Mission name: Animal Lives Matter
Mission rank: C
Objective: Stop Poachers
Location: Anywhere in the Hi no Kuni Wilderness
Reward: 300 Ryo
Mission Description: There have been reports within Konohagakure about illegal poaching in the area. These people need to be stopped, they are causing a decreasing life expectancy for many animals around the village.
Mission Details: Poachers are two people, one man one woman couple poaching partners. They focus on Lions and Monkeys.

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With thoughts of anger spreading throughout his head, Tsuneo’s movements were boosted atop the lion he and SpiderMan had met and befriended. It’s stomps were like thunderous claps that storms brought on. “Let’s go boy” Tsuneo said bending down so that his mouth was next to its ear. SpiderMan was no doubt nearby following not far behind. The lion may have been moving fast as it could but SpiderMan being a ninja like Tsuneo it shouldn’t be much to track the two down. Leaves cracked under its feet stomping through the dense forest as it was leading Tsuneo and SpiderMan toward the sound of the guns they heard. Before the two were on this self-given mission the two of them were simply letting fate bring them together in a forest. Now, after Tsuneo was defending himself, he was emotionally dragged into stopping poachers from destroying the precious animal life in the forests of the Leaf Village.

Wind blew through the forest, whistling as it whizzed by. Tsuneo’s hair danced in the wind as it blew. The young man began thinking what Xiao was saying when they were together earlier. Strong heart? Is that what Tsuneo had? In truth he wasn’t from the Leaf Village but he’d like to think that he’s been fitting in with everyone else and if this foreigner had thought that Tsuneo exibitted signs from being from the Leaf Village than it seems that Tsuneo had been doing a pretty good job at assimilating. He was young and scared when he moved to Konoha, being from the poverty stricken side of Otogakure he was brought into a thievery ring. From the land where one had to steal to have a decent meal to the place where prosperity prospers he had no idea how things were going to go in this brave new world. Tsuneo smiled at the thought of him being accepted into the village with open arms, it was like confirming that he was at a place he was welcome. It warmed his heart.

Another shot was heard and it seemed to affect the lion not physically but maybe its pride. The beast lowered its head to the ground and whimpered, Tsuneo just sat on top of the lion’s back as he patted the animal’s head as if to comfort it into a safe place emotionally. “SpiderMan we have to stop these monsters.” Tsuneo said with determination as he looked onward.

Webs twisted and turned into woven helix spirals as they formed into dancing bonds slowly growing closer to one another in a heated passionate dance that caused the threads to interlock connecting down to the wrist of the shinobi donned in red.

It's your friendly neighbourhood spider-nin here though admittedly the neighbourhood aspect really seems to be falling to pieces these days with the amount of time I've spent here.
The red spider made his way through tree and branch, his webs intwining and melding in with the mighty oaks that supported his frail weight as he flung himself forward along with the lion tamer who he had found an ally in - not to mention finding someone that he could bond over a shared compassion with.
The guy's got something, I'll give him that...Wait what am I saying 'give him that'. Who am I trying to be? Samuru? No. The guys cool. There. That sounds more like me. Where was I? Right right, Tsuneo's definitely got a good heart - one I can definitely gel with and one that's going to be a winner for him in the future. Heck I won't even pass genin but this guy? With that heart and energy? Hey we may just see a new Sachihiro.
As Tsuneo led the charge mounted upon the king of the jungle the spider felt a surging feeling of adrenaline through his body making him feel as if he would be able to lift an opponent twice his size. Lately, perhaps with the addition of puberty, Xiao had been feeling that growing aggressive male side that made him feel the need to do spontaneous things from lashing out to watching girls Xiao was growing up and that so too meant the rocky road that was teenage years to adulthood. Tsuneo was roughly ten meters away from Xiao, enough that there was a noticeable distance in which the two couldn't truly 'identify' one another if demanded to but could certainly be 'blips' on each others radars. Xiao following somewhat far behind but keeping his own pace as to enjoy the web swinging he was so well known for.
I really have got to come up with a way to speed this up, right now it's great and all but frankly it'd probably be easier to just run at this point which is a shame, I got to admit. Hey maybe when I'm chuunin, what do today what you can do tomorrow?
The chance of them both following this mission had just come through purely by the happenstance of gun fire in the near distance echoing out enough to draw the attention of the two genin. The two had large hearts as stated previously but another aspect of the shinobi way was the protection of life - and when it came to the two genin with less than 'normal' amounts of energy it was no surprise the duo would leap at the chance for adventure, the chance to defend the defenseless and of course the chance to save the world one protected species at a time. "You guys make a good team Tsuneo! You sure you're not an Inuzuka-Mutant...A...Nekozuka?" Xiao jested at Tsuneo giving both a compliment and talking a little too much all at once as was his tendency to do so though he was slowly learning to keep it in his head and avoid saying things outloud.
As a second gunshot fired Xiao's head snapped to it's origin trying to locate the shot "Let's go ahead and hope that was someone backing their...chakra-cart up." Xiao remarked as he watched the way Tsuneo comforted the beast exhibiting his tenderness much to Xiao's approval as it began to panic and rightfully so. As Tsuneo informed Xiao it was time to stop these monsters that were poachers Xiao simply gave a quick nod "Oh we won't just stop them, look at that lion - he's been through more than he can handle and when it comes to this Spider? Nobody messes with the king of jungle." Xiao stated as he looked to the abused animal with compassion in his eyes. "It may be a wonderful phrase, but after seeing this little guy y'know?"... As he began to form a zipline he sounded off a battle cry making his way to the poachers
"No more Mr Hakuna Matata Guy." Xiao stated



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Just as the two Genin seemed to approach their destination, an ally paced just not too far from them. The young Senju leaped across from tree to tree. Immediately recognizing a genin as a recent friend, Xiao from the land of waves. Elated at the sight and soon seeing far of ahead of them a Konoha nin. New in fact, somebody he had yet to meet. Riding a lion in fact.

Catching up to his spider clad friend. He had gotten a mission request just a couple hours. An urgency in fact, of a group of genin needing assistance. Though quite capable, it was obvious another shinobi was need for the safety of the animals. It may be easy to take out two poachers, but perhaps not as easy when needing to assure the safety of animals.

“Yo! Xiao!” the boy met up with his arachnid friend, leaping amongst the branch just above his web slinging “Who’s the new guy?” he asked, pointing ahead, finding the time to wave over at the lion-riding man.

Having recently return to his homelands, he would’ve liked to have known of the action he had missed in his absence. Still surprised that his Kiri friend had found his way in Konoha. Obvious to him it was due to the Chunin Exams, but still. Happy that the events had brought so many of them together.

Looking forward to a new found ally, properly holding onto the lion’s back. The young man seemed quite determined to take on these poachers. Perhaps their skill and their numbers would deter them from a full on brawl. However one could never be too sure with poachers. Especially one needing local ninja to take care of the job. Regardless, this would bring the animal loving Sachihiro to a more hostile state. As there was a heartlessness to their actions.

Had they yet to decide on a full on strategy, the young Senju would make sure he’d be the first one on animal duty. If not, it seemed like the genin ahead had already taken care of that. Assault didn’t seem to bad and he’d be happy to assist in their defenses. Especially with the use of his clones and his binding techniques.

After Tsuneo was comforting the mighty lion the voice from SpiderMan broke through the sound of the leaves cracking. The young man laughed at the thought of him being an Inuzuka who tamed and used lions for combat. It would be something of a sight to see should that be the case but alas, Tsuneo simply shook his head no to the SpiderMan as his answer. Suddenly another person had joined the scene. It wasn’t uncommon for other people to join in on missions with other genin to ensure success but it would have been nice for some sort of warning from someone. It startled Tsuneo as he prompted the lion to turn to the newcomer. The beast pivoted its body toward the new guy and SpiderMan who was still in the air swinging. He called SpiderMan by an unfamiliar name, Xiao? That must be his real name, how did I not notice SpiderMan wasn’t his real name? A thought shot through his mind as the boy spoke of Xiao asking who the new guy was referring to Tsuneo. Putting his guard down as he seemingly knew SpiderMan on a personal level and SpiderMan seeming to be a person who anyone could trust, he decided that this boy could be trusted to help the success of the mission.

“I’m Tsuneo, who are you friend?” The lion stood still for a moment. Tsuneo’s eyes scanned the boy noticing his body language along with every other thing one could possibly notice based on visible attributes alone. He was noticeable shorter than Tsuneo but so was Xiao, not to hold that against the two but they seemingly were much younger than Tsuneo. He wondered for a moment on how SpiderMan and Tsuneo needed help from a child, even though SpiderMan himself was a young buck. The possibility of Tsuneo being so green within the Leaf Village and the higher ups wanting to make sure he didn’t do anything to embarrass them crossed his mind of course. He hailed from the Sound Village and made himself quite a name over there within those foreign walls as a thief under a criminal organization focusing on thievery. He didn’t think that this boy or SpiderMan would know who he was nor about his past unless they were told by one of the higher ranking shinobi within the Leaf Village but even that was unlikely. He had only told Fuyuko about his past so far but it’s not like they couldn’t find out what went on with the young man in his past.

A shot rang out louder than before, they were closer to the Poachers than one had thought previously. The lion cowered once more and Tsuneo comforted it once again, hoping to keep the beast under control during the mission. Obviously they were using some type of weaponry against these animals. Tsuneo thought for a moment on what exactly they could be using to take down these endangered animals. His mind raced for a moment ignoring anything else that the two would discuss in that quick moment. “We need to consider these weapons they have, what they can do to us and what else they might have on them offensively. Any ideas on how to counter what they might have?” The words escaped his lips as he sat atop the lion’s back. He was rubbing the beast’s back as his legs dangled on the side, he didn’t want to accidentally hit the lion’s sides making it frantically take the boy toward danger without knowing the full situation. If Sachihiro was given the mission then he would know more than Xiao and Tsuneo about these Poachers as they just happened upon this mission while they were socializing in the woods while Sachi would have been given a scroll with all the information about the mission and the Poachers themselves.

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A familiar voice sounded, one that had always brought him a great deal of peace, that of the senju sapling Sachihiro, the future hokage. Xiao would often find himself in the most interesting of situations when it came to the senju and as for his squad mate Tsuneo things seemed to follow said pattern. The webslinger and hopebringer continued along side his lion tamer friend as Sachihiro soon followed suit "Sachihiro! Hey! How's the leaf treating you?" Xiao remarked gleefully still keeping the pace near Tsuneo as Sachihiro enquired to his identity but soon Tsuneo chimed in, revealing his name to Sachihiro thus making Xiao give a swift nod. Xiao confirmed Tsuneo's remark with a grand enthusiastic thumbs up as the little spider began scraping his mind for a nickname as was per his nature, whether the ally or opponent liked the name or not was of no true concern to the little spider as it was merely something he did for his own enjoyment and amusement "Lionheart of the Leaf. Super cool guy." Xiao stated thinking it fitted pretty well what with the Lion mount, Brave heart and open personality not to mention the animal was quite noble.

As the trio traveled forward as suddenly a large echoing shot was heard that allowed the forest's once tranquil silence to be broken with fluttering of wings and screeches from birds as well as the lion itself, attached and connected to Tsuneo to flinch indicating to Xiao it was in fact true that these poachers were doing far more than merely culling. Xiao had a heart for animals, deeply, great and small were equal to Xiao in their value and the concept of cruelty for no more than pleasure was something that disgusted Xiao. His father's culture had a tendency to have incredibly low empathy which in turn caused them to do horrendous actions to their native flora and fauna in the name of their own progression something even Xiao at a young age greatly detested.  Tsuneo's words on countering the weapons themselves caused Xiao to shrug "Without seeing them or their capabilities, no clue, but if it's a boom that echoes out I'm assuming it's got to be some form of explosive." Xiao stated as he thought back to the rifles that farmers often used to defend their stores or homesteads. Perhaps a modification of such things?

Xiao stroked along his chin as he looked at the two, he was a strategist of course but when it came to taking on something he was unfamiliar with it was hard to formulate a plan of attack "I think the primary approach should be workin' out if these are shinobi or just jerks with pretty items. I mean...Kinda the same thing, but you get what I'm saying." Xiao stated as he considered how he would be able to spy on those "Do any of you have any sensory techniques?"