1 Animal Control (C-Rank Missions) Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:44 am
Rokumaru
D-rank
- Mission Details:
- Mission name: Animal Collection
Mission rank: C
Objective: Travel through the Wind Country and bring back two yellow wolves to Suna without harming them.
Location: Sunagakure
Reward: 300
Mission description: One of the citizens of Suna is a collector of very rare animals. He is a humanitarian and wishes for these rare animals to stay on this earth and avoid extinction. As such he has gotten reports of a pair of rare animals in the deserts of the Wind Country outside of Sunagakure. These animals are a strange subspecies of wolves; they are very beautiful but also very dangerous. These wolves look like regular wolves but their fur is colored yellow and their bite contains a powerful venom that¡¯s puts its victims to sleep. The man has asked the Kazekage for a team of ninja to help him capture a male and female yellow wolf and bring them back to the Village to be protected. The Kazekage can spare a team of three (3) ninja for this Mission.
Mission details: Minimum 1000 words, may be done solo, requires one to perfectly aquire the two wolves without harming them and then transport them to the village ASAP. You will be given two sedative darts that should put the wolves to sleep however the female is about to give birth and the sedative may kill the unborn pups. Make your call.
With a nod to both guards that watched the Western gate of Suna, Rokumaru slung both animal cages held in his hands over his shoulders and started his short trek into the scorching sandy dunes. The redhead had hoped that with a new rank, having finally met the requirements for promotion to Chuunin a few weeks earlier, that he would be finished with the rather mundane D and C-Ranked missions. Unfortunately for the impatient young lad, a recent update regarding mission rules limited his solo missions to his rank and under only.
The missions he had taken today seemed simple enough; a few bleeding-heart civilians wanted a set of endangered animals captured to be kept in captivity, and Roku had a few ideas of how to safely imprison the beasts. If it were up to him he would not interfere with nature at all, allowing the animals to go extinct if they could not survive in the world today, but he wasn't wealthy enough to decline the missions.
A pair of foxes, and a pair of rabbits. He was given a large cage for each pair of animals in order to transport them back to Suna, heavy wooden contraptions that left him out of breathe by the time he hauled them to the gates. Roku was seeing a sizeable increase in his strength and stamina this past year, but he was still miles behind his more fit Chuunin comrades. Who he did not care for in the least; apparently one wasn't a true Chuunin until they purchased a vest, and were more than happy to point that out to the proud young Sabaku.
The high sandstone walls of Sunagakure eventually disappeared behind the dunes he passed, having walked a few miles into the desert to find the breeding grounds of the elusive Yellow Wolves. Roku would rather have the vicious carnivores sedated in their cages before going after the less dangerous rabbits. At the administrative building where he received his missions scrolls Roku was also given two sedative darts, but without a blowpipe or anything else to shoot them with they were useless. Having a new rank under his belt really fueled the boy's pride and hubris, and Roku was sure to let the Chuunin giving him the darts know his thoughts when he refused them harshly.
The Western portion of Kaze no Kuni was a rather desolate and empty land; without the foot traffic of travelers moving from village to village, and few settlements that stood in the middle of nowhere, it was a prime breeding and hunting ground for dozens of various animal species. The Yellow Wolves were one such inhabitant of the uninhabited regions outside Suna, and with few natural predators of their own they were content to keep to themselves. Unfortunately for them, their yellow fur was a valued commodity in fashion circles and were hunted extensively for their pelts, and the venom they produced made an excellent sleep aid. A millennia ago these wolves numbered in the millions, but today their couldn't be more than a thousand.
An hour walk left Rokumaru only a dozen miles from the village, but he was told they inhabited a long stretch of flat land somewhere around here. He was warned not to accidentally fall into a crevice they used as dens; one quick bite from a surprised wolf would make Roku a very handsome snack for the whole pack. With the sun beginning to set behind a distant dune they would leave their cool dens to hunt, and it was during this time Roku hoped to trap a pair of mates.
A single howl pierced the silent landscape with its shrill sound forcing Roku to stop, and as he listened a chorus of responding howls reverberated all around him for miles. The hot temperatures of day were slipping into the coolness of night, and the wolves were out looking for meat.
Rokumaru suppressed a shiver at the sound of the howls. There had to be more than a dozen just within a five-mile radius, and he was not eager to face a hungry pack. Though he had been ordered not to harm the wolves he captured, any that came after him when he had some caged would face his more dangerous techniques. 'If I had a puppet, I could just beat the pups into submission.'
As he climbed up a tall dune, using the heavy cages as weights to haul himself up, Roku stopped at the top and looked down at a huge field of flat, completely flat land. All around were tall dunes that shielded the expanse from the harsh winds giving the nation its name, which made the perfect territory for raising young animals. With his sharp eye Roku could see little holes that dotted around the landscape, telltale signs of wolf dens.
The redhead set his cages down on the dune and slaps prone beside them, watching each hole he could see carefully. Every few minutes a yellow figure would climb out, a male out hunting if a female looking for a mate. The sun crept lower and lower in the distance as Roku watched each hole become less inhabited, wanting to face as few adversaries as possible.
Finally, with the sun now only a memory and the moon beginning its own ascent, Roku was satisfied to see no wolves had left their dens for about 15 minutes. Taking a single cage and leaving the other behind on the high dune, Roku set his plan into motion.
He came to the closest den he could find and listened for any noise, a few muffled yips and growls alerting him to an occupant. Roku set the cage down in front of the hole. The sand around the den's entrance was flooded with the young Chuunin's Sabaton chakra, before each individual grain began to pour into the hole. Roku's plan was to force a female into his cage when it escaped it's rapidly filling den, and with a careful eye on the entrance Rokumaru opened his cage and held it at the ready.
A startled yowl echoed from the den and before he could react a single wolf burst from the hole's entrance, scattering sand into the air which caused Roku to stumble. It was a very pregnant female that emerged; her belly was swollen with her growing litter and her teats leaked nutritious milk, and her eyes immediately landed on the surprised redhead when she searched for the offender filling her home with sand.
The wolf growled fiercely in anger and leapt at the boy, but Roku had recovered in time to grab his cage and hold it in front of him. The she-wolf climbed right into it in her path towards her target, slamming her snout into the wire walls. The redhead slammed the cage shut just as she tried to back herself out.
The she-wolf bit at the wire holding her inside and growled, but Roku was already beginning his next step. The den he had filled with sand began to erupt the grainy material as Roku forced it all to leave, showering himself and the wolf in sand. She growled and whined at him, eyes slitted in contempt.
The den was back to it's previous condition and Roku climbed inside, stopping to pull the cage in with him. The wolf inside tried to bite at his fingers, but he snatched them away. Inside the den Roku tipped the cage on its side and waited for the male wolf to return, ready to open the cage just as it stepped inside.
A few minutes later clouds of sand began to fall into the den, and Roku quickly opened the cage just as a male with a half-alive rabbit fell into it. The she-wolf yelped when her mate fell into her and the male dropped his rabbit in surprise, and Roku shut and locked the cage just as they tried to climb out. His first mission finished, Roku sat back and slowed his rapid heart rate as the two wolves glared and growled. The rabbit didn't seem to mind the cage; it seemed delirious from blood loss and fear.
WC: 1383/1000
Mission Complete~
- Chakra 195/200:
- Name: Sand Control Jutsu
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: D-S
Type: Supplementary
Element: Sand
Range: up to 40m
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: Maintainable
Cooldown: None
Description: This technique allows the user to freely manipulate sand within a certain radius around themselves, simply by willing it to happen. The range and amount of sand the user can manipulate varies depending on the level of the jutsu used. Regardless of the rank used, however, the sand speed stays constant, at 10 metres a second.
This technique has no offensive properties [For example the sand cannot be used to form sharp edges that would hurt on contact, nor to crush someone] and exists solely to allow the user to reposition their sand.
Amount manipulatable, range and Chakra cost:- D-Rank: 5 m3 of loose sand within 5 metres of the user. Costs 5 chakra.
- D-Rank: 5 m3 of loose sand within 5 metres of the user. Costs 5 chakra.