Escort Through Unknown Territory (INVITE ONLY)

The attack came suddenly. In an instant a wall of raw earth rose up in the road blocking the way forward and likewise occurred behind the group trapping them in a earthen box of sorts sans top. The clone that had been in the back of the group had been riddled with shuriken and had disappeared in a puff of smoke redistributing its chakra accordingly. Each clone that was protecting the two workmen were assaulted by one person wielding a sword that resembled a samurai. The clones themselves could hold their own for a while, or at least they would have to, because the real Taro had his own problem to deal with.

A tall spindly man had appeared in front of him seemingly out of no where. In the back of his mind Taro hoped Primrose and Nightshade were fairing well, because there was bound to be more people attacking them as well. Taro was shaken from his thoughts by the quick movement of the spindly man that left Taro baffled. The man's entire arm seemed to elongate as he punched at Taro. Luckily the punch was surprisingly slow and Taro was able to dodge. Though instead of jumping back like he usually would Taro ran into the reach of the odd man. Before he reached him he flashed the tiger sign and his arm became endowed with the power of the earth spear jutsu. He then pushed his palm forcefully into the man's face sending him back with a deathly crack. Despite the man's odd ability to extend his arms to unbelievable length he was a pushover and fell without a fuss. At this point Taro turned around to see what had become of the rest of their small caravan. He already knew through the link with his wood clones that they had sustained quite a bit of damage while battling the two samurai. In fact one of them had a sword clean through its right shoulder, but luckily they had succeeded in protecting the two workers. Though Taro was still wondering what fate had befallen Nightshade and Primrose as he was sure there must have been at least three or four other thugs that attacked the caravan.
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As the clones of Taro were attacked, several shurikens appeared to have been aimed right at night shade. She was able to block some of them, but there were too many for her to block. When they hit her, two hit her in the chest and four hit her in the stomach, two in the arm and two in her upper thigh. Luckily the other ones that could have hit her did not, or she would have been worse. Night shade noticed one had grazed her face by the blood that was running down her cheek. The force of the shurikens hitting her knocked her down, but she stood right back up. Despite the pain she knew it was time to take the person out.

Somehow, the person was right in front of her! She had to act quickly, despite her injuries! Making a quick hand sign, lightning left her fingers and wrapped around the enemy. Using Lightning body control was the only thing she could think of to do. Moving her fingers and her mind, she had the guy turn the sword on two of his partners who were coming up to the scene of the attack, he killed both in two swift movements and then turned the sword on himself, killing himself. After this jutsu Nightshade passed out from the extreme pain she was feeling. “Damn, I let everyone down!” Nightshade thought to herself. She had taken out three people with a simple lightning jutsu, but that was not enough, her goal was to help these workers and her team mates get there safely, but she felt like she had failed.

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Primrose had seen to attack on Taros clones as well, she was just glad it was not really Taro and the workers getting attacked. He was smart making clones. She saw Nightsahde getting attacked and wanted to run help her, but unfortunately she was being attacked as well. She was able to block a couple of Kunai that had been thrown at her. This guy aimed to kill. It was at her heart and throat the Kunai had been aimed at. Prim saw the tall rogue ninja approaching her. It was often assumed that by her height, Prim was helpless and week, this assumption could not have been more wrong. Prims glowing on eyes focused on her attackers eyes. Using her genjutsu release, Prim decided it was time to give this guy a view of his own personal hell. The good thing about genjutsu is that affects the mind and how the mind views things. As Prim focused intently on the guy, leaves flew up around him in a cyclonic fashion. The guy began to look around himself, his eyes wide open in terror. He began to yell the word no over and over as he fell on the ground. Prim walked towards him slowly as to not break the genjutsu, she pulled out her sharingan ninjato and prepared to kill the guy. He finally stared up at Prim as she slit his throat before putting up her ninjato. Prim immediately went to the workers. They were terribly shaken up. “Its okay, I think we handle them all.” She assured them before she ran over to a unconscious Nightshade. Even though Primrose was very upset, she didn’t show it. “Nightshade, I see you are still breathing, snap out of this, come on, please.” Prim held back the tears, it was scary to se her best friend like this. “You can’t die on me, not now.” Prim whispered. She knew Nightshade would live, but she also knew she needed medical attention. Prim looked over at Taro, she knew he did not need help, he had his battle handled.

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Taro cast a disgusted look upon all the carnage that had been caused by the small group-he wasnt one for excessive violence. Though he disgusted quickly turned to concern upon seeing the wounded Nightshade. Acting quickly Taro sent one of his clones over to Nightshade and gingerly picked her up-despite her injures the group would need to keep moving. The real Taro then spoke up in a cool tone: "We have to keep moving there could be more. She will be fine until we get back to the leaf village. Otherwise are you three fit for travel-we should be moving." Taro was no medical ninja, but her wounds did not look that bad. And either Taro did not like staying out in the open like this. To show his haste Taro used his earth core jutsu to bring down a small section of the earthen wall that had been created by one of the missing ninja attackers and signaled for the others including the two workmen to follow him-they would need to pick up the pace if they wanted to get to the destination without an more incidents.
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Nightshade felt a little lightheaded from her injuries, but she was able to feel Taro’s clone pick her up. She could also remember them continuing the journey. It felt like forever when they made it to the other Village and the workers were safe. She woke up and looked at the clone. “I think I can walk now, I am not hurting as bad.” Nightshade said as she smiled up at the clone that was carrying her. “Thanks for carrying me.” She said as she stood up and looked around her. This was a beautiful Village. She was just glad they had managed to get there when they had. It hurt to move her body, so she sat down and started digging the shurikens out of her body. She would grit her teeth on occasion and make a moaning sound from the pain, but she had to get them out because she did not want to end up in the hospital. She bandaged up her wounds, and rejoined the rest of the crowd in the village. “Well, looks like we made it you guys.” Nightshade said still slightly hurting. I am sorry about what happened back there. “I didn’t want to kill anyone but I did not think I had another choice.” She added.

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As soon as they arrived at their destination, Taro and prim escorted the workers to the spot they needed to be escorted to. She noticed Nightshade had disappeared. “Taro where is Nightshade?” Primrose asked as she looked around for her. After they found her they could go ahead and go back to Konoha. Prim was a little upset by the attack from earlier despite the fact that she had manage to deal with it. “This has been an interesting mission, I hope you don’t think of me as a monster when I killed that guy back there.” Prim said to Taro as she squeezed his hand and smiled up at him.

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Before they reached the village Taro chatted with the two workmen who had become noticeably more at ease. As it turned out the workers were there making a reliable water system for the village-at least the mission had been for a good cause. After that brief stint of conversation Taro was silent for the remainder of the trip to the village on the outskirts of the sky nation. When they arrived there Taro's clone allowed Nightshade time to bandage herself up-she was not that badly wounded though it could become serious should the wounds be allowed to fester, so Taro was gladthat Nightshade had bandages on her. Once the group was back together again Taro reassured both of them: "We did what we had to do. It was either we die or they die and frankly I think we came out better for it." With that Taro flashed a light smile. "Now we should get going if we want to make it back to the leaf village before nightfall." Taro was not up for getting stopped on the road again especially with Nightshade injured as she was. With his two clones watching still Taro lead the way back the village hidden in the leaves with a full feeling of accomplishment.
{4001/4000, mission done requesting approval upon Nightshade and Prim's exits, Taro exit}

Mission Approved for appropriate rewards.
Post exits if you wish, this mission is complete.