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Who: Frau and OPEN (so far it should also include Lieselotte Achebach, Sasuke Uchiha, and Lisbeth)
When: Somewhere between 9/20 and 10/7 or so
Where: Various sectors, see individual threads
Summary: Frau is pretty distraught over Teito's disappearance. Without his light, he's slipping further into the darkness and going after souls he wouldn't usually go after. More info here
Warnings: Lots of swearing, corruption, fighting... just general not goodness probably

Everything was so dark. Again. Frau had faced the darkness before. He'd lived in it for a long time, watched it slowly get worse, slowly drag him down. Now, though, it was different. Now, without his light, without Teito, it seemed so much worse again. Without the kid to guide him out of the darkness that surrounded him and consumed him, he didn't know what to do. It's what had led him out to hunt so often recently. He wasn't being that careful either. So far nobody had even suspected there was one person consuming others throughout the city. There hadn't been a mention of it at all even though it had been months. Frau was careful.

Now he wasn't. Hunting during the day was fine. He was even going after people he wouldn't usually target. They were still corrupted, sure, but their souls weren't blackened beyond redemption. At this point though, he didn't care. Part of him might have recognized the fact that the scythe probably had a stronger grip on him than it should, but this time he wasn't fighting it back. He'd slipped a bit. Not enough that consuming one of them could destroy him, but the path he walked was a slippery slope. There was only so much longer he could hold on.

((OOC Note: For those Frau is targeting or those who notice him, feel free to start a new thread. I'd include the sector and date in the subject line if you can. Frau's going to be roaming pretty much anywhere, so feel free to use any sector even though he lives in 4 and works in 5.))

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Sasuke wasted no time as soon as they landed.

Finally.

He rolled backwards, flew through the seals and blasted a fireball at his attacker, strong with his fury and the chakra he'd been unable to release while he was being abducted.

Frau's jaw nearly dropped in shock. He immediately pulled as much zaiphon together as he could and put it in front of him as a shield. Hopefully it would hold. If not, he was going to become rather crispy. Or at least he'd have a lot less time to try to dodge away. It would still be possible, just a lot harder.

The fire slammed into the shield and pushed Frau back a bit as he strained to hold it. Despite the zaiphon, he could feel the heat on his face. It was kind of nice actually.

Sasuke continued the blast as long as he could hold it, which wasn't as long as he would have liked. His breath was still short from the impact to his diaphragm. So he summoned his fuuma shuriken and threw them, wires in his palm.

When the fire ended Frau shook out his hands and glanced at them. They hurt and were nice and warm, but he didn't see any damage to his gloves. That was good.

He was in the middle of examining them when the caught the flash of metal. At he last minute he shifted slightly aside. Whatever these things were, it didn't look like they would do a lot of damage, but Frau would prefer not to ruin another coat.

((Fuuma shuriken! Because I forgot to link in the last tag.))

Bastard.

Sasuke yanked on the wire and the shuriken came apart, flying towards Frau from as many directions as he could manage. Damn it, he would get a hit.

((Ah, that's helpful. And a lot bigger than I had figured.))

"Holy..."

Frau tried to dodge aside and avoid those blades, but he couldn't get away from all of them. When one ripped into his upper arm he knew he couldn't hold back anymore. Before another one could hit him he pulled the scythe from his arm and slashed out with it.

((Sorry about that. ^^; Regular shuriken are little, but the fuuma are oversized.))

The sensation of metal embedding itself into flesh was deeply satisfying. Finally.

But for a moment, an image flashed in his head of Itachi taking the same hit from Sasuke's hand.

His gut clenched.

But he shook it off--his opponent was slashing at the pieces of his shuriken with that scythe from earlier. The sound of them connecting rang in his ears. Now that his breath had come back, he sucked in air and made the seals--the second fireball was bigger than the first.

At another fireball flying at him Frau swore in annoyance. This kid wasn't going to give up, and Frau wasn't looking for a fight anymore. While massive Frau figured he could still bound over it as long as he gave himself enough time. A few running steps and he launched himself up.

Normally he would have enjoyed spinning the scythe and coming straight down on his target. This time he landed well to the side and kept the scythe with him.

"Would you knock it off?!"

Sasuke knew better than to pause in an assault--that would create an opening to be exploited. So he drew his kunai and held it out in front of himself, a clear warning. Come close and I'll attack.

"What do you want from me," he snapped, mangekyou wheeling, taking in every fiber on Frau's clothing, the individual strands of his hair.

"Nothing. I don't want anything from you."

Frau almost sounded sad and a little bit worn down. As he spoke he allowed the scythe to lower to the ground so the head was resting there. He'd started with unintentionally and now he somehow had to find a way to finish it. Sasuke's anger was understandable.

"Bullshit."

Sasuke tensed further at the lowering of the weapon. A feint. Trying to lull him into a false sense of security so he could get in a blow. "You wouldn't have grabbed me and taken me to a secluded rooftop if you wanted to do nothing. Tell me the truth."

"I didn't want spectators, and I couldn't just take off after what happened."

Frau couldn't help feeling a little bit frustrated, though it was mostly with himself. He'd slipped up and gotten himself into this situation. Unfortunately there just didn't seem to be any good way out of it.

"You wouldn't want to hear anything now anyway. And you wouldn't believe me either."

"No. I wouldn't."

Frau still wasn't moving, but that didn't mean the situation was any more safe. Sasuke had seen impeccable acting by dozens of enemies in the past--there was no reason to put down his guard.

But he knew an opening when he saw one, and even if fleeing was part of Frau's plan, all he had to do was be faster. He wouldn't be caught by surprise again.

So he blasted a third fireball, making sure it caught anything on the roof that would be flammable, and used the blaze to jump for the ground and take off down a side street.

Frau shielded his face with his arm but didn't do anything to go after Sasuke. He didn't want to, and he certainly didn't need to. Instead he rubbed at his face before turning his attention to the scythe.

"You damn well better behave."

It growled in annoyance as Frau began forcing it back into his arm. Once he'd returned it completely, he turned and bounded away across the roofs so he could return home.