Test Drive

[sunshinemods]

Sunshineverse

Okay everyone, it's time to test some people out! The rules of the game are simple. You have a character you would like to try out as a native to the setting of this game. You want to see if this is the right setting to play said character in, right? Well, then all you have to do is drop them into this post as a top level comment with this as the header: Character name | Series (OC's just put Original here) | Planned Village Affiliation Then you comment around and play with everyone else! If you need some ideas on how to get started, you can drop your character in during the middle of a mission, have them at an eatery around their village, or maybe even just doing weapons practice. It's up to you how you want to set out, so feel free to put your characters in this version of the Naruto universe however it most seems appropriate. Just be sure to say where you put them somewhere in your post though, otherwise two people might not even be threading in the same country. One last thing! Remember that your character was born in this universe, so whatever else you decide, your character is a world native, even if they might be a tourist in the village you decided to test them out on. And that's it. Just be good to each other and have fun! Threads you do here can count toward future activity checks, so long as the person you're threading with gets in too. These threads can also be used for samples on your application. Locations General Info Characters World ♦ Main Community ♦ Message Community ♦ OOC Community ♦ History Journal ♦ Application Journal ♦ Mod Journal ♦ sunshinemods ♦ Premise ♦ Rules ♦ F.A.Q. ♦ Player Contact ♦ Player Ideas ♦ Event Calendar ♦ Character History FAQ ♦ Taken ♦ Applications ♦ Reserves ♦ Hiatus ♦ Drop ♦ Country Navigation ♦ Backstory List ♦ Mission FAQ ♦ Mission List ♦ Maps

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[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui was walking slowly, without much of an aim in mind. He'd finished a mission this morning, hadn't been able to sleep, and wandering around the village at certain times of the morning was fun. The crowds would fluctuate--the streets going from nearly empty to crowded in a matter of minutes.

It wasn't long before he found himself at a familiar bridge, with an even more familiar figure sitting on the bank, and...

Shisui's chakra pulled, and he flickered next to Itachi, a hand moving to shove his head. "Don't pick the damn stitches!"

[dangodragon]

Itachi responded instantly to something behind him, whirling around with the scissors he'd been using to snip stitches now held defensively in his hand. Half-way through the turn Itachi recognized that it was Shisui. The aggressiveness went out of the mood and Itachi took the blow to the forehead, falling back on his butt.

"I'm not picking at them. I'm taking them out." Itachi held up his hand, half the stitches out on a long curving cut from the knuckle of his pointer finger down almost to his wrist. The edges of the wound had pulled open just a little, but not much. Itachi had only taken out the stitches that kept his thumb from moving freely.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui sighed and sat heavily down in front of Itachi. "Same difference." Shisui gently took Itachi's hand by the middle and left fingers so he could tug it forward to see.

"You're gonna get a horrible scar and no one will ever love you again because you'll be so ugly," He informed Itachi somberly, and then let his hand go.

[dangodragon]

"I didn't know you were so shallow," Itachi retorted dryly, not bothered at all. Actually, he was rather pleased with his work. His thumb moved freely now, and the scabs hadn't pulled open.

[fastermindf_ck]

"I learned it from the master," Shisui told him with a smile, and then shifted over so he could sit by Itachi. "Should get a medic to heal up the edges at least, so you don't get an infection." Where would his precious thumb be then? Dead. It would be dead.

[dangodragon]

Itachi looked at the wound. "I'll keep it covered, and any medic would yell more than even you." It wasn't bad.

"If looks were important to me, why would I hang out with you?" Itachi returned, looking sideways at Shisui.

[fastermindf_ck]

"Fine, when your hand rots off, don't come crying to me." Shisui nudged him with a knee.

And then made a face. "Maybe you just have bad taste."

[dangodragon]

Itachi didn't dignify the rotting comment with a response. He wasn't an idiot, and even when he was, he knew what an infected wound looked like and that they shouldn't be taken lightly.

"So you're trying to say you're ugly and in bad taste?" Itachi flexed his injured hand to feel the pull. Much better.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui gave Itachi a very dull look. "Obviously, but you're the one lowering yourself to spend time with me. I'll just go drown myself in the river and stop ruining your reputation."

[dangodragon]

"It's because you took care of me when I was small. Emotional bonds formed with even a surrogate mother are often long lasting and hard to break, no matter how ill advised," Itachi explained with a shrug. "So even though you're in bad taste and you're hideous, my brain has been programmed to feel affection for you, so there's really nothing to be done about it."

Itachi gave Shisui a serious look. "And because of the affection that I really have no control over, I would cry if you drowned. Inconsolable sobbing. Very disgusting and uncomfortable for all involved." Itachi tried not to smile.

[fastermindf_ck]

"...you're hellspawn on earth, did you know that?"

[dangodragon]

"Did you expect to raise anything but hellspawn?" Itachi asked archly.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui sniffed. "I think it's just you. If my application for genin gets accepted, we'll test it out."

[dangodragon]

"I think I should be taken as a warning that you shouldn't--no, I'd probably be an endorsement. I can fight. They don't care so much about emotional capacity." Itachi looked as his scarred hands, buoyant mood sinking.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui grimaced, shifting closer so their legs were touching. He'd known Itachi long enough to get some sense of his moods. "I guess it's bad of me to want to put more kids through the machine." Raise more cute little killers, all set to drive a kunai through a throat or suicide to keep information from spreading.

[dangodragon]

"Or you could think of it as teaching them to protect themselves," Itachi suggested softly. Itachi couldn't train new ninja. So far no on has asked, but he was still young and useful. Maybe they would one day.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui glanced at Itachi and gently reached for his hand. His thumb traced Itachi's wrist--narrow with the veins clearly visible. He had spiderlike fingers, contrasted to Shisui's broad palm and relatively short fingers. They both had scars layered over older scars, discolored and misshapen.

"It's useful, in this world."

[dangodragon]

"The essential disease of the age." Itachi leaned his shoulder against Shisui's. It always surprised him when his and Shisui's hands were almost the same size. He had always been smaller than Shisui.

"You've got antibiotic cream at your apartment, right?"

[fastermindf_ck]

"Mm," Was the eloquent response. Shisui nodded. "After that slow-acting poison from Suna, I have everything." Don't even doubt it. Shisui shifted to get up, and gave Itachi's hand a tug.

[dangodragon]

Itachi shifted his hand to grip Shisui's, waiting for Shisui to stand and help Itachi to his feet.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui stood, considered Itachi just below him, and then hauled him up...only to twist his chakra and flicker, dragging Itachi along with him. On one hand, Itachi hated it. On the other, Shisui had done it so often that the sickness wasn't so bad. Usually.

They appeared outside of Shisui's apartment building, and Shisui promptly skittered backwards to avoid being punched or vomited on.

[dangodragon]

Itachi, in the process of standing and not expecting to be flickered halfway across Konoha, stumble and fell almost on his face when they landed, catching himself on his hands and knees and waiting for the dizziness to pass.

"And you wonder why I'm mean," Itachi ground out through gritted teeth.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui crouched down next to Itachi with a too-wide grin. "I never wondered, I just hoped. Deluded. I love you though?"

[dangodragon]

"If you come any closer right now, I'm going to stab you somewhere especially painful." Itachi growled. He was serious.

[fastermindf_ck]

Shisui winced. "Right. I'll just be here." Or upstairs, getting the antibiotic cream--whichever would get him in less trouble. Just in case, he shuffled away from Itachi.