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yourhatred) wrote2010-12-26 11:10 pm
yourhatred) wrote2010-12-26 11:10 pm
eleven crows (朱) action/voice - forward dated to morning
[Itachi is at the edge of the forest today, dressed warmly, with a small bag of birdseed in one hand. There aren't many birds around, given the weather, but there are a couple strays. There's also a couple squirrels, of course, who seem just as determined to get at what he's throwing out. The trees keep the animals mostly protected against the light snowfall, while the ninja has a dusting of flakes in his hair.
He speaks to the journal only after a while.]
...Where do the birds go, I wonder? Once the air chills. Can they get beyond the barrier to places we cannot?
He speaks to the journal only after a while.]
...Where do the birds go, I wonder? Once the air chills. Can they get beyond the barrier to places we cannot?
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And that is when you are watchful, if you are a wise sailor. For there might be nothing there. Often times there's not. But sometimes comes the ice, and the gales, and the monstrous waves.
Law is calm, unruffled, and yes... watchful. Quietly so, as the bird flies off to the sky and out of sight.]
As am I.
[Looking down.]
... but answers will come in time. As long as one is patient enough to perservere.
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[Itachi might be blind, but he knows when careful eyes are on him. He turns his head in Law's direction, his irises turning red as the Sharingan takes over.
Getting a decent look at the other man isn't the main reason for this, though it's a bonus. The moment his eyes are met, the illusion will fall into place. It's a harmless genjutsu, but it's meant to trick the mind and the senses. Nothing will have visibly changed, but Itachi will leave. In his place, a duplicate remains with the same look and feel. The conversation can continue as normal, and he will be fully aware of it.
How often has he done this? In this instance, as opposed to others, he plans no attack.]
I don't believe we've yet exchanged names. I am Uchiha Itachi.
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[Something has changed. He can not tell what, but something has changed, and Law notes this, and notes he cannot feel that edge of threat in the air. Familar as he is with Devil Fruit powers, and tipped off by the man's suddenly red eyes (he noted their colour earlier and the way they did not respond to light - pupils never dilating - a blind man's eyes)... he knows something has changed here.
But what?
He could stretch out with his own abilities... get a feel for the space around him and what's in it... but doesn't. He meets this with the same level of watchful caution he gained when you first trapped that bird.
Didn't he tell you he loved animals?]
Trafalgar Law.
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Perhaps you've run across my brother.
[But he doubts it. The likeness would be obvious, but Sasuke doesn't go out of his way to speak with anyone he doesn't have to.]
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No. I'm afraid I haven't.
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...It's odd, the people they choose to bring here.
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[Glancing to the side.]
... I oftentimes wonder if that is the point, given some of the experiments they run here. That they want a random sampling of worlds and peoples for their tests.
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[He's not willing to believe that it's only by chance that the ninja who've arrived, save for himself, have all been from the same generation - the same group of rookies, no less. He might not not have been a direct part of that group, but it isn't as though he has no ties to it.]
It's rare to have someone arrive and not recognize others that appear from the same world.
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The Strawhat crew. Blackbeard. Those two marines that seem to be connected to Mister Strawhat in ways he does not yet comprend. Himself. All with ties going to one person.
He's noticed. Yes, Itachi, he's noticed.
But the village has such striking diversity as well, and that he notices too, and as a doctor considers. When you run studies, Itachi, experiments, do you know the criteria a careful research scientist would consider?
There is something that might account for both diversity and centralization. Do you see it yet?]
Mmm. Very true as well. Why do you think that is?
[The thoughtfulness hangs heavy here, even more so than careful watchfulness.
Law considers the criteria a careful research scientist would have. But given recent events... now he examines the problem through the eyes of a general.]
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Today, perhaps, he'd be a little more open.]
Maybe they just enjoy collecting catalysts.
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[Catalysts and the people who surround them.
So very true...
Law looks with general's eyes and considers...]
Or at least people who have significantly impacted their world's history at chaotic times, for good or ill. There seems to be many here. And there is a war going on outside.
It could be many things. I suppose it boils down to what perspective you wish to view it from. That of research science or a more militaristic angle.
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[If the two forces worked in tandem, which is sometimes the case with science and the military, but not always.
If they were needed as a fighting force, that called into question why some were chosen for the draft and not others. If they weren't all necessary for fighting, one might think the research department was calling everything, but that couldn't be assumed either.]
Do you often ponder such things with the occasional stranger?
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The subject doesn't usually come up with the occasional stranger.
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Perhaps we're both just in talkative moods today.
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[Shrug] Or we've just found the right stranger to talk to.
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Fortunate.