Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on Apr 29, 2011 20:53:33 GMT -5
Keshi could easily follow Kazuma's gaze, she wondered about the spot. But felt from the Phoenix champion's reaction to the spot that it would be rude or at least invasive for her to ask.
"I was wondering this, at the ceremony. Did you know that the sword would pick you? It seems rather fateful that it did."
Keshi looks a bit nervous about asking, and she prayed the Champion did not take offense to the question.
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Shiba Kazuma
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on Apr 30, 2011 18:24:42 GMT -5
Kazuma smiled as he knelt at the table. He looked over to Ofushikai who was displayed on the wall.
I did know. Shiba came to me in a dream the night before and told me that I was to be the bearer of his soul. I did not tell anyone because Shiba asked me to not let anyone know. The ceremony is very important and not doing it might have brought dishonor to all of the other Shiba in attendance.
A servant enters the room and delivers a pot of tea with two cups. Kazuma takes on the cups and pours tea into it. He then hands the cup to Keshi before pouring himself some tea and taking a sip.
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on Apr 30, 2011 23:02:43 GMT -5
Keshi sipped her tea quietly for a moment, questions rattling in her head. And there were a great many of those. From questions about Tadaka, to the library, to what it was like to be champion.
"It was a lovely ceremony. I did enjoy it, it spoke of the many traditions Phoenix clan keeps. Tokens from ages past, something that the Mantis clan doesn't place weight on. Though we do appreciate it in it's time."
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Shiba Kazuma
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 2, 2011 9:47:26 GMT -5
Kazuma smiled.
Thank you, I am glad you liked the ceremony. As for your clan having traditions, your's is but a young clan. In time you will begin to appreciate traditions and items that define what your clan truly is.
Kazuma sipped some more tea.
Forgive me for sounding blunt, but feel free to ask many any questions you have. I believe tonight is the night of speaking one's mind.
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 2, 2011 12:05:27 GMT -5
Keshi covers her mouth for a moment as she smiles, "Caught me, I see."
She is quiet for a long moment as she sips her tea, deciding what she wants to ask first. "This is.... Probably not a very tactful question. I apologize in advance." Sighing heavily, she makes sure she's looking directly at Kazuma instead of shyly at the walls or floor before she asks."Did Tadaka tell you Why he was tainted? He told me of how, and some of the things he did. But what was he doing that led up to that?"
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Shiba Kazuma
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 3, 2011 9:03:44 GMT -5
Kazuma thought deeply.
He never told me exactly how he became tainted, but he did give me some information that I could use to surmise how he got tainted. I had a very long conversation with him, most of the things that he told me shocked me. I am not sure there is a simple point at which he "started" getting tainted I think it just occurred in his search for knowledge and he continued down that path. What information did he tell you?
Kazuma sipped some more tea after he asked the question.
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 6, 2011 19:48:45 GMT -5
Keshi is silent for a moment. She covers her eyes, as she begins to speak. "He told me that he had been Tainted. That he trusted me to know. He didn't give much of how or why."
She pauses briefly, moving her hand to cover her mouth. Revealing her frown and a strange contemplative look. "He apologized that he would not be able to see me here again before he left. And that he would try to write to me."
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 7, 2011 13:39:00 GMT -5
Kazuma put down his cup.
Forgive me for being straight forward with this question, but what was your relationship with Tadaka? He mentioned that he had met you, but he did not go into any detail with me. In fact as he made that leaf he almost seemed distracted like he was in a better place.
(OCC: I am on vacation for the next week so I may be a little slow to respond, sorry)
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 8, 2011 16:47:41 GMT -5
Keshi frowns, seeming to think about it. "I do not want to claim more than it is. Maybe he views us only as friends. To me.."
She pauses with a deep sigh, raising her eyes to meet Kazuma's. "Tadaka was the first person to ever acknowledge me as a person before all else. For the time we spent in each other's company I was not a Mantis or a Kitsune, I was Keshi. And he was Tadaka. That is special to me. And maybe it shouldn't mean anything, but it means a lot to me."
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 10, 2011 11:40:31 GMT -5
Kazuma let a warm smile cross his face.
It can be hard to read Tadaka sometimes, but he did trust you with several pieces of information as well as feeling sad for not being able to see you before you left. I think that there may have been something there for him as well and that might have been why he did not want you to see him before he left. He did not want to drag you into all that he had done. He may have been trying to protect you.
Kazuma poured some more tea for himself and took a sip.
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 11, 2011 4:03:51 GMT -5
Keshi sighs, closing her eyes briefly. She looks down at her cup with a frown. "I've been protected most my life. Not by my family and clan so much as by the forest spirits. I've found, in leaving home, that I am ill prepared for how the world we live in is like. With only Jinu as my companion away from home, I've seen what the world is like beyond the borders of the forest. And while there are good things, there are also bad."
There is a pause as Keshi sips her tea, continuing to gaze at the cup as she continues thoughtfully. "It's the good in people's lives that allows us to endure the bad. And it's the bad that helps us to appreciate the good. Without both we would just be drifting without realizing it."
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 14, 2011 16:25:30 GMT -5
Kazuma sips his tea while he listens.
A more true statement could not have been said. Though there must also be a balance between the good and the bad. Because though a small bad may easily be overshadowed by a big good. It does not work in the opposite direction. I think it can also come down to the viewpoint that people have. For if you see everything as a bad thing then there will be no good. Yet if you see everything as good then you are ignoring the bad.
Kazuma set down his tea cup and smiled.
What I am trying to say with all of my rambling is that there must be balance in everything, yet looking on the good side of things and reflecting on those things that were good in the past are not bad either.
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 17, 2011 2:15:20 GMT -5
"That is very true. Sometimes we must find the balance in ourselves though. If all we're dealt is bad then one must find their own good. If all your dealt is good, one becomes over critical of everything looking for bad."
Keshi sighs, a wry smile crossing her face. "Our thoughts go philosophical. Places where one could argue the color of the world and never come to a true right or wrong answer."
She is quiet for a long time, gazing down at her cup. Her thoughts rambling round and round in her head as she honestly thinks of what she wants to say.
"I honestly wonder. If we were given the chance, to go back. Would we change our lives? If we changed our lives, how would it effect the lives of others? I've been thinking this for a while. If I hadn't come here, would Tadaka-san taken the effort to contact me? If I had studied more magic would I have been as interested in the library? If we could change our past, would our paths ever had actually crossed? I cannot lie and say I am a lowly Mantis shugenja, but if we could change our past would we be on the paths we're on?"
She frowns, setting down her cup and rubbing her forehead with two fingers. "Such thoughts can only go in circles to madness. Yet they circle in my head. Taunting me."
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Post by Shiba Kazuma on May 17, 2011 11:42:18 GMT -5
Kazuma smiles.
We walk a path where we can not turn around and go back. We must choose our actions and live with their consequences. That is not to say that we can not look back on the path we have traveled. For by looking back we are able to see what choices will be more correct in the future. In a way looking back allows us to control the future.
Kazuma looks at his empty cup.
To answer your question. No, there is nothing that I would have changed about my life or anyone else's. For you see my life has brought me to this point so far and looking back I have much to learn from. If we could go back and fix our mistakes how could we ever learn from them in the future?
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Kitsune Keshi
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Post by Kitsune Keshi on May 18, 2011 2:46:11 GMT -5
"That is true, being able to change your mistakes would make it to where you would never learn from them. Progress would probably never be made." Keshi smiles thinly, shaking her head. He eyes are drawn to the spot in the floor, she could sense remnants of a very powerful spell. Maybe two.
"Shiba-sama, forgive my curiosity. But what spells were you practicing upon your floor?"
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