Catching a Thief

Mission Name: Catch the Thief
Rank: D-Rank
Type: Search
Character Requirements: Genin or higher
Mission Location:Konoha
Word Count Requirements:1000
Repeatable?Yes
NPC?N/A
Reward: 1000 Ryo

Task: Someone has stolen various items from people around Konoha. The Hokage has tasked young ninja with catching and stopping the thief from stealing anymore, weather by words or physical means.
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Walking out the doors of the Konoha Police Station, Blaisa Sarutobi began to reach down into her back pocket in order to pull out the mission slip.  The old lady at the Mission Board told Blaisa that today she would be going to the police station in order to get more information on a thief that had been causing a ruckus for these past few weeks, stealing miscellaneous items such as food items and medicine.  At first, this posed no issue to the village as many believed he was just trying to potentially feed himself.  Although today the villagers were proven wrong, as the thief that had been wearing the same clothes stole a B-Rank Jutsu Scroll from the library, causing the situation to become much worse from what it was.
 
Looking at the mission slip, the Sarutobi placed her finger on the paper in order to read the words more clearly.  ‘Hmm….’, she began to think to herself in silence, ‘A tall man standing at six foot three inches, usually seen wearing a dark cloud that wraps around his head and chest with black pants.’.  After reading the description, she began to chuckle as there was no mention of any of his combat capabilities.  Shaking her head in embarrassment, Blaisa began to ponder on the reason as to why a mere Genin like her would have to catch someone like this. 
 
As a child, the young Sarutobi thought that the Konoha Police Force was one of the toughest group of shinobi around.  After the Kirigakure invasion, she still believed that the police were still a force to be reckon with.  Receiving a mission such as this has made her lose all hope in believing that they were still competent enough to truly protect the village.  The mission slip also had stated that the thief was commonly found in the Okinaga District, one of Konoha’s poorest areas that were now in the works of being reconstructed in order to throw away their low-income reputation.

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Turning towards the direction of the district that she was guided to go to, Blaisa wasted no time pushing herself off the ground with a gale of wind and leaping towards her destination.  Taking a few minutes to arrive in the Okinaga area, Blaisa began to look up in awe as she took sight to a plethora of various buildings being reconstructed and remodeled in the district.  A small smirk would leak out of the corner of the young Sarutobi’s mouth as she began to be filled with a joyous and grateful sensation of happiness.  Although happy, the smirk would quickly be replaced with a look of annoyance as she began to think about why a thief would be hurting a district that’s growing.
 
Leaping down from the top of the building, Blaisa landed swiftly on her feet as she made contact with the ground.  Placing her hand on her chin, the young Sarutobi began to ponder on what the most efficient ways of discovering the whereabouts of this thief would be.  ‘Hmm…’, she began to think to herself in silence, eyes gazed up to the sky, ‘I wonder if Fuuma would know anything.’.  Blaisa remembered that her brothers old sensei, Fuuma Uzumaki, was a native to the Okinaga District – so it wasn’t a bad idea to her as to go see if she had any information that could be of use to her.

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Softly landing on the doorstep of the old Uzumaki’s humble abode, Blaisa peeked through her window to see if her lights were on, hoping that she would be home.  Raising her right hand in order to begin knocking, the Sarutobi was only able to get a single knock off before her attention was turned to the right.  “Hey!”, a loud voice began to shoutout in the direction of her attention, “Get back here!  You’ve stolen enough from me already!”.  Immediately turning towards that direction, Blaisa leaped off in a blaze of speed in order to arrive on scene as quickly as she possibly could.
 
Landing in front of the shop owner who had been screaming, the old man turned his attention towards Blaisa with a very pissed off reaction.  “Get him!  He’s been stealing from this district for weeks!”, the man began to yell.  The Sarutobi looked back at the man in ponder, swearing that she had seen him before in front of that storefront.  A chuckle began to emit from the corner of her lips, as she realized that his store was the same place that Hatomaru the Prankster graffitied just the other day while running away from his sensei. 
 
Blaisa simply nodded her head in acknowledgement silently towards the old man as she dashed forward, chasing down the thieving individual with as much speed as she could give out. 

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As the young Sarutobi chased after the thief, she realized that he was significantly faster than her, traveling at almost double the speed that Blaisa was sprinting.  She began to lose sight of the thief as he turned the right corner, heading down towards a darkened alleyway.  Continuing her pursuit, Blaisa looked down at the newly finished pavement that laid upon the street.  Upon closer inspection, she realized that the pavement was new enough to where the thief’s footsteps were imprinted within the ground.  A small smirk began to overcome her face as she began to make the clone hand seal.

Spawning in two shadow clones two meters from both her left and right sides, they each went their own ways respectively in order to try and cut off the thief.  Continuing on her pathway straight forward, the Sarutobi was relying on her shadow clones to give her information on where he had disappeared to.  Taking a quick pause in order to catch her breath, Blaisa put her hands on her knees and began to breathe heavily.  ‘He’s fast....’, she began to think to herself, ‘I’ve got to come up with a new pla-‘, she finished before having her thought process interrupted. 

“Katon, Goka Mekkakyu no Jutsu!”, Blaisa could hear one of her shadow clones yell.  Being overcome with an expression of shock and fear, the original immediately began running towards the direction in which she heard her clones’ shouting.  ‘This is bad!’, she continued to think to herself, ‘Great Fire Annihilation!?  Inside the village?  It’s too risky!’.  Turning the corner to make eye contact with her clone, the original Sarutobi immediately body flickered behind her shadow clone, kicking her counterpart which caused it to disappear in a puff of smoke.  Immediately after making contact on her clone with her kick, she turned and immediately dashed towards the thief.  

The thief sat there shocked and dazed, Blaisa not being sure if he was scared of the technique that was almost unleashed upon him by her shadow clone, or the fact that she was now charging at him head on with a fully charged Rasengan sitting above her palm.  “Rasengan!”, the Sarutobi would yell before making contact with the thief, slamming the powerful Rasengan straight into the center of his gut with an impressive display of speed.  

As the thief laid there unconscious and immobilized, a few masked members of the Konoha Police Force arrived at Blaisa’s side in order to prepare his arrest.  As the Sarutobi turned around to look at the police shinobi, she rolled her eyes in annoyance before walking away from them in silence.  ‘Idiots...’, she began to think to herself, ‘All that work - when you could have just showed up at his location and handled it yourselves at twice the speed.’.

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