Description: Ibuki suddenly shows up on Ken's vacationing doorstep, and makes a request! Hilarity ensues!
It is a lovely day at the beach, the air is warm, the breeze is perfect, the salty spray from the ocean combined with the sun warmed sand on the beach creating the unique scent one associates with the beach. The roar of the waves crashing along the shore complete the tranquil feeling that spreads around the beach house. Though if one girl has her way this tranquility will be disrupted!
It'd taken time to track him down, he could be a hard man to find when he really wanted to be despite his rather high profile. Plus she had Neo League matches that she had to take care of, thus Ibuki had had little time to devote to tracking one Ken Masters down, but she'd managed it and now she'd found where he'd been laying low to hide or more likely to relax from his busy schedule. Having infiltrated past most of the Beach House's security system she grins beneath her mask as soon one way or another Ken Masters would pay for all the harrassment she'd suffered under the NL, particularly the swimsuit match with Alma.
Thus Ibuki is clinging to the ceiling above the main hallway through the beach house, her form concealed by a detailed painted cloth designed to look identical to that part of the ceiling. There she patiently awaits Ken, for if nothing else she wants to start this meeting off with a bit of embarrassment for the renowned fighter and business playboy...though if she gets her wish only fate can decide such things.
Oh Ken, when will you ever learn to finally install that anti-ninja security system whenever you go on a sabbatical? Luckily for the would-be Narutards, that answer would be never, but alas, this day will be disturbed, and the much needed training and relaxation time is going to go to hell in a handbasket.
The door to the bathroom slowly opens, and an impressive amount of steam slowly starts to roll out as the man of action, the man with the plan, the man who can do it all, Ken Masters, steps out from within its sterile confines, wearing naught a stich of clothing, save for a towel wrapped around his waist. This is a fine day indeed for intruders to get a glimpse to what Ken is like underneath it all.
Silently the cloth gives way behind Ken as he passes it by, revealing the ninja girl hanging from his ceiling, Ibuki then drops down without a sound behind him....carefully timing her next action for best effect and shock value. Then with the most shrill and noisy cat call whistle she can possibly make, "How's abouts some fries with d'at shake cutie pie?!!!!" Her accent a mockery of a deep Brooklyn one. With that done she waits for him to freak out or at least be a little surprised, hopefully he'll be really embarrassed by this and if he's not...that's what the camera is for.
There is a bit of surprise from Ken, but not much that the ninja girl would be hoping for. He turns around and stares at her, scratching his head slightly. "You have got to be fucking kidding me." Wait? That's it? No freak out? No rage? Then again, this is a guy who has had numerous ninjas jump him while he's off at a posh resort, or staying in a fancy hotel, solely after he gets out of the shower. Sigh.
"Hold that thought." He immediatly turns back around, heading towards the bedroom, shutting the door behind him. It only takes a few moments, but he steps back out of the room wearing a pair of swimming trunks. Now comes the freak out. "Now, I make damned sure that I go somewhere, where I can't be found, and there's a person dangling from my ceiling. Great."
*Flash* The camera goes off while he retreats into his bedroom and while she can't be exactly happy with his reaction at least she'd gotten the drop on him in a few senses of the word. That said she merely puts the camera down and waits patiently for Ken to return not even letting the idea that he might call the cops on her enter his head at all. Thus when he opens the door and returns she's right where he left her.
"Perhaps you'd not have that happen if you didn't force girls to fight in swimsuits during NL matches!" She adds helpfully and cheerfully, "Actually that is why I'm here, you owe me Mister Masters, I have been systematically harrassed both by the location of my fights and then finally being forced to fight in a bathing suit against Alma...and well I seek some sort of compensation for that." She pauses before suddenly holding up her hands and waving them around to ward off Ken's most likely first thought, "I don't want any of your money, I..I've been deeply embarrassed by the whole thing and I would like you to help me in another capacity as compensation."
Ibuki holds up a finger to hold off any comment while she produces a envelope, it is an invitation to the upcoming KoF tournament, "I need a team to compete and I'd like you to be on it to make up for your and your staff embarrassing me." She smiles happily beneath her mask, feeling that she's got Ken where she wants him.
"No." Ken simply says the words as he moves past ibuki, heading down the stairs and into the kitchen. Of course, he's trying his best not to start laughing hysterically, hoping that the ninja girl really didn't take him serious. "Get over here and come have a drink with me."
Of course, he starts moving around the kitchen, trying to find where in the world the owners keep the glasses, only to come across them. "So, even though you signed a waiver with the Neo League, stating that you would not see any sort of restitution for any type of match you may or may not find yourself participating in, you think that by taking pictures of me in a towel, and then trying to make me feel guilty about the things you've done are really going to make me say yes?" The grin that rests upon his face could mean just anything at this point.
Ibuki frowns deeply beneath her mask, she had hoped the silliness of her initial 'attack' followed up with a polite but sincere request would budge the man, it seemed though that he wanted to play hard ball with her, however, so following along into the kitchen she tosses him the camera, it's of the cheap disposable sort, "The camera was merely for a joke to embarrass you a little as I have been." She admits.
That taken care of Ibuki holds up a finger and grins widely at Ken, "I'd like to point out that A, I am a minor in most countries that the NL does business in, which offers me a number of protections as well as the fact that legally binding documents rarely apply to us if push comes to shove," She lets that sink in, "B I believed you to be someone that had a sense of honor and wouldn't take advantage of a girl to get higher ratings, therefore I was offering you the chance to take on a way to atone for your kharmic debt to me." She shrugs, "As for your guilt, well that is for you to ultimately decide is it not? Do you take pride in my public humiliation?" It seems today the ninja girl has come to be serious for the most part, "Additionally I'd like to point out that a number of my fight locations recently have been on the rather creepy side." She briefly flashes back to Crow Cabin and the Transylvanian castle.
She folds her arms across her chest, "I seek neither financial restitution nor your public embarrassment, merely what your honor as a man and fighter demands!" Ibuki tilts her head, "Help me by joining my team so that I may compete! Is that so much to ask?"
A sudden gush of laughter suddenly errupts from Ken's mouth, as he finally has lost the ability to even contain it within. "Settle down kiddo." He finally finds the glasses, and fills them up with filtered tap water, handing one out towards her. "If you want me to fight alongside you, all you have to do is say this 'Ken, I want you to fight alongside me for the King of Fighters tournament.'" He takes a sip from his glass, leaning against the counter. "You don't have to try and make me feel like I have to do it, or like I should want to do it. Just ask me, fighter to fighter to join you."
Ibuki doesn't particularly cared to be laughed at and until Ken explains his meaning a bit she gives him a rather dirty look as she is offered the glass she takes it and pulls down her mask, no need to keep her identity a secret at least from someone she was going to get on her team. As he continues on and explains his position she sighs, "Well then I wouldn't be getting back at you and that's a little bit of what I'd intended to do!" It seems she has no problem admiting stuff like that.
Grinning wide, Ibuki then chirps, "Well then Mr. Masters, would you like to join my team?" Her warm brown eyes locked onto him while she awaits his response...though she leans forwards slightly expectant for what she believes will now be a hearty yes!
"I'd love to." Ken holds his free hand out towards Ibuki, that ever present grin still resting upon his face. "Well, if you wanted to get back at me, you'd have given those pictures to my wife, instead of giving me the camera."5r
"Yes!!!" Ibuki cheers as she is offered his hand and shakes it. She raises an eyebrow and looks thoughtful at his next response before she chuckles and cheerfully shoots back, "Well now that we're on the same team, I'm sure I'll have a shot at getting more pictures and then I can send them to your wife." It seems she's a rather easy going girl but at the same time very dedicated to her causes.
"Though, if you agree to hold off on having me do anything embarrassing for the Neo League, I suppose I can hold off on trying to take and send pictures to your wife." She chuckles good naturedly making it very hard to tell if she's being serious or merely teasing Ken at this point.
Once more the blonde man starts to laugh loudly at Ibuki's reactions, trying his best to keep his spirits high over it all. "You can try that. I can't guarentee that Eliza won't laugh at them though. Just try and go easy on her if you do though."
Ibuki gives a brief but mocking salute, "Of course! Nothing raunchy, explicit, or that would make her mad...just something that'll make her tease you ruthlessly." The ninja teenager chuckles loudly, "Like your hair all mussed up in the morning with graffiti drawn on your face." It seems she's not a very wicked soul at all if that's what she considers embarrassing pay back.
Log created on 01:37:33 01/16/2011 by Ken, and last modified on 04:41:02 01/16/2011.