The midday broke as the clouds of Kumogakure allowed the sunlight to cascade over the village.  It wasn't to bad of a day the weather was fair and the forecast did not call for showers.  Suutei received a notification via his ESID to report to the front gates of Kumogakure.  Sluggishly throwing himself onto the floor and into the bathroom of his hotel room.  Chopper was asleep on the couch and he noticed a neat stack of clothing with a note.  Apparently the small reindeer prepared him a new outfit to wear for the day.  A heather gray sleeveless cotton hoodie with a muscle type fit, black lightweight track pants with a grey stripe running down the sides.  Suutei noticed the red Kimura clan symbol on the upper left side of the hoodie and rolled his eyes.

Suutei waited standing idle outside near the gates into Kumogakure and grew a tad bit impatient.  The young man looked over his shoulder as he saw a truck approaching, and it was headed straight for Suutei.  Reacting as quickly as he possibly could he performed a back flip over the truck as he somersaulted midair.  One of the passengers looked back at him with a scowl, and Suutei had to say he wasn't to fond of the look.  Especially since they were the ones who almost leveled him to a pancake.


Suutei sighed as he flopped down on the ground crosslegged, and began to levitate.  A few passerbys could be heard whispering as to how he was doing it.  Though really anything is possible with Chakra, and it wasn't much of a spectacle.  Recently Suutei acquired an electronic device that stored information digitally.  The first time he'd used it was to receive reports for the mission that he'd been assigned.  Scrolling for the video mission briefing he touched the screen and it played the video.  On screen was a man with a well defined and sculptured face, but that was all he could see.

Afternoon my fellow shinobi I have an urgent mission delivered from the council of Kumogakure.  The information I have to present is of the utmost importance and this is considered an A-Rank mission.

A notorious crime boss has recently received payment for all his insidious acts, and he’s rolling in cash. Due to his reckless splurging, we have discerned his location. There has been a lot of activity near the abandoned mines, you should find him there. Do not let him escape, he is very slippery. It is your duty to stop him at all costs, his crime raid has hurt many people and it needs to be toppled.

How exactly he collected all of this source of income is not important, and we request that you take him down immediately.  You will be accompanied by a shinobi of Iwagakure known as Jet.  A highly skilled Chuunin suitable for a mission as this.  Those are your details make us proud.

Suutei put away the device into his back pocket and he looked over.  He presumed that this girl who stood out compared to most was his partner Jet.  She had long flowing green hair, and it was obvious she was approaching him.  Standing on his two feet no longer levitating he approached the girl to greet her.


Suutei beckoned to the girl as he turned his back and sped off down the path into the trees.

641/2500

Kami we're bored. For days Jet has done nothing but meager missions, training and doing a few business deals. Clean one of course since she can't exactly do any black market handling with the exams making security so tight. The missions were tiresome and should be left to the police but as she was here as a spectator to the exams and not a participate, being a chuunin and all, she was not provided housing by her village and had to fend for herself. Not that she minded of course since she wouldn't have to board with anyone in her pint sized apartment but having the exams drag on so long as they did made it so that missions were necessary for she refuse to apply for a part time job at any of the local establishments. Besides she was a shinobi through thick and thin. She lived her life on the battlefield. But for kami's sake she was bored. She needed to vent. The most action she has gotten lately was nabbing a few thieves and killing a few no name bandits. The bandits however were more trouble than they were worth. Killing them was hardly fun but the leader injured her beloved Kira so she may or may not snapped and broken his spine in a few places, totally not her fault at all. She blamed the pent of energy she had. Speaking of such...

"Yuurei" A voice called out, kicking the shinobi out of her stupor and slid the magazine off her face. "Yuurei Jet, you're being summoned" Looking around Jet popped her muscles and found the woman. Their eyes met for a moment before the sectary blinked and looked away, unnerved by the woman's errie mismatched stare not that Jet intended for such. Waving for her she continued "Miss Jet your request has been processed, please come this way for briefing" Oh thank goodness she is finally going for a mission, a mission worthy of her time. For weeks she has been requesting a higher ranked mission but she hasn't been cleared for anything above c-rank as she was a foreign shinobi and a unhinged one at that. Personally the staff had avoided notifying their boss and the local shinobi of her requests to accompany a kumo officer on a high ranked mission for they had the unnerving feeling about her though it was no where near the monstrous auro the Kiri nin Osada Sero jr emitted. However she was a guest of kumo and one that was actually contributing to the well being of the village and its clinete so no one can dispute she wasn't a decent shinobi.

If fact it was one of the boss's men who after hearing about the end result of Jet's latest mission and the condition they found the bandits in, figured there should be no harm in allowing her to take more difficult missions though he personally wished to continue evaluating her skills and get on good grounds with the shinobi of Iwa since things were already going well with their pestilence, Nanashi Gauynin. Of course Jet knew nothing of this yet, after today she'll find out after connecting the dots. Regardless Jet smiled and followed the blonde seceratry into a small grey room. The blonde sat down and offered Jet a seat too but Jet said it was fine and asked for them to get to business. "Very well. As I mentioned previously your request to accompany one of our own shinobi on a higher ranking mission has been processed and accepted. You are to accompany our resident Kimura, Suutei on an A-rank mission. He shall be the leader of course and you are expected to follow his every order. We do not need to reiterate the foreign policy and consequences should any skirmish ensue between the two of you. Otherwise here are the flies on the mission, you have until tomorrow to complete it. Read them then return them to the front desk and prepare. Kimura-san has already been notified and will be waiting for you at the front gates. Have a good day"

To keep up appearances and the air of professionalism, Jet resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the subtle remark. So even in the Village of Clouds does her reputation exceed her, no wonder her request took so long to process. Regardless there were more important matters at hand. Taking the manila folder in hand, the woman took it upon herself to quickly familiarize herself with it's contents. A notorious crime boss has recently received payment for all his insidious acts, and he’s rolling in cash. Due to his reckless splurging, we have discerned his location. There has been a lot of activity near the abandoned mines, you should find him there. Do not let him escape, he is very slippery. It is your duty to stop him at all costs, his crime raid has hurt many people and it needs to be toppled. A simple mission, one that would be more than beneficial to her and the money she could earn is nothing to sneeze at too. Grinning Jet took the papers to the front desk, returning it to some no name secretary then headed back to her apartment to change. Seeing as she was just chilling in the waiting room waiting for another couple c-rank mission she hadn't brought her armor and such but now it was a necessity. Since her rental apartment was close by she managed to shower and change quickly with amazing speed and existed, heading towards the gates. For this mission she decided to wear her panda hero armor.

When she reached the necessary meeting place, Suutei would be created by a odd sight, well odd by normal standards. The upper body of this armor consists of a long sleeve green, yellow, and black jacket with several leather straps accompanied by a fur lined hood.The inside of the jacket sheaths for all sorts of tools. The collar also covered the mouth and nose but she unzipped it down enough so it covered at most her neck. The hood was pulled down and her hair was pulled into a top bun held in place with a sebon with her bangs framing her face. Underneath this was a black sports bra and her sealing bandages covering her neck and the rest of her torso. The lower half of the armor consists of a pair of brown and gold cargo harlem pants adorned by chains and leather straps. This is accompanied with a pair of knee-high dark brown combat boots. Each boot has a sheath inside allowing for 4 knives to be safely stored inside; two on the side and one on the front and back. She had her sword at her hip, a kunai in each sleeve and boot, her knives sheathed in the back of her jacket and her combat gloves equipped. Miscellaneous weapons like sebon and such were stored safely away. It was hard to say where she was dressed appropriately or too much for this mission but for its ranking she could get away with it.

Bowing her head to give some respect she nodded at his introduction as she went into mission mode where there was no space for joking around and pulled herself into a self of self where she had no emotions on her face nor giving anything away in her body language "Good morning Kimura-san. Thank you for your kind words but as you said we should go. We shall leave finding the entrance and planning to you until you require our imput" Jet nodded to Suutei and followed close up with him, right by his side. They traveled for some time, allowing Jet to carefully asses what could potentially happen on this mission and her temporary commanding officer, both whom she didn't trust nor care for much but at least she had some information on the Kimura from when he visited her village some months ago and kept tabs on him, especially when he decided to transfer to Kumo, something she was shocked to find allowed much less accepted. Last time she checked Kumo and Konoha didn't have the best of relationships. She would definitely have to look into this later as she could now see their destination just a few meter's ahead. Her eyes narrowed and she kept her hand on her katana assessing the men. It seemed to be a total of sixteen men, each with various builds and equipped with tantos of sub par quality. None of them had the grace and aura of a great shinobi, merely decent ones so she put them around genin level. Deciding now was better than anything she whispered to Suutei as she put a wireless radio in her ear and offered him the other "Here, for when we are separated we can keep a line of communication. Now then, the plan?"

1517/2500~

As they emerged from the forest they came upon their destination an Abandoned Mine, and it was too cliche for a hideout.  It was as if they wanted someone to waltz right in and storm the place.  Standing on a tree branch Jet shortly appeared to his side with an ear piece and she assured that  should they be separated, it would be needed.  Fixing the earpiece over his left ear as he surveyed the entrance to the mine.  He noticed the same truck from earlier that nearly flat lined him, but he could not spot the guy who scowled him.  Ignoring that for later he now realized that this was a new playing field for him and glad that he left Chopper at their hotel room.  He assessed the power and energy levels of the men unloading the crates from the trucks.


Suutei punched his hand and within an instant he disappeared reappearing at the side of one of the shipment workers.  The shipment worker was unaware of his presence while looking down at a clipboard, and Suutei managed to get a glimpse but it was all jargon to him.  He tapped the male on the shoulder who was astonished at the sight of him, and attempted to swing at him with his tanto.  Leaning to the right the worker looked and began swinging wildly at the midnight haired male, he instantly performed a backwards roundhouse kick to the mans face.  He smirked slightly as he began levitating inches from the ground, and looked as the other workers surrounded him.  Holding up the half tiger seal causing a large explosion of white smoke and as the smoke subsided three clones of Suutei appeared.


The clones engaged in combat and each managed to push the workers into a group, as the four Suutei circled around the group at blazing fast paces.  They each attacked in sequence causing the workers to cringe in pain, and sent each of them flying into the air.  To someone who had a sense of humor it would be funny to see men juggled into the air, and he even thought it was comical.  They all were sent flying through the mine as if carried by a gust of wind, but this gust was none other than Suutei. As the dust and debris from within the mine settled he contacted Jet. Informing her to join him inside and this would allow him to discuss his actual plan to apprehend their target.

Within an inner chamber of the mine was their target Wimashi surrounded by mounds and hills of money. One side of the room was a large screen displaying the young Kimura talking through his earpiece, and the other end was Wimashi sitting in a chair like a king on his throne. Below him were numerous women counting money from crates and bags. Wimashi plastered a devilish grin across his face as he looked to his side. A male appeared of dark skin and short brown hair, and was ordered to intercept Suutei. The male nodded and disappeared along with two other males equipped with Fine grade Nodachi.

Looking back the girl Jet did not take long to follow orders as she approached he beckoned her to follow. The Kimura could sense a few chakra signatures they were faint, but they were simply to far away. The two shinobi racing down the corridors and run down shafts in search of the room. Suddenly he stopped and called for Jet to halt as well, and could hear footsteps. Suutei previously discussed the plan, and it would be for him to provide cover fire should they engage anymore hostiles. Preparing his chakra to assist his subordinate, but stopped as he took a look at the familiar face that emerged from the shadows.

So she was stuck on the sidelines, for now that is. If she were any lesser of a person perhaps this order would've gone through one ear and out the next. Perhaps she would've whined and yelled, too ignorant to think ahead and focus only on the meaningless bloodshed. However despite her somewhat morals being askew, she was far from a child. If she was told to go in and decimate the cannon fodder, she would do so gladly. If she was told to wait and save her strength, well you can see the result of that for yourself. Nodding in confirmation to Suutei, Jet knelt done keeping her hand on her blade in case things turned sour. Her mismatched orange gold eyes watched carefully should anything pop up for in case it was needed, she could cover him should anything happened. But that wasn't exactly what happened. Rather it all seemed to go too well. Heck Suutei was even making a sport of it all something that caused her to bite her lip and face palm which might have looked funny since it was like watching a blank wall do its best not to crumble. Kami why did he have to play around.

After the man had his fun he used the radio to contact her telling her to catch up and regroup so they may discuss the plan. Personally it felt a bit late just saying but fine, he was the boss so she had to follow his lead as she could always take the reins should the conditions necessitate such. For now however she needed to get inside. And in so rush of course. Loosening her grip on her sword Jet took a quick sprint and in a burst of speed she was by Suutei's side in an instant. She took this temporary peace to go stretch and flexed her muscles, loosening them up and getting them raring to go. Because they had taken this approach, guns blazing and all, the enemy would be altered of their presence. It mightn't happened regardless of circumstance but she much more preferred to kill all the men outside quickly and quietly but what was done was done.

Once by Suutei's side, he beckoned her to follow. Since the enemy was altered and they were literally walking through the front door she put her hands behind her head and casually followed Suutei, her guard never dropping. If Suutei noticed, their stroll had a slight eerie connotation about it. Her footsteps were as silent as the grave just as you could not hear her breath or beating heart. Not a single shadow of hers was cast along the inner wall's even when a light loomed directly above her. And her chakra, so fine was the compression it would appear as if she were dead, merely a puppet lead by his strings. So unless a camera were watching their every step, it would seem Suutei was all alone. After awhile of running through corridor after corridor, trying to find where their target dwell Suutei paused suddenly and motioned them to stop. He quickly discussed the plan to her as she paid some care to the footsteps approaching. He would provide cover fire when they engage the hostiles as she dealt with them. Fine by her really.

With a quick nod of confirmation, she kept a tight grip on her sword and unseated it the moment the two men appeared. Each wielded a fine nodachi, something she didn't have to worry too much about if she was carefully because she was rather fond of not having to head to the hospital and appear incompetent if she was wounded. Jet met the first one in a sudden burst of speed and the fact he was caught off guard meant these men were outclassed and just slightly better than the cannon fodder from earlier, so she put them off as low ranking chuunin in terms of physical ability. Her eyes noticed the thin layer of chakra around the blade. And apparently they were raition users as well only they seemed to be capable of barely using it as it only gave the nodachi a slightly sharper edge. So with that her first attack to the first chuunin or chuunin A was to sever his carotid artery by aiming a curved slit with her sword. With how rusty the blade was it was a crude cut and no doubt would be infected and fester but regardless it landed and she granted him a swift death. The other however reacted a bit faster so she had to step back to hold her blade and block an attack. It wasn't an issue however since she simply needed to use a little more strength to force him to stumble back as she charged forward to pierce his stomach but the blow was once again parried or so the man, chuunin B, thought for she held her ground and slid herself and the blade down along the nodachi's sharp edge until the reach the hilt and forced the sword up, making chuunin B lose his grip and fall back. The moment he did however was when he was defeated for Jet had shifted the grip on the katana and with both hands on the hilt, she pierced his neck directly at the windpipe and force him to choke on his own blood.

She wasn't given a moment of peace however because she heard a sudden war cry of an activation of a jutsu. Thankfully she reacted in good time to block her her arm and use her gloved hand to bat away the rest of the fuuton needles. She didn't have time for however was to grab her sword and move out of the way until the caster of the fuuton jutsu appeared before her just as she bat the attack away. So instead of moving out of the she blocked the punched coming to her right side at her head with her right forearm then proceed to grab him and then toss him onto the ground. Or at least she planned to however it seemed this one was pretty much on par with her and had come prepared ahead of time as he substituted with a shuriken he left behead and created a 20m distance between himself, Suutei and Jet. The sudden use of the jutsu left her temporary unbalanced but she steadied herself and told Suutei to cover her because right now she couldn't worry about her sword. No right now she wanted to punch this guy in the face...

2631/2500 Mission wc complete
Current Remaining wc: 131