Monkey Business!~

They all took a moment to process the idea that the byakugan might not help as much as they thought. Then suddenly, Kita came up with an idea to disguise themselves as monkeys. Kato immediately bought into the idea and both of them transformed into monkeys. They looked almost identical to the monkey’s in the image, except Kato still had pearly white eyes.
“Ok if you guys think this will work,” Gonk said as he transformed himself as well. He quickly ran over to a puddle to check how the transformation turned out. He had the white tail of the monkeys and grey fur except for a tuft of purple hair at the top of his head. 
Gonk shrugged “Good enough,” He thought to himself. He then turned around and followed his two teammates as they swung through the trees, making their way to the next island. They got many strange looks as they crossed the bridge, but thankfully there weren’t too many people on the bridge and none of them knew about the escaped monkeys. As they neared the hot spring, they grew silent, not wanting to attract any attention to themselves. The trio peeked their heads through the leaves and examined the troop that was bathing. To their delight they discovered that they were the monkey’s they were looking for.
[WC=222]
[TWC=941]
[Transformation Technique AP cost = 5]
[AP remaining=395]

The group of ninja made their way through the trees, disguised as the same monkeys that they were hunting for. Kato led the charge, leading the group towards the next group of monkeys. After a while of jumping through the trees, Kita began to feel a little bit silly. It made sense as an idea, but in practice, turning yourself into a monkey and jumping from tree to tree seemed a bit... juvenile. He kept quiet about it, following wordlessly and silently as Kato brought them closer to what Kita hoped was the end of the mission.

It wasn't long before Kato found what they were looking for. Kato brought them up the side of a large tree, and positioned the group perfectly within the leaves, giving them cover from any outside observers. The branch that the group has scampered onto hung over a pool of warm water, a natural hot spring that had not as of yet been modified for public usage. A small group of three monkeys sat within the spring. The group quickly checked the tails of the monkeys to ensure that they were the ones that they were looking for, and sure enough, their tails were white. Kita gave a grin to his companions. "Looks like we found our monkeys. It seems that the R&D department was right. The monkeys are running away to one of the smaller islands. It seems like they're just doing what any average monkey would do." Kita's voice trailed off as he finished the last part of his sentence. The monkeys appeared to be speaking to one another, and Kita's eyes widened considerable. He couldn't make out what they were saying, but from the movement of their mouths and the gesturing of their hands, Kita was sure that they were discussing something. "A question real quick. How intelligent are these monkeys supposed to be? Because if I didn't know any better, I would assume that these monkeys are speaking with one another."

Word Count = 331 Words

Total Word Count = 1426 (312 + 336 + 447 + 331)

Shortly after both Kita and Kato has transformed Gonk followed suit and now the trio of genin were a trio of monkeys each with their own little inflection to signify them from each other. The though amused Kato, this was definitely the weirdest mission he had been on but he was enjoying it. Three monkeys walking across a bridge is definitely a sight that draws a curious look but Kato would simply meet it with a cheeky monkey grin and scamper further, trying the sell the transformation a little bit.

Swinging through the branches in this form was rather enjoyable as well, he would never of thought of doing something like this in any other situation but served as part of the stealth tactic, Kato had to embrace his inner monkey, if he had one. 

The squad approached the group of monkeys that Kato spotted with his Byakugan sight and they rested in a branch above the natural hot spring where the errant monkeys were relaxing. He analysed them as they bathed and lounged, they did have the white tail markings off their targets. Kato turns to respond to Kita, still not quite comfortable with talking to a monkey.. as a monkey, even tho they were human.

"Yeah, it seems like they're still just monkeys, no matter how much Kiri R&D have trained them. It is amazing that they can talk though an important to the mission. Remember we're here on recon so we need to try and hear what they're talking about." 

Kato slowly made his way stealthily down a branch or two and adopted a lazy body posture, not even facing the group of monkeys but lying back. His Byakugan vision still allowed him to follow everything that was going on but to the monkeys all they would see is one of their troop taking a nap on a periphery branch. Kato listened as they chattered and complained between themselves "That Kiri R&D are real slave drivers. You can say that again, I'd much rather be relaxing out here"

After a while it seemed Kato returned to the team and shared what he had learnt "It appears they are not happy with how hard Kiri R&D are working them. I even heard rumour of them going on strike while I lay at the periphery of their group. This is enough information to class the mission a success, lets return and report our findings"

With that the team returned to report their findings, mark the mission as complete and collect their rewards.

[Exit]
[423]
[TWC = 2061]
[Claiming 2000 ryo & 5 AP from mission rewards]
[Using 1500 WC to learn Gentle Blade: Willow Strike {B-Rank}]
[Using remaining 561 WC towards learning Flying Swallow {931/1500}]
[Training 8 stats + -4 strength, +4 speed]

Kato - Approved.

Gonk - Your claims are approved

After listening in on on the conversations of the monkeys in the hot springs, Kita and the others wrote down and submitted their findings to the Kirigakure Research and Development Team. As they submitted their scrolls and left the building, Kita smiled at his two teammates. "Good work you two! It was a bit of a weird mission, but it was nice working with you two on it!" Kita nodded to Kato. "Kato, it was nice to meet you!" Kita then turned to Gonk. "Gonk, it was nice to work with you again. Especially after our last mission. That was... less than pleasant." Kita bid his companions farewell, and went on his way. Instead of going home however, Kita went towards the library instead. As he did, he found himself going towards the section on Fuinjutsu. Kita didn't know much about it, but Kita had heard of a jutsu that allowed a shinobi to track down anything that you had placed a tag on. "I think I might have to pick that up after this mission. Not being able to track anything is a bit of a nuisance, and having something to find whatever you want could be pretty useful." However, as Kita read through more and more of the Fuinjutsu books, his fascination with the practice began to grow. "Well... Maybe I could learn more than one of these seals. After all, it's better to diversify the amount of jutsu that you know, isn't it?" With that thought, Kita found himself inside this section of the library more and more often. As he did, Kita's knowledge of Fuinjutsu grew and grew. He wasn't a master yet, but Kita had begun to travel down the path of a proper Fuinjutsu Specialist.

Word Count - 291

Total Word Count - 1717 (291 + 312 + 336 + 447 + 331)

Stat Claims -

+17 Vigor (Maxed Stats)

Jutsu Claims-

Paralysis Seal (1500/1500) (Was working towards this jutsu in a previous thread. Can learn this jutsu without specialty due to being a clanless ninja. 363 Words Remaining.)

Blacksmithing Skill (396/2000) (Was working towards this skill in a previous thread.)

Mission Claims-

2100 Ryo (2000 Mission Ryo, 100 Ryo Genin Bonus)

+5 AP

Kita - your claims are approved.