Naruto SoundITP IC 1: A Melancholy Song of Hope To Come

[Rater202]

Senko has yet to replace her lost biomass, so is currently at her natural height of 3.'8'' instead of her preferred. If the intruder is the same height as her than they are short.

Her priority is obvious, stop the intruder from getting away with the documents.

She leaps into the air and tries to punch the intruder squarely in the chest as the markings that indicate that senjutsu is in use spread across the rest of her body.

Meanwhile, a snake pokes its head from her robe. Dismissing the summon would have sent Menko back to Ryuchi Cave, and Menko doesn't want that, so she's been napping in Senko's robe ever since she summoned her earlier.

"What's going on?"

"A thief. Call secturity."

Menko does so, leaping from Senko's collars, spoofing into human form, and using Yin Release: Multiple Autonomous Clones to send halve a dozen of her self running down he hall all shouting Security! Security! A Thief! A Thief!

[igordragonian]

The masked long sleeved guy dodge with ease, as if he already heard what attack Senko plan.
'Quite the energy you have, it seems you didn't suffered as I did.' Senko hear his voice straight into her brain.
He jump on the wall. 'But that fine. You will be broken.'

He make seals, the papers dissapear into his sleeves, and then he get them out- as paper shurikens, which is as effective as Kimiko's!
He doesn't try to hit Senko just to fend her off.
'I see the potential withing you, your ideas you see... were already done. Stop being an idiot, and I will give you a nice lead.'

Shinobis are getting nearby, they will join the fight in less then a moment.

[Rater202]

Senko thinks on her own backstory.

Spoiler: Sad

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At the crack of dawn, a very little girl awakens in the middle of a small field near her home village...She was on the other side of the drainage ditch... She hadn' gone to bed in the field...

The last thing she remembered, it'd been dinner time and she hadn't wanted to eat her icky carrots.

As she got up and looked around, she noticed that the water in the ditch looked funny... And noticed that almost all the buildings int he village were collapsed.

Terrified and wanting someone to make her feel safe, she ran through the village trying to find the remains of her house while desperately not looking at any of the mangled corpses that surrounded her. It was... Mostly, intact, with only a giant hole in the wall, but...

Her father was nowhere to be found, and her mother...

"Mommy?"

Mommy was badly hurt. Bleeding. Fading... When she saw Senko, she let out her last words. "Basement... The book" and then died, despite Senko's attempts to revive her.

Senko had never been allowed in the basement before, but Mommy said...

Senko noticed that her hands were covered in blood as she opened the basement door.

On a book stand in the basement, with a cover depicting a terrifying Oni, was a book that said "Senninka."

And Senko read the book.

At the age of six, everyone Senko had ever known and loved had died horribly. And by reading the book, she realized that it was all her fault.

"I HAVEN'T SUFFERED! I HAVEN'T SUFFERED!?"

The chakra flowing into Senko's arms causes them to turn a ruddy brick-red as scalple like claws form at her finger tips, the shapeshifting of it all welding her broken Fingerbone back together.

I'VE SUFFERED MORE THAN A PATHETIC EDGELORD LIKE YOU COULD EVER COMPREHEND! AND YOU THINK YOU COULD BREAK ME!?

Senko chargest and slashes furiously. She's a B ranked Ninjusu specialist, with a style speiled in efficient, fluid movements. She knows exactly how to move her claws to avoid his paper shuriken and strike at his vitals.

"IF YOU WERE HERE TO HELP ME YOU'D AHVE GIVEN ME WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING AND LEFT, YOU BASTARD! IF YOU SURRENDER NOW, RETURN THE DOCUMENTS, AND GIVE ME WHATEVER YOU WERE GONNA BRIBE ME WITH I MIGHT HAND YOU OVER TO AUTHORITIES INSTEAD OF CHAINING YOU TO MY OPERATING TABLE AND TEARING YOU APART CELL BY ****ING CELL!"

[Lord Raziere]

Mayuwo blush and look away from Kikena.
"....Very well. The Abbot has asked to not refuse your request unless it bresk our rules..." he pant and his stomach groan.
"...I won't offend you.'he say in somewhat setoic tone.
He try to ignore Kikena.
He has enough of those taunts from his Sensei.
The Fukami guys have similiar reactions to Kikena- the younger ones, like Mayuwo are scared for their purity, blush and hide behind rocks, the older ones, actually less gracefull then their female counterparts, trying to look setoic and uncaring...
But Kikena know probably better. But if nothing else, they try to be good hosts, regradless of what guests they get.

Mayuwo, the promised heir. By estimates, he and Kimiko will be the first chunins of their class,and later Jounins.
Mayuwo lead their them to the mainhouse- which sort of a mansion- there, married couples lived with their young children, there were the dinning hall, and the center of the clan in anyway, were there.
Set of gongs have sarounded the main house.
Near the house, a young girl, probably six years old?
Stand and stare. This might be Sukkunai Fukaimi- the girl frlm the kinder garden where Kimiko has worked once. If she has told him the details about this mission..
Sukkunai is shy and timid, but shown great potential, already able to use a clan technnique, despite no one teaching her.
Mayuwo frown. 'Why aren't you in the kitchen helping our mother?'
He scolded her.
'..." the girl squeaked, and ran away, her long earlubes dangling.

"My apologies. No matter how I try... she keep this wierd passive defiance."
Before the dinning hall, there is an entrance room.
A teen girl, offer to take Kikena's sandals/shoes and place it special shelf, offering tradional home slippers.

Mayuwo offer the same service to Jirou, doing it with the same seriousness he trained his ears to count ants.
Double wooden door are opened to reveal a large yet humble looking dinning hall, the tables are set im l_l form.
At the other end of the room sit the abbot- head kf the family in ceremonial robes.
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This is Giyatsu Fukaimi 50 years old. Calm. Collected.
Nozojo added gossip that he is secretly addicted to gamblings, and that his mother is the one who actually run the clan.
People are sitting on tatamis, Giyatsu has kept a place near him. And unless, they were told about Kikena's arrival... only one seat is saved.
It seemed they have considered this visit a reason to celebrate- the rice is offered with some spice and beside water, fruit juices are also on the table.

Giyatsu get up,and bow his head.
'What a honor to have a man like you here! Come! Sit with us." He say with a smile.

"Ah yes, I see you saved a seat for my fiancee. How hospitable of you."
She automatically sits down instead, with a chesire cat grin on her face, while Jirou remains standing....until Kikenna in her mischief decides to pull him down.
"Ah c'mon there is enough room, squeeze in here."
They end up squeezed between two people on the tatami mat with Kikenna being the one between Giyatsu and Jirou.
"Look now we can teamwork these chopsticks, Jirou: you hold one, I hold the other and we work together equally to feed each other. It'll be great."
"Yes" he says in dry sarcasm "It will be a great demonstration of our......love and teamwork."
"Yeah I bet none of these couples can match us in teamwork chopstick eating. None of them."
"Indeed it is an ancient tradition in my family from the dawn of two seconds ago. They cannot possibly beat us with such little practice in something only we care about."
"Exactly! we're the best because we made it up, they can't possibly beat us. We can celebrate this completely arbitrary thing together."
"Perhaps then we should celebrate something else just as completely arbitrary. Like me getting heads twice on two coin flips."
"But I thought we were doing that already by coming here. After all the fact that your mother and Ameoku are female are a completely arbitrary thing that no one has control over."

[igordragonian]

Senko thinks on her own backstory.

Spoiler: Sad

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At the crack of dawn, a very little girl awakens in the middle of a small field near her home village...She was on the other side of the drainage ditch... She hadn' gone to bed in the field...

The last thing she remembered, it'd been dinner time and she hadn't wanted to eat her icky carrots.

As she got up and looked around, she noticed that the water in the ditch looked funny... And noticed that almost all the buildings int he village were collapsed.

Terrified and wanting someone to make her feel safe, she ran through the village trying to find the remains of her house while desperately not looking at any of the mangled corpses that surrounded her. It was... Mostly, intact, with only a giant hole in the wall, but...

Her father was nowhere to be found, and her mother...

"Mommy?"

Mommy was badly hurt. Bleeding. Fading... When she saw Senko, she let out her last words. "Basement... The book" and then died, despite Senko's attempts to revive her.

Senko had never been allowed in the basement before, but Mommy said...

Senko noticed that her hands were covered in blood as she opened the basement door.

On a book stand in the basement, with a cover depicting a terrifying Oni, was a book that said "Senninka."

And Senko read the book.

At the age of six, everyone Senko had ever known and loved had died horribly. And by reading the book, she realized that it was all her fault.

"I HAVEN'T SUFFERED! I HAVEN'T SUFFERED!?"

The chakra flowing into Senko's arms causes them to turn a ruddy brick-red as scalple like claws form at her finger tips, the shapeshifting of it all welding her broken Fingerbone back together.

I'VE SUFFERED MORE THAN A PATHETIC EDGELORD LIKE YOU COULD EVER COMPREHEND! AND YOU THINK YOU COULD BREAK ME!?

Senko chargest and slashes furiously. She's a B ranked Ninjusu specialist, with a style speiled in efficient, fluid movements. She knows exactly how to move her claws to avoid his paper shuriken and strike at his vitals.

"IF YOU WERE HERE TO HELP ME YOU'D AHVE GIVEN ME WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING AND LEFT, YOU BASTARD! IF YOU SURRENDER NOW, RETURN THE DOCUMENTS, AND GIVE ME WHATEVER YOU WERE GONNA BRIBE ME WITH I MIGHT HAND YOU OVER TO AUTHORITIES INSTEAD OF CHAINING YOU TO MY OPERATING TABLE AND TEARING YOU APART CELL BY ****ING CELL!"

He focused on dodging, jumping around on the walls like a toad. No matter how stronger and quicker she get, it seems he predict her movements with an unnatural ease.
If she is able to analys it...
In Ottokagure, the Fukaimi clan are known for such ability in their bloodline, their special ears.
But he also throw paper shurikens...
The battle feels like a twilight dream, as the light flicker, as the technicians struggle to restore the power-
With power off for long, things might be released.
Or samples that require specific temparture might get spoiled...

Three shinobies appear, armed with sound gadget weaponry, but between flickers of light- the stranger clap(?) Under the sleeves, and one of the shinobis fall with seizure fuming from his mouth.
The stranger run, rather then getting out of the labs.. down.
To even more secret sections.
At the two other shinobis he throw paper shurikens, which they parry barely- but it buy him time to run deeper and lower into the labs.
Rage. Your rage is still burning. Mine is cold as death. Follow me, then, little sister

"Ah yes, I see you saved a seat for my fiancee. How hospitable of you."
She automatically sits down instead, with a chesire cat grin on her face, while Jirou remains standing....until Kikenna in her mischief decides to pull him down.
"Ah c'mon there is enough room, squeeze in here."
They end up squeezed between two people on the tatami mat with Kikenna being the one between Giyatsu and Jirou.
"Look now we can teamwork these chopsticks, Jirou: you hold one, I hold the other and we work together equally to feed each other. It'll be great."
"Yes" he says in dry sarcasm "It will be a great demonstration of our......love and teamwork."
"Yeah I bet none of these couples can match us in teamwork chopstick eating. None of them."
"Indeed it is an ancient tradition in my family from the dawn of two seconds ago. They cannot possibly beat us with such little practice in something only we care about."
"Exactly! we're the best because we made it up, they can't possibly beat us. We can celebrate this completely arbitrary thing together."
"Perhaps then we should celebrate something else just as completely arbitrary. Like me getting heads twice on two coin flips."
"But I thought we were doing that already by coming here. After all the fact that your mother and Ameoku are female are a completely arbitrary thing that no one has control over."

Well, if they wanted to make them uncomftrable they managed.
But they hide it, best as they can.
An eldery woman place another plate before Jirou.

It seems their tactic is to ignore Kikena as much as possible.
"There are not many clans in this village of our.' Gyazo say, lifting a cherry juice cup.
"But one of the women one, has fallen. Removed from the place she should never have held."
Pause.
There no appaluse. More of a respectful nods.
Appaluds aren't the Fukaimi way...
"And, of course, we support Jirou-Sama, to prevent the shameful option, of the blood thirsty woman beast from claiming the father role of the village. Before we eat, let's pray for Jirou-sama's succes"
They clasp their hands, close eyes and pray.
Beside Mayuwo. He frown, get up, leaving his plate full and going away.

[Rater202]

"Save the shuriken, they're made from stolen documents!" Senko shouts behind her as she gives chase.

Senko's blood is boiling, but... What she's trying to do has already been done?

As Senko chases the man, she shrieks! With her senjutsu chakra enhancements spreading even to her lungs and throats, she can shriek loudly and for a good long while.

Such loud shrieking should be absolutely hell on someone with enhanced hearing or hearing based powers.

[Lord Raziere]

Jirou:
Kikenna and Jirou look at each other. This is going to be rough. He clears his throat and says
"Excuse me, but I don't share in this celebration, for I must clarify my intentions. I fought my mother for the sake of my sister. I only depowered one to empower another, and I would've done the same if Mitsuko were my father instead, and especially so if I were Kimiko's sister rather than her brother. On the subject of Ameoku, I had help from Kikenna here, and I would still fought Ameoku if she were male as well. In both cases, the gender does not matter.

The only reason your celebrating me instead of cursing me are threes coin flips made long before we had any say in the matter. Furthermore I must tell you that I plan on Kikenna's ideals factoring heavily into my decision-making. She may be not hold any actual power, but she will be one of my most trusted advisors and I hope to regulate her more radical ideas so that things change at a moderate pace so as to not completely alienate people by changing things too fast.

I'm sure you have a wonderful culture that has worked for you for a very long time, but not everyone shares those beliefs or culture and its unfair to them that they have to follow values that they don't want. I come to you today to tell you the truth rather than let you think something untrue of me: that I follow the values you espouse. I do not. I did not do it for the reasons you think, and I do not want to be celebrated for this. I do so because I think its better that you know this truth, that I want men and women to be equal so that you are not felt lied to down the line when put in rules that will only further reinforce the values I actually believe and not the ones you do.

I could've been like a lying politician and just let you think I share your beliefs, letting you think I'm on your side only to go into the Otokage office to change things in other directions, but that would be leading you on and only make enemies of you down the line. So I say this now that I did those for my own reasons, not yours and that I respectfully believe women can and should hold positions of power if they are competent enough to do so. I'm telling you all this so you can make your decision with open eyes about who your supporting and why. That is a chance most people never give you. What you do with this information is up to you, but I'd rather be known as an honest person than as someone who got into the Otokage office by letting you believe false things about me."
He said the speech. It was letting them down gently and politely, all things considered. He had a plan if they still decided to be stubborn about this though.

[igordragonian]

"Save the shuriken, they're made from stolen documents!" Senko shouts behind her as she gives chase.

Senko's blood is boiling, but... What she's trying to do has already been done?

As Senko chases the man, she shrieks! With her senjutsu chakra enhancements spreading even to her lungs and throats, she can shriek loudly and for a good long while.

Such loud shrieking should be absolutely hell on someone with enhanced hearing or hearing based powers.

The masked boy, fall from the wall, blood spilling from beneath the mask as he laugh maniacly.
'Nice move, little sister.' he shake in terrible pain.
He make a bat like screech-
sending doubt and hesitation to Senko's mind

Spoiler: Clan Komoro technique's

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Heart's Voice- C Ranked Genjutsu. By sending vibrating sub sonic wave, the user vibrating the heart and nerves of the target to mimic a certain emotion. Attraction, fear, sleepiness and etc. Some of the Sound Village tech weaponery record those subsonic waves to create certain emotions.

It's up to you, if Senko is aware of this technique and have means against it.
of this clan-https://forums.giantitp.com/showsinglepost.php?p=23788446&postcount=2

Most of the village's tech is inspired by them, and many of the best tech shinobis are Komoros.. so it make sense

Fine, I will tell you where to get your next clue, if you keep push me around, you'l force me to kill your zoo keepers. she hear in her mind.

one of the shinobis arrive to the scene, with a flute quarterstaff, prepared to slam and attack the masked stranger.

Jirou:
Kikenna and Jirou look at each other. This is going to be rough. He clears his throat and says
"Excuse me, but I don't share in this celebration, for I must clarify my intentions. I fought my mother for the sake of my sister. I only depowered one to empower another, and I would've done the same if Mitsuko were my father instead, and especially so if I were Kimiko's sister rather than her brother. On the subject of Ameoku, I had help from Kikenna here, and I would still fought Ameoku if she were male as well. In both cases, the gender does not matter.

The only reason your celebrating me instead of cursing me are threes coin flips made long before we had any say in the matter. Furthermore I must tell you that I plan on Kikenna's ideals factoring heavily into my decision-making. She may be not hold any actual power, but she will be one of my most trusted advisors and I hope to regulate her more radical ideas so that things change at a moderate pace so as to not completely alienate people by changing things too fast.

I'm sure you have a wonderful culture that has worked for you for a very long time, but not everyone shares those beliefs or culture and its unfair to them that they have to follow values that they don't want. I come to you today to tell you the truth rather than let you think something untrue of me: that I follow the values you espouse. I do not. I did not do it for the reasons you think, and I do not want to be celebrated for this. I do so because I think its better that you know this truth, that I want men and women to be equal so that you are not felt lied to down the line when put in rules that will only further reinforce the values I actually believe and not the ones you do.

I could've been like a lying politician and just let you think I share your beliefs, letting you think I'm on your side only to go into the Otokage office to change things in other directions, but that would be leading you on and only make enemies of you down the line. So I say this now that I did those for my own reasons, not yours and that I respectfully believe women can and should hold positions of power if they are competent enough to do so. I'm telling you all this so you can make your decision with open eyes about who your supporting and why. That is a chance most people never give you. What you do with this information is up to you, but I'd rather be known as an honest person than as someone who got into the Otokage office by letting you believe false things about me."
He said the speech. It was letting them down gently and politely, all things considered. He had a plan if they still decided to be stubborn about this though.

There are much disappointment in the room, but most are too stoic to openly express it.
They are probably respecting his honesty- but it doesn't take away from the disappointment.
and maybe the awkwardness. From their side.

Giyazu chuckle calmly. 'Well, if nothing else, you are brave and true... it was my fault, for not making a background research before inviting you, or at least ask you, for your motivations.'
he say.
'I am a naive man, no matter for how long I fought alongside other shinobis, I can't shake the feeling.... that everyone are self blinded to the right and balanced ways. So even a little hint... make me... want to believe more people have seen the light.' pause.

'But if may I return your honesty, with my honesty- you are a boy. You are a respectful boy, a well mannered boy- even a brave boy- and still... a boy.'
pause.
'Assuming you were starting to see our philosophy as something to be inspired by, we would have seen beyond this- we would have looked into your potential as a leader. But for now, you are simply better then Ameoku, but for now we can't view you as the ideal candidate... it might not matter in the end- unless more ambitouse men, will try and offer themselves for the role,'

[Rater202]

The second Senko feels her emotions begin to change, she breaks another finger to dispel the Genjutsu.

She steps forward and holds up the claws on her good hand to the masked boy. "As a shinobi of the Village Hidden by the Sound, I am formally placing you under arrest. If you explain exactly what you came here for and what you've talking about, I will recommend leniency... But if you so much as think of harming a hair on anyone else's head I will void the arrest and drag you back to my laboratory to figure out exactly how it is that you have multiple bloodline powers... Without anesthesia."

[igordragonian]

Alright. This death is on YOUR hands. Enjoy the nightmares.

He get up in a jump, the lab guard, try to strike the masked boy, the staff wailing, empowered by the sound that was echoed to no end inside-
But the bleeding masked boy, jumped on the staff, standing like a crane, and do quick seals under his sleeves.
"Serpent Of Agony" and release stream of acid right into the lab guard's face, and then jumping up the ceiling.

The lab guard has dropped the staff and screeched with horror, as his face was burning by this yellow green goo.

"I didn't planned to hurt the Zoo Keepers. You have forced me to. Anyway, here my kibidango* lead for you-check the safe code in the abandoned communictation devolpment lab. The code is dog, horse, rabbit, dragon, dog." and with that he run again, this time intending to run away from the labs.

The light is back on, and now the horror of the lab guard's face seen in it's whole glory.



*A japanese round tradional candy thing.
Feel more aproriate then a "bread crumb".is bread a thing in naruto?

[Rater202]

Menko comes up behind Senko now.

"Okay, I'm lost, what's happening?"

In response, Senko tosses to her familiar the scroll used for containing cadavers. Or parts of cadavers.

Like the blood that spilled out from behind the thieve's mask.

"Seal the blood for me."

As she said that, she's approaching the man who took a face full of acid and when she gets to him she pulls out her emergency medical kit and does for him what she can.

[Lord Raziere]

There are much disappointment in the room, but most are too stoic to openly express it.
They are probably respecting his honesty- but it doesn't take away from the disappointment.
and maybe the awkwardness. From their side.

Giyazu chuckle calmly. 'Well, if nothing else, you are brave and true... it was my fault, for not making a background research before inviting you, or at least ask you, for your motivations.'
he say.
'I am a naive man, no matter for how long I fought alongside other shinobis, I can't shake the feeling.... that everyone are self blinded to the right and balanced ways. So even a little hint... make me... want to believe more people have seen the light.' pause.

'But if may I return your honesty, with my honesty- you are a boy. You are a respectful boy, a well mannered boy- even a brave boy- and still... a boy.'
pause.
'Assuming you were starting to see our philosophy as something to be inspired by, we would have seen beyond this- we would have looked into your potential as a leader. But for now, you are simply better then Ameoku, but for now we can't view you as the ideal candidate... it might not matter in the end- unless more ambitouse men, will try and offer themselves for the role,'

Jirou:
"....I'm pretty sure that feeling is called "having an opinion". Everyone has one, expressing it is leaving yourself vulnerable to it being shot down and getting hurt because of it, but its the only way to make people understand what you care about. Its not unique, everyone has their own right and balanced ways that they think everyone blinds themselves to, and we all go through life searching for the people who share it. But I'm not here for opinions, I'm here for reality, and the reality is regardless of our beliefs we're a village that needs to become stronger.
We can't live by Konoha's good graces or the threat of our last shout forever. Changes need to be made so that this village stands on the strength of the living and not of the dead. and I don't believe in unnecessarily limiting ourselves to make that happen.

I cannot cut the potential Chuunin and Jounin that could serve this village in half for no reason, nor can I overlook any potential talent or use one could have simply because of a gender role. Our enemies certainly aren't going to care. A person who wants your bloodline for theft or for murder is going to come after your weakest members no matter what form that takes and if you intentionally keep half your clan weak that offers a lot of targets for them to choose from-unless you secretly train your women in self defense so that they can at least preserve the traditions of your clan with their own abilities if they ever find themselves alone and ambushed by an enemy?"
He says, raising an eyebrow.

[igordragonian]

Menko comes up behind Senko now.

"Okay, I'm lost, what's happening?"

In response, Senko tosses to her familiar the scroll used for containing cadavers. Or parts of cadavers.

Like the blood that spilled out from behind the thieve's mask.

"Seal the blood for me."

As she said that, she's approaching the man who took a face full of acid and when she gets to him she pulls out her emergency medical kit and does for him what she can.

Beside the surface third and second degree burns- the greatest danger, is that even his throat is burnt. Alternate way of breathing is required for his survival.

two lab guards jump there.
'Senko-chan? What is going on?"
the second call in his portable radio transceiver*
'Medics! We need the best one! Hurry!'



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Jirou:
"....I'm pretty sure that feeling is called "having an opinion". Everyone has one, expressing it is leaving yourself vulnerable to it being shot down and getting hurt because of it, but its the only way to make people understand what you care about. Its not unique, everyone has their own right and balanced ways that they think everyone blinds themselves to, and we all go through life searching for the people who share it. But I'm not here for opinions, I'm here for reality, and the reality is regardless of our beliefs we're a village that needs to become stronger.
We can't live by Konoha's good graces or the threat of our last shout forever. Changes need to be made so that this village stands on the strength of the living and not of the dead. and I don't believe in unnecessarily limiting ourselves to make that happen.

I cannot cut the potential Chuunin and Jounin that could serve this village in half for no reason, nor can I overlook any potential talent or use one could have simply because of a gender role. Our enemies certainly aren't going to care. A person who wants your bloodline for theft or for murder is going to come after your weakest members no matter what form that takes and if you intentionally keep half your clan weak that offers a lot of targets for them to choose from-unless you secretly train your women in self defense so that they can at least preserve the traditions of your clan with their own abilities if they ever find themselves alone and ambushed by an enemy?"
He says, raising an eyebrow.

Giyzao smile, with this arrogant patience, that made so many ninjas to despise the Fukaimi clan.
'Ah. This old debate again, very well.' he sip a cup of mandarin juice.
'We are aware, that not everyone can see the light of our ways yet. We aren't in denial. We have allied the village, understanding the complexities of living among the wide shiobi population. We are thankful of being part of this society, that allow our voice to survive in this old corrupted world.' pause.
'And in the short sighted term, our way, of protecting women, from the male need of taking lives, might seems irrational on the surface, and supposely, it should be another piece of our soul we should sacrifice for the sake of a physical survival- over the centuries, we over and over, had to give up core practices of our belief, to secure it's existence- accepting women into our ranks in the first place. Do you know why our ancestors decided to marry, and forsake the chastity vows?' pause

'Children. Family. Are the future, they are stability. Men know their role, women know their role, of bringing life to the world. Together, we can improve our listening, maybe in hope to reach the enlightment, Dali lama Guren*, has reached, by hearing the cosmos itself, and reaching immortality. Other ninja village exaust their karma, their communities, their society crumbling down with more and more missing nins, while a stable society, when men and women know their place, will prevail in the long run. But we accept the fact, most still can't see it- but we want to help the village, by a slow process. Not letting women into leadership roles, would be a beginning. Look at Ameoku, this mad beast woman. Instead of caring for her children, she can't grasp the heavy weight of taking out lives. The Ottokage barely has her under control, by chaining her down with responsibilities. But it isn't meant for her. She will never be happy. No women can be happy when she is out of her place. We don't expect to change and heal the village over night, and of course, not to force it- but I simply thought, that by seeing the damages, and toll, this role had on your mother- a brave person indeed, who simply carried a burden which weren't meant for her- and also, from the side, it looks, like you fight to release your sister from the manly burdens that are chaining her down. So I made assumption, it was my mistake.' he bow his head.
of course, more cynical view might be...
Mayuwo and Kimiko are the most promising genins, mesaured by experts, to be probably the first Junins since the the Three Thunders,and by somehow removing Kimiko. they will have more influence, for their long term plans.
They ain't stranger to play the waiting game.


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*Somewhere in the Fukaimi household.


Mayuwo, on his knees.
'....Why me?' he ask quitly, skeletal sitting shilouette.

'Only you can hear me. It has been centuries since someone was worthy of hearing me' a voice whispered into his heart.
old as time, yet healthy as youth itself.

'I can't even fully sense every ant and ant in their nest. Many grown ups here, are better listeners then me. Do not decieve me'

*cold and dry chuckle. 'Right. So truthfull. Pure. But I didn't lied to you- those who take life, before their heart has matured... have their karma tainted in a way, that fill their ears with darkness, which I cannot reach. Thanks to the ideals of Nozojo... you are the first one in decades and centuries to remain pure. Those ant counting trainings, are foolish. Ants are too blunt. I will teach you things much more gentle and exact. You are the hope of this village. You will surpass me, all... will be well.'

[Lord Raziere]

Jirou:
"Is that all you think humanity is?"
Jirou says with a disappointed tone.
"How bleak and limiting. How depressing. You raise your children to think of the children so that they may think of the children so that they may think of the children. Your efforts are completely circular. Is that all humanity is to you? biological machines to reproduce themselves? There is more to life than perpetuating it, or its just existence.

As for "stability" Fukaimi-san, this current era has is the most stable era humanity has ever seen. Before the establishment of villages there was nothing but warring states, a thousand years of constant low level clan warfare, and that era was full of men leading their clans. In fact these wars often occurred BECAUSE men thinking it was their duty or right to wage them, the very values of man's strength spurring them to seek out a fight to prove they are strong to prove their dominance over others and cause suffering for no good reason. While the women thinking it wasn't their place to speak, didn't stop them. What caused greater stability was when people decided to start uniting rather than dividing. When a system was set up to balance the power of nations against one another.

As for burdens- I do not see peoples suffering as gendered. You cut someone, they bleed red like any other human. As who raises kids- I raised Kimiko more than her mother ever did. Sure she trained her in paper release, but I taught her to be more than just a weapon, I taught her how to think, how prepare, how to be more. I showed her that we live in a wonderful world full of knowledge to find and learn. Knowledge to use, to survive, to improve, to adapt, to innovate- such ideals are the core of what a ninja truly is, not tradition. Stasis is death. Nothing stays the same for good or for ill- if your not growing your decaying. She has become one of the two ninja most likely to become Jounin.

Will you criticize me for stepping out of a masculine role, since raising a child is by your logic, a feminine task? A feminine task that I enjoyed since I like spending time with my sister and helping her grow?"

[igordragonian]

"I am not going and criticizing people and tell them what to do. And I understand the complexities and tests this dark realm forcing upon us. I will never be great as my pasifist ancestors. As those monks who didn't took practice in their carnal needs. My karma is at least somewhat tainted. I am not perfect,nor pretend to be." Giyazo say.
"I have compassion. And, well, you were stuck in a situation, where there gender role confusion. I am not a judge. But being forced into such a situation must have made a toil on your soul, even if you don't feel it right away. Like shin splints which slowly creep on you, until one day, they cripple you down,for at least few month. Again. The light and balanced ways cannot be forced upon those who grew beyond it's shine- but out of compassion,I will always hope and reach out. Until then I will fight to keep the order and karma of me, and my clan as less damaged as possible. But I am not a judge, one can only be judged by his own soul. I have compassion to all living beings. You are a young and wise boy. Maybe in the future, you could carry the village on your shoulders. For now, without our more... direct guidance, I feel it would be cruel to support you into a position which will destroy you.'

[Rater202]

Beside the surface third and second degree burns- the greatest danger, is that even his throat is burnt. Alternate way of breathing is required for his survival.

two lab guards jump there.
'Senko-chan? What is going on?"
the second call in his portable radio transceiver*
'Medics! We need the best one! Hurry!'

Senko... Senko doesn't have the means of providing an emergency tracheotomy.

The average human being will suffer permanent brain damage after four minutes without oxygen and will die within four to six minutes after that point. It's already been a minute or two without oxygen, the patient's chances of making it are slim and their quality of life will suffer greatly if y some miracle they do.

...But Senko has an alternative. 1/10 odds that it saves his life outright. 9/10 odds that it puts him in a coma for several hours and possibly kills him, but also drastically improves his odds of pulling through if he gets to the hospital in time.

Senko pulls off her robe and lifts up her shirt to expose her belly. The glowing red and orange, firelike pater than comes as her bloodline powers forms across it and then her flesh, still in that firely glow, stretches out in a blob and extends to and into the man's face and neck.

Senko's cells and chakra immediately adapt, breaking themselves down and moving about to repair and replace his damaged and dead cells.

After a moment all of the damage to his face and throat should be repaired.

If he is one of the 1/10 people who is compatible with Senko's clan's senjutsu, that's the end of it. He's healed.

Otherwise... Well, he's still going to need to go to the hospital but he's got hours instead of minutes.

Senko herself, meanwhile, shrinks. She now appears to be eight years old and is even more smol than normal.

[Lord Raziere]

"I am not going and criticizing people and tell them what to do. And I understand the complexities and tests this dark realm forcing upon us. I will never be great as my pasifist ancestors. As those monks who didn't took practice in their carnal needs. My karma is at least somewhat tainted. I am not perfect,nor pretend to be." Giyazo say.
"I have compassion. And, well, you were stuck in a situation, where there gender role confusion. I am not a judge. But being forced into such a situation must have made a toil on your soul, even if you don't feel it right away. Like shin splints which slowly creep on you, until one day, they cripple you down,for at least few month. Again. The light and balanced ways cannot be forced upon those who grew beyond it's shine- but out of compassion,I will always hope and reach out. Until then I will fight to keep the order and karma of me, and my clan as less damaged as possible. But I am not a judge, one can only be judged by his own soul. I have compassion to all living beings. You are a young and wise boy. Maybe in the future, you could carry the village on your shoulders. For now, without our more... direct guidance, I feel it would be cruel to support you into a position which will destroy you.'

Jirou:
So that is their logic.
"I disagree, this world is a wondrous place and worth fighting for not some dark realm. As for my situation...I also disagree. It didn't and won't cause me some vague spiritual pain, it widened my view of the world, it allowed me learn so that I could teach, what you see as corruption- I see as a form of enlightenment. It allowed me to love my sister in a new way I never would have without it. To be able to understand more than one viewpoint, to allow more than one way to be right but also for something to mean as much or as less as one wants it to mean- something like gender. If anything, my situation freed me to understand more about the world than I ever thought possible. And I think I understand what you are now, though I don't agree with it. I will take note of your beliefs and not invite you to any reversed gender role parties."
Both he and Kikenna get up and head towards the door, opening it and stepping outside but before they shut it:
"Anyways, nice talking to you, hope you do well and just to be completely honest?"
POOF!
Both ninja let their disguise jutsu drop to reveal.....that Jirou was actually Kikenna, and the Kikenna was actually Jirou. they had been disguised as each other the entire dinner since before they walked in. That was their final plan: to show that a woman was the one they were treating as a man this whole time.
"You were talking to me the whoooooole time!! Nice acting don't you agree?"
"Indeed. It was flawless. Everything she said was true by the way: those are my beliefs, I just made sure she was able to express them just as well as I would beforehand."
"You acted me like pretty well too! Come on, time to go "spiritually corrupt" ourselves like crrrazaaaay! Hehehehehahaha!"
They then shut the door and go jumping away to do something else. They know this stunt might probably hurt them in some way down the line with the Fukaimi, but it was worth it.

[igordragonian]

The man breath again, but in coma.
"Oi, Senko-chan, are you alright?'

Commotion start, more and more guards are coming.
In two minutes a medic nin arrive.


-----

(Do Jirou carry a communication radio thing?)

The usually calm Giyazu gasp in widen eyes, most are shocked as well, some are straightforward angry.
Nozojo won't like it. But it was funny, and maybe teaching moment.

also, is a cat snickering from a corner?

[Rater202]

"I am fine. I simply donated some of my biomass to heal his injuries. It is fine, I will regenerate soon enough. A cost benefit scenario, by the time a medic would have been here he would have suffered permanent brain damage."

Senko gets up and pulls her robe back on. It's too big now.

"When the medic gets here, tell them that he's going to need to be treated for acute chakra poisoning as soon as possible but... Wait. Tell them to start treatment but keep him here, I just remembered something that'll drastically improve his odds of pulling through."

Senko immediately takes off running for her lab. When she gets there, she grabs a vial of the experimental mixture of drugs and herbal extracts she's been using to help the experimental rats integrate her cells and chakra into their own.

With this, the man's compatibility with her chakra should improve.

The medics should be there when she gets back.

[Lord Raziere]

(I'm just going to assume yes, yes he does)

Jirou:
He receives a radio call about the lab being attacked and moves to intercept.
"aaaaw, I was looking forward to see you cross-dress. You would make a pretty girl."
"Thanks? To be honest, I think the best you could do male wise would be something androgynously pretty."
"Thats fair."
Whenever they arrive they will try to take stock of the situation as best they can.

Kimiko:
She looks at her plans for achieving all jutsu, written a couple years ago, looking over them:

Spoiler: Kimikos plan to achieve Mastery of All Jutsu.

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Step One: Achieve Immortality
there is more jutsu than one can possibly learn in one lifetime, therefore the obvious solution is to make you live forever so that you can live all the lifetimes. Methods of achieving this are not yet certain.

Step Two Step Three: Achieve God Memory
However being immortal will not itself guarantee learning all jutsu. The next problem is addressing the ability to remember all jutsu, since the human mind is a limited thing. Therefore one most achieve the memory of a god to even begin making sure you retain all the jutsu information you learn over your immortal life. How to achieve memory of a god requires structures to house that memory since ones brain houses the memory. Therefore one most make an incredibly powerful brain achieving this god-memory or perhaps somehow connect multiple brains together to store the information? But brains need energy to sustain them, thats why we have bodies, so in turn I need massive amounts of energy to power my enhanced super-brain or multi-brains to memorize jutsu. On second thought, memory is probably the third step.

Real Step Two: Achieve God Energy
Its clear that before I can truly build the god memory, I must first acquire enough energy to sustain such a memory. There are many sources of power in this world, such as: oil, coal, the sun, volcanoes, rushing water, tailed beasts, natural energy from sage ninjas, and wind.
-Volcanoes, running water and wind and the like will limit my movement not ideal for my purposes, even if I could harness this energy, a lot of it would involve stationary ways of gaining the energy.
-Oil and coal is formed from remains of long-dead plants and animals, the circumstances of creation while theoretically can be replicated with a combination of powerful wood and earth jutsu to create and compress the matter, I do not consider a worthwhile process to pursue as the chakra requirements and he trouble involved would be more than it is worth.
-the sun could theoretically be harnessed with the right wood jutsu to absorb its rays. All it would take is to figure out how to optimize a jutsu-made plant to absorb the suns rays for maximum photo-synthesis. Requires me to gain wood jutsu however, currently only attainable by kekkei genkai. Possible Step 1.5: engineer around kekkei genkai limitations?
-natural sage energy: there are legends of these techniques to absorb energy from the environment use Sage techniques. All it needs is chakra control, a summoning contract, and meditation. Only problem is whether to share it with me would probably by the animals choice. hm.
-the tailed beasts have potential. They certainly give the most chakra per body, as well as come with built in abilities to help their hosts survive. Problem is to get even one involves high-level political meddling, incredibly dangerous fuinjutsu to transfer them from one person to another, probably having to fight them myself, if anything goes wrong it will be disastrous. The Jinchuuriki are frankly powerhouses amid scalpels, I am confused at how badly the nations treat them, as its generally not wise to mistreat people raised from birth to have the power to destroy cities.
On the other hand if they are so badly treated, if I can figure out a method to take the tailed beast out of the host without killing them- there has to be, a smoother transition of power to the new generation is more optimal and that includes the person that can teach the new jinchuuriki how to wield their vast power- then I can perhaps go to the more badly mistreated ones and persuade them that I can cure their cursed status, give them normality. I might even only need one of the tailed beasts for my purposes and given the raw power nature of the tailed beasts I doubt their abilities are all that unique, they are without technique or skill, thus I doubt the tailed beasts have much need to learn new ways of using their power. Once the energy requirements are met, replicating anything they do is probably more of a matter of nature transformation than anything else.

Step Four: Gathering all Jutsu
The next step is complicated, I must gather all jutsu in one place so that I may start learning them at my convenience. Problem is, is it even possible to acquire them all legitimately? Given all the other steps, the Shinobi nations would likely view me as a threat even before I start doing this, give that if I'm at this step, I'd probably have some big source of power, immortality and creating some way of memorizing vast amounts of information. Ninja are inherently secretive of their techniques, some willing to take them to the grave. Hunter-nin are designed to make sure they don't spill secrets even after that. Kekkei Genkai requires genetics to function at all, which requires figuring out how to engineer around kekkei genkai. At this point, my efforts have to be patient, careful. I have to look like I'm not a threat to the villages. Then there is the jutsu known only by those who are already dead. Do I dare to try to figure out a way to resurrect people from the dead? If I do I have figure out what people I can ethically or morally bring back to serve the cause of knowledge.

Another thing to seriously consider is whether I want to attempt to acquire the Sharingan from the Uchihas. Their ability to acquire Jutsu by sight would speed up the process immensely, and Dojutsu are transferable unlike most kekkei genkai. There is a risk to this as they themselves are powerful ninja and would not give up their most powerful ability to any enemy, much less a rival clan like an Ishikawa. I will in all likelihood have to use force to get even one eye- but one eye would be all I need for my purposes. I doubt most of the fanciful legends involving the Sharingans higher capabilities are even true, as there is no consistency or logic to what the legends claim they do.
The true hard part of course is convincing the shinobi nations that I'm not a threat, or at least that I'm not worth going after. Ninja are paranoid and will see a threat in me regardless of what I do. Perhaps the power of Ninshu if I can discover its secrets, can allow me to get my meanings across to others?
Or perhaps I simply need someone that can handle the social side of things. Someone who will understand my cause. An Advocate, so to speak. Such an advocate will need to be someone I can trust beyond all others. But what social expert would advocate my cause? Not clear.

Even if I do gather all much jutsu, that makes me a huge target for other people to steal the knowledge, which means I have to figure out a powerful means of securing the knowledge so that they don't. If they want to learn all jutsu as well, they have to share. Maybe start copying and selling copies of jutsu to others so they also have what they want?

Step five: Learning All Jutsu:
If I accomplish these steps, theoretically I can just settle into having the greatest library of jutsu that will ever be that will be constantly updated by ninja contributing to it as the years pass by. I don't expect the work of learning them all to be finished any time soon. My dream is intentionally designed to be long and to occupy my time as much as possible, to provide me with things to do for a long time than a realistic platform I can definitively achieve, for if I achieve it, once I am the top of the mountain where to go from there? Step six is unknown to me, hopefully there is no limit to what I can learn. For if I finally reach the pinnacle....

....What will I do then?

She still has no answer for the question at the bottom. At the current moment, she doesn't particularly care.

[igordragonian]

Coincidently or not, the medic nin is a Fukaimi member.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X9W2L2A6DUc/hqdefault.jpg
It was one of their preffered roles, due to their idealogy. But usually the village's needs pushed them to other roles which were more efficent with their bloodline ability.

Senko might know this guys, he is one of veterans of the medic nins, and come here, probably more often then anyone here would have liked.
Shizumeru is in middle of treating the injured guy.
'Ah.' He give glance at Senko. 'You, and your antics again? Well, you lucky it worked out this time. He'll live. Though, I wouldn't suggest him to rap anytime soon.'



Jirou should have no trouble to get there, but where ever he go, it seems there are cats.
He does see a character jump from the lab's window to a roof- if he want to try and chase him..

[Rater202]

"My antics are going to revolutionize the world, Medic-san," Senko replies, annoyed at being disrespected by a member of a family that embodied everything backward about the ninja world. She hands him the drug. "Give him this, it should help his recovery. Unless you need me, I have some... leads to follow up on."

If she's not stopped, Senko goes back to her lab and, after getting her cadaver and parts scroll back from Menko, partitions out the retrived sample of the intruder's blood. One sample is set aside to give to the village's forensics team(which Senko will do offscreen,) while the majority of the blood is put in a special vial and resealed for the sake of her research later.

And then... Then she heads to the abandoned communications lab.

[igordragonian]

Shizumeru is relativly more open the most of his clan, due to socializing with others more, and for more years. But he never liked the labs. Or Senko, or anything that the labs did. But he was proffesional enough to keep it dry interactions.
And he just nod. But he won't trust those vial, until someone like Jirou will tell him to.

If anytime, were good for snooping around- this was.
The masked wierdo did suceeded, in making distractions.

The old communication lab. This was one, Nozojo's kingdom. He revoulatianized the communcation tech, in a way no other village did, mostly finding way to make it cheap and accesable to the point, every team had at least one device.
Here, his dreams of the radio station was born.
Most of what remained here, is crap.
Random nice crap, that tech geeks would love, but still a piles of crap.
search will lead her under the working table, there were a safe in the table, with a sealing paper- that seemed to require certain set of seals in order to unlock it.
But who know what traps have Nozojo planted here, in case she failed?
Can she trust a creep with this?

[Rater202]

Senko hardens her body with her limbs of heavenly steel ability, then does the proper seals. dog, horse, rabbit, dragon, dog.

If he was telling the truth... Paydirt.

If he was lying... Well, she was going to have to drain mass out of a cadaver anyway, to heal her broken fingers and grow back to her natural height.

In a way, Senko's life depends on perfecting her cell grafting technique. It's the key to stabaizing her chakra and thus, getting her rages under control. If this can help her... She has to take the risk.

[igordragonian]

Senko hardens her body with her limbs of heavenly steel ability, then does the proper seals. dog, horse, rabbit, dragon, dog.

If he was telling the truth... Paydirt.

If he was lying... Well, she was going to have to drain mass out of a cadaver anyway, to heal her broken fingers and grow back to her natural height.

In a way, Senko's life depends on perfecting her cell grafting technique. It's the key to stabaizing her chakra and thus, getting her rages under control. If this can help her... She has to take the risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B27y...annel=evananic

The safe humm, something vibrating...
the trap might not be as simple as tanking damage.
it might-
the door slide and open.
There is ledder downside.
Assuming Senko dare venture inside-

Spoiler: Inside the safe

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It's a room.
A child's room.
A nice child's room.
Either for some chidren, or simply hosting few stages of the same child- cradle, small bed, and a bed for a bid child.
There are toys, manga books, a nice rug of 'Super Samurai', scrolls of jutsus... and an operating bed.
vials. tubes. There is another door, which lead to a training room, expansive and impressive, with summon seal sealed into the metalic floor- to summon some kind of animal?

There is a note on the homework desk, where at least chunin level work were worked on, and the notworks were written to belong to 'Ottomaru- The Son and Hope Of Ottokagure!'

On the bed, there is a photo, of a younger and happier looking Nozojo, hugging a child. https://assets.puzzlefactory.pl/puzz...5/original.jpg
on the back of the photo written
'Me and daddy.'

[Rater202]

Senko sheds a single tear, a thousand scenarios flooding her mind and none of them good, then forces herself into serious mode.

She came here for a reason. She can cry later.

She looks through the notes and documents... What happened here?

[Lord Raziere]

Jirou:
He spots the figure jumping
"Kikenna, make sure Senko is safe, I have someone to pursue."
He leaps away, following the figure and calling out while drawing his sword
"I don't recognize you! Stop! before I take you by force!"
He had no time to waste, the lab was attacked and any figure unaccounted for had to be.

Meanwhile Kikenna goes into the lab and quickly runs to see the scene of the crime asking to the ninja around.
"What happened here? Where is Senko? Jirou is pursuing some figure we didn't see at the moment, I'm here to check the situation his stead."

[igordragonian]

As Jirou chase the figure, he notice a small cat running on two in parallel-
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...708Eg&usqp=CAU


He might recongnize him from Kimiko's stories as one of the summoned animals who serve the Nekozaki clan. Though their servitude might have a diffrent tone-
They reffer to the Nekozaki's clan as "cousins".
The escaping character has long sleeves, which wierdly flay like flags behind him.
Stop.
I hate you.
Jirou hear a voice echo in his head. The voice filled with rage and bloodlust.
But it sound like a boy? Old as Kimiko?
He jump on a roof, kicking water tank at his pursuers.
"You try to steal my place. I hate you.
But your death won't help my plans, so stop.
I hate you. To spread despair, I still need you alive.
I hate you. Leave me ALONE!"
he try to manipulate Jirou's emotions with a screech powered by a jutsu, pumping Jirou's heart with an artifical terror.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!"

------

The injured lab guard, is carried on a strecher, Shirumeru notice Kikena. He tolerate kunichis-many are kunichis,after all. But he carry shades, probably to hide his disdain.
But still,he is one of the veteran medics.
And right now seems to be in command of the scene.
"The long sleeved missing nin has attacked again. Targeting Jirou's brat,Senko. He is a complete mad man-he stole some important documents but then made paper shurikens out of them- and all documents were saved or destroyed... he seemed to only care for Senko.
This guy here, got an acid splash at his face... I must admit, that brat Senko has saved him, using her... exprimential powers. She even offered to improve it-" he is showing the vial.
Shirumeru didn't liked Senko, but he wad trying to be fair. "I don't feel like doing expriements, but if Jirou will take responsibility over the results I will do it. He will live, we just taking him to recovery." He report.

"I told the guards to spread and look for bombs and other things,the missing nin might have done. Senko was here three minutes ago"

------

It seems that someone(the Ottokage?) Has stripped away any infromaration that would be directly useful. No scientific journals or anything like that.

But,Senko can find some glimpses of hints- there is a small radio, with a chibi heyna sticker, which it seems get three channels,with titles-
"Hope Generation Classroom"
"Daddy's office"
And "Anbu Command Center".

And the notebooks- they are quite high level. Some might challenge even Jirou's knowledge.
But nothing that Senko wouldnt have acces to,if she searched for.
A lot about bloodlines and sound based jutsu.

But, more intresting(?) Are some comments which... Ottomaru(?) Has written and scriblled at the sides of his notebooks.
Things like
"Wow. Ameoku is scary"
"The pills make me apathic, but daddy say it will make me the greatest shinobi, so I could protect and heal all those broken people. I love this village. Can't wait to actually meet them" scribble of musical note*

Or "Usagi is crazy. Hahaha. I can't wait meeting her!"
Comments that show that... he know the Hope Generation quite well. Each of them.
"Mayuwo sucks. But I'll deal with him"
"Yoru is so badass!"
Later he has drawn stick figure style scribbles- drawing someone with shark teeth.
"Ouch! Does those damn teeth ache and hurt so much to Kimiko as well?"
The page is actually bitten off, and few spots of blood(?) Stain it.

Or "How do I push back my rib? Ouch"
Later notebooks

"Hearing everything six times sucks."

"My head hurt. The new pills doesn't help'
"My head hurt."
"Why does my head have to hurt?"
'Why can't everyone just shut up?"

Now there are.. "violent" scriblles, of stick men people which get hurt in creative ways.
"Why can't everyone just shut up?"

And last comment.
"Hope is a lie. I will save them from the lie. I will save them all."

Senko can search more and more... but being caught here might be dangerouse. The Ottokage bothered to hide this place after all.

[Rater202]

Senko leaves the room and closes the vault behind her... She can... She'll come back later... Right now...

Senko starts heading back to her laboratory. She'll probably be visible to anyone looking for her on the way, but... (Unless she ends up crossing the crime scene?)

Senko is no longer planning to handover the blood sample to forensics. She's sure that nothing will come of it.

...The gears turning in her mind tkeep coming back to a dangerously reckless plan to force the whole story out though.

[Lord Raziere]

Jirou:
He quickly shakes off the genjutsu, maintaining his control. He felt terror before. He remembers when he was six, with only a kunai and barely any training to his name, remembering when the flames of his first home and driving a kunai into a genin's heart. He remembers fleeing Kirigakure in terror surrounded by people more powerful than him, death imminent at any moment. This was nothing compared to that day. He sheathes his sword and quickly forms hand seals in response
"Water Release: Water Tentacle Jutsu."
He makes water burst out of the water tank to try and entangle the figure in watery bindings.
"You will explain yourself. If your working with Futility-San, interrogation is the best option I can give you."

Kikenna:
"Noted. I'll pass along the message, and I'm sure he will have a response in the morning. Good we need to make sure this place is more secure from now on. Do you know where Senko WENT? Pretty sure we don't want a child potentially going off on their own in a dangerous sitch like this."