Mission name: Woaaaaah!
Mission rank: C-rank.
Objective: Train some academy students in martial combat.
Location: Konoha Shinobi Academy.
Reward: 300 Ryo.
Mission description: The academy is running extra credit courses this semester and wants aspiring Genin and Chuunin to run martial arts lessons with the students who need to catch up.
Mission Details: You'll get given a group of young academy students and be expected to teach them martial arts. They don't fight fair and they're not really very respectful.



Hina walked through the academy and tried to figure out where she was supposed to go. She had a feint idea of where the right room was, but this was the best she could do since nobody was around to ask. These sorts of extra credit courses tended to happen outside of regular school hours. All this time she spent walking and reminiscing about the academy days had not done well for her mental state. When she left she had just noticed that she would probably never make a great shinobi. This was more annoying than ever to realize since she couldn’t quite keep the thought out of her mind. She thought that if she could somehow accept the fact that she would be subpar and embrace it then things would get better but embracing it was not something that she could do easily. Luckily being away from the busy village areas made it a lot easier to concentrate. She had always turned to mental meditation to calm down but she feared that one day that wouldn’t be enough.

She had always associated this place as a chore since she always put off her lessons in favor of doing more fun things. Whether that be blowing off her lessons completely or practicing a little bit of genjutsu on the side she had always shown a disinterest in anything ninjutsu related. Now it was all around her again and she felt like it would be there for the rest of her life. At one point she had wished she could be a civilian and now she was thinking that it was not worth the sacrifices. She knew that this could only be the beginning of a long line of regrettable occurrences. She often thought if there was a way to permanently rid herself of her newfound connection to the world of jutsu.

Hina and the few stragglers that looked like they were also lost went on their separate ways. Some banded together but Hina didn’t want to be responsible for the business of others. She only had one partner for this mission. She didn’t know who it would be, but hopefully it was someone who knew their stuff. Hina would be relying on them to do most of the teaching since she wasn’t the best when it came to practical fighting.

After what seemed like an eternity of searching, Hina realized that the classroom wasn’t indoors at all. It was outdoors! Hina grumbled and stormed outside and saw the class waiting for their sensei and there was a big sign with the words “Extra Credit Martial Arts Lessons”. Hina had to be an idiot to not see this before walking through the door. She just had to go and get side tracked. Now all she had to do was wait another ten minutes and then she would be able to start the class. Hopefully not alone…

WC: 485

“Oh hey, it’s Yukino,” Hina said aloud with surprise. It was odd that they had run into each other so often as of late, she supposed that they were grouping together like minded ninjas, or maybe they just took the same missions because they were like minded. Either way, Hina wasn’t going to complain about being partnered up with an old pal.

“Ahem Ahem, my name is Hina Braveheart.” She stared out at the glazed over expressions of the class. Nobody ever heard of the last name Braveheart. It wasn’t nearly as recognizable as Sarutobi. Hina didn’t know the origin of her family’s name but it must not have been epic because she had yet to meet anyone else that went by her name. It would have been easier if she knew her clan, so that she could just identify as that… but it wasn’t like her parents knew that either.

When Hina had read that this was an extra credit course, she had thought that this meant that it would be attended by the best and brightest. It was those nerdy types that always wanted to boost their scores to a stupidly high number, right? Well it turned out that she was only partially correct. There were a few good apples, right at the front of the class with pencil pouches in their hands, ready to write anything important down at a moment’s notice. Then there was the overwhelming majority who looked like they would rather not be here. To them, this class was just something they had to take because they were slacking and were more or less forced to come here by their teachers or parents. Hina had never been part of this sort of class before because she never gave a shit about her grades or performance. Even still, she shared Yukino’s sentiment about the students.

“Okay, any of you that don’t want to be here feel free to step up and spar us. If you win you can leave.” Hina didn’t have any qualms with letting everyone leave if they could beat her. Wasn’t that the whole point? For her to teach what she knew? If they were all better than her then there was nothing she could teach anyways. Her words seemed to shut up at least some of the naysayers but there were a couple of students who stood up and walked right to the front of the class. One went right to Yukino and the other right to Hina.

“Fine then, let’s fight and get this over with,” Hina said as she glanced over at Yukino. The faster they could get this class back on track the better.

Hina’s opponent was a boy that was just as tall as she was although he was probably five or more years younger. He had rippling muscles that seemed unnatural for someone his age but he seemed justifiably determined that he could beat Hina. Then, without any warning, Hina stepped forward and kneed him right in the crotch, making him fall to his knees and then keel over to the side. He wailed about how unfair she had been so Hina announced to the class, “If you’re going to be a ninja engaging in combat, lesson one is that you probably want to wear some protection around your sensitive parts.”

WC: 555
Total: 1040

Hina would have very much liked to have given the second bully a kick in the groin, but he was smart enough to help his friend up and go sit back down. The whole class had a more serious expression on their faces when it was clear that this wasn’t going to be a lazy lesson. A lot of them surprisingly hadn’t expected to actually engage in any combat even though this was a taijutsu class. Hina would have gladly kept fighting the students just to get a little of her own training in… except Yukino brought her back to reality. Their duty was to teach and to do that, practically, they needed the students to get engaged. Hina’s partner called for volunteers and before long they had several people come up.

The volunteers were mostly the nerds of the bunch, which was also typical given Hina’s own academy experience. One of them was dressed a lot like rock lee in the sense that he wore a skin tight onesie and looked like he would have run to the moon and back to improve. Another was a bookworm who had gotten up with his pencil and paper in hand, as if he intended to fight with those. There were others but those were the two that Hina paired up to begin with. “Okay, assume your taijutsu fighting stance.”

The jumpsuit boy dropped into a low kung fu type stance and the bookworm held his pencil like a knife. Maybe he was intending to fight with that thing. “Oh boy,” Hina muttered when she saw what she was dealing with. She didn’t know anything about kung fu but she did know that if you were going to throw strikes you needed to at least be able to hit the opponent. “One of the most important parts of fighting is to know your strike range. In boxing we establish this with jabs. It lets you know how far you can hit and lets your opponent know to respect your personal space. Jumpsuit boy, I think we both know you can’t kick with that low of a stance and while I respect the stability it brings, you don’t need to stabilize if you’re not hitting anything. Pencil guy, you don’t even have a stance.” Hina pushed him and he stumbled because he was just standing straight up.

Hina noticed that the students were paying close attention while Hina adjusted the stances and she hoped they were taking mental notes. After a couple minutes the volunteers had a decent stance down and Hina said, “okay, let’s see some strikes.” The jumpsuit kid threw some jabs and crosses, nothing complicated. The pencil guy took a punch to the neck and shoved the erase of his pencil into his opponent’s stomach. There was no grace to this sort of fighting but it was better than nothing. “At least try to dodge!” Hina encouraged as they kept going, “get punched in the neck hard enough and you’re dead. Same with getting stabbed with a knife!”

Hina was actually enjoying having students listen to her. She turned to Yukino to see what she had been doing or to see if she had anything to add.

WC: 537
Total: 1577

Hina’s eyes locked with Yukino and she suddenly had the urge to chit chat. All this teaching was, while not out of character, kind of a chore. Boxing often meant you were part of a small group and constantly helping each other improve, and so it was easy for Hina to pass on the basics to these green students. If it were come to actual chakra infused taijutsu though, it would be a lot more complicated. She was fortunate that this mission didn’t require her to teach above her own skill level because that would have been a disaster.

“I think it’s going alright,” Hina said as she wiped a bead of sweat off her forehead. She had done little to nothing physically but the stress of teaching was causing her to sweat. “I can’t wait to wrap this up though and go get some food. Plus I’ve got… plans for tonight. What about you?” It had been so long since Hina had been “young” that she didn’t know what kids liked to do these days after everything was said and done. In fact, she didn’t even know what most girls her own age liked to do since she had taken such a drastic turn from the beaten path.

Hina would rest and let Yukino reply and then call for the students to rotate. Hina made the active participants in her group sit down and called some sitting students to participate. She found that this set was easier to teach because they had actually paid attention to the spars and listened to what Hina had said. Or maybe they had just paid attention so that Hina wouldn’t deck them in the balls. Hina wasn’t about to complain though, because obedience was key in a classroom setting.

Once she had gotten each of her students to spar, it was time to set up a little obstacle course of sorts. She thought that it was pertinent to be able to move dexterously when fighting, so she laid out cones and scattered traps in between flags. All the students had to do was touch each flag and then Hina would be comfortable with dismissing them for the day. Everyone thought that they would be able to get out of class early, but it would become clear that they couldn’t just run through it lest they get smacked in the head with a wooden stick.

“Comeon guys, you can do it!” Hina cheered from the sidelines.

Hina wrapped up the class and went home because Yukino was unresponsive.

WC: 412
Total: 1989

EXIT

Using 1500 ryo for mission completion: +300 ryo


Saving remaining 489 words

Previous saved wc total: 2693

new saved wc total: 3182