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'Hikaru, are you getting any of this?' Whisper into the network for the millionth time.
Still no response. We'd expected it and had taken precautions but it was still unnerving.
Stars swam around me like a nightmarish genjutsu from sensei. Given that he was no longer around and could be counted on to make my life hell, I dismissed him from my mind. Instead, I focused on the visuals.
Each time a cluster of colored starlight passed by, the tube of black 'stuff' rippled like something alive. How I could see something darker than black on top of black, I have no clue. But this I could feel with all my sense and my shinobi intuition. Whatever it was, it was bad news and I had no idea how I could escape it much less protect myself should attack come. Given that I had been stuck in this hole in reality for nearly an hour, I was less scared and more bored.
What does one do when they've somehow managed to escape an entire multiverse?
That had been my attempt. Release enough anti-omni in one location to punch a hole in existence and hope I'd land back in my homeland but, this was nothing like what I experience when getting sucked into the Omniverse. It wasn't even close.
Another flicker of light flashes up ahead, swirling around like a school of confused, drugged up, blind, addled fish. Burning bright, and stronger than before, the next ring the flashes around me sparks around me raising every hair on my head. The colors are so vivid now; each individual point is as clear as day. My eyes can barely handle them, yet there's still more coming at me faster than I can even follow.
Whiteness takes me in the span of a single breath and then resolves into blue, and a sudden sensation of gravity returns. Oh shit! What happened? Where am I?!
A blast of white light explodes across the darkness behind me and a split second later, another wave hits me from the side.
'Ururu! I'm here!' A panicked thought screams in my mental ear. The voice of Hikaru, my best friend, and persona. With it comes a wave of relief the sensation of memories become cognizant structure told me that the Network seemingly reinstated itself. 'What the hell is this?!' She then adds in a screech. It's a thought reiterated by the other personas who seem to be waking up as well in my headspace.
My throat tightens as a tidal wave of force batters at me and more light screams at me in color rather than sound.
I don't know if we're being attacked or not. This isn't like anything I've ever experienced. It almost reminds me of the primary principles of Space-Time Ninjutsu. Like the reason why you don't stick living things in a storage seal. They get lost sometimes if they aren't killed outright. Whatever it-
My stomach drops out as gravity seems to shift again, blue light washing around me again and then green and...!
WERE THOSE A FLOCK OF BIRDS?!
Trees above me sky below me. Wind whips past my ears from my back. Okay back to basics, remember that sky diving course sensei forced us to take. Flatten your body to increase drag, if you're upside down, reduce it on one side to go vertical and... THERE!
The world reorients around me revealing exactly what potentially lot of ground I'm falling towards. For probably the second time I know what it's like to be born into Maito family after they figured out how to land from any height... Ooo, okay, those damn big trees. That I need. And there's a town.
Perfect.
I focus my chakra on my body, molding it into the shape best suited for absorbing impacts and keeping my body in one conceptual whole. I'll need to be able to move quickly and without hesitation.
Just as I hit the first tree, my fingers cut into the trunk like a knife to canvas. I've got about half a second to brace myself for impact and then I'm through. More branches come my way as the side tree's trunk starts to exploding under my fingers, finally slowing my descent to something more reasonable than, 'Oh sage I'm going to die!'
As I pass over a large branch, I catch a glimpse of my surroundings.
"Shinigami take me. Where the hell did I end up?"
Greens and browns ran everywhere through the world as vines, trees, plants, grasses, moss, and everything else I could think of grew and spread and intertwined with each other to form an unending forest.
It was beautiful. Unbelievably so, but more importantly, it was a perfect place for an ambush.
Maybe I'm being paranoid again. That's a thing, right?
'Sometimes' Hikaru chimes in my head.
Snorting to ourselves, I slowly work my way over to a larger branch that I can support my weight and Hikaru's. Planting my feet firmly so I wouldn't fall. This wasn't the Omniverse and I couldn't completely trust my abilities hadn't been affected by the change in venue. Though they did feel more responsive than before. My chakra felt closer to what it had been before this whole adventure first started.
I form the first hand seal one of my favored techniques, and then flash through several more, molding my chakra once more. With the last seal, I try and draw out a remote seeing technique.
Only it didn't take.
Crap. I'm not even sure if I can do that anymore or maybe for now.
'What's wrong?'
'Remote viewing isn't working.'
'We could try me.'
'Not risking it yet,' I send with my best mental glare, 'We'll test clones later with a disposable persona before we try anything with you.'
'For now.' Hikaru chirps and I get a sense of a half-smile from her.
Rolling my eyes, I jump at an angle, sending myself hurtling forward through the canopy on a path to a large more distant wooden behemoth some ten meters away. Then again working myself higher, up so I could get a bead on the town earlier. It had been distant, possibly a hundred miles or so, but well within a Shinobi's range of tree skipping over the course of a day or two.
And it seemed like the most likely location for a proper Village in a world that looked like the main population lived in trees.
I launch myself off another trunk, gaining altitude before landing once more on a canopy branch. Another takes me up into a living tower of vines that had fattened up enough to be trees in their right. Vines like these were more often native to jungles. So not like Fire Country and Konoha.
Still, it's useful.
Three kicks send me flying upward, bouncing off the interior of the vine borne structure until even it starts shrinking away under the sky, allowing me to breach the canopy.
The world is filled with the sounds of birds, the wind, the rustle of leaves, and the occasional caw from a crow as they flew past me. The sun was just starting its descent, but the air still held the warmth of a summer's afternoon. It would be cool soon enough. I'd be glad for my cloak, though I suspected I might need it. Fingers crossed I was wrong, but I doubted I'd be able to make myself comfortable without one. Then again I wouldn't be comfortable I found myself a bed and some answers as to where the hell I'm at.
Spotting a rather large branch in the distance. I throw myself off of my perch and head towards the horizon.
After what seems hours, of repeatedly climbing tall trees to plot my course towards a vague location, the trees open up into a valley and a small town.
"Huh," I grunt. I hadn't expected to find civilization this soon.
Still no response. We'd expected it and had taken precautions but it was still unnerving.
Stars swam around me like a nightmarish genjutsu from sensei. Given that he was no longer around and could be counted on to make my life hell, I dismissed him from my mind. Instead, I focused on the visuals.
Each time a cluster of colored starlight passed by, the tube of black 'stuff' rippled like something alive. How I could see something darker than black on top of black, I have no clue. But this I could feel with all my sense and my shinobi intuition. Whatever it was, it was bad news and I had no idea how I could escape it much less protect myself should attack come. Given that I had been stuck in this hole in reality for nearly an hour, I was less scared and more bored.
What does one do when they've somehow managed to escape an entire multiverse?
That had been my attempt. Release enough anti-omni in one location to punch a hole in existence and hope I'd land back in my homeland but, this was nothing like what I experience when getting sucked into the Omniverse. It wasn't even close.
Another flicker of light flashes up ahead, swirling around like a school of confused, drugged up, blind, addled fish. Burning bright, and stronger than before, the next ring the flashes around me sparks around me raising every hair on my head. The colors are so vivid now; each individual point is as clear as day. My eyes can barely handle them, yet there's still more coming at me faster than I can even follow.
Whiteness takes me in the span of a single breath and then resolves into blue, and a sudden sensation of gravity returns. Oh shit! What happened? Where am I?!
A blast of white light explodes across the darkness behind me and a split second later, another wave hits me from the side.
'Ururu! I'm here!' A panicked thought screams in my mental ear. The voice of Hikaru, my best friend, and persona. With it comes a wave of relief the sensation of memories become cognizant structure told me that the Network seemingly reinstated itself. 'What the hell is this?!' She then adds in a screech. It's a thought reiterated by the other personas who seem to be waking up as well in my headspace.
My throat tightens as a tidal wave of force batters at me and more light screams at me in color rather than sound.
I don't know if we're being attacked or not. This isn't like anything I've ever experienced. It almost reminds me of the primary principles of Space-Time Ninjutsu. Like the reason why you don't stick living things in a storage seal. They get lost sometimes if they aren't killed outright. Whatever it-
My stomach drops out as gravity seems to shift again, blue light washing around me again and then green and...!
WERE THOSE A FLOCK OF BIRDS?!
Trees above me sky below me. Wind whips past my ears from my back. Okay back to basics, remember that sky diving course sensei forced us to take. Flatten your body to increase drag, if you're upside down, reduce it on one side to go vertical and... THERE!
The world reorients around me revealing exactly what potentially lot of ground I'm falling towards. For probably the second time I know what it's like to be born into Maito family after they figured out how to land from any height... Ooo, okay, those damn big trees. That I need. And there's a town.
Perfect.
I focus my chakra on my body, molding it into the shape best suited for absorbing impacts and keeping my body in one conceptual whole. I'll need to be able to move quickly and without hesitation.
Just as I hit the first tree, my fingers cut into the trunk like a knife to canvas. I've got about half a second to brace myself for impact and then I'm through. More branches come my way as the side tree's trunk starts to exploding under my fingers, finally slowing my descent to something more reasonable than, 'Oh sage I'm going to die!'
As I pass over a large branch, I catch a glimpse of my surroundings.
"Shinigami take me. Where the hell did I end up?"
Greens and browns ran everywhere through the world as vines, trees, plants, grasses, moss, and everything else I could think of grew and spread and intertwined with each other to form an unending forest.
It was beautiful. Unbelievably so, but more importantly, it was a perfect place for an ambush.
Maybe I'm being paranoid again. That's a thing, right?
'Sometimes' Hikaru chimes in my head.
Snorting to ourselves, I slowly work my way over to a larger branch that I can support my weight and Hikaru's. Planting my feet firmly so I wouldn't fall. This wasn't the Omniverse and I couldn't completely trust my abilities hadn't been affected by the change in venue. Though they did feel more responsive than before. My chakra felt closer to what it had been before this whole adventure first started.
I form the first hand seal one of my favored techniques, and then flash through several more, molding my chakra once more. With the last seal, I try and draw out a remote seeing technique.
Only it didn't take.
Crap. I'm not even sure if I can do that anymore or maybe for now.
'What's wrong?'
'Remote viewing isn't working.'
'We could try me.'
'Not risking it yet,' I send with my best mental glare, 'We'll test clones later with a disposable persona before we try anything with you.'
'For now.' Hikaru chirps and I get a sense of a half-smile from her.
Rolling my eyes, I jump at an angle, sending myself hurtling forward through the canopy on a path to a large more distant wooden behemoth some ten meters away. Then again working myself higher, up so I could get a bead on the town earlier. It had been distant, possibly a hundred miles or so, but well within a Shinobi's range of tree skipping over the course of a day or two.
And it seemed like the most likely location for a proper Village in a world that looked like the main population lived in trees.
I launch myself off another trunk, gaining altitude before landing once more on a canopy branch. Another takes me up into a living tower of vines that had fattened up enough to be trees in their right. Vines like these were more often native to jungles. So not like Fire Country and Konoha.
Still, it's useful.
Three kicks send me flying upward, bouncing off the interior of the vine borne structure until even it starts shrinking away under the sky, allowing me to breach the canopy.
The world is filled with the sounds of birds, the wind, the rustle of leaves, and the occasional caw from a crow as they flew past me. The sun was just starting its descent, but the air still held the warmth of a summer's afternoon. It would be cool soon enough. I'd be glad for my cloak, though I suspected I might need it. Fingers crossed I was wrong, but I doubted I'd be able to make myself comfortable without one. Then again I wouldn't be comfortable I found myself a bed and some answers as to where the hell I'm at.
Spotting a rather large branch in the distance. I throw myself off of my perch and head towards the horizon.
After what seems hours, of repeatedly climbing tall trees to plot my course towards a vague location, the trees open up into a valley and a small town.
"Huh," I grunt. I hadn't expected to find civilization this soon.