Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-25687356-20161020211256/@comment-24714922-20161021012952

Pavor: Ieyasu remained silent for a few moments, his voice straining as slight little noises came from his grated mouth like the cacophony of the damned. His fists continued to tense up until his knuckles were white, only slightly relaxing at the sound of someone's near voice that he hadn't caught from before with the obscured vision he currently had.

In a rare and precious moment, the young Akimichi began to bawl given this moment of weakness he was caught in, "I should've been there. I should've been there for him. He was the only person who liked me and I couldn't help him," Ieyasu began to rub at his eyes while becoming slightly bent.

His cry became high-strung as his warm tears only reminded him of blood. A macabre reminder of the first person he couldn't save.



Cam: Mugen walked in solemn silence, his attention torn from his own thoughts as Ieyasu began to cry. He let out a low groan and looked over at him "You'd have died" His voice was steady, with a tinge of anger in it "Anyone would have died. Trust me"

He ran a hand through his lengthy grey hair as he considered his next words. "I was there ... FOr the whole thing. It was .... I wouldn't call it a fight, it was a slaughter. BUT. Keldran survived it, he'll get through this, he has too. If anyone failed, it was me. I should have stayed what team member leaves their leader behind to die"

Mugen stared Ieyasu down "Don't be sad ... be angry"



Pavor: Ieyasu gritted through his teeth and made one last desperate cry before tensing back up. His eyes turned back to the ground while his face continued to twitch, the facade of what Ieyasu put himself on as usually being broken at this moment. Soon enough it'd patch up, leaving him back to square one.

"I-I don't care if I would've died... if I died in front of him I would've died knowing I did what I could to be a true friend," Ieyasu tersely said this while he affixed his gaze to another angry young man just like him that had also lost what little they had gained in this cruel world of shinobi.

"I can't be angry. If I were angry I'd only be another issue for him. *I'll let it out if anyone tries to get in my way of protecting him*." In that last sentence, something changed in his tone. The conviction and confident way in which he put it, almost like a complete switch of his current disposition as his eyes momentarily shrunk down to little beads in that one single moment of concentrated anger. But as quick as it came, it was gone and he was back to the emotional mess he was before.



Cam: "If you died then everything would be for naught, you'd die just to give him a few more seconds before he died anyway. You're better off surviving, training and tearing apart everyone who wronged him" He clenched his fist, his skin turning a brief shade of blue.

Mugen stared ahead, his mind racing, if Keldran was back what did this mean for him? Godric would have no need for him anymore, his real son was back, he'd have no need for a replacement son anymore. "Angry is all I can be now, Its all that makes sense to me right now. I have to get stronger, stronger so I can fight for him, kill those that did this. I can't be a slave to my emotions. Y'know?"



Pavor: "I don't know," Ieyasu hesitantly said after Mugen's own thoughts on if Ieyasu died for Keldran; his eyes briefly drifted over to Keldran's broken body. He shook a little before he tore himself from the sight, grabbing onto the cloth of the pockets he currently held his hands in.

<p class="MsoNormal">Concerning the last thing Mugen said, it didn't make much sense as he essentially cancelled out what he said before to only being able to be angry. Ieyasu was too distracted by his own thoughts to give too much thought on those last words as he continued to talk without much thought put into his words, "I do too. I don't want to leave Keldran alone... again. After Keldran is healing, I'm going to train and after that I'm going to go to Ame and crush that traitorous bastard who calls himself an Akimichi. _The Bloated Dragon_."

<p class="MsoNormal">Saying that name alone would be enough to send chills down some people's spines, Gyugii and his imposing army was enough to crush Suna. And that monstrous right-hand man he had... Yuudai; Amegakure was a fiendish hell for sure. But with just these thoughts, only anger rose and boiled. Rage taking form with the myriad of other emotions, making Ieyasu's heart beat quicken in haste as if already ready and prepared to face that nightmare.