An acquired Taste [Gonk, open to 2]

An Acquired Taste:

The night had been long and Ryu had been training for all of it, he had completed the day's mission but then had not felt enough movement had been made, so he trained all night long as well. The morning sun had started to peek over the Kumo mountain tops as he arrived home and entered into his bedroom. There would be no time for sleep today as he had another mission to take care of, it was a simple escort mission within the confines of the country and the intel had put the risk as very low. Ryu showered and prepared himself for another day. He dressed in his usual clothes, wrapping his feet in compression bandages winding all the way up to the top of his thighs, over the top he wore shorts with a belt-tightening them to his waist, but that also had a fastening for his katana. On his right hip slightly facing towards the back he had a weapon pouch that housed half of his ninja tools and the other various supplies, such as military ration pills. On his leg, he had a bandage wrapping and attached o that was a weapon holster that held the rest of his kunai and shuriken. Ryu also wrapped his hands, wrists and arms in compression bandages that wound all the way up to the middle of his bicep. Ryu then slipped on a t-shirt that had the village emblem emblazoned across the front of it, the t-shirt was black and the village sign was white. On top of his t-shirt, he wore a jacket that had no fastenings and a Nara clan symbol upon the back of it. Underneath the jacket he had one of his tanto's in a holster that sat on his lower back, the other one fastened within the jacket that would hang by his side. Ryu also put on his shoes and then fastened the katana to its holster, finally he wrapped the headband around his head and set off out of the house.

As Ryu stepped through his front door he found himself suddenly surrounded by an unfamiliar setting, it had happened again, surely there would be a messenger or piece of paper soon to follow from the Hollykage. Just on cue, his hand was filled with a scroll, it read quickly and with very little detail, as per usual. Ryu was tasked with searching the ruins around him for pufferfish so that the Hollykage could try the delicacy. "So now he has got us just getting his dinner? how ridiculous this is" he said to himself, looking around to see if anybody would be joining him on this particular mission.

WC: 448

Ryu studied the scene in front of him, he stood on a cliff that looked over into a massive circular section of sea that laid in between the Island country and that of the Tea country, he could see remains of the old village, it was mostly submerged, but sections of land or half-submerged buildings were still present to mark the edge of the once bloody mist village. It appeared that he would have to do a bit of swimming, Ryu began to take off his jacket and neatly folded it as he heard a voice from behind him, "Hey" he said in reply. The ninja in front of him was one he recognized from a previous Hollykage mission, his name was Gonk, he was slightly more local than Ryu. "Yes I'm here to find some fish and Hemlock, are you here for the same mission? Say you don't use water jutsu by any chance? That will probably speed this mission up drastically, I was going to have to either swim under the water and catch something by hand, or, and this was probably going to be a terrible idea, electrocute the ocean" he said, his eyes got shifted and looked sideways as he said the final few words of the sentence, the stupidity of it sounding even worse said out loud. Ryu continued to undress until he was just in his shorts, headband, and compression bandages, the rest of the items of clothing would get in the way if they actually had to go underwater for any reason. Ryu then picked up one of his tanto's and refastened the holster to his lower back, clipping it onto the top of his belt. "Well, shall we begin?" Ryu said a small smile creeping onto his lips, this kind of environment was quite alien to him, not quite as much as the land of Iron, but still, it differed significantly from anything he was used to, and he would enjoy it while he was here.

WC: 335
TWC: 783

Ryu put his thumb up at Gonk as he told him he would handle the deep-sea diving, he took note of his racial features but had never encountered someone like him before. Ryu took off along the beachfront and then into a more arable area on the hunt for the hemlock. Ryu had been given enough information to search for the plant from the hollykage, and he was going to be careful due to how poisonous the plant was. Ryu found his way into the tree line and continued until he found some growths at the foot of a tree, the growths appeared to be hemlock. Ryu looked closer to make sure, then he removed a kunai from his pouch and began to dig out the earth around the growth, trying to maintain the roots of the plant, not knowing what part of the plant he would need, but he knew enough that if he kept the thing whole it would be better. Ryu then continued until he found another batch growing near another tree, knowing that he would need enough for both himself and his mission partner. Ryu repeated the process and now had plenty of hemlocks for both himself and Gonk, he then wrapped them in some spare bandage he kept in his pouch and returned from the treeline back to the beach. He waited for a few minutes by his pile of clothes until his partner resurfaced, he had a much wider area to search. "Yeah I found enough for the both of us, now let's call the Hollykage and get the hell out of here" Ryu was starting to become very disillusioned with the Hollykage and hoped that this would be the last time he called upon Ryu, although if he was called again he did not know if he would have any choice but to help him as the only time they seemed to be returned to their lands was once the mission was completed. 

WC: 330
TWC: 1113

Approved!

Ryu handed over the hemlock to Gonk and took a pufferfish from him, he then thanked him for his help and the Hollykage then appeared, Ryu handed over the materials to the Hollykage before being given them back as his reward for completing the quest. "Please do not call on me anymore for these quests, They cut into my training time," Ryu said with a sour look on his face, and then suddenly he had been transported back to his home. Ryu then made his way into the village and to the Thunderpeak campus where he looks for material on how to improve weapons and armor as well as the materials used for such improvements, he learned about a process they called augmentation and he discovered he would need to find a person with sufficient blacksmithing skill to take on the task. Ryu left the campus and returned to the village, he found somewhere to take in some refreshments. He had some barbequed meat and a nice sugary drink before then returning home, with an extra portion of meat for Taco. Ryu decided that he also needed to get in a training session for the day as he had not been able to physically exert himself on the Hollykage's task. However, as he began training the memories of the tasks he had completed started to fade and he could not recollect what he had done for the past few days. Ryu could not shake the feeling of how he had met several new people and had begun to improve his social skills, yet he could not recollect any of these people, tasks, or situations that made him think so. After several hours of training, Ryu returned to his home and prepared for bed. The feeling of something missing could not be dislodged from his brain, he also noticed in the dojo that there were several lots of crafting materials, all of which he did not remember obtaining, he knew something was going on but chose to forget about it. He could spend time trying to remember or even questioning where these gifts had come from but it would be a waste of time, he could still train and use these materials to improve his combat ability and that is all that mattered. Ryu passed out on his bed and dreams of distant friendships took over.

WC: 396

Claiming +4100 Ryo, +45 Ap (40 mission reward + 5 for B rank), +30 AP Trained 1500/1500 for Water Wall.

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