Mission Stuff:

Chiaki had her assignment, a band of bandits had attacked a nearby village and she was needed. She gulped down her morning oolong tea and stuffed her feet into her shoes. She didn't have any ninja gear so she opted for the most mobile of her clothing. She wore a plaid yellow skirt and tight fitting collared button down shirt which was pink. Under her skirt were black leggings and as she tied her brown shoes she already started to gather her long hair. Perhaps she would have to cut it short one day, but today was not that day. The bandits wouldn't be there if she didn't hurry.

She dressed hurriedly, gave her home a once over, and nodded. The dishes would have to wait till she got home. Slamming the front door she dead-bolted it and jumped down the first three steps, taking the rest as a racehorse would, making about as much noise. One of her neighbors opened their door and shouted something incoherently as she bolted down the street, she was to meet whoever was helping her on this mission at the city gates and she didn't want to miss them. She came to a halt, already out of breath and looked around. There wasn't anyone here yet, but she knew that if she waited long enough someone would come down the street with the very same paper that she had. She tightened her forehead protector, a leaf emblazoned on it and the protective part around the back of her neck, it fit snugly like a choker as she waited in the cool morning. She wondered if perhaps she should have dressed warmer as she hopped from foot to foot trying to keep warm.

Perhaps the person was going to be late for their rendezvous or... A shudder of dread ran down her spine. Perhaps this person wasn't going to show at all. perhaps this was going to be a solo mission and they forgot to say that. She buried her nose back in the scroll reading it again. No, no no no. This couldn't be a solo mission right? She would be completely consumed by the reading, and unaware of her surroundings.

Fuyuko slowly raised herself from the bed, rubbing her eyes as she heard the sound of a bird pecking against the window. The bird was rather persistent and wouldn’t stop. It was only when Fuyuko actually saw what kind of bird it was that it made sense that the pecking wouldn’t stop. It was a messenger bird here to deliver a message to either herself or Takao. Sluggishly she made her way over to window, opened it up, petted the bird briefly before removing the message that was in tube on its back. With the message delivered it quickly took off again.

Fuyuko stared after the bird for a bit before she diverted her attention back to the scroll. It was addressed to her so she broke the seal and opened up the message. It was a notification of her being sent out on a mission. A simple mission, a village on the border of the country was a requesting aid as it had been harassed by a group of bandits for a while now and was no longer able to defend itself from them. She skimmed over the majority of the mission details after the initial bit, she already knew what she had to do, but wanted to make sure there were no extra details. Sure enough at the end of the mission details she was paired up with someone else. They were to meet up at the southern gate of the village before their departure.

Fuyuko rolled up the scroll and tossed it onto the desk. Both of her hands rubbing her eyes before they were dragged down her face. She disliked having to be awoken from her sleep, but duty called and that was ultimately still more important to her. This didn’t mean she moaned about it internally, if she had known yesterday she would’ve gone to bed earlier and gotten more sleep. She let out a deep sigh before she rushed herself into her mission gear. Her hair tied in a ponytail and her forehead protector proudly strapped around the place the name implies. She wasn’t sure if she did that for the fact that people seemed to carry it in different places more and more or if that’s just where she liked it most herself, perhaps it was even a bit a both.

With herself set, she left a note on the table and headed out towards the gate. With a few minutes to spare the gate had come into full view. In front of it stood a rather small figure that appeared to be somewhat out of place. It wasn’t just their body language that was showing that they weren’t full comfortable that made them standout, the clothes they were wearing were also quite present. While she personally didn’t care so much on this type of mission, but if they were on a different type of mission it might have been a lot more impactful. Fuyuko shrugged her shoulders, she was informed that they were still quite new so she didn’t have any expectations to begin with, everyone has to start from somewhere after all.

Having no closed the gap they still hadn’t made contact yet, they seemed to be too absorbed by the paper they had buried their nose into. “Hello” Fuyuko calmly said with a smile. She waited for the person to react in any kind of way before continuing. “Are you here for the mission where a village on the border called for aid?”


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Chiaki looked up from the paper in a half panicked and half embarrassed look. Sighing in relief she nodded to the girl in greeting before saying, “Hello!” The girl then asked if she was doing the same mission as her and she nodded once more in acceptance, “Yes, I suppose that I am. Do you know if there are any others that are going to be doing this mission with us or is it just you and me?” She looked around, trying to pin the situation down.

It was one of her first missions, if not for Takao she would say it was her first, but she was still a bit lost in the whole world of shinobi missions and didn’t know what to do. She supposed that they should designate a leader. This girl seemed like she knew a thing or two, and so Chiaki stated, “I think perhaps you should take the lead on this mission, it’s only my second one and I am more of a medical kunoichi than anything. Oh uhm… I am Guanyin Chiaki. Pleased to meet you.” She held out a hand and smiled to Fuyuko. Perhaps this awkward greeting wouldn’t put off the other girl.

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Being up close to the girl made Fuyuko realize how small they really were. She was able to tell from a distance that they were going to be shorter than that they were themselves. However she didn’t expect them to be about an entire head shorter. It was somewhat cute and their reaction just added on top of it. “As far as I’m aware it should just be you and me doing this together. I wasn’t notified of there being anyone else.” Fuyuko replied to their question.

The girl continued talking after hearing her reply, she stated something that was kind of obvious to herself at least, but it was probably more of reassurance thing for them. It was only a C-rank mission they were going to do, there was no reason for there to be two people on this mission if the other one wasn’t capable of handling it alone. But before replying to that bit, she took the girls hand and shook her hand and smiled back. “Miki, Fuyuko, but you can just call me Fuyuko. And sure that’s no problem.” Her assumption from before was correct, but that didn’t really matter, everyone had to start somewhere. “So seeing as your still fairly fresh to it all, if there is anything you want to know, just ask, I won’t bite. But lets do it on the move, the location of the mission is quite a bit away.” If there wasn’t some sort of pressing matter that would make her stop and address it first, she would start the journey towards the village.


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She nodded as the girl introduced herself as Fuyuko, and she was, perhaps, a bit younger than Chiaki herself. “Fuyuko-chan.” She bowed her head a bit in deference, as this girl was clearly more experienced in missions than her. She nodded to the asking on the move, smiling at Fuyuko as she started to head out of the giant gates that guarded Konoha and out towards the village that was under attack. It would be faster if they didn’t talk, but she had one pressing question on her mind as she took to the trees, using their great branches as a push off, leaping through them as every academy student was taught.

“What happens if someone dies on this mission?” She asked, “I mean, what happens if I accidentally…” She made a slitted motion across her throat and her eyes went wide, not particularly looking at anything, but really looking inward. “I mean, that’s- that’s what Ninjas do right? They kinda are the military class of Konoha, and I am not sure if I am ready for that sort of responsibility. But the bills-” She cut herself off and sighed, knowing that it was an over share.

“Sorry, sorry. You don’t have to answer that. I mean, I am ready for whatever this mission brings.” She gave a brave face as she kicked off from another tree, the village, luckily wasn’t too far away, and the village also was going to put up as much of a fight as they could, seeing as they didn’t want their things stolen as much as Chiaki didn’t want them stolen. She cleared her throat and checked her hair as she jumped through the forest. Wouldn’t do to get caught on a branch and fall out of a tree, especially on just her second mission.

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Without there being something that prevented the two of them of at least heading towards their destination they took off. Jumping through the forests, leaves brushing against her face from time to time. Their travel had gone mostly quiet, the two of them just moving to their destination as fast as they could get their together. However at some point Chiaki broke the silence and posed her question.

It was a question that took her a couple of years back by now. It was something that had definitely crossed her mind more than once. It didn’t matter how much time had passed, but she could still hear that agonizing scream from that day. From the way Chiaki asked it, not finishing her sentences and instead using motions it became clear she too struggled with it.

“Don’t apologize for asking that, it’s perfectly normal to ask that, or perhaps you and me are the anomaly in this line of work.” She replied with a smile before looking ahead of herself against and continuing her answer. “You don’t need to kill.” She said with a steady voice. “If it must happen I’ll do it for you if you want, but I personally prefer subduing people and putting them behind bars. I firmly believe that people aren’t evil and they’ve just slipped from the right path.”

If no other question came Fuyuko would kick off a branch or two just a tad harder so she had pulled ahead just a smidge, just enough to make sure that Chiaki couldn’t see her face. There was no need for a stranger to see the tears that started to take shape. On top of that she had no clue what kind of effect it would have on them.

Eventually the pair would reach the village and as soon as they did they could hear a commotion going on in town. “So what do you want to do? Or I mean, how do you want to approach this?” Fuyuko asked with a soft voice to ensure no one but Chiaki would be able to hear her. Seeing as the mission was relatively easy, it was a good opportunity to let her learn a bit about how to approach things.


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Chiaki nodded, and waited for the eventuality of needing to kill people, she knew that she would have to do it at some point, and that she would be asked to and she hated that eventuality. But what she feared never came to pass, instead she was told that she doesn’t need to kill. “I ah…” she nodded. “I believe the same thing. I actually developed a technique for just subduing people, believing that it is better to do that than to kill someone. I am going to make it stronger as I gain power too.” She said, as Fuyuko kicked off to, well, probably scout ahead.

They came to the village, a small little thing on the edge of Hi No Kuni, barely in the jurisdiction of the hidden leaf. The village was bustling, and there seemed to be people running in different directions with weapons, both makeshift and no.

Fuyuko asked what Chiaki wanted to do, and the former gulped, thinking of the possibilities. It seemed like the village was built on a north to south axis, the fairway of the village was where most of the commotion was coming from, and probably where most of the revenue of the village was. She nodded to herself.

She lowered her voice to Fuyuko’s level and smiled, “I have an idea. I will drive them to you using my jutsu, and we’ll get them to run down the fairway to you. Do you know any subduing jutsu?” She asked, raising an eyebrow, “I think that it would be the best avenue, as most of them should run down the main street of the village. Maybe… maybe you could hide behind a cart or something and jump out and-” She cut herself off and made some nonsense hand seals and a small and faint explosion noise. She raised both of her eyebrows and grinned at Fuyuko. She hoped that would be enough of an explanation. She was nervous and wanted to not show it in front of her, and the nervousness turned into giddy energy.

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Fuyuko listened patiently as Chiaki seemed to gather her thoughts, it would appear she had put her a bit on the spot, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It would help her develop a mindset of always being ready, always thinking about how to approach things. It wouldn’t take too long before the little girl, whom Fuyuko still assumed was younger than herself, had devised a plan. She listened with a lot of attention and nodded in agreement to her question if she knew any subduing techniques. The plan continued and sounded like a solid idea. Wouldn’t be too hard to get a band of thugs to follow you blindly down a road. She couldn’t help herself however when Chiaki stopped using words to explain the plan instead started using motions and sounds. Fuyuko tried her best to contain her laughter placing both of her hands on her lips. So instead of a laugh there was a lot of loud air blowing of her hands. When she had her giggle under control again she removed her hands and whispered back “sounds like a plan” with a big smile on her face.

She left the place they were at now, moving a couple of houses down the street  and hiding in an alley way. Peeking around the corner capable of overlooking the entire main street. She made a single copy of herself with the shadow clone technique, just as an insurance policy. The clone would hide on top of the roof of the building that she was leaning against, ready in case things turned south.


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Chiaki ran towards the other end of town, one, two... three bandits? They seemed to have a pattern to their looting, finding only the small things they could carry easily rather than the more expensive bigger things. She made her way to the main street and weaved a set of hand seals, lightning wound it's way through her arms and coalesced in her finger. She fired it and it zipped towards the nearest bandit, a pinpoint accuracy in her movement and hit the silver plate in his hand. He dropped it with a Yelp, his hand burned from conducting the blast.

With a crack of the air coming together again and the smell of ozone, all activity stopped. "I am Chiaki of the hidden leaf. Sent here to murder all of you bandits." She grinned as she had seen that serial killer in the hospital grin and as a show lightning crackled in her fingertips.

"Who is the first to die?"

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With her head peeking around the corner Fuyuko watched intently as Chiaki made her way down the street towards the thugs. She noted that Chiaki was checking her sides, be that for getting a feel for what they were doing or making sure the houses appeared to be empty was a good thing. It could give her a feeling of security, which was very important, especially in the role of bait.

The palm of her hand slapped her forehead as she heard what Chiaki proclaimed and while the real her was to busy facepalming her clone moved up over the rooftops closer, just in case something went wrong the gap to help her would be smaller. “Why would she proclaim something like that, if she’s not committed to those words?” was all she thought. Her palm slid down her face as she continued peeking to see what was going on.

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The bandits didn't really know what was going on, at first they laughed at her when they saw Chiaki run out and declare that she would kill them. The spark of chakra, however, made them nervous. Perhaps she could actually kill them all. They decided that it was better to not take that chance with a shinobi, or at least most of them did, and most turned tail to run down the thoroughfare of the village, that is to say, the main street of the village towards where Fuyuko was waiting. Or at least, where Chiaki hoped she was waiting.

One stared her down, apparently sizing her up and then took out a kunai. He wasn't going to back down, apparently, and chiaki gulped. He seemed like he was the leader of sorts. The other bandits were all making incoherent yells as she had done her job of scaring them, but the leader stayed back and brandished the Kunai, "you wanna die girl? Go ahead, make my day, but the boys and I here are going to get out of here with not only our skins, but the money. You can either run now and save your silly hide, or you can stay and I'll pin it to my wall." He raked the kunai across his tongue in a predatory manner.

She didn't know what to do, backing up she found herself against a cart and a bit terrified. The plan was supposed to go according to... well plan!?

"I - uh." She gulped, and reached a shaky hand for her own kunai on her right hip, "you heard me!" she forrowed her brow and tried to put on her scariest look.

Chiaki gave a thankful glance over her shoulder to the clone and the bandit leader took the opportunity to jump toward her, kunai in hand and tried to thrust it into her chest. Only barely did she manage to block it and it was driven hard into her right shoulder by her kunai. She dropped her own kunai out of pain and the bandit handily combo struck her across the face with a poised open palmed strike, sending her reeling to her right, his left and blurring her vision.

He was fast, and stronger than her. With her right hand mostly useless if she wanted to keep her blood where it belonged, inside of her, she wove a couple of hand seals and muttered "heavy water." Her hand moved like water to come up in front of her, waiting for the bandit to strike. He was all too quick to oblige, with two kunai this time, he rushed at her, she dodged the first and caught the other in her left side, below her rib cage. But this was all to get in close to him. A loud slapping noise rung throughout the village as she pushed herself away from him with the force of completing her jutsu, "Heavy water, Arm binding jutsu!" She closed her fists and his arms fell limply to his sides, kunai clattering to the ground. Now for the final blow.

"Last chance." She grit her teeth, seeing the blood running down her side, she looked to the clone and shook her head, she wanted to at least try to subdue the bandit. He looked at his useless arms and growled at her. Making some fancy footwork, he got within kicking distance of her as she wove her hand seals, he bore down on her, kicking her wrist, putting off her seals and then round house kicked her to the side, stunning her and sending her flying.

Whether Chiaki knew it or not, jutsu or not, she was outmatched by this man. He clearly knew taijutsu, and the kunai were there just for the kill. He sped towards her, his eyes intent on her head, which as she sat up, was at the right height for a dangerous blow.

Jutsu used: Heavy water


Name: Heavy Water
Origin: Custom
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Element: Water
Range: 0, contact
Specialty: Ninjutsu and Medical Ninjutsu
Duration: Instantaneous (1 post)
Cooldown: 0
Hand Seals: Monkey, Hare, Boar, Serpent.
Description: A technique where the user channels chakra into their hands and attempts to touch the victim’s torso. It uses the victim’s lymph in their body, or latent water, and makes it four to five times heavier, creating a temporary paralysis in the victim. This manifests itself in the victim’s limbs, rendering two of them of the user’s choice to become immobile for 3 posts. The strain on the user is high and concentration and contact are a must or this jutsu will fail. Costs 25 chakra.

"I'm fine, I suppose." Chiaki winced as she touched her shoulder, it was definitely about two inches deep and was seeping blood, the one that she didn't want to touch or even think about was the heavy gash on her side. Chiaki then sighed, winced again and wove a couple of clumsy hand seals with her left, dominant, hand and a paw that looked like a pangolin's appeared. It was armored, and had four claws, but was made out of the teal chakra that most associated with healing jutsu. She touched her shoulder and the pain receded from the wound.

Looking at her side and nodding, "I think this one might take the old fashioned way to heal." Noting the jagged nature of the thing and grumbling about something under her breath.

"To be completely honest, I am not sure how I would have fared on my own with this mission, as our first mission, the one with Takao, was not combat oriented at all." She laughed a bit, and her eyes glued shut in a painful expression. Chiaki, with brow furrowed, stood up and wove some hasty hand seals again. This time there was a blue light that emanated in her hand, the Guanyin Senbon that she had learned a while ago. She pressed the needle into the wound and it mercifully shut. She let out a sigh of relief as the pain dulled to a throbbing, rather than a stabbing pain.

She, after all of this, finally looked at the bandits. "Any casualties?" She asked, almost afraid to know the answer.

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Chiaki nodded and laughed, a bit of blood in her mouth from the kick earlier as she had bitten her cheek. "Well, thank you, at least one of us thinks that I did alright on this then."

Oh that, the Guanyin technique. "Oh, this is my Guanyin needle!" She smiled and pointed to her, now completely closed, wound. "It's used to actually fill in the flesh of your allies, rather than making the person close their wounds. We call it the 'stem cell' chakra." She grinned and licked the insides of her mouth, trying to find where she was bleeding from, a puzzled look on her face.

Chiaki would take the grateful hand and would be up before she knew it. Fuyuko was a lot stronger than she had let on. What a cool person to do a mission with. Perhaps she could do another with her. A small and shy grin spread across her face, "I agree, back to the village it is!"

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