Shen’s eavesdropping was a substantial breakthrough for Takuma. Through the conversations Shen had picked up, he was able to gather the date of the next delivery; unfortunately, those conversations didn’t include the location of pickup and drop-off— from what Shen had told Takuma, the people seemed to have a pre-determined locat...
2023-05-11 18:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostKano wasn’t happy with Takuma taking work from someone other than her, and it took some convincing and a promise not to let it affect his ongoing and future cases. However, Takuma wasn’t worried— he considered time management to be one of his strong points. He did more things on a daily basis than most people to know how to dist...
2023-05-07 15:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe knock on the door made Kano glance up from the paperwork at Takuma standing at her office door. She motioned him to come in as she ticked some boxes and filled over the dotted lines. One day she would die, and she was sure the damned paperwork would be the reason behind it.
“Is it about the Shiroguni Robberies?...
2023-05-03 17:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment the fight began, Razor shot straight toward Scars without the pretense of any planning. He drew the sword out and pointed it at Scars, who armed himself with a kunai in each hand and charged for Razor.
Razor grinned behind his mask when he saw Scars taking charge and swung his sword in an aggressive downwar...
2023-04-28 21:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostInside a locker room in the underground expanse of the Ring, two men prepared for their upcoming fight in silence. As dictated by the tradition and rules, they wore simple clothing: a pair of shorts, the two-mask set that hid their identity, and a pair of arm and shin guards allowed in the weapons category.
“How do ...
2023-04-23 19:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostArisu stared at the man slumped against the wall with no life in his eyes. The numerous gashes and bruises, the kunai handle sticking out of the chest, and the blood on and around the body told a story of a struggle better than any amount of words could. It was a horrifying sight, but Arisu continued to stare in an effort to find the ...
2023-04-19 22:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma clicked his tongue as he stomped into Ring’s medical room with a nasty cut on his dangling and dripping right arm held into place by his left. A gambit not paying up and instead resulting in failure was one of the worst feelings during a battle, especially when the result was losing the dominant arm and dangerous blood loss.<...
2023-04-15 21:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sighed as he knocked on the heavy metal door, uncharacteristic of a grocery store’s back door. The sun had long set down, and he was hungry because he hadn’t had the time to have dinner— but here he was, hungry and exhausted after a day’s worth of hard work, most of it spent outside under the sun.
He he...
2023-04-11 15:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sat on the sole bench in the fighter’s tunnel. Beside him stood a Ring employee standing, and one look told how tense he was— anyone would be tense while standing close to Takuma as he was now. Even though his face was hidden behind a mask, and the dark tunnel obscured his eyes, the vibe coming from the body language was he...
2023-04-08 00:05:34 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma watched through the two-way mirror as Kano battered Gorou into a purple-and-blue pulp. The man had bruised so ugly that even his mother couldn’t love the swollen and bloody face. Kano had been going at the man for a few hours already, and Gorou had already fainted countless times under the interrogation, woken up, and then th...
2023-04-04 20:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Nakai Gorou.”
Gorou had an average height but had a build so wiry that it looked like he hadn’t eaten in weeks. Upon hearing his name called, he looked back at Arisu standing a few feet away from him. His eyes went to the Leaf Military Police Force’s red armband around Arisu; his face turned displeased. Standing behind ...
2023-03-31 18:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sat at his desk, his foot tapping an impatient rhythm on the floor as he stared at Kano’s office. After hyping himself about it for a bit, he went and knocked on the open office door.
Kano hummed without looking up from the documents.
“It’s about the Hirano case,” said Takuma.
“She didn’t let her attacker in.” Takuma slapped crime scene photographs on Arisu’s table. “Whoever it was— they broke in.”
Arisu looked away from presumably a file from another case. She squinted her eyes as she regarded the photos that were shots of Machia Hirano’s (the victim) front door lock.
Takuma walked into the room, minding where he stepped and what he touched. The room was a bedroom, twice as large as Takuma’s bedroom. It also had much more personality to it due to personal knick-knacks, items, and how everything tied together to showcase the owner’s personality.
Speaking of the owner, she was ri...
2023-03-23 20:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he was young, Takuma used to be super conscious of what other people thought of him. The feeling was so severe that he would even worry about what a passing-by stranger thought of him; as such, he would try to present his best-cool-proper self whenever that sensation of nervousness arose.
As he grew up, ...
2023-03-21 20:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Setsuna…”
Uchiha Setsuna stopped to look back as he was about to exit the Leaf Military Police Force.
“Yakumi?”
The one to call out to him was Uchiha Yakumi, one of the squad supervisors.
“Can we talk about the recruit you’re sending me tomorrow?” Yak...
2023-03-18 20:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma couldn’t stop his foot from shaking as he sat outside the office of Uchiha Setsuna, the chunin-in-charge of hiring the new 'officers' of the Leaf Military Police Force. He knew for a fact that not all the new hires had a meeting with Chunin Setsuna— he had contacted others selected into the Leaf Military Police Force only t...
2023-03-11 20:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post“… What?”
Takuma stared at Iruka with a countenance he wasn’t sure he was showing. The words which had come out of his team leader’s mouth were one of the last words he expected to hear, the last words he ever wanted to hear.
“I am going to the Uchiha?!” asked Takuma.
...
Welcome to the Post-ARC-03 expectations post!
This post, like the last two posts, will be asking questions about what we want to see in the story moving on. I’ll be taking your replies to this post as a suggestion and making the story better.
Alright, enough of the chit-chat, and let’s get moving....
2023-03-06 18:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn a small conference room inside the offices of the Leaf Genin Resource Command, a group of men and women sat around the table with overflowing loads of manilla folders ready to slide off the tabletop. These men and women looked exhausted with their messy hair, unkept clothes, and mugs stained with coffee from repeated refills withou...
2023-03-06 13:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostA DIRECT CONTINUATION OF CH_3.4 (063)
“Your friend was startled when he saw me,” said Itachi.
Izumi, walking beside Itachi on their way home, looked up at him. She didn’t notice Takuma being startled, but Itachi had been more perceptive than her, even though they posses...
2023-03-05 13:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma woke up to the sound of his doorbell. He glanced at the bedroom wall clock, telling him it was already eleven in the morning. He had returned late last night from his journey to Dai’s parent’s house, and he had only gotten a couple hours of sleep returning home.
He pulled himself off the bed, grabbed his we...
2023-03-04 16:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Takuma put down his discovery in front of Shiroma, the investigation took another direction altogether. Gone were the pointed questions about his actions and feelings, replaced by a lengthy discussion about the involvement of a third party. For hours, they talked about the battle, recording the profiles of the shinobi Takuma had...
2023-03-02 21:12:08 +0000 UTC View PostSneaking into a town wasn’t tricky for Takuma. He scaled a wall, dipped into alleyways, and stayed in the shadows. A walk around the town found him in the less affluent part of the town at a distance from the main districts, a place much like where his home was situated in the Hidden Leaf.
He glanced at the “hotel...
2023-03-01 20:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m ready to leave,” Iruka looked uncomfortable with two people hanging off him. Raiden was tied to Iruka’s back while the lighter Susumu was in a princess carry. “Are you sure you don’t want to leave together?”
“You should get them to safety,” said Takuma, tightening the bandage around his shoulder...
2023-02-28 12:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma swallowed the little saliva left in his dry mouth, trying to focus his fuzzy mind on the field around him. The wounds didn’t hurt as much as they should; instead, they sapped his energy, weighing his body down like lead.
He tried to ignore the dead bodies of Yumiko, Dai, and Aya, but they seemed to stare at h...
2023-02-27 10:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostA heartbeat’s worth of time was all it took for everything to unravel.
It was so quick that Takuma could barely spot the kunai before it stabbed Raiden. But the lightning streak that shot from the trees was enough to send all of his alarms blaring.
“Ambush!”
Takuma’s kunai wer...
2023-02-25 01:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Want help?” Takuma asked Yumiko and Dai, who were patching up the men they had slashed.
Yumiko looked up from the chest wound she had made to Takuma. “How are you done so quickly?” she asked. “I’m still on my first.”
“Didn’t cut them open,” Takuma knelt beside Yumiko and began hel...
2023-02-22 06:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostSneaking into a small village was in many ways more challenging than sneaking into a larger settlement like Miya Lake town with a walking patrol and shinobi guards.
Because of the village’s size, the community was close-knit where everyone knew everyone, which made blending into the crowd impossible as the chances o...
2023-02-20 02:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma stood off against Raiden’s team. He had tried to be friendly and they had laughed it off. It was fine if they didn’t want to be friends— he couldn’t fault them for not wanting to be chummy— but he couldn’t allow them to look down at him and his team. If they were going to be working together, a dynamic had to be est...
2023-02-18 02:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post