Carefully, Sasuke maneuvers around the mess and over toward the desk with Takaomi. He leans enough to try to see what Takaomi is looking at, but can't without being, like, right in Taka's space.
So instead, he lifts the map to look it over.]
If there are other doors, all with symbols belonging to a god... [He glances at Taka briefly.] Do you know which god this one belongs to?
[Sasuke's brows knot. The information on the page is like... reconnaissance information? It's very familiar as a ninja with missions. And there's a map--
Oh SHIT.
The color drains from his face as he snaps his head up at Takaomi. It isn't fear so much as adrenaline that curdles his blood. He drops everything in his hands but the map, and he turns, almost crumpling it as he tries to roll it up. This he shoves into his shirt.
OKAY, now. Think. DON'T PANIC. He's calm!!!
They can't go back the way they came, and they can't get in through the other door if it's not opening. He turns back around and grabs a fistful of the back of Takaomi's shirt and starts quickly hauling the two of them across the room toward the bed. He shoves Takaomi down, throwing his weight on top of the other boy and shoving forward.
GET UNDER, GET UNDER!!!!
He goes as flat as possible, trying to both shove Takaomi under with him and squirm himself under, too.
[See, Ambition is probably going to say something else, but then there's a strangled little yelp from the hallway, and in runs someone with a mask and robes, sounding furious.]
Sasuke keeps a hold on Takaomi just to make sure the other boy doesn't try anything preemptive that will give them away. But then Ambition runs in and yells about people being in here and--yeah, he panics just a little.
The people Senri cares about most--he promised he wouldn't let anything happen to them basically? Senri would kill him.
He leans over close enough to practically put his mouth against Takaomi's ear (sorry bro) so he can whisper:] Cover your mouth. Keep your head low. When they run, we run. Get ready.
[Shifting as quietly as possible, he takes out the lighter again. On the backside of the bed, the side not closes to the door, Sasuke slides over and flicks the lighter on with a click. He reaches out and holds the flame to the fitted sheet on the bed until it hopefully catches fire.
And then he prays to whatever fucking Naruto god he has to that it'll scare the two of them into running away before they die of smoke inhalation. GET LOST, YOU STUPID GIRLS. LET THEM OUT.]
[ taka, five seconds ago: she said that she thinks someone is here they don't know for sure we can still make it out
taka, now: OH MY GOD
I do not know what else to type other than takaomi is 100% certain that sasuke's plan all along was to get him killed here. there is no other explanation. they are literally in a room with two of the meanest gods and the last time taka spoke to one of them she was pissed at him and NOW the BED is on FIRE
THEY ARE GOING TO FUCKING DIE HERE AND BURN TO DEATH WITH THIS BRA THAT BELONGS TO EITHER DISORDER OR AMBITION AND HE IS NOT SURE WHICH IS WORSE ]
There's, like, literally nobody in here. Maybe the rules are just broken. If there was somebody else in here, why wouldn't mine...
[She rolls her eyes, stretching out and sighing. But then, uh, she smells something burning, and sits up lightning fast, shrieking at the top of her lungs as she catches sight of the fire.]
Shit! Shit!
[Run away? No, she's grabbing one of the pillows and trying to fucking beat the fire into submission she will die on this burning bed before Cunning gets back and blames her for it.]
[He did not expect girls to be competent because Kishimoto never made any of his own girls THIS COMPETENT!!!! #shook
But they're distracted, even when Ambition comes rushing back with the water. Sasuke shoves at Takaomi's shoulder and nods out the side of the bed toward the door they came in. Escape. FREEDOM. If Takaomi can dodge Ambitions legs and scramble.
Sasuke, unfortunately, starts backpedaling instead. He drops the lighter and pulls the dagger out instead, trying to dodge Regina's legs until he's free. SURPRISE. There is a BOY spider-walking out from undeR THE BED. BY HER LEGS. He immediately stands straight up--
--the purple bra is stuck to the dumbass belt around his waist, hanging like a flag of sin, BUT IT'S FINE. He tries to grab for Regina so he can hold her hostage with the dagger.
She'll be able to see Takaomi escape if Takaomi isn't a moron and tries to get away, but at least Ambition hopefully won't be able to catch him.]
[ HOW DOES THIS KEEP GETTING WORSE IT'S LIKE EVERY PASSING SECOND SOMETHING EVEN MORE HORRIBLE HAPPENS!!!!! TAKAOMI MISSES THE GODDAMN MURDERS!!!!!!!!! YESTERDAY WAS NOWHERE NEAR AS FUCKING STRESSFUL AS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he. he wants to die. he has no idea how the fuck they are going to live here after all of this. where the fuck is he supposed to run to, sasuke? they are literally stuck in this murder temple they have nowhere they can go
he then has the only intelligent idea he has had since stepping foot in that armory, and digging in his pocket to pull out a pair of glasses and shoving them onto his face
and then he just. takes a moment to just pray that his god is out there somewhere..... to like....... make sure that when takaomi gets cursed, that it'll be a less worse curse than whatever the fuck sasuke is going to get hit with. and then he scurries from out under the bed and does his best not to DIE ]
[A lot is happening very quickly. Regina gets off the bed just in time for Ambition to douse the fire, and as smoke plumes through the room, a giant fucking spider crawls out from under the bed, only it's not a spider, it's sasuke fucking uchiha and he's got a knife to her throat.
Without properly seeing what exactly is happening, who the fuck it is, what the fuck, like any proper modern-day girl with a lot of anger issues, her immediate reaction is to stomp on one of his feet, smash her elbow into his gut, and slam her head backward into his.
Knife to her throat? Whumst? Can't be afraid when you don't hesitate! At some point during all of this madness, her mask returns to her face, and if her reaction managed to stun Sasuke enough, she stumbles away from him.
At least she doesn't notice Taka in all this? Godspeed, Taka.]
Sasuke dodges the stomp on his foot, but Takaomi's escape distracts him. He takes the hit to the gut with a hiss, but relative ease, but groans when the head cracks against his nose.
HE'S BEING BULLIED BY TWO GIRLS!!!
Regina escapes as he jerks his hand to his face, but Ambition tackles him when he isn't prepared. The dagger goes flying, the bra stays sadly attached, and he bowls over to the ground.
[ well, it's a good(???) thing that taka was the one who found the light, because it means he knows exactly where the cord is so he purposely goes by it so he can yank it and
turn the fucking light out
he is mostly hoping that sasuke's ninja senses means he can see in the dark or some stupid shit, or that it'll distract the gods enough that he can just escape or
something
he also probably just alerted them that there was, indeed, a second person in here unless they just assume it was some wacky!!! coincidence!!! or that the room is haunted but. it's fine. ]
[hi Sasuke have a small god holding on for dear life... but, like, she's actually relatively small so a well-placed smack will probably get her to let go
she won't see it coming because it's dark as shit]
Once he's more grounded, literally, he's better. Once the lights are out, a heavy focus settled on him. He is still a ninja even without ninjutsu. Ambition gets manhandled. A well-placed knee and two well-placed hands, the strikes solid and along the ridge of kneecap and hand edge.
He tosses her off and wastes no time throwing himself to his feet in a run. He trips over something on the floor, staggers, rolls right into Regina and shoves her toward the bed so he can keep going.
With his hands out, he slams into the wall by the door roughly, knocking some of the wind out of him, but he scrambles to the side into Takaomi and then they probably try to kill each other getting out the door and up the stairs together.
They're definitely holding hands this time right.]
but also listening to sasuke attack the two without being able to see what was happening was the actual literal worst, because takaomi was instead imagining that it was him being beaten up by two angry girls and their very tall boyfriend. they're poly or something he doesn't know and doesn't want to think about it
he's mostly hoping they don't figure out where the light is, or that it turns out they have super speed or
literally anything. he would not be surprised if a bear just showed up right now with how bad this has been going????
[Luckily for them, although the sounds of commotion and the chattering of two very angry young women continues behind them, it fades as they run toward and up the stairs. Clearly, they're too caught up in the fallout of what just happened to go chasing after them. When they make it to the top, the hidden door swings shut behind them, fading underneath the guise of the arena once more.
The only thing they truly lost today was their dignity.]
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Carefully, Sasuke maneuvers around the mess and over toward the desk with Takaomi. He leans enough to try to see what Takaomi is looking at, but can't without being, like, right in Taka's space.
So instead, he lifts the map to look it over.]
If there are other doors, all with symbols belonging to a god... [He glances at Taka briefly.] Do you know which god this one belongs to?
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[ he'll slide the papers he was looking at over to sasuke, so he can have a peek. ]
.. the, uh, girl stuff might be... Disorder? [ ... ] I'm less sure about that one though.
[ he does not know disorder's cup size he can't make a comparison ]
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—ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous!
[Well. Hmm. Who might that be?]
I'm getting so tired of these idiotic robes. It will be much better once we don't have to wear them anymore, don't you think?
[Takaomi may recognize the voice as someone who didn't know what kanji was.]
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[Great. This is fine. As the voices get closer, there's the sound of the doorknob turning, but it stops as the voice picks up again.]
Next time we need to do something like...whatever this is, we're totally going designer.
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Oh SHIT.
The color drains from his face as he snaps his head up at Takaomi. It isn't fear so much as adrenaline that curdles his blood. He drops everything in his hands but the map, and he turns, almost crumpling it as he tries to roll it up. This he shoves into his shirt.
OKAY, now. Think. DON'T PANIC. He's calm!!!
They can't go back the way they came, and they can't get in through the other door if it's not opening. He turns back around and grabs a fistful of the back of Takaomi's shirt and starts quickly hauling the two of them across the room toward the bed. He shoves Takaomi down, throwing his weight on top of the other boy and shoving forward.
GET UNDER, GET UNDER!!!!
He goes as flat as possible, trying to both shove Takaomi under with him and squirm himself under, too.
They're under the bed, goodbye.]
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he is trying not to panic or make any noise or like. touch the bra. are there any other bras down here? he hopes not
not like he is paying attention to that because he is focused entirely on that fucking door. ]
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Seriously? He's not here, again? Well, we came all this way so I'm not leaving.
[She stalks over, swipes the peanut butter cup off the desk, and comes back to flop over on top of the bed.]
Whatever. His pillows smell nice.
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I think someone's in here - my mask came back on!
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Sasuke keeps a hold on Takaomi just to make sure the other boy doesn't try anything preemptive that will give them away. But then Ambition runs in and yells about people being in here and--yeah, he panics just a little.
The people Senri cares about most--he promised he wouldn't let anything happen to them basically? Senri would kill him.
He leans over close enough to practically put his mouth against Takaomi's ear (sorry bro) so he can whisper:] Cover your mouth. Keep your head low. When they run, we run. Get ready.
[Shifting as quietly as possible, he takes out the lighter again. On the backside of the bed, the side not closes to the door, Sasuke slides over and flicks the lighter on with a click. He reaches out and holds the flame to the fitted sheet on the bed until it hopefully catches fire.
And then he prays to whatever fucking Naruto god he has to that it'll scare the two of them into running away before they die of smoke inhalation. GET LOST, YOU STUPID GIRLS. LET THEM OUT.]
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taka, now: OH MY GOD
I do not know what else to type other than takaomi is 100% certain that sasuke's plan all along was to get him killed here. there is no other explanation. they are literally in a room with two of the meanest gods and the last time taka spoke to one of them she was pissed at him and NOW the BED is on FIRE
THEY ARE GOING TO FUCKING DIE HERE AND BURN TO DEATH WITH THIS BRA THAT BELONGS TO EITHER DISORDER OR AMBITION AND HE IS NOT SURE WHICH IS WORSE ]
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[She rolls her eyes, stretching out and sighing. But then, uh, she smells something burning, and sits up lightning fast, shrieking at the top of her lungs as she catches sight of the fire.]
Shit! Shit!
[Run away? No, she's grabbing one of the pillows and trying to fucking beat the fire into submission she will die on this burning bed before Cunning gets back and blames her for it.]
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A moment later there's the sound of water running, and she comes back with a small bucket of tapwater.]
Move, I'll handle it!
[Once Regina moves (because like hell is she facing her wrath for dumping water on her), she dumps the water on the bed.]
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But they're distracted, even when Ambition comes rushing back with the water. Sasuke shoves at Takaomi's shoulder and nods out the side of the bed toward the door they came in. Escape. FREEDOM. If Takaomi can dodge Ambitions legs and scramble.
Sasuke, unfortunately, starts backpedaling instead. He drops the lighter and pulls the dagger out instead, trying to dodge Regina's legs until he's free. SURPRISE. There is a BOY spider-walking out from undeR THE BED. BY HER LEGS. He immediately stands straight up--
--the purple bra is stuck to the dumbass belt around his waist, hanging like a flag of sin, BUT IT'S FINE. He tries to grab for Regina so he can hold her hostage with the dagger.
She'll be able to see Takaomi escape if Takaomi isn't a moron and tries to get away, but at least Ambition hopefully won't be able to catch him.]
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he. he wants to die. he has no idea how the fuck they are going to live here after all of this. where the fuck is he supposed to run to, sasuke? they are literally stuck in this murder temple they have nowhere they can go
he then has the only intelligent idea he has had since stepping foot in that armory, and digging in his pocket to pull out a pair of glasses and shoving them onto his face
and then he just. takes a moment to just pray that his god is out there somewhere..... to like....... make sure that when takaomi gets cursed, that it'll be a less worse curse than whatever the fuck sasuke is going to get hit with. and then he scurries from out under the bed and does his best not to DIE ]
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Without properly seeing what exactly is happening, who the fuck it is, what the fuck, like any proper modern-day girl with a lot of anger issues, her immediate reaction is to stomp on one of his feet, smash her elbow into his gut, and slam her head backward into his.
Knife to her throat? Whumst? Can't be afraid when you don't hesitate! At some point during all of this madness, her mask returns to her face, and if her reaction managed to stun Sasuke enough, she stumbles away from him.
At least she doesn't notice Taka in all this? Godspeed, Taka.]
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because she just fucking tackles Sasuke]
Get off of her, you idiot!
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Sasuke dodges the stomp on his foot, but Takaomi's escape distracts him. He takes the hit to the gut with a hiss, but relative ease, but groans when the head cracks against his nose.
HE'S BEING BULLIED BY TWO GIRLS!!!
Regina escapes as he jerks his hand to his face, but Ambition tackles him when he isn't prepared. The dagger goes flying, the bra stays sadly attached, and he bowls over to the ground.
As long as Takaomi is free, it's okay.]
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turn the fucking light out
he is mostly hoping that sasuke's ninja senses means he can see in the dark or some stupid shit, or that it'll distract the gods enough that he can just escape or
something
he also probably just alerted them that there was, indeed, a second person in here unless they just assume it was some wacky!!! coincidence!!! or that the room is haunted but. it's fine. ]
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[Okay so now, now she's pissed, all but roaring as something clatters when she trips. GodDAMN YOUR CLUTTER, CUNNING.]
Don't let him go, Ambition! I'll grab the other one!
[If she can just, like, fucking find him, but...easier said than done.]
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[hi Sasuke have a small god holding on for dear life... but, like, she's actually relatively small so a well-placed smack will probably get her to let go
she won't see it coming because it's dark as shit]
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Once he's more grounded, literally, he's better. Once the lights are out, a heavy focus settled on him. He is still a ninja even without ninjutsu. Ambition gets manhandled. A well-placed knee and two well-placed hands, the strikes solid and along the ridge of kneecap and hand edge.
He tosses her off and wastes no time throwing himself to his feet in a run. He trips over something on the floor, staggers, rolls right into Regina and shoves her toward the bed so he can keep going.
With his hands out, he slams into the wall by the door roughly, knocking some of the wind out of him, but he scrambles to the side into Takaomi and then they probably try to kill each other getting out the door and up the stairs together.
They're definitely holding hands this time right.]
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but also listening to sasuke attack the two without being able to see what was happening was the actual literal worst, because takaomi was instead imagining that it was him being beaten up by two angry girls and their very tall boyfriend. they're poly or something he doesn't know and doesn't want to think about it
he's mostly hoping they don't figure out where the light is, or that it turns out they have super speed or
literally anything. he would not be surprised if a bear just showed up right now with how bad this has been going????
ANYWAY UP UP UP THE STAIRS NOTHING CAN GO BAD ]
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The only thing they truly lost today was their dignity.]