Satoru had been sitting at the oasis that was used as a rendezvous in his last mission to Sunagakure no Sato, at least thats what it once was. Now it was just a mess of wild growing flora and glass. The entire time he spent there he was under the shade of a tree, eating a rice ball and reading from a laid out scroll, the breifing of the mission at hand. After carefully going over the mission one more time, the young namikaze got back to his feet, put the scroll away and discarded the waste from the riceball into a nearby trash can. Remembering how hot the temperature usually is in Sunagakure, he pulled his haori top off of his torso and let it hang from his waist band rope sash. Before he left the oasis he did a quick exercise circuit of sit ups, push ups and he did some pull ups from a branch of a nearby tree. As he got to wrapping up his exercise, he landed under the tree from doing sit ups and began walking to his destination, close to the heart of Sunagakure.  

Satoru had never been this close to the heart of Sunagakure before. His last mission near here took place near the outskirts of the village. Though he had never been here before the village was destroyed he can't help but imagine what it must've been like to have lost your entire home. So many people have had to move to other villages or just adapt to a homeless life, wandering the Land they used to call home. The Namikaze youth had reached to an urban jungle that comprised of a few decrepid buildings and lots of  glass shards all over the sand. It quickly became apparent that walking through Sunagakure without proper foot wear can be a mistake that posed harsh consequences. Satoru knew he was supposed to meet another konoha genin before he left the village but he recieved word from his superiors that his partner had already went ahead and started the mission without him, he had hoped to meet him in this area. All over nearby bushes and wild weeds, there were kikaichu, the bugs made known by the jutsu style of the Aburame. Knowing that his partner was an Aburame clan member, there was no doubt in his mind that the other genin sent from the village was nearby.

As he made his way to the buildings he was immediately set on alert by a demon wind shuriken coming in to attempt cutting his legs clean off. Satoru looked in its direction to discover the origin of the weapon. He recognizes the incoming threat as a Sunagakure shinobi, a low life bandit looking to make a living off of anyone foolish enough to venture through the ruins. The genin had jumped over the shuriken and let it sweep under him as though it was nothing, the real threat was coming from the bandit who was charging satoru with a sword ready to cut him down mid-air. Sato couldn't let this happen, he wasn't gonna die to a low life like this before he made the Namikaze name known throughout the lands. He quickly retreieved his kunai from his pouch and used it to parry the slicing motion of the opponent's blade. Even though he had parried it, he was still mid-air, and this grown man was a bit more physically capable than Satoru so the sheer force of the parry had knock the young gennin back a few meters before he landed on his feet in a defensive stance with his kunai held reverse grip. "You're really far from home to be alone kid. Heh-heh, you're gonna die in this wasteland for a stupid cause." Satoru didnt reply to the older man dressed in the former uniform for Sunagakure shinobi. He was most likely an ex chunin that resorted to crime after the village was destroyed, what a sad way to live. The young konoha genin had his wits about him and was waiting in a defensive position to see what the opponent would do. If the bandit used a jutsu, Satoru could nulify it but if he went for another assault using his sword, the genin might've been in trouble.

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The clash of steel had Satoru slightly shocked, he wasn't used to being in the field as a ninja, some would say he is still 'ripe'. He felt adrenaline rush through his body as his opponent wasted no time in engaging Satoru, ready to thrust through his chest. What came next was something that didnt come as too much of a surprise to the young genin as a small black swarm of bugs erupted from the ground a few meters in front of him, catching the older shinobi completely off guard. He knew to himself that this was the doing of his partner walking through the ruins,  had noticed kikaichu on the local flora and had thought to himself that maybe this was his partner's way of completing the mission. The startled sunagakure shinobi froze in horror at the swarm that had taken the lower half of his body and immobilized him.

The unkown partner had created a small window of time for Satoru, as he as well as his partner probably knew, this is a chunin level ninja, he more than likely had some sort of means to escape the immobilisation if he wanted. The element of surprise in this case will only work if Satoru seizes this moment to do what must be done...to take a life. After his first run in with some other suna bandits on his previous mission, he knows that sometimes as  shinobi, one must not be a stranger to making the opponent suffer a fatality. Especially when other shinobi out in the fields are more than willing to take your own life without hesitation.

He couldn't afford to waste the opportunity and let the opponent regain their stability. Satoru tightened his grip of the kunai in his right hand and took a breath before charging the immobilized ninja and swiping the weapon across the shinobi's throat, gushing blood out onto satoru's face and torso. This didn't kill the man immediately, he fell to his knees with Satory stood over him, taking his vest off and wiping the rest of the blood off of his face, arms and hair. The older man had put on a face of horror as his final moments were of him being tooken by a swarm of dangerous bugs.  Satoru wiped the last of the blood on his torso and put his haori top back on as he wasn't comfortable being bareback, "I don't know what you lived for but i assure you, you died without a cause" the young genin wiped the kunai in the vest that he was now using as a rag and discarded the vest after. The suna bandit fell on his face by this point and Satoru had put the kunai back into his tool pouch. He was a bit shaken by taking the life of another, to him, this came as a form twisted form of initiation into the shinobi world. Being prepared to take a life is something he has to get used to, and he couldn't let this phase him too much. His focus now became on looking for his partner who had saved him from a long fight that he wasn't sure he could win. He looked around but didn't see his partner, this didn't stop him from saying "Good job, you really came through for me in a pinch" he spoke into the air around him, as he did not know where or who his speech was aimed at.


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"You know, you really should be a bit more vigilant out here. He could have killed you had I not restrained him," a young, exotic looking shinobi had told him while revealing himself from his cover. After introducing himself, N'Jobu informed Satoru that the only thing left to do was to check to south-western quadrant and the mission would be a success. It appears that N'Jobu's kikaichu had already cleared out most of the area, giving the young Namikaze a feeling that he did not have much to do on this mission concerning the flora. The Aburame genin had summoned his bugs back from the fresh corpse of the Sunagakure bandit that only moments ago posed a threat to Satoru's life.

The dread headed genin started walking in a south western direction of the area to do more scouting and clearing out. Sato did not bat an eye at any of the plant life as he knew for a fact that the swarm of bugs commanded by his partner did the job with a lot more efficiency than he ever could. Satoru's height surpassed that of N'Jobu's a bit, so he could see over his high color a bit, noticing a few bugs crawling on the genin's neck and down to his hands through his sleeves. "You know, the Aburame clan's special relationship to these bugs have always been fascinating to me. I read about your clan's heritage a bit and i must say, seeing these bugs up close and what they're capable of, jeez, you guys are really a force to be reckoned with." Satoru spoke to his partner in a light hearted manner, trying to open up a conversation with the boy. He folded his arms behind his head, stretching as he walked limbering up as both him and his partner, though relaxed in each others company, were very much on guard and paying close attention to their surroundings. They had just killed a man after being ambushed, there was no telling if he was alone. Walking through the ruins of the village, there was a lot of glass shards scattered about the sand and the wind picked up within the village soothed Satoru's lightly exposed body and made his top dance as his haori top couldn't close at the front of the torso like usual jacket tops.

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Satoru and the accompanying genin had reached to their destination in the southwest quadrant of sunagakure's ruins. They had come accross an average sized scorpion while roaming the ruins, "I don't see much to do here other than take out the scorpion then we are done. Since you already got rid of the guy from before, I can handle that I suppose...Just sit back and chill if you like", Satoru's partner told him before slowly starting in its general direction, gathering a mass of bugs at his fingertips and getting ready to fire it like a bullet at the animal. The young Namikaze had confidence that this minor threat would bear no real danger to either of them, seeing as the very capable Aburame clan shinobi had decided to take care of it. N'Jobu fired the small swarm of kikachi at the animal and hit it right on its head, making them disperse and gain a lot of coverage all over the scorpions body. They were attacking the animal, feeding off of it. N'Jobu did nothing for the period of time that the scorpion spent writhing in agony and struggling to fight back against the kikachi, but its fate was already sealed. The struggling slowed as N'Jobu unsheated a knife, approached it and thrusted it straight through the scorpions skull, killing it within a moment. The genin wiped the blood off of his knife, sheated it and returned to his partner.

N'Jobu walked back over to where the other genin was standing and began to speak up to his comrade, "Looks like that should be about it. I think we can probably call it a day on that note. You are welcome to double the area if you wish but I'm headed back to camp. I'm sure I'll see you around again. Later..." he said to Satoru as he sped off into the distance towards the camp, finding joy in leaping around and over obstacles in a very agile manner. Satoru stood there and watched the kikaichu leave the corpse and fly in N'Jobu's direction as the person himself was their home, their nest. He yelled in his partners direction, "Hey be careful out there, don't drop your guard for a minute." Satoru turned back, put his hands on his waist and scouted the area a bit further, knowing the the mission was over yet marveling at the ruins Sunagakure has been reduced to. He walked through the ruins for about 15 minutes before he said to himself "I gotta head back to the leaf, time is wasting and i might be needed". He gave a moment of silence for the man who's life he just took, before he headed back to the village. This was Satoru's first kill and he had taken it quite lightly, as immoral as it may seem, its quite a professional ninja trait.

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