Here we go Again (Mission, P)

Mission:

It was just another typical day in Konoha. The flowers on the windowsills of home owners blooming, the sun baring it's rays upon all the Leaf's properties and villagers, and the regular sound of children playing and grown ups going to work or having something good to eat. Walking along the streets for this particular day, his mind racing with the possibilities of how things were going to go for him, Vergil was walking alone on his way to a certain meeting place. Right beside the gates that led out of the village was a contract board that held a mission for capable ninjas to go out and find a mine containing titanium. A material that was known for being very rare to obtain as well as a very valuable resource for when crafting high value items or even homes. This was, however, an A rank mission which meant there was going to be trouble more than likely so Vergil had his trusty sword at his side once again, gripped in his left hand with his thumb close to the hilt as always, as he took the notice and put it into his pocket before leaning his back against the wall of the village gates. He would stand there and wait for his other teammates to come before continuing.

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There was a white haired man waiting at the meeting spot for the mission she was in the process of taking on. Was this man going for the same mission as well? Akira was used to just doing missions with her teammates. She stood in her spot, which was a few meters away. Her back was leaning against the building she had just came out of, with something in her hands. The red haired vixen had a very early start of her day, due to having a task at hand just before getting to the meeting spot. Luckily her task was a success. Behold her reward for all the efforts she put in, was the old looking bottle that was held within her grasp.

A triumphant grin was plastered amongst the kunoichi's face as she made her way over to the unfamiliar man. As she got closer, it dawned on her that she had recently seen him at the training ground. Yet she still didn't know the man, hoping that maybe her teammates would also be tagging along for this mission. She would soon be standing behind the man while letting out a soft, "boo" from her lips.

The red haired woman was hugging the old bottle to her bosoms as she was dressed in her usual flexible attire of black clothing that hugged her curves comfortably. Ninja pouches laced around her upper right thigh, and a rather large blonde fox standing beside her heels. The blonde fox had fancy ornaments decorating her fluffy form.

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*ring ring*...*ring ring*. 

That’s all Sai could hear as his alarm blasted him awake. It was around mid day when the alarm went off. Sai had a late night and wasent able to sleep much. He knew by the time he would wake up it would be somewhere in the afternoon, but that wasent acceptable today. Sai had a mission he wanted to accomplish today and he wasent going to let not getting enough sleep hold him back. He had immediately got up, shutting his alarm off in the process. He quickly got dress and was ready to head out the door. From the rush that Sai was in you would of thought something was wrong, he couldn’t help but have a frantic look on his face. The type of mission he would be going on was a high ranking one. He knew he would move up in the rank by completing mission like these.

Sai greeted everyone as he rushed to the board by the village gates. He made sure to greet everyone that did the same to him. Even though he was in a rush his father had installed manners in him, not allowing him to disrespect someone by not returning a greeting. He would be doing this mission with other shinobi from the village , which was a good thing. With a mission this high you never know what to expect. Sai already knew he wasent the strongest in the world yet so having people to back him up was comforting. It didn’t take long before Sai arrived at the mission board, not to his surprise he wasent the first one there. 

When he got closer he could see Virgil and Akita already there. He wasent sure what Akita was doing behind virgi, but he thought it be best to leave her to play her games. After all it’s not everyday you get to go on a mission with someone new. As he approached he made sure not to blow Akita cover and decided to only greet Virgil. “Hey Virgil , seems like we’re teaming up today”, the dark haired uchiha said as he approached. Sai wandered if anymore people would be joining them.

“Damn it.”

Snow could not sleep again. It was becoming more and more common for Snow to be stuck awake, hearing the sounds of the Kiri invasion, and seeing the man who had gruesomely killed his mother. Seeing her eye as it popped out of her skull, the blood that surrounded her body, the man as he stood over her body and laughed. He could almost smell her entrails as they were spilled onto the ground of Konoha on that fateful day. Anger and frustration filled his mind, waking him from his horrid sleep. He threw his covers off of his body and looked over at the clock that sat next to his bed on the end table.

The time was three o'clock in the morning and there was no chance of him going back to sleep. The day that he tried to kill his teammates unlocked something in his mind, something hateful, something angry. His kind demeanor was still there, for the most part, but he was beginning to lose grip of himself on others. Him carving into his sides was no longer having the effect that it once had, it was leaving him with the physical pain, and still with the mental anguish that he felt before.

Snow stood to his feet, out of his bed and he began to think about what he was going to do with this much time before he was to meet the rest of his team to take on the mission in the mines. He thought for a few moments and realized there was really only one option, the training grounds. He was pushing himself harder than ever before, beginning to use the images of his mother’s death during the Kiri invasion as fuel to push his body past its own limits so he could become strong enough to protect the people of Konoha from another invasion like that. While he never was told the reason for the invasion, he didn’t really need to know it either. The only thing he did need to know, was that if it was to ever happen again, that he would be ready and able to protect the people he cared for personally, the village as a whole with the help of the other members of the village.

He left his home and he headed into the training grounds, thinking about the different ice style techniques that he was going to keep working on, or maybe even start working on today. His favorite technique to train lately had been Flash Freeze, this technique was very effective when it came to controlling your enemies movements around you, if they got within the range of this technique, they would see that they would be unable to move after a very small amount of time due to the ice that would form all over their body. He walked into the training grounds, the area that he loved, right by the river, and he would begin his training session.

He trained as he watched the sun begin to rise and cover the land with a joyous light with a beautiful sunrise that did slightly lift his spirits. He knew that he only had another half hour until he needed to leave the training grounds to meet up with his team, so he packed up his weapons and tools into his weapon pouches and walked over to the edge of the training grounds to meditate. The spot that he often used for meditation was a spot that could see the most wonderful angle of the thick Konoha forests, he watched in awe for a few moments before he closed his eyes and began meditating.

Usually when he meditated, his number one goal was to let go of all the things that were hindering his focus and ability to get stronger and become the ninja he wanted to be. But recently, the images of his mother’s mangled body stuck in his mind no matter how hard he tried to move on from them. Before he had completely forgotten about the scene, before he had that night with Akira. The night where she gave him an abridged version of her past trauma. That night changed everything for Snow, he was beginning to lose his touch on reality more and more often and he had little idea on how to get it back.

His time for meditation was over and he needed to go to the agreed meeting spot with the other members that were taking on this mission with him. He reluctantly stood up to his feet and stretched his body. When he was ready to go, he set off to the meeting spot, hoping that the rest of the teammates would be there so they could get this mission underway as fast as possible. He hoped the task at hand would be enough for him to be able to forget the gruesome images for a little while at least.

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'Oh no...' would silently float through Vergil's mind as he could hear the multiple light footsteps of a person and a pet as he could already feel the person's chakra by they got within ten meters of him. Not startled in the least by the soft "boo" that came to his ears he thought better than to show Akira how big a mistake it was to try and sneak up on a ninja. He didn't want her getting too hurt for the mission after all. He wouldn't have time to reflect on the awkwardness of the situation as he noticed Saizou walking up to them and waving to Vergil. 'Finally someone with a small degree of competence.' he thought as he stepped off the wall and looked at the two before speaking in his usual uninterested tone. "Good morning. We're supposed to have one more joining-" He was interrupted as he saw Snow coming up to them from afar as he waited for Snow to join them. Upon him doing so he would wait for introductions to be over, if any, before speaking again.

"Glad to see everyone's here. I want to thank you for coming as this mission is supposed to be quite dangerous. We are to head not too far from here to a local mine and collect titanium for our contractors. The dangerous part of this mission is the possibility of running into the miners assigned to said mines. There is a possibility they may not be willing to share which means we will have to use force if made absolutely necessary. There isn't much in the way of information on how tough these miners are so I will say this only once: Do not underestimate anything or anyone. You got that?" He turned to the gates leading out of the village as he readjusted the grip he had around his sword. "If that's understood we leave immediately." Taking off into a dash Vergil ran through the open gate and into the forest while making his way to the location marked on the notice. Within a few minutes he made it to the location, a rocky cliff with a large cave leading deep inside, as he hid himself within the trees while keeping an eye on the place in question. He would wait in his hiding spot until his teammates arrived.

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The others arrived at the first meeting spot for the mission. Snjor wasn't looking too hot either. It was obvious that his mind was under the weather at the moment. Maybe she will invite him out for some noodle later? She isn't much of a woman that enjoyed cheering people up. But they needed to avoid the break down that happened a while ago. Plus it's hard giving it your all if your distracted. So she needed to do something about this distraction so that Snjor could be top notch in the game.

The vergil guy had no response to her teasing action. He hardly even acknowledged her. Instantly this is where Akira decided that she was probably not going to like this dude, at all. One of the things she hated most was being ignored. It caused a little flare bubbling underneath her skin, and she continued to hug the rather large, old jar against her bosoms. The man that ignored her continued to discuss the plans, and she just listened with a very unamused expression upon her face. Pyro, her familiar fox, had made her way to Snjor to deliver him some licks between his fingers. The blonde fox could tell something was up, and Akira had encouraged her through their minds to bug him a little.

Then they was off. The red haired kunoichi followed with her team to where Vergil led then. She still felt a little hot headed, but kept her lips shut. She was glad she didn't have someone like that on her team. Luckily both Sai and Snjor could be fun to hassle with. She positioned herself on one of the lower branches of the tree. She could tell that the Vergil guy had stopped making distance, and had also paused.
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His team reunited once again and Sai couldn’t be more happier. The only problem Sai could see with this is the fact that Snow was looking distracted and that wouldn’t be good for anyone. He would hate for Snow to go on his rampage like he did last time, it’s one thing when it’s just your team but if others would get involved things could get messy. Especially during a mission around civilians, someone could get put i the cross fire. It was relaxing to have Akira there , knowing she knows what could happen with Snow. Sai was hopeful though that his team mate would be able to control himself long enough , so that this mission won’t turn into a shit show.

Sai couldn’t help but chuckle at Akira failed attempt to spook Vergil, knowing all to well that she wasent happy with how Vergil responded to her. Vergil has cooght Sai attention when he began to speak , detailing the mission and the dangers of it. The opportunity to get the material was way more important to Sai than the dangers is posed. Once Vergil was done talking he took off toward the exit of the village , Sai made sure to not get to far away from him. It didn’t take long for the small group of shinobi to make it to a rocky cliff. Sai stayed hidden in the trees making sure to keep his eyes open for his fellow team mates and anything out of the ordinary.

Snow knew the mission, he had his original team back together for the first time in a while, and he was a different person than the one he was that time ago. The memories of his mother's murder were to always be imprinted on his mind, never letting him get a moment of respite from the troubles that had taken place on that terrible day. Snow listened as the details of the missions were being reiterated and he nodded his head accordingly, while he did know what the mission was, he also didn't want to be disrespectful to his colleagues. 

He watched as Akira and Sai were their usual selves, and this made him think about what he was and how he was different. The night that he had tried to kill both Sai and Akira drew a wedge into his head, keeping him from rejoining with his old self, the self that was able to be calm and collected, the self that was kind and caring to those around him. The self that always wanted to be there for everyone else, even when no one would be there for him. He tried to be as selfless as he could, he tried to love all people, to be kind and to be sweet. But what had that gotten him in his life? Nothing. He had no real friends to speak of except for the two teammates that he tried to kill, he just had himself and his father. The man that wouldn't accept him for the depression ridden child that he was, and shunned him when he found out that Snow would cut X's into his own body. 

These thoughts weighed hard on Snow, preventing any positive thoughts from sneaking into his mind. His voice was gradually becoming more sour instead of sweet, his demeanor more cold then it was warm. His personality beginning to resemble that of the ice charka that ran through his body. When Vergil was done explaining the details of the mission, Snow nodded his head one last time. He then tightened up the straps of his backpack and he mentally prepared himself to get onto the trail with the people that he was now standing with. The trip was not going to be a short one, but it was going to be one with money at the end of the journey, so it was worth it. Not to mention the piece of ingot that we would all be allowed to keep should they do a good enough job on this mission. 

Being ready for the mission, he would ask if the remaining members of the group would be ready to hit the road. 

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Sai stayed hidden in tree's, he realized that he was shaking. A surprised look came across his face, for the first time he wa actually nervous to do a mission. Even though he was surrounded by many capable shinbi he just couldnt shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen. With that he knew it would be best to listen to his gut and go home. He didnt want to embaress himself by telling the other's so he snuck off in a different direction so he wouldnt be seen. 
EXIT.

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Claims:441 towrads Soul Expulsion (2500/2500) rest is Here, 1+ stats, 249 towards Blast Wave

Approved @ Saizou