Dangerous Time to Shop

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Having completed a construction mission, Satoru made his way back to the contract office. He submitted his signed mission briefing and received the payment associated with the construction. Thankfully, since Satoru had started so early, it was still early morning when he had returned to the contract office. It was quite busy with a lot of Shinobi picking up missions left, right and centre. Pocketing his ryo, Satoru made his way towards mission bulleting board. There was one mission that had caught his eyes this morning and with it having a timing constraint he figured he would take it if no one else had chosen to.

Lowe and behold, as he approached the board the first mission that he set his eyes on was the one pertaining to the security of a young and wealthy entrepreneur. Having accepted the mission, Satoru was given an address as to where he was to meet the client. The address in question was the shady Desert Rose Inn that Satoru had stayed at. A message was sent onto the wealthy gentlemen that had hired Satoru to make him aware of his distinct appearance.

Having accepted the situation, Satoru begrudgingly made his way back towards the Desert Rose Inn. On this occasion, he had removed his scarf and had tied it around his waist. He didn’t want his new employer to feel uncomfortable or unsafe around him so he wanted to ensure that the experience was as pleasant as possible. Before long, Satoru arrived at the Inn, he pushed the door open, entering the lobby with an annoyed look on his face. As he approached the front desk, the Inn Keeper spun around with a wide grin on his face ‘Ah—wel… co. I told you NOT TO COME BACK’ he shouted at the top of his face. In that instant, the door to one of the rooms opened and a gentleman dressed in a sharp attire began making his way down towards Satoru along with a beautifully dressed women.

Satoru bowed his head, ignoring the inn keeper. “So you must be our guard?” said the gentleman to which Satoru replied a firm nod and a gentle smile. “Well call me Toyo.” Stated the wealthy gentleman as he shot a luck of disgust at the Inn Keeper. After what seemed like half a second, Satorus nasal senses were once again insulted by the inn keepers body oudor, it was grim.

Before long, the group made their way towards one side of the Inn where Satoru explained the situation. “I will always be no more than ten meters behind you both so I can better spot any threats. Should I see anything, I will should your name. I want you to duck down the moment you hear that. As long as we’re on the same page, I will be able to guarantee your safety.” Satoru spoke with a strict, concise and direct tone.

Both Toyo and his lovely wife nodded in agreement as they departed from the Desert Rose Inn. The first stop on their shopping list was the ceramic store, not far from the Inn. It was only about a ten minute walk from the Inn at the pace that Toyo and his wife walked. They effectively strolled through the village dressed in attire costing more than Satoru entire earnings over the past few days. Having worked non stop in the village, Satoru was quite pleased with the small fund he had built up. He was averaging one to two contracts per day which made it very interesting as he was able to generate anywhere from five hundred to one thousand ryo per day through his endeavours.

Within a few minutes, the group arrived at the Ceramic store. Through his peripheral vision, Satoru spotted a handful of hooded men splitting up in an effort to surround the stores entrance. The ceramic store, was humble in size but it could still accommodate ten or so people within its interior. Satoru waited for Toyo and his wife to enter prior to making his own entry a few moments later. He stood by the door, observing the group gathering out in front of the store.

Satoru was a foreigner in this region, so he couldn’t quite confront them in front of the store. He would spell certain doom for him. Thankfully, as Satoru stood hidden from sight by the entrance, the group grew impatient and began making their way into the store. It wasn’t the whole, but two of the members that were more impatient than the others. AS the first one passed the threshold of the door, Satorus huge figure towered over him. In that moment, Satoru released a tactical karate chop to the mans neck, following up by a rapid gut shot delivered by his shin. With those two consecutive shots, the dudes passed straight out, and took in flight out of the store.

The mans body flew effortlessly through the air, almost like a ragdoll. He fell into his comrades who were shook by what had just happened as there was no way to explain what had transpired, they instead grabbed their man, regrouped and vanished from sight. Satoru had hoped that that would have been all from the men. It was blatant to him that they were particularly skilled as they stood out like a sore thumb in a large crowd and had no combat training as the one he had knocked out didn’t even have a chance to flinch before receiving the two concussing blows.

Within about ten or fifteen minutes, the couple concluded their shopping at the ceramic store. Satoru greeted them with a smile at the entrance. They all departed and Satoru took to his regular position, a few meters behind the duo. The next stop on their list was the Dango store in a remote part of the city. Satoru hadn’t suggested the other Dango store as it wasn’t his job to do so. He was there to simply protect the duo while they enjoyed themselves in Sunagakure.

Strolling through the city, Satoru couldn’t help to finally take in the bustling surroundings. Despite being mid day, there were trades taking place, left, right and centre it was almost awe-inspiring. For a moment, Toyo and his wife fell out of Satorus field of view. He could no longer see them. In that very moment, he felt panicked. He had been distracted by the surroundings and had lost track of his charges. It was preposterous. “FUCK.” He thought to himself as he began rushing towards the Dango store.

As he rushed, he pushed, shoved and nudged people out of his way. Within a few seconds the Dango store came into his vision as did Toyo and his wife. Satoru expelled a sigh of relief but not a moment later did he notice the group from before quickly congregating around the couple. “SHIT.” He thought to himself. This time, they were armed with short Katanas and generic Kunai. Satoru clenched his teeth as the group formed a semi-circle around the couple.

“HOLD IT RIGHT THERE.” Echoed through the surroundings as the bandits addressed the couple. Satorus left eye filled with a jet black tint as his insane thirst for blood almost overwhelmed him for a moment. He managed to remain composed, dashing forward at his top speed. The instant he neared the group, he spotted 4 separate Kunai flying towards the couple, each one tied to a thin metal wire. “TOYO.” He shouted to signal danger to the duo. The instant Satoru touched down the speed of his stop kicked up dust around the group, thankfully the couple crouched and covered their heads. Satoru picked all four of the Kunai from the air with ease, yanking all four of the wires at the same time, hoisting four of the crooks off their feet and towards the centre of the semi-circle.

As the four bodies flew through the air, Satoru calmed his breathing, sending a swift right handed jab towards the two gentleman that were about to near from the left. He quickly repeated the same process for the two gentlemen to Satorus right, releasing the stringed Kunai in the process. The four gentleman instantly flew out of the dust cloud, slapping the ground with a decent measure of force. There were three men left and they were position in front of Satoru and the couple. “Toyo, head inside. Enjoy the Dango.” The scared man and wife, nodded a couple of times while the bandits uttered “YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE”. The middle bandit, the gentleman who appeared to be the ring leader began charging at Satoru with his small Katana.

Satoru ushered the couple into the Dango store, once they were safe and out of harms way, he turned to the gentlemen. “Right.” He muttered as the armed man charged at him with the Katana. The two other gentleman were still shocked as their four comrades were taken out so easily. Satorus eyes briefly flared with a bronze hue as his aura began dancing across the small battlefield. The bandits movement were almost slow motion for Satoru. But once again, he didn’t want to injure them severely as that would have some negative consequences.

Instead, he lowered his centre of gravity, delivering a swift jab to the mans solar plexus. With that, the bandits body was pushed to its tip toes, saliva flying out of his newly gaping mouth. The pressure from the punch quickly bruising his skin before sending him flying back into his two remaining friends. The two remaining bandits struggled to even keep up with what had just transpired. One of the men began shaking, it was visible in his Katanas strange movement.

Satoru stood motionless, watching the two remaining men while the four men he had previously sent flying, woke, holding their bruised eye sockets. Satoru chin flicked the two men that were still in quite a good condition compared to their comrades. The men quickly dropped their katanas, each of them assisting one downed comrade in their escape.

As the ordeal concluded, Satoru made his way into the Dango store to find the couple hugging each other, shaking, as the door creaked Toyo shouted “I’ll pay you anythin’ please”. Satoru stared at him with a look of confusion as his long dark shadow cast a veil over them. “I’ll accept some Dango instead” he replied.

The man and his wife both look up in confusion, there were seven people outside and while two hadn’t fought, Satoru was still heaving outmatched so they were extremely confused about how he was still that one walking into the store. Nevertheless, he didn’t have to explain himself the store owner brought the group an assortment of Dango and Satoru joined in with the tasting process. Before long, the table was cleared and the duo were ready to go back to the Inn for the night.

The group walked for what felt like twenty or so minutes to arrive at the Desert Rose Inn. The entrepreneur asked whether Satoru would be interested in staying at the inn just in case anything else was to happen. Satoru rolled his shoulders in response to the gentleman who went onto book him a room to the Inn Keepers displeasure.

With the day wrapping up, Satoru pocketed the key to his newly book premium size room, he thanked the client who reciprocated and went back to the contract office to submit his mission summary. Upon arrival, he noticed the last few groups of people funnelling out of contract office. Thankfully, there was still a clerk present to register the mission outcome and provide Satoru with his reward. With that out of the way, Satoru untied his scarf from his waist prior to wrapping it around his face once more!

With his face covered, he made his way back to the Inn. It was quite and somewhat peaceful at the inn during this time of the day. The inn keeper was nowhere to be seen which please Satoru as he was sick of the series of confrontations that they had gone through. Satoru turned the key in the lock to his room, as the door opened, he found a room that was triple the size of his previous abode. He quite ecstatic but it was time to get some rest…

[Exit]

WC – 2061
52 WC from – https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t46182-the-construction-job-pt-2
52 + 61 qualifies for 1 more stat point.
Claiming:
21 stat –
2 Speed.
15 Chakra.
4 Vigor.

https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t46043-block-v7 [1917/2500] from above thread + 583 = [2500/2500] – A Rank
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t45774-after-imagev7#357258 [1000/1000]
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t45201-v7-prepared-needle-shot [478/1000]
2000 Ryo
5AP

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