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 04:23:46 UTC

Yes, Taichou.

[Iruka dips his head in a polite bow and tucks the Hitomi away. No resistance, no argument. Iruka simply makes his way to Mizusato.]

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[Video | Private] spandexisyouth March 8 2011, 04:28:28 UTC

[He looks just as tired as Kakashi, though not angry. Just a bit surprised.]

Oh. You are all right. ...We are in Mizusato. There are tents, here.

[Gai sends coordinates. He doesn't really have much else to say, because he doesn't know that he has the energy to talk about what all has happened.]

[Video | Private] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 04:43:33 UTC

Gai-sensei.

[He lowers his head, the Hitomi shifts and shakes a bit from the movement.]

I am on my way.

[Video | Private] spandexisyouth March 8 2011, 04:48:17 UTC

[Gai nods.]

It will be good to have you here.

[Video | Private] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 05:04:40 UTC

Yes. It's good to see you and Kakashi-taichou are well. And present.

[Iruka dares not say anything more than that. Not yet. But perhaps the silence speaks of it all.]

I will find you, Gai-sensei. When I arrive.

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[Private | Video] pinktintedgamon March 8 2011, 04:43:58 UTC

[Here, have a tired looking Raikou, for all that he's still lying in his futon, blond hair disheveled on the pillow, the blanket pulled up high on his chest, hiding the bandages there.

What he can't hide, however, is the tremble in his hand as he cants the Hitomi down from where it's held above him, offers a slightly crooked smile that falls so very short of reaching his eyes.]

I--it's good to see you again, Iruka-senpai. If you can, once you report to your peers, can you come up to the cave?

[A beat.]

I'd come down, but I'm not allowed to walk that far.

[Private | Video] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 04:53:47 UTC

Raikou...

[His voice is a little quiet, because the worry that is laced underneath the expression of open surprise -- he's not used to seeing golden locks, because Raikou had always been meticulous about its pinkness - and Raikou looks more than horrible. He looks like shit.

But he's talking. He's... fine.]

You look like shit.

[Iruka flashes him a toothy grin, a gesture to reassure more than anything.]

[Private | Video] pinktintedgamon March 8 2011, 05:17:01 UTC

Wait till you see the rest of me.

[Even to his own ears, the joke falls flat, the accompanying attempt at a chuckle ending in a hiss when it pulls at the stitches on his belly in the most uncomfortable of ways.]

Hell, if I'm lucky, you can dye my hair for me... no way I'm voluntarily letting Yoite-kun do it.

[Private | Video] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 05:22:26 UTC

Already asking for services; I expect full compensation once you are able-bodied, then~

[Iruka chuckles, as the light changes in the background.]

I'll be there once I'm done with my superiors. Don't fall asleep now and be a little patient. Okay?

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[Video | Private...more or less ] midori_renge March 8 2011, 08:17:18 UTC

[Lee puts on a smile, first a little awkwardly and then he seems to decide that yes, most definitely, greeting anything with a determined smile is the best course of action and will get him through anything...even a sort of unsure post-death.]

Iruka-sensei! I am glad to see you!

[A pause. He lowers his voice to a more moderate level and his eyes grow worried and expressive. After what happened to Lee himself, he could only assume something similar could have happened to Iruka...mostly because he could tell that his sensei and Kakashi feared the worst and their worry set the mood of things around Lee's neck of the camp. Lee did his best to remain optimistic that they had not lost their comrade! After all, he would not wish his own fate on anyone, even though he felt he did the right thing, so he is glad to see Iruka has survived despite the lengthy disappearance.]

I had heard you were missing, and Kakashi-sensei and Gai-sensei were concerned. ...You are well?

[Video | Private] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 13:23:22 UTC

[When Iruka answers this one, it's way after his debriefing. Long after he had gone back to where Raikou and Yoite stays and he's no longer in his uniform.]

Lee-kun!

[There is a smile on his face, probably the most honest thing that has graced his face since his arrival. Such a refreshing thing to see, this face. He looks okay, he looks fine.

(But you should know better, how the surface can deceive.) ]

Yes, and no. Not missing but gone. I have already spoken to them earlier. Lee-kun, how are you? Are you well? Your injuries... ?

[Concern. Always concern first.]

[Video | Private] midori_renge March 9 2011, 07:35:59 UTC

[It is good to see someone able to smile freely again, without a feeling of guilt tugging at their eyes and making the smile break just a little. Lee has been working at finding a way to hug away that unnecessary guilt he's found surrounds the people around him since he's returned from the dead, but it can be quite stubborn to banish! So he is glad Iruka is in a much better state of mind. It is healthier for them both ( ... )

[Video | Private] smiling_umino March 10 2011, 11:36:38 UTC

Home, Lee-kun.

[Iruka's smile softens a bit around the edge, tapering off with a touch of remorse because even if Iruka is a touch disconnected, torn between a mindset that is left back home, where people drop dead before the sun even sets, where body pile looks like a mountain of rice grain, thousands and thousands of men's lives at steak and being washed away, and yet they move forward, because those that are alive has to. There's no room to mourn death, no room to weep.

And yet here, the other side, Iruka has all the time in the world to mourn and weep. To feel bad for a comrade who had been a victim when he shouldn't have been. Iruka doesn't know the gruesome details, doesn't know how a strong boy, eligible to candidate for Jounin, had been brought down.

(You know the pain of death, how it is black and how you are completely alone. You know what it's like, to be immersed in so much pain and waiting, just waiting and wanting it all to end. You know what it's like to have bits of you blow off one by one. But what's worse than ( ... )

[video] revengeisalie March 8 2011, 21:06:52 UTC

[So observant, Iruka. Rin is kind of happy to see you on the network, but that is overridden by that which is her main emotion these days: bitterness and anger at all that is happening.

That is what makes her words bite.]

Oh, you noticed?

[video] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 22:11:54 UTC

Yes. I have.

[Iruka returns, fires back, even. His answer comes back after he's been debriefed. As quick as the irritation leaves him for the "attitude" he gets, it leaves with the next few words that are softer.]

I have, Rin-san. I regret that I wasn't present the entire time to help.

[Do you, now?]

[video] revengeisalie March 8 2011, 22:19:08 UTC

[And Rin basically realized what she'd come off like after she sent the comment off, so now she's a lot more sympathetic.]

... I'm sorry, Iruka-san. I shouldn't have said that.

If you can help now, that's what counts.

[video] smiling_umino March 8 2011, 22:26:03 UTC

No need to apologize Rin-san. You shouldn't apologize. At all.

[So here, Iruka will iron his face to a more neutral expression.]

The injured are my responsibility now. Are you staying at the camp, Rin-san?