Open MiT Application: Hashigaki Honome!

[Hashigaki Honome]

Honome walked through the hall, hugging the left wall and trailing her hand along the walk rail meant for those who were in physical therapy. She used her walking stick to guide her to the office that she had been directed to from the front desk receptionist. Apparently there was someone that she was supposed to see in order to continue her journey toward being a certified Medical Ninja. She ran a finger along her forehead, pulling a delicate platinum strand out of her face and tucked it behind her ear, the braid that it had escaped from bobbed playfully between her shoulder blades.

Two, three, four, five. She counted the doors before she tapped her walking stick against the bottom of the sixth door on the left. Her hand passed over the brail, and she nodded, so this was the office. Gulping she knocked on the door and projected, "I'm Hashigaki, Honome, here to apply for Medical Ninja in Training status." She waited, her ears ringing from the sudden loud noise of her own voice as she nervously twisted the walking stick at one of its collapsable joints. She was nervous, but she had put on her best kimono, one made of white silk, and was wearing her black and gold obi. She couldn't be turned down right here, not after all she had gone through. She would prove her worth. She was better than the others at finding veins, and 'listening' for troubles in the body.

Surely she would reach the level of Medical ninja, and do it soon. She would do her mother proud, and perhaps she could even earn a visit to her father. All of it rode on her interview though, she hoped, gulped, and blinked her iridescent eyes at the door, waiting for someone to answer.

 

[Shinrya Riko]

When Riko was in elementary school, she received help from a classmate who was serving detention. Riko believed that the help should exonerate the student, so she informed the teacher. However, the student received a harsher punishment for skipping detention. Riko felt guilty that her actions caused someone else to receive a worse punishment. Despite this, Riko had always been a peacemaker since she was young. When she learned that Honome was blind, Riko couldn't help but assist her. She searched for Honome and found her in front of a door in a different hall. ”There you are!” She called out to Honome. Riko tried her best to make a quick, and yet not too quick approach. ”I’m really sorry if I’m bothering you, but I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind if I escorted you around the hospital?” Riko internally knew that she was being derelict of her duty. She was supposed to report for training duty with a temporary genin team, but right now she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to spend more time with the lovely Honome. She offered her arm to the shorter woman and hoped that she would agree to her request.

 

[Midori Futotta]

Midori had already finished at least a good majority of the puzzle on her desk was a large unfinished puzzle of some old painting of Raiden. An old record player that rested at the corner of her desk played some sort of dark violin music to help her focus while she solved the puzzle. The sound was kinda distorted but it wasn't bad really because the little crackling of the speakers really set the mood for the song. Midori set a piece of the puzzle down when suddenly there came a knock coming from her office door. The voice behind the door announced themselves as Honome who came to apply for the M.I.T status and rising from her chair the vampire moved towards the door and opened it.

Standing in the doorway was a young platinum haired woman, wearing traditional clothing for the most part though the thing that caught the vampire's eye was the walking stick in Honome's hand. Along with her was another mortal, assumingly for emotional support or perhaps just someone who decided to tag along with the blind mortal. Midori looked down at Honome for at least a couple of moments with a hint of confusion, the vampire decided to put on a friendly face then decided to welcome the blind mortal in a sweet tone. "Vhy my dearest, enter freely und of your ovn vill." she said in a rather heavy accent, moving out of the way of the door to stand at full height of 9 '2. "I trust zat vou can find your vay to your seat, just valk schtraight und vu'll find it. I vas just in zee middle of finishing up zis puzzle zat I've been vorking on, come come. Zit." Midori insists, lumbering along the side Honome to make sure she didn't bump into anything on her way to the desk leaving the door open to Honome little friend in case she wanted to join them as well. "Vou are free to zit on one of zee comfy couches if vu like or stay out in zee hall if vu visch. Just beware because my spider nest in zee corner of zee room." she gesturesd there were a large black hole in the corner of the ceiling that had been covered with spider webs. The spider seemingly not in the room right now or probably in some other part of the hospital doing midori's bidding while she did this puzzle shed been working

Whether or not Riko chosen to enter the office or not. Once Honome was seated, the vampire would then turn off the record player and sat behind her desk to examine the blind mortal for a moment before beginning. "Vell glad zat you've taken an interest in joining zee medical branch, a marvelous zing indeed und I'm zure vu'll make a fine addizion to our beloved branch vhich is favored py zee Lady Raikage herzelf." she praised while looking for a puzzle piece, finding one that matched a certain portion of Raiden's arm in which she managed to slip it in where the piece had gone. "Since this branch is about saving lives as well as... other things. It's important that we have the right kind of beings for this job. So you should understand that the more I know about you, the more likely I would be inclined to take you on as a fellow medi-nin. So why don't you tell me a little about yourself and why do you want to join this branch?" Looking up from her puzzle, the vampire staring down at Honome. Giving the blind mortal a chance to speak so Midori had at least an idea of what kind of person she would be dealing with. While the mortal did lack the gift of sight, even Midori knows that these weaknesses can be overcomed with the right abilities. So giving Honome the benefit of the doubt, she decided to simply give her this moment to tell her about the things she was able to do just to see where the young Shinobi is in terms of being a medical nin.

 

[Shinrya Riko]

Riko had thought herself tall for a woman, but this other woman was something else. Her skin was pale like death, and her eyes were an unnatural yellow, and seemed to glow when the shadows fell over them. Riko hadn’t asked what they were here for, but t his giant of a woman was something else. She couldn’t even fit through this door frame without stooping. Riko lead Honome into the room after the Giantess, and noted how the woman walked along Honome’s other side to keep her from bumping into anything. This all seemed to be about becoming, what? A medical ninja in training? For some reason Riko had never considered the idea in the past. If she had better training in the medical arts maybe she could have helped her father? It was two years too late now but being a full time nurse and care taker for the old man had meant that she had picked up a thing or two from her time being around the hospital. ”Actually, I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind accepting me as an apprentice as well. I’m also interested in training to join the medical branch.” Riko stated.

For everyone two or three steps the pair of them made, the giantess natural stride only needed a single step. Once they had made their way across the office and to the desk, Riko pulled out the chair and would wait for Honome to sit. Riko made her own way towards the couch that had been gestured to for where she could wait. This might be considered a bit on the side of eavesdropping, but if she was going to join the Medical branch as well, she might as well be here and just wait her turn. Besides, ther was the added benefit that she would get to hear more about Honome. Riko sat down and made sure to give the spider’s hole in the wall plenty of space. She wasn’t particularly afraid of spiders, but she’d rather not have a giant one crawling on her while she wasn’t paying attention. It would seriously mess up her cool.

Shinobi-trained creatures weren’t often to be feared, at least, not when they were on your side. Riko hoped the giantess wasn’t the kind that would hurt someone simply for wanting to become medical staff. It would be incredibly wasteful, but at the same time there was something inhuman about her. It wasn’t just a matter of her incredible height. It was the way she moved, talked, and dressed. It was like she was a creature who belonged in some kind of book or cinema rather than any kind of mortal here in the hospital of cloud. Perhaps she wasn’t even human in the first place. There wasn’t any way to really know, not for Riko at least. She held her peace and let Honome take things from here.

 

[Hashigaki Honome]

The door opened and Honome noticed something strange, the voice came from too far upward. She wanted to reach out and touch the person, but had found out when she was a youngling that that was rather rude, and so her hands fidgeted on her walking stick. How large was this woman? The next thing she noticed, which should have been the first by rights, was that the woman spoke with a strange accent. Not wanting to call attention to someone's speech impediment she moved past that too, to the recording which was scratching and playing a doleful tune on the record. She had always despised records, as she could hear the needle scratch deeper and deeper into the vinyl, and the sound quality got worse and worse as time went on and the same record was played.

She was escorted, gently, to a chair in the middle of the room and took the chance to close her eyes and listen around when the record player was turned off. It seemed to be a rather large room by the way that the sounds reverberated off of the walls, but well furnished from the density of the noise and lack of an echo. There was heavy fabric that dampened a lot of the noise which made Honome a bit uncomfortable, but she sat just the same, folding the walking stick up before putting it into a small case that she had brought.

The room smelled clean, but old, like the dust had settled into the furniture and had just decided to stay there on a permanent vacation. There was something, also, that told her that there was some sort of biological thing in the room, it almost smelled like cobwebs? No, it couldn't be cobwebs, as she knew that the director of the Medical Ninja Branch wouldn't have cobwebs in her office. Honome's eyes opened and she decided to point her unseeing stare at the wall in front of her. Unfortunately for her, that meant that it looked, rather, like she was looking at the bosom of the large woman, given their height difference. "I ah, I am Hashigaki, Honome." She restarted her introduction and hesitated, she had already said that. What do say now? She decided to fold her hands in her lap and project a little bit more, as she wasn't able to catch the reverberations of her words coming back to her, which meant that the woman across from her might have had a hard time hearing her with the low tone she normally took.

"I have always been interested in helping others ever since my mother and father were separated." She nodded, a good place to start, "Once I came into my own with my chakra, I found it to be harder to pinpoint what I wanted to do since I have no skill, as you can probably guess, at any jutsu that manifest themselves in projectiles." One pale hand squeezed another as she continued, her breathing was quickening and sounded like the bellows of a great furnace to her, "I, finding that I was unable to harm my opponents without harming my own comrade, found myself rather put off by the prospect of becoming an offensive kunoichi, and decided my path was to join the medical branch." She set her jaw, but the beads of sweat starting under her hairline and creeping into her limbs belied that she was nervous. If she was turned down, what would she do? Where would she go? "I know that I lack the skill, right now, to perform the jutsu, but if I could study, I think that I would be an invaluable asset to the village and to you." She dipped her upper body in a quick, stiff, professional bow before resuming staring straight ahead. Why did her heart choose to be so loud when she was waiting for the judgement sentence on her future path as a Kunoichi?

 

[Midori Futotta]

Well, this was a nice little surprise. Not only would she be doing an interview with one possible medical nin but she would be interviewing two potential recruits for the branch. Though the thing that Midori was curious about was what kind of talents these two mortals possessed. Would experience with medical ninjutsu help her decision? Of course but those are the kinds of things that aren't really taught in the academy since the majority of the ninjutsu you learn in the academy are basic at best. The vampire was willing to train them if needed, but as for now she simply just wanted to see where the two are. After Midori questioned the young blind mortal, she seemingly had been a little nervous because the mortal introduced herself again. Letting the blind mortal speak, she couldn't help but find it funny that the mortal was looking straight and yelling as though she was far away. Chuckling as she looked down at the mortal, making a mental note of the lack of any real experience but what the young mortal did have was a willingness to learn.

"Hmm.. vell your villingness to learn is a good step forvard, my dearest." Midori explain, sitting up straight which made her look much larger as she began to grab a puzzle piece then looking down over her bosom to try to finger out where the piece would go. "Your training period vill be vere most of your experience vill come from hoveffer, the zing zat I am most curious about is vat gift of the blood do you have." The vampire said, putting the puzzle piece within its intended part before getting another piece. It was at this very moment that she realized that she would be able to kill two birds with one stone and decided to get Riko involved too since she was here for the same thing as well. "Speaking in vich, vy don't vu come join us at zee table und share zome of your gifts as vell... I believe zat zere's a chair zomevere here for vu to zit. Just a zecond."

With that, Midori rose from her seat. Each step sounded like she was stomping as she lumbered over to one of the spare chairs that sat near the coffee table and effortlessly lifting it up so she could set it right next to Honome. "Zere vu are, have a seat here. Now vere vere ve… " Midori said before lumbering back behind the desk before sitting back in her comfy giant friendly chair. Once the other mortal was seated with Honome, Midori looked over at Honome then clapped her hands. "Ahhh! Ve ve're just about to learn vat kind of special ability of the blood zat Honome has! Please don't spare any details because I am villing to help vu both unlock your full potential." Midori smirked, leaving the mortals room enough to speak because she was sure that they had a lot to say.

 

[Hashigaki Honome]

Honome nodded and pulled out her papers from her obi. She had no idea what they said, since they were written, rather than brailled, and hoped that she was giving the correct documents. Her teacher said to present this envelope to the head of the medical ninja department when she graduated, and so she did as she was told. It was really a pain that not everyone could read braille. The world, indeed, was meant for those people with the power of sight. She had been told that humans were most reliant on sight, but could hardly believe them, given that she was able to get around and do her basic housework and get by without the use of her eyes. She believed, however, that humans had made the world they lived in more reliant on sight than anything else. From what she could understand, the world was a mess of bright and dazzling colors, stimuli that passed by, and that they weren't able to pick out most scents, sounds, or feelings because of the mess that eyesight brought.

All of this, she thought, as she waited quietly for Midori to open the envelope. As soon as she heard the rustle of paper she piped up, "I am of the Hashigaki bloodline, and I am soon to be able to come into my won with a personal tutor from my family in the way of molding chakra into sound." She smiled, a little proud of herself. As she talked, her hand strayed from her lap to her throat, soon to be her weapon when she was performing jutsu. She had no calluses on her fingertips for the stringed instruments, didn't have the calluses on her palms from playing drums or a percussion instrument, and didn't have the telltale biting of her lip of a woodwind instrument player. It would all come down to not only her words, but the notes that her voice would make.

Her volume, since the room was still a dead-zone for her reverberations which unsettled her to no end, was still between a scream and a shout. She wondered whether or not people who relied on sight like this always kept their rooms so muffled. The sound died almost as soon as it left her lips, which meant that she felt rather muzzled in regards to her innate ability to parse information from the sounds around her. Usually she could hear the person in front of her's heartbeat, their breathing, could pick up on the shift of fabric, the creak of wood, the rustling of papers, but all those queues seemed to be strangled into near silence here. It was quite disturbing for someone like Honome, but she tried to keep her cool. After all, Riko didn't say anything to give her that impression, and she had a good bead on the kind of person Riko was. A protector.

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[Shinrya Riko]

Riko hadn’t expected anything from this meeting. She mostly volunteered to become a Medical ninja in training purely because Honome was, but as she did think about it the idea it was certainly growing on her. So when she received the puzzling request for her to move to the desk and sit next to Honome, she wasn’t against it in the least. She promptly lifted herself from the plush of the sofa and moved over to the chair, the old wood of the chair groaning as she slid it against the floor, causing even Riko to wince slightly at the unpleasant sound. ”Sorry.” She apologized quickly as she sat near Honome. Home placed a letter on the table and had slid it towards Midori. Riko didn’t interrupt whatever process this was, because she admitted internally at least that she was curious about the pretty Hashigaki as well.

As Honome finished with her reply, Riko felt the silence bite at her and demand a response. She gazed between the two women - seemingly opposites. ”I am from the Shinrya Clan, I’m sure you’ve heard of us. Some people in the family have the sharingan - guess I didn’t win the lottery there. Not that I’m complaining though, my eyes are plenty good as they are.” Riko explained her own predicament to the giantess. Yes, the Shinrya were well known to have the Sharingan Bloodline, but even though Riko was a member of the clan’s main branch it was simply a gift she didn’t have. There was a certain quality to her vision that no chakra-enhanced acuity would be able to match with her current life. No, she didn’t boast the ability to see anybody than the next person off the street. Instead, her vision was tinted with compassion - a weakness to some, but to Riko, a strength. She would never allow herself to feel guilty for the years she sacrificed for her ailing father.

”But - if I had to describe myself, having lacking any kind of bloodline - then I think I would describe myself as…maybe sturdy - no! I got it, STEADFAST. I’d like to be someone who others can rely on. Dependable. ” It was perhaps a bit on the nose, but then Riko wasn’t exactly someone for subtlety. Riko looked over at Honome and could see that she looked uncomfortable. She wasn’t sure if it was nervousness or something else that was getting to her. Riko just reached her hand over to Honome’s and offered a comforting hand to hold for the duration.

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[Midori Futotta]

Midori watched as the blind mortal went into her kimonos to pull out some kind of envelope and handed it to her in which she did take it. Having to hold it in her fingertips since the document was indeed made for people of a much normal size, the vampire opened it and pulled out the documents that were within the small envelope. Going in the top drawer to get a pair of reading glasses, squinting as she tried to make out what the words said on the document. One thing that she loathed about being this tall was that everything seemed rather too small for her, even this document felt like looking at a sticky note with a very small font. Though she did manage to make out what the papers said, Midori listened as the blind mortal went on to tell her exactly what bloodline that she was. The mortal was a Hashigaki, a clan known mostly for two things, both being good with sound ninjutsu and bad eyesight. Some of them can probably overcome the bad eyesight, but a good majority of them are known for being as blind as bats. As she read through the documents that the mortal had given her, her ears were assaulted by the mortals screaming. The vampire cringed as she looked over the papers at the blind mortal, looking over at Riko for a moment then looking back at Honome. "Vell, a little rough. But I'm zure zat it's nozing a little training von't fix."

Though the room itself was pretty quiet, Honome, if she listened closely, couldn't necessarily hear any blood flow nor any breathing coming from the person in front of her. In fact the only time she would hear any sign of the Sennin breathing was when she was about to speak. There was also this odd sound in replace of the blood flow, it was like a thousands of worms writhing about along with the slow beating of multiple hearts. The hearts themselves seemingly beat only once every 10 seconds, each one beating almost independently of each other as Midori finished reading the documents. Eventually the awkward silence was broken by Riko speaking up. Apparently she was a member of the Shinrya Clan which of course was another clan that she heard about with their Kage being a descendant of that clan. Though unfortunately, Riko lacked the sharingan that the people of her clan possessed. However, despite her lack of any sharingan, Riko did possess the ability of an steadfast which was something Midori could see potential in. In fact, they both had great potential with their gifts since the blind one had two choices of being more combat oriented or more support since her gifts can either heal or destroy things. Riko also had a gift too which would make her hard to kill if she knew how to use her gifts right. Midori smirked, setting the documents down then clasped her hands together.

"Marvelous.. Zeems vu'fe both of you haffe zome great potential und are zerious about being apart of zee branch. Zince zis is a training period und you tvo are still learning for zee most part– I vill allow vu poth to join as medi-nins in training." Midori explained, deciding to go more in depth with what they would actually be doing and perhaps even mentor them herself. "Vhile there vill be moments you vill have to vork in zee hospital, zere vill be times vhen you vill have to leave zee hospital for a mission. Be it for zearch und rescue, going to a perzon vho is injured, und effen helping other branches who need us for healing capability. Zo it is important zat vu tvo are properly trained vith dealing vith zings ven it comes to zee battlefield zince unfortunately, medical nins are alvays targeted first ven it comes to battle. My aim is to aid vu both becauze if you survive group survives." Once Midori explained mostly her intentions and standards for them she decided to open the floor for any questions that they had regarding what they would be doing. "But for now, as far as I am concerned. Vu tvo are M.I.T's zo if vu tvo have any questions, ask avay because I am villing to ansver zhem? If not zen vu may report to me tomorrow for your first assignment."

[Oo: Promoting Hashigaki Honome and Shinrya Riko to Cloud M.I.T (medical-nin in training) head on here to get your fancy banners]