Killing two, or six, birds with one stone.

Akane was becoming nervous; things were starting to become really intense due to the fact that there was now a ninja, one of their targets, falling from up high down to them. She had every reason to believe that the group had been made as she wondered what the best course of action was to be. It was here she had noticed Shinoskay and his set of... puppets? This was the first time she had met a puppeteer so she didn't know whether to consider it refreshing or weird. She had missed when he had created them or summoned them but she watched him as he moved forward from where the cloaked ninja was about to land as she started to go through thoughts of what she'd need to do. She blinked her eyes a few times before closing them completely, trying to calm herself down, and then opened them back up to reveal her eyes composed of crimson and black.

It was here she noticed Higuto come up to her and whisper something in her ear. She thought it quite a good idea and nodded to him as she prepared herself for what was to come. She was also becoming jealous of the connection Higuto and Allegro seemed to share with each other as the two would constantly look at each other, without saying a word, while moving together like a team. It was here her Sharingan would pick up what seemed to be chakra flowing from Higuto's neck, behind one of his ears, as well as chakra flowing from one of his knuckles. She wondered what was causing them as she looked a bit closer behind Higuto's ear to see what looked to be a strange looking tattoo. A form of jutsu, perhaps, what from the chakra constantly floating around it? She had no idea but would keep quiet as she waited for the proper time to start her and Higuto's strategy if ever it presented itself.

(TWC 921/2,000)

(Sharingan: 1 AP
253 AP remaining)

It was a fascinating mission, and a fascinating encounter, overall a close call on top of all of that. The genin crew banded together to systematically defeat the many opponents presented to them by nearly defeating the heavy set woman but at least one or more of the genin demanded mercy for her and this paid off later as while they faught the rest of the enemies they found her returning for round two.... however because she was the least intelligent she was also more easily manipulated and through a combined effort of deception they turned her against her allies to make things into a three-way fight.

Even with this edge, the speed of the missing ninja presented a massive challenge for the young genin and so whle they made off with victory it was a hard-won victory and at least Shinoskay became injured during the fight. He may not have survived if it weren't for his abnormal healing and durability, having opted to take the blow on behalf of his allies when fighting the several dozens of puppets... he may very well have saved the life(s) of his comrades but he doesnt recall most of the fighting.... the adrenaline of the life or death fight became a massive blur to him.

A few highlights for those who faught alongside him, because they would notice since he had to go all out. Shinoskay seemed to know a little taijutsu and used it in compliment with his tail light weapon, his faster then normal puppets clay dolls, and his unique style of using chakra threads with shurikens and kunai to redirect weaponry midflight in order to surprise his foes... as well as deceptive ninjutsu such as switching from clones to the haze clone genjutsu in further compliment with his puppets... aptly hiding which was him and which was his clones even from those skilled in sensing chakra signatures.... this blend is likely what defeated the sensory ninja of the enemies group, as she expected that shinoskay's puppets all had signatures as if they were clones while her allies puppets had none... and he likely snuck in one of his puppets disguised like the puppeteers to get in a sneak attack on her while she was entangled in the fight alongside her comrades puppets.

They would also notice he seemed to almost have a never-ending supply of chakra, while though he would slow down every so often... and most of his jutsu were construct jutsu, he was almost always ready to send streams of light, low level, or small jutsu all throughout the encounter.

[exit wc 432/2112 =2000/2000]
claiming mission rewards, chakra suppression, and 5 stats

approved my guy

The giant woman approached the ground below and dangerous speeds, threatening to kill her on impact, and yet she was laughing manaically as she set her eyes on the pack of ninja with her birds eye view. When she was 20 meters above ground, she formed a hand seal and expanded the size of her entire torso. She took an abnormal round shape with a girth diameter of 10 meters. She tucked away her limbs so that she took the appearance of a large boulder. Chakra began to steam out of the sleeves where here limbs used to be and her giant body began to rotate at blinding speed just as her body hit the floor with impressive impact force. The collision caused a cloud of dust and debris to form all around the vicinity. The sound of the woman's voice and the rotation of her body that sounded a lot like the tires of a car penetrated the smokescreen before her actual body did. The giant woman came speeding towards the Leaf troop with 40 speed as she yelled, "HUMAN BOULDER JUTSU!! HAAHHAHA"

The woman plowed through dozens of trees and rocks in a random, indiscriminate attack pattern. Each collision shattered the earth below it with the strength of 100. She would eventually come across the genin at some point, so she had no problems rolling about until the entire Fire Country's forest were completely leveled. Shinoskay and his weird mud clones would make easy for the rolling tank. She would turn herself in full gear towards the ninja who dared to stand up against her alone. Anything that touched her would be pressed upon instantly with 100 strength. Big ma'am was the type who enjoyed playing with her food first before devouring it. So, she would demolish the clay dolls one by one until Shinoskay was the last standing. Then she would launch her body into the air so that she would body slam Shinoskay from above and press him deep into the earth. Once on top of him, she would rev her chakra through the sleeved of her clothing once again to resume the rotation. This would launch shinoskay along with the debris this attack created from the ground a few meters away. 

Meanwhile, in the tree fort above, the hostage was all tied up, bruised and bloodied. Phoenix was pulling out a silver lighter so that she could enjoy a smoke while watching the fight down below. She was the only one who could truly see the match from their height because of her sensory jutsu. She snickered when when Big Ma'am activated her signature jutsu. It tickled her to find how even a fatso like Big Ma'am could be such a splendid addition to their death squad. Hades stared into space intently from the depths of the shadows in a way that only his eyeballs were visible. He was quiet the creep and didn't speak much at all. His eyes were trained on Doll Maker, who was in the center of the treehouse tending to two scrolls that he had unraveled on the floor. After a short string of seals, and the slamming of both his palms on the incantations scribed in ink, the entire room was filled with dense white smoke. As the smoke cleared, it would be revealed that Doll maker was now surrounded by 18 wooden henchmen. They all wore a fuzzy cloak that resembled the one Doll Maker himself was wearing. None of them wore masts, however, only the menacing, lifeless look in their intricately carven faces. Doll Maker rose to his feet and adjusted his mask to fit snuggly on his face. His other hand rose to eye level and began to twitch as if to pull a string. Suddenly, all 18 of the puppets rose to life in unison. Their joints controlled by threads of chakra threads that linked to his hand. He was preparing for the event of any of the intruders making their way up the giant tree stalk. Doll maker was the extremely cautions type, and those types made for the most deadly in terms of long range fighting style. He controlled his puppets to lie in wait about 50 meters down the tree trunk.

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Allegro gave the orphan a stern look without saying anything. Shinoskay was acting too hastily. He insisted that he be the one to face off against the large woman plummeting down towards them, and without waiting for a consensus between the team, stormed into action. Though Allegro thought it was impressive that Shinoskay had finally managed to manipulate actual puppets through his ninjutsu skill, he was in too much of a hurry to show off his new skills, and it may very well cost him his life. Between Akane, Higuto and Allegro, it was unanimous that they needed to take quick action before Shinoskay gets himself killed. Allegro's ears twitched from under his headphones as Higuto whispered something to Akane. Allegro noticed a look from Akane which threw the Uzumaki off. He thought he had forgotten something! He brushed the Uchiha's hair back behind her ear with one hand and tapped her neck with one finger behind her ear. The same telepathy seal that she was observing with her Sharingan eye would be placed on her so that the three of them could communicate freely without speech. Just the way Allegro liked it. He would then turn around to follow after Shinoskay while he spoke telepathically. All the while he would observe the ongoing fight between Shinoskay and the large rolling boulder of a woman. His pace would dramatically increase once he saw that Shinoskay was slowly losing the fight.

'It's Showtime, ladies and gentlemen ♫! ! ! This isn't a stealth operation anymore. We need to shift gears into a full assault mode. They've sent a heavy hitter to try and sweep us out before we even make it to the outpost. Higuto kun, I believe you're the fastest out of the three of us here, and likely the best opponent for this ninja fighting Shinoskay. I'm sure Akane's eyes would agree that the large woman is strong, but slow and not very strategic. I bet you could trick her into using her own strength against them and destroying that tree from the base. That's right, I'm singing a completely different tune now. Let's go with Higuto's plan to take the entire outpost down. Akane chan and I will race up the tree and save the hostage by any means necessary while Higuto finds a way to cut this tree down. Leave Shinoskay to me, i'll hide him somewhere safe.'

Allegro would look over his shoulder to meet eyes with Akane and Higuto before they jumped into action. If all were in agreement, Allegro would dash forward with 105 speed and grab Shinoskay just before he was crushed by the Human Boulder body slam. He would not stop running in the direction towards the giant tree, and would leave the counter assault to Akane and Higuto. He would hide Shinoskay's unconscious body out of harms way [exit thread] and expect to meet with Akane shortly to make their way up the tree. 

[4422/2000 TWC]

NPC Jutsu Used:

Allegro AP:

Higuto had watched Shinoskay go into things a bit too quick and recklessly that he found out the hard way what happens when you separate from the team to do your own thing without any planning. Of course that reminded a lot of Higuto, in particular, as he was usually a brash one himself who went about things without allowing his team a chance to help. He saw the large woman falling as Allegro explained to them how plans would need to be changed in order for their mission to succeed. Higuto would simply nod, a blank expression in his face, as he looked down to Shinoskay's body and wondered if Allegro would have the speed to get to him on time. Upon hearing the plan of how Higuto was the best person to fight this woman and trick her, using the woman's own strength against the tree, he looked up the tree and gave a small and silent sigh. He didn't even notice Allegro give Akane the mark behind her ear.

Ever since his exams Higuto had shown a bit less happy of a mood as he was in the midst of going through his emotions and trying to work them out but, nevertheless, he would not allow his emotions to get the better of him as he nodded to Allegro and spoke back through his mind. 'Don't worry about the tree. If I can't get her to take it down I promise you I'll get it no problem. I'll get you five minutes to get in and out.' He offered a small smile upon saying this as he watched Allegro hop after Shinoskay before turning to Akane.

"Ready?"

Upon confirmation Higuto would then quickly form the Dog, Boar, and Ram seals as he suddenly was enveloped in a small billow of smoke.

(1,711/2,000 WC)

(Jutsu used: Transformation Technique: 5 AP
442 AP remaining)

Akane was surprised to feel Allegro rubbing something along the back of her ear as she blinked and jumped back a bit until she heard a voice within her ear. It turned out to be Allegro's voice as she listened to Allegro's plan intently, a bit panicked that they had already lost one of their teammates, as she looked up the large tree and wondered if she would be able to follow through with such plans. She took in a deep breath as Higuto was mentioned in the plan and she gave him a look to see how he was doing. Using her Sharingan she was able to see every detail in her teammates face, even if he tried to hide it, as she was able to see he was most certainly in pain over something. 

'Poor kid.'

She would then hear Higuto's voice over how he'd be able to get the tree down in five minutes which impressed even her as she looked up the huge tree and then gave Higuto, the 11 years old boy apparently somehow holding super strength within him, a look of skepticism though she didn't question it too much as she looked up the tree with her eyes to see the woman getting dangerously close. She then saw Allegro hop after Shinoskay before looking to Higuto and nodding to him after he had asked her if she was ready. She pulled out, from a backpack she had carried along with her, a furled up Fuma Shuriken as she wrenched her arm and flicked her wrist a bit and the Shuriken unfurled out into it's full size. She reached into the puff of smoke that Higuto had become surrounded in and pulled out a second Fuma Shuriken which she placed on top of her own Shuriken. Using her Sharingan she could see Big Ma'am coming down while formed up in a giant ball ready to destroy everything in her path on the way down as Akane thought of a strategy on how to go about throwing her Shuriken and, in extension, Higuto. She took a look up at Big Ma'am and saw that she was using some weird technique that made her even bigger as she came crashing down to the ground. She didn't feel now was the best time to throw the Shuriken and Higuto due to this as she carried them with her while hopping along the tree branches to keep at a safe distance. She would try to stay hidden behind the cover of the trees as she watched what Big Ma'am did after she crashed down to the ground with her Sharingan while keeping her guard up.

(Jutsus used: Sharingan: 1 AP; 120 Speed/210 RT)

Big Ma'am had missed her mark. She hit the ground with such force, that there was a permanent indent where she had landed with her large round body. Her body would continue rotating like a gigantic truck tire, this time redirecting her course to be more accurate. As a C rank MN, she knew the basics of chakra sensory, and was able to detect Higuto and Akane's chakra to be the closest to her while Allegro's chakra indicated that he was making a run for it with his fallen friend. The speed of her Human boulder grew seemingly more intense as she tanked onward towards the kunoichi holding giant windmill shuriken.

"I won't let you ants escape! DIE!!!"

She would seek to crush Akane and the shuriken altogether in one blow with her Human boulder before hunting down the one with the red hair.

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As the genin dashed through the forest towards the gigantic tree at its center, he hoped with all his might that he had made the right decision in splitting the group up in this way. Because of the way things turned out so far, he had to prioritize the lives of his comrades first, but at the same time put all of their lives in danger. The paradox drove him crazy. Finally, the boy took a very deep breathe once he found the perfect spot to hide his unconscious teammate. 

Now just 20 meters from the base of the tree tower, Allegro looked upward and saw its unending ascent into the skies above. By this time, the puppets Doll Maker had set 50 meters up were already hidden and waiting for both Allegro and Akane. He touched the mark under his ear briefly, awakening the telepathic link between the three of them.

'Our 5 minutes start now. Are you guys okay? Akane chan, leave her to Higuto, and let's go. We won't have much time now that things have gotten serious.'

(Is currently being dragged around by Akane as a shuriken so not much to post... So yeah. XD
Transformation technique upkeep: 3 AP; 439 AP remaining)

Akane had been keeping a close eye on Big Ma'am as she could see the huge meatball of a woman seemingly use the momentum of crashing into the ground in order to roll and bounce up exactly to where she had been in the trees. This surprised her for a moment though she leapt into quick action, her Sharingan seemingly able to see what the woman was about to do before she even had the chance to do it, as she stopped on one branch of a tree and waited for the woman to get in close. As soon as the woman was 2 meters away from crashing through the tree that Akane was standing on Akane took advantage of her slow speed in order to jump forward and directly over Big Ma'am as her jump pointed her in the direction of the big tree that held their objective. While in the air of her jump her Sharingan continued to keep track of Big Ma'am as she was able to follow and see even further predictions of what Big Ma'am was going to do as she could see that upon hitting the ground the woman was going to end her Human Boulder technique and revert to normal. Taking this prediction in stride Akane twirled in the air with the two fumas she carried so that she could get the momentum required to throw them with all her might as she timed her throw just right and tossed the fuma shurikens when she was about twenty meters away from Big Ma'am.

From her prediction she was able to see that, by the time Big Ma'am landed and reverted from her technique, the shuriken would already be five meters away from hitting her from behind. She would throw the two shuriken in a way, horizontally, that the top shuriken would actually be the shuriken Higuto was disguised as for certain reasons. If Big Ma'am was somehow able to see the oncoming shuriken and decided to jump out of the way Higuto would detach from the bottom shuriken and fly upwards a bit before reverting back to his original form and thus follow wherever Big Ma'am was heading. If she caught the shuriken the bottom shuriken, which was the real one, would detach just as she caught the top one so that it still had all the momentum from Akane's throw and thus continue towards Big Ma'am at full speed. Whatever the result ended up being Akane wouldn't be able to catch it as her jumped had allowed her to make it to the big tree, which was about 30 meters from where she had been, as she began running up it while trying to run over to the side of the tree where Allegro was.

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