The Grind 3

Mission 1:

Yu woke at a normal time for himself, 0300. He rolled out of bed and made his way to his kitchen to begin making breakfast. While his food was on the stove cooking he ran through the shower and got dressed. Once he was done, he made his way back to the kitchen and ate his breakfast. Once he was finished, he started with his morning workout routine. It was rather extensive, but he had built himself up to this point over many years of strenuous work. Once he was finished with that, it was an acceptable time to go hunting for some missions. He had gained quite a bit of experience and as such, it wouldn't be crazy to think he could take on missions of a more difficult nature. He made his way out the door and quickly over to the mission tower. Once inside he greeted the Chuunin who was in charge of handing out missions. He grabbed the first scroll and made his way out the building. It was his mission to settle some form of dispute between a couple in the civilian district. It would be easy to simply kill them both, or knock some sense into each of them. Once he arrived to the apartment, he found two people yelling. A man and a woman, standing out on the porch on the third floor of the building yelling loudly, he could understand why it got on neighbors nerves.

He leapt up onto the railing, balancing with ease between the couple. They looked at him angrily before they continued to argue like he wasn't even there. He growled and released killing intent. It was something beyond what they could handle and they got quiet and looked at him with fear in their eyes. "You will either resolve your issue or you will argue quietly from inside the building." They quickly got over their fear before reacting in rage to this random telling them what to do. Kuro jumped over the man trying to grab him and kicked the woman in the face. He then put the man on the ground by sweeping his legs out from under him, he then proceeded to break both of their arms. "You will do what I say, or I will be back. If I come back, I will do much worse than this." The two nodded silently and he left to get his next mission.

Missions 2:

His next mission was going to be one that could prove to be challenging enough, or it could come off as a simple task. He didn't really care about the difficulty. No, his real mission was to gain money and experience. Once he finished these missions, then he could focus on training and truly improving himself. His goals were simple really, as he had yet to really find his place in the world. He only wanted to grow stronger and have money. Once he got strong enough to figure out what he was meant to do, or to find out what he could decide to do, he wanted to grow strong.

In this world only the strong could truly decide for themselves what would happen. It is the truth, all through history, it is, as they say, written only by the victors. He wanted to be strong enough to become a victor. He knew that if he wasn't able to defend himself he would be locked up again, an involuntary shudder ran up his spine. He wouldn't ever be put back in that situation again. Broken from his thoughts, he looked up to find himself standing in front of the location of his next mission. The shinobi academy. He had come here far more since he has been out of it, than he was when he was in it. Anyways, his current job was to go in and teach the academy students just how far out of their league they were. They had been complaining to their teacher that their lessons were boring and that they were ready for some real mission type training. He was to show up and give them a painful lesson as to why they should pay closer attention to their lessons from the academy.

He opened the door and sized up the students in the room. Some of them would be graduating this year. Meaning they were all several years younger than he, children in his eyes, though they would share a rank. He entered and faced the class. "I have been told that you find your instructors lessons boring and that you wish to test yourselves against a real shinobi. Well, here I am. Come at me." He gave that signal and the majority of the class rushed him. It was over in minutes. He kicked, punched and chopped all of them into submission. Once he finished he looked out over the class of beaten kids. "You'll pay attention from now on, I trust?" Was the last he said before he walked out.

Mission 3:

Leaving the academy, he rushed over to the mission tower once he got his signature. Rushing to the tower, he arrived to turn in his mission. The chuunin applauded him for his mission completion times and handed him another C-ranked mission for the day. His next mission was rather straight forward in the means of actually having to do something. Mostly for the fact that he had already done a mission like it. He was to go to a store that had been overtaken and besieged by thugs. His mission was simple, go in, take care of the bandits, but don't break anything in the store. It was one thing to just have to take down some untrained thugs, but to have to do so within a crowded storefront was added challenge. He went over to the building and decided to scope it out before doing anything crazy. He looked at the building in question to find it had a normal market type build with shelves inside containing most of its wares. Closer examination revealed that there were around five thugs in the store, three of them were patrolling while two of them were working on collecting money from the cash registers. He would have to move in swiftly and take care of them before they had a chance to react.

He decided he would go for the two at the register before taking on the ones who were patrolling around the store. He watched and found that the guards seemed to be moving in a pattern, and he was able to decipher that they would all be to the back of the store. This gave him a limited window of opportunity to begin the attack. He rushed in the store, moving out of sight of the two who moved to investigate the sound. Before they could make a sound, Kuro knocked one to the ground and chopped his neck to crush his vocal chords, he then planted an upwards kick into the others to do the same to his. Once they were both on the ground, it took nothing more than a punch to the face to knock them unconscious. The next thing he did was to move to the back of the store. He found the three guards all in the back, they had just reached the peaks of their individual patrols. He rushed in for the takedown swiftly. Moving faster than they could ever hope to react to. He landed in between them and delivered quick chops to their necks to knock them all out. Once this was done and the store owner moved in, he got his signature and left.

Mission 4:

Once he arrived back to the mission tower, it was in and out. He spoke only briefly to the mission chuunin, but he was back out the building with a new mission scroll within ten minutes. He jumped up onto a rooftop to look at his latest mission. Put out by the mail company, apparently one of their carrier pigeons that was carrying a classified document with highly sensitive information was roaming around the village without anyone monitoring its location. His mission was simple, track down the bird and capture it without losing any of the classified information it contained. It would be a simple task to catch it, once he managed to track it down. He rushed off the rooftop, jumping down, spinning on a flagpole and then leaping back into the air. He landed on a telephone wire and ran across it. He was looking for one of the pigeons which were easy to distinguish from the backpack that they wore that was large enough for a scroll to be placed inside. He ran around pretty aimlessly at first. Not spotting anything unusual among the mass of pigeons that flew around the village all the time. He hoped his luck would change soon.

As he rushed around, he was looking in all the hot spots, trying to spot this pigeon through hundreds of others, There were at least two hundred at each stop, but he painstakingly hunted each one down to make sure that it wasn't the one he was hunting. He was still searching, even after several hours of looking. But, he finally managed to find a lead. He overheard some old women that were leaving the park talking about a strange bird they had been feeding with some backpack on its back. That was his first lead and he wasn't letting it get away. Sprinting at top speed away from where he was, he headed in the direction of the park. Once he arrive, without stopping, he honed in on where the pigeon was while he ran. It hadn't noticed him, and it never did as he swooped in for the kill. Well, not kill, but capture. Once he caught it, he ran to the mail area, dropped it off in a cage. Once he did this, got his signature, he would be on his way back towards the mission tower. He wanted nothing more than to get paid and grab his next mission. Hopefully it proved to be more of a challenge than this one.

Mission 5:

He moved at high speeds back to the mission tower to pick up his final mission for the day before he would take a break for sleeping. He spoke kindly to the receptionist and then to the Chuunin that was assigned the duty to hand out the missions. It was not the most fun job to be stuck with, but at the very least, it lacked risk. One just had to sit there, hand out missions and then get paid at the end of the day, so all in all, it was a simple mission. But, regardless, he picked up his last scroll and headed out to the street before opening it. So, his last mission for the day would be to help a young Chuunin do a bit of training. It would turn out that it was the other of the boys he had helped before. He had apparently gotten a teacher and learned some more useful skills and had even been promoted.

So, the boy had requested him again to test his mettle, to find out if he had truly gotten stronger. Yu had no problem with this and obliged. Arriving, he found the boy waiting and without wasting more than a head nod, they both got into position for the match to begin. The boy rushing Kuro with far more speed than he had before, Yu would move to dodge, but it was a feint. Yu hadn't expected the hit to his gut, nor the punch to his face that followed. He was certainly surprised at the improvement shown by the newly christened Chuunin, but it was nothing he could not match. Ducking the next punch, he delivered two to the boys chest himself, then left a couple more in his sides before going for a low, sweeping kick. To his surprise and slight enjoyment, the kick was simply dodged with a slight jump before his opponent attempted to kick him. He dodged the swift kick and used the moment to knock his opponent off balance. It was simple from there to get the kid on the ground, and from there to make him yield. It was a good workout though and Kuro had to admit that he had improved. He would shake the boys hand as they were now equals.

Mission 6:

Yu woke at a normal time for himself, 0300. He rolled out of bed and made his way to his kitchen to begin making breakfast. While his food was on the stove cooking he ran through the shower and got dressed. Once he was done, he made his way back to the kitchen and ate his breakfast. Once he was finished, he started with his morning workout routine. It was rather extensive, but he had built himself up to this point over many years of strenuous work. Once he was finished with that, it was an acceptable time to go hunting for some missions. He had gained quite a bit of experience and as such, it wouldn't be crazy to think he could take on missions of a more difficult nature. He made his way out the door and quickly over to the mission tower. Once inside he greeted the Chuunin who was in charge of handing out missions. He grabbed the first scroll and made his way out the building. It was his mission to settle some form of dispute between a couple in the civilian district. It would be easy to simply kill them both, or knock some sense into each of them. Once he arrived to the apartment, he found two people yelling. A man and a woman, standing out on the porch on the third floor of the building yelling loudly, he could understand why it got on neighbors nerves.

He leapt up onto the railing, balancing with ease between the couple. They looked at him angrily before they continued to argue like he wasn't even there. He growled and released killing intent. It was something beyond what they could handle and they got quiet and looked at him with fear in their eyes. "You will either resolve your issue or you will argue quietly from inside the building." They quickly got over their fear before reacting in rage to this random telling them what to do. Kuro jumped over the man trying to grab him and kicked the woman in the face. He then put the man on the ground by sweeping his legs out from under him, he then proceeded to break both of their arms. "You will do what I say, or I will be back. If I come back, I will do much worse than this." The two nodded silently and he left to get his next mission.

Mission 7:

Leaving the academy, he rushed over to the mission tower once he got his signature. Rushing to the tower, he arrived to turn in his mission. The chuunin applauded him for his mission completion times and handed him another C-ranked mission for the day. His next mission was rather straight forward in the means of actually having to do something. Mostly for the fact that he had already done a mission like it. He was to go to a store that had been overtaken and besieged by thugs. His mission was simple, go in, take care of the bandits, but don't break anything in the store. It was one thing to just have to take down some untrained thugs, but to have to do so within a crowded storefront was added challenge. He went over to the building and decided to scope it out before doing anything crazy. He looked at the building in question to find it had a normal market type build with shelves inside containing most of its wares. Closer examination revealed that there were around five thugs in the store, three of them were patrolling while two of them were working on collecting money from the cash registers. He would have to move in swiftly and take care of them before they had a chance to react.

He decided he would go for the two at the register before taking on the ones who were patrolling around the store. He watched and found that the guards seemed to be moving in a pattern, and he was able to decipher that they would all be to the back of the store. This gave him a limited window of opportunity to begin the attack. He rushed in the store, moving out of sight of the two who moved to investigate the sound. Before they could make a sound, Kuro knocked one to the ground and chopped his neck to crush his vocal chords, he then planted an upwards kick into the others to do the same to his. Once they were both on the ground, it took nothing more than a punch to the face to knock them unconscious. The next thing he did was to move to the back of the store. He found the three guards all in the back, they had just reached the peaks of their individual patrols. He rushed in for the takedown swiftly. Moving faster than they could ever hope to react to. He landed in between them and delivered quick chops to their necks to knock them all out. Once this was done and the store owner moved in, he got his signature and left.

Missions 8:

His next mission was going to be one that could prove to be challenging enough, or it could come off as a simple task. He didn't really care about the difficulty. No, his real mission was to gain money and experience. Once he finished these missions, then he could focus on training and truly improving himself. His goals were simple really, as he had yet to really find his place in the world. He only wanted to grow stronger and have money. Once he got strong enough to figure out what he was meant to do, or to find out what he could decide to do, he wanted to grow strong.

In this world only the strong could truly decide for themselves what would happen. It is the truth, all through history, it is, as they say, written only by the victors. He wanted to be strong enough to become a victor. He knew that if he wasn't able to defend himself he would be locked up again, an involuntary shudder ran up his spine. He wouldn't ever be put back in that situation again. Broken from his thoughts, he looked up to find himself standing in front of the location of his next mission. The shinobi academy. He had come here far more since he has been out of it, than he was when he was in it. Anyways, his current job was to go in and teach the academy students just how far out of their league they were. They had been complaining to their teacher that their lessons were boring and that they were ready for some real mission type training. He was to show up and give them a painful lesson as to why they should pay closer attention to their lessons from the academy.

He opened the door and sized up the students in the room. Some of them would be graduating this year. Meaning they were all several years younger than he, children in his eyes, though they would share a rank. He entered and faced the class. "I have been told that you find your instructors lessons boring and that you wish to test yourselves against a real shinobi. Well, here I am. Come at me." He gave that signal and the majority of the class rushed him. It was over in minutes. He kicked, punched and chopped all of them into submission. Once he finished he looked out over the class of beaten kids. "You'll pay attention from now on, I trust?" Was the last he said before he walked out.

Mission 9:

Once he arrived back to the mission tower, it was in and out. He spoke only briefly to the mission chuunin, but he was back out the building with a new mission scroll within ten minutes. He jumped up onto a rooftop to look at his latest mission. Put out by the mail company, apparently one of their carrier pigeons that was carrying a classified document with highly sensitive information was roaming around the village without anyone monitoring its location. His mission was simple, track down the bird and capture it without losing any of the classified information it contained. It would be a simple task to catch it, once he managed to track it down. He rushed off the rooftop, jumping down, spinning on a flagpole and then leaping back into the air. He landed on a telephone wire and ran across it. He was looking for one of the pigeons which were easy to distinguish from the backpack that they wore that was large enough for a scroll to be placed inside. He ran around pretty aimlessly at first. Not spotting anything unusual among the mass of pigeons that flew around the village all the time. He hoped his luck would change soon.

As he rushed around, he was looking in all the hot spots, trying to spot this pigeon through hundreds of others, There were at least two hundred at each stop, but he painstakingly hunted each one down to make sure that it wasn't the one he was hunting. He was still searching, even after several hours of looking. But, he finally managed to find a lead. He overheard some old women that were leaving the park talking about a strange bird they had been feeding with some backpack on its back. That was his first lead and he wasn't letting it get away. Sprinting at top speed away from where he was, he headed in the direction of the park. Once he arrive, without stopping, he honed in on where the pigeon was while he ran. It hadn't noticed him, and it never did as he swooped in for the kill. Well, not kill, but capture. Once he caught it, he ran to the mail area, dropped it off in a cage. Once he did this, got his signature, he would be on his way back towards the mission tower. He wanted nothing more than to get paid and grab his next mission. Hopefully it proved to be more of a challenge than this one.

Mission 10:

He moved at high speeds back to the mission tower to pick up his final mission for the day before he would take a break for sleeping. He spoke kindly to the receptionist and then to the Chuunin that was assigned the duty to hand out the missions. It was not the most fun job to be stuck with, but at the very least, it lacked risk. One just had to sit there, hand out missions and then get paid at the end of the day, so all in all, it was a simple mission. But, regardless, he picked up his last scroll and headed out to the street before opening it. So, his last mission for the day would be to help a young Chuunin do a bit of training. It would turn out that it was the other of the boys he had helped before. He had apparently gotten a teacher and learned some more useful skills and had even been promoted.

So, the boy had requested him again to test his mettle, to find out if he had truly gotten stronger. Yu had no problem with this and obliged. Arriving, he found the boy waiting and without wasting more than a head nod, they both got into position for the match to begin. The boy rushing Kuro with far more speed than he had before, Yu would move to dodge, but it was a feint. Yu hadn't expected the hit to his gut, nor the punch to his face that followed. He was certainly surprised at the improvement shown by the newly christened Chuunin, but it was nothing he could not match. Ducking the next punch, he delivered two to the boys chest himself, then left a couple more in his sides before going for a low, sweeping kick. To his surprise and slight enjoyment, the kick was simply dodged with a slight jump before his opponent attempted to kick him. He dodged the swift kick and used the moment to knock his opponent off balance. It was simple from there to get the kid on the ground, and from there to make him yield. It was a good workout though and Kuro had to admit that he had improved. He would shake the boys hand as they were now equals.