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After the Fourth Great Shinobi World War ended, the world was experiencing a time of peace. The villages for once were able to live in relative harmony with one another as they rebuilt, and for once, all seemed to be well. The kage were able to live peaceful lives and soon began retiring, passing on the baton to the next generations. That is until an unknown virus infects the northern coast. The first to fall is the once powerful Raikage, Ay. While many thought this virus was a simple mutation of what may have well been the flu, no one would ever think of the destruction it would cause. Especially when it infected a certain Uzumaki Naruto.
With his death came the malice; with the malice came the destruction; with the destruction came the shinobi' revolt; and with the revolt came the sacrifices. The Bijuu became filled with malice that they sought to destroy the world. Shinobi sought a way to fight them and once again capture each of the Bijuu. Time passed, and a plan was devised. The Jinchuuriki would be sacrificed for the greater good of the world, and with the deaths of nine individuals, an uneasy peace began.
As time continued, the villages began to truly restructure. In a peace that would last 80 years after the downfall of the Bijuu, the world would see the creation of a great many things. Technology was beginning to take root and before long the blossoms that grew from the tree of the advanced mind would bear fruit. A many great things came to be. A railroad between the vast many nations. Mechanical limbs to replace lost ones. Radios that could reach between villages. Everything seemed to be becoming less reliant on the shinobi. Only the need for them never truly vanished. As with the growth of time, also continued the growth of malice.
When the other two showed up Saverio had half a mind to tell them to simply fuck off, but when Iku tugged on his long hair, he was like a puppy whacked with a newspaper. He'd behave, for at least a moment. However, when she started clearing the blood away from his arm he couldn't hold back the yelp of pain when her hand graced over the location of the fracture in his forearm. At least it wasn't a compound fracture, but the bone was still broken nonetheless and hurt like a son of a bitch. Saverio hissed.
"Tch," he wanted to hiss and growl at them. He wanted to tell them he didn't need their help. He wanted to skewer them on a pike, but his body didn't move. It was almost like he was frozen there in time. The world moved on without him. How? "...." No coherent thoughts came out as words, instead he was just silent, rendered to a state of where he merely whimpered as though he were a kicked puppy every time any pressure met the fracture. It was pathetic, but he'd have no recollection of the incident. His body had gone into auto-pilot. It was now only instinct. Only fight or flight, but there was no real danger now.
He'd behave like the good little puppy he was now, and when she told the fox brat that she needed some nice straight sticks to support his arm he took that moment to motion towards a near by tree where he could sit and rest while she continued to dress his arm. Yes, sitting. That sounded wonderful right about now.
"Calm the fuck down before I decide to knock you out, Sav-senpai,"
The yelling between the two caused wet ivory ears to fold back against water-slicked hair. They made his ears ring. Lowe couldn't say he'd enjoy having such a brash person berating him and consider it “helping” the way this guy did. He bent like a beaten pup.
"Find something I can use as a splint to keep his arm straight."
“Already thinking of it.”
The sticks on the ground were dry, thin, and brittle. He frowned; shimmering gold eyes looking upward to the trees. There was a young treeling some yards away, and he pulled his tantoto slice off a branch about an inch thick. Going by eye, he cut two sticks about ten inches long, using the tip of the blade to easily peel away the soft fleshy bark to the smooth wood below.
When he returned to the pair, the girl had cleaned the blood loose and had procured wire. Good. His cloth could be a cushion, and he took it out of the bag when he reached them, crouching on the opposite side of the male and passing off the branches he'd cut.
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Wait a second. Sav was behaving? The genin was tempted to stop patching him up and pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming. However, she knew she wasn't, because if she were? Well, there would be something a lot more exciting than fixing the rogue's broken arm going on.
Her poor senpai seemed to be in a bit of shock, probably from the pain, seeing as she wasn't exactly a medic and was therefore not the most skilled in dressing a fracture. Well, better to have him in more pain now and get him all fixed up than to just leave his arm the way it was.
Iku led him over to the tree he gestured toward and helped him sit against it, the worry she'd prefer not to show clearly written on her face. Gently stroking his hair, she looked up at the fox when he appeared and smiled gratefully; really, there was no reason for this guy to be sticking around to help her, but he was. So foxy man was alright in her book. "Thanks. Now, hold still, senpai..." She gestured for Lowe to wrap the cloth around Sav's arm, and braced the sticks against it. "Could you wrap the wire around it, please?" She didn't exactly have enough hands to both hold the sticks in place and wrap his arm up with the wire.
He went to the tree when she assisted in guiding him, and sat down rather carefully when she help him adjust himself. He listened, not really paying attention, when she asked the other to find something to split his arm, and half paying attention to what he was even doing on his own, his right hand began to unclasp the buttons on the front of his long-coat. The material of the left sleeve was sticking to his arm and making it rather uncomfortable; something he was going to fix.
He not so carefully moved his right hand now to loosen the belt around his waist and pull it free so that it hung limply and allowed him to open the long-coat. Once it was pulled open he set to the not-so-delicate work of removing the material from the vicinity of his left arm by attempting to pull the arm free from the cloth. Something that proved difficult as jolts of pain racked through his body with every movement of the limb. He was so engrossed in his work of attempting to free his arm, that he didn't even notice with the fire brat had returned, nor did he really hear the bitch of a kohai when she told him to sit still.
The man was only hurting himself more trying to get the damn sleeve off. Personally, Lowe would have cut it away, but he could understand valuing particular garments. He loved his kimono; that was why he stripped it off before beginning the fight. Reaching across the swordsman's body, he assisted removing the sleeve, gently adjusting the man's body so it could be more easily removed before taking his cloth and wrapping it around the injury.
"Could you wrap the wire around it, please?"
The kitsune nodded, taking the wire from her as well and wrapping it around the male's arm, weaving around her hands as he worked. After a few minutes, he was satisfied with the wrapping and bent the wire back and forth until it snapped, wrapping the end up in the binding.
“If he can't walk, I can carry him into town. The threat of the boars may be gone, but the hunter-nin he mentioned before is not. There are little to no shinobi in this village, he won't be recognized at the hospital here.”
Lowe addressed Iku instead of Sav, for the swordsman was disoriented and he wasn't sure if proper answers would drop from the man's mouth.
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Iku took the rest of the spool of wire and tucked it away in her bag, inspecting the fox's work to make sure he'd done it properly. And he had, of course; it wasn't really that difficult of a task.
"I don't think he's going to be walking anywhere in this state. I'd really appreciate it if you could take him into town for me. It's not like I can lug his ass around myself." She'd end up just dragging him by his hair and that wouldn't end well for anyone, but especially her because her temperamental senpai would kill her. To be fair, Iku would kill anyone that pulled her hair, so it was really kind of a reasonable reaction.
She flicked Sav's forehead. It probably wouldn't snap him out of it, but her other ideas for getting him to react were substantially less appropriate, so she figured she'd better try that one first.
"No," he responded in kind to the fire fox's inquiry. He had regained a bit of his composure after the small rest, and while he definitely, clearly wasn't capable of mentally even holding an argument, he was at least capable of processing enough logical thought to be able to state his own opinions. "You will not... taint my pride." Then came the flick, the ever so annoying flick to the forehead by an even more annoying bitch of a kohai. His eyes, still appearing as though drunken off of his own pain, glared at her.
It was then that he moved, using his right arm to help himself up despite the sharp protest from his shoulder, he slowly rose to his feet. There it was clear that he legs were growing weak from fatigue. He was wobbly at best, even with himself propped against a tree. "Heey Iku." He refused to accept any more help from the five tailed brat. "Support me." The drunken glaze of his eyes seemed to be slowly fading, him returning bit by bit to normal as if becoming sober. Only he still seemed just a bit out of it especially if he was asking her for help.
After he spoke to Iku, without moving to look at him, he addressed the fox brat, "I am Saverio, a shinobi who has liberated himself from the vapid life of the mist." Well he certainly seemed to be a little better thinking wise now, "I hold true to my word, I'll repay you somehow. Use the name Saverio il Scordato, the next time we meet." Should the fox brat take a hint, he'd likely understand that Saverio wished for them to part ways at that moment, but some nagging voice in the back of his mind was telling him that it would not be so like that. Rather the fox brat would likely return with them, and likely survey the damage done to the area. That's what the quickly forgotten voice in his mind told him anyway.
"I don't think he's going to be walking anywhere in this state. I'd really appreciate it if you could take him into town for me. It's not like I can lug his ass around myself."
Lowe nodded; that much was clear. He reached to hoist up the male but was stopped by the swordsman speaking.
"You will not... taint my pride."
Three tails twitched. Pride was something Lowe knew all too well, and he withdrew his hands, standing.
“Very well.”
The kitsune was then brushed off as the swordsman stood, asking the much shorter Iku to support him. If the silverette hadn't been injured, Lowe might have whipped him with one of his tails at the indignation of his kind services being refused.
"I hold true to my word, I'll repay you somehow. Use the name Saverio il Scordato, the next time we meet."
Saverio il Scordato... Lowe rolled the name around his head. The power of a full given name was not one to be underestimated. But the name Saverio was familiar, and he filed through the informatin in his head as he followed them back towards the village.
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She rolled her eyes. Sav-senpai had a lot of pride, yeah; almost too much for his own good. If she hadn't been feeling so protective of her injured senpai, she would have given him a good smack and told him to accept the fox man's help. Didn't he remember the saying "pride goes before a fall"? In this case, it could be a literal fall, since Iku wasn't tall enough to support him well. The genin was a prideful person herself, but she knew when to suck it up and accept help. At least, she thought with a smile, he was letting her help.
She moved to stand beside him, slinging his good arm around her. Yeah, it was a little awkward because of the height difference, but Iku didn't mind; she was all up in her senpai's personal space and enjoying every second of it.
They headed back into town at a slow pace, Iku mostly keeping both eyes on Sav to make sure he was still alright. For once in her life, she wasn't inputting any snarky comments, just letting her beloved senpai lean into her as they traveled.
When Iku came closer to him in order to assist in supporting him, a smirk came to the man's face which would quickly vanish as it was washed out by signs of anguish. The pain was definitely a nuisance. Iku was most certainly shorter than Saverio by quite a few inches, but she was tall enough to get the job done. He had to hunch slightly in order to be able to lean on her well enough to where she could support him properly, but that was no problem. Sure it hurt quite a bit considering the consistent pains in both his left arm, with it being broken, and his right shoulder, with it being torn open despite it no longer bleeding.
"Saverio of the Mist?"
He turned his gaze to the fox boy, studying him with his slate hued eyes. "Somewhat." Was all he responded with before turning his head to look dead ahead once more. As they walked, Saverio remained in silence for the remainder of the distance they had to town, however once they got there, the man reached up, placing his right hand on Iku's shoulder. "I've got it from here." He moved his hand to her head patting her somewhat, "You did well brat." He'd remove himself from her grasp, stumbling over to the closest wall where he then used it as leverage. "I'll be laying low for a while, but if either of you need me... Send a hawk with an azure cloth tethered to its leg with your message." He moved along the wall away from the two now, "Until then, farewell."
Somewhat, eh? Well, he wasn't wrong. Saverio was a dangerous defector of the Mist. Just the kind of company Lowe wanted to be with. He flicked a couple tails.
"I'll be laying low for a while, but if either of you need me... Send a hawk with an azure cloth tethered to its leg with your message. Until then, farewell."
Gold eyes flecked in scarlet watched the longhaired male leave. His gaze then fell to the much shorter girl whom had been left behind.
“Will you go with him, or will you stay to pick up where we left off?”
Lol, the quote boxes on Kurama skin are light too.
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She very nearly glowed with pride when Sav complimented her, even if it was only a little compliment and he'd still tacked 'brat' onto the end of it. He'd stop seeing her as a brat soon enough. No one had an inkling of the plans in her mind, but when she carried them out... Well, lots of things would change. That was for certain.
Lowe's words broke her out of her thoughts. "It's not time for me to go with him. Not yet." Her words were cryptic, and although she knew he hadn't, Iku wished her senpai had heard. He'd be able to figure out what no one else had, if only he'd heard her. Oh well; she wasn't seen as a patient person, but Iku could be very patient when she needed to be.
"I'd love to pick up where we left off..." She flashed the fox man a saucy grin.
Well well, it seems she had some sense after all. He hadn't been so keen on her advances when they'd begun talking, but his mind had changed now. There was a first time for everything.
“Iku-chan, was it?” Lowe asked her, approaching and encircling one of her shoulders with a long arm. “Why don't we find a place to wash this blood off?”
A tail wrapped around her hip, dropping to encircle her thigh and press between her legs. He could easily take the girl back to his room where he stayed on the other side of town, depending on her answer.
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Iku both loved and hated her height. Loved it because it was easy to find guys taller than her; hated it because they were all so much freaking taller than her. The fox man was a little taller than Sav, putting him at around six feet - a good ten inches taller than the genin. Like, would it really have hurt anything to let her be, like, five foot six? Anything was better than five foot two. She knew twelve year olds taller than that, for fuck's sake. Rrgh.
She put her arm around his waist because that was the only bloody thing she could reach and pressed against him, grinning. "Got a place in mind, Lowe-kun~?"
One of his tails snaked up beneath her skirt. A blush rose to her face as the soft furry appendage pressed against her. Well, he certainly was forward, wasn't he? Of course, so was she; she just didn't have tails to inappropriately touch people with.
“I'm staying at a cozy little inn across town. How's that sound? Get a nice shower in there.”
As he spoke, he led her back into town, taking a longer way around. Villagers were already gathering where the damage occurred, and he didn't want to be associated with it. It would be bad for business, you know? Once they finally reached his inn, he guided her to his room and opened the door for her, closing it behind them with a lock.
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