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𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 ([personal profile] blackfire) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog 2022-02-03 12:06 am (UTC)

I apologize for this. Please be ready to fall.

susano'o scoops jim up in one hand and stretches to its full — impressive — height, which puts its reach just slightly below the building they're beside, and then the guardian gently tosses him to the roof. pulsefire can't burn the building, and none of their combatants look able to climb easily, so it's the quickest way to buy them a moment's reprieve to regroup. there's no telling that they won't start an actual fire, and with the tinder-dry state of the building it will burn quickly, but it's the best he can do on short notice.

as soon as jim is out of immediate harm's way, the giant blazing avatar falters, its armour and skin peeling back to bone before it burns out of existence entirely. from there, it's all he can do to activate shunshin, the flash step, to escape. he gets to the roof shortly thereafter and although he is still standing, exhaustion is made clear in the sharp lines of his face and the fact that his eyes — which jim has never seen anything but cinnabar red — are simple, starless black.


I'm at my limit.

refusing to admit it will only put them in a more tenuous situation — itachi is nothing if not ruthlessly pragmatic.

I can still fight, but I won't be able to use any jutsu.

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