itsjustdust | Kunai the Sixth: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[Oddly enough, the gear is set down on the table, his goggles mostly obscuring the rest of the room where his Charmander and newly evolved Servine are off to one side having some sort of staring match. The voice that came over the line was indisputably human though, and thoughtful.]

I've been in this place for nearly a month now. A lot has happened in that month. I've met family, I've met friends, and I've realized that my life wasn't as much of a failure as everyone always liked to tell me it was back home.

My teammate, the one I died for, and yes, I died before I woke up here, very thoroughly and messily I might add, apparently changed his entire life based on a few things I said to try to be more like me. He even uses a phrase I screamed at him once as a motto I've heard. I kind of want to see what he's like without being so bitter, but that clearly won't happen unless he shows up here.

But... Everyone else forgot about me. I'm just that guy that gave my famous teammate his Sharingan, an eye for the unaware, and I'm not even known for my own name. My baby cousin, the one here, hadn't ever heard of me. That's my own fault, in some ways, I died before he was born, but did I really do nothing worth mentioning after my demise?

It was a war, and a lot of people die during wars, I know that, and I know I've made a huge difference in the world just by a final set of actions, but... I'll never see it. I'm not sure it's satisfying.

I'm afraid to ask if anyone but that teammate made it out of the war. What if no one knows? What if no one wants to say?

But I'm drifting off topic here.

What I wanted to say was that I don't think that just pokemon change from level to level. A whole different personality to go with a whole new body, right? How many people feel like that happened to them too?

So yeah, a lot of things happened since I got here, good things, bad things... but who else feels like they were changed in some permanent way just by getting here?

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[He clicked off the gear before looking over at the other teen.]

I've just... Have you ever really thought about the differences that just being somewhere made to who you are?

Every single day I've been here. I don't want to leave, this world gives me a purpose and an actual life that I didn't have before.

I didn't really realize it myself. I mean, I was aware things were different here... but I didn't realize that everything that just... make me who I was was left behind before I got here. There are times, when I'm practicing with my pokemon, where I feel like someone weighed me down with lead and sent me into battle.

Soo...does that mean you dislike the battling or the Pokémon?

[He pauses for a second to think, then continues.]

At least you left anything behind.

I don't dislike either one I'm just... I'm so slow! Slow and clumsy and it's just horrible.

[Maybe he should chuck something at Obito to test his reflexes.]

Then maybe you need to train yourself as much as you train your Pokémon.

[Do it, he's still faster than most people.]

I do! Every day. And when I train them I'm usually right up in there making them try to land hits, you know?

What about a human opponent? Have you tried that?

[Watch out for that (empty) Pokéball suddenly heading towards your head, Obito.]

Not since I got-

[He ducked without even seeming to register that he was dodging.]

Did you just try to catch me in a pokeball?

Your reflexes aren't slow, at least. And no, I didn't, it just happened to be closest.

[He is so confused now by the way, and he sat up straight again.]

You're not intending to keep doing that though right? But yeah, no haven't practiced with any humans since I got here. Been meaning to, just haven't.

No, unless you want me to. Though I have a pillow and your Charmander, but only if I get up. I like to think I'm smart enough not to try the second option.

I could catch those anyway, and I just know Kiyo would come after you if you threw her.

Exactly.

[So he's throwing the pillow anyway, just to be belligerent.]

[And then he grabbed the pillow.]

...So what was the point of that?

[He shrugs.]

So how do you fight, anyway? I've never seen you train before.

Hand to hand only since I got here, though I'm considering staff work since I can't get any proper blades.

You can buy wooden ones. But wooden weapons break too easily, so they're a waste of money.

Pretty much. I know how to flame harden wood though so that it can take metal damage so if I get a staff I'll probably do that.

...You do what to the wood?

If you work it with flame the right way it burns out the impurities and makes it tougher... you... didn't know you could do that?

If I knew, I wouldn't have asked. How do you keep it from burning completely?

[This intrigues him! Tell him your secrets, Obito!]

It's all about heat. You don't stick it in open fire. You just kinda get it near the fire and keep it there a while, checking on it to make sure that it hasn't started to blacken, because blackening is bad.

So...you just heat it up, and that eventually makes it stronger?

[You can bet he'll be trying this at some point.]

Right. There's not a whole lot to it when it comes down to it.

Kunai the Sixth: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

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