【eight 】 〜 (accidental) video

May 13, 2011 16:47

[The feed cuts on at an odd angle, but it's obviously accidental, the product of the tricky spirits that sometimes haunt the Fansuwoth. But what makes it so obvious is that Kiyoha is with a group of well dressed, traditional men, and one is sitting across the table from her. He seems well on his way to completely smashed.]My, my, danna-san, are you ( Read more... )

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noboatbigenough May 13 2011, 22:32:17 UTC
[Kisame is amused. He'd be good at that game. He's speaking unusually softly, though, as if he doesn't want to disturb someone or something.]

That's an interesting game, Kiyoha-san. You seem quite skilled at it too.

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tsuridasu May 13 2011, 23:57:41 UTC
[The answer comes a bit later, but Kiyoha is in her room, alone]

It's a popular game with clients, so I've been playing it since I was a little girl. It's easy when you're sober.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 00:01:31 UTC
And a useful distraction, eh?

[His voice is still quite quiet. He seems to be settled in his room reading.]

How have things been for you?

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 01:48:32 UTC
Better now. I spent about a month on some horrible farm for some unknown reason. I never thought I would say it, but I'm glad to be working again. I'm not suited for farmwork.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 02:01:41 UTC
With the life you've led, no, you wouldn't. I would have gladly traded places with you, though.

[Said bluntly, but not without understanding. And while he's much more content now than he's been in a while, there's still that bone-deep dislike of this work.]

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 02:15:59 UTC
[a chuckle] I'll keep that in mind. Next time they threaten farmwork, I'll just switch places with you, Kisame-san. Or anyone that would take the farmwork over entertaining. You're certainly not the only one.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 02:24:30 UTC
[He grins] And I will take you up on it.

[Then he looks thoughtful.] I don't think most of us that are discontent actually object to most of the work we must do--after all, I've been paid for far more grisly things than silly games and maintaining a smile ever since I was a child--but the rest of what we're expected to do...

If they wanted true workers, they should have taken us before academy age. Knowing nothing different, why would we complain then? It makes me wonder what they really want from us.

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 02:35:47 UTC
I've always wondered that myself. Yet, I also can say that you would certainly complain about it regardless. I certainly complained enough to make up for anyone in my household that hadn't.

[She laughs] But that's another mystery of this floating world that I doubt I'll ever understand. Their decisions are their own, and apparently it makes money after all.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 02:54:14 UTC
There's a difference between a little displeasure and outright rebellion.

[He rubs his thumb over his forehead, as if remembering something.] For every missing-nin, there are scores of those who remain loyal, no matter how terrible the deeds they must do and the lies they're mired in. Even when they know how corrupt it all is. The simplest reason is that most of us have weapons in our hands as soon as we can hold them without killing ourselves, if not sooner. Knowing nothing else makes it so very hard to take that last step and just rebel, just leave.

[And he shakes his head.] But that's an uncomfortable topic, eh? It does make money for them, though that's another thing I will probably never understand.

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 17:36:52 UTC
Not in particular. Your world and mine have similarities, though the situations are completely different. It's a hard world either way.

[A smile] But it's probably similar also in that without that world, there would be nothing else for us.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 17:49:09 UTC
All of that is quite true. I sometimes wonder what it could have been like if I'd lived in one of the other worlds that people come from. [Chuckle] I never get very far; it's hard to imagine.

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 18:37:28 UTC
I couldn't imagine it at all. Maybe I just lack imagination, but even in my own world, I couldn't wonder about any life beyond Yoshiwara.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 18:59:29 UTC
I've been ruined for anything else, I think. Even at home, all I could hope for was changing the world to remove the lies. I never imagined any other life but the life of a shinobi.

[Dryly.] Maybe if I didn't despise lies so much I'd be better at this. Just pretend it was a strange mission and lie my way through it...

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tsuridasu May 14 2011, 20:22:13 UTC
You're another world changer, Kisame-san? I've never heard of that before.

[she smiles] But I hate lies as well. Well, petty lies. Those are the ones that I mostly know.

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noboatbigenough May 14 2011, 20:27:07 UTC
Neither good nor successful, but that was my goal. And in the end nothing but a fool and a murderer.

[He shrugs] But if my wish is granted, maybe the world will be changed anyway, though I'll never see it for myself.

[The way he says it implies that he strongly doubts the wishes will ever be granted.]

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tsuridasu May 15 2011, 03:35:25 UTC
[She smiles lightly] Is it peace that you wish for, if I may ask?

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