Leftovers

Ooc: Well it's been well over 48 hours. I didn't want to do this but it's time to get this show on the road. Calling hits

A small splash of blood filled the air as unexpectedly the Shikenri found its mark. The legendary class spear backed up by the Queen’s sage mode enhanced strength cleaved through the transformed Raijin’s chest where most other blades would have bounced off his tough hide.

Pulling the spear loose with zero resistance caused yet more blood to spay even as the trust rapidly repeated itself four more times striking the man in rapid succession. In all honesty Ryuko had been expecting him to block her using the Yata mirror again. In her estimate she wasn’t going to find out it’s exact limits so quickly but for whatever reason the rengadge hadn’t managed to react in time and thus taken the full extent of her Echo flash technique.

It seemed Rajin’s luck hadn’t run out after all. Perhaps due to his enlarged size she hadn’t struck his heart or lungs which would have instantly been leathly. Even in that case a lesser man would no doubt have died instantly but Rajin was made of stern stuff and so instead was merely knocked unconscious from the accumulated damage reverting him to his base form.

It would have been so simple, so easy to allow him to plummet to his death but instead in one swift move Ryuko holstered her spear and caught Rajin’s hand before he could get too far from her. It wasn’t that she cared in particular one way or another if the missing ninja bit the dust, but she figured returning him to Nozomi alive might win her some brownie points.

Still if she wanted to keep him alive he was going to require immediate medical treatment since he was still bleeding profusely from his wounds. As a doctor the blood was something she could deal with without too much trouble but the chakra he was losing was another problem entirely. The wounds her spear produced were not something she could fix properly yet needing a specialized jutsu that was still in the experimentation phase.

Out of an abundance of caution she used her kata to sucked some of the chakra out of him just to ensure he wouldn't have as much fight in him if by some miracle he managed to regain consciousness.

With one Raijin down and the other safely contained inside the fire barrier Ryuko descended softly down to the island. With the battle over it and all the obstacles between them dealt with, it was finally the long awaited time for her to speak with Nozomi.

[exit to Kariforunia Love]

Battle stuff:

ooc: contiuned from https://gladiusnarutorp.forumotion.com/t4274-clash-in-the-sky-ryuko-vs-raijin-tow#34437

A loud thump sound rang out as Rajin’s unconscious and battered form was dumped at Nozomi’s feet. Well at least one of the two Rajin anyhow as the other one was still trapped in a sphere of fire courtesy of Ryuko’s boss summon Gamera.

The young queen wanted to make a wisecrack about keeping attack dogs on a short leash as she gracefully landed about 10 feet away, retracting her wings and powering down in the process. She found herself uncharacteristically tongue tied at the sight of her long sought after crush. How many years had it been since they had last been face to face like this?

The queen wondered if Nozomi could even recognize her after all this time since she wasn’t wearing her trademark priestess robes but coversd head to toe in a suit of armor. Reaching up a hand she removed her helm revealing her face for the first time since today’s had truly begun.

Originally she had planned to confront Nozomi at the Shinobi world tournament, using their match as an excuse to ask the missing ninja to abandon Honiko and the society and join her instead. She had been only inches away from her goal only to fail at the last second due to falling into a coma.

Since she had woken up barely a moment had gone by where she hadn’t been thinking about Nozomi in some form or fashion. How much time had she spent researching what the woman had been up to while she had been asleep? How much more had she spent trying to track her down.

As the current leader of the society Nozomi wasn’t the most wanted woman in the world for nothing. It was a testament to both her elusiveness and power that so few battles had been recorded against her in the intervening years. Beyond the battle at the Blood prison and at the skirmish at Kiri’s gates she had rarely been spotted leaving the Queen with little clues to go on as to her location.

There were so many things she needed to say. So many questions she needed to ask but yet she found herself able to speak none of them. She was so overcome with emotion that it battered down her usual iron will, allowing her true feelings of joy to show rather than her usual calm and composed poker face.

“I’ve missed you.” she finally managed to squeak out quietly, right now she wasn’t speaking from the head but from the heart as she took a slow step forward her arms spread wide in an attempt to embrace Nozomi in a hug. Some might criticize this move as an act of utter foolishness. They hadn’t seen each other in so long and were technically not on the same side at all.

The society had declared war on the major powers so if anything that should make them enemies. But at the same time they had just fought together for the same purpose, to protect this flying island from crashing down and killing countless civilians. That was enough for Ryuko to believe their was still some room left for them to come to some kind of agreement, that they didn’t have to default to automatically fighting each other
Above all she had faith in the kind of woman Nozomi was. The kind that if she wanted a fight she’d challenge you head on. She wasn’t the type to take advantage of a tender moment to slide a knife between your ribs. Ryuko didn’t have any way to know what the future might hold but she had just fought tooth and nail just for the moment.

It was greedy of her with the constant fighting going on elsewhere but perhaps her god Hakkin would finally allow her a brief respite of happiness after the years of loneliness she had endured.

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