1 Somewhere, at the bottom of the world. Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:04 pm
Soma
D-rank
{ CLOSED|MISSION|TRAINING }
Takigakure, 0530.
Soma ducked an oncoming branch, leaping and weaving through the foliage from foot hold to foot hold on his way home. In Takigakure, the Village Hidden by Waterfalls, they keep their Genin late. As a village which is so remote and with a much lower population, special care is taken to ensure that each aspiring Taki Shinobi is given the absolute highest quality training before they embark on missions for the village. Today was the first day that Soma was allowed to take a mission for the village. For that alone, the young Shinobi was thrilled, but there was another detail that made the prospect even more exciting. He was being taken on the mission by his brother, the prodigal Senju Tohin, well on his way to advancing to Chuunin in the village. Since as far back as he could remember (well, maybe not that far back), Soma had stuck to his brother like glue, and even though Soma and his brother specialize in much different areas of expertise, Tohin always managed to be just the right teacher for the young Genin.
Free of the Academy now for three weeks, Soma had plunged head first into getting all of the paper work finished to make him eligible for missions and today was the day it had finally been approved. Soma cleared the wall of trees and found himself heading straight for the edge of a familiar rooftop. He planted his right foot down and rolled forward off of his shoulder into a sprint which would allow him, by the time he reached the edge of the roof top, to leap the gap between the alleys and continue his elevated path. It wasn't long before his swift gait brought him to a roof top overlooking the wider courtyard area in front of the Takigakure administration building. He was here right at five thirty to make sure he would have first pick of a good mission. Despite the fact he would be accompanied by his brother on the mission today, the two were not actually in the same squad. It was, in truth, at the behest of Soma's step-mother that they were to be together on Soma's first ever mission.
He pushed through the doors at five thirty two in the morning, the man at the desk in the lobby had taken his seat as soon as the door opened, steaming hot coffee only just placed home on the desk top. He looked up from behind wire frame glasses and smiled broadly, as he did every day. He couldn't have been more than twenty, one of the many children of the land of Waterfalls who chose to walk away from the path of the Shinobi.
"Hello, young man, how can I help you today?" The man behind the desk said cheerily, fresh for his first charge of the day.
"I'm here to pick up my assigned mission, my name is Senju Soma," The Genin said enthusiastically, putting his arms up on the front of the desk and smiling widely.
"Senju... Senju... Soma here," The man behind the desk produced a slim folder of documents and handed it over the front counter to the Genin standing there, who gripped it in his fingers and eyed it intently for a moment.
"Thanks," Soma snapped as quickly as his lips would move before he turned on his heel and bolted towards the exit in a sprint. He practically shoulder tackled the doors open and burst out onto the street with what must have looked like a hyena's twisted grin on his face as he ran down the street away from the administration building courtyard, directly towards home.
The family home was situated a little way out of the central city, beyond some orchards and small patches of forest, out where you could consider rural. The house was built on a section of peach orchards which at this time of the year were in full swing with branches heavy cradling plump, ripe fruit. Soma came to a stop outside the house and pushed the door open, his nose filling with the scent of bread. After his adoption, it hadn't taken long for his step-mother to figure out that if it doesn't taste sweet or isn't covered in sugar, Soma probably won't eat it. So there she stood, pulling loaves of sweet dough from the oven and rolling it through a light cinnamon dusting to be served with Soma's usual disgusting morning cocktail of chocolate milk and cream soda.
Soma gulped down his drink and snatched a long roll of still warm dough from the counter, trotting off down the hall without so much as a good morning (aside from a nod of the head) to either of his step-parents. On any other day, that might have bothered them, but they knew his mind was in another place today and left it be.
A loud stomp echoed through the bedroom of Soma's older step-brother, Senju Tohin. Soma swung the door open with little regard to his brother's still sleeping state and stomped into the room with a dizzying display of loud karate noises and exaggerated poses. Soma flipped sideways onto the foot of his brother's bed and posed charismatically.
"Tohin!" Soma barked "Wake up! I wanna go beat up some bad guys and Mom said you had to go with me so,"
Soma inhaled deeply.
Takigakure, 0547.
"GET UUUUUUUUP!"
"GET UUUUUUUUP!"
{ 904|MISSION|1000 }