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Cosmos Quest (Naruto/Lupin III)

Oh Lordy. If Naruto would get chewed up and spit out in a seinen work for being a shounen protagonist, Lee is just as bad.


[X] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.
[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.
[X] Well... there's another art you know that doesn't require external chakra-manipulation...


Reasoning: Tessenjutsu scroll, speaks for itself. Finally we can potentially become effective and classy.

For this dream, get another person giving advice and a new perspective.

More sensing range, because it's friggin' awesome and we need more.

Annnnnnnd mystery! Or is it just sealing?
 
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[X] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] Fucking handguns! How do they work?

[X] Work on improving your sewing.

[X] Introduce Lee-sempai to Menka. You don't need to be able to mould chakra to be a great swordsman, after all.
 
[X] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.
[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.
[X] Well... there's another art you know that doesn't require external chakra-manipulation...
 
[X] Hang with Shika and Chouji. You three aren't like you were, but sometimes it's just nice to be together, y'know?


After the summer break, what do you want to do with your free time? Pick three.


[X] Work on your koto-playing.

[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.

[X] Introduce Lee-sempai to Menka. You don't need to be able to mould chakra to be a great swordsman, after all.
 
FurikoMaru said:
... I said he wouldn't be picking up an Ino flag. I didn't say anything about Hinata or Ami flags. ^-^
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Neji's going to LOVE this.

[X] Get into mischief with Ami and Hinata. Maybe even get some training in.

[X] Work on your koto-playing.
[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.
[X] Well... there's another art you know that doesn't require external chakra-manipulation...
 
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Balatro Philologus said:
Neji's going to LOVE this.

[X] Get into mischief with Ami and Hinata. Maybe even get some training in.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.
[X] Work on your koto-playing.
[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.
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Hymn of Ragnarok said:
Oh Lordy. If Naruto would get chewed up and spit out in a seinen work for being a shounen protagonist, Lee is just as bad.
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I have plaaaaaaaans for Lee~! Fiendish and terrible plaaaaaaans~!

FurikoMaru does not, in fact, have any plans.

Hymn of Ragnarok said:
Annnnnnnd mystery! Or is it just sealing?
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A taste:

He leaps backward with a yelp, and the sparks follow him.

You facepalm. Fire. Fucking of course his affinity would be fire. The most difficult affinity for someone with no talent at manipulating elemental chakra, and it goes to him.

The laws of physics just hate this guy.
 
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[X] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.
-> [X] Hinata and Dad made you promise to get a seal master to teach you. They didn't say who the teacher had to be. Maybe one of your dream guys knows something about seals...
[X] Introduce Lee-sempai to Menka. You don't need to be able to mould chakra to be a great swordsman, after all.

Zenigata!
 
[X] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[X] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [X] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.
[X] Work on expanding your sensing range.
[X] Well... there's another art you know that doesn't require external chakra-manipulation...
 
Summer vacation is coming up. Whacha wanna do for the most part? Pick one.

[5] Hang with Shika and Chouji. You three aren't like you were, but sometimes it's just nice to be together, y'know?

[7] Train with Hinata, Sasuke and Menka. Sasuke says if you want there's a whole scroll on tessenjutsu techniques in the family library that's just going to go to waste if you don't use it.

[1] Get into mischief with Ami and Hinata. Maybe even get some training in.

After the summer break, what do you want to do with your free time? Pick three.

[15] Dream a little dream (or two, or three) of...
-> [7] Fucking handguns! How do they work?
-> [2] Hinata and Dad made you promise to get a seal master to teach you. They didn't say who the teacher had to be. Maybe one of your dream guys knows something about seals...
-> [6] A funny short-legged gorilla-man in a trench coat and hat.

[1] Work on improving your sewing.

[4] Work on your koto-playing.

[12] Work on expanding your sensing range.

[3] Introduce Lee-sempai to Menka. You don't need to be able to mould chakra to be a great swordsman, after all.

[7] Well... there's another art you know that doesn't require external chakra-manipulation...

Goin' grocery shoppin'. The vote closes when I get home, so if you want to change, now's the time.
 
C'moooooooooon, let's get another voice in my head as a construct! We need a voice of law and authority, at very least so that we can figure out how the other side thinks and beat them at their own game!
 
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Law and order?

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Hymn of Ragnarok said:
C'moooooooooon, let's get another voice in my head as a construct! We need a voice of law and authority, at very least so that we can figure out how the other side thinks and beat them at their own game!
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After we make guns; want my damn revolvers.
 
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I was commenting more on the surprisingly similar facial characteristics of the two

But yeah, if you want order, Jyggalag is your man. Demon. God. Thingy.
 
EnderofWorlds said:
After we make guns; want my damn revolvers.
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Any guns we make right now, if we succeed at all (probably not) are gonna be crap. We do not have the equipment needed to make revolvers, or more important, mass produce ammunition.

So bugger it, not needed. Snag that new voice for benefits now.
 
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The vote closed when I got back, dude. Said so right up there. I'm in the middle of writing the update now.
 
[X] Blow Me Away

Tessenjutsu as the Uchiha practised it is different from what little you've learned of the Takazono manner, or your own improvised (rather noodly) strikes.

Mom showed you how to use moves that could be executed easily and rapidly inside a small room, one after the other, without knocking anything over. It's a courtier's style, through and through.

The Uchiha-style Art of the Steel Fan is primarily concerned with how to knock everything over, including small-scale fortifications and improperly-reinforced siege engines, apparently. There are illustrations and everything.

Sadly, the instructions on how to do it aren't on any of the scrolls. They must have been passed down exclusively through the oral tradition.

Maybe one day you can figure out how to recreate the technique. It'd make a nice present for Sasuke; flashy ninjutsu is pretty much his favourite thing.

Most of the forms are designed for gunbai or, of course, uchiwa, rather than your own folding fan, but the basic principles are the same, and you quickly adapt and absorb what you can.

Sasuke still refuses to spar with you until the compulsion matter is settled, but Hinata's got that covered. She seems less hesitant these days, more willing to go for openings when she sees them; Sasuke and she are competing on an even footing, now.

You're a little envious. Yeah, you've got Menka, but it's not quite the same thing as having someone your own age and skill level to test yourself against.

Ah, well. At least you've still got cranky-sempai at school.

Speaking of Menka, you're happy to be able to spend a little more time with him over the month and a half you have off. Since you started the Academy and made new friends it'd felt kinda like you two had gotten into a rut of just seeing each other in the morning for runs and at night before bed. Now that Hinata and Sasuke are in on 'Daisuke's' secret, though, you can talk all the time.

A few weekends you set aside for just you two, though. There's a relaxed atmosphere to being alone with an old friend. Occasionally Menka'll pose some bizarre hypothetical about a Ninja Princess Kurogiku character's love life (he has made you swear a solemn oath never to reveal that he's read the series), or come up with a theory for why there aren't bakeneko anymore, and you can just go with the conversation, and not find him weird or worry that he'll think you're weird. In each other's company, you find contentment.

And occasionally janken matches over who has to do the dishes, but mostly contentment.

[X] Pistolero

Finally, at long last, you know why Konoha does't have any handguns.

They are a bitch and a half to make and their bullets have to be of specific dimensions or they won't fire properly.

The one you learn this from is, of course, Jigen. You see him taking his gun apart to clean it, and when he puts it back together you see just how perfectly all the edges line up and how alike all the bullets are.

Bullets, you know, can't be reused. If they're that polished and smooth, it's because they have to be.

He then rubs in the fact that you're never going to get to try out a real pistol by showing you all the different ways it can be used to make repeated, impossibly-accurate shots that even Weasel would have a hard time replicating with traditional weaponry. Thousands of shots, over decades. Shots that save lives, shots that end them

You wake feeling frustrated, and chained by reality.

But you have what you need to begin.

=

[X] The Chair at the Heart of the Rock

He leaps backward with a yelp, and the sparks follow him.

You facepalm. Fire. Fucking of course his affinity would be fire. The most difficult affinity to truly master, and it goes to him.

The laws of physics just hate this guy.

You'd thought that, not being able to manipulate chakra externally at all, Lee wouldn't have an affinity, and the more volatile elements wouldn't be such a dangerous place to start. No such luck, apparently.

Lee's not dumb, but his grasp of the philosophical relationship between the elements and himself is about where it reasonably should be, for a nine-year-old. Which is to say, pretty damn far behind yours; no flash of insight for him. If the elements were people, they'd lock their doors and pretend not to be home when your sempai came to visit. You find out when you question him that the flames only reached out for him once he tried to reach out for them, prompting you to give him a highly-hypocritical lecture on safety.

At this rate, it'll be years before he gets the synchronicity down. Maybe even a decade.

You sigh. Maybe this is why only a few people bother learning how to organize and command their Matrices.

Lee doesn't want to give up, though. If anything, the difficulty makes him more determined. Says even if it takes him the rest of his time in the Academy, he'll master elemental meditation.

He says it in a tone that is so nostalgic for you that any pessimism you might have had evaporates.

It is very slightly awkward when the next day at school he accidentally refers to you as 'Ino-sempai'.

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You got something cool for your birthday. What is it?

[X] A second tessen! Awesome, now you can try out some of those two-handed moves that were in the scroll.
[X] Permission to start learning D-ranked jutsu! 'Bout damn time!
[X] A long-weekend trip with Mom to Tanzaku Gai. A whole three days of cool new food, theatre, staying up late, and relaxing in hot springs. And she let you bring a friend!
-> [X] Ami
-> [X] Hinata

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So here's the thing, guys; I don't know a lot about gun construction. Is a Walther P38 going to be harder to replicate than a S&W Model 19 Combat revolver? I went with Jigen because I assumed a revolver would be easier, since they were invented first and everything, but I honestly don't know.

Either way, it will be fiendishly difficult. Less difficult than relearning Lupin's facility with throwing knives (a massively-difficult skill to acquire to a useful level in real life), but still. Impossible dream is impossible.

... and you know how Lupins love that word. 8)
 
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[X] A second tessen! Awesome, now you can try out some of those two-handed moves that were in the scroll.
 
[X] A second tessen! Awesome, now you can try out some of those two-handed moves that were in the scroll.

When we discover our Wind affinity, someday we shall learn to fly. And we shall have epic fan matches with Temari.

Also, tear the scenery apart! With style.
 
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FurikoMaru said:
Ranton - As it happens, you have a dual affinity of Water and Wind, which together form Storm Release. Only you are currently aware that your second affinity is Wind, as a benefit of your perk Unique Perspective. Unless subjected to professional scrutiny, your combination appears to be Water and Lightning.
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Aw, that's cute. They call each other -sempai.

Ah, the Walther P38. Ino is a noodly-armed 9-year old, which is the kind of person a Walther was made for. The S&W is a .357 magnum, which I'm guessing would snap her wrists at this point. As for which is easier to produce, I dunno. I'd guess the moon clip for the S&W are easier to produce than the locked-breech of the Walther. If we wanted a little girl pistol, I'd go for something with a blowback design.

[X] A long-weekend trip with Mom to Tanzaku Gai. A whole three days of cool new food, theatre, staying up late, and relaxing in hot springs. And she let you bring a friend!
-> [X] Ami
Bringing the Hyuuga clan heir outside of Konoha seems kinda dangerous, given what happened to her INSIDE Konoha 5 years ago. Ami will do. Let's see how much trouble we can get into.
 
[X] A second tessen! Awesome, now you can try out some of those two-handed moves that were in the scroll.
 
[X] A second tessen! Awesome, now you can try out some of those two-handed moves that were in the scroll.
 
Guile said:
Bringing the Hyuuga clan heir outside of Konoha seems kinda dangerous, given what happened to her INSIDE Konoha 5 years ago. Ami will do. Let's see how much trouble we can get into.
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...Damn, running wild with a Yakuza girl near casinos does sound fun. We could always get a bigger tessen later....grrr.
 
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Oh, and I fixed the section on Menka. Seriously, I actually really like the guy, I don't know why I keep giving him the shaft. :(

Y'know, it's funny. I do know that most people consider the P38 a fairly advanced gun for its time, and Walthers in general have a rep for reliability, but in canon, it's Jigen's gun that's most responsive and easy to fire and Lupin's that pulls pretty violently to the left - to the point it throws off Jigen's aim at one point, which as you might expect is a pretty big deal.

I guess it's meant to imply something about their taste in women.
 
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Hymn of Ragnarok said:
...Damn, running wild with a Yakuza girl near casinos does sound fun. We could always get a bigger tessen later....grrr.
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Seriously.

Why does everybody want a second fan when we're kinda not that great with the first, over the (metaphorical) Beach Episode?
 
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