fallen_ryouma, posting in
fallenleavesooc @ 11:51am: New thread: Ryouma and Katsuko
Ryouma's never been too good at aftermaths. And after things with Kakashi took a sharp turn for the disastrous in
All My Regrets Are Nothing New, he signed up for the first mission out of Konoha. The problem with running is that sometimes, you run straight into someone else. Katsuko's got issues of her own--and while she can appreciate Ryouma's biceps and wonder about his scars, she's much less appreciative when he starts asking about her own.
Sometimes the armor the Quartermaster issues isn't the most important kind. Check out
Lay Your Armor Down, Part I of a three-part arc, to find out what happens when those invisible shields start to crack.
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fallen_ryouma, posting in
fallen_leaves @ 10:53am: Lay Your Armor Down [Ryouma, Katsuko]
Takes place April 6, the morning after All My Regrets Are Nothing New, a week after Katsuko and Ryuichi's mission in Knife's Edge and No Rest for the Wicked.Ryouma stopped by the mission office just before breakfast, right after his morning workout and the mission desk shift change. The gangly young chuunin who manned the desk for the morning shift was new--he'd just come in a few weeks ago, after an injured knee took him off active duty for the next month or two--and unlikely to ask questions. In fact he seemed much more interested in the sudoku puzzle in his newspaper than in the reasons Ryouma had spent a week on Personal Leave and now wanted the first mission that would take him out of Konoha. "Things're always slow at the beginning of the week," he said, poking through the open-assignment missions stacked on his desk. "There's a B-rank surveillance out in Mangrove Country, but--"
"I need somethin' with less time to think," Ryouma said. "Team'd be good." Dammit, where were Arata and Hiroyuki when he needed them? "There's not anything up by the Lightning Country border, is there? Near the post that replaced the Dainichi Nyorai Temple Base?"
"Operations there are extremely limited right now," the chuunin said firmly. "But... Hold on a sec." He swiveled his chair around to paw through another basket of sealed scrolls. "You said your name was Tousaki, right? Then you're just in time. Another two days and they'd probably have pulled you off Personal Leave for this one, or assigned someone else. Reiko-san must've been keeping this one back for you. You're good with straightforward assassinations, aren't you?"
( 'My specialty,' Ryouma said. 'Who's coming along for the ride?' )
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