#infernumvox

[7tails]

Head Full of Doubt ༄ for @infernumvox

Eerie silence behind her cuts through the rustling of leaves and the pounding of the pulse in her ears. Severed from Kegon and Yōrō, Fū cannot shake the sense of dread that overwhelms her, gripping at the muscles of each trembling limb as it threatens to hold her in place. She can hear the faint rush of footfall on the branches above but she can do nothing to stop it from coming, nor can she find it in herself to flee.

This sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach, this nauseating feeling of impending doom that makes her blood run cold and her vision blur, churns and claws at her insides like it's trying to squeeze the air from her lungs. She doesn't even realize how much she's shaking.

Frozen, she raises her arms defensively and fixes her gaze ahead. The figure clad in black is fast—unbelievably fast—and flickers in and out of her line of sight. Something about his chakra masks his intent. In and of itself, it feels ominous and horrible.

Clenching her jaw, Fū does everything in her power to snap herself out of this shock but, with the sound of a rustling thud not far from where she lost contact with her Jōnin companions, echoed by another, she knows for certain that she is alone and she is powerless in all directions.

[sakuyami]

@infernumvox / KAKASHI CONTINUED

"That doesn't work on me anymore, Kakashi-sensei," she warns with a smile upon her face. When she was a little genin, those words eased her anxieties like a genjutsu and maybe they made him feel better, too, but just like a genjutsu she's learned to see through them. Sakura steps forward and places a hand on his shoulder. "Where does it hurt?" She places a small essence of her chakra through her touch and traces it as it works through Kakashi's chakra network until she can pinpoint a general location for his injury. "We can't have you sitting in the hospital for a month if there's something I can do about it now."

[sumikeshi]

Abscission ༄ for @infernumvox

Sai keeps himself out of the way while waiting in the corridor outside, back practically pressed against the wall as scores of Jōnin and special clearance clerks shuffled past him on their ways around the central complex. The office of the Hokage is a busy place to be, especially now that rebuilding efforts in the villages surrounding Konohagakure in The Land of Fire require his seal before being moved up the chain of approval to the coffers of the Feudal Lord.

Post-war, everything was a bureaucratic mess. Even for Sai, with the conclusion of his mission parameters, there were dozens of loose ends that needed tidying. As he's ushered into the office, after his long wait outside, he enters and dutifully offers a bow to Kakashi.

"Lord Sixth," he greets with a genial smile, "I recognize that you're incredibly busy, so I will try to make this brief."

His verbiage is formal, including the casual tone that sounds rehearsed in the faux-relaxation of his voice. Doing his best to disregard the desperate sense of urgency that bubbles up in his throat, Sai presses it back as he straightens his back and takes a seat in front of the Hokage's desk.

"I have to request your permission for something I need access to in the central archives," he explains.

As he addresses the reason for his longstanding appointment, Sai extends his hand and provides Kakashi a short stack of papers, file access request forms, each of them marked with a tab sticking out of the side of each document where Kakashi is to sign and stamp his approval, if provided.

On each of them, an identical line of text is printed, reading, 'Restricted materials from the following collection require the signature and seal of the Hokage to view: files of Elder Danzō Shimura; files redacted to Hokage's discretion'.

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[thetoaddaddy]

plotted starter for @infernumvox

“You see Kakashi, what it takes to be me is a delicate time consuming process. Don’t be hasty.” Jiraiya advises with a troublemakers grin.

He motions for the younger man to follow him. By happenstance their missions had them convened at the costal towns. Where sailors go crazy and the love district was something to be admired by the average perv. Love hotels, clubs, hostess bars, strip joints. All of various themes. The rules are looser… and so are the women.

As far as Jiraiya cares he knows Kakashi is a bit of a stiff. He likes the lad but he knows said lad doesn’t get out much. A homebody as it were. But a shinobi has to live a little. And if his number one fan claims to be so then they can’t be such a damn stick in the mud! It’s fun to get out. What’s life if it’s always the same dull routine, right? There’s alcohol to drink, pipes to smoke! And ladies. So many pretty ladies around here. They need a nice strong man to fawn over or else they’ll get bored.

He crept with Kakashi behind him, leading to the back alleyway of a strip of these establishments. They both lead lives of danger. However he was sure Kakashi had yet to taste this kind of danger.

[sakuyami]

@infernumvox / ITACHI CONTINUED

The captured kunoichi takes the shared intel and subconsciously she's already flipping through the various medical books she's studied with Tsunade. Itachi may be her enemy, but that did not turn off her training as a medical ninja and perhaps with the right pieces the information would make itself advantageous for her. She's thought it through thoroughly much to the dismay of her team when Sakura finds herself returned to Konoha.

She knows the pretty flower she appears to be for the Akatsuki's goals. It's the same striking beauty of red, but in a different hue, that the Akatsuki makes itself out to be for her. Her capture can bring Naruto to them and Sasuke must be bound for Itachi at any rate. It's just a matter of time as to who gets here first.

Still, despite her plan, no matter how obvious it appears to someone with Itachi's intelligence, it frustrates her to be seen through like a stained glass window. Teeth grit together with jade green eyes glaring up at the eldest Uchiha. She sits there glaring at him as her mind swims through words to sew them into the correct pattern. Careful not to make her words sound so desperate that she'd offer Naruto up on a silver platter - something they'd have to kill her first to get close to.

"Because you have something that I want and while I don't agree with what the Akatsuki is doing, I do know that most of you are, at the least, honest." Which, as blasphemous as it tastes at the back of her throat, is more honorable than all the secrets Konoha keeps hidden and the secrecy games the Elders play even around the Hokage.

[maudlxne]

@infernumvox said | ❝ i know we don't know each other that well but if you wanna talk about it... ❞ — [ From Gaara, for Hinata ]

Talk about it . . . would she even know how?

A heiress doesn't cry. Don't be weak. Don't be useless. You pathetic thing, are you crying again?

Such words are often uttered in resentment and scorn towards her since she can remember. Told to bear with it a little longer, she should be able to do that much. Whatever right she had to complain had been stripped from her the day she was born. Saddled with oh so many expectations and standards she had never been able to live up to. Always deemed a crybaby who was afraid of her own shadow. But how could you not be when the shadow you see is the one looming over you, scorning you, one that was supposed to love you?

Any time she found the small inkling of a voice to protest, it was always met with comparison. At least you have a home. A family. How can you complain when you live in a place like that? Never knowing what it was truly like within stifling walls. How she was treated in the very home by that very family, she should appreciate and adore just for being born into it. Eventually, there even came a point where her own tears stopped offering comfort and instead left her feeling pathetic. That everyone was right about her.

At some point, she just stopped trying. People have it worse. What right did she have to complain? How dare she be selfish. All those voices were just so loud. Always lingering in the back of her mind - silencing her when suffering threatened to spill from an already full cup.

Moon-like eyes flickered away from the red head. Long lashes cast shadows along the apples of her cheeks. Gripping her own arm just a bit tighter out of reflex in her attempt to look smaller.

❝ O - Oh . . . um . . . I - . . . thank you. I'm okay . . . really. Please don't . . . trouble yourself. I'm alright.❞

Voice barely above a whisper. Don't bother anyone else, Hinata. Especially not somebody so important.

❝ I'm sorry . . . if I worried you. Um . . . can I help you . . . Lord Kazekage? ❞

Surely Gaara didn't come all the way over here just to check on her of all people. There must be another reason behind it.

[braveryhearted]

From Kakashi,

❝ You got guts stepping into Konoha after everything you did. ❞

To, Itachi.

Itachi knew that there wasn't going to be the most welcoming sentiment when he decided to come back to Konoha after everything that had happened. Kakashi probably wanted him to not survive the war in the way his words cut through.

Still, a certain ex-member of the Akatsuki was allowed free reign after everything that happened as well. Certainly more deserving for all of the hostility. And Itachi was going to use that fact in proving his point.

"And yet you allow the man who caused more damage than I ever did to not even sit behind bars or be executed. Orochimaru even gets to visit stores that were ruined to almost beyond repair by his actions. Quite the hypocritical situation".

And besides, the only real person who could had the right to judge him was his own brother Sasuke, even if Itachi and Kakashi had history together.

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