Saving Royalty [Mission, IO, Hikari, Shouhei]

MISSION:

Task:
A visiting royal has unfortunately lost his/her way at the Haven borders and it is your task to first track them down and the lead them to Hoshigakure safely. Beware though, bandits are rumored to wander the borders and an organization called Jaws of Grima seems to have it out for the royalty of Haven. Should you encounter the rogues, you are required to deal with them however you deem wise.


Miyamoto was trying to take the day off, his training and sparring had afforded him as much as he yawned and walked through the town. Today he was in his loungewear, a tan shirt with black pants to keep him warm. The news of the town was still the monks holding various advantageous areas of Hoshi for themselves, talk of Queensguard and Jounin having their hands full, and to top it all off it seems that there seemed to be an influx dignitaries from far away lands. Miyamoto walked through the shinobi friendly areas of town as crowds gathered for demonstrations...it was enough to cause Miymaoto to sigh with frustration, but as he did so he saw that there was a worried looking individual near the mission office. Miyamoto approached him cautiously, his hand on a stone that he carried with him in case he needed to perform one of his signature jutsu. Upon approaching the brightly dressed individual Miyamoto inquired with him.

“What seems to be the problem sir, you look distraught?” Miyamoto remained calm as the man stopped and looked down at Miyamoto.

“M-my...the noble emissary from Sunagakure…” The man straightened up as he looked down at Miyamoto.
“We seem to have lost each other at the borders of this country, I have filled out a mission request, but they said that teams are dispatched already.” The man finished.

Miyamoto looked up quizzically to the man as he sighed and walked over to the mission counter. He inquired about the mission, and after finding out it was a C ranked mission, Miyamoto needed to put together a team to do this task. He asked for a roster of shinobi after giving his own credentials. The noble that was worried was back to looking around nervously before being surprised at Miyamoto at the mission counter. Miyamoto picked two names from the roster, they had not worked together ever, but he has met and sort of sparred with each. They could handle this, though at the borders...anything could happen, they needed to be careful. Miyamoto took the Mission contract and bowed to the lady behind the counter as she disappeared into the back to send out the messages. The message had the mission details along with instructions on where to meet.

Miymaoto was quick to arrive at his house and dress in his combat attire, a black Gi with a couple of stones placed in pockets inside the Gi. He tied the headband around his head, donned the gloves that held the Amegakure and Terumi crests as he made it to the village gates.

“So much for a day off…” He would say as he would wait for Shouhei and Hikari.

Mission Start

WC:454

It was around noon when Hikari Namikaze was reading a scroll explaining how to use the next technique she was wanting to learn, it was a B-rank jutsu by the name of wind style: Flower Scattering Dance. In the scroll she was reading, it said The flower scattering dance is a wind style b ranked jutsu. In it, the user summons a cyclone of immense power that can be manipulated by the users dominant arm moving to direct it. The user preforms the tecnique by using the hand signs, Tiger, Hare, Dragon,The user can learn how to use this tecnique by…. Suddenly, Hikari would hear a knock on her door.

Hikari was wearing a white dress, so she was able to come to the door completely dressed. As she arrived to the door, she opened it, completely expecting to see Shoushei Sato knocking on the door, (No one else came over, ever) However, instead, it was a shinobi Hikari didn’t recognize.

He would hold out a scrap of paper for the young teenager and say, “Emergency mission for you, Mrs. Namikaze.” Hikari would take the piece of paper and start to shake nervously as the ninja left her, she immediately would open the note and read what it said.

A visiting royal has unfortunately lost his/her way at the Haven borders and it is your task to first track them down and the lead them to Hoshigakure safely. Beware though, bandits are rumored to wander the borders and an organization called Jaws of Grima seems to have it out for the royalty of Haven. Should you encounter the rogues, you are required to deal with them however you deem wise.

Hikari would shake nervously as she read the mission, this was her first combat mission, a mission that she was most likely going to have to fight in. She didn’t feel ready for this, but at the same time she knew that there was a noble family out there that could and would be killed if she didn’t do anything! Hikari would go back to her room and slide into her combat gear, a white and read combat dress with long stockings and elbow figureless gloves. She put her weapons into her pouch and would do some warm up’s in her room, she would do some jumping jacks, do some push-ups, do some curl-ups, some splits, and various other stretches before she left for the meet up point.

Hikari would be about to head out, when she noticed that she had forgotten her head band. She would run back into her room and grab it and think about where she should put it. After thinking for some time, she would put it on under her dress, around her upper left thy. That way, if she needed to hide the fact that she was a shinobi, she could do it easily.

Namikaze would start to head toward s the village gates. She knew that she had two comrades that she was supposed to meet up with and preform the mission with them. She would jog there and would get here in time to see a young shinobi that she had sparred with before, his name was Miyamoto. Hikari would wave at him and ask, “Hey Miyamoto, are you on this assignment with me?”

Word count: 558

Sitting around one of their more casual dinner tables, Shouhei were eating lunch with a good handful of his family. His toddler sister was there, his parents, grandparents, and a couple of his aunts and uncles all eating barbecue made from a newly roasted pig and ox with a large assortment of salads and roasted vegetables all made by their cook Takumi. Shouhei himself was of course eating like a healthy boy as he listened to his youngest uncle’s exploits with being engaged to this very prominent. Okay it wasn’t so much bragging as it was a body builder saying he could lift three-hundred pounds. There was a lot of work into it, and Shouhei had to remind himself that woman of high standing didn’t come easy since you also had to win the parents and their grandparents. Shouhei looked at his own grandparents and thought that he probably weren’t in any trouble with getting them to approve a choice of mate, but then another part of himself reminded that he was only fourteen. So why was he thinking about that?

Not that soon thereafter there as a knock on their gate, not that Shouhei could hear that, but one of their servants did tell him that there was a message by curious only for him. “My apologies everyone.” Shouhei said, and then he escaped the scene with some subtlety. Getting the message, he took the back route to his room to get his things, but not before informing one of the maids that he had to perform official village business.

One error was quite noticeable about the message was given as he walked towards the city gates. No one told him that they were in a hurry (and Shouhei personally thought that the mission would be a rescue mission with a hint of ransom money rather than them being too late to save the dude), so he walked rather than run or jump from building to building. Overall, he might be what others would consider ten to fifteen minutes later. However, he had been smart and planned something ahead in case they were angry.

“Hey guys. Let's finish this quickly so we can go home. The barbecue at home was great, and I want some of those leftovers.” He greeted the two familiar faces in a tone that appeared very calm as if this was just routine. It wasn’t really, but he had not told neither Hikari or Miyamoto about his training sessions with Shina which had made him somewhat more comfortable with life and dead.

And now back to the idea he had before, Shouhei handed the both of them a plastic bagged sample of the pork and ox barbecue. "Try it and taste what I am fighting for!"

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Miyamoto had been waiting a good twenty minutes before either of his teammates showed up at the gates.  The first was Hikari as she dressed in something a bit untraditional of a shinobi for field combat, but it must be apart of her distinctive style.  He made a note of it for later as she greeted him warmly to which he reached his left hand behind his head and scratched as he waved to her with his right hand.

“Hey Hikari, hope you have been keeping up on your training like we discussed.  I was the one that selected you and Shouhei for the mission...though I do not know how much longer he is going to be.  We need to get a move on, these noble’s are a bunch of fickle fools...and Hoshi does not need that kind of blood on their hands right now.”  He said as he tapped his foot.

They waited there at the gates as the morning passed by.  Shouhei was taking his sweet ass time and it was almost to the point that Miyamoto nearly suggested that he and Hikari undertake the mission themselves.  Then just like that, he showed, wearing normal shinobi battle attire and holding two bags of what appeared to be barbeque.  He offered them both a bag  after greeting them and letting them know he wanted to get the mission done quick.  Miyamoto took the bag and ate quickly as he did smile and thank Shouhei even though he was not all that happy about his tardiness.

“I plan on being done quick as well, we need to make sure that the noble is safe and returned to Hoshi though.  If we can do this without any casualties, then this mission will be easy.  So are we ready?”  He asked as he looked to the two of them and waited for their answers before he would head back to the gate and ask for them to be let through.

WC: 330/784  ( not counting WC towards mission till we leave Hoshi...)

Hikari would meet up with Miyamoto and would apologize for making him wait, when this was done, the two of them would take some time and wait for Shouhei. It was possible that they should of just gone ahead without him, but Hikari didn’t want to go on this mission without the boy that tought her ninjutsu. As she waited, wondering what was taking so long, she would take inventory of what weapons she had. Weapons, she was possibly going to need this in order to kill people. She would take a deep breath and would start to remember what techniques she had in her arsenal. She still needed to learn more ninjutsu. After an extended period of time, Shouhei would arrive and offer them both some barbecue. Hikari would wait until Miyamoto finished and tried a few. She was trying to watch her figure, and didn’t want to eat to many, but at the same time didn’t want to make it look like she wasn’t willing to try the barbecue.

She put two pieces of the meat into her mouth and felt the spice of it on her tounge, she had never had barbecue before in her small tea shop on the outskirts of town, and while it was a little bit spicy for her taste, it was still a wonderful texture which she would understand why people would love this.

“Thank you so much Shouhei! We do need to get back to the village so you can go back to eating this!” Namikaze would give Shouhei a slight bow to show her thanks before giving back the bag.

As Miyamoto and (Presumably) Shouhei would walk through the gates, Hikari would follow suit. She didn’t know what she was fully doing, so she followed the two more experienced Genin. After some time, Namikaze would ask, “So…. Do we know how we can find the nobles? As Miyamoto said, nobles can be fickle and might of ended up in another country for all we know! How do we plan on finding them?”

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“Nah just keep it.” Shouhei responded to Hikari’s attempt to hand him back the leftover samples. “It’s just meat.” He followed nonchalantly then started to listen to what the others would say about the mission keeping his arms crossed over his flak jacket but otherwise looking relaxed about the situation.

Miyamoto’s response was quite simple, he just wanted to leave as fast as they could to both save and kick some ass. There was also something about him being worried about the political implications which surprised Shouhei that Miyamoto thought of such things. He was very young after all.

Hikari on the other hand, seemed more concerned with the basics of tracking and reconnaissance. That’s one of the disadvantages of going through the academy so fast and at that an old age…. In short, Shouhei was the middleman in all this. That meant he had to share a few things or two.

“We start by going to the place he was last seen. According to my calculation, that should take an hour or two if we travel like ninjas. Swiftly and sometimes skipping the main road.” Shouhei noted and had a short second to catch his breath before following up without skipping a beat. “Then we will look for clues in the form of items, tracks – both feet, horse, and cart tracks – and bodies, if that fails we will ask any locals but be subtle about it only going by physical descriptions as to make sure we do not accidentally alarm the Jaws of Grima. Regular bandits shouldn’t be that big a problem. They just want money. I can search for chakra signatures so that’s a plus, but only at short distances. There is a technique called Mind’s Eye of the Kagura that can make you search for those on a regional and country size area, but I haven’t had time to train that, and we do not have time to do that now so we will have to make do with the short distance chakra detection.”

After catching his breath he looked at Miyamoto. “I heard your teacher on your genin team is Kyousuke. Did he teach you how to detect chakra as well, Miyamoto?”

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Miyamoto listened to his teammates as the guards opened the village gates. This was the first time he was undertaking a mission outside of his new home. He nearly forgot what it was like to be out in the wilds, and it made him smile as the two finished their questions and statements. He turned around and scratched his head again with his left hand before first moving to answer Hikari before Shouhei did him the favor by explaining it all as he simply nodded in agreement. That is when he chimed in after Shouhei had finished.

“The plan I think we should go with is the same as Shouhei’s. If we follow the details of the mission papers the pair were last seen exactly two hours away near the southern edge of the border where they took a rest from their travels. If the bandits DID in fact take him, it means they were most likely tipped off for one, and two it appears they may want money. Or it could be a case of errant noble that did not like the current life he was living and ran away...either way. We bring him back or his body…” He started in as Shouhei asked him about Kyousuke and his training.

“In fact he did teach me that same technique to sense chakra. So hopefully combined we can set up a net in which to comb an area. Now I elect Shouhei for team leader on this mission, anyone have objections to this speak up now.”

He would finish and after it was all said and done, after a leader was picked for the mission it was go time.

Miyamoto would leave with the team as they would follow the road out of the village for about two and a half miles before taking to the trees. At the edge of the trees Miyamoto would look to Shouhei as he would nod to him.

“Ok so let’s set up this chakra sensory net and try to comb the area. You ready?” He would ask, waiting for the team.

WC: 349/1,133

Hikari would listen to their explenation, she had a question but she felt like she was being an idiot and didn't want to ask it. The question was if their chakra sensory was good enough to sense the chakra in non- shinobi, but Hikari figgured it had to be and would continue with them. The one thing that she felt off about was the fact that she couldn't help the boy's in this situation, she felt kind of useless. At the same time though, she knew that this was their thing, and that surely her time would come soon. As they walked the two and a half miles to get to the tree's, Hikari would think about that jutsu she was working on, she had chose it because of it's fun name, but Hikari thought about it and realized it was a good intermediate between her current A-rank jutsu, and her current C-rank jutsu. If that wasn't enough, the name "Flower scattering dance" Was enough for Hikari to take the time to learn the tecnique.

After they made it to the tree's HIkari would up to them and jump up into them at a speed of 55 and land on the lowest branch, before looking back at her comrades. "Ok, what should I do while you guys are looking for chakra signatures?"

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”Okay that’s good. Will make our job a lot easier.” Shouhei responded in an optimistic tone to Miyamoto’s reply. However, Shouhei was still surprised he was appointed leader – or at least with Hikari’s silence on the matter – in spite of his high and mighty thoughts before about the middleman of this group.

When they arrived at the forested area – and Shouhei was very happy that they travelled at his speed considering he was the slowest in the group – both his companions asked him a question and an answer they should get. Normally he would have just told that they should look for clues, however with Hikari here, she could do the most of that part of the grunt work while Miyamoto and himself search for chakra signatures. “You will be following those tracks Hikari and looking for clues on the trail. We should expect horses since the diplomat had to travel through a few countries to get here after leaving the border of the country of wind.” He pointed to the clearing below where one could see a few horseshoe tracks going in a singular direction with a single one going off track. The one going off-track obviously belonging to the person who had told them that the nobleman was missing to begin with. “Say if you can detect blood or disruptions in the ground like someone who have fallen off a horse, if there have been battle, or tracks that almost look like a circus circle. Funny enough those are actually used for cutting people off from their path.”

Shouhei went into a position as if he was ready to jump off the tree branch. “Miyamoto and I will be doing a pincher maneuver – or walking in a V – while you are in the middle making it a W formation. That way we can cover more ground without moving in a too great distance from each other. If we find anything, activate distress signal in your headband. Try not to engage the enemy alone, unless they are obviously executing the dude, and hostile animals should just be evaded. Try not to travel faster than five steps per second or our formation might go out of proportion. That’s our strategy for now.

The tactics – that means short term and in the moment plans,” he quickly noted, “we will go about as it becomes relevant.”

“I’ll take the right, and you the left, Miyamoto.” There after Shouhei jumped off and started to move in his direction with his chakra sensory active. So far he couldn’t feel anything but his companion or the occasional high seated bird.

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Miyamoto looked to his team leader and listened to his instructions as he looked down to Hikari, as soon as the plans were acknowledged Miyamoto hopped from one side of the road to the other. He chose to stick to the trees as he would have a better vantage from there, also he was less likely to be caught off guard, but the fact remained that if there were bandits...they knew this land even better than they did.

“Be on your guard…” Miyamoto would say under his breath as he would watch from the trees as Hikari and Shouhei would take their positions.

As they moved, Miyamoto was silent as he moved at a constant speed of 30, keeping up the Chakra senor up as he could feel the presence of his teammates, everyone was doing their job, everything was going right.

The time passed quickly as by midday they had reached the coordinates at which the nobles were last seen together. Below him was a clearing, Miyamoto scanned the area for chakra signatures, but found none so he sent a whistle to signal the others that he had found something before breaking from the trees to land down on the ground below. The area looked to be used recently, signs of game being skinned and eaten were rampant, and areas looked to be used for laying down.

If the pair had caught up to him they would see the same thing, unless they were otherwise preoccupied. Miyamoto recalled a time when he was a refugee, movement was used when it was available, and no energy was wasted. This camp was probably still fresh, meaning that whomever is waiting here has been here for a while. It was then that his chakra sensors would pick up a chakra other than the teams.

“Shit!” He would exclaim with a sharp breath, before hitting the distress signal on his headband and jumping into the trees above.

If the two would follow him, he would wait with them to see who would show up.

WC:342/1475