The Grind: Return of Mission Extravaganza, Pt. 1

Mission 1:

Shizune woke with a fire in her belly to tackle missions. She wanted nothing more than to go out today and get some amazing things done. She had a goal set in her mind and once she set herself up to do something she would push to complete that task. She got dressed and went about the dull morning routines she had been doing for the last while. Once she had eaten and gotten herself geared up and ready for whatever missions may come her way, she decided it was time to head out to pick up whatever missions she could handle to complete in a single day. She arrived at the mission tower and greeted the chuunin handing out missions and took the first B-ranked mission she came across. Walking back out the building she would read the briefing that was contained in the scroll she had just obtained. It said there was a businessman who ran a corporation that sold fishing supplies to different markets around the world on the surface, but in reality, he was a criminal who took part in a sick, sadistic child trafficking ring. He, in fact, ran the ring and was the one who ran the whole thing.

It didn't give too many details on his location, but it did tell of a few of his associates and the places that generally took part in such nefarious activities. She supposed that would be a good place to begin. So, she loaded up and took off towards the first fish market, supposedly there was something illegal going on there this morning, so she would perhaps be able to find a lead there. When she arrived at the port, she found a group of rough looking men entering into a place with what looked to be several caged animals that were of the exotic variety. She rushed in, roughed up a few of them, and got the answer she was looking for, finally. The mans name was Mr. Yoshida and he was a staple of the underworld here. He was apparently holed up in a large mansion out in the countryside with naught but two guards to defend him. Sure, at times such measures would be apt to defend a nefarious businessman from the likes of a younger ninja, but one of her skill level should be able to take the two of them down without too much hassle.

When she arrived to the mansion, she could see that the building itself was not guarded all that well. There was a single man protecting the front, he looked to be typical civilian hired muscle. Enough to stave off the likes of juveniles or the common street thug, but not even enough to take on the average Genin. Shizune approached the man with little care shown, caught the fist intended for her face and killed the man with a kunai to the throat. He was unable to call for help as the punch collapsed his windpipe. She walked inside over the now dead guard, the interior of the building was just as lavish as the outside had alluded it to be. Walking up the stairs he opened two doors that connected to a large room. The moment the doors opened he had to block a slash from a sword. She ducked it, caught the wrist of the follow-p slash from the partner and pushed the blade into the first attacker. While they were stunned from the swiftness of the reaction of the child who entered, She snapped the second attackers neck, took the sword and plunged it through the head of the first. Turning, she looked to see his quarry cowering with fear. A flick of the wrist and a kunai found a new home in the mans forehead. His body slumped and Shizune knew it was time to head back to the village, another mission in the bag.

Mission 2:

Once she arrived to the village, she made her way through the gate checkpoint and then on to the mission tower. The first part of this was to turn in her completion of the original mission she had been given, which was the assassination of a crooked businessman, she had succeeded. Once that was done, it was then time to pick up the next mission. Grabbing her scroll and saying goodbye to the Chuunin behind the desk, she headed back out the door. This would be her second mission of the day and the sun was already high in the sky, revealing that it was already midafternoon. Her new mission was to go into the forests outside of the village and locate a camp of bandits. Supposedly, a few of the bandits she had found on her previous mission had been trailed off into the forests where they had a secret base hidden. Apparently, they had some decent skill as ninja and would attack anyone who came close to their little base of operations. She knew of the general location of the base and would be headed there very shortly, but first, she had to get his equipment together to begin his raid.

She ran back over to her home, where she stored all of her equipment. The first thing she grabbed was a backpack. She slid the black cloth sack on her back, she had packed rations for any missions she may have had previously. She then grabbed a couple of kunai as well as a bag of shuriken. She then slid on a black cloak that would cover her up and hide her identity while she was on this mission. For no particular reason of course, she had no real desire to hide her identity, she just thought it looked cool. It was a solid black, hooded cloak that went down to mid calf level, on the back was the emblem of an owl. Once she had gotten all of her stuff set up, she made her way to the gate of the village. She would begin the search for the bandit camp and then would proceed with the purge of all the bandits in the area. She took to the trees to begin his search, combing the area for any signs of life. The first sign she came across were slash marks on several trees which appeared to have been caused by some fools playing with swords.

Following said slashes, she eventually came across a rather large, but crude looking fort built from trees and wood. Inside, she could see that there were several tents and huts made of wood. Deciding that her best course of action would simply be to burn the place to the ground, she thought more on the fact that she should be able to do so without raising much alarm, and controlling the fire so that the forest isn't damaged by his blaze. Running about at her maximum speed, she laid a thin, almost invisible line of explosives to various points in the small base, then put small explosive piles at the end of these thin lines. Once completed, she brought all of the lines together and put them to a single point. Clapping her hands to draw out the bandits, she dropped a match and the whole camp exploded into a cacophony of flames and screams. None of the bandits survived and she decided that it was in her best interest to remain once the fires went out to make sure of this, which she did. Once she was positive that all the bandits had been taken care of, she returned to the village.

MISSION 3:

Shizune returned to the village and headed straight to the mission tower. Once arriving inside she made his way quickly to the Chuunin who was in charge of handing out missions right as he was handed a scroll from another shinobi who had just arrived. The scroll was then handed straight to Shizune once she was given her pay from the last mission. Heading back outside, she would leap to the roof of a building to read the next mission scroll. Opening the scroll, she would find a story of two friends who had grown up together, been placed on the same Genin team and went through their whole careers together. Then, one of them was passed up for promotion to Spec. Jonin and the other was deeply hurt by it. Then, during a celebratory drink at the bar, they got into a drunken brawl which led to the death of two civilians. Apparently following this debacle, the Chuunin ran off into the forests to hide. Her task was to find him and bring him in to face justice. She figured it would be easy enough to begin at the destroyed bar and ask around to find out what everyone knew.

She arrived at the scene to find the building was currently being rebuilt and there was a rather large group of people gathered, no doubt as the neighborhood gossipers. She entered the crowd and listened to their mundane speech. Some were mesmerized by the destruction caused by the two drunken shinobi. She knew this was nothing compared to the destruction that a shinobi could cause, so she ignored those people. Her goal was not to find out what impressed the nameless and meaningless civilians, but to find information on her target. She kept listening as the civilians around her spoke of different things, finally, they told her exactly the things she needed to hear. One of them mentioned that the two had an old fort in the forests where they would rest in between missions out of the village. It stood to reason that this is exactly where this man would go if he was afraid after committing an act of murder against civilians. In his drunken state, it would make sense that he wouldn't think ahead enough to not go to a place like that and would seek comfort in its familiarity. So, the six year old Genin would exit the crowd and make her way to the northern gate of the village to begin the hunt with her new lead.

Rushing through the trees in the direction he had been given by the gate guards, she would decide the best approach to this battle. The Chuunin was known as a strong Taijutsu user, so it wouldn't be impossible for Shizune to just sneak up on him, he WAS drunk after all. Making her way through the forest, she came across a small shack built of wood high in one of the trees. Sneaking her way over to him, she found the sad man had passed out in his drunken state. Sneaking directly over to him, she found that the man was holding yet another bottle of booze. Using some wire to tie him up, Shizune would drag him back to the village to turn him in for the reward. Once she did so, she would obtain her rewards and return back to her own home to sleep before yet another day of taking on missions after missions after missions. Shizune wanted nothing more than to push herself to be more than what she was at the moment, to gain true power and clarity.

Mission 4:

Shizune woke the following day with a fire in her belly to tackle more missions. She wanted nothing more than to go out today and get some amazing things done. She had a goal set in her mind and once she set herself up to do something she would push to complete that task. She got dressed and went about the dull morning routines she had been doing for the last while. Once she had eaten and gotten herself geared up and ready for whatever missions may come her way, she decided it was time to head out to pick up whatever missions she could handle to complete in a single day. She arrived at the mission tower and greeted the chuunin handing out missions and took the first B-ranked mission she came across. Walking back out the building she would read the briefing that was contained in the scroll she had just obtained. It said there was a businessman who ran a corporation that was well known in the lumber industry. But, aside from selling lumber, he also paid off local bandit camps to strong arm his competition into selling their businesses to him. All in all, he was into some shady dealings and she was to locate him and assassinate him, quietly.

It didn't give too many details on his location, but it did tell of a few of his associates and the places that generally took part in such nefarious activities. She supposed that would be a good place to begin. So, she summoned her owl and flew off towards the lumber mill. Once there, she questioned several of the workers before finally finding someone with more information than just telling her to buzz off. It was a woman who looked to have been abused fairly recently judging by the bruises and bandages she wore. She happily told all she knew about the business mogul. The mans name was Mr. Yoshida and he was a staple of the underworld here. He was apparently holed up in a large mansion out in the countryside with naught but two guards to defend him. Sure, at times such measures would be apt to defend a nefarious businessman from the likes of a younger ninja, but one of her skill level should be able to take the two of them down without too much hassle.

When she arrived to the mansion, she could see that the building itself was not guarded all that well. There was a single man protecting the front, he looked to be typical civilian hired muscle. Enough to stave off the likes of juveniles or the common street thug, but not even enough to take on the average Genin. Shizune approached the man with little care shown, caught the fist intended for her face and killed the man with a kunai to the throat. He was unable to call for help as the punch collapsed his windpipe. She walked inside over the now dead guard, the interior of the building was just as lavish as the outside had alluded it to be. Walking up the stairs he opened two doors that connected to a large room. The moment the doors opened he had to block a slash from a sword. She ducked it, caught the wrist of the follow-p slash from the partner and pushed the blade into the first attacker. While they were stunned from the swiftness of the reaction of the child who entered, She snapped the second attackers neck, took the sword and plunged it through the head of the first. Turning, she looked to see his quarry cowering with fear. A flick of the wrist and a kunai found a new home in the mans forehead. His body slumped and Shizune knew it was time to head back to the village, another mission in the bag.

Mission 5:

Once she arrived to the village, she made her way through the gate checkpoint and then on to the mission tower. The first part of this was to turn in her completion of the original mission she had been given, which was the assassination of a crooked businessman, she had succeeded. Once that was done, it was then time to pick up the next mission. Grabbing her scroll and saying goodbye to the Chuunin behind the desk, she headed back out the door. This would be her second mission of the day and the sun was already high in the sky, revealing that it was already midafternoon. Her new mission was to go into the forests outside of the village and locate a camp of bandits. Supposedly, a few of the bandits she had found on her previous mission had been trailed off into the forests where they had a secret base hidden. Apparently, they had some decent skill as ninja and would attack anyone who came close to their little base of operations. She knew of the general location of the base and would be headed there very shortly, but first, she had to get his equipment together to begin his raid.

She ran back over to her home, where she stored all of her equipment. The first thing she grabbed was a backpack. She slid the black cloth sack on her back, she had packed rations for any missions she may have had previously. She then grabbed a couple of kunai as well as a bag of shuriken. She then slid on a black cloak that would cover her up and hide her identity while she was on this mission. For no particular reason of course, she had no real desire to hide her identity, she just thought it looked cool. It was a solid black, hooded cloak that went down to mid calf level, on the back was the emblem of an owl. Once she had gotten all of her stuff set up, she made her way to the gate of the village. She would begin the search for the bandit camp and then would proceed with the purge of all the bandits in the area. She took to the trees to begin his search, combing the area for any signs of life. The first sign she came across were slash marks on several trees which appeared to have been caused by some fools playing with swords.

Following said slashes, she eventually came across a rather large, but crude looking fort built from trees and wood. Inside, she could see that there were several tents and huts made of wood. Deciding that her best course of action would simply be to burn the place to the ground, she thought more on the fact that she should be able to do so without raising much alarm, and controlling the fire so that the forest isn't damaged by his blaze. Running about at her maximum speed, she laid a thin, almost invisible line of explosives to various points in the small base, then put small explosive piles at the end of these thin lines. Once completed, she brought all of the lines together and put them to a single point. Clapping her hands to draw out the bandits, she dropped a match and the whole camp exploded into a cacophony of flames and screams. None of the bandits survived and she decided that it was in her best interest to remain once the fires went out to make sure of this, which she did. Once she was positive that all the bandits had been taken care of, she returned to the village.

Mission 6:

Shizune woke with a fire in her belly to tackle missions. She wanted nothing more than to go out today and get some amazing things done. She had a goal set in her mind and once she set herself up to do something she would push to complete that task. She got dressed and went about the dull morning routines she had been doing for the last while. Once she had eaten and gotten herself geared up and ready for whatever missions may come her way, she decided it was time to head out to pick up whatever missions she could handle to complete in a single day. She arrived at the mission tower and greeted the chuunin handing out missions and took the first B-ranked mission she came across. Walking back out the building she would read the briefing that was contained in the scroll she had just obtained. It said there was a businessman who ran a corporation that sold fishing supplies to different markets around the world on the surface, but in reality, he was a criminal who took part in a sick, sadistic child trafficking ring. He, in fact, ran the ring and was the one who ran the whole thing.

It didn't give too many details on his location, but it did tell of a few of his associates and the places that generally took part in such nefarious activities. She supposed that would be a good place to begin. So, she loaded up and took off towards the first fish market, supposedly there was something illegal going on there this morning, so she would perhaps be able to find a lead there. When she arrived at the port, she found a group of rough looking men entering into a place with what looked to be several caged animals that were of the exotic variety. She rushed in, roughed up a few of them, and got the answer she was looking for, finally. The mans name was Mr. Yoshida and he was a staple of the underworld here. He was apparently holed up in a large mansion out in the countryside with naught but two guards to defend him. Sure, at times such measures would be apt to defend a nefarious businessman from the likes of a younger ninja, but one of her skill level should be able to take the two of them down without too much hassle.

When she arrived to the mansion, she could see that the building itself was not guarded all that well. There was a single man protecting the front, he looked to be typical civilian hired muscle. Enough to stave off the likes of juveniles or the common street thug, but not even enough to take on the average Genin. Shizune approached the man with little care shown, caught the fist intended for her face and killed the man with a kunai to the throat. He was unable to call for help as the punch collapsed his windpipe. She walked inside over the now dead guard, the interior of the building was just as lavish as the outside had alluded it to be. Walking up the stairs he opened two doors that connected to a large room. The moment the doors opened he had to block a slash from a sword. She ducked it, caught the wrist of the follow-p slash from the partner and pushed the blade into the first attacker. While they were stunned from the swiftness of the reaction of the child who entered, She snapped the second attackers neck, took the sword and plunged it through the head of the first. Turning, she looked to see his quarry cowering with fear. A flick of the wrist and a kunai found a new home in the mans forehead. His body slumped and Shizune knew it was time to head back to the village, another mission in the bag.

Mission 7:

Once she arrived to the village, she made her way through the gate checkpoint and then on to the mission tower. The first part of this was to turn in her completion of the original mission she had been given, which was the assassination of a crooked businessman, she had succeeded. Once that was done, it was then time to pick up the next mission. Grabbing her scroll and saying goodbye to the Chuunin behind the desk, she headed back out the door. This would be her second mission of the day and the sun was already high in the sky, revealing that it was already midafternoon. Her new mission was to go into the forests outside of the village and locate a camp of bandits. Supposedly, a few of the bandits she had found on her previous mission had been trailed off into the forests where they had a secret base hidden. Apparently, they had some decent skill as ninja and would attack anyone who came close to their little base of operations. She knew of the general location of the base and would be headed there very shortly, but first, she had to get his equipment together to begin his raid.

She ran back over to her home, where she stored all of her equipment. The first thing she grabbed was a backpack. She slid the black cloth sack on her back, she had packed rations for any missions she may have had previously. She then grabbed a couple of kunai as well as a bag of shuriken. She then slid on a black cloak that would cover her up and hide her identity while she was on this mission. For no particular reason of course, she had no real desire to hide her identity, she just thought it looked cool. It was a solid black, hooded cloak that went down to mid calf level, on the back was the emblem of an owl. Once she had gotten all of her stuff set up, she made her way to the gate of the village. She would begin the search for the bandit camp and then would proceed with the purge of all the bandits in the area. She took to the trees to begin his search, combing the area for any signs of life. The first sign she came across were slash marks on several trees which appeared to have been caused by some fools playing with swords.

Following said slashes, she eventually came across a rather large, but crude looking fort built from trees and wood. Inside, she could see that there were several tents and huts made of wood. Deciding that her best course of action would simply be to burn the place to the ground, she thought more on the fact that she should be able to do so without raising much alarm, and controlling the fire so that the forest isn't damaged by his blaze. Running about at her maximum speed, she laid a thin, almost invisible line of explosives to various points in the small base, then put small explosive piles at the end of these thin lines. Once completed, she brought all of the lines together and put them to a single point. Clapping her hands to draw out the bandits, she dropped a match and the whole camp exploded into a cacophony of flames and screams. None of the bandits survived and she decided that it was in her best interest to remain once the fires went out to make sure of this, which she did. Once she was positive that all the bandits had been taken care of, she returned to the village.

MISSION 8:

Shizune returned to the village and headed straight to the mission tower. Once arriving inside she made his way quickly to the Chuunin who was in charge of handing out missions right as he was handed a scroll from another shinobi who had just arrived. The scroll was then handed straight to Shizune once she was given her pay from the last mission. Heading back outside, she would leap to the roof of a building to read the next mission scroll. Opening the scroll, she would find a story of two friends who had grown up together, been placed on the same Genin team and went through their whole careers together. Then, one of them was passed up for promotion to Spec. Jonin and the other was deeply hurt by it. Then, during a celebratory drink at the bar, they got into a drunken brawl which led to the death of two civilians. Apparently following this debacle, the Chuunin ran off into the forests to hide. Her task was to find him and bring him in to face justice. She figured it would be easy enough to begin at the destroyed bar and ask around to find out what everyone knew.

She arrived at the scene to find the building was currently being rebuilt and there was a rather large group of people gathered, no doubt as the neighborhood gossipers. She entered the crowd and listened to their mundane speech. Some were mesmerized by the destruction caused by the two drunken shinobi. She knew this was nothing compared to the destruction that a shinobi could cause, so she ignored those people. Her goal was not to find out what impressed the nameless and meaningless civilians, but to find information on her target. She kept listening as the civilians around her spoke of different things, finally, they told her exactly the things she needed to hear. One of them mentioned that the two had an old fort in the forests where they would rest in between missions out of the village. It stood to reason that this is exactly where this man would go if he was afraid after committing an act of murder against civilians. In his drunken state, it would make sense that he wouldn't think ahead enough to not go to a place like that and would seek comfort in its familiarity. So, the six year old Genin would exit the crowd and make her way to the northern gate of the village to begin the hunt with her new lead.

Rushing through the trees in the direction he had been given by the gate guards, she would decide the best approach to this battle. The Chuunin was known as a strong Taijutsu user, so it wouldn't be impossible for Shizune to just sneak up on him, he WAS drunk after all. Making her way through the forest, she came across a small shack built of wood high in one of the trees. Sneaking her way over to him, she found the sad man had passed out in his drunken state. Sneaking directly over to him, she found that the man was holding yet another bottle of booze. Using some wire to tie him up, Shizune would drag him back to the village to turn him in for the reward. Once she did so, she would obtain her rewards and return back to her own home to sleep before yet another day of taking on missions after missions after missions. Shizune wanted nothing more than to push herself to be more than what she was at the moment, to gain true power and clarity.

Mission 9:

Shizune woke the following day with a fire in her belly to tackle more missions. She wanted nothing more than to go out today and get some amazing things done. She had a goal set in her mind and once she set herself up to do something she would push to complete that task. She got dressed and went about the dull morning routines she had been doing for the last while. Once she had eaten and gotten herself geared up and ready for whatever missions may come her way, she decided it was time to head out to pick up whatever missions she could handle to complete in a single day. She arrived at the mission tower and greeted the chuunin handing out missions and took the first B-ranked mission she came across. Walking back out the building she would read the briefing that was contained in the scroll she had just obtained. It said there was a businessman who ran a corporation that was well known in the lumber industry. But, aside from selling lumber, he also paid off local bandit camps to strong arm his competition into selling their businesses to him. All in all, he was into some shady dealings and she was to locate him and assassinate him, quietly.

It didn't give too many details on his location, but it did tell of a few of his associates and the places that generally took part in such nefarious activities. She supposed that would be a good place to begin. So, she summoned her owl and flew off towards the lumber mill. Once there, she questioned several of the workers before finally finding someone with more information than just telling her to buzz off. It was a woman who looked to have been abused fairly recently judging by the bruises and bandages she wore. She happily told all she knew about the business mogul. The mans name was Mr. Yoshida and he was a staple of the underworld here. He was apparently holed up in a large mansion out in the countryside with naught but two guards to defend him. Sure, at times such measures would be apt to defend a nefarious businessman from the likes of a younger ninja, but one of her skill level should be able to take the two of them down without too much hassle.

When she arrived to the mansion, she could see that the building itself was not guarded all that well. There was a single man protecting the front, he looked to be typical civilian hired muscle. Enough to stave off the likes of juveniles or the common street thug, but not even enough to take on the average Genin. Shizune approached the man with little care shown, caught the fist intended for her face and killed the man with a kunai to the throat. He was unable to call for help as the punch collapsed his windpipe. She walked inside over the now dead guard, the interior of the building was just as lavish as the outside had alluded it to be. Walking up the stairs he opened two doors that connected to a large room. The moment the doors opened he had to block a slash from a sword. She ducked it, caught the wrist of the follow-p slash from the partner and pushed the blade into the first attacker. While they were stunned from the swiftness of the reaction of the child who entered, She snapped the second attackers neck, took the sword and plunged it through the head of the first. Turning, she looked to see his quarry cowering with fear. A flick of the wrist and a kunai found a new home in the mans forehead. His body slumped and Shizune knew it was time to head back to the village, another mission in the bag.

Mission 10:

Once she arrived to the village, she made her way through the gate checkpoint and then on to the mission tower. The first part of this was to turn in her completion of the original mission she had been given, which was the assassination of a crooked businessman, she had succeeded. Once that was done, it was then time to pick up the next mission. Grabbing her scroll and saying goodbye to the Chuunin behind the desk, she headed back out the door. This would be her second mission of the day and the sun was already high in the sky, revealing that it was already midafternoon. Her new mission was to go into the forests outside of the village and locate a camp of bandits. Supposedly, a few of the bandits she had found on her previous mission had been trailed off into the forests where they had a secret base hidden. Apparently, they had some decent skill as ninja and would attack anyone who came close to their little base of operations. She knew of the general location of the base and would be headed there very shortly, but first, she had to get his equipment together to begin his raid.

She ran back over to her home, where she stored all of her equipment. The first thing she grabbed was a backpack. She slid the black cloth sack on her back, she had packed rations for any missions she may have had previously. She then grabbed a couple of kunai as well as a bag of shuriken. She then slid on a black cloak that would cover her up and hide her identity while she was on this mission. For no particular reason of course, she had no real desire to hide her identity, she just thought it looked cool. It was a solid black, hooded cloak that went down to mid calf level, on the back was the emblem of an owl. Once she had gotten all of her stuff set up, she made her way to the gate of the village. She would begin the search for the bandit camp and then would proceed with the purge of all the bandits in the area. She took to the trees to begin his search, combing the area for any signs of life. The first sign she came across were slash marks on several trees which appeared to have been caused by some fools playing with swords.

Following said slashes, she eventually came across a rather large, but crude looking fort built from trees and wood. Inside, she could see that there were several tents and huts made of wood. Deciding that her best course of action would simply be to burn the place to the ground, she thought more on the fact that she should be able to do so without raising much alarm, and controlling the fire so that the forest isn't damaged by his blaze. Running about at her maximum speed, she laid a thin, almost invisible line of explosives to various points in the small base, then put small explosive piles at the end of these thin lines. Once completed, she brought all of the lines together and put them to a single point. Clapping her hands to draw out the bandits, she dropped a match and the whole camp exploded into a cacophony of flames and screams. None of the bandits survived and she decided that it was in her best interest to remain once the fires went out to make sure of this, which she did. Once she was positive that all the bandits had been taken care of, she returned to the village.