After entering suna and settling, Toshiko had been encountered by a strange man who had provided him with a letter. The people in charge who were of course aware of his travel assigned him to a B rank mission in an attempt to keep him out of trouble. Toshiko was recently appointed chuunin, thus hadn't ever even been on a B rank mission. It was exciting to him, but also a bit scary as he didn't know what to expect. He had gotten the basic info of the mission, and it didn't sound like his type of thing. The suna anbu had killed a few scientists conducting illegal experiments, but hadn't managed to eliminate the experiments as well. Thus, Toshiko was given the assignment of getting rid of them. He had been given a partner to work with going by the name zaikaku Jiendo, another chuunin from suna. The mission itself sounded horrid to Toshiko. He didn't want to kill anything. He couldn't kill anything. He refused to. Despite that, he still had to go on the mission. He had to go on it, but he wouldn't comply.

Though he wasn't happy about it, Toshiko went out to the wilderness of the village which was covered in sand everywhere, and went to the location he was given. Eventually, he came across a large sand dune, which was the location of the lab he was given. It creeped him out a bit simply to be here alone. He would wait for his partner to show up for him to continue.

Toshiko waited around for a while, waiting for his suna ninja companion to show up. After a couple of minutes, he saw someone who he didn't expect to see. There was a guy in a helmet wearing a vest, pants, sandals, and had a headband from his village tied upon his arm. He was insanely tall. At least 3 feet taller than Toshiko. He was really strange but also was really cool to toshiko. The only other person he'd met of such an abnormal size was Wolfgang, and this guy was bigger than him.

"Are you Toshiko Uzumaki?"

Toshiko smiled, and then spoke to him.

"Why yes I am. You must be Zaikaku. It's a pleasure to meet you. Really. You're pretty tall."

Toshiko tried to stare him in the eye, but he couldn't really see his face. From what little parts of zaikaku he could make out he still didn't get to see any facial structure. Toshiko figured he had just had something in his helmet or his breath was fogging up the part of the helmet he was meant to see through.

Zaikaku didn't really respond to what he said, simply let out a sigh, and then spoke again.

"I'm guessin' you know why we're here. Playing the role of fucking exterminators because some lazy-ass ANBU didn't feel like wiping out everything in this Buddha forsaken lab."

Toshiko laughed.

"Well, maybe they had good reason. maybe they weren't strong enough to face the guys that they were up against or they couldn't find them. I trust that the Anbu would be capable of doing their job without getting lazy."

"Let's hurry up and get movin'. I don't wanna be in the freezing cold of the night."


Toshiko liked the fact that zai was so fast on the move.

"Okay then zai. Lead the way. You'd probably be better getting around in there than me. I'm terrible with directions, and based on the report the lab is pretty easy to get lost in.

Two two made it inside the facility and toshiko looked around the receptionist area. It was disgusting. Dirt and plants upon the floor, broken windows, chairs flipped over. His partner took out a kunai and told him to keep his eyes peeled. He then told him to go see if the elevators still worked. Toshiko quickly complied, and hit the button upon the elevators. Nothing happened. The light didn't even cut on. Then, there was a loud crash, and a scurrying noise.

"Ah fuck...we gotta follow it.."

Toshiko gulped, and then nodded. He was scared he wasn't gonna lie. Based upon the information he had been provided with on the creatures, they were pretty scary. Toshiko nonetheless started off, going before zaikaku and heading down the hall towards the direction of the sound. There was a doorway, Toshiko kept his body to the wall, moving silently like a ninja should. He heard growling and then looked over to zai, waiting for him to follow.

Zaikaku would go ahead of toshiko, entering the room with his kunai drawn and preparing to face whatever it was that awaited him in there. Toshiko was a bit scared. He didn't want to harm the experiments, but it seemed that zaikaku was reluctant to do so. Toshiko could hear zaikaku yelling, and heard the best running towards him. then, it got silent. toshiko then decided to enter. he went into the room, and was surprised at what he saw. Zaikaku's head was out. his skin was dark grey. He was bald, had red eyes, and fangs. toshiko hadn't seen someone who looked like that before in his life. It was strange, but in no way displeasing. not to toshiko at least. Toshiko didn't pay much attention to zaikaku's looks, and then focused on the experiment. it was a humanoid tiger, now that had a spear through it's head. It was dead. dead. toshiko felt a chill go down his spine, and his stomach began churning. He got goosebumps, and then sunk to the floor. After a few moments, he threw up on the ground. he didn't have the stomach for death.

"Wipe that puke off your face and let's get going."

Toshiko sighed, wiping the vomit from his lips, and gasping for air. he couldn't take it. death made him feel horrible. That's why he would never do it. That's why he vowed not to harm anyone. For that exact reason. Seeing a living thing die unnaturally made him feel disgusting. Not only that, but zaiaku gave him almost no time to compose himself. It was more displeasing than ever. he slowly got back up to his feet, trying as hard as possible not to stare at the corpse. From the corner of his eye Toshiko could see zaiaku pick up the corpse of the humanoid tiger, and began walking off.

"I found a way up."

Toshiko crigned a bit upon watching zaiaku carelessly move with the body of his victim as if it was garbage, but followed after him as quick as he possibly could.

"I'm gonna use em' as bait in case a big one comes. " Zaiaku gave an explanation for his actions, thinking that would somehow give reasoning to his cruel actions. Toshiko nodded, but his stomach was still churning. the hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and his body was literally covered in goosebumps. He was fighting as hard as he could just to stay aware next to the dead corpse of the beast. Despite this, toshiko followed zaiaku up and to the top floor of the laboratory. There were large computers and machines that lined up against both sides of the walls, acting as incubators for other creatures and experiments that were still inside. Toshiko followed behind zaiaku, and then zaiaku stopped dead in his tracks. Toshiko stopped as well, but didn't know what had made a ruthless guy like zai stop dead in his tracks as he did.

"Hey zai why did you sto-"

Then Toshiko saw it. It was another one of the experiments. a strange, snake like creature with a large body, and an immense sword right beside it. It appeared to be sleeping. Toshiko didn't want to be the one that woke it up.

"Do....you have something to hold him with?"

Zaiaku spoke in a quiet voice. Toshiko thought to himself. He had only one thing that came to mind. He sighed, and nodded to confirm. He stared at the snake, and then performed a string of handseals, the air around the snake creature would begin to distort a bit, and then invisible chains of chakra would wrap around it, tightening and immobilizing the snake. After a few moments, the snake began to open it's eyes. it looked like it could easily break free from the strings. Toshiko had given zai the only chance he had. He spoke to him in a soft, but stern voice.

"It's waking up! Attack now!"

Toshiko watched as the snake beast woke up, attacking zaiaku before zaiaku could get the chance to put it down. Toshiko stood and watched in anticipation and fear as the two clashed. The snake pushed zaiaku back. The two struck each other repeatedly, and then the snake beast grabbed his sword, and started swinging it at Zaiaku. Zaiaku could barely dodge the attacks. Toshiko had to step in, and fast. As the snake beast was attempting to strike Zaiaku, Toshiko stepped in, running up, and then aiming a full power punch at the snake's head. It connected due to the snake being distracted by zaiaku, knocking the snake over and disorienting it a bit. They had to kill it before it could get up.

"Kill it now zaiaku!"

Toshiko listened as his partner taunted him, in a friendly way. He would have broke a smile if he wasn't so tense and in the moment right now. He watched as zaiaku took them both on, in the most savage way possible. asura attacked the bird creature after zaiaku used it's beak to cut his midsection. Asura killed the bird, and then zaiaku got the best of asura, getting on top of him and stabbing him. Over and over and over. TOshiko was incapble of watching anymore after the first three stabs. He head the kunai blade ripping into the flesh and skin, listening as the blood and organs were turned into shreds. He felt sick already, and before he knew it more barf was coming up from his stomach. When zaiaku finally finished, Toshiko was done regurgitating but he was green in the face. He hated seeing things being harmed.