Fates Supports/Kaze Orochi

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C Support

Orochi: What an inconvenience—always having to forage for herbs.

Kaze: Pardon, Oro—

Orochi: Eeeep! Oh. It's only you, Kaze. Please don't sneak up on me like that. You could be an assassin for all I know.

Kaze: Hmm, yes. My apologies. I came only to inform you of some minor camp business.

Orochi: Next time, could you say yoo-hoo or something? Give a girl a warning!

Kaze: A ninja is as ninja does. It's my instinct to speak from an invisible position. Once more, my apologies.

Orochi: Do what you will with everyone else. But with me—think twice.

Kaze: A ninja must act so fast, it defies count. I may not even think once.

Orochi: Well, congratulations to you for being faster than an abacus. Still, I'll warn you here and now. Don't do that again. Hmm. On the other hand, Kaze, rather than asking your discretion... I think I'll take this opportunity to defend myself against you.

Kaze: There's no need. Consider me scolded. I'll do my best to—

Orochi: Oh, no. We're doing this my way. I'll fight instinct with intuition. I'm going to make myself learn how to detect your stealthy approach.

Kaze: Very well. I'm glad to help. What can I do to assist?

Orochi: Just be yourself, you naughty cat. The mouse will do the rest.

Kaze: So, I should...keep approaching you from the shadows?

Orochi: Squeak, squeak!

Kaze: May I take that in the affirmative, Orochi?

Orochi: Oh, Kaze. Always so serious. Yes, from the shadows. Our game is on!

B Support

Orochi: I'm...exhausted. That darn Kaze.

Kaze: You called?

Orochi: Eeeep!

Kaze: Pardon, Orochi. It seems that I was able to approach you yet again in shadow.

Orochi: Yes, I know. Twist the knife a little more, why don't you?

Kaze: I can't play this game with you anymore, Orochi. I scare you every time. I have trained for years in the ways of stealth. You cannot expect to detect me so soon. Why, look how weary you are!

Orochi: Shush. Orochi will not be defeated so easily. I will learn to do this.

Kaze: Or you will collapse in a nervous wreck. Ninja are simply not seen.

Orochi: We will play this game until it is done. I do not quit.

Kaze: So, if you are committed to our game of cat and mouse... I have a proposal.

Orochi: I'm listening.

Kaze: This cat will wear a bell, the better for the mouse to hear me.

Orochi: You'll actually wear a bell? Hmm, not bad. But it had better be a bell that rings ever so slightly.

Kaze: Slightly it is. That will help you hear me at the threshold of perception. Mind you, I won't wear it in battle. Only during our games.

Orochi: We aren't done yet today. Go strap on a bell, Kaze. I'll be listening for you.

Kaze: I'm glad to serve, Orochi. Nice also to see you in better spirits.

Orochi: Yes, yes. Just go find that bell. I'll be in a great mood when I hear your little ting-a-ling, Kaze.

A Support

Kaze: ...... *ting*

Orochi: Gotcha, Kaze.

Kaze: Well done, Orochi. You can hear me approaching every time now.

Orochi: Perhaps it's time to get rid of the bell. Or maybe not. I like the idea of you strapping on a bell for my sake.

Kaze: Glad to do so. But I think you no longer need me to wear it. Your diligence has given you the ear of a ninja.

Orochi: Then perhaps it's time to turn the tables, Kaze. Meow, meow, meow?

Kaze: Pardon? I'm afraid you have caught me off guard there. Meow, did you say?

Orochi: Your days of creeping up on me are over. Now...I can pounce on you! You see? That was my ploy all along. Orochi, a mouse? Never! I just didn't like getting outcatted by you. Now the hunt begins.

Kaze: The hunt...for? Oh, I see.

Orochi: You'd better start running, Kaze. Orochi is on the prowl.

Kaze: Ah, just one problem.

Orochi: Which is?

Kaze: You may be able to hear a ninja—with a bell—but can you catch one? I'm fleet of foot. Gone before you can turn around.

Orochi: But I trained so hard to outcat you! Maybe if you wear heavy chains...

Kaze: Training is over, Orochi. For you... and for me. I've learned what I wanted to: what my threshold of detection is. Now I know. So, off with the bell. Back to the shadows. Thank you for playing my little game. It's made me a better ninja.

Orochi: Your game?! But this was MY game!

Kaze: Heh. Was it?

(Kaze leaves)

Orochi: What?! The nerve of him. Who vanishes in the middle of a conversation?! Rude, rude, rude. I'll get you for this, Kaze. Do you hear me?! I'll get you! ...Kaze?

S Support

Orochi: I'll...I'll catch you, Kaze! You can't outrun me forever.

Kaze: I think I can. Please, won't you consider giving up this silly game? You can't catch me. I am a ninja. You're...Orochi. The day can never catch the night.

Orochi: Oh, stuff your ninja wisdom! I will catch you, Kaze. Or I will die trying.

Kaze: It would break my heart to see that happen.

Orochi: To catch you?

Kaze: To see you die, of course. Now, may I offer you another proposal?

Orochi: Oh, I will not listen to another one of your proposals, Kaze. Last time you offered to wear a bell to make detecting you easier. But you made a fool of me in the end. I won't be toyed with!

Kaze: I propose—

Orochi: No more proposals, I said!

Kaze: Please, listen. What I want to propose is...for you to wear a ring.

Orochi: Is it a poison ring? Will it prick me? Paralyze me? Make me stop chasing you?

Kaze: You see, this is what I love about you.

Orochi: Er, love?

Kaze: You're like a flame that's slipped out of a brazier—you light my world on fire.

Orochi: I see. Salt in the wound. You're mocking me.

Kaze: Never, Orochi. It's from the heart. I hoped you might feel the same. Is that not what our games have truly been about?

Orochi: Heh. Caught you.

Kaze: What? No, listen. You're not going to turn this around on me. You'd never lay a finger on me if I didn't want to be caught.

Orochi: Excuse me, Kaze. Sorry to interrupt. Could I see your finger?

Kaze: Uh, sure. Which one?

Orochi: Left hand, next to your pinky. Can I have that ring too?

Kaze: What?! Sure, here—take it. Now, will you please just listen to me? I am a proud ninja, and I would never ever let myself be caught.

Orochi: Ah, well... Hold on... And... Done.

Kaze: You put a ring on my finger.

Orochi: The ring you meant to put on MY finger, Kaze. Hoisted by your own petard! Our little game is over. Consider yourself caught, ninja.