Several minutes later, Faith learned that the kid was named Uchiha Sasuke -- Sasuke being his first name and Uchiha his family, 'cause the Japanese in his world put their names the wrong way around -- and he was a ninja assassin who could do magic. The kid swore anyone could learn to use 'chakra' to blow things up and stuff, but Faith didn't believe him. She had to stop Duo from pestering the kid into giving him lessons on starting explosions with his mind.
"Okay," she said as they sat in a circle on some handy rocks. "Sasuke's a magical ninja and he got grabbed while he was killing someone. You used to be a terrorist and fight in a giant robot, but now you're a freelance assassin and thief. And I'm a Slayer who got mystically chosen to fight vampires and demons." She drew her knife and studied the edge; there were a few nicks from the Sarguls' iron-hard claws, but it didn't need much sharpening. "I don't like this. If the portal was random, at least one of you should've been deadweight, not a fighter."
Duo translated that for Sasuke, who shrugged and said something short. "He said they might have been summoning," Duo told Faith. "Makes sense to me -- we're both pretty deadly, and we both fight for hire. I wouldn't work for demons or try to destroy somebody else's world, but they had no way to know that without grabbing me and asking."
"Fuck." That made way too much sense, and jibed with the dangerous vibes Faith was getting from these two guys. She was used to being the nastiest, craziest person in the room, unless she was surrounded by baddies and had licence to kill them. She wasn't quite sure how to deal with assassins who weren't actively trying to kill her.
Play it cool, she decided. She held out her left hand and began to trim her nails with her knife. "I guess I'll have to look hard at their friends when I get home."
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Re: Damn you, it's turning into a real story!
Date: 2005-08-30 04:10 am (UTC)"Okay," she said as they sat in a circle on some handy rocks. "Sasuke's a magical ninja and he got grabbed while he was killing someone. You used to be a terrorist and fight in a giant robot, but now you're a freelance assassin and thief. And I'm a Slayer who got mystically chosen to fight vampires and demons." She drew her knife and studied the edge; there were a few nicks from the Sarguls' iron-hard claws, but it didn't need much sharpening. "I don't like this. If the portal was random, at least one of you should've been deadweight, not a fighter."
Duo translated that for Sasuke, who shrugged and said something short. "He said they might have been summoning," Duo told Faith. "Makes sense to me -- we're both pretty deadly, and we both fight for hire. I wouldn't work for demons or try to destroy somebody else's world, but they had no way to know that without grabbing me and asking."
"Fuck." That made way too much sense, and jibed with the dangerous vibes Faith was getting from these two guys. She was used to being the nastiest, craziest person in the room, unless she was surrounded by baddies and had licence to kill them. She wasn't quite sure how to deal with assassins who weren't actively trying to kill her.
Play it cool, she decided. She held out her left hand and began to trim her nails with her knife. "I guess I'll have to look hard at their friends when I get home."
TBC...