Once again Nakashima found himself looking at the mission board in search of his next exciting adventure, the only problem now is that the reality of these missions was starting to set in. Nakashima noticed he either had to do painfully boring missions that did not benefit him in anyway to become a high class ninja or he would have to take on more life threatening mission. Although at this level most of these life threatening mission were simply dealing with a wild animal, the thought of making a wrong step and dying scared him. But as this was the job role he had chosen for himself, he had to deal with this, Nakashima thought to himself that he would just have to become the strongest so that no one would be able to end his life, the hard part was getting to that level. 

The mission that caught Nakashima Kaneko most was 'The Man-Eater' from the description the mission was to remove a rock python that was roughly 4 an a half meters or 12 and a half foot in length and had be reportedly spotted on the outskirts of Iwagakure, having attacked and successfully killed the livestock. And along with this the python had taken the life of a five year old child whom was playing unsupervised. The residents area afraid that the monstrosity will continue its rain of terror unless someone stops it. The mission will be in the 'Wild West' of iwagakure near some shrubbery, and its seems like this snake has developed a tendency to attack humans with some reports saying they did nothing to aggravate it. The snake will have to be permanently removed from existence, in other words Nakashima must kill this snake that is terrorizing the village.

Nakashima set off for the village pondering his thoughts as he normally did, thinking about when he will become the strongest ninja alive. It also crossed his mind that this snake may actually be this big and not an exaggeration of the fact of its size. It took him a short period of time to travel to the 'Wild West' of Iwagakure, but he finally arrived and spoke to some of the towns people to find out about this massive snake that they had a problem with. He came across a villager sitting alone at a table.

'I hear you have a snake problem.' Nakashima said to the man.

'Don't make it sound as if its only a joke.' The man exclaimed.

'I was only kidding, I am sorry, I did not realize that the situation could really be as bad as it was made out to be.' Nakashima told the man who had now stood up to look at him eye to eye.

'situation really as bad as it was made out, my child was taken from me, he was only five years old, do you understand what that is like, it is all my fault, I did not look after him.' The man sobbed with tears starting to appear in his eyes.

'Look I am really sorry to hear that, this is why I am here, to exterminate the problem for you, so you can go back to your lives as normal.' Nakashima sympathized.

'I don;t think you understand, I can't return to normal my life is over. I blame myself for my child being killed by that thing.'

'Look I said I am sorry there is nothing more you can do about that now, look if you can tell me where the snake appears most, I will be able to do my job and leave you to your drinks in peace.' Nakashima had enough of this man, it was not his job to listen to his problems and his mistakes, he was here to do a job. The man agreed to show him where the snake was last sighted, and they began walking in silence to that spot. The spot was on the very outskirts of town, obviously the snake was not afraid of humans to come this close to town but it still minded its boundaries and stay outside the town, it must have known it was a major threat to the town and that they would kill it on sight.

'Okay thanks for your help I will be done here shortly.' Nakashima said sincerely. The man did not reply he just walked without hesitation back toward the town without looking back. Nakashima looked at the ground looking for tracks, he could see on the ground that this snake had come and gone as it pleased, and that it was in fact the size reported as the width of the tracks almost seemed to be 4 meters wide itself. Nakashima decided to wait out the snake and let it come to him instead of going out looking for it and being caught in a situation he did not want. He knew exactly how he would kill it as well, he was going to make it painful for the beast as the snake had cause large amounts of pain for these people. 

The snake eventually showed itself and so did Nakashima it saw him and without hesitation it coiled up and exploded towards him at a very fast pace. Nakashima was not expecting so much speed from this animal and was a little startled but this did not matter to him as he was skilled enough to deal with this snake. He quickly used his Stream Jutsu to narrowly avoid the attack. Now it was his turn to counter attack the beast. He quickly jumped back to create enough space so that he would not be caught in the blast and used Misty Flame Dance and followed it up with Lightning Rod which caused an explosion engulfing the snake in flames. After the smoke had cleared all that was left was an overly cooked snake he returned it to the village and presented it to the man. The village celebrated and thanked Nakashima for his actions and rewarded him with the ryo like they had promised. And with that Nakashima returned home. 

Word Count: 1000/1000
Katon C => B: 29/2000

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