bulk trash day(mission)

mission details:

ALRIGHT!!!! It is a new day in the village hidden in the mist, and free of the shackles of his student Pinochio was rip raring and ready to burn through missions so fast he can multitask his cardio. He took off from the house at a run, checking to ensure his fit bit was working, and crossed the distance between the Senju house and the missions board in two minutes flat. Good time. Checking through the boards he'd find.... there was only one. How was it possible that he only shows up on days when the missions sound aweful? There was a small pro however. Two other ninja had already accepted the call it would seem, and they could finish things together at a much faster rate than normal. That meant he would need to do a quick costume change.

Ignoring the fact that he'd just required a change in costume just to interact with people, he found a bathroom in the local clothing shop, and swapped his Nike work out clothes for something off the rack and suspiciously his size. Heading to the mission location, he'd check the cuff links on a brand new slate grey suit, tucking the pocket square in, and ensuring he was at peak appearance before inevitably sweating through the suit on his run. It wasn't a great plan.

he arrived finally, and nearly immediately realized that she really needs to actually read missions before accepting them. The three and a half foot tall man found himself at a landfill heaped with bags of refuse that they would need to sort through or fix or something. The goal was probably to sort through the bags for recycling and make sure they were spread properly so that nothing piled too high.

He glanced about, wiping the sweat from his brow with a towel kept in the ninja pouch on his side, and hoped his team would get here soon. This was his first real chance to make a good impression on the ninja of the village hidden in the mist afterall.

(TWC 345/1334)

The rays of the early sunlight shine on kirigakure and dance among the ocean mist that blows across the city. The smell of salt wafting off through the city, thatt is before it can hit the smell of the landfill. The smell of rot and garbage. It was a dirty job and one most would dread but it was still a job someone would need to do. So mitsu looks down at his flyer for the mission. Takes a very deep breath as he slips the flyer into his robes. Holding as much fresh air inside as he could before he is gone

Wooden sandals clack on the stone walkways of kirigakure. A blur of a someone running down the streets leaving empty barrels and trash bins in his wake. The brown and black blur makes its way into the landfill, hurridly tossing several black bags into the two piles in the landfill. The other person coming to a stop once theyre outside past the gate of the landfill, taking heavy breaths with their robe over their nose. It's then they actually manage to notice the other person here.

He turns to look back at him, odd white eyes with no pupis, and he raises an eyebrow. A suit? In this place? "Uhh. Are you going to be one of the people here helping?" He says it a bit muffled beneath his robes. Trying his best to keep any stench of the landfill at bay. Why on earth someone would come to deal with trash in a suit and tie he had no idea. Then again he was out working in his home robes so maybe he shouldn't judge. He assumed the other person was one of the other ninja on the mission but this kind of outfit with this job would just get it all dirty and messy.


[TWC 309]

Hiroyuki was sweating massively currently, as he was currently upside down, the only things connecting to the ground were the tips of his two index fingers as he was concentrating. His mother was off to the side, monitoring his situation, and every few minutes, she would walk up and put a small black brick like item on top of his extended feet. There was an audible grunt from Hiroyuki, as the black weights were causing him to exert even more pressure on his core to maintain his balance, which caused him to be more distressed. “Your breathing is uneven.” His mother said off to the side as she lightly smacked his abdomen with a thin stick, causing the air in Hiroyuki’s lungs to exhale sharply, before he slightly lost his balance, before restructuring his breathing and his posture. His mother nodded while walking around him and checking his posture and listening to his breathing. 

Soon, the clock hand hit the next hour, and his mother spoke immediately. “Alright, time’s up.” As soon as she said that, Hiroyuki fell over onto his back and let out a ‘blegh’ noise, before panting wildly for a little bit, before his breathing became under control once again. His mother helped him up and then embraced him, swinging him around and squishing him. “That’s my son! You’re so cute and strong, good job!” His mother’s attitude shifted complete, and she was no longer the iron gripped tiger that she was just a moment ago. She was simply petting Hiroyuki, stroking the top of his head and his ears, so Hiroyuki simply had his eyes closed and was super happy. After a couple of minutes of the snuggling, Hiroyuki had to try really hard to pry himself from his mother’s grip. “Mom, I need to go, I’m on a mission today. I need to bathe.” 

His mother retorted back and simply squeezed him and rubbed her face against his. Hiroyuki did not inherit his mother’s whiskers, so he was tickled quite fiercely. “Just a few more minutes.” His mother would say squeezing him, before Hiroyuki leveraged his small stature to squeeze out of her grip. “Get back here Hiro-chan!” His mother would say, before Hiroyuki hissed a bit, before running along the ceiling and making his way into the bathroom to bathe before closing the door. He heard his mother giggling from outside before leaving, and Hiroyuki had a nice bath. It was now around fifteen minutes before he needed to show up for the mission, and he had just finished fully dressing himself, so he headed out. “Bye bye Mom! I love you!” 

Hiroyuki would say, before heading off to the landfill to go and collect a bunch of trash. As he was walking up to the landfill, he was walking on a small part of the road, and decided to sing, while balancing and walking, one foot after another, as if he was on a tightrope. “Sharks, sharks, sharks, sharks! Watch out for sharks!” Hiroyuki would stick both of his arms out while looking at the imaginary narrow road under his feet, pretending he was balancing while walking. “Sharks, sharks, sharks sharks! Watch out for them!” Hiroyuki did a little hop before continuing. “Shark! Shark-shark don’t wanna meet no sharks! Sharky sharky shark! Sharky sharky sharky sharky shark!” At this point, Hiroyuki was outside of the landfill, and was fairly close to the other people, but was still looking down at his feet and pretending to walk a tightrope surrounded by sharks. 

“Sharks, sharks, sharks sharks! Watch out for sharks!” He would say, before jumping and stomping, essentially ending his song, and he looked up, seeing the other two. He knew that he was supposed to meet the other people for the mission, and he was finally here. Because he was still a kid, he was not embarrassed or anything, and simply greeted the other people. “Oh, hello! I’m Hiroyuki Yamanaka, and I’m here for the mission. It’s nice to meet you.” He would say with a cordial little bow. He looked at the two of them, and it seemed that one of them was even shorter than he was, but he did not take that in mind when he was interacting with them. “So, should we get going?” Hiroyuki would ask as he would start to make his way towards the landfill, still humming his song. He wanted to be quick and efficient about cleaning up the bad parts of the landfill and reorganizing it, unless they had to do something else that he was not told yet, and would wait for the others to respond if they had something to say.
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WC: 779

Song being sung:

"Ah yes. My name Is Trainer elite Pinochio....Pinochio. It's my first and family name. Both names that I have and own and not just my first name said twice because I realized I didn't actually have a surname like most. Very common among elite trainers you know. AHEM" He took a moment to clear his throat, realizing he did in fact have a throat to clear. This being alive thing was absolutely the bees knees. he straitened his tie and pulled the jacket of his suit down before begining again.

"I believe that we need to ensure these bags are opened and uh. Smooth the stuff out so that the mound isn't too high and.... Honestly that's as far as i'd gotten with this one. Mission directives weren't very clear. I will be sure to write a strongly worded letter to the mission directives team about clear and concise objectives when we've finished, but for now let's just make the best o--" It was about here that the small boy would come into view. He'd seen this boy before "technically". He hadn't, per say, but puppet pinochio, or puppetnochio as he was being reffered to among the team, much to his dismay, Had seen the boy training one day he believed, but that did not prepare him for the volume of cuteness and the deja vu. It was like looking at the boy version of a young Sayatria while listening to every other instance of sayatria. Somehow, even having left the house to prepare for his own ninja journey, it would seem he could not escape this girl.

"Welcome Hiroyuki, I am Trainer elite Pinochio Pinochio. " Even as he spoke, he watched the boy get to work cleaning and reorganizing things. Why hadn't he thought of that?! He pitched in, expecting they would be able to converse while working, and lifted one of the large trashbags off to the right at the bottom of the land fill high over his head. The container was easily over his height and twise as wide as the tiny ninja, but being in peak physical condition, it took little effort for him to heft the bulbous bag up. Unfortunately it took less force than that to pierce the plastic container, and the contents spilled directly on his head.

There is a world where the punish for this particular decision was pretty lax. Where the bag was filled with paper goods or lawn debris. Long time listeners of our show will know that this is NOT that world. With a spine tingling ERRTT The base of the bag released a concoction of fish heads, spoiled vegitation, and a viscous semiclear brown liquid that cascaded down the boy's body. He let out a deep groan of dissatisfaction as he stood helpless to his plight, and shifting his heels he lobbed what was left of the bag and it's contents into a pile designated for composting. Once gain checking his tie and smearing a large glob of substance he would rather not think about from his suit jacket, he continued his work much more carefully this time.

(TWC 865/1334)

Mitsu looked on at this very peculiar nin wondering who it was his companions in this village would be. An eccentric tiny one and an adorable academy student helping him out. Elite trainer too huh? He hadn't heard of such a thing but then again he hadn't heard of much so maybe it was something common? Then again having so many small ninja around him and the same rank as him did make it feel a bit more stinging. His wonderings and ideas of the other Nin were soon interrupted however, when his companion picked the bag of rotten fish and spoil vegetation. Mitsu of course saw inside the bag and it's contents.

He thought "Theres no way he's gonna pick that up" And so Pinny did. Mitsu thought "There's no way he's not gonna feel what's inside there" and so pinny did not and finally Mitsu thought "That is gonna rip" and so it did. Mitsu cringing at the scene of what happened to his companion. Empathy and.. maybe a bit of schadenfreude admittedly.

Mitsu is desperately trying to hold back a giggle. It'd be rude to laugh like this, it'd be inviting karma, and most important of all. If he laughed odds are he'd have to breathe in the fumes. So he simply calms himself, biting back the laughing and pushing it down for later.

So instead Mitsu takes a small cloth bandana from his bag before wrapping it round his mouth in a makeshift mask. He takes his sheathed sword at his hip. Using the wooden sheathe to toss the remains of the bag over into the very large "Trash" pile before tossing Pinnochio a thumbs up. His eyes scan across the rest of the nearby bags for which of them might be particularly full of awfulness. One of them being one from the nearby old folks home Mitsu points out as a very "BAD" one to go for. Trying to save Pinny the grief of picking up and dousing himself with another horrid bag. He felt sorry for him but not exactly much he could do.

[TWC: 660]

Hiroyuki would return the greetings to the so-called elite trainer Pinocchio, even after he messed up a little bit and said something about his first name being the same as his surname, and this made Hiroyuki laugh a bit. This person was a bit funny, and was someone Hiroyuki did not mind being around and talking with. As they had started their trash sifting, the person Pinocchio had started detailing the mission before going into a semi-rant type thing about how the people of the administration building had been a little lacking and would need to give more of a direction. Hiroyuki liked to solve problems, and so he was looking around while the man was complaining, looking around the area to see if he could figure out where to put the excess trash. They needed to do something about it, as it was going to be buried after a while, and so there would be other workers coming over here to collect everything to start burying this, so they needed to make it easy for them to do their jobs. 

Hiroyuki quickly got to work, grabbing things like couches and other broken furniture items, being a little wary of insects and spiders, things that seemed to be everywhere around here, and tossing everything towards different corners of the area they were in, evening it out so that there would not be any large piles of trash and debris falling onto people that were working. As Hiroyuki was picking up things with his fairly great strength for such a tiny body, something bad happened, as the person named Pinocchio suddenly had a bag he grabbed over his head rip, and some sludge that seemed to used to be food items that had rotten fell on him. Hiroyuki was a bit worried, and immediately ran over to the side of the landfill, and headed around the front building to a spot on the side, immediately grabbing some things from the building. 

He grabbed some rags, a bucket that he had filled with water, and then some gloves, coming back over to where the people were fairly quickly. “Mr. Pinocchio, here you go, please use these.” Hiroyuki would say, placing the bucket of water and rags near him, as well as handing him some gloves. There would be a chance for him to sort of wipe himself off, although they did not have any soap, he could at least not be completely covered in the sludge for the rest of their time here. Hiroyuki had excellent balance and coordination, so he started targeting the questionable bags and things, carefully moving them over to the side, where he would check their contents before putting them in the compost pile or spreading them out for the person to bury. There were also some more mechanical parts that needed to put near a specific building to be crushed, but those were few and far between.

After a while of working, they were basically done. They could not talk freely because of the stench and other materials such as dust and old fungus and things of that nature that were disturbed every time they moved it around. None of them wanted a mouthful of anything that was lingering in the air around here, so it was hard to chat about things. Soon they were complete with their task, and Hiroyuki would walk out once their task was complete. After they were out, however, Hiroyuki would talk to the other people now that they did not have to worry about any of the contaminants in the air. “Whew, although that was pretty hard, it was fun. I hope to work with you guys again soon.” Hiroyuki would say, before bidding farewell to the couple of new friendly acquaintances.
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EXIT
WC: 631
TWC: 1410
Claiming 4100 ryo and 20 ap
Claiming 7 strength and 7 speed
Putting 1410 towards Eight Gates (Skill) 1410/2000

This day was turning out to be absolutely miserable, and then the small boy came back with the bane of Pinoch's existence. He was meaning to help, of course. He had no way to know how unideal water was for a wood grained body. raising a hand, he'd begin speaking.

"Oh No, Unfortunately my body is.....no longer made of wood and therefor water is useful to me actually. Thank you very much Hiro!" Without missing a beat He'd take the bucket, and unceremoniously dumped the entire contents over his head. Given his tiny frame, the volume would be more than sufficient to do two things. First it would easily get all of the sludge from his body. Secondly it would ensure beyond a shadow of a doubt that his brand new expensive suit was ruined beyond all repair.

Now feeling slightly less gross he'd continue with the task, trying to find the ideal items to move without having a repeat of his previous folley. That's when mitsu was kind enough to offer suggestion. His cleaning time had put him well behind his goal of finishing this in a minute or two, and without consideration to WHY Mitsu had pointed it out, Pinochio hefted the bag up above his head to chuck it onto the appropriate pile, fully trusting that he'd read the situation properly. He had decidedly NOT read the situation properly. With his momentum, thankfully the bag didn't burst completely over top of him, but as threw it overhead like a basket ball the seams once again ripped, and released a torrent of filth that was inconcievable to the small man who'd only recently gained a sense of smell. There was crap everywhere, rotted food, and As his body was once again assaulted with a laundry list of things he wished never to encounter, much less have on his body, His spirit broke once more. This is fine. While the plan was to do five or six missions before he went home, it would seem that directly after this first one he would need to take a quick trip to take fifteen showers in a row. The life of a ninja.

The rest of the work finished fairly quickly, with Pinochio deciding to follow hiro's lead and move everything that wasn't in a bag. No surprised when you can see exactly what's in your hand. The work was hard, and he could feel his muscles burning with exertion as they tore and prepared to rebuild themselves. The ideal situation. With the work all done, he'd wipe his hands together, realize he'd just smeared an unknown substance from one palm to the other, Wipe them on a nearby couch, and then adress the group.

"Good work team. That's a job well done for team Pinochio and company!!! Now get a rest and prepare for the next challenge!" With that, he was off at a run, trying to cross the distance between the land fill and anywhere with water as fast as humanly possible.

(TWC 1368 mission complete for me, claiming 4k ryo and 20 ap from mission rewards, putting 1k towards wep spec(2k/2k)previous training and 368 towards 8 gates skill(368/2k) finally grabbing 13 speed and exit topic closed after mitsu is done)

Mitsu once more holds his breath, this time no longer for laughing but more to hold himself back from vomiting at the stench and sight of it all. The revulsion shaking him to the core and just focusing on keeping his composure. He offers help as best he can but for the most part and for the rest of the work Mitsu keeps himself away from the partners. He'd rather not end up in the splash back of whatever bag might explode onto Pinocchio next. Working mostly alone and trying not to breathe through his mouth behind the mask to avoid inhaling or worse tasting anything in the air.

He felt bad yes but that was not something he could exactly help with and wanted to keep himself as far as possible from the situation. He wondered how bad it must be to not be able to see all around you, see through things and see so far at will. He could see normally but he imagined that being forced to see like that had to be like blindness. As he pushes another bag over to a second pile he thinks "Thankfully" he tells himself "I only must do this once." Only one time and he'd not have to come into this place again. A place full of revulsion and disgust and rot and just nastiness that made him feel horrid.

By the time the morning turned to afternoon and the sun shone down on them more harshly than before much of their work had been finished and done. The trash seperated neatly and much of the nastiness contained and pulled off the streets. Looking to the sky Mitsu wiped the sweat off his brow, heading out of the gate and taking off his mask to breathe air with some semblance of cleanliness. Finally done and can finally leave It's then he began to leave with the others, offering a wave goodbye as the three parted ways and wishing them a good day. Before he heads home desperate for a very very long hot shower.
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[1006 TWC]

Exit Claims

Mission
4100 Ryo
20AP

Stats
+5 to speed [95 to 100]
+5 to Vigor [35 to 40]

Jutsu
250 towards Genjutsu Release
250 towards Genjutsu Release Mastery
506 towards Flying Swallow [880/1000]

Approved