The Culling Part 2

Mission Link: Mission 3

Mission Details:

The Chuunin at the mission desk gave almost a half nod as he quickly rifled through the mission scrolls he had. Finally he pulled out another green rimmed scroll and tossed it to the bearded Chuunin. “Yea. Sorry it’s another D rank but it’s important and needs to get done quickly and effiecently.” Senshi nodded catching the scroll and turning to head out of the mission office. Once he was on the street he unraveled the scroll, reading it carefully as he walked. While he didn’t mind doing D rank missions, this was just ridiculous to the extreme. He did not want to go into the sewers, at all. Releasing a sigh he continued to read, memorizing all of the relevant information before placing the scroll into his left weapons pouch.
 
It looked like the sewers of the village were infested with possibly disease ridden rats and even a few alligators. Not to mention the fact that there were apparently several blockages of trash or even feces that needed to be cleared out. With a sigh at just how dirty he was going to get the tall Chuunin returned to his apartment first dropping his sword off and changing from his normal clothing into the worst clothing he owned. A simple pair of black pants, a dark red tank top with a deep purple jacket over it. He sealed the jacket up so that just the top of his dark red tank top showed through. Then he placed on a pair of worn dark red gloves, and full toed dark red work boots.
 
It was an outfit that he had worn to work in his fathers shop and he knew that it was worn and he could get it dirty without having to ruin his normal clothing. He would probably end up throwing the outfit away at the end of this, after all he didn’t want his nice, new apartment smelling like the sewers. Once he had completed that he strapped his weapons pouches to his thighs and his tantos to his hips. Despite the fact that most of the main sewer system tunnels were eight feet in height he would not be bringing Bastuodosodo. She would be extremely ineffective even in the main tunnels let alone in the side tunnels that were much smaller.
 
Once he was fully outfitted for his venture he headed towards the village gates, checking in with the guards again before heading out of it. Walking along the wall for several miles until he finally found the entrance he was supposed to use. Forming the correct seal to get through the entrance he walked into the wide, cavernous mouth of the sewers entrance tunnel sealing it behind him. He spent several seconds letting his eyes adjust to the dim light of the tunnel before he began to creep along it. It wasn’t long before he saw the first rat, in fact there were five of them in a group.
 
He paused standing quietly, watching them as they scurried around nibbling at what Senshi was sure was poop. He was carefully breathing through his nose hoping that he would adjust to the foul odor soon. Deciding that using weapons or even any of the other ninjutsu he knew would be a waste of time he went through his mental memory banks of jutsu information. He had wanted to learn the Wind Release: Wind Slash technique for awhile now. This would be the perfect opportunity to practice the technique. He wouldn’t have to get his hands dirty and the technique would be powerful enough to kill anything he encountered down here.
 
Thinking about the technique he recalled that it had only one hand sign, bird. It would create a small blade of wind, and as he got better he could choose to create more than one or just fuse them into one that could be near four meters in length. Four meters would be more than enough to kill each of the five rats before him, in fact he would need to make the blade much smaller than that or risk damaging the integrity of the tunnels structure. He focused on his chakra pulling it forth and quickly converting it into wind chakra. He slowly made the bird hand seal before focusing in pushing his chakra forth.
 
A blade of wind just under a meter wide shot forth from his hands flying at the rats. It sliced the five of them in half but petered out several inches away from them. It was good that he was going to get plenty of practice with the technique in here, considering that he needed to kill at least ninety five more rats in order to meet the minimum requirements to finish the mission. Granted it more of an honor system, but Senshi understood how disease was a hazard to the village and skimping on the mission would put it at risk. Giving a sigh and hoping against hope that he never had to do a mission like this again he began walking again.
 
He made sure to employ as much stealth as he could, considering if he didn’t then he would likely scare any of the rats or even alligators off and make his task that much harder. He went several meters before he heard the familiar scratching and squeeking of a nearby rat. He paused his momentum looking around for the sounds only to see what he would call a rather large gather of rats. There were at least ten of them, most all surrounding one single huge fat rat. Senshi watched as the fat rat would squeak at the others, as though speaking to them. It almost looked like some kind of congregation of rats.
 
Rats planning some kind of Rat revolution or something. Senshi formed the bird hand sign again, and knowing that he had not added enough power last time increased the amount of chakra he pushed into the technique sending it forth and watching as half the rats died in a gory mess. He had to quickly reform the hand seal and send another blade of wind forwards, this time focusing on creating two of them to target the now scurrying rats. Moments later his kill count was fifteen dead rats and zero injured Senshi’s. His nose was at least starting to get more used to the vile smell down here.
 
He could only wonder how many showers he would need to take to wash this stench off of himself. Regardless of how much assistance the village needed with missions today he was going to make this his last. He couldn’t handle another disgusting mission like this today. In fact he was rather certain that after seeing this much feces he wouldn’t be eating for the rest of the day. As he began creeping forwards he could see corn, actual full pieces of corn in some of the floating pieces of poo. He averted his eyes trying not to think about the diet of his fellow villagers. It would only turn his stomach and it would waste time if he was sitting here puking everywhere rather than killing animals.
 
He killed twenty more rats, bringing his total to thirty five, before reaching the first cross section in the sewers. He turned down it surprised to see a massive wall of trash piled up in front of him. Staring at it with a look of resigned fate he backed up as far as he could pulling forth his chakra. Focusing on creating the blade of wind to be as strong as he could possibly made it, and forming diagnolly, he created the bird hand sign and watched as the chakra flew from his hands. The trash wall was sliced in half spilling every where and Senshi quickly released a second blade of wind cutting the remaining bits down so that it could flow easier.
 
He jumped quickly crouching so that he was now on the ceiling of the sewer. He was happy he had done so because behind the wall of trash was ten alligators swarming all over each other. They were snarling and snapping around as they were being pushed forwards by the sudden strength of the water around them. Apparently the wall of trash had created a massive buildup and the only thing that had saved Senshi from being drowned in a flood of urine and feces had been his quick actions to jump onto the ceiling. As he quickly formed the bird sign again releasing several blades of wind he threw up from the stench and sight of so much human waste.
 
The two blades he released managed to kill four of the ten alligators and he quickly dispatched the remaining six alligators with more blades of wind, managing to make them far more accurate than the first attack had been now that he could focus past the stench. His eyes had begun watering from the ridiculously strong, overpowering smell. Taking a moment to calm his now roiling stomach he crept forwards in a crouch remaining stuck to the ceiling. He was not going to risk stepping in any more of that stuff while he could help it. As he crept along the short hallway of poop he killed another twenty rats with more usage of the Wind Release Slash technique.
 
He had decided that of all the missions he had ever done, this one was officially the worst one of them all. Pushing off his grumbling thoughts he continued to move on the ceiling taking another turn. As he did so he found another five alligators and quickly dispatched them. He was lucky that none of these animals was truly dangerous. He was able to kill them with quick usage of his new technique. Probably the only good thing about this whole thing was the fact that he was becoming more and more proficient with the wind release slash technique.
 
It would be more than enough to injure an enemy shinobi or at least act as a deterrant to them. He had already thought of several ways he could use the technique, the least of which was to use it to trip a trap he had previously set up. Shaking off his thoughts of future uses of his new technique he continued to move about killing more rats and clearing out much smaller blockages than before. If he were a vindictive person he would begin to plan how to kill whomever had created and or requested this mission. Another thirty minutes and he had finally killed twenty three alligators and over a hundred and fifty rats. Not to mention the amount of blockages of just trash that he had found.
 
He didn’t know what those red, cottony type things were but whomever was flushing them down toilets needed to stop. Like seriously, didn’t people know that toilets were not trash cans and as such trash should not go down them. Shaking the thoughts off he turned around heading for the exit, using the Wind Release Slash to kill more rats as he was heading back. The Chuunin who had assigned the mission had not been kidding when he had said that there was a rat infestation problem down here. It was clear that this mission had been necessary even if it was terrible and Senshi was sure he would have PTSD from having to do it.
 

He would certainly not be coming anywhere near a sewer again for awhile. It did not matter how much he needed the money, it wasn’t worth this. As he exited the sewer he threw up again and then took several large gulps of fresh clean air. He ignored the disgusted looks of the gate guards as he checked back in and walked through the village. He received several looks of pure horror and disgust not only at his dirty appearance but also at the smell he was radiating. He quickly filled out his report as he walked, so that when he arrived at the mission office and walked in he just placed it on the Chuunin’s table before turning and walking out. Never uttering a word he headed to the training grounds so he could wash off what grime he could before heading home. There was no way he was entering his new home smelling this bad.


WC: 2062
Claiming:
D Rank Mission Complete, 1000 Ryo, Wind Release: Slash