Mission Info:

Sachiko and Shingen decided to head over to Spring Valley, a place that was known as a neutral state and recently opened it’s borders to travelers. There was a call for shinobi to come as well, for the Spring Valley population needed help with its recent increase in crime. Seeing as Sachiko had recently done well in her first missions, Shingen thought that she could tag along as well, maybe help out and prove more of herself in a new land.

As they had traveled, Sachiko kept asking different questions about the place, learning more and more of how there was so many wonderful types of candies and chocolates that were there. Just thinking about all the amazing things would make her giggle, and Shingen had a hard time not laughing on the several fits of excitement that Sachiko displayed throughout their trip. When they arrived, they were warmly welcomed by the Spring Valley. A few town representatives showed them around to where they would be staying, where they could eat, where they could talk with city officials about taking on various missions, and where all they were allowed to explore or train if they so desired.

The place was so new, so wonderful, and so big that they were both quite amazed. However, once they had been showed where they could talk to city officials about missions, Sachiko continued to pester Shingen until the tour of the valley was over. She wanted to take on a new mission as soon as possible. So once the tour was over they both headed back to the city office and got herself a mission to take.

The city official told them that the city was experiencing a chocolate thief at the Cocoa Alley. The stalls full of chocolate had been stolen from for the past few days and the Spring Valley’s police force hadn’t had any luck nabbing the chocolate thief. So far they had only thought there was one thief but weren’t completely sure. Once Shingen and Sachiko received all the information on the mission, Shingen gave the go ahead for Sachiko to take it all by herself. Not wanting to mess this up and disappoint Shingen, Sachiko set out at once to scope Cocoa Alley and see what she could do to stop the thefts.

Cocoa Alley seemed to have a lot of stalls full of chocolate. Sachiko thought that the place wouldn’t be too big of an area to scope out, but she couldn’t have been more wrong. The Alley was nearly five blocks long, weaving in between several buildings with hundreds of various chocolate sellers and stalls.  She never knew there were so many different ways to make chocolates, different ways to serve chocolates, and different ways to form chocolates. And the entire area had to be watched over in case the one stealing the chocolates ever struck again.

Sachiko patrolled the area from the rooftops, roaming back and forth without making too big of a disturbance from above so no one would care to check the sky. Still, it was hours before anything happened. She assumed that whoever the thief was had noticed her patrolling and was making sure to strike when she wasn’t around. Paranoid with this thought, she constantly tried to switch up her patrolling patterns so as to throw off any plans that someone might make if she was being watched. Throughout all of this, she had her doubts that her plan would work, or even that the thief would strike while she was on patrol of the area. There were so many variables involved that she didn’t know how well things would work out for her and this mission.

Just as the doubts started to tumble her confidence from her earlier successful missions, a cry came from one of the stalls farther off from where she was. Hearing this, she gritted her teeth in anger. Of course it happened where I wasn’t. I should’ve been over there!

Quickly, she ran over to the stall with the wailing owner. He yelled up at her despondently, “There! They were just here!”

“What do you mean, ‘they’?” she called out, looking on from above.

“The thieves! There were two of them and they stole my chocolate bunnies!” the man began to cry.

“Two?” she said more to herself before looking back at the crying man. “Did you see where they ran off to?”

“They went down that skinny crack between those two buildings there, and then I heard a door, or window slide, I don’t know!”

The man continued to cry, collapsing upon his stall in a pool of tears. A crowd began to congregate around him, but Sachiko couldn’t be bothered with that. If the man wanted to make an embarrassment out of himself then so be it. She had bigger fish to fry. Leaping down at the smaller alley that ran perpendicular to Cocoa Alley, she began to inspect the area where the thieves were last seen. There, not too far down the narrow alley was a window that hung low on the wall, where one could easily crawl into.

Sachiko made her way and could see that it wasn’t closed all the way, the sounds of kids’ laughter could be heard from it, just ever so faintly. Using a well known earth jutsu, she sank into the ground and slipped into the building, poking her head up to look about. It was a cellar of sorts, with various aisles of shelves filled with all the stolen chocolates that had been reported over the past few days. This was definitely the hideout of the chocolate thief. Or thieves.

Making her way through the ground, she came to where two kids sat eating chocolate. They were grinning and laughing to themselves as they ate, both completely unaware that Sachiko was in the room with them. They each had eye patches on and were both wearing bunny ears. Seeing her chance, Sachiko dove further into the ground and came to where their tucked in feet lay. With a grab and a pull of each of their legs, she was able to trap them both up to their necks in the ground before Sachiko, herself, popped back up out of the ground.

“Got you!” she declared and watched as the two tried to squirm for a bit before giving up. They didn’t have the strength to get out, but they had the cunning to steal plenty of chocolates. Sachiko knew they had no way of getting out, so she quickly ran out and reported the capture, leading the city officials back to the two chocolate thieves.

Once apprehended, she decided to find Shingen and report her newest success! She was sure that he’d be pleased with her ability to serve Spring Valley.

140/150:

Mission WC: 1150/1000
Mission Complete