Kamaru looked at the people in front of him. One of them was smiling and looking at him, his hand still had chalk in it connected to the board he had been scrawling a formula on.
”You’re serious?” Kamaru stated slowly blinking his head starting to hurt as he looked through the ranks at the people in front of him. They seemed confident.
Several heads nodded up and down in assurance.
”A fish? You realize how insane that sounds right? How… how… how can you be so sure?” Kamaru asked again needing to hear it one more time.
”Math!” the small group exclaimed together matter of factly. ”Plus it’s a really big fish.” someone corrected him.
Kamaru pushed his face into his hands in front of him and massaged his temples… maybe if he hide from the crazy it wouldn’t get into his head and it wouldn’t make sense. He needed it to make sense though… was the crazy idea the actual answer?
[Flashback]
Kamaru figured if he had a lot of questions and a few facts the best bet to find out what happened is put someone smart on figuring out what happened to fill in the blanks and answer those questions. So he called all the people he knew from Leaf City and found eight of them that had the day free to figure it out.
Giving them the data he did have and asking of how a shinobi with the ability to use Gravity style jutsu techniques was able to do this act got a heated arguments between the group from th start it seemed. Talk of gravitational pulls being vectors and not being able to arc on paths to this degree or that, itl seemed to come up several bits of argument and blackboard scrawling later had Kamaru taking a seat and simply not trying to understand things, he didn’t get it and he probably wouldn’t so his best bet at the time was to let them sort themselves out first unless people got violent.
After making some coffee Kamaru found himself relaxing to realize there was silence. Looking around he saw two people in each other’s faces glaring at each other the crowd around them taking sides, ”Prove it.” one of the two demanded of the other. They snared at each other before stalking off in opposite directions.
Theorems were stated on the time and side effects of someone doing something of this scale to a body. Unlike Kamaru who had seen not the man but the hold left behind from him in his life and afterlife at his murder scene these people looked at him being in the situation as just a variable. Speculations that the gravitational push was forceful and curved or in a straight line brought up the first point of contention between the two schools of thought, while an arc wasn’t possible for the gravitational pull supposedly a vector based push up into the air with decreased momentum and the earth’s gravity taking priority came up for how the body landed. The factor of the body falling was accepted since the body would have more forceful and noticable trauma if it was pushed directly towards the rocks, plus the outline of the body wouldn’t be as loss but a rigid depiction. Either way it was agree that the force would take some time to gather at a moment to catch and slam the victim into the stone outcropping by the lake. The impact point behind and the missing heart hadn’t been addressed at all yet.
With his hands covering his nose and lower hand of his face Kamaru inhaled and breathed out slowly closing his eyes, he hadn’t gotten anywhere. For the researchers and tinkeres they had hit a wall as well, without a concrete idea they all agreed on the sketchy theories they had spent time thinking up and attempting to approve or disapprove seemed like a waste of time. They looked to the quiet reflecting Kamaru in silence some fidgeting not knowing what to do next.
”Are you sure it was a ninja using gravitational style chakra?” one of them asked.
”Well what else could it have been?” Kamaru shot back exacerbated.
”Well a wild animal could be ruled out since there would be precursors in the ecosystem to something getting that big. It could be a contract summoned creature...They’d have the strength if they were strong enough…” someone stated quietly in the silence turning several heads before they all scrambled with the suggestion testing and calculating various new things off of the random speculation it seemed.
Kamaru found himself bombarded with an even larger explosion of specific questions, drawing out the crater lead to him carving a smaller version in stone from his notes so they had the positioning of the body and the depthes. Having an actual model had them asking several questions the most frequent being if it was to scale. The body indentation, the new thought, ideas that spun off the new line of thinking, it had people running around as if Kamaru or the room was on fire as they busied themselves with calculations and new ideas.
After some time Kamaru stared at the group as they formed up and smiled explaining ‘they solved it.’
Kamaru didn’t have to wait long before they explained it to him in two words.
[End Flashback]
A summoned contract beast of some sort may have the strength to do something like this but what they described was something that didn’t sound like a fish, few fish had this appendage lead that one would use to ‘dangle’ in front of things they spoke of. It added up but it didn’t add up to Kamaru since they hadn’t even started to resolve the other odd parts, such as why was the man’s heart ripped from his chest violently and stolen after slamming his body so forcefully into the rocks by the lakes? More importantly why was the creature doing this? And who summoned it in the first place? None of them were experts on summoning contracts though so his additional questions for once couldn’t be answered.
Why summon a creature to kill someone? Especially in this way? Kamaru was rattling his brain when he was notified by someone he had a message. Kamaru had been ruffling his hair trying to figure out what had happened when he finally noticed the messenger trying to get his attention, they came in to bring more bad news, another murder at the lake. The victim had died in a similar situation and it didn’t make Kamaru feel any less pain in his head before that pain started to move from one point in his head and circulate around. Supposedly it was the first victim’s wife.
Hiding his face in his hands he breathed deeply trying to calm his mind and body. Turning to the group he asked a simple question he thought. How does one track the summoning of a creature in the water? Was it summoned in the air and it fell into the water? From underwater using markings on the lake’s bed somewhere? Although they had a lot of suggestions he didn’t get the same assuredness they had before. He didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
”You’re serious?” Kamaru stated slowly blinking his head starting to hurt as he looked through the ranks at the people in front of him. They seemed confident.
Several heads nodded up and down in assurance.
”A fish? You realize how insane that sounds right? How… how… how can you be so sure?” Kamaru asked again needing to hear it one more time.
”Math!” the small group exclaimed together matter of factly. ”Plus it’s a really big fish.” someone corrected him.
Kamaru pushed his face into his hands in front of him and massaged his temples… maybe if he hide from the crazy it wouldn’t get into his head and it wouldn’t make sense. He needed it to make sense though… was the crazy idea the actual answer?
[Flashback]
Kamaru figured if he had a lot of questions and a few facts the best bet to find out what happened is put someone smart on figuring out what happened to fill in the blanks and answer those questions. So he called all the people he knew from Leaf City and found eight of them that had the day free to figure it out.
Giving them the data he did have and asking of how a shinobi with the ability to use Gravity style jutsu techniques was able to do this act got a heated arguments between the group from th start it seemed. Talk of gravitational pulls being vectors and not being able to arc on paths to this degree or that, itl seemed to come up several bits of argument and blackboard scrawling later had Kamaru taking a seat and simply not trying to understand things, he didn’t get it and he probably wouldn’t so his best bet at the time was to let them sort themselves out first unless people got violent.
After making some coffee Kamaru found himself relaxing to realize there was silence. Looking around he saw two people in each other’s faces glaring at each other the crowd around them taking sides, ”Prove it.” one of the two demanded of the other. They snared at each other before stalking off in opposite directions.
Theorems were stated on the time and side effects of someone doing something of this scale to a body. Unlike Kamaru who had seen not the man but the hold left behind from him in his life and afterlife at his murder scene these people looked at him being in the situation as just a variable. Speculations that the gravitational push was forceful and curved or in a straight line brought up the first point of contention between the two schools of thought, while an arc wasn’t possible for the gravitational pull supposedly a vector based push up into the air with decreased momentum and the earth’s gravity taking priority came up for how the body landed. The factor of the body falling was accepted since the body would have more forceful and noticable trauma if it was pushed directly towards the rocks, plus the outline of the body wouldn’t be as loss but a rigid depiction. Either way it was agree that the force would take some time to gather at a moment to catch and slam the victim into the stone outcropping by the lake. The impact point behind and the missing heart hadn’t been addressed at all yet.
With his hands covering his nose and lower hand of his face Kamaru inhaled and breathed out slowly closing his eyes, he hadn’t gotten anywhere. For the researchers and tinkeres they had hit a wall as well, without a concrete idea they all agreed on the sketchy theories they had spent time thinking up and attempting to approve or disapprove seemed like a waste of time. They looked to the quiet reflecting Kamaru in silence some fidgeting not knowing what to do next.
”Are you sure it was a ninja using gravitational style chakra?” one of them asked.
”Well what else could it have been?” Kamaru shot back exacerbated.
”Well a wild animal could be ruled out since there would be precursors in the ecosystem to something getting that big. It could be a contract summoned creature...They’d have the strength if they were strong enough…” someone stated quietly in the silence turning several heads before they all scrambled with the suggestion testing and calculating various new things off of the random speculation it seemed.
Kamaru found himself bombarded with an even larger explosion of specific questions, drawing out the crater lead to him carving a smaller version in stone from his notes so they had the positioning of the body and the depthes. Having an actual model had them asking several questions the most frequent being if it was to scale. The body indentation, the new thought, ideas that spun off the new line of thinking, it had people running around as if Kamaru or the room was on fire as they busied themselves with calculations and new ideas.
After some time Kamaru stared at the group as they formed up and smiled explaining ‘they solved it.’
Kamaru didn’t have to wait long before they explained it to him in two words.
[End Flashback]
A summoned contract beast of some sort may have the strength to do something like this but what they described was something that didn’t sound like a fish, few fish had this appendage lead that one would use to ‘dangle’ in front of things they spoke of. It added up but it didn’t add up to Kamaru since they hadn’t even started to resolve the other odd parts, such as why was the man’s heart ripped from his chest violently and stolen after slamming his body so forcefully into the rocks by the lakes? More importantly why was the creature doing this? And who summoned it in the first place? None of them were experts on summoning contracts though so his additional questions for once couldn’t be answered.
Why summon a creature to kill someone? Especially in this way? Kamaru was rattling his brain when he was notified by someone he had a message. Kamaru had been ruffling his hair trying to figure out what had happened when he finally noticed the messenger trying to get his attention, they came in to bring more bad news, another murder at the lake. The victim had died in a similar situation and it didn’t make Kamaru feel any less pain in his head before that pain started to move from one point in his head and circulate around. Supposedly it was the first victim’s wife.
Hiding his face in his hands he breathed deeply trying to calm his mind and body. Turning to the group he asked a simple question he thought. How does one track the summoning of a creature in the water? Was it summoned in the air and it fell into the water? From underwater using markings on the lake’s bed somewhere? Although they had a lot of suggestions he didn’t get the same assuredness they had before. He didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.