Here's to hoping i don't die! [P]

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Do you ever feel like you're about to go skint, lose all your property and livelihood and most probably die a slow and miserable death in the cold streets of Hoshi?

No? Well, that's what Akemi is thinking right now. Wincing as he opened his wallet, Akemi came to the solid realization that today was the day in which he was going to not be poor anymore! Gone, were the days were Akemi was poor, he was going to do this! But where to start? Akemi sighed as he pulled on the rest of his clothes. All the missions were either: 1) too easy, or 2) too difficult. Once again, Akemi hoped that he would one day have some kind of partner to help him with the missions. It always ended terribly when he tried to talk to people if he were to base it off his recent encounter with the two people who entered the shady inn.

With getting dressed out of the way, Akemi walked out of his bedroom, curving around the corner and ending up in his kitchen. The kitchen, which he was sure to lose if he didn't pull his socks up and GO AND DO A BLOODY MISSION. After making some tea and putting on his sandals. Akemi walked outside, bringing all his weapons because Akemi felt like he needed to do some kind of hard mission. Perhaps some kind of combat mission? Akemi suddenly shuddered, he felt like, in a previous life, he had died due to combat. What a silly thought? A previous life? One might think that living in a village of religious maniacs was the cause of these strange, strange thoughts.

Once he was outside, he started the short trek to the mission counter. On the way, he decided to try the space-time technique known as "Flicker Movement" to try and get there faster. It was essentially another kind of speed booster, like the seven heavens, but it was slightly better in the fact that Akemi could actually use chakra by using it. Akemi was a primary taijutsu user, but in the inability to use chakra made him somewhat predictable, easy to figure out, Akemi wanted to be versatile, be able to surprise the opponent with a series of random movements and strikes.

So, if he remembered correctly, flicker movement only required two hand seals, what was it again? Rat-Horse? No, no no, That wasn't it. Rat-Boar? That sounded correct. Though Akemi wasn't going to attempt to do it now. Right now, it was time to do a mission!

Shortly after pondering about the specifics of the Flicker Movement, Akemi arrived at the mission counter, noticeably worried about the prospect of (Probably) having to fight someone. He walked up to the counter and spotted a short, slightly chubby women sitting behind the counter, reading some book called '50 Shades Of Grey'.

"Ummm, H-Hello?" Asked Akemi, his social anxiety always coming back to bite him in the bum. The women lifted slowly lifted her gaze from her book, and looked at Akemi like one might look at a mangy beast.

"What can I help you with sir?" She spoke in an almost sickly-sweet voice, staring at him down her nose. Akemi was rather taken aback, had he met these women before? He didn't think so. Then he remembered, pretty much every civilian in Hoshi hated shinobi. That meant he couldn't trust whatever she said and he had to be wary.

"I-i-i was wondering if i c-could receive a mission?" He asked, prepared to not take anything she responded with at face value.

"Indeed, there is a very Easy mission available" She would pause to see if he had any objections, Akemi didn't so she continued "It's about a Weak infiltrator which is trying to sneak in through our village's sewer system, go stop him, neutralise him at any cost, be careful though, you're underground so trying not to use any of your powerful techniques, you could possibly make the entire village sink! So, are you going to take it?"

Akemi nodded and received the mission slip from her, stuffing it into his weapon pouch, he nodded a curt thanks at her and set off in the direction of sewers. Judging from the fact that she said it was going to be easy, Akemi realized that this was going to be incredibly difficult. But it would be too embarrassing to turn back now, so he had to push on.

Once reaching the sewers, Akemi would walk through the open tunnel and immediately study the 'Battle Ground'. The sewers seemed to be a straight, circular corridor. About 6 meters in diameter, with two meter long walkways along either side. In the middle, their seemed to be some... Disgusting water which Akemi was definitely not going to be seen going anywhere near!

Akemi pressed on into the sewers, he would only stop if he was interrupted or something was suspicous. Of course, using chakra suppression and keeping his guard up the whole time.

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As Akemi continued in his tense walk through the stinky sewers, he did two things. First, he reached into both of his weapon pouches and wrapped an explosive note around a kunai, then put the kunai back into the pouch. Then, he unholstered his bo staff and gripped it tightly with both his hands. Doing both of these actions carefully so as not to ruffle or cause any disturbances to his clothes.

He was scared, there was no doubt about that. He was almost shaking, though he had to hold strong. That's when he had an idea. Fighting in the enclosed space of the sewers was an incredibly bad idea, why not bring the fight outside? He didn't know if that would mean he would fail the mission or not.

Akemi quickly and silently backtracked to the entrance of the sewers, never lowering his guard or chakra suppression. See, Akemi knew that some ninjas had a special ability called "Chakra Sensory", performing a technique would compromise that. Akemi knew that the sewer he was currently in had one exit, this one. Meaning that if the rat wanted to continue with this route, he would have to eventually come through this exit/entrance thingymajig.

Once outside, Akemi performed the hand-seals Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram, bit finger and placed both his palms on the grassy ground.

In a puff of smoke, a small chameleon appeared, it was about 4 inches long, had red/green colored stripes going width-ways down it's back, and it looked rather angry...

"What d'ya want, Summoner?" The chameleon asked, it's puny voice sounding shrill and ringing through the air. Akemi found this quite funny, the kind of funny where you know that you're about to die, so you try to find humor in anything.

"L-listen, there's no time, I'm in danger and I need your help" Akemi stuttered, a mix between his nerves and complete inept ability at all things social. The chameleon laughed, it's squinting eyes continued to stare at Akemi.

"People usually offer their names before demanding help. Ohh, the horror! How could you do such a thing? This is absolutely preposterous! Well anyway, my name is Carlos, a pleasure to meet you." Laughed the Chameleon. Akemi was shocked, how did any living being speak so much? Especially in the presence of an unknown stranger.

"H-h-hello Carlos, my name is Akemi. Please stop with this! I really n-need your help." Akemi pleaded. Carlos only regarded Akemi with a twinkle in his eye.

"I see, show me what you can do then." The chameleon demanded. Akemi was getting desperate now. He held up his hand to signify 'Give me a minute' and then do you know what he did? Akemi simply walked off, realizing that this was not the mission for him. Perhaps he should come back when he grew a lot stronger? Yup! 

Once he walked off, Akemi spent the rest of the day talking to Carlos and started working out the intricacies of the flicker movement technique.

(Exiting, cause I'm a pussy and Kenshin scares me)

(Total Word Count: 1348)

(Claims: C-Ranked mission failure, Carlos [1000/1000], Flicker Movement [348/1000]

I'm totally claiming this mission accomplished since the dude never actually got into Hoshi.

Seeing as your response was basically



I claim this as my win ^_^

I'm gonna do this mission again some day, requesting Kenshin npcs that so i can kick his ass <3