Wandering the streets to my home~

Subject: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:24 pm

I was back in Aurora and all of the children from the previous mission had been healed and squared away. I had promised to play with them again some time soon. As I walked the streets some of the people were in shock to see the once troublesome but lovable ninja they used to know walking, alive. They thought I was dead and some had smiles, some had long faces, ultimately I was glad to be walking around the streets of my home again.

It had been so long since I've walked these streets that I had almost forgotten what it felt like, and what it looked like. It was still chilly but the temperature of my body adjusted to how it used to be. Warm enough to have a pulse however, cold enough to be able to live here without trouble. I was looking over the sights and hearing the sounds of the peaceful Aurora village that I didn't notice that I bumped into someone...

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:46 pm

Icisia had ridden her horse into the Aurora village a couple hours earlier and left her horse tied up by the inn. As she was walking through the streets looking around at every detail of the village, she let out a small shiver when someone bumped into her. "Oh, sorry," she says, turning to the person that she bumped into. In front of Icisia is a pink haired shinobi, also clearly cold from the weather in this village.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:52 pm

I blinked and I couldn't believe it. In front of me, was my old genin sensei, Icsia. I missed her so much and I hadn't seen her, I hadn't seen most of my friends before my death. However now I was back to life! And I plan on living a long long life. However I couldn't help myself from smiling, even if just slightly, and then I reacted like usual.

"Oh I'm sorry... Icisia-sensei?"

I tilted my head, could this really be her?

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:15 pm

She tilts her head to the side and looks this shinobi up and down. "Icisia-sensei?" she hears this ninja say. "Sensei? I was this girl's sensei? I don't remember being her teacher? Was I really strong enough to be a sensei?" She shakes her head and puts her hands in her pockets, looking towards the ground. "I think you have the wrong shinobi. I don't think I was your sensei.."

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:26 pm

I tilt my head further.

"You sure everything's okay?"

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:32 pm

She looks at the ground again, concentrating hard to try to remember who this ninja was. "I-- I'm not sure..."

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:36 pm

"You mean you don't remember me? Seirei Sora."

Something was up..

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:39 pm

"Seirei Sora? Umm... The name doesn't ring a bell..." she says, crinkling her nose as she thinks of who this person could be.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:53 pm

"I..I was your student when I was a genin. You were the Kage of the Aurora village and we were not only student and teacher, but we're best friends. I can't believe you don't remember me."

I blinked in amazement. Had she totally lost her memory?

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:15 pm

"I-- I was?" she stammers, looking at the ninja as they stand in the street of Aurora.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:18 pm

Standing there in the cold breezy air of the Aurora village, I nod to her.

"Yes, you were. Icisia-chan, what happened to your memory? Do you have.. amnesia?"

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:23 pm

She shrugs. "I don't know. I just woke up a couple of days ago and didn't know where I was. I know who I am, but I can't seem to recall faces or places as of late. I don't know what could've happened to me," she says.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:19 pm

"Is there any possible flashes of memory that could occur, something I could do to help gain your memory back?"

I blinked. I was thinking and thinking hard at what I could do to get her back to the woman I once knew.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:41 pm

Icisia shrugs once more. "Again I don't know. I'm just wandering around, trying to figure things out I guess. I do know my name and that I am a shinobi and apparently a fairly strong one.. that's a start!"

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:55 pm

Sometimes memory is triggered by touch and feel. Even if the object is another person or something material, it helps to stimulate the senses and recall memories of that touch or object. I walked up to her and looked her dead in the eyes. My gray-blue eyes piercing through hers with a slightly painful expression to them. I nodded and then bowed. Since when did I become so polite?

"Forgive me, Icisia-sensei..."

With that, Icisia's student, who was not so much a student or a little genin anymore, hugged Icisia tightly in an embrace. The warmth of the two bodies together felt good in this type of cold and ragged weather. However I hoped that this touch would flash her memories back to my identity and what moments we shared. Me, now taller than her, leaned my head over her shoulder and wrapped my arms tighter around as each second went by. It was as if I were hoping for a miracle, trying to bring it forth from nothingness..

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:25 pm

Suddenly being in Seirei's embrace, Icisia froze. Why was she being hugged? This makes so sense! She clenches her eyes shut and tries to think, hard. Who was this person? Apparently this shinobi knew Icisia, but WHY couldn't she remember!? In an anger-stricken panic of not remembering, Icisia tears away from the embrace with a combination of fury and sadness and vanishes in a puff of rose petals.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:29 pm

I blinked a little confused by her actions. Perhaps she was frustrated from not being able to remember anything about me. Maybe it hurt her too much to be near me right now. I called out her name as I watched her disappear in a very low tone of voice but then sighed and shook my head, talking out loud to myself. While doing so, I had one hand on my forehead and continued pacing.

"Icisia..."

A pause.

"That was stupid of me. Honestly, thinking that touch would work. It only made her more frustrated to the point of tears. I need to keep thinking, there has to be some way to jog her memory once more to identify with the people she once was close with. There has to be a way.."

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:36 pm

Yukie was walking along the village streets, looking for something else to do from her last mission. She was walking with her eyes closed and with her hands in her pockets. Her last mission was a very strange experience for her. It seemed to bring a lot of her memories back from her childhood.

"... Hm, maybe I've been too cold to others... I might need a change of heart soon..."

She chuckled as she thought of it and shook her head in disagreement with herself.

"... It won't do me any good anymore... I must be getting delusional..."

As she reached one point, she opened her eyes and noticed a familiar face. It was that girl from the snowball fight. She lowered her head down and tried walking past carefully.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:42 pm

By then I would have already taken a seat and I would have appeared deep in thought to anyone who walked by. My head was down and my eyes were closed, my hands up to my chin, basically creating something for them to lean on while I thought. I sensed a chakra signature passing me, and right as she was about to walk away without a word, I secretly smirked and then spoke.

"So it's that simple huh? Thinking you could just walk right past me girl?"

The cold wind blew and there I sat, thinking still.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:45 pm

She paused from her steps when she figured out that she was noticed. Of course, her outfit and swords stood out from the other people who were in the streets. She didn't know what she was thinking trying to avoid her that way. She still tried to avoid her gaze as she spoke.

"... I guess it was a stupid move to avoid someone that way... I'm surprised you even took the effort of remembering me..."

Saying that, she lifted her head to look at her still from a little distance with her hands in her pockets and the wind blowing her hair to the side.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:49 pm

"Oh? And why wouldn't I take the time to remember someone who interests me? Now tell me, I know you're from the Aurora village and you may very well just be wandering around but I sense from your heartbeat and release of chakra that you have something on your mind, and I am a perfect candidate to discuss it with. What might that be hm?"

I remained still as ever in that same position. I knew she was looking at me, however I wasn't going to make my move till I was ready to.

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:54 pm

She perfectly knew the response to her question. All that she was wondering was that sudden change in her expression and attitude from miss "nice stranger" to this eerie seriousness. It would be very strange to tell someone who she barely knows everything that's on her mind. In fact, she doesn't really care about anyone at all at that moment. All that she wanted to make sure was that...

"... I'm... afraid to die... and afraid for anyone else who I know to die... So if you can't do anything about it... Leave me alone..."

She was not sure why she said it. It might be because of that aura of certainty that she might in fact be able to help her. It was very strange for her to be trusting someone like that, so she decided that instead of withdrawing what she just blurted out...

"... Never tell anyone about this..."

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:08 pm

As she would have looked back to try and spot me sitting on the rock I was sitting on, stoic as ever, I would not have been there. It was almost as if I had disappeared. It was silent and the wind blew through. The natural thing to do when you don't see someone you thought you saw is to move forward and look forward to where you would be going. But as soon as she looked forward and tried to move even a step, one of my fingers poked her shoulder holding her whole frame and form back from moving anyway. I smirked and then looked up as our eyes met. The gleam in them shimmered an innocent pain from years ago as they sparkled with the small amounts of light that were present. I smiled then, if only a slight change in curvature to my mouth was made, and then spoke softly.

"Your secret is safe with me. In fact I can help you, by helping you, I'll be helping not only myself in a bonus, but you'll be able to stop and prevent anything like that from happening to you again. Firstly, Yukie-san, we need to have you open your heart. Yes, the cold stare is a good method to use, but that should come out of you when you battle. For yourself, for your friends and for anyone else who matters to you. Do not fear ever making ties and bonds with people, they will be your strongest allies and a great source of power for you. Now.. as for trying to never lose them, I have an idea in mind that will make you stronger and not need me anymore.."

I paused and smirked, then taking my finger away from her still form and backing up a bit.

"I shall train you to become even stronger than me and my teachers. From this day forth, you shall call me sensei. I am of jounin rank and so I am qualified to give this training and later on a test to you. We start now.."

I turned about face and started to walk away with my hands in my pockets. Then I stopped and a moment of silence befell us once more before my voice broke it.

"Oh yeah. And my name is Sora. Seirei Sora, if you were wondering. So, are you coming or not?"

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:39 pm

She met eyes with her as the girl started some lecture on her about having an open heart and not being afraid to make any connections because of the fear of losing them. It was very hard for her, since she didn't want any of her past memories to be relieved at all. If that ever happened again, she would simply break and be thrown into an aimless rage only making her decisions out of desperation and pure emotion. That was why she thought that friends were only going to be a burden to her in the future. Everything that the girl said did have some truth in it, but she simply wanted to keep some secrets of her own and only give out what's necessary. When she said that from that day on, she was going to address her as "sensei". It gave her a slight confusion. It turned out that she was a Jounin and she was in fact able to help her become a Genin through training and the test. It definitely left her surprised.

"... Yes... sensei..."

She was still a bit hesitant in calling the girl as sensei, since she acted so cold to her at first and making this transition was very big. In fact, it was not that but the fact that this will be her first connection right after she lost both her parents in that tragedy. The Jounin introduced herself as "Sora". She nodded and walked right beside her, looking down.

"... If I can make a single request... if I get stronger.... can I forget that we ever met...? It's just a little difficult for me to make such a transition..."

Subject: Re: Wandering the streets to my home~ Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:25 pm

I then looked back, a look of seriousness hinting in my eyes. I was not kidding and the light clenching of my fists seemed to tell the tale I was not happy with her request. However I did appreciate her calling me her sensei. I was in fact able to help her. She was afraid of connection and I had to teach her not to be. This was a big transition for both of us, but I was ready to take that leap.

"That is quite a foolish decision, however, I cannot stop you. Maybe I'll just have to teach you the hard way. Mark my words, training won't be easy."

I smirked playfully and began to walk away and to some of a random degree, a surprise, the sun was shining brighter than ever and the day would be brighter than usual. A sunshiny day in Aurora.