We're off to eat sand [I/O]

Bland sand handling:

Itsumi waited near the guard houses for the other ninja humming to past the time. She had a few of her family’s sand dumpling boxes by her side. It was hard to leave the house with food, none the less in the morning when everyone was running around doing lunch prep. She ran out of the house with the boxes as her parents were shouting at her. She’d definitely have to pay them back for what she did today. But in her mind, it was worth it. She actually was working with ninjas that she met before so in the end her family might have ended up feeding them anyway if they had stumbled upon their restaurant.

She had routed the way to the processing plant as she leaned against a wall. While the mission hinted that there were bandits anticipating the shipment, she wasn’t exactly sure where they’d pop up. After checking and doubling checking what she wrote she sat next to the food boxes and began to fall asleep against the wall. She wasn’t too worried, any ninja that showed up would hopefully make enough noise wake her up. With the slight breeze drifting in from the gates and the stucco wall still cool from the night before it was easy to drift off. She faintly heard her pencil klink to the ground as she told herself she was just closing her eyes for a moment.

WC: 238

Arantima yawns and rolls straight off of his bed with a loud and distinct thud of body and head on floor. His improvised alarm waking him up with a thumping headache. He grabs his head with one hand and sits up slowly with a groan, his body was protesting because it was in minor amounts of pain before he looked up at the window and saw that it was actually light out. He crawled over to his vanity and pulled himself up to the basin and dunked his whole-ass head inside of it and burbled up from inside of it for a few seconds before shooting up in a panic to a full stand. He Bolted out of the window after collecting his things, he ran down the side of the home and down into the streets as he was running his hands through his hair to shake the excess water out of it.

He arrived at the meeting location for the mission he was assigned before everyone but itsumi, as he pulled out his little notebook to check that he was indeed in the right place. He looked around to see if he could spot any of the other members, he didn't recognize two of the names and looked around for the face of the one who he did know and that was going to be Itsumi. He looked around at the crowds and at the people in them and then closed his notebook and then closed his eyes and sniffed the air, and felt around him.  His eyes shot open and his head immediately tracked to a sleeping Genin with a Panda themed hoodie and two toned hair that was currently sleeping.

Arantima looked around and smirked as he made the hand seal for his Quiet steps jutsu, making his steps silent as he crept up to Itsumi slowly, stepping up the wall on Itsumi's left and walked up around so he could lean down and look at Itsumi upside down. He watched her sleeping face for a few moments before coughing softly once, and then leaning around her face to whisper into her ear "Hey Itsumi! Wake up!" He immediately shot out straight so that he was out of her line of sight and smiled broadly at himself for his little play. He looked around and waited for the others to arrive and kept an eye on Itsumi to see if he had woken her up.

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409/409 Words

Current Health Bar: 300/300  | AP: 1005/1005

Vigor: 80 |  Chakra: 50 | Speed: 120 | Strength: 50 | Throwing Speed: 100 | Throwing Distance: 50 Meters

Specialties: Bukijitsu | Element(s): Wind | Skills: Blacksmithing (Slotless), Itemcrafting, Chakra Infusion, Clan Pureblood (slotless)

Equipment: Twin Demon Lance, 5 Kunai (50 stat), 5 Shuriken (50 stat), 2 Weapon pouches, 1 Fuma Shuriken (100 stat)

Enrai had been invited to another mission by the girl known as Itsumi, and he started to like the girl a bit, they could be fast friends. Enrai appreciated that she was helping him out like this, this being the second time in a short while that she had done this. Enrai would be sure to thank her later somehow, he did not really know what to do to thank her though, maybe flowers? This seemed like a good way until he remembered that women might think he was coming onto them if he suddenly showed up and gave them flowers, so he scratched that idea and would probably just find some sort of food or offer to buy her lunch or something. Enrai headed towards the mission location, which was near the gate, where they would then head to an outpost that was a pair of guard houses that kept the processed sand for delivery. This was a strange grey area just outside of Suna’s defenses, so if there were bandits and they wanted to try their luck, this was where they would be doing it.

This meant that Enrai had to be on a bit of an alert from here on out, as he met up with the two that were already there. He recognized Itsumi and walked up to her, waving and saying “Hello again Itsumi, good to see you.” before turning and looking at the person who he had not met yet, and introducing himself. “Heya, the name’s Enrai, nice to meet you.” Enrai would casually introduce himself to the man, putting a big grin on his face as he did so. He looked around and saw that there were crates without the processed sand around, and they had to take them to the outpost to collect the processed sand. He was not very strong, but he could grab one of the crates that would be filled with sand and still defend himself and others if he needed to, so he grabbed one of them before turning to look at the other two. “Alright, are we ready to go?”
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WC: 353

Itsumi woke up at the creepy whisper, instinctively trying to bolt up directly into Arantima’s shins. “Ow- What the-Tima! I’m going to-“ She pulled out a sand dumpling and preceded to try to sneakily stuff it into his shoe as she talked. “Arrggh I brought you food as a thank you for the last mission here.” She scooted out from the sideways kid and stood up. Handing him a box of 4 dumplings now she stuck her tongue out.  
 
Upon seeing Enrai she blushed up to her ears, wondering if he had seen that whole thing. He seemed like a very polite person and she wanted to try to match that “Hi Enrai, this box is for you. Thanks for helping the village.”  


She listened Shin and waved at his nod cooling down a few red hues now that everyone was here. When she heard him say storage displacement, she perked up. “Yeah, I tried that out with another space time user recently, he’s a village genin by the name of Kenta and was there Tima to!” She happily signed the seals and tapped the last box, it dissipated into a peachy pink puff.  “Just like that right? I’ll help carry some of the full ones on the way back to.” She smiled back at Shin. “Thanks for giving me another show of it! I really want to try to match your composure on missions to. Thanks again for last time, sorry I was a bit panicky.” As she said that she offered up her last food box to him.
 
With that she motioned for the group to head out and started zipping to the processing plant, figuring everyone could probably easily keep up with her, or more likely out pace her. When they reached the plant, she waved to one of the workers pointing to her headband and motioned to her group. They were let around to a few large hills of sand. She quickly got out her own empty crate and made sure to help Shin with loading and carrying half the load, in the very least. Once they were ready, she’d set off again looking for bandits on the way as best as she could.
 
There was a quick bit of movement to her left before she heard the stitching of her hood tearing. The rasp of the fabric tweaked a nerve this was the second time her clothes got messed on a mission. She turned to see cliffs from where an arrow had just missed her face. There were bandits running toward them from a few rock outcroppings.
 
“There’s a group on the left!” She said skidding to a stop in the sand. She didn’t have much offensive jutsu so she threw two of her kunai at the approaching men, hoping to give an opening for her teammates to kick some can.

WC: 476 TWC: 714

Arantima took all of three seconds to register that his shins had been assaulted before he lept off the wall and landed on his back in the road holding his shin and not.. screaming but laughing. He was holding his shin because it hurt but he was laughing at his own prank. He felt her stuff something into his sandal and narrowed his eyes as he tilted his foot up closer to his face to inspect it, and when he saw it was a dumpling he swiftly snatched it from his shoe and ate the thing whole. He took the box she gave him with a smile and opened it smelling the contents before he tosses the contents into the air a few meters and forms Dog > Snake > Ram > Ox Rapidly before the Dumplings disappear in a small whoosh, a similar whoosh fluttering over the seal on his Half cloak.

Arantima Looked around at the other two and Smiled to Enrai as he introduced himself, "Hey there Enrai! I'm Arantima, but you can just call me Tima!" He smiled warmly still as he gave him a gentle wave and then he waved to Shin. When he saw them all getting prepared for their time outside of the village he made sure his weapons and gear were all readied. He unfastened his Twin Demon lance and looked at the others gathered. "I suppose Ill be the muscle, at least visually. Hopefully I'll be enough to keep most things away.. If not ill show them why it would have been a good idea to do so. Feel free to join in any fights that do occur but don't feel pressured to if you would rather get back to safety. It's kind of my Job as a Bukijutsu specialist to get the dirty work taken care of yknow?" He spoke all of that with a chipper attitude and a genuine care for the others. he wanted to make sure that they felt safe around him and that if they felt they could or wanted to fight he would welcome it but if they would rather not fight that they shouldn't feel obligated to or ashamed if they did not.

Arantima had Taken his time overseeing the sand loading with his back to the dunes. Just watching to make sure no one needed a hand with anything too heavy and when they did he stepped in and helped carry things too and fro. It wasn't until they were back on their way towards the Village again that his nose had picked something strange up on the wind but it was too far for him to be sure what it was until he heard Itsumi point out the bandits. They were at least Twenty meters away, which would explain why he wasn't able to sense them until they were pointed out.

Arantima's normally violent eyes went even darker as his hand was immediately on his Fuma shuriken and this Shuriken had left his hand almost sooner than it was visible. It unfurled mid flight the speed of the throw was so fast that he hadn't even fanned it out before he let it loose. The Cutting power of the Blade was such that it split the Bow clean in half and sliced clean through the bandit wielding it before it landed behind him in the sand. While that was flaying Arantima had drawn his Twin Demon lance and Unpaired it and had cleared 5 More meters launching one half of the Lance its full 15 meter wire length into the chest of another bandit and while it was secured in the mans chest The wire became much more shiny and reflected more light than it should given its dark color.

He threw the other half around to seemingly entrap two other bandits with the wire connected blade, but instead of wrapping when the supposedly blunt wire hit the body of the bandits.. It cut through their chests, and deeper and deeper as it wrapped around them. Arantima was still making his way towards the bandits now wielding nothing but holding his hands out like a beast armed with claws, as there were still a couple of bandits left on the hill to be taken care of.

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(Not sure if we want to track AP in this mission or not but can edit in AP uses if we want to.)

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Current Health Bar: 300/300  | AP: 1005/1005

Vigor: 80 |  Chakra: 50 | Speed: 120 | Strength: 50 | Throwing Speed: 100 | Throwing Distance: 50 Meters

Specialties: Bukijitsu | Element(s): Wind | Skills: Blacksmithing (Slotless), Itemcrafting, Chakra Infusion, Clan Pureblood (slotless)

Equipment: Twin Demon Lance, 5 Kunai (50 stat), 5 Shuriken (50 stat), 2 Weapon pouches, 1 Fuma Shuriken (100 stat)

Enrai would happily accept the box of food, before starting to stuff them into his mouth. He loved things like this, as they had a pretty good flavor, and Enrai was a bit of a glutton. “Thanks a bunch!” Enrai would try to say through a rather full mouth of dumplings, before they started to go on their journey. The other man, Tima as he told them to call him as a nickname, introduced himself in turn, and Enrai nodded, simply watching on as they walked. The man started saying that it was his job as a weaponry specialist to do the dirty work, and they did not need to join a fight if it happened, letting him be the muscle. Enrai had an inward chuckle at this, as this guy had probably never left the village and did not know the harsh realities waiting for him outside, but Enrai was not going to be the one to burst his bubble and rain on his parade, so he simply nodded and kept walking with them. They then reached the building where they would accept the processed sand, and it was all quickly put into a storage displacement. If there was still some left, Enrai would not mind carrying it in a backpack or something as they started their return trip to the village.  

Enrai was tearing through the food, and by the time the bandits actually started attacking, he was already about three quarters of the way through the entire box, and would probably finish the whole box of dumplings before they actually finished the mission. As the others sprung into action using their ranged options, Enrai was a bit more casual, and put his crate of food down, before performing a bit of hand seals. He then picked the crate back up and started eating, as suddenly near the bandits, the ground rapidly turned into a large field of mud, which enveloped all of them in a short order. They all started yelling and asking what the hell the jutsu was that was being used, but they rapidly sank into the swamp, and suddenly the world was quiet again. Enrai paid it no mind, and as such, he simply continued walking and eating his dumplings as if nothing had happened. 

He knew the bandits were going to suffocate and die, as if they could not get out of his Swamp of the Underworld in the beginning, there was no way out for them when they were already sinking. So, Enrai simply looked away after the hand seals, eating the dumplings before walking back towards the village. “It was really fun hanging out with you guys, hope to see you again really soon.” Enrai would say as he walked off, having completed the mission and got the slip that he could turn in for payment at the administration building.
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EXIT
WC: 479
TWC: 832
Claiming 4000 ryo and 20 ap
Spending 832 towards Chakra Infusion 832/1500 with discount

Itsumi watched the discordant fight a little confused, but in the end, everything seemed fine. Working with people is one thing, fighting with them is another so there's bound to be bumps in the road as everyone learns each other's styles she mused. Either way she was glad she didn't rush into the now mud field. A shiver went down her back as she thought about what it would be like to go out like that. She glanced up to see Shin still staring into the pit, almost through it, not quite able to figure out the expression on his face. As they walked away, she tried to let go of that dread feeling, knowing her own jutsu weren't exactly any 'nicer' then Enrai's.
 
 

"Thanks everyone glad we're all safe end all be all. It was nice traveling with you all again!" She smiled and waved as quickly parting from the group after the mission was over. When she got home, she’d smile and complain that the heat was really the worst part of the mission. It was easier to get laughed at for being a dessert dweller who couldn’t stand the heat then tell them about what she saw that day. That night she slipped out from her own house and practiced bringing up her own version of hell and sending it into the training ground floor. Again and again until she couldn’t hear the ghost sounds of the men that went under the earth that day. 




WC:248 TWC: 962


Claiming 4000 ryo and 20 AP
900 words toward 9 chakra stats
Using 940 words to complete learning iron maiden with 810 learned here totaling 1,750 words

Arantima blinked as he watched the swamp grow, He had time enough to catch his throw before it left his hand and in one clean motion re-sheathed his Fuma shuriken. He did not bother watching what had occurred to the bandits, he continued on, silently after the group as they went to turn in their mission. He Silently waved to the group giving them all a soft but half hearted smile as he left. He made sure he had all of his equipment with him as he walked back towards his new home with the Kage and her family. He walked up the wall, never quite feeling appropriate to enter and exit the building normally, feeling like he should only use his room until he was more well acquainted with the people that lived there more formally.

He laid all of his things in their places and stands before just laying back on the bed.. He should have done something faster.. should have felt the bandits sooner.. Itsumi could have been shot and there was not a thing he could have done to help that.. He felt useless, he felt like dead weight on that mission.. He would have to change that.

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Current Health Bar: 300/300  | AP: 1005/1005

Vigor: 80 |  Chakra: 50 | Speed: 120 | Strength: 50 | Throwing Speed: 100 | Throwing Distance: 50 Meters

Specialties: Bukijitsu | Element(s): Wind | Skills: Blacksmithing (Slotless), Itemcrafting, Chakra Infusion, Clan Pureblood (slotless)

Equipment: Twin Demon Lance, 5 Kunai (50 stat), 5 Shuriken (50 stat), 2 Weapon pouches, 1 Fuma Shuriken (100 stat)

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