It seems that people just couldn't learn that this village was more than capable of dealing with small time troublemakers, this came down as a mission for the village's shinobi like one, Etsuo Yukimura as he observed a small group of bandits once again causing trouble with the village area. But the last time that he did this, he had back up in the form of one, Tatsuya Taosu, his former teammate. As a chuunin though, he should of been fairly capable of dealing with them alone. But he knew that it would be as easy to take them down without killing a single one like before. This made him wonder a bit if these were the same ones as before and if so, they would probably be pissed at him. He didn't really like dealing with angry people so if he did take these guys down, no questions, it need to be quick and effective.

With that he activated his sharigan eyes and prepped to enter a very small skirmish. He would start it with a single jutsu, while his opponents were unaware and eventually he formed the tiger sign and blew a flamethrower out towards them from meters away, but this only caught a single one as the others noticed his attempted and proceeded to dodge it completely and begin the counteroffensive, since their ally was now down for the count in burns. Etsuo was ready for them as he prepped his clone jutsu with a few hand signs making five of them to rush in at his three opponents with. These enemies moved into close combat without hesitation in mind, making things only easier for him at these dire moments. He could only watch for a moment as the real him speed behind them and his clones engaged into combat only to show their trick. Etsuo however revealed the real him by nailing two kunai into one of the bandits with their backs turned to him. The bandit fell to the ground with a thud with his legs taken out, his only option was to try and escape or fight by barely crawling for movement.

This left the difficult part though as he found himself dealing with still two pissed off bandits that if he remember liked close combat for a very good reason that made him worry. The two bandits came both at once using their fists to talk with him, Etsuo took this as his cue to dodge and try to think of a counter plan to this situation that was slowly becoming, stuck between a hard place and fists. These bandits were good at close combat, but what if he put them at long distance again like before. They seemed so reckless that they would probably stay there while he continued to attack them with his fire jutsu. With his sharigan active, it should be easy enough to dodge them and find an opening to escape from to get just what he wanted from them and this mission.

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The opening that Etsuo wanted eventually came as both of the bandits tried to punch at him inward with their hands, but he sidestepped this as he made hand signs prepping a jutsu that would push the back with a bit of lightning. Energy that had been around his hands now expanded outward into a small shockwave that went five meters in every direction around him. This jutsu was known as Lightning Release: Ascending Charge and he had actually gained it from his Sensei in a recent A rank mission that both were in fighting against forty or so mercenaries to protect the village that he was currently fighting in, from complete war with others. This would be another fight to determine if this village could maintain it's peaceful nature even in this cold place in mountains.

His trick seemed to work as the two bandits were tossed back and covered in burns from the shockwave, staying to the ground. It seemed that everything was ending rather nicely with all of the bandits on the ground and in burns or wounds as it reminded him of the quiet seen in the previous mission. He could reflected more, until he actually check them all and found his two kunai stuck within a convenient log. This made his eyes widen and turn his head just in time to dodge a striking blow from the remaining and trickiest of the bandits. He never thought that these guys could come up with the idea of using a jutsu like that to survive an attack from his kunai. This one still showed his aggressive nature as he charged forward at Etsuo with at his strength. If this man said anything, he believed that it would be along the lines with die and I will kill you. Those were the kind of things that he wanted to avoid especially during a mission and in close combat.

Etsuo back away and dodged once more from the man's taijutsu only to recover his kunai's from the log in a split second, following this, he nailed them into the bandit's legs for sure and watched the last one bit the dust, marking the true end of this mission. He went over this for a final time and made sure none of the others were a log. So could finally take a deep breath and relax from this mission's end. This mission reminded him that he needed to try and have some puppets on him next time, or get a hold of some more tools to put in to his arsenal. With the end, there, Etsuo took off towards the hospital to go visit the hospital and his father that was currently in a coma. The hospital actually was not very far from here as he began to walk slowly thinking of what all to say to him. Maybe if he was lucky, he could finally get his father to wake up and acknowledge what he was saying to him.

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