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[open] IT'S A NINJA THING, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND

Jun 05, 2011 02:17

Who: Naruto A MASKED NINJA (sageraging) and anyone who sees him
What: Using Naruto logic, our intrepid shinobi has decided to be a ninja for once and is breaking into purist owned businesses in an attempt to make those business owners paranoid so they will hire Naruto and Kakashi's new security company and then the two ninjas can gather info from the inside ( Read more... )

sheena fujibayashi, uzumaki naruto, naoto shirogane, bruce wayne, chen

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+1 Detective?? pishirogane June 5 2011, 06:37:36 UTC

Naoto's been a little down recently. It's difficult to maintain her composure recently, but she's been doing her best. Monday, she can sign up for a second job... it would make up for the others absence. Should it be CEO wage too or just a College Degree? As the only one of her group that...

She paused, looking down at the ground. Couldn't... couldn't senpai or Rise find her? It wasn't like she left her room too often. With her on-going investigation into Purist and other criminal activities, she had to stay there. It wasn't something she could do so opening since it required hacking the system...

"Zorua..."

Naoto blinked, but then looked at the Fox Pokemon accompanying her. Arthur looked worried. She gave him a small, forced smile, "Sorry... Come on, let's--"

Arthur turned away. The young detective followed his gaze and... well, that dark figure is sure out of place inside of that shop.

"Hey!"

+1 THIEF(?) HERE obstinates June 5 2011, 06:44:11 UTC

He never took anything. That was never his intention. His purpose was just to make the owners paranoid enough that they'd start looking for some outside security. The list of supposed purist business owners was a long one, and Naruto was losing sleep in order to hit each one before Kakashi returned.

Up to that point on that particular evening, things had been going according to plan. It was easy to slip into the shop. An Uzumaki Clan Sealing Jutsu had made quick work of the glass without making any noise. From there, it was just a matter of using chakra to walk off the surface of the floor and not leave any footprints.

Once he'd made it in, Naruto had set about making it look like the place had been ransacked even though nothing would be gone in the morning.

OH BOY pishirogane June 5 2011, 06:49:33 UTC

... W-Was he deaf or just ignoring her? She sighed and took out her guide, taking a picture of her criminal. Arthur chuckled lowly, but then Naoto clicked her tongue. "Arthur, time to put your training to work. Get going."

"Zorua..." Was Arthur's soft reply and he dashed off. Well then, Naoto would wait for her 'thief' to stop with... whatever he was doing.

There was going to be some explaining to do.

(OOC: S-Sorry. Naoto's Detective instincts come first. She's gonna chase... and try figuring out who it is.)

BUAHAHA obstinates June 5 2011, 06:57:41 UTC

It's probably his focus that's to blame. He'd been so intent on his job up to now that he hadn't heard the voice. It's the first slip up all night, but he hadn't been too worried about anybody interfering, especially with the two clones on the roof keeping watch.

One of said clones, after spying the display down below, shoved a kunai into its own stomach, dispelling itself in order to return its memories to its master. There was a jolt in the store before Naruto stopped and froze in his tracks, absorbing those memories.

So he'd been found?

There was a muffled explosion as the smokebombs he pulled from his pouch detonated on the ground, tossed there in an instant. His task was complete, and now he needed to escape. Up to the ceiling he leapt, running along it towards the window. There was a flip that sent him spinning over Naoto and landing behind her.

Time to get the hell out of there, and he's off.

[OOC; It's never fun unless something goes wrong :D ]

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cat_proximity June 5 2011, 20:48:29 UTC

As she had been, on and off since that little...or not so little, incident, Chen had returned to the food court when it was dark and empty and there was no one to trip over. Following the same path the reanimated harpy had taken, making sure no residual energy remained, and...who was that?

That figure wasn't here before. And it was moving.

...and the face looked like a fox. Huh?

The now cat-shaped nekomata hopped onto the nearest table to get a better look, trilling as she did so. Both of her tails were up at least partway; curious.

obstinates June 5 2011, 23:13:29 UTC

Raiding some restaurants sounded like a good idea at first. He didn't steal anything ever since he wasn't a thief, but maybe he could test out some of the food. Of course, he should have realized that purist-owned restaurants would have some pretty nasty shit to eat.

In any case, he still had to make it look like the place had been rifled through, which is exactly what he was doing. His clone lookouts had reported nothing odd, just an animal or two here and there.

A cat. Naruto didn't get along with cats. They all seemed to hate him for some reason, always clawing his face or worse. Yeah, he stayed as far away from cats as possible. Maybe they hated him because they could sense what was inside him.

Naruto just thought they were all mean is all.

In any case, the cat was of no concern as he sliced open a bag of some sort of space seed and watched it spill to the floor.

cat_proximity June 5 2011, 23:36:37 UTC

The longer Chen watched, the more something tickled at her mind. Something felt...familiar about this figure. Familiar and not, all at once.

Like her master. But this figure didn't have any tails...at least, that she could see from here.

The nekomata hopped down from the table, form changing from cat to child, though with both tails intact. She trilled again as she approached, with no apparent sign of fear.

"What are you doing?"

obstinates June 5 2011, 23:42:31 UTC

The voice made Naruto jump slightly. He quickly turned his head, keeping his body facing the other direction. When he saw the child, his grip relaxed on the kunai in his hand before the spring-loaded wire retracted it back into his sleeve.

How the hell did a kid get past his clone lookouts?

He looked at her from under his mask for a moment before turning to face her completely and shrugging. "Just, uh... lookin' around," was the quiet reply, voice muffled slightly by the mask. He wanted to keep quiet.

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usedfall June 6 2011, 02:49:35 UTC

It was merely a chance encounter that had landed Sheena in the breakfast side of the food court one night, around 2 AM. She had been walking back to her room two days ago, when she came across an alien woman who was extremely distressed. Apparently, she was an inventory worker, and while she needed off one night for her sister's wedding, her boss hadn't given her the day off. In fact, he threatened to fire her if all the inventory wasn't done by the end of the week. She would never be able to finish it all if she skipped a night, so Sheena (after hearing her story with many tears and clinging) had agreed (out of pity, really) to cover the shift for the woman ( ... )

obstinates June 6 2011, 02:57:46 UTC

After his run-in the night before, Naruto decided to take things much more careful this time. The food court was, usually, deserted at night. It wasn't difficult to determine which of the restaurants catered to those who weren't friends of the refugees, especially to someone who was in the food court a lot.

It was those businesses that were his target this particular evening.

That night, however, he wasn't alone. It wasn't difficult to see the small stream of light moving back and forth in the seating area. Naruto watched from his spot, perched on top of a space hot-dog stand. He couldn't risk moving at that moment, not until he was certain of what was going on.

Who the hell would be out at that time of night?

usedfall June 6 2011, 03:13:22 UTC

No one who really wanted to be, that was for sure. As this whole thing dragged on, she regretted getting herself into it a bit. She was glad she could help someone out, but who knew her job was so mindless and -- oh, gross! She pulled her hand back from the table, shaking it. Yeah, she knew people stuck their gum underneath tables once they didn't want it anymore, but that table was stacked with it and it was still wet.

She wiped her hand on her pant leg grabbed the clipboard, scribbling the word GUM in bold letters on Table 34. Hopping on the table, she reached up to check the lighting structure right above it -- only to find five lightbulbs missing from it. Seriously?!

"Okay, I guess people can sit in chairs, but lightbulbs are five credits in a store. Geeze," she muttered again, jumping down from the tale and almost slipping backwards (they don't call her the clumsy assassin for nothing ( ... )

obstinates June 6 2011, 03:20:11 UTC

O....kay.

This chick didn't seem to be too threatening. He could probably get in and out in no time without her even realizing he was here. She seemed familiar in some way. Maybe they'd spoken on the network once or twice. He got around so much he couldn't remember everybody's face that he spoke with.

With surprising gracefulness, Naruto flipped head over heels and twisted before landing silently on the floor below, his feet glowing dimly as chakra cushioned his fall. They continued to glow as he sprinted through the area where customers walked.

If only it were that empty during lunchtime when Naruto usually visited.

He clasped his hands together as he ran and was soon joined by two clones on either side who split off to take lookout positions as the real Naruto flipped into another stand and landed behind the counter to begin his silent ransacking.

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sturmnbatarangs June 6 2011, 17:35:00 UTC

Bruce, unfortunately, made a point of being awake at two in the morning. Not that he was normally roaming the halls at that time- they were just his prime stalking hours. But businesses were being broken into, and he naturally had to keep an eye on Wayne Enterprises.

The curious fact was that the targeted businesses were those on his list that were connected with the Purists- perhaps there were more vigilantes on this ship than previously thought. In any case, he was going to get to the bottom of this, Terry or no Terry.

The fact that he was currently in the no Terry camp meant he was going to have to do this sneakily, though. So he took to waiting near the commerce district, while Ace patrolled nearby. The Great Dane was instructed to bark upon seeing anything suspicious- the Babelfish definitely helped implement these instructions- and give chase, giving Bruce enough time to find and follow him thanks to the tracker in his collar.

So when Ace started barking and moving on the radar, Bruce was hobbling off as fast as he could.

obstinates June 6 2011, 19:00:51 UTC

"That's a bigass dog," Naruto mumbled in annoyance as he somersaulted over a dumpster and landed quietly. Seriously, it was probably the biggest dog he'd ever seen, and he'd seen plenty of dogs. None of Kakashi's compared to the size of the one chasing him. It was like a dog from hell or something ( ... )

sturmnbatarangs June 6 2011, 23:22:43 UTC

Said bigass dog was scampering over the dumpster to follow him, disturbingly quickly for an animal his size, though he'd probably resent any ideas of eating souls and crapping ninjas.

Bruce, for his part, was pretty thankful that their mystery thief was heading in his direction- because in all seriousness, he wouldn't be able to do much otherwise. As it was, he could stand off to the side, hearing the footsteps coming closer- if not Naruto's, then certainly his dog's- and waiting to swing his cane out as soon as someone came by.

obstinates June 6 2011, 23:28:53 UTC

Well, to say it was the biggest dog was maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Akamaru was definitely the biggest dog he'd ever seen, but the one chasing Naruto was certainly the biggest dog he'd seen that wasn't from his homeworld. More than that, though, it was fast too.

And when that cane came swinging out, it connected with Naruto's masked face. Fortunately, for Naruto at least, it was a clone he'd been using to try and shake his pursuer. The clone burst into smoke, and the real Naruto who'd been running along the roofs dropped to the ground on the other side.

"Hey, gramps! Better get the hell outta here! There's a bigass dog back that way, y'know!!" Was Naruto's greeting to the man he'd seen speak with Sakura and Sasuke before.

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