界王和 - Learning the Ropes

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It was a night that began like any other, waking up under many stolen sheets, a mound he buried himself under to hide from the sun until it had the courtesy to leave him alone. He stuck first one hand out of his pile and into the night air to stretch out the countless black threads that made up his inner workings, not so sure if the tendrils could be considered a suitable analog to muscles, though how else was he to understand it? How was he supposed to know how it felt? These questions were usually the first to buzz around in Kai’s thread-filled head for the better part of what seemed like hours, questions that had no answers, the voids of which lead room for deeper questions, more painful inquiries. This was one of those nights where Kai unfortunately had no work lined up, and nothing to mentally break him out of a loop so carefully constructed for him, it wouldn’t be long before he felt the urge to let the threads burst from his head and unravel himself completely!

That’s when Kai felt something drop in his hand, finally breaking him out of his routine anguish. His other hand to carefully wriggle out of his horrid pile to see what lemons life handed him today. It was a jar filled with what appeared to be some horrid moldy fuzz in it. Kai put the jar down and extricated the rest of his body before giving the jar of moldy fuzz the lashing it deserved for existing, but upon a second appraisal it was clear that this was no horrid moldy fuzz. No no no, this was a jar of that good green shit that became his reliable glue, that stinky substance that kept him all wrapped up when his mind threatened to fall apart.

His fingers were on the lid of the jar, threatening the blissful breach in its security so that he may bake with his wake, when the dead thud of a kunai shocked him back to reality. Four sets of feet came to view on the ground before his very eyes, and Kai knew that for some reason or another, he was in trouble.

”Well well well, look who thought he could have himself a cheeky little puff before absconding with our goods!” said one, or perhaps all of them, the ensuing laughter and other deprecations all blended together in the same non distinct voice belonging to one entity; the antagonist. Kai’s body may be different in conventional senses, but he still had a heart that quickened its beat when he needed something to flow. Evidently that something was blood, it had spilled itself before to signal to Kai that though he was different, he still had parts, ties to the rest of them. Ooh he got off topic, the shinobi were starting to draw blades and stepping closer.

”Alright fellas, I know better than to shirk off a debt when it comes to me. How about you just take your little jar back, go home, and I’ll just fuck off to the ends of the earth?” Kai tried to play it cool with his smirk and playful tone as he set the jar down beside him. He was met with callous laughter and he knew immediately that was a wasted effort.

”I’m afraid you fucking off won’t solve the problem of our grass getting out. That hole, we’ll plug up with your head.” each sword pointed at Kai’s neck, as if the swords themselves ruled that Kai knew too much and had to be dealt with. It was clear from this point on that they would let their swords do the talking, Kai had to do something now or never.

That now was for Kai to reach behind him and grab as many of the stolen blankets his fingers could wrap themselves around, so as to fling them in front of his attackers faces and to give him the opportunity to flee. Kai barely got a glimpse of the hungry steel as he backflipped off the rooftop into the alleyway below. He had this one moment in time, this one chance to perform the jutsu that would get him out of this pickle, either creating a clone for them to follow while he hid himself, or to simply hide himself with transformation to blend in with his environment. There was a conundrum, however, these were fast guys, the way they moved conveyed that they had knowledge of jutsu, and subsequently, knowledge that Kai’s opportunity was not only slim, but telegraphed. If he were to transform into something, they could simply stab at whatever they found, knocking shit around until they found Kai’s body amongst the garbage. Whereas if he decided to clone himself, the best he could do was to cut the number of his pursuers in half, two going after the clone and two after himself. This was unacceptable, Kai had no intention of having this lasting any longer than it had to. It was fortunate, then, that Kai learned how to do something fucked up with his threads.

From behind his back and out of sight of his assailants, threads erupted from Kai’s back and loosely formed some sort of tentacled set of hands. While Kai used his regular hands to form the Ram seal with which to clone himself, the black hands behind him would form the Dog seal with which to transform himself and the clones he would conjure. The last thing they saw before Kai was out of sight were the familiar puffs of smoke that were often associated with the use of ninjutsu, as Kai sent two clones to run in each direction of the alleyway while he would take the form of a dark and unassuming garbage bag,  his threads zipping back into him and leaving a delicious scene for the goons above. Sure enough, they jumped down after Kai with swords drawn and with eyes just as sharp. Two shot after one clone, two shot after the other, and none stayed behind to check the humble garbage bag.

Kai waited the better part of an hour before deciding that those rogues had gone their own way, and came back up from the new horrid pile he kept himself in. He decided to take a chance that they hadn’t just regrouped around his own pile of clothes to slay him, and wouldn’t you know it? He was rewarded for his quick thinking and unique direction of the mind that they left the jar they were sent to recapture completely alone! He would do well to hide this for a rainy day.

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