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namikaze minato ([personal profile] backina) wrote in [community profile] one_long_mission2012-11-24 09:30 am

intro post: ghosts in the fog

 He comes in as dusk settles, walking through the thin fog that clings around his legs and the tails of his coat, seeming to solidify as he walks.  Even the sound seems to remember itself slowly, for at first he's a silent ghost and it's only as he nears the faint golden ponds of light from the outlying village windows and the flicker of their bonfires that the sounds of soft footsteps in the frost begins.  Blond hair moves a little in the night wind, smoke and crisp autumn chill, and it takes the blue eyes under that fringe a long time to focus in the calmly neutral face.

He's not sure where he's going, just that there's a path in front of him that seems to lead somewhere and he supposes he will follow it for the moment.  When his chakra dissipated from his son's life, he hadn't expected to find himself anywhere - yet here he apparently is.  Lost so long in the mists of his child's life, drifting and unsubstantial, it's hard, now, to think of what's before him as any more real.  He's a dead man's chakra, released from its mission, a ghost from the past as sure as some of the old furniture and unwanted love letters being tossed away to the flames tonight and it's a strange relief that his hand doesn't pass through the tree he comes to stand near on the edge of someone's bonfire, pausing in his journey onward because the road can wait and even ghosts seem able to appreciate the heat from a stranger's fire in the falling night.



ooc:  just a note - Minato's actually very solid but it's going to be a bit before he gets past the idea that he's a lost ghost.  Or that what's in front of him is really there either.  He's been unable to touch anything for a very long time.   Head-canon says a part of him is still trapped with Nine-Tails Yin inside the death god so there's a part of him missing but he'll solidify despite that as he goes.  And I apologize in advance that I am a very slow tagger.  Life is busy right now but I couldn't resist.  
proudofmybaby: (Concerned)

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-24 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
She had gone on a walk. She loved her boys, but she was a bit worried about the eldest of the lot. He was... missing. She just hoped he was fine, because her wanderings had yet to actually unearth him.

They did, however, bring her to Minato's path, and she stared at the man for a moment before approaching. "Minato?"
proudofmybaby: (Talking)

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-25 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Minato. So even you've come to be here?" She moved forward, offering him her hands. "You seem rather dazed."
proudofmybaby: (Concerned)

8 hour drive of doom cuts into RP time man

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Here is a village called Michi no Sato." She paused a moment as she folded her fingers securely around his. "We're not dead here Minato."
proudofmybaby: (Happy)

It was supposed to be 4 ;-;

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I remember dying, and most of the people here... don't. Or are like my baby and have multiple versions of themselves running around." She flashed him a smile. "Or like your Naruto have multiple -genders- running around."

She shook her head and started to walk backward, tugging him with her. "You can stay with me. I have plenty of space to share. As for how... I have no idea. The locals aren't shocked to see us, but they weren't fully expecting us either."
proudofmybaby: (Indulgent)

Thank youuu

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"They call the country Jiten no Kuni. I'm starting to think they call this place what they do to make fun of all of us." She released one of his hands, but after the way he'd reacted tot he initial touch, she decided it was better not to release him.

He still seemed far too dazed, even if the gesture would get frowned on by anyone who put stock in proprieties. "Though the discrepancies... How close were we for you Minato? So I know just how far I'm stomping on acceptability by dragging you around like this."
proudofmybaby: (Talking)

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
She flushed slightly at the compliment and gave him a smile. "Well, you weren't all that bad yourself. So... our timelines are a little off though."

She shook her head and continued to tug him along, carefully picking a path down the cliff face. "You were one of my genin teammates how things worked out for me. So... -is- it alright with you that I've been calling you Minato?"
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[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Jiraiya-sensei, of course." She looked over at the question, surprised he felt the need to ask it. Then again, if she wasn't his teammate, that -would- make sense. "It was us and a Nara boy, though he and I fell out of contact after he made chunin and he's since gone to the memorial stone."

She noted the squeeze, and she turned to check for footing instead of acting like she noticed. She was a grown woman, so she really -should- let go his hand. But... she didn't intend to. She'd just deal with whatever consequences came of that later if anyone saw them.

"No one did call you Minato anymore in the months leading to your death, did they? Well, other than Kushina."
proudofmybaby: (Talking)

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-26 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, in that case I clearly have to stick to Minato, don't I?" She smiled over her shoulder at him, steps careful as she made her way down the near vertical rock face, easily keeping herself from sliding with chakra as needed. "It's no good if a man as nice as you actually has reason to miss hearing his own name."

She quieted for a beat, hesitating as she thought over her options. Finally though, she decided that she started the drop in formality, she would hold to her precedent. "Just Mikoto is fine with me. Especially given that I already asked you to move into my house."
proudofmybaby: (Indulgent)

[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-28 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
She flushed slightly. "I seem to have picked up the habit of collecting errant children since I died."

She flashed him a wry smile. "Two versions of my older son, though one I haven't seen in a while and that worries me, one version of my younger. One version of -your- child, though the one living with me is a girl. Still named Naruto though. I get the impression you were quite attached to the name from that. Itachi-younger has been valiantly trying to persuade his Hyuuga friend to move in. Neji's a sweet boy and could use the company." She looked amused. "By how he talks about your daughter, I sense a crush."

She paused to consider then. "I get the feeling I'll have more as time goes on, but that is the list of definites so far."
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[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sixteen and seventeen respectively." She looked sideways at him. "I'm not sure they're quite to the stage of admitting they like each other but anyone with eyes can see that he admires her a great deal and she doesn't mind being admired." She let out a faint huff of a laugh.

"There seems to be a lot of that going around though, so keep your eyes out I've heard you have a boy around the village about the same age, but he hasn't really come around yet."
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[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-28 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm actually not sure? I've heard about several actually, though the only one -not- from Konoha I've seen is a Kiri nin."
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[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-28 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"A few weeks now. I was one of the earlier arrivals. This place has been... slowly filling since then. It's disorienting to think it, but the villagers clearly have a tradition in place on how to handle all of us lost shinobi while we're here, and it's a simple conversion for them."
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[personal profile] proudofmybaby 2012-11-30 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
She paused and squeezed his hand in a bit to slow the flow of questions. "It happens at least one a generation for them, and lasts anywhere from days or until the next one. We apparently came after one of the 'days' ones. It's not only Konoha shinobi here. My youngest son mentioned to me that he'd met Hoshigaki Kisame, who I am fairly sure had a reputation even when you were alive still. I haven't managed to pick up a pattern, and thus far no one I've met has left."

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