Grinding 2, Return of the Living Grind!

Mission 1:

Yu walked to the mission office. He had yet to be placed on an official team, so he was stuck doing basic D-ranked missions until he was placed. That was fine with him in general. He hadn't had very much, if any real interaction with those ninja his age. Ever since he got to the village, he met the one class in the academy, but after that, he was granted his rank and set loose. He hadn't taken any missions until today, and with the sun threatening to rise in a couple of hours, he knew it was time to get started. His first mission was to aid an elderly shop owner to unload and store a cart of supplies. He arrived, he didn't speak to the man, just did the work that was required. It was a simple task, he could easily lift 50 lbs, much more than the elderly keeper. It only took him around thirty minutes to unload the boxes, and then only around ten minutes to put them away. Once he finished, he simply showed the man his missions report and got his signature. At which point, he returned to the office to collect his reward and pick up his next mission.

Mission 2:

Clasping his second mission scroll shut, Yu swiftly made his way across the village. He had a particular location in mind that he needed to reach. It was a market store, a place that sold fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the oasis. He arrived and the woman that ran the place quickly shoved a wooden box filled with various vegetables into his chest and pushed him out the door. She yelled something along the lines of he had to deliver that before the sun rose above the village. He knew he only had around twenty more minutes, and time was only moving on. He immediately leapt into action, jumping up one of the buildings, using his shinobi agility to make his way up to the rooftop. From there, he moved at high speeds towards the east, where he was to deliver these groceries. He could see that the sun was just beginning to reach the point where it would show in the horizon. He flipped, moving fast enough that none of his cargo had the chance to fall out. When he landed, he was in front of a door. Rechecking the number to the one that was written on the box, he would knock three times and an elderly woman would answer the door. After she took her food, signed his mission slip, and tanked him for his help, Yu would swiftly make his way back to the mission tower to turn in another successful mission.

Mission 3:

His third mission was actually just about ready to start. There was a fresh Genin, similar to himself, that was looking for a sparring partner to test his strength against. He simply wanted someone against whom to see how he measured. So, Kuro would quickly make his way to the training area. Once there, he found a child, a couple years younger than himself it appeared, and much smaller in frame as a result of this age gap. Kuro approached the boy, "I am Yu Senju, I have been assigned the mission to test your level. Come at me with the intent to kill, or go home." When he said this, he got into a basic stance that he had mastered in his years of training. It was a stance that he had pushed himself into learning so that he would be able to defend himself, while still being able to react to openings created by said defense. When the little kid rushed him, he dodged to the right of the first punch, then used his left palm to push the follow up punch up into the air while simultaneously planting his right fist into the kids gut. Hard. The kid fell to the ground coughing, "If you want to defeat someone, you must attack relentlessly, yes. But, it is also imperative that you find out more about your opponent before you rush in without a care in the world." At the kids current level, he was nothing but a liability. He got his signature and moved on.

Mission 4:

His fourth mission of the day, was to aid in a popular breakfast diner in the village. He was to relieve one of the night shift workers just in time for their morning rush. It was already nearly 0730 and the rush would be starting the moment the place opened up. When he arrived, he was greeted by a very drunken manager who ordered him to clean off tables and prepare the food. Which, in his humble opinion seemed like a minor task to ask someone his age. But, he made it work. He went to work, first cleaning off the tables which hadn't been cleaned by the nightly staff. He wiped them clean at a rapid pace, leaving them sparkling in his wake. Next, came the hardest part of this mission, preparing the food. He had been trained to cook basic meals, using materials one would find in the wilderness, and a few meals that could be made using things found in a normal kitchen. He went to work, getting all their required food prepared, just in time too, as the doors opened and orders began to pour in. He looked up as two people wearing kitchen clothes finally arrived to relieve him of duty. One of them signed his mission slip in the stead of their passed out manager. He was ready for another.

Mission 5:

Yu, upon receiving his fifth mission, would head over to the academy building. It was a place that he didn't know all that well, given the little amount of time he spent there. He knocked on the classroom door three swift times before an instructor opened it. The instructor was obviously relatively new as a Chuunin instructor, as he didn't have that solid teacher look about him. This could be a façade though, so Yu didn't think about it too much. The instructor introduced him as a fresh Genin who had just graduated. He told the class that he would be offering a demonstration today. The students seemed intrigued, except for one who looked a bit older than the others. In fact, he seemed a year or two older than Yu himself, which was odd. The boy simply scoffed, said that Kuro looked weak and then challenged him to a fight. Kuro, not sure how to handle the situation, glanced at the instructor who offered an approving nod. The match was fast, he used a couple of simple, yet effective taijutsu maneuvers to efficiently take down his quarry. The students all cheered as their resident bully was humiliated. Yu gave the chuunin his paper, which was quickly signed. He then went to get his next mission.

Mission 6:

Yu looked down at the mission in his hand before slipping it into his cargo pocket for safe keeping. He made his way through the village once more, under the heat of the afternoon sun. When he arrived at his destination, a rather large house in the upper class civilian district, he rasped the door three times before a woman answered. She described to him how one of her 132 cats had gone missing, a Mr.Snugglewuffles. He was supposedly a brown tabby with a green eye and a yellow eye. Yu was to find him and return the little scamp before he got himself into trouble. He was warned thrice about the cats mean streak, but he assured the owner that he could handle it. He searched for around two hours before finally finding a cat that matched the description given to him. He moved in and grabbed it by the scruff of its neck and chopped it on the back of its head. It went limp in his arms and he carried it back to her house. Once he got there, before knocking on the door, he would pinch a nerve on the back of its neck and it would wake up, groggily. Upon returning it and getting a signature, Kuro would return to pick up his next mission.

Mission 7:

His next task would be on the simpler side, he was to clean some graffiti up and stake out the area for suspicious activity. He arrived to find an artsy name drawn on the side of a building along with a chibi character of a boy in a green striped hat holding up a peace sign. He started scrubbing from the scaffolding that was hanging from the building, while he didn't need it, it was useful for holding the cleaning supplies that he had. He also kept an eye on the busy street below him that held the numerous people going about their day. As he cleaned, he noticed a man off to the side, his face was shadowed by the green striped bucket hat he was wearing. Yu took in the rest of his features and was about to move on the man, but then he remembered that his mission was to clean and observe, not take down the criminal. He was taught from a young age that he was to follow his directives to the best of his abilities and never allow his emotions or assumptions to cloud his purpose. Once the wall was cleared, he took his mission and a report on the suspicious man back to the tower. It was time for another mission.

Mission 8:

He opened the gates to a rather drab garden, located behind the village orphanage. He was to help pull weeds out of three of their planters to help them with their short staff. He didn't really understand why they didn't make the children do such a simple task, but he wasn't in a position to question it. He arrived at the first flower bed, which had a few roses beginning to bud from their bushes. He pulled the weeds from them, putting them into a burn pile that they had set up to get rid of the waste. Once he finished with the rose bed, he moved on to one that contained tulips. He pulled all the weeds same as before and put them into the burn pile where they were burned away. It was a simple task to pull weeds, but he was being payed, so he didn't really care. He moved to the Daisy flower bed, which was the last one he had to worry about. He pulled the weeds, one by one, and put them into the fire. Once he finished and got the matron to sign his paper, he rushed off to the mission tower to turn it in, claim his reward and go on another mission. But, he needed to hurry, daylight was running out.

Mission 9:

His time was beginning to run short, he probably only had enough time to do this mission and one more, depending on how fast he could get this mission done. He rushed towards the business sector of the village so he could begin another pointless mission. This one, believe it or not, was to pick up trash and put it into burning bins located along the street. This trash, you may ask, is indeed the leftovers for street vendors. Of course, these burn pits were put in place for the vendors to dispose of their own waste, and for their patrons to do the same, but of course, they didn't. No, they left that sort of basic, simplistic task for the genin of the village. Their personal street sweepers. Though, it didn't matter, he was being payed and he moved at his top speed and threw the bags with great might, so one could say this was a form of training. He spent several minutes doing this, and finally lit all the barrels that the waste may be disposed of. He returned to the mission tower once he had completed his task to receive his final mission of the day. It was going well so far, so he hoped this streak would end well.

Mission 10:

The sun was beginning to set over the village and Yu was on his final jaunt of the day. He was on his way to a house just on the outskirts of the village to take out an elderly couple's two energetic pups for a walk, so they would be tired enough to go to sleep on time. When he arrived at the modest cottage, he was greeted by the elderly man and handed two leashes already attached to the hulking beasts. They immediately rushed out the doors and looked like they would jerk him along after them, but he held strong, their momentum working against them as they ran out of slack, jerking back suddenly. He dragged them through the village instead, at just a bit faster than they could run comfortably. He had them running their top speed the whole time. Once they arrived back at their home, and he handed them back off to their owners, the moment they were off the leash, the two canine slumped over to their beds and crawled in. They were snoring In seconds. Being congratulated on a job well done, Yu took their signature back to the missions board where he was paid and told to come back in the morning as they were closing.