1 - [Voice Post]

[kinslayer]

[The PCD clicks on and a quiet, calm voice begins speaking. It's masculine and confident.]

Hello. I am newly arrived here. I have the gist of the situation--Apparently this place pulls people from different times and worlds to... Here.

Here appears to include killer bunnies.

Information pertaining to anything would be beneficial--lodgings however, are the most pertinent item of interest. As well as what other things one should expect from this place.

[A voice too distant to be heard says something and Itachi responds, equally muffled. A moment later the PCD clicks off.]

Comments

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

I agree. The future is what should be focused on, not the past.

I hope that your chosen path satisfies you, and you achieve the trust you seek, Raoh-san.

In the event that it is impossible to return home I am not sure what path I will take. My reasons for my past actions are certainly not as altruistic as your own. However I have, at the moment, no interest in causing trouble here.

((OOC: <3 Itachi is actually very sympathetic to Raoh, he just doesn't show it--it'd be too revealing of his own motives.))

[raohthekenoh.livejournal.com]

I wished to be king to be king, to have the world bow down before me. Surely I wished for something better, but it was also pride and limitless ambition that drove me towards it.

I can make no apologies for that. Hn. Whatever path you choose to take, you are welcome at my side, and my fist will always be at your service.

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

Ambition... And yet here you are, with a new goal. I suppose nothing is unchangeable, even our deepest desires.

Thank you Raoh-san. However if it is the trust of others you seek, you may not wish to associate with me. I leave that to your choice, and will not be offended should you reconsider, and I will remember the offer.

....

If you do not reconsider... You have my gratitude. I would like that, I think. And you may, I believe, rely on my strength should you need it.

[raohthekenoh.livejournal.com]

Simply because I abandoned my ambition does not mean that I have lost my pride and will as a man. I will not simply reject another person because others do not like him, that is no way to live life. I make my own decisions of who to associate with. As long as I believe in the person... I should care not what anyone else thinks.

I have no right to point fingers at those with pasts as bloody as mine, and can understand anyone who has done something... who has sacrificed so that others might benefit. Soldiers live lives of unbearable sacrifice, and are forced to then carry on bearing that ungodly weight on their shoulders.

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

That is a strong-willed sentiment, Raoh-san. I can admire your conviction.

However you may have the wrong impression of me. I am not one who sacrifices for others--my ambitions are for my own purpose. What I have chosen in my life I have chosen with full knowledge and consideration of the consequences.

[raohthekenoh.livejournal.com]

hah... Until you rule the entire world it is as if you are a tool of someone else. I clawed so frantically not just for others, but for myself. If both choices end in bloodshed, then what choice is there to be made? I was truly born into an age where there would be a great deal of death... and the world would choke on the blood of the masses, leaving the rest of us to eke an existence out of nothing.

The men around me... as hungry as I, even crueler... The Kenoh, the mantle I took to conquer everything around me... we who are strong enough to change the world... we are the ones who seal our hearts and our tears for a hope for something better to come from the future. If your life has been anything like me... the pain weighs on your heart and is nearly unbearable.

My younger brothers, better men than me, but the firey blood of my desires also had a place. The choices we make... did you make them for reasons that are just? even if you suffer now, did you do them to forge something better? Perhaps I am mistaken when I see a kindred soul in you, but I do not think so.

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

I can understand you reasoning for your actions. I certainly will not condemn you--when faced with a world torn by war there are no innocents, and mercy and humanity are liabilities. The ideals of "civilization" crumble when faced with that much blood and cruelty and senselessness.

You will not like my answer Raoh-san.

I seek power. For the sake of myself and no others. I have seen the darkness humanity is capable of--only strength means anything, in the end. I do not take pleasure in bloodshed, but I do not hesitate to eliminate those in my way.

I wish to break past my own limitations. There is a man I will surpass, and when I do, I will kill him. Assuming it is possible to return to my world, at any rate.

[raohthekenoh.livejournal.com]

The way you have acted, the way you speak, this I cannot believe. You may lie to the entire world then if that is your fondest desire, and even to yourself. But our souls are not so separate. I do not regret the path I chose, but was it the best path? My brother Kenshiro once said to me "I would have no problem allowing you to be the successor for this entire world, if not for your endless ambition."

I can't regret my choices, but was there a better one I could have made? certainly. My world didn't need one more blood thirsty conquerer... It needed a man with the capacity to love and change, to kill the filthy animals that try to corrupt it. Thousands waved my banners and praised my name, and thousands more wished my death, my way only created more death in an already chaotic world.

I do not think our souls are too far apart Itachi, I do not think they are so very far apart at all.

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

... I see. You somewhat remind me of a man I know--or your description of your past does.

As to how... connected... our souls might be I cannot say.

((OOC: I have not been ignoring this, it's just very hard to Itachi to reply to that. T__T))

[raohthekenoh.livejournal.com]

You can do what it is you want to do... I'll pressure you no further at any rate, a man is welcome to and has a right to keep his secrets. But if I thought you as dark as you say you are... I would certainly be adverse to associating with you.

[kin-slayer.livejournal.com]

I suppose you will come to your own conclusions with our interactions.

In any case, until you have determined my nature, I believe it will be pleasant enough to work together.