Between the borders of two major villages lie the minor village of Takigakure; the village hidden by the waterfall. A single exited voice's boom seemingly silenced the entire earth as it pierced the air and Tōhin's ear-drums.

"GET UUUUUUUUP!" Shouted the excited young genin toward his limp and unconscious older brother. Soma, unaware of where his brother had been throughout the night, took no care nor worry about the matter. On a usual circumstance Tōhin might have glared into his brothers eyes with a fierce look to try and scare him off. But this day wasn't like any other. The young genin for the first time was being granted the duty of taking on a mission for the village. This was a day Tōhin had kept heavy in his heart for what seemed like years. It was finally here.

Tōhin's mother had asked him to accompany Soma, but in truth she never had to do such a thing. Tōhin was protective over the little rascal and knew his duties.
Tōhin stood up, allowing his blankets to fall off of him and drag across the floor, then promptly folded them and made his bed to perfection. Still not saying a word he entered his closet and gathered up the pieces to his fathers flak jacket and made his way toward the shower, stopping only to say "Soma, I think you're forgetting something." Then pointed to the headband he held in his hands.

It was Tōhin's standard ritual to clean himself each and every morning. Uniformity was key in his life, and besides that, his muscles ached fiercely from the training he had been doing throughout the night. He had only slept 4 hours total. For him that was sufficient.
The hot water eased his pains and left him refreshed and ready to take on a simple mission with his brother.

He exited the misty room fully prepared and geared for combat. One might have saw an image very close to his father at a younger age. The characteristics of his mother were too finely blended for that, however. He entered the kitchen, still slightly groggy and carefully prepared a fruit blend to drink as breakfast.  He looked over and saw the sugary-death drink his brother had consumed. A grotesque mixture of more sugar than Tōhin would consume in a week, and one mostly unhealthy for a boy Soma's age.

"SOOOOMA! What have I told you about drinking this stuff! You're going to be diabetic!"

All in all he hadn't let himself take the time to consider what might happen or what could go wrong once they entered the force of real danger. Reason being; he refused to allow anything to befall his little brother. The watchful eye of Senju Tōhin would be the last an assailant might see before death.

For this mission Tōhin would not be able to show or tell that he would protect Soma, for he needed to gather information to see if Soma was capable of this type of thing himself.  The more capable Soma proved to be, the less Tōhin would have to worry about him.

Tōhin would stand at the door awaiting his young sibling. While waiting he began to shout across the house

"What kind of mission have you chosen? I'm assuming you followed my advice and took a D-ranked one to be safe?"

He asked with relative sarcasm, because he already knew based upon the past that Soma hadn't followed the advice and had likely signed them up for an S-ranked mission. However, he also knew the man working the administrative building, and had instructed him to give nothing above C.  

Tōhin reached over toward the table and snatched up the scroll which had the mission written and it's details. As he scanned the page his eyes widened. Soma had made a relatively bad choice. But not one that they couldn't clean up.

When his brother arrived at the door Tōhin began to speak again to him.

"You do realize, Soma, that you've...we've been assigned to deal with a participant in the drug ring, right? Meaning that when we deal with said individual we will have painted targets on ourselves for his goons. Let me make this clear Nii-San. Nobody who witnesses what we do today leaves that place without my O.K. We will not be having hooligans harassing our parents, or you when I'm not around, understood?"

These interrogation and nagging motions would continue for the next 5 minutes before they would finally leave the house and continue the questions on the way to the place they needed to go.

Tōhin walked with his young sibling through the village toward the delivery point. As they walked a wave of complete confusion washed over him, he was going to have to let his brother take the lead on this mission even as much as he didn't want to. The village would expect him to take things like this on alone in the future, and Tōhin knew just how much Soma hated living directly in the shadow of his more trained sibling. The surroundings in front of the mans house were pretty crummy, it was a bad part of town. There were about 10 meters between the front door of the run- down shack and a bench. The bench was almost directly across from the front door. This would play a crucial role in the plan. It was just an adjustment to Soma's plan, which had been quite excellent in its composition, however soma was forgetting that this was his mission, and that Tōhin was only there to ensure safety.

He placed a gentle and caring hand upon Soma's shoulder and said

"This mission is about you, not me. We know I could turn this shack into a forest and subdue this guy right now, that's not important. We need to see if you're capable of turning this place inside out in your own way. I have planned this out so that I will never be out of range for any of my techniques. If trouble happens just expect a spike to come flying when I shout "move!" Understood?"

It was really hard to that. Tōhin would prefer to just send his little brother home to be a diplomat with his mom. But soma possessed a fighting soul. He wouldn't be chained down by a simple life. And that might have been Tōhin's fault in itself for always showing off and bragging. Tōhin slid the clipboard to his brother in which they would need a signature on, then took his seat on the bench. A wooden spike slid gently out of his forearm, remaining out of site, tucked inside of his sleeve.

Tōhin felt the wind blow gently and looked up toward Nise, the raven which had watched over Soma even before Tōhin did. He could relate to that bird, as they both had great worry for the fresh ninja. And they were both watching very intensely as Soma walked toward the door of the shanty shack.

On the street people walked back and forth, some looking homeless and poor. Others appeared to be completely shot up on drugs. The bystanders could even end up being a problem on this mission. The fact of the matter was that they were capturing a man involved with very powerful drug lords, and should those people show up, even Tōhin wouldn't have thought to try and take them on. The scary looking Hoshigaki man wasn't even a partial concern. He was likely foolish and would sign for a free package instantly. Most druggies were that way. In particular the ones who were using the hard stuff, like what he was selling. He was destroying the youth in Takigakure. The fact of the matter was that Iwagakure and it's harboring of criminals was bleeding off into the smaller villages like Takigakure. The youth of these nations wouldn't have the chance to become shinobi because they wouldn't pass a drug test.

There were a plethora of things that could've happened when the door swung open and Tōhin had been going over just about every single one of them in the passed minute. This was it. This was Soma's test. A lot was riding on this and whether or not he handled things smoothly would determine how Tōhin would respect him as a shinobi. The door must have creaked open in what felt like 200 years.

He watched in bitter anticipation for what would step our of that thresh hold.

[Mission:1000/1000]
[Training:488/??]

Tōhin could feel tension swelling in every moment that he watched his little brother approach the drug fiends front door. Soma had devised a little plan involving his bird nestled in the delivery box. It didn't take a genius to see what that plan was. A bead of sweat flowed down his forehead as the first set of knocks sounded upon the door. His eyes could have tore threw the door with raw strain practically. He began to feel sick to his stomach and all of his power was focused in his knees, ready to pounce  from that bench to come to Soma's aid. A foul air came out in a plume as the door opened. The smell of many things. Drugs, sex, alcohol. The tall Hoshigaki stepped out onto the porch, holding the door open with one hand. Soma presented him with the clipboard and the seemingly confused Hoshigaki took it and signed. Finally, Soma began to explain that he was going to need to bring the man in for questioning. It was then that the man sprung forward I an attempt to grab the clipboard away.

Tōhin sprung from the bench, watching as Soma tossed the box at the man, and Nise flew out disoriented and confused. Tōhin passed by his little brother whom was using a genjutsu on the Hoshigaki and kicked one of the approaching younger shinobi whom were approaching in the mouth with such force as to knock several teeth out. He then turned to see another running toward Soma. This was the first mistake Tōhin would make that day. He turned his back on the Hoshigaki to pay mind to his brother.

He shot a large wooden pike from his forearm into the ankle of the shinobi who was approaching Soma. As he did this the Hoshigaki behind him wrapped his hands around Tōhin's waist and prepared to do a suplex. Tōhin formed a handseal and sprouted 3 large wooden spikes from his back, piercing the Hoshigaki, who then releases him and fell down into his own blood. The damage was nowhere near fatal, after-all he had to be taken in for questioning. Without checking to see how soma had dealt with the injured young one, Tōhin choked out the Hoshigaki into unconsciousness then tied his arms and legs together. It wasn't until Tōhin noticed that the boy he had kicked in the head was missing that he broke a sweat.

He dropped the Hoshigaki onto the ground and jumped atop the house, looking all around. The boy was gone. And he knew exactly what Tōhin looked like. He knew what Soma looked like. And he also knew that they had raised the place and taken the Hoshigaki captive.

Tōhin ran his fingers through his hair, his heart best was the loudest the loudest thing he could hear. The fact that this wasn't the end of this by any means. That the end of the mission wasn't the end of this fight. Tōhin looked into Soma's eyes with a glare that foretold doom.

Chakra 145/150:

[End Combat/Exit Thread/Mission Complete]

[1000/1000] Mission~
[1016/??] Training~