Bear Hunting? Bear Hunting :3 [Open.]

The Harukage decided that losing his arm was a much better option than losing his life. Were Kaia-Mai any other kind of person? She could have respected him for that. But she wasn't, and she didn't. It was like a deer fleeing in terror, doing everything it could to escape. She sort of expected Ranmaru to keep chasing after him but he didn't, instead he seemed almost like he was bored.

Kaia's general freakout, her mental breakdown, was passing fairly quickly. The Harukage was gone, she doubted he would make it home let alone come back - and even then she wasn't worried because he'd end up bringing backup and given Kaia's sensory she would hear that coming this time around. Ranmaru mentioning having a present for her was what fully snapped her out of the remainder of her freakout, as well as what caused her to deactivate both her Kamui technique as well as her Eternal Mankgekyo Sharingan.

She made her way back to camp, coming to a stop nearby Ranmaru with her head tilted in curiosity to the left. "Present for bunny? Bunny likes presents! What is it?", she asked in her usual whisper-soft voice. She was back to being the calm and quiet "child" she usually was now.

He moved toward his furs and pelts, diving into the pile and settling into them without any effort or hassle, standing up and returning to his usual hunched, bear like stance. He tossed the wrapped arm toward her, knowing she'd catch it without a problem, and returned to his carving, "Flesh of the manling. Might taste good. Use the bones for a necklace." Simple enough, pretty standard from him, too. He was reaching for the little pile of wood he'd saved from the pile of firewood, reaching for his bone knife and going back to making repair parts for his tanning racks; which had managed to escape being damaged by the idiot Kage trying to spawn more forest within the forest. Fresh firewood, and an extra canopy over their heads. Yay.

"Cub-child. Any dinner around?" It wasn't like they didn't have a massive amount of food with them as it was, but he prefered fresh meat for his meals when possible, and while the majority of the larger beasts would be gone, they could possibly find enough smaller beasts, birds, eggs, etc to make a decent stew with; he had raided a village for 'fresh' produce before going to get her, and it would keep forever within one of the myriad of seal scrolls he kept on him, and in inception-level storage, within other scrolls.

He was just about to start carving when his head shot up and he looked around for a moment, that look of utter 'I has idea' on his face. He fixated on a particular rock formation that had been uprooted and moved by the intruders attempts to stop him from eating him; the rocks where large, but seemed to have fairly flat bottoms, and the way they had moved had them forming a natural square bowl of sorts. This gave the psycho one an idea. He shot up entirely and bounded over to it, cackling before he began blasting water from his mouth like a firehose; Archerfish, a pretty standard jutsu for anyone from the water country territory to know. He was washing the dirt and grime of the rocks and letting it overflow so that when he was done there was a large pool of very fresh water filling the basin. Perfect, no having to walk to the nearby streams, nor touching their saved stores now. Excellent.

He trotted back to his work, and settled back into working on it, humming a soft tune in time to his carving.

WC: 425

425 + 2061 = 2486

2486/5000 D-Rank Doroton

Jutsu and Chakra:

An arm? Kaia caught it without issue and unwrapped it carefully. For being ripped off it was in otherwise good condition, and filled still with blood as it had had no way of esaping. Blood... why was blood of a arm important? Why was the blood of a Senju's arm important? Why was it important to a Uchiha girl? Senju.. important... to a... Uchiha? Kaia-Mai sat there for a moment while carefully holding the arm so that none of the blood escaped, lost in deep contemplation; so much so that she hardly even blinked when Ranmaru made quick work of making a fresh makeshift bowl of water for them, let alone his question about dinner.

Kaia-Mai would just continue to stare forward in an unresponsive almost cataonic like state, as if looking at something that wasn't there, and in truth she was: her memories were playing themselves like a movie as she searched the knowledge that had once been implanted into her mind. Why was Senju blood important to a Uchiha?

Suddenly she shifted, grinning from ear to ear. "There is a bunny about 30 meters to the north east, a deer about 50 meters to the south. A bird and her eggs are in a tree about fifteen feet to your immediate right; the white and grey colored tree." As Kaia spoke, answering Ranmaru's question as soon as her brain allowed her to, she made quick work of using a syringe from her medical kit which she had wipped out with quickness to drain blood from the arm and store it in several vials. She would continue to repeat this process with a little wicked grin on her face until the arm would yield no more.

"Hehehe... Senju gave up his blood. Senju gave up his blood with a Uchiha around. Heheheehehe... Kaia's gonna get Rinnegan. Yes, yes, yes. Bastard told me about Rinnegan." The bastard she was referring to of course being her biological father. "Much stronger than what I have now. Much stronger eyes. Heheeheheee..." Oh she was overjoyed; actually, that was putting it mildly with the way she was having to restrain herself from bouncing in her spot.

Rinne-wha'? What was a... oh wait. Wait. He knew this. An old legend among his clan, they kept histories and legends in their cloth; tapestries that recorded history beyond history and stories beyond mythos. Stories of the strange ring-eyes that gave abilities on the level of the gods he didn't acknowledge or trust, the power to rule the world or destroy it, depending on whom had them at the time.

Interesting.

"You become god, Cub-child?" He wasn't even close to the right mental set to be able to vocalize his thoughts, beyond what he did say. It was close enough, it was right in the general sense of what the upgraded eyes would give. Very, very interesting.

"Cub-child wishes to leave me, hm? Ring-eyes make Cub-child god-person, hmmm?" His voice was his usual flat monotone, but she would be able to sense that the idea of that made him... unhappy. "What does Cub-child want with Ring-eyes, if not to leave and be god-person?"

WC: 184

184 + 2486 = 2670 D-Rank Doroton.

Had Kaia's eyes not been covered up with the silky white cloth she would have blinked several times in what would clearly be a startled pay. As it was she simply tilted her head to the side to show her curiosity in all of its splendor. God child? Well, why not? Leaving Ranmaru? Not likely. No, if Kaia did happen across powers like these it would be something she wanted to share - at least with him.

It was clear Ranmaru was... upset... with the idea, but she wouldn't leave him that way for long hopefully. "Leave? No, no. I'll never leave. Never, ever, ever! I want to share with you my Rinnegan if you wish! You could be god-like too! Maybe we could use our powers to bring back the really big predators and prey; like mammoths. Stuff that would be fun and challenging to hunt." A grin spread across her face as she pictured it: she rather enjoyed hunting with Ranmaru, and the more dangerous the prey the more fun it tended to be - especially since Kaia liked a challenge.

She then tilted her head in the other direction, becoming serious once more. "Bunny shall never leave your side, no matter what power the Bunny gets."

"Leave? No, no. I'll never leave. Never, ever, ever! I want to share with you my Rinnegan if you wish! You could be god-like too! Maybe we could use our powers to bring back the really big predators and prey; like mammoths. Stuff that would be fun and challenging to hunt." ... "Bunny shall never leave your side, no matter what power the Bunny gets."

Oh good. This pleased the bear-man, and his demeanor changed to reflect so instantly; a pick up to his shoulders, even a hair of a ghost of a smile on his lips, the rhythm of his strokes and depth of the blade evening out until it was back to the fluid, easy movements of the master craftsmen he was beyond all the rage and psychosis and anger and animalistic characteristics. "No use for god-powers. Have use for Cub-child. Cub-child stays with god powers. This pleases me."

Sentimental, it was the place in his life he could 'feel' such a human emotion; in relation to the one and only living creature that he chose to keep nearby. She was a perfect tool, yes; but there was just enough spark of humanity hiding deep in the maelstrom of insane for him to look beyond that to the companion he'd always wanted and needed. He didn't have to do to her what was done to him to have what he needed; her differing psychosis and experience made them stronger as a pair and that meant they could survive better; which meant that even the animal in him was happy to continue their partnership.

He finished the carving and began strapping the repairs into the wracks so that he could get to drying the furs they did have with them; little things like bunny and raccoon and such. It'd be a day or so before the big game filtered back into this region after the stunt that Kage pulled, so they had time to kill.

"Cub-child. You ever see a mudslide?"

WC: 350

350 + 2670 = 3020/5000 D-Rank Doroton.

Kaia giggled happily, glad to see that Ranmaru's upset had changed around. She truly had no urge to leave his side, and no reason to do so. Even if she did happen to gain god-like powers through the Rinnegan she would continue to remain by his side - although, she hadn't been kidding about trying to find a way to bring back some of the more giant prey that was now extinct. She enjoyed hunting, she enjoyed a challenge: she'd wrestle a bear if she could get away with it. Vicious adorable bunny and all that rot!

She then went back to watching Ranmaru work; it was rather interesting. Kaia, despite her crazed personality, rather liked to watch people go about various tasks. This enjoyment was doubled with Ranmaru as he did things a bit differently than most. In fact, it was hard sometimes to know what to expect from him from one moment to the next, but perhaps that was why they worked out so well, as she too could snap and change at a moments notice.

At Ranmaru's question she would offer a tilt of her head in curiosity as she so often did, bunny ears extending until they were completely erect. "No, but I want to!" A grin swept across her face from ear to ear, and it was taking all of her inner strength not to jump up and down like a very excited child.

"Mudslides are forces of nature. Pure destruction let loose upon the lands. They wreck everything indiscriminately, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it... Only gravity is the master of the mudslide, and even that is an uneasy control." A moment of lucidity and conscious, a moment where the former eloquence of a 'noble' clan appearing before the animal returned and he was himself; or the himself that he is now; came back into play. "I want that power. Trap the big and dangerous and break it. Trap the man and make it cower in new ways. Show the man why he is not master."

In a way that was him agreeing with her idea of bringing back the large beasts. He missed the large beasts, there where a very tiny few left in the deepest parts of the wildlands, but he let them be unless there was a reason otherwise; he only culled the weak and dying, as was the ways of the beasts and the jungles and forests and world beyond man. He had access to enough of the genetic material of all of them to clone a bunch of herds if he could find a scientist or medic with the skill, but a Rinnegan... yeah. That could bring the entire species back, in the hands of the right person.

"I learn how to do the mudslides. I will master it. It will be fun." He was visibly vibrating with excitement over this idea; he'd been sitting on it for a while, but the flat tundra of the high water country wasn't good for learning mud and the ways of the mudslide. The hills and valleys of the forest country? Perfect. Mudslides where natural here, they wouldn't raise suspicion during his training and his work, so he could get really good, go destroy a village or two, and move on. Maybe go get more material for Cub-Child to work on her idea for the Rinnegan... or something. Who knows where his mind would be later in the hour, let alone later in the day or week. He was set on the idea of Doroton, on learning to control mud and mudslides and all that wonderful destruction. That was going to be epic fun times, yep.

WC: 400

3020 + 400 = 3420/5000 D-Rank Doroton [4000 D-Rank Tertiary + 1000 Element requirement]