Missions [p,nk]

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4 C-Ranks, 2 B-Ranks
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Kotaro yawned loudly as he slowly walked down the stairs of his house. He was currently still trying to get dressed as he pulled his shirt down over his head. Moving his arms through the sleeves he finished dressing and moved himself out of the building and down the street. Today he had planned on finally getting around to doing some missions; after all he needed the money and honestly he didn’t have anything better to do. With the pace of a snail he very very slowly walked down the road towards where he was supposed to go grab the missions from. Honestly he was tired as hell today and he couldn’t be bothered with it, but life is tough and he must go on. Five minutes later and he had grabbed several different mission scrolls that would get him through the day. He quickly skimmed through the first one he opened before closing it once more. Apparently somehow the gates had managed to get damaged. Kotaro frowned, how this could have happened he had no idea, that he cared either. He sighed and slowly made his way down towards the direction of the gates. As he got nearer he could hear the sound of banging and men yelling growing louder. Arriving on the scene he was almost immediately yelled at to get to work. Grumbling he was soon tasked with carrying piles of wood and tools around to the designated areas, usually given by a large bearded man with a voice that could be heard across half the village. Several minutes later and Kotaro’s arms were beginning to ache, carrying all this wood was hard work. He slipped away into an alley to have a rest for a moment. He let his mind wander to other better things he could be doing today, his mind came up blank other than training, and he was not in the mood for training at all. So he stuck to it, lifting wood, carrying wood, dropping wood, lifting wood, carrying wood, dropping wood, repeat. After several cycles of this Kotaro looked to the gate, progress wasn’t exactly going quickly. He cursed to himself mentally, at this rate he would be there all day doing this. With another yell from the large bearded man Kotaro sighed before moving on to something far more productive, namely holding nails in places for large men with hammers to try and hit with their terrible eyesight. What a lovely day.

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Xyxer had been simply wandering around the village with a fresh apple held in his right hand, his left hand bare. He'd been watching over some people in the village for brief moments to try and determine what they were doing, but other than that his day was rather dull. He was in the mood to destroy something. However, Xyxer was attuned to this feeling. He managed to suppress his feelings of rage and destruction. He was used to it by now, since he had to put down people that had those same feelings. But no, he was better than them. He was an apex predator now, and he was still climbing his way up the chain. Hearing shouting from the gates and the banging of hammers, he had decided that he would instead dedicate his time to helping the rebuilding of the gates. He had done this before and he was amazed at how they could keep getting destroyed. Shaking his head, he simply walked inbetween roads and alleys until he got towards the area where everything seemed to be coordinated. Taking bites from his apple every few seconds, he nodded once to the man that was in charge and looked over to the people that were in the area. Noticing the boy who's hand he had broke, a smirk came over his face. Biting into the apple to lodge it into his jaws, he lifted up quite a few planks and had the man put stacks of bricks onto the center of the planks so that he could carry them square on his shoulders. As he did that, he simply walked on over towards the people at the gates doing the most of the work before squatting down to gently put the planks and bricks down so that they could be used. After that, he walked over to the boy that seemed to be at work, taking a bite from his apple as he just chuckled.

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Kotaro had been kicked off of holding nails duty; apparently he was ‘the worst nail holder ever’. Kotaro didn’t mind however. Instead he had been put on hammering in the nails duty. Shaking his head slightly at the daftness of it all he continued to hit the hammer off of the head of the nail; he really was starting to regret how irritating this job was becoming. However seeing how he actually needed to do this he kept his mind focused on the task. After several minutes of him clumsily missing the nail and also hitting his own hand once or twice Kotaro finally managed to nail one completely into the wooden plank, this was a minor victory but was satisfying. He set about moving over to the next nail before he just managed to hear a chuckle over the noise that the other people were making. He turned his head around, once more narrowly missing his fingers with the hammer, to gaze at the figure stood by him. It was the boy who had first subjected him to a Genjutsu and then had broken his hand. Kotaro was actually beginning to think the guy was stalking him, maybe he wished to murder the boy when his back was turned…which was now. Kotaro shook those thoughts from his head and tilted his head to the side. “Hello again Xyxer, what brings you here?”

[WC: 973]

“Hello again Xyxer, what brings you here?”

He couldn't help but smile at this question; the boy had remembered his name. This was hilarious to him, but none the less he repressed chuckling at the boy again. Instead, he just gestured one hand carelessly as he spoke, "I was thinking of helping the village, which is why I came here, but alas, I can see you're doing a good job by yourself." He chuckled once more as he bit into the apple, chewing for a few seconds before he swallowed. He watched as the boy held the hammer and his face contorted into something that seemed like a grin when somebody was trying to avoid laughing, "Do you even know how to use a hammer?"

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Kotaro turned his head back to the task at hand as Xyxer began to talk, he tuned in slightly as he began to hit the nail once more with the hammer. "Do you even know how to use a hammer?" Kotaro smiled slightly despite the fact that he had once more nearly smashed his fingers with the hammer. "Haven't the slightest clue." He replied before hitting the nail once more, he suppose that would be okay enough. He placed the hammer back down before once more wiping the sweat from his forehead. With a sigh he would lean back slightly and turn his gaze to the sky, this was hard work. His gaze then turned to the men working on the gate, those muscular...strong...handsome men. Then it turned to the gate, his eyes scanned over the repairs going on, he judged that it would take an hour at worst for it to be finished. With a sigh he stood up and stretched out his arms. "That'll do for this one." He said out loud before pulling out another mission scroll, his eyes moved over it briefly before he frowned once more. "How nice."

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Xyxer stifled his laughter as the boy replied, "Haven't the slightest clue." Rubbing his chin for a few seconds, he looked around and back towards the boy, whom seemed to be admiring the men that were at work. His eyebrow perked upwards a little as he began to ponder about the boy's sexuality; he was almost certain that the boy wasn't admiring their building skills. Shaking his head anyway, he watched as the boy pulled out a mission scroll and frowned, bringing some satisfaction to Xyxer. "What is it then?" After he said that, he took the last bite from his apple and turned around, throwing the cor eof the apple out of the village. The apple core seemed to be moving extremely fast, seeming slow at first before it rocketed off into the distance in a matter of seconds.

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Kotaro's eyes once more went over the scroll and he sighed. "What is it then?" His gaze turned back to Xyxer and he watched as the boy threw the apple out of the village. He tilted his head to the side once more before glancing back to the scroll. "Apparently someone has been stealing food from people, and it seems it's my job to track them down." From the sound of his voice one could tell that Kotaro was slightly annoyed by this, this mission seemed like a complete waste of time. Like seriously there should be far more important things to be doing that finding someone who found themselves a bit too hungry. "And then I have several more that I plan to do hopefully by the end of the day." He added on, half speaking to Xyxer and half to himself.

[WC: 1574]

"Apparently someone has been stealing food from people, and it seems it's my job to track them down. And then I have several more that I plan to do hopefully by the end of the day." Xyxer just rubbed his chin a little as he thought about this, shrugging his shoulders as he spoke, "I have nothing better to do. Do you wish for me to help you with these 'missions'?" Watching the boy, after what he had witnessed just moments earlier, he was just hoping that none of these missions involved activities with men in alleys. But he didn't expect anything less from this child.

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"I have nothing better to do. Do you wish for me to help you with these 'missions'?" Kotaro stood there for several seconds and thought over this offer, the last time Xyxer had offered to do anything with him he had woken up in hospital with a broken hand. Though hopefully this wouldn't happen this time, since there wouldn't be anything that would involve Xyxer having to hit him...hopefully. He nodded slightly, "Sure." Before setting off down the street at a slow pace, he didn't plan on finding the thief quickly, the last few times he had needed to find thieves it had taken several hours. So with a sigh he just stuck to wandering the streets until he happened to stumble across the guy..which he did almost immediately. His gaze turned to a fat woman try and stealthily put as many cakes in her bag as possible in the store across the road, Kotaro's eyebrow raised...he was not dealing with this.

[WC: 1845]

Xyxer groaned a little as he looked around the area, squinting for a few moments and nodding to a few citizens of the village. After that, he looked back towards Kotaro and watched him as he walked down the street, sighing and following after him two steps behind. They both had reasons to these missions; Xyxer's being that he just wanted more ryo so he could purchase better stuff. Finally get renown. Licking his dry lips for a minute, he was going to let Kotaro do the brunt of most of these missions. He was just coming along for the ride to make sure he didn't mess anything up. Following him around the streets, he smiled a little as Kotaro suddenly stopped and seemed to stare at somebody. Xyxer followed his gaze and noticed a rather chubby woman trying to hide cakes in her bag. He could sense how much Kotaro didn't want to do this, which made it even better for him. Walking straight behind him, he pushed the boy square in his shoulders, forcing him to take steps towards the woman. "At least make an effort or I'm going to tell those builders why you slacked off when around them."

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