Aye, here there be monsters

A bright smile would appear on sakuragi’s face,  his teammate bought his idea. The  plan was that sakuragi would release two clones to guide the captain while they would go below the desk.  He watched as asami walked to the bow of the boat, she would perform the hand seals and hold a seal to open the storm walls of kirigakure. The door opened slower than a snail would walk. Once the boat and the vessels were past the storm walls, she would release the hand seal she was holding to close the wall. 
Just when the wall closed, sakuragi knew it was time to get into action. Sooner or later, the pirate would arrive here.  He stood up from his seat and would perform three hand seals and end with the tiger hand seal. Instantly, Ice began to grow from the body on both side, the ice grew into a figure like shape and eventually harden into exact copies of sakuragi. Two clones were made, one to the right and the other to the left. The clones knew what to do,  they need not to be told that they were to protect the captain, they have the will of their original. The clones walked towards where the captain was, sakuragi  barked to captain “ my clones will look after you ”,   one of the clones said “ we will protect you sire” . The ice clones stood side by side to the captain.  
Once the storm walls of Kiri was closed,  it was time to swing in action.  Sakuragi was fully ready for whatever comes up. To him,   protecting the captain isn't only the top priority. His other top priority is to protect asami too. Protecting asami was more important to him than the mission itself.  He not only have to look after the captain but also after asami. No matter what happens, he must protect these two. Asami told him she would go below the desk. To him, that would be signal,  it's time for them to hide themselves away. 
Meaningwhile,  one of sakuragi’s clone would use transformation jutsu to transform into asami. This would fool the pirates,  not knowing that they are clones. So the clone and the transformed Clone stood side by side the captain, looking around to be see if anything or anyone was coming. Once asami reaches below the desk, sakuragi would follow and join her. Several fishing tools were there  , it's not really a nice place like below the desk, but it's worth staying here for the main time.  Sakuragi got  below the desk and got into a squatting position placing his right palm to the ground surface.  “  Hey asami , I had one of clones transformed into you. The clones should be able to fool the pirate and lure them out”.  He got up from his squatting position, slowly walking towards the girl.  When he got close enough,  he asked  ,“ how do you feel about the guys we are about face ?, fearful or strong? ” . His question was really to get her talking from her heart.  Sakuragi wanted to make sure his is at peace in her mind and not being fearful of the pirate. 





TWC: 2049

"Good," Asami replied, her gaze out a small porthole in the side of the ship. "And I don't have an opinion on the people we're about to face. They're people like you and me, I'm sure they have families too."

She paused here and glanced over at her companion for this mission.

"I'd like us not to hurt them if we can avoid it," she said, no humor in her voice. "For all we know they might just be desperate people trying to make a living. It isn't fair to kill people for utilizing the only path available to them."

A soft blush born from her own audacity flushed across the chuunin's face as she spoke and she looked away. A Kirigakure kunoichi was meant to be a hardened fighter and as bloodthirsty in battle as her shinobi counterparts. Asami's travels had softened her; unlike many of her peers, she had seen the world and she now knew it to be much more than what lay within the storm wall. There were still people to see and meet, so it simply wouldn't do to go around mindlessly killing, restraint was important.

The sea out the viewport was a dazzling blue capped by an occasional splash of white here and there. It reminded the Terumi of a simpler time when she didn't have to worry about the next mission or the uncertain fate of her parents. Instead of missions, it was fishing trips with her dad and gardening with her mother. And yet, in a strange way, Asami felt she at ease with these memories, no longer did they bring a tear to her eye as they once did.

Times had changed, she had changed.

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TWC: 2173/4000

Asami would say words sakuragi didn't  expected to hear. Sakuragi fixed his gaze on her. Her words are soft. Sakuragi is a very wild person when it comes to killing and battling, nothing thrills him more than that. He had a lot to test on these pirates. He would feed the blood of the pirates to his beast jutsu. However, it would seem he wouldn't be able to do that . The girls words struck his heart sharply, it didn't change sakuragi’s mentality about bloodshed, but today, it might hinder him from doing any bloodshed.  “You're  too soft. These pirate hurt people too, they had caused a lot of people pain. My intention was to slay them all, but because of your word, I will spare their lives”...
Things won't really go as he planned, he didn't expect the pirate to give up easily, he was however prepared for the worst that might happened. Asami changed his intention for these mission, when this mission came up and sakuragi saw what the pirate had done and had been doing, he got furious. He made up his mind that he wouldn't spare any one of them no matter. Asami had changed all of that. She somehow had a way to his heart . His bloodshed mentality was changed only for today however.  Sakuragi never thought anyone could use words to change his mind. Though he was a kid, he was hell bent at whatever he would do, his parent  knew this. The unexpected happened and it would seem he wouldn't be having any bloodshed today. 



Sakuragi stood beside asami, assuring the girl that he would try not to shed any blood.  Suddenly he heard several footsteps above the deck, he wasn't sure asami was hearing the footsteps he was hearing too. Perhaps it was the captain and his clones, but sakuragi knew where his clones was  and he was sure it wasn't his clones. It couldn't be his clones. Something is definitely up there, it must be the pirate... 






TWC : 2386

Asami wrinkled her nose at Sakuragi's response as if she had just eaten something of a less than appetizing nature. He looked to be several years younger than the Terumi and here he was talking about slaughtering people just because they had wronged him. This was something that was beginning to leave a bad taste in the chuunin's mouth about Kirigakure shinobi and Kunoichi. They seemed to lack humanity and it scared Asami more than she could put into words—would she have been the same way if she had not gone on her vain search for her parents?

Unfortunately, there was little time to dwell on the thought because the sound of hurried footsteps above deck drew her attention. One, two, three, four, five, six, she counted six pairs of steps that surely did not belong to either the captain or Sakuragi's clones; it had to be the pirates. Slipping past her companion, over some netting, and up the abbreviated stairs to the main deck, Asami moved with the practiced grace one could expect from a kunoichi of both her size and experience.

It was time to get to work.

In a blur, she was on the deck and found herself faced by one bearded man and one burly woman. Both fit the bill of 'pirate' to a T right down to the swords on their hips that they drew upon the appearance of Asami. The ring of steel on steel that followed came in quick bursts as the three figures exchanged blows. The pirates favored strong overhanded slashes, while Asami opted to simply parry away their attacks with her kunai. This pair, in particualar, seemed to lack much skill in swordplay, so the chuunin held her ground rather easily despite her inexperience—all she needed now was an opening.

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TWC: 2474/4000

The sound of foot steps at the deck seems to boil  his blood, not of fear or anxiety, but of the joy of battle. Asami had slipped past him, probably heading for the main deck where the captain was. A frown would appear on his face, he wondered why she would speed off like that without a word.  It appeared to sakuragi that asami heard the footstep too or she wouldn't had left him like that. Sakuragi knew fully well that the pirate are now on the ship, he adjusted his ponytail hair and headed for the deck where asami was. He couldn't believe his eyes. Asami was already engaged in a fight with two of the pirates few metres away from where he was standing.  The pirates seems to have kinda weird looks . Sakuragi watched as asami easily parry the pirate’ attacks, it made him believe she was skilled in swordplay because she easily parry their attacks. Out of no where, four shurikens came flying towards sakuragi’S direction. Sakuragi manage to dodge the shuriken, leaping up in the air while the shuriken flew across, below him hitting a wood pillar on the deck  while  he  somersaulted few metres backward. 
Upon landing on his feet, he looked to see who attacked, two young guys in blue robe and two ladies in red robe stood some metres away from him, sakuragi believe they threw the Shuriken. He looked around to locate where the captain was and realised his two ice clones was still with the captain. The job of the clones was to protect the captain so they didn't leave their spot, though the clones saw what was happening. Sakuragi wouldn't be needing them in this fight. 
The pirate pull of their swords, the sound of that was what drew back his attention to the fact that there were pirate right in front of him, as his focus was on the captain. What a stupid way to act in the face of death!...
His focus was now on the damned pirate, having ascertain that the captain was save, he could now battle with nothing to worry about. He wasn't really skilled in swordplay, short range fighting isn't his style, he prefer to fight at long range. Though, he had show some sort of skill in close range combat, he rather wouldn't. Sakuragi would pull out two kunais, he needed to end this quickly so he could help asami. The pirate would attack the boy with their swords. They opted into attacking, while sakuragi opted into defensive. He would parry some of their attacks and dodge some.  It would appear that These folks were  more skilled in swordplay  than the the other two with asami. Sakuragi’S intention was to end this quickly and help asami, it would appear that reverse is the case. He was the one who needed help right now. He wanted to stay true to his word that he wouldn't kill or heavily hurt the pirate, that was why he decided not to use jutsu. However, if this go on for long, he may have no choice than to use his ninjutsu. He couldn't hold on for long, whatever happens, sakuragi knew he couldn't die. He was only showing mercy by not killing these idiotic folks. He buy asami  some time, waiting for her to come help him out or he would use his ninjutsu, whichever would happen would depend on how long he could hold on and how fast asami could finish the two pirate to come help him. 



TWC: 2978

The battle with the pirate seem to have no end. The two chunins, asami and sakuragi fought bravely with these pirates. Asami against two pirate and sakuragi against four pirate, that totals six pirate. They were metres away from each other. Asami got engaged in a pirate battle first before sakuragi joined. The girl seems to be doing well with the two pirate, they don't seem to be really skilled in kenjutsu. Asami easily parry their attacks, sakuragi on the other hand is less skilled in close range combat let alone a kenjutsu fight. He prefers the long distance fight, he focuses more on long range jutsu. In this fight with four pirates,  he is obviously out numbered,  he told asami earlier that he wouldn't hurt any of the pirates, but it seems circumstances might change that. He is been outnumbered and he could hardly dodge the attacks from the pirates.  
Asami being a girl with a gentle heart seek for an opening to restrain the two pirates she was battling, she wouldn't use jutsu. She must however be careful not to get killed by these freaking pirates.

Sakuragi 
“ I don't wanna hurt you, that's the reason I'm not going hard on you guys. I don't know what made you do all of the things that you did, but you can still stop this now”. Sakuragi wasn't sure his words really made any impact to the pirate. He  understands the pain of property, the pirates probably had families too, maybe they were just doing this out of  need, maybe this was the only choice they had to feed their family. He would go easy on the pirate, expecting a positive response from these two, even though his mind told him changing them won't be possible. 

The two pirate with Sakuragi 
A wide laughter spread on the face of the pirate, these two were probably old enough to give birth to sakuragi,  they were far older than him, yet he would tell them this nonsense?.  They felt mocked or probably they felt he's out of his mind. Tho these two realise that the boy's skill is above theirs, but that's no reason for them to surrender. “ You talk as  if you're talking to your pet, I'll teach you how to talk to elders”, the beard man spoke. He together with the second pirate who is a lady , would hurl ten shurikens at the boy . The look on their faces show that they were desperate to kill this boy  who interrupted their operation.  If not for the two Kiri Chunin, they would have stole a lot, for the men pirate, they would have sexually molested Kiri beautiful women. The two hope their shuriken attack hits, they wanted to end this sooner. 

Sakuragi 
A frown appeared on sakuragi's face, with all he said to these two, it all fell on deaf ears. His words didn't even struck any nerve in them, perhaps because he was a kid. He watched as they mocked him and say junks about him. The pirate would simply hurl shuriken at him, a lot of shuriken he couldn't count but could dodge. Sakuragi would swiftly dodge all.  he was very fast, his low body weight also compliment his speed . Sakuragi  was five metres away from the pirates.  He was supposed to attack immediately, but he slowly brought out steel wires that was several metres long, he attached a kunai to steel wire and as he did this he carefully watch his   opponents to make sure they didn't make any blind move on him. Once the kunai was attached at the first end of the wire, he would bring out another kunai and attach it to the second end of the wire. Once this was done. he would wrap the wires around his arms, such that he was holding the two kunais in both arms. he  has something in mind, but probably, it wasn't time to use it.  he would wear his opponent out before doing what he had in mind. This strategy would make his plan work out easily. Sakuragi would dash towards the man with beards aiming a fist to his torso and an upper cut to his jaw, he would then deliver a side kick to the lady pirate, which if it connect would send them flying several metres backward at least to relieve the pressure on her. 
His intention here was simple, wear them out, so you can easily restrain them with this wires. Sakuragi could use his clan element,  ice  release, but only heaven knows why he didn't use it. The reason was quite obvious. One ice jutsu from sakuragi would freeze the bodies of these pirates if it connect.  He was only trying to help this people, the help will be render if they yield or they will be crushed if sakuragi finish up with his opponent on time. 

The two pirates
They watch saw the young boy dash and attack them. It seem as though his reflexes were as lightning, the uppercut send the beard man flying off the ground and landed  to the ground on his back, his kick to  the lady pirate push the pirate lady several metres backward.  These two probably didn't see this coming or perhaps they saw it but were too slow to react. Like sakuragi would say, it's one thing to see an attack, it's another thing to dodge or evade it. Seeing it doesn't mean you'll be able to dodge or evade it, such was the case here. They probably saw his atks but their bodies were too slow to react to it on time.  The two pirate would slowly get up from their feet, furiated by how the little boy  made them feel embrassed. They now seek to devour him without mercy. The beard man pirate brought out two kunais with explosive tags, the lady pirate brought out two explosive ball. It's simply many explosive tags wrapped in a ball like shape. With this, they wanted to end sakuragi. It would explode his body if it hit, with enough force to shatter his bones and flesh. The lady pirate would throw the two explosive tags and and the beardy man would throw the kunai with explosive tags. Dodging this would be difficult, it'd be better for Sakuragi to opt into using  a defensive ice  ninjutsu here. 

Sakuragi 
His fast attacks tho weak, did the job. His uppercut and his side send both the beardy and lady pirates flying several distance. The beardy man brought out two kunais with explosive tags, this didn't freak sakuragi, he was however astonished when the lady pirate brought  out two explosive balls. The explosion from this balls is brutal, sakuragi knew the power of this. He watched as the pirates attacked. He would weave series of hand seals and instantly an ice miror would form in front of him. He would leap inside the ice mirror. The mirror is very thick would protect him from all damages from the attack . The mirror is transparent so sakuragi could see the pirate from inside. The attacks hit the mirror and the tags exploded, doing little to no damage to the mirror.  At this point, sakuragi is really getting upset. This was taking longer than he plan, the only reason he hadn't killed these four pirates before him was because he told asami he wouldn't kill anyone. He didn't promise, he only told her and it seems sakuragi Is about to go weird here. For a momment, he thought about how he would end all of this in time without having to hurt this folks... The impact of the previous attacks, the explosion from the explosive balls caused great crater on the ground. The black smoke from the explosion was still in the air, obstructing everything In front of the pirates. perhaps this is sakuragis chance to finish off this pirates . He would leap out of the ice mirror, and out the black screen smoke. He would   now start running towards the The pirate. He was of a kind heart and wouldn't want to hurt this guys. After all, he was the one who convinced as am I he would  not  hurt the pirates.  He would continue to dash towards the pirate, wanting to end this as quickly as possible. The steel wires he wrapped around his arms would be useful here. The steel wires are attached to two kunais which he  held.  He would throw one kunai not aiming directly for the pirate, but the kunai would go in between them hitting a wood pillar behind them. Sakuragi  would run around the two pirates  with the second steel wires in her hand. This is to bind and restrain the pirate, all these actions would be done if the pirates doesn't react on time.  Sakuragi would restrain the two together with the steel wires, making them unable to move. Sakuragi  would then stab the second kunai to the wood pillar to which the second steel wires edge is attached. 

The two pirates 
The impact of their attack was so great that they thought it actually exploded the boy . Upon explosion,  Black smoke would fill the air which obstructed vision  what the pirate Would expect to see after the smoke clear was the shattered skull , bones and flesh of the boy. But they were astonished when a figure dash out of the smoke. It was the boy!.  He moved at insane speed this time. She would  throw a kunai to hit a wooden pillar behind them. The pirates didn't even see that coming so they couldn't react to it on time. Next thing after the kunai hit the wooden pillar, the boy would start to run around them three hundred and sixty degrees. The two pirates didn't understand what was going on. Before they could figure out why the boy was running around them, they've been restrained by the steel wires. The end of these ones is here. It's so over for them. Sakuragi  tactically restrain them without having to injure them. Not that he couldn't destroy the whole of them, but he choose to spare them and that's because he told Asami that he would spare them. Having restrain them in  a way that they couldn't move, he  would look around to locate where her teammate was and where the captain is. Those are his priorities aside this mission. Protect the captain, protect asami.


Sakuragi
Sakuragi didn't believe he could last this long with these set of four pirates. ASami was stucked with two pirates while he was stuck with four strong pirate. The last time he checked the situation around his teammate  , asami was doing pretty fine. But right now, there isn't a time in the world to check at anyone, he was just focused the battle. From the look of things, these four pirates here are skilled than the two pirates Sakuragi saw with Asami. They could use some jutsu, like coating kunai, shuriken in chakra to increase it power and sharpness. However, Sakuragi was a more skilled shinobi than these guys. His only obvious weakness here was his lack of skill for close range combat, his small slender body is weak in  strength and doesn't compliment close range fight. Sakuragi pretty much prefers to fight at long range. that's his style, which is working for  him. Having spend a lot of time with this guy. He was tired of having to spar with them. Since this guys could use chakra, sakuragi would simply paralysed them and restrain them. He would need to Create a distraction tho. 
The young boy sets in action, running towards the direction the pirate were standing. At about six metres away he would throw a kunai up. This was quite strange, if sakuragi was gonna attack, he should have hurl the kunai at one of them or slash them with the kunai. However, this was the distraction, it was to distract them for the jutsu he was gonna use. Sakuragi got close enough at four metres away from the four pirates, he would weave series of handseals and on the last hand seal he formed, he would use the temporary paralysis jutsu. The pirate may be skilled, but they may not be skilled to counter this genjutsu as genjutsu aren't that easy to counter. 

The four pirates in a fight with Sakuragi 
The pirates were extremely skilled than what sakuragi thought they would, highly skilled in the art of kenjutsu and shurikenjutsu. They had been pirates for long. They gave the chunin boy a tough time. In one of their combine attacks,  they almost ripped off sakuragi S arm. But this was simply because the wouldn't use any ninjutsu or jutsu what so ever. Since the beginning of this fight, the only thing he was doing was to parry  their attacks with his kunai and dodge the ones he could. Sakuragi probably hadnt face anything like this before,  where he was forced not to use jutsu to kill his opponent. However it seem this fight was about to come to an end. 
The boy would dash towards them. When he got to some distance he would throw a kunai up. That's a strange thing to do. The four pirate would focus their attention and eyes on the kunai that flew up, their attention was distracted to an extent that they didn't know when sakuragi got close enough to cast a paralysis genjutsu on them. They couldn't move in their mind and in their body. It seem the two chunin won this fight. Sakuragi successfully trap the four  pirate in a paralysis jutsu, justice would be delivered to them.  This will be the end of the terror the pirate had cause, most people had being staying indoors because of these guys. It all ends, right now, right here.

TWC : 7774

With everything these freaking pirate had done, they were spared by sakuragi. The six pirate were  binded and restrained by the two chunins of Kiri. It was not an easy fight for either of them, but these two kids were strong enough to hold up a fight from the pirate and win. So whatever it is now,  the pretty will be safe, at least for now, with these guys gone. It was good thing sakuragi didn't kill any the pirates.  He kept at his words. The two kids went to check On the captain, he was safe with the ice clones sakuragi release earlier. The  captain was unharmed. The mission ended on  the good side, these will just have to be handed over the village security for the decision of the Kage.  Asami and sakuragi tried talking to the pirate, they talked to them that they could still make their own lives better, with Asami doing majority of the talking.  It turns out most of the pirate were trying to make a living, doing the right things in the wrong way. There are several other things to do. Several other Jobs one can do.  This mission really ended well, the pirates thanked the kids for sparing their lives tho they knew they will still serve punishment.  With the mission fully completed, the Captain would start the ride back to kirigakure,  it was really fun here and exciting. Sakuragi and Asami became friends. They maybe become the best team mates Kiri ever had. The two sat together, beside each other while sakuragi dispersed the clone. They've done a good job guarding the captain, with the pirates still tied down.  With this mission done and dusted,  Sakuragi can focus on other things, he had quite a lot of things to do. He wasn't sure about Asami  but he's got training to do. His dream doesn't end here after this mission. The young chunins braced his mind, looking forward to what lay ahead of him. 


TWC : 8106. 

Mission completed

So the total WC I made towards this mission is 6188.
Claim 4000 ryo and 10 AP

1500 to Contract with Polar bears of the Jade Echo 
4688 added to An S rank summon (Ragi)  makes it 4688/6000

Reached Max stat, using 25 % off discount

You may claim according to the new mission rules

Rin I haven't really read the rules, so I haven't understand it's setting for now.  Can you help me with the claims?