Causing Chaos!(mission, cyph, pino, Dana, Ichi)

Yanno. When he suggested that they figure out a plan to get the star without alerting the hundreds of shinobi and causing their patron to leave, he was expecting a shit show, but as he listened to Dana's plan.. Either he was in severe need of some sleep or it was actually pretty good. 

"Yanno. either I'm in severe need of sleep or this plan is pretty good. What do you think Aki? Think you can sneak around the crowd while we grab their attention with a combination of flower salesmanship and sparring prowess? i have been interested in using Kachu tenshin on Dana again....." Unfortunately for the small Weaponry master of the anything goes style of martial arts, He had already used his favorite jutsu. There was some mystical force that caused ninja to have to wait a while between using techniques, a while being completely relative to something he couldn't actually comprehend. 

"Maybe you could use the lightness skill I taught you to hop on a bunch of snow flakes... If it were snowing I mean. Man that woulda been such a cool plan." Almost as if there was a kind diety in the sky listening and giving aid exactly when they needed, just as he commented about the lack of snow small ice fractals would begin to fall from the sky. "HAH! I totally get credit for doing that. Yes. SO you could just use the lightness skill technique I showed you to hop on some of these here snowflakes just like you would rain drops--oh yea you can use Lightness to walk on raindrops. Not sure how but you can. Anyway just walk on the snowflakes and sneak over there to--" And just like that he would look up, having missed any suggestion that their teammate had even left, to see the star flying directly towards him. 

This would normally be the point where things go to slow motion and onlookers watch with baited breath to see if he manages to catch the item, or if it shatters to a million pieces on the floor below. Unfortunately this is a pinochio topic. He watched in real time as the sharp points of the star floated towards him. Reaching his hands out he would try and fail to catch the large object, flinching as it found the space just shy of his chest armor and one of the tips embedded itself deeply in his shoulder. 

"....Aki. Could you uh. Maybe. Give me a hand with this. I think it's best if you carry the star for reasons. " It never failed. If Pinochio was in a mission there was always a 100% chance of him finding a way of hurting himself. Still they'd completed the task and now they just needed to collect their rewards! Awesome right?! 

(TWC 2572 mission reqs complete)

"Thanks, its nice to meet you too." Aki wonders if she should have bowed or if the other Chuunin was just humoring her. Etiquette was hard and felt like something the human race could overall do without. "I liked your trees. The ones from just now I mean." She could only hope that her current emotional state, which oscillated somewhere mild nervousness and a grievous desire for self-destruction that paralleled any number of antagonistic religious entities, would stabilize somewhat the next time she met Dana. She was another Kiri ninja after all, so it was inevitable that she'd run into her eventually and need to talk about something more substantial than the aesthetic merits of trees. If all else failed she could bother her on how to do the technique Dana had shown off earlier, Aki was still undecided on her third basic element and wood was a valid choice same as any.

She overheard mention of Sunagakure and how it was extremely sandy, and felt a middling urge to visit it. She wasn't unfamiliar with sand, having lived on a beachfront her whole life, but beach sand was probably different to sand sand in some way. Though she found it odd how there would be more sand in a place where the sand was barely watered, nothing grew if you didn't water it after all. Maybe it rained a lot?

"Oh! I'm following yeah. If you can drag out the distraction as long as possible I can grab the star in five minutes, though ideally a little more in case the climb to the star is harder than I expected." While the tree itself was green, there were clumps of snow caught on its branches and would make the perfect camouflage for Aki, who was basically entirely snow colored. It wouldn't hold up to close observation, but if the distraction held that wouldn't be an issue.

"Right so if we start now I can-" Oh, it seemed everything was already done. Aki hadn't seen just what Sebastian had done to grab the star, but it was probably something cool and would leave her life that much less enriched for missing out on it.

She winces as the star embeds itself in Pino. She didn't see any bleeding so it probably wasn't that bad, but she was also looking away to avoid checking if there was any bleeding, so maybe it actually was bad. "Alright just, hold still and I'll get it out. Do you need any cloth or bandages to erm, hold the wound?" Aki gingerly feels for the star, carefully avoiding the tips after seeing what they could do, and pulls it out as fast as she can.

"I think we're meant to give it to someone now?"

TWC: 1985

"Great job team. Seb, Hope we can meet again in the real world instead of this odd red and white elf land. We made a pretty good team." Theg roup seemed to be dispersing, with only Pino and Aki left to take the star b ack to... What was her name? It was hard to say. He knew she was some sort of diety, and that it wasn't yoi probably but the name was really long and he hadn't paid much attention. There was probably a z in there somewhere. 

"WEll. I suppose you don't need to grab the star after all hm? Lets see if you have the techniques I taught you and then we can get the star back to the diety lady." With a nod he'd brace as she pulled the item from his chest. It didn't really hurt thankfully. His skin was really tough. It's almost as if he had damage resistance in his very body!. 

"No no. This happens every time. During the haloween events I died literally every time, but we were in a wierd dream world so like. I just woke up. Never fails. SOmething ends up stabbed into me but my skin is hecka tough so it never actually does damage. " In emphasis, he would motion to the spot in his arm. There was barelly any wound despite the star having been sticking fuly from the spot only moments ago. When Aki grabbed it, it would be immediately clear that none of the points on the star....were sharp in the slightest. How does this even work. 

"Alright. FInal test....LETS GO!" He would grab the star from Aki, turning on his heels to leap away. As he floated through the air he activated lightness skill, feet vaulting off snowflakes as he rushed to the spot where they would meet the diety. Handing the star over to complete their mission he would wait for aki to get back, and then give her a detailed explaination about how to use wind release as an element, just in case he hadn't before. 

(TWC 2918

claiming 
4250 ryo 20 ap and 1 onmistone
7750 ryo 40 ap and a tinker's toolkit
10250 ryo 50 ap and 1 material demagnetizer 

total: 22250 ryo 110 ap and the items

also claiming extra advent ticket ON SAYA as she's getting the advent ticket!

wc: putting all 2918 into training into space/time (2918/4k) 

-14 str +14 chak(2800 wc)

Aki was still kind of dazed by the actions of the falling star. At the least she was glad that Pino didn't need any bandages, Aki hadn't brought any with her and the closest thing she had were the explosion seals. Even if that wouldn't hurt Pino if they went off, she had like two of them max. There was also the option of just cutting off some fabric from her sleeves, but she really didn't want to do that; her outfit would look awful and not symmetrical at all. Maybe she'd make that sacrifice if Pino was on their literal deathbed, but she'd make that decision with regret heavy in her heart.

"Hmm, the goddess should be nearby at least. That's what I'd do if I wanted this star."

She hefts the star and surprisingly, finds its needles to be blunt. Aki glances briefly at Pino's skin as she wonders how he was somehow extremely fragile yet extremely durable simultaneously.

Aki listens closely to Pino's mention of Halloween. Saya had told her about Halloween too, and it had involved a lot more organs that one would expect of the holiday. And in jars instead of people too! Whatever had gone on was very decidedly out of the ordinary, and now this too. Most people died once, maybe twice if they managed to really stretch it. Yet Pino had died multiple times and seemed entirely enured to it.

Wandering around in the winter wonderland, she spots a shape or two that seems sufficiently godly. Mostly because they're taller than the miniscule elves that populate the land, but that was as good a mark of divinity as any. As she continues to plod towards them, she remembers her promise to Saya. This strange new land was undoubtedly a producer of candy, and some of that candy had to be bad. It would be a good start to her search, and Aki was entirely certain that she would win.

( Exit TWC: 2317

(Unlock Wind Element (2000/2000)
Putting 317 towards Chakra Infusion (608/2000) Previous training here)

Approved