Kikisu sat restlessly in his room, his mind roaming over what had just happened. The fact that he had given such a quality puppet and weapon to a lowly criminal just because he had the money for it began to itch at kikisus mind as he stood and began pacing the room.
He believed that only the best puppet masters deserved puppets of quality like he or his sensei made. His sensei seemed fine with giving the weapon to the man but that didnt mean he couldnt fix it. As kikisu began getting dressed for the weather he knew not exactly what he was going to do but he knew that something had to be done.
He wrapped himself head to toe in sand colored cloth, due to the terrible weather in the local area that he now called home. He decided to take the puppets that were in scrolls, placing them into slots on his lower back. He counted three puppets as he tapped the scrolls to make sure they were well in their place, he was taking Kawaii, Minos and Infant demon. Normally he would take them all with him, but he knew that he would be trekking across the hot desert and had to make sure he got rid of as much weight as he could.
The only other puppet he took was Spink, though for a different reason completely, he attached a saddle to the center of the sail back and covered the puppet in tan cloths, making a camouflaged dino puppet that was easily ride-able. He made sure to avoid his sensei at all costs, not knowing what she would think of this venture.
He attached his strings to the puppet dinosaur and hopped onto the saddle, the wind was hot and hard as the odd mount set off into the sands. As he followed the foot trails of the man that had bought the puppet from him, they were very faint at this point but he managed. Over the course of a few hours Kikisu went over many dunes, the hot wind blowing into the cloth mask he wore and getting dust into his eyes.
Finally he arrived at a small cave entrance in the side of a large sand dune, in the entrance there were two men aseat chairs chatting to each other.
As he drew close the men took out their spears, standing up and looking at the teenager riding the clothed dinosaur creature. As he got even closer Kikisu jumped from the dinosaur, calling out to the men Hello, its just the Puppet maker, your man forgot a key componant to the puppet that we gave him
The men looked at each other, the spears in their hands loosened momentarily motioning for kikisu to come into the lair. They turned to walk away into the doorway but before they could they felt an odd sensation on their neck.
Kikisu had invisible chakra wires on each of the men, holding their necks tight with the barbed strings digging deep into the flesh. Before they could make any noise, Kikisu had Infant demon out and running at the men, releasing its claws into the lower lumbar of the men, spliting it and causing them to lose complete control of their legs. As they lay on the ground still alive kikisu walked past them, tugging on the strings and slicing their Carotid artery and Jugular veins causing them to bleed out in moments. Kikisu spit on the ground Criminals, what filth

Kikis kept the infant puppet walking in front of him as he walked into the stifling hot halls, he came to a lobby room with a few men sitting playing cards and knuckle bones. They turned to him in confusion and were taken completely off guard as he sent the clawed infant whipping around the room, using the claws to slice to and fro. Slicing into 4 of them before they even got a single weapon out, the last man had his kunai out and was charging Kikisu himself as the infant jumped him from behind with his mouth, savagely tearing into him with a multitude of bites and rips, tearing into the woman's neck and lower shoulders, Kikisu would prefer not to watch but he was the one controlling the movements, he felt an odd enjoyment in killing this bandits, they hadnt even done anything to him.
He realized that the room was clear and he continued to the room that he heard a man tinkering furiously with something. As he entered he saw the man that he had given the puppet to he was currently trying to insert the acid canister into the front socket of the mouth, he was making a mockery of it and it was quite embarrassing.
He pulled Minos out of his scroll and approached as he tried to attach strings to Parasite.
What an embarrassment, the nerve that youd buy a puppet from me. Dont move it will make it easier.
The man tried again to control the puppet, and ending up sending it into the wall. Kikisu sent Infant to grab him and bend him over on the ground, he had Minos walk to him with the large axe in hand. He begged and begged but the axe came down the same. The head was sent rolling across the floor, Kikisu smiled as he sealed the new puppet into a scroll as well as every body in the lair.
He was in and out within an hour, a good hobby indeed.
WC900

As he re-entered the abode, he saw his sensei sitting sternly on her chair, with a scroll in hand.  Kikisu knew the look was for annoyance, Now where you were you off to kiki? you know today is the order day, i have a stack of orders that i couldnt even do alone, grab one and get to work Kikisu bowed and smiled as he went to work, he was quite happy she didnt ask him any further question about where he was or what he was doing, in the same way he never asked where she went on her ventures, she would be missing for days at a time.
Yes sensei Ningen right away
He then walked past her as he grabbed a order form, not any in particular but just the one on the top. Making sure it was for a reputable source as he walked into his personal workshop. He read the note and it was actually from the village itself, for his old shop.
He didnt know how he got the order, but it was from his old shop owner at the Red Shuriken puppet shop, it was for a B rank listing puppet centered on assault and durability. As well it said that the puppet had to be black and bearing heavy armor.
Kikisu got to work, taking heavy plates from the smithy in the corner, it took him a good while to lug the heavy armor over it was incredibly heavy. He stained it over the course of a few hours, making the metal pitch black. As it dryed he walked over to the bin that was holding the many spare chassis of puppets.
He grabbed a seven footer with heavy shoulders and thick joints and sprockets. The wooden marionette was formed of dark brown mahogany, made from basic puppet designs. Kikisu carved 4 senbon launchers into the forearms of the puppet, sealing the launchers with poisoned senbon that he got from a weapons bin. After that he began welding the plates of armor onto the chassis, the puppet becoming so heavy that he struggled to lift even its arms, the best he could do to move it around was attaching strings to it. He began welding a custom Kenabo to the right hand of the puppet. After welding it, He pumped a large quantity of rare Cacti poison, if the poison entered the body it would cause every single muscle in their body to seize up and enter waves of pain. The poison would come out of the spikes of the kenabo on contact. Carving and painting the red scorpion on the lower back of the puppet, he smiled at his work.
He smiled, that had only taken him 5 hours to finish, he even had time for a second puppet. He walked across the compound of his new home, first going to the kitchen and grabbing a flavored water, choosing peach for the moment. As he sipped and walked over to his senseis laboratory he walked in as she was carving at a dried husk of what he assumed was a dried human, she enjoyed turning people into puppets. He nodded as he walked past and grabbed another order form, making sure it was another for a good source. The one he grabbed was for a small animal based puppet, heavily laden in poison with strong projectiles.
I do this one too sensei, the others already in the box and sent for the money, umm heres a scroll with very fresh puppet bodies He gave her a sly wink and tossed her two scrolls. His sensei nodded and made a hmm sound, taking the scrolls and putting them into a small bag on her hip, Ahhhh, extracurricular activity it seems i think i owe you a lesson She nodded and went back to her work, leaving him alone.
He walked back to his shop and went through limb pieces, looking for the animal based pieces. He grabbed a wolf head made of oak, looking it over for cracks and chips, seeing a few and fixing them up with a practiced hand. He placed the head on the workshop table, grabbing a quadruped body made of a similar oak. He tossed the torso onto the table as well as he grabbed 4 legs and two tentacle limbs. He popped the legs into place, easily setting them into the puppet with practiced ease, He popped three claws into each foot made of a black titanium, then putting a poison sac in each foot.
He then took a venturi launcher, set it up with two launch ports and inserted it into the wolf mouth. Kikisu then placed a set amount of poison to be released with the projectiles that left the mouth, to make the launched weapons leave completely drenched in toxin. He grabbed a handful of 2 ft long javelins sealed them inside a scroll placed on the inside of the wolf mouth. Over the course of the next few hours he placed 20 odd senbon launchers through the torso of the puppet beast, making the puppet able to shoot in a 360 degree senbon kill zone, all drenched in scorpion poison that would slow the nerves to a crawl and make someone unable to move fast enough.
Man this job takes a lot out of me He yawned as he placed the tentacles into the front shoulders of the puppet, lining it with hooks and barbs and drenching them in the same cacti poison he had used before, the one that seized muscles, the street value for which was in the thousands of ryo. He wrote all of it on the costs for the puppet itself, the poison itself would exhaust itself in a few fights and they'd had to replace it . He didnt care to much about that his part of the job was nearing an end, he painted the wood with a red and black stain, artfully putting the stain on with a well practiced hand, making a tribal style design, a single mistake would either put him in the hospital or kill him, there was zero room for error.
He placed the puppet in a scroll marked with his name, the puppets of which he amiably named Tikanni and marking the scroll for sale with a price. He took a small swig of his water, reveling in the small break as he awaited the buyers for the two puppets he made.
Nap, then rinse and repeat i guess he voice was sarcastic but he honestly felt great about the job well done.
WC 2000 Doing the mission once extra word count is 500 so 125 ryo extra for it using the new extra wc rule