After his first mission, Takuya was eager to tackle another mission before training his skills. He needed to make a bit of ryo before he could stop taking jobs and become a stronger ninja for his village. After his long readings, he dreamed of being like Kakashi Hatake, or Master Jiraiya, or even the current Hokage. He knew he couldn't let any of them down.

He received the memo to travel to one of Konohagakure’s silver refineries, where he would meet with the head of the refinery, Takashi. He traveled across the village into the outskirts of town where he found the large, industrial complex. Covered in a recently built building, the complex was fairly small for the large operations that took place inside.

Takuya entered into the silver refinery when a man ran towards him immediately. “Are you the shinobi from the leaf?” he questioned. “I am,” Takuya replied. “What seems to be the problem?” You could see in the look of Takashi’s face that something has gone terribly wrong. “Someone along the assembly line has been fidgeting with the refining processes. Now all we’re getting is poor quality silver that I can’t sell.” Takuya pondered as he put his hand up to his face, “Do you know who’s doing this?” he asked. “No, and even worse, I’m not sure which team in the production line is making it worse. You’ll have to sort through all of the employees to figure this one out.” With no help to start out, Takuya began to make his way down to the
production line.

Takuya walked down a set of stairs into a large roomed, filled with a giant conveyor belt and around thirty employees. All of them wore a blue protective suit and brown boots with a yellow hard hat. Takuya didn't want to stand out. He walked away from the large group of employees and quietly muttered to himself, “Transform.” With that, Takuya changed to be much older, probably in his late thirties, and matched the refineries work clothes to a touch, blue protective suit, brown boots, and even the yellow hard hat.

Takuya walked back to the line and noticed there were three distinct teams, there were the ones who brought the silver in from other places, a team to melt out the impurities, and another team to set it into different shapes to be sold. Which team could it be though? Takuya thought long and hard over this but couldn't make up his mind. He started with the team who brought the silver in. On one side of the plant, ten workers carried huge buckets of the grey colored rocks into a giant bin. Takuya walked towards the workers hoping to find a clue. After the silver vat, it was sent to a different team to be heated.
This team had fifteen workers, all controlling the giant heated bucket that refined the silver. Takuya looked around at all of the pipes with various gauges, and all of the bustling workers that ran around. It definitely seemed like this was the most confusing part of the plant. This seemed like the perfect spot to mess with the silver, but Takuya had to catch someone adding something to the silver to finish the mission, but how would he ever do that?

Takuya went into a corner of the plant, and quietly whispered to himself, “Clone Jutsu.” A clone of Takuya, wearing his ninja outfit appeared, and Takuya’s clone began pacing around the workers in the area. The real Takuya, still in his disguise, began talking to the employees of the mine. “What’s with the guy in the ninja outfit running around?” Takuya said. The employees grumbled back about the Silver Saboteur, but Takuya was looking for anyone acting shady. All of the employees seemed pretty honest with him. At the end, the guys finally started to joke around with Takuya, “Heck, I bet it’s those guys in processing after us. If Takashi’s so worried, test the silver before it goes down to the last team.” Takuya couldn't agree any more.

“Takashi!” Takuya yelled, back with the owner of the plant, “I need you to test the silver before it gets down to the last team.” Takashi agreed, dumbfounded that he didn't think of that sooner. After waiting a few minutes for Takashi to cool the silver and test it, he found it to be perfect, with no impurities. That was what Takuya wanted to hear. Now he knew exactly where the culprit was, in the last part of the process.

Takuya sat overlooking the smallest team of five members, all working over what looked to be like a long assembly line. The silver was cast into various molds; the most common were bar shaped, and then cooled in a large water bath. Takuya wondered how all of these bars could be impure when they’re all separated out. Someone would have to be tampering with them at the source. Takuya then looked at the two men dumping out the hot molten silver into the molds. While one guy left to refill the container with hot molten silver, it looked like the other was sprinkling something onto the silver bars.

Takuya knew that this had to be the culprit. He ran down causing a lot of noise, which the man heard. The Silver Saboteur saw Takuya coming and ran out the factory and into the woods. Takuya climbed up into the trees and began to chase after the man who was running on the ground. Fortunately for Takuya, this man was no ninja. Takuya leaped from the branches and tackled the man below, pinning him to the ground.

After Takuya captured the Saboteur, he met back with Takashi, who was relieved with the success of the mission, “I can’t thank you enough Takuya. Now my silver will be selling again!” Takuya was thankful as well, another successful mission to report back to Hokage Inuzuka. He looked up into the sky, looking forward to all of the training that would ensue. Hopefully it wouldn't be too lonely if Takuya could find some friends and a sensei to teach him.

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