Fighting Nature [Group Mission]

Mission Details:

Name: Wild Animal Attack
Rank: C-Rank
Participants: Moon Village, Sun Village, Missing Ninja
Type: Group Mission
Reward: 25 EXP, 10 Ryo
Details: A dangerous wild animal has been spotted out in the area, terrorizing travelers or local villagers. Your mission is to hunt this animal, and either get it to leave the area or take it down. If it remains in the region it could cause major damage or even hurt someone, so it is important to remove the beast as delicately as possible.
Requirements: Each person must make at least 2, 400 word post.

Kenji let out a sigh as he walked down a familiar path, a path where he first met the person known as Plague a name that now made his blood boil in anger buy alas, he couldn't, or more accurately, wouldn't do anything about it. They were to do as they pleased and if it involved threatening fellow shinobi, they could do so without him being involved. Either way, he could only focus on the cherry flavor of his candy stick as he walked to the rendezvous point, apparently a bear or something was spotted around here and the small group of three shinobi was sent to dealt with it, him obviously being one of the trio. Hopefully the other two wouldn't involve any of his previous companions from his last mission, last thing he'd need to deal with is being with them again after what had happened during the whole ordeal. Just thinking back on what happened was souring his mood further so the one eyed shinobi decided he should check his equipment once more.

Checking his upper right pouch of his flak jacket, he ensured he felt all 5 kunai packed neatly in the pouch before closing it and moving to the opposite side to ensure he could feel the medical supplies he'd need to patch up any injuries he might receive on the mission. Lastly in his own right side pants pocket was the piece of paper reserved for Lingchi's seal, how he loved being able to seal away his puppet and unseal it with ease. He couldn't imagine walking around carrying the puppet on his back all the time, his back would probably be trying to kill him if he tried to do so. With all that checked, the lazy shinobi readjusted his forehead protector around his neck, tying it tighter to ensure it wouldn't go swinging around and smacking himself in the face. One could be surprised how many times that tends to happen, especially once you're jumping around and whatnot.

With all of his self check complete, Kenji finally arrived by a sign that had said "beware" and even seemed to have some strange dots underneath the words that stuck out ever so slightly. How odd, he noticed the sign before but never did stop to notice the little bumps before. Supposed this was the sign he was waiting for to wait for his teammates. Kenji only lightly smiled to himself at his joke as he turned around and leaned against the sign, his candy stick still resting in his mouth as he let out a small yawn and begun to wait. It was a bit odd to be the first one here, last time it had happened he ended up meeting Yami. He wondered if these people would have included the snake at all, it has been a while since he ran into him after all.

Active Gear:

Kunai [5x]
Lingchi
Flak Jacket
Forehead Protector
Medical Bag

( I'm very sorry, so so sorry that I did not reply ASAP!! Internet issues!! I promise to make it up in however you wish! )

The branches of trees and loose brushes rustle with the blow of the winds. They rustle louder and louder in one particular spot that it becomes unnatural for the environment. The wind swirled with purpose against the trees. From afar in the shadows of the trees did someone approach the unnatural winds. The trees had echoed a masculine voice screaming, "Dynamic Entry!" It became clear to the mysterious figure in the shadows why the wind became so. With each step did the individual began to think and wonder. The sun's light glimmers through the branches, revealing a fair skin maiden with eyes bright as a crimson sunset with slit pupils. Her hair tied up in a ponytail and her forehead protector doing its proper assignment on her head while also carrying the symbol of this village. Her lips painted in crimson shade and her eyes observed the two from afar as she got nearer with each step.

The woman lets a sigh escape her lips as her eyes appeared downtrodden with little to no interest in the two within her view. She glances at the sign labeled ' Beware '. It was time to kill the beast now that all participants arrived; a quick jarring feeling she felt. She crossed her arms and took a few more steps forward the two young men. Her expression did not appear welcoming and more irritated with a stare. The woman was revealed to be Setsuka Kishida. A woman with always a stern expression and mysterious aura, always dressed in kimono and seen wandering around the Moon village from time to time. Often keeping to herself there became many rumors of her, but one thing was certain. She was always alone, never truly accompanied in the village. "... Pleasure to meet you two.", she said almost in a dreadful way. Alas all the meanwhile in her mind she truly was not correctly presenting herself!

Setsuka truly meant to smile when she approached the two but instead seemed to give off a scary look, and when she tries to greet them she panics! Frantically going back and forth and back and forth on what to truly say!! She was a train wreck in her mind, wondering if she should extend a hand, or bow, or even attempt to embrace them? She wasn't sure anymore and just did what came naturally to her... She wasn't sure how well received she would be. Her eyes kept blinking as she stared at the two very nonchalantly, as an observer. Always watching from the shadows as she naturally does became a prime instinct behavior. She kept her arms crossed against her bosom and felt the coldness of the area, the flat jacket was not keeping her warm at all... She was not used to being sleeveless or wearing the shinbone gear just yet. She truly missed her kimono at home.

Active Gear:

Item/Weapon List:
Basic Wire - 1 Slot
Smoke Grenade - 1 Slot
Shuriken - 1 Slot

Gear List:
Flak Jacket - 2 Slots
Medical Bag - 1 Slot
Forehead Protector - Free

As Kenji simply stood around waiting, he noticed what appeared to be one of his teammates currently making his way toward the one eyed shinobi at a quickly increasing pace. If only he could find the energy to be as excited as he was to be meeting someone new and doing a mission with that person too. Before Kenji could even move to greet the younger shinobi, the kid ended up shouting for the one eyed shinobi to reveal his skills.

Almost immediately after, the kid took to the air and delivered a quick kick straight into the one eyed shinobi's chest, knocking all the air out of the older shinobi in one quick strike while sending him flying into the ground. Kenji's poor candy stick being sent flying out of his mouth and onto the dirt road as the lazy shinobi laid on the ground, his eye closed and his chest hurting as he remembers and misses Yami.

Kenji simply chose to lay in pain for a few seconds until the voice of a girl came from nearby and he finally opened his eye and raised his head at what he presumed to be his third and final companion for this mission. "Didn't think that kick would send me to heaven..." Kenji would talk to himself as he sat up, his right hand rubbing his sore chest as he looked up at the female shinobi before him. "Angel." He added with a grin, trying to wink but to everyone it'd only appear to be nothing more than a brink. Something that Kenji only picked up after a few seconds.

"Uh.... That was supposed to be a wink by the way." Kenji awkwardly clarified as he begun to get up off the ground and readjusted his black jacket. "Also... Kid... Can you not?" Kenji turned his attention to the kid that had decided the best way to greet his future companion was to kick him onto the ground as a way to test his skills. "Besides, if you wanted to see my skills, I didn't even have my puppet out anyways. It'd be like wanting to see a clown preform without props." Kenji told the kid with a simple shrug.

"Anyways, friendly fire and flirting aside, name's Kenji Haruka, pleasure to meet you two." Kenji would tell the two with a small smile on his face as his steel coloured eye looked at his two companions, some kid who goes around kicking random people and a lady who looked about ready to murder the two other shinobi. This was going to go so well. "Oh and just to be clear, you guys do know we're hunting a Brute Bear, right? Rather not go in and you guys call the alarm on a snake or something." Kenji asked the two, wondering if they were aware of what they were hunting but as he mentioned snakes, he thought for a second. "Although if you do spot snakes, a heads up would be nice." Kenji requested, last thing he'd need is to walk into a snake and have it's scalely body all over him again, once was more than enough times for a life time.

Almost immediately after Kenji introduced himself, the kid went onto proclaim himself as a deity and reveal his name to Kiida, something Kenji only let out a small laugh at while the kid ordered Kenji to take point while going through the jungles. Normally he'd object but he had a feeling between miss murder eyes and god himself, he wasn't about to win any arguments.

"Yeah, sure thing kid." Kenji only answered with a simple shrug. He really didn't care if the kid thought of himself as a god, he could go nuts with the act if he so pleases but Kenji wasn't about to be bowing before him any time soon. Although Kenji had to admit, he'd pay to see the kid try and tame a brute bear that the big shots felt the need to send 3 shinobi after, even if he had to carry the kid back to safety.

Although what came next caught the one eyed shinobi off guard as the quiet and scornful looking lady grabbed Kiida's wrist and Kenji's own and brought them close to her before holding onto their hands and introducing herself. After a scolding for the god, she turned to him and gave him an admittedly awkward wink but still, he wasn't really expecting to get anywhere near such a cold looking lady. Instead Kenji simply looked into her red eyes, a bit slack jawed, red faced and confused about what just happened.

It wasn't until she backed away that Kenji finally broke free from his own stupor. "Uh... Right! Um... I'll take point. Don't mind me." Kenji awkwardly said as he quickly spun on his heel and walked forward into the jungle before them. He admittedly had no idea where he was going but right now, he just needed a moment, that was the closest his flirting actually got him to doing something and that line was so cheesy even the kid had to poke fun at it by proclaiming himself a god since he called her an angel.

"Say, any of you know how to track a bear? I'm not exactly a hunter you know..." Kenji asked to the three that was presumably following him into the jungle after a few seconds of silence, granted he knew the basics of tracking any animal, look for prints and it's droppings but he was certain there had to be more than just that... Right? "I mean don't get me wrong, if I see it's prints or droppings, I'll know it's the right track but the jungle is awfully big and I'd like something more solid than hoping we just blindly run into an obvious trail." Kenji explained to his teammates as his silver eye scanned ahead, not really wanting to look back at the mystery cold lady.

"Recon puppets, eh? I'll need to look into making something like that later..." Kenji commented as he rubbed his chin in thought, wondering just how he would be able to create a puppet for that purpose. "For now though, only got up an up close combat puppet..." Kenji explained with a shrug before thinking a bit. "That could probably blend in as a human but I'm not exactly keen on making Lingchi into bear food." Kenji added as he briefly thought about being able to use his puppet as bait but the idea of having to fix up Lingchi all over again felt like it was going to suck.

Murder eyes then asked about traversing through the trees and looking up, Kenji did think they'd probably be easier to spot a bear from and wouldn't need to worry about it mauling them as quickly but then again, they'd have to jump from tree to tree and... Well, Kenji was too lazy to do so. "Not a bad idea angel, but I rather not be jumping around the jungle blindly just yet, at least on the ground we can familiarize ourselves more easy to spot stuff, such as this flower." Kenji would shoot down her idea by explaining it would be easier to spot stuff on the ground and remember where the trio were going, pointing out a nearby large red flower with yellow spots on it.

As he finished speaking however, he heard a loud thud causing him to stop and turn his attention to murder eyes who was now wiping her hand from the ooze of a bug she had apparently decided to crush. Charming. Turning his attention back to the front, Kenji resumed walking as murder eyes begun talking about possibilities for them to track the bear and Kenji had to think for a moment on where exactly people said they saw this bear. His thinking was interrupted as he felt someone bump into his back and he turned his attention to whoever it was, a bit surprised to see murder eyes looking up at him and still at his back.

"Uh...." Kenji awkwardly said as he looked down at the glaring lady before stepping out of the way of her. "Sorry about that?" Kenji said a bit confused on why she didn't apologize or move back at the very least. "Anyways... Think they said there was a cave about... I wanna say 5 minutes west? Kinda doesn't help I kinda lead us blindly into the forest..." Kenji decided to remain focus on the task, guessing they were at least somewhat nearby a cave that would probably be ideal for a bear before admitting with a sheepish laugh that he was a bit lost himself due to him walking straight ahead to get out his own embarrassment a few minutes earlier.