1 The Siege of Buma's Manor [A-rank Mission/NK/Plot] Sat Dec 24, 2016 11:12 am
Kashizudoto
S-rank
- Disclaimer:
- As I intended to take these missions as a special jonin and there was a modding delay between which my character ranked up, I will be RPing Kashizudoto as a special jonin with B-2 stats and Hawky as a B-rank bird so as to stay consistent with my plotline.
The tokubetsu jonin had just gotten off the ship that had dropped him off in the Land of Lightning, running forward and following his hawk's lead, as only Hawky knew the scent of Lord Buma and could use it to locate him and his manor. Professor Ivan of Diamond Heights University, one of the five masters of the Order of the White Lotus, had received a distress message earlier from Lord Buma, another one of the five masters, that Ivan did not brief Kashizudoto further about, only mentioning that they have totally lost contact with the manor before sending him and his hawk on a mission for the Order to travel to Lord Buma's manor and aid him and the people in his manor in whatever way he could.
He ran through the stormy mountainous region of the Land of Lightning, wearing his normal attire consisting of a black swordsman's robe embroidered with gold patterns on the edges, a gift from Master Piandao; a bamboo sheath on his left hip which contained his Tentetsutou, a black katana which he had forged out of a four billion year old meteorite during his apprenticeship under Piandao; a fifty foot coil of wire, a shinobi utility that had helped him in multiple occasions, a versatile one that was becoming decreasingly popular as the ages progressed; and a holster on his left upper thigh containing one kunai knife and three shuriken, basic weaponry that wasn't all that handy anymore but was kept just in case.
Within a few hours, they would approach what seemed to be a rural farmland, except that the houses were desolate, the crops were unattended and shriveling, and the people were, it seemed to be, dead. He could see bodies strewn all over the field, a sight that would no doubt make him shiver, yet there wasn't much blood or any evidence of weaponry. He could still see external bruising all over their bodies though, yet there was no trace left behind of anything that could have caused that kind of damage to them... or who could have caused it. Still, they weren't at the manor yet: maybe if they went their directly, they'd have answers. That is, if the people in the manor were still alive... Maybe they had suffered the same fate as these farm folk. Hopefully not.
He proceeded to follow his hawk, coming across many similar sights along the way that only served to anger him more and more. Who or what could have done this to these folk? He found a civil war out of the question because of the fact that no weaponry, even makeshift, was left behind; this was for certain an outside force that had some kind of special offense. Why were they killing these innocent rural folk though?
Soon enough, after quite a bit of following his hawk through the barren and morbid landscape of abandoned, bloody farmland of corpses, he would stumble across the first forms of life that he'd seen in a while, as well as a sizable castle guarded by a moat and gated by a drawbridge. Fifteen samurai stood in front of the moat; there was a pair on top of the castle walls itself that presumably had control over the drawbridge in some form. Still, they looked a little short on men for such a large castle. Either way, it was reassuring to see life after striding through a lifeless landscape.
WC: 583