I had stepped up once again. My last mission was a C-rank and now I was back to a B-rank. Easy in my eyes. As I grabbed the mission report I read through the file. It appeared that I was going on a hunt for a large creature of some sort. Strange really but it was nothing I couldn't handle. As I continued reading the mission file I noticed something. I was assigned to do the mission with someone. At first thought I was thinking I would be working with Etsuo again, but I was mistaken.

The mission file said to meet my team member at the village gates so that we could find the beast together and not go after it alone. I didn't know why I was assigned a partner on a B-rank mission, seeing as I would be counted as a B-rank shinobi myself but I didn't question it really. I went off to the village gates, having seen a picture of my teammate I knew who to look out for.

I stood outside of the village gates, waiting for my temporary tag team partner to arrive. I checked my persona as I waited. My three kunai, a little different in appearance than the average but worked just as good, if not better, and fifty feet of wire. It seemed like all was in it's right spot. The sun was raising and it was a sunny day, as sunny as Kumogakure got anyway. The mission would hopefully get going quite easily and we would be able to reap in the reward and take care of one more of Kumogakure's problems.

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As I finished counting up all my stuff I heard a male voice and finally snapped back into the real world. I looked him over quickly. He seemed like a decent enough shinobi. I noticed he carries two swords. That meant he was a kenjutsu user. Interesting but not all too surprising. I raised my left hand in a greeting. "Yea I'm Tatsuya, Heir of the Taosu Clan. Pleasure to meet you Binsu." I said in introduction kindly as I then turned around and began to walk to the border of the country. "I've been ready for quite some time to be perfectly honest." I told the shinobi behind me. I chuckled a little.

"Hope you're ready to hunt this thing though. From the reports we have it's pretty big and it has killed a few traveling villagers already. I even heard some rumors there are multiples out there. Kinda scary in a way. I mean if they are as bad we some people imagine then if they all were made into an army and attacked Kumogakure then we'd have one big pile of shit to clean up." I told Binsu, talking to him to pass the time of the walk.

After finishing that conversation I turned my head to the side towards Binsu and asked him a single more question. "So. What rank are you anyways?" I asked him, because if he was a Special-Jounin like me then we had something to be worried about seeing as they sent two B-Ranked Shinobi on a B-Rank mission. It was either on borderline B-Rank or the elders were seeing what this kid had and were using me as a medium for his testing. Either way it was interesting to know.
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As the man told me he was a chunnin I was a little relieved to be honest. If he had been my rank, or even higher, than I would have to truly question whether or not this beast was so strong it needed two B-ranked shinobi to take it out. Luckily he was a lower rank. It meant the beast wasn't as powerful as I had first imagined, which was still a relief to hear. As he then asked me for my rank, as any normal person would, I responded with a smile, even if he didn't really see it. "I am a Special-Jounin in ranks." I told him. I was a little proud of the fact but it wasn't like I had just come out of the academy, and I felt like I should tell him but I didn't. How many people truly left the shinobi world for roughly three years and then came back as a genin under the Raikage's personal squad then become a special jounin so quickly. The elders clearly saw a lot of potential in me, seeing as the newly instated Raikage did not as much, seeing as ever since I came back to the Shinobi world the previous Reikage was dropped down and replaced with a woman I had yet to meet.

After some time we began to approach the border. As we walked along the road a very loud road came from the west, more towards the land of Wind's borderline. I sighed at the fact because I didn't want it to cross country lines and make this a matter of politics. "Let's follow that sound. It's most likely the beast." I told Binsu. I went into a running speed finally.

As I ran I noticed deep foot prints, the foot prints not being much larger than a giant human footprint. It was the prints to next to the feet that worried me. They looked like hand prints. MUCH larger than the feet and deeper, meaning there was a lot of power in the arms. That would lead to be a problem. "Keep on your guard. We don't know what this beast is like." I told Binsu as I ran. After some more running , luckily a good four hundred meters away from the border, we saw the beast.

It was large. Eight feet tall, lord only knew how wide. It had four arms, the front larger than the ones in the back. It's bottom jaw was larger than the top part of its mouth, which gave it a strange under bite. How it bite food was comprehensible to me but I honestly didn't want to find out. I looked at Binsu. "That's the beast I assume." I told him. As I said that it looked right at us and raised its front arms and beat on its chest. "And it doesn't look all that happy to see us.

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As he landed near me I examined the area quickly. A good forty meter radius of trees were taken down by the beast. That was good. It would make for telling the boy the leave the area much easier, just in case I had to use my clan jutsu to stop this beast. I could only hope it didn't come down to that. I didn't want to show off my clan's ability like it was some over-used tool.

I raised my right hand slightly and made a thumbs up towards Binsu. "Sound good to me. Just make sure not to get in my way. I don't say that as a way of mockery, I say that because I'm a dangerous person to tag team with because of the techniques I posses." I told Binsu with a kind smile and a joking voice.I then took off in a run towards the beast, sprinting as fast as I could. I quickly began to weave hand signs as the beast puts its arms back on the ground. "Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique" I said as I then quickly came to a stop, took a deep breathe in and then exhaled many small fireballs at a random trajectory towards the beasts general location. But a general location wasn't good for me, I was going to make it more specific. I weaved one more hand sign and all fireballs began to change their course. They now all went towards the beasts's torso. Good enough for me.

The beast raised its arms and covered its face and a little of its body. The fireballs hit the bare skin of the beast and gave it second degree burns. Not a bad start in my eyes.

As the beast blocked the attack I took out one. of my three kunai and my coiled up wire. I tied one end of the wire to the end of the kunai and grinned. I continued my run at the beast, coiling the rest of the wire loosely around my right arm, the same arm that now held the kunai. The legs were pretty small but had SOME length to it, I would have to take that to my advantage.

As I got closer the beast smashed his arms down after raising them into the air. Once he raised them I already sensed nothing good to come from this. I quickly changed my own trajectory and jumped a few times to the left and rolled behind arm range of the beast.

I quickly stabbed the back of the beast's knee with the kunai attached to the wire and began to transfer the coil of wire around its legs. I heard the anger from the beast but I knew what I had to do. I had to topple this son of a failure. I coiled about five feet of wire before I felt the danger about to hit, literally.

I relaxed my body and after rolling in front of the beast and jumping forward, holding the wire still around my arm, letting it extend from my arm to the leg. I was hit on my side by the beast. I felt the left side of my ribs break, OH the pain. I flew a few feet before gravity did its mark and I slide on the ground. I couldn't let this get me down though. I extended the full length of the wire, 13 meters from the beast who stood there, trying to look at its leg, wanting to know the wound. It was dazed it seemed, almost satisfied with the damage it dealt to me. "Binsu Come quickly and help me pull this wire!" I yelled out to Binsu, in hopes he would help me pull the wire. I had only a Chunnins level in Taijutsu so I assumed someone like him could help me pull a little to drop this beast so we could then go and stab to our hearts content.
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