origami_ninja | IC contact post/Appointments

IC contact post/Appointments

(Feel free to use this post to have your character ICly contact Konan about things. This can be done through journals, or through her origami. If she's given your character origami before and they've either guessed or been told that she can use it as an extension of her senses, they can use it.

If you wish to use this post for appointments, by all means. Please put day, time and location in the subject line of your post for a meeting, and please specify journal or origami contact if you're using IC contact. Thanks!)

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[Konan is frequently not home. She spends much of her time out and about, albeit solitary. She has been spending a little more time at home since acquiring her kitten, though, since Angel requires more attention.

Minato's knock is answered at first by mewing before Konan quietly pads to the door and scoops up the fluffy white little animal before Angel tries to run down the hallway. She tucks the kitten under one arm as she opens the door.]

Please come in.

[He only gives a brief smile when she opened the door as some sort of greeting, but remained quiet once he steps in. Minato drinks in the sight of her humble abode, a quick scan just to have a feel, before his gaze turns back to Konan. There's so many questions running through his head. He wants to know so many things and yet he knows there's a right time for everything.]

May I? [He gestures for the seat he found nearby with a nod.]

[There are a couple of notable things about Konan's apartment. It's fairly spartan and free of clutter. There are a few decorations that will stand out in contrast to the otherwise barren walls - there are a few incredibly elaborate origami sculptures on shelves, and a couple of sets of pressed flowers kept in picture frames and mounted on the walls.

Aside from the cat supplies, those decorations are the only obvious signs that this apartment is lived in.]

By all means, Namikaze-san. Would you like some tea?

[He does notice these things that he inwardly concluded that Konan's a very neat and organized woman if her apartment is anything to go by. But Minato will dwell on these things some other time. Once he sits down, he folds his hands on his lap as he fixes his gaze on Konan.]

No, thank you. I'm fine. I came here to ask a few things that are better inquired personally. [Things that he thought he'll never ask.]

[Konan assumes his questions pertain to Madara, given that they talked about meeting in person to discuss that issue.]

Go ahead.

[Just because her first guess is that he's here to talk about Madara doesn't necessarily mean it's correct, or that it's the only thing he came to talk about. His demeanour is a little less friendly than it had been over the journals, albeit still very polite.]

[He doesn't break eye contact with her as he swallows this lump that threatened to hinder his question. Without further delay, Minato just comes out with it with his most neutral, calm voice.]

Do you know a man named 'Jiraiya'?

[Simple and straight to the point. He'd really rather not beat around the bush.]

[...oh. There's a topic that she hoped to avoid. She had the chance to speak to Jiraiya and to make her peace with him eventually before the Malnosso sent him away. It seems that the past will continue to haunt her. The worst part is knowing that she deserves it. What she and Nagato did was nothing short of betrayal.]

I do. He's one of the Legendary Sannin.

[She nods her head, though she doesn't elaborate. She can take responsibility for her actions without disclosing more details than necessary.]

[He remains calm even when she didn't say anything more than what's obvious. Minato already expected she won't just come out of it, anyway, so with the same tone, he continues.]

I see. [A contemplative nod.] I have been informed that this group called the 'Akatsuki' is responsible for his death and that this same group attacked our village - the same thing you mentioned you and this Nagato person did.

[He leaves it at that, feeling he had made his point clear, that he knows what he should know.]

That is correct. Nagato and I were two of the three original founders of Akatsuki...although the organization has changed dramatically from what it was to what it is now.

[But that's not what he came to find out about and now that he was more specific, she will be as well.]

On the day that Jiraiya died, he infiltrated Ame to gain information.

[He listens on and visibly frowns further at her words. The more his suspicions are getting proven, the more his heart races.]

And then?

[And then you and your organization killed him, Minato wants to add but he wants it to come from Konan herself.]

I found him hiding within the shadow of an Ame shinobi and when he incapacitated me, Nagato fought and killed him in battle. The rest of the Akatsuki had nothing to do with his death.

[Although under different circumstances, one of the others might. Much as she regrets her involvement in Jiraiya's death, some of it was simply circumstantial. If not for their past history, there wouldn't have been anything personal about it.

It's something she's reflected on in her time here. She'd simply shut herself off from most of her emotions - perhaps an admirable quality in a shinobi, but it made her cold and calculating and able to attack her old teacher without hesitation.]

[Minato already expected she'd say it but it still managed to hurt a lot when he heard it. His hands balling in tight fists on his lap, he lets his expression fall even for a little while. Death is not something foreign to him. He's a shinobi, his hands are stained with so many people's blood, most of them nameless soldiers only following orders.

But for a death to have a name so close to his heart is another matter entirely.]

[So much so that Minato frowns and rises to his feet without any further thought.]

Thank you for the information.

[Glancing at the direction of the closed door, he turns to make his leave.]

[Konan nods and rises to see him out.]

I am sorry for your loss and for my contribution to it, Namikaze-san.

[She can't even call it her loss, even if she does feel sad about Jiraiya's death and her part in it. She doesn't deserve to call it her loss. Not anymore. Making peace with Jiraiya was a little more benign than she deserved, even, but she has been trying to atone.]

[Before completely leaving, Minato glances at her with a frown. Considering the gravity of the information he had heard, he's still relatively calm and his voice when he speaks should attest to that.]

I accept your apology. [A beat as his voice turns a little lower, almost hinted with sadness and unsung anger.] But it won't bring my Sensei back to life.

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