believeit | [四] Action/Video April 3rd

[四] Action/Video April 3rd

[Action: Early morning; Uzumaki House]

[After waking up somewhere in the forest and getting his bearings, the first thing Naruto did before anything else was head home. His memories were fuzzy- he had been walking through the village presumably the night before when some weird metal-people-things attacked him out of nowhere. Weird. He'd deal with that later though, because he got the feeling that after being out all night, even if it wasn't his fault, he was about to get one hell of a yelling once he set foot inside the house.

Entering the family home and closing the door behind him he waits, listening out for any noise or signs of movement. When it seems as though nobody is up yet (Geez did they just go to bed and sleep peacefully when he had been knocked out in a forest??) he begins to make his way up the stairs, calling out but not too loudly.]

Mom? ....Dad? Oi, you guys here?

[Action: Afternoon; Convenience Store]

[After everything had been sorted out at home and Naruto figured out what exactly had happened, he decided to go pay a visit to the guys in the convenience store. Hopefully Shikamaru wouldn't chew him out too badly, it wasn't his fault but being missing meant someone had to fill in and do the extra work in his place. Or maybe.. someone else was hired to take his place?? Dammit, Shikamaru.

Deciding so stick around and help out, Naruto can be found in the store for the remainder of the afternoon, helping out stocking up some shelves or just hanging out behind the counter helping himself to multiple Mountain Dew slurpees.]

[Video:]

[The journals are graced with a view of some sort of shop- noticeable as being the convenience store to anyone who frequents it- as Naruto props the journal up in front of him.]

Hey, do any of you guys know what those robot things are that come for people? That's what someone said they're called, they look like weird, metal people.

I remember fighting some, and having weird dreams before I woke up, but apparently they kidnapped me?! I was gone for weeks y'know!

Where do those guys take you? And what do they do anyway? They'd better not have done anything weird to me, or they're gonna pay!

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[(NO THEY DID NOT. CHECK YOUR INBOX)

Hearing Naruto's voice throughout the night when she's dreaming isn't new to Kushina. But now instead of sitting up and searching the house for him only to end up disappointed again, she just shuts her eyes tight and tells herself she is glad he's back where he belongs and he doesn't have to get caught up in experiments and drafts and missions and the Malnosso or Third Parties.

Even if there is a war going on back where he's from and its hardly any better than anything here. It's still home. That's where he belongs.

That's where he belongs.

When she's dreaming though, she can't school her features or hide the emptiness that hasn't gone away after more than a week of her missing son. She angrily grabs her pillow and buries her head under it.

Her voice is muffled, furious, and it breaks.]

Go away.

[He'd just managed to get to their bedroom door by the time he heard it.

Go away.

He'd expected then to rush up- either be worried or annoyed, but he hadn't expected a reaction like this. She must really be angry with him right now, and being told to leave hurt in a way that no amount of yelling could live up to.]

....Mom?

[After debating it for a moment, he grabs the handle to their bedroom door, slowly and softly pushing it open.]

[That voice sure is persistent this time and she's not even dreaming anymore. Probably. She doesn't want to wake up Minato so she tugs the pillow off of her head, planning on getting ready for the day, just in time to hear the quiet creak of the door.

Irritation leaves her so quickly she feels winded. Yet she's still able to whip around and stare at the person standing in the door frame. For a moment, she thinks it's still a dream. Or maybe the Malnosso are messing with her again.

She doesn't care.

Kushina nearly trips in her rush to get to him, catching herself with fingers brushing the ground before she slams into him and wraps her arms around him so tightly she's crushing him to her like she's trying to force his body into hers. She expects to find nothing, for her arms to find air, but he's solid. He's here. And in her arms.]

Naruto! Naruto!!

[So much for not waking up Minato.

Tears come easily now after weeks of keeping them back. But they're tears of relief and joy. They're loud messy tears as she buries her face into his dirty clothes.]

You're back.

Edited (HIS BODY) 2014-04-04 02:52 (UTC)

[Ginia's writing comes slowly as she picks her words. The memories of her own kidnapping are too fresh in her mind, much too real at moments. That he's been taken for weeks and doesn't remember... maybe he's lucky in a way.]

The guide calls them droids.

They take you to a lab, run tests and experiments on you.

You got taken away but you don't remember any of it? I don't know anything about metal robots... did you do something before to make someone want to take you?

[There's a lot that Lee can explain to Naruto! But after he finishes welling up with tears.]

Nah... NARUTO-KUN!

[He stands there in the doorway once it is open, looking a little like a kicked puppy with the expression he gives her once she sits up and takes a look at him.

It quickly fizzles out, replaced with wide eyes which soon shut tight as she scrambles out of bed and he braces for impact because he is honestly expecting a whack over the head.

But instead he feels arms wrapping around him, jerking him forward and into her and as he opens his eyes again, they are greeting with nothing but red hair as his face ends up buried in her shoulder. The hug is way too tight but he doesn't care, overcome with a sensation of both relief and guilt as he can feel the warm wetness of tears dropping onto his cheek.]

I'm sorry y'know? I don't know what happened last night, except I woke up in the forest this morning.

[Oh.. hey friend!]

Yo, Bushy-brows!

[Because writing sucks]

Yeah, but what? I don't really remember anything from that place except the droid thingies. I want to know what it is they did to me, and where that place is.

I didn't do anything! I was just going home one day, and they attacked me outta nowhere!

[There's a long pause and a few dots of ink appearing on the page as Ginia taps her pen against the journal. After some consideration, she throws up a filter.]

...I can tell you what they did to me, but it doesn't mean it'll be the same thing they did to you.

Naruto-kun!

You have truly returned to us? Are you alive? Have you been harmed in any way at all?

[That doesn't make sense. She still doesn't care. She doesn't lessen her grip and the tears don't stop and she just holds him.

And never wants to let go. Someone will probably have to pry her away from him.]

It's okay. You're back.

[She could be answering him or confirming to herself once more. Maybe both.]

Edited 2014-04-04 03:56 (UTC)

That's weird! You should check to see everything's okay with you. They wouldn't take you and do nothing.

Of course I'm alive! Or I wouldn't be talking to you, would I.

[As for the harming thing though...]

...I dunno what they did to me. Something creepy I bet.

...They took you too? And you remember it?

[All seriousness now, he waits on an answer.]

[Now that he isn't being squashed so hard he has room to actually move his arms, wrapping them around his Mom to at least return the hug properly, before pulling back.]

I was coming home for dinner, yeah? And then suddenly these weird things- like metal people- they just came outta nowhere and started attacking me. I guess they knocked me out or something, I dunno, 'cause when I woke up this morning I was in the forest.

I already did! I don't see anything wrong with me...

[Can we not talk about this it is freaking him out!!]

But if they brought you back and didn't say anything about it... and there's nothing you can see... what did they do?

...I hope you'll be okay, guy!

[Red's not doing it on purpose...!!]

I was only gone for a week.

[Just a week. Ginia's still trying to wrap her mind around the fact it was only seven days. It felt longer than that and the worst part was not knowing when she would be free again.]

On the first day, they began testing my tolerance for pain. I was stripped down and strapped down to a table in a very bright room. The Malnosso began small - poking me with needles, pinching my skin, taking notes. Eventually they escaped to slaps and punches, mostly focused around my face and torso.

[It's easy to detach, recall everything clinically as if she were an observer and not the one being observed. Not the one who was beaten and studied. The words come in a rush, a harsh edge in her handwriting as Ginia recalls everything.]

After that, I was healed through some form of healing magic to an uninjured state.

Then they continued testing my pain tolerance by dislocating my joints and breaking bones.

I am sorry to hear that! Do you feel unusual at all?

[The moment Kushina gets up and exclaims their son's name was the time Minato cracked his eyes open as another day greeted him. The bright lazy morning sunlight peeking through their curtains pale in comparison to the refulgence before him that his expression didn't give way for surprise but to happiness instead.

He's a witness to Kushina's tears and to days where they'll just talk about how much they miss their son with him reassuring her that Naruto's going to be fine because he's their son and that one day they'll see him again. Of course, he imagined they won't in this place but he never lost faith. Not a day passed by since Naruto's disappearance that Minato searched for him as he patrols the village for an extended amount of time.

There's a huge possibility they won't be able to see Naruto again but there had always been this tiny hope he can never extinguish and Minato, a man of faith, clung to this. So seeing mother and son reunited in a display of tears and affection is the best thing to wake up to that silently, he gets up and walks to them with a gentle, warm smile.]

I'll see to it that won't happen again. [With everything I got. Slowly, he places a hand on Kushina's shoulder and the other on Naruto's. He continues to address the young man with equally spiky blonde hair.]

Welcome back, son.

[Sometimes you just need snacks; Sakura's not entirely immune to the lure of junk food. and it's a happy thing she decided to come by today, because there's her missing teammate, back again.]

Naruto!

[She's smiling brightly at the sight of him, and takes a few quick steps to come over close.]

It's good to see you again - are you all right?

[He doesn't get far into his explanation before she's wrapping her arms around him again, this time gently and a bit more slowly. He was coming home for dinner. She's reminded of how angry she was that he was so late and not answering her. And then how worried she and Minato were and how late they stayed up searching for him.

Metal people? No doubt, probably another experiment by the Malnosso. If she sees any metal people--]

I'll turn them into tin cans if they try it.

[She growls it threateningly over his shoulder. Even Minato's hand doesn't shake her like it had the past week. It doesn't need to. Naruto is here with them again and she's so happy.

Even if she sounds like Kurama, herself.

But she's angry again, finally. Not at Naruto though -- at everything else, like she was before she started to make something of the experiments rather than just be pissed off at them all the time.]

[Some loud, hollow clanging can probably be heard from the backroom. The giant pizza oven that's remained from this building's days as Azzip's could be worthwhile someday in the future, if they can ever figure out what to do with it. For the time being, it's more of a place to set heavy stuff if you don't want to drop it on the ground.]

Be right there! [Shikamaru shouts from the back, maneuvering a few things more and assuming this is a customer. Chances are they way they run things, he won't be needed lickitysplit anyways, but you know. Courtesy and shit.

That and anyone who works here could just walk back, so.]

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[四] Action/Video April 3rd

action im gona cry

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ACTUAL TEARS NARUTO NO

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[Video]

you brought it on yourself

[Video]

[Video]

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[Written | Unhackable]

[Video]

why am i punished

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[Video]

[Perma-Video | Unhackable]

gathers you up

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[Perma-Written| Unhackable] CW: Torture, physical violence

[Video]

threadjacks? :>

[Action, convenience store]

UWAHHHhh THE PUNISHMENT IS HARSH

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