Protecting THE MAN

The day seemed like it was going to be a chill day guarding these people but the sense of relaxation didn't last too long. After a while of following, the couple around one of his teammates noticed there was someone following them. At first, Ciel was going to make a suggestion but it seemed as though his teammates were already on it." I guess I wasn't the only one itching for some actions here, it sucks though cause I wanted all the fun to myself ", is what he thought to himself. He hadn't had any real fighting in so long he almost forgot what it felt like to be punched, but then he realized they still had the whole day for him to get into something and he was sure that there was going to be plenty for him to do as the day goes on. As he looked back to see what his team was doing with the mystery man, he can tell from the look on their faces that the man was just an ordinary man following behind the wrong people. After a little while, longer than a couple were finally done with their shopping and was ready to go to the bathhouse to grab some of the paperwork he needed that was there, and for Ciel even though this was supposed to be nothing but the business he couldn't help but be slightly happy about going because to him nothing felt better than a nice hot bad and with how slow the man seemed to move it gave Ciel hope that they would be in the bathhouse long enough for him to slightly enjoy the baths they have to offer there. When they arrived at the bathhouse Ciel quickly created a clone that he would have to go around and undo tags that they would find around the bathhouse and after a quick scan over a nearby bath Ciel would jump in and enjoy the nice warmth that the bath would give. He knew this probably wasn't the best idea since he was there on official business but he didn't care and from the sounds of things the owner didn't either. After a short while, the man was ready to leave and return home. He would quickly get dressed and then walk beside Youta, "One more left, and then we can cash in for a nice check today my friend", He would say as they would walk out of the bathhouse. He was excited about the amount of money he was going to receive today, it would probably be the most amount of money he had got from doing missions. As he looks around he reminded himself to make a mental note to come back here once this mission was over, he felt as though he didn't get enough time inside of the bath before they had to leave. It also gave him the idea to make a shadow clone next time and have him go inside one of the other baths so that he could enjoy both of them.
 
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He would allow them to choose and Crom would just drop drawers and be naked. “CROM, you could have just put a towel on or you know a staff uniform on. There were a bunch of other choices but ok.” So as Ryumi is picking up one of his clones he would say “You could have just gone and cleared it without taking me with you.” But it was too late. She had already grabbed him and headed to the bath and he used fuinjutsu break to break the explosive tags and hopefully move on from this very awkward situation. After the team cleared the whole building and all the bombs were disabled he would come back to the family and say “Alright the building has been cleared and i would recommend reporting this and say something to some jounin and maybe hire some security. Maybe some old retired shinobi or something. It was pretty rudimentary, trap wise, but I would tell the police so they can investigate it fully. But we will escort you the rest of the way home and bid you and your family farewell.’

He would then go up to the team after and say “OK let's get this over with and what did you guys find out about the young man trying to stalk us? If you would not mind, will you give the father a full report about it. Then I guess let's form up and finally get this job over with.” He would then go back into the room with the family and say “Lets head out!” the rest of the afternoon was rather uneventful. Except the young man was still following them, youta would try to make eye contact with him and use the technique yuumei binding. This would cause the enemy to temporarily lose eyesight so that the group could finally get away. He and the other shinobi would escort the family to the door. They would Thank us and Youta would say a simple “Your welcome it was an interesting day.” it was mid afternoon to maybe early evening so he would turn to the team “Alright guys we have a couple hours to kill i guess you guys can do whatever you want. I am gunna head to get some dinner before our big night. We might be up all night but you are free to join me if not lets meet at the gate of the cemetery maybe half an hour or so before dusk. Our watch starts at soon as the sun goes down so meet you all there.” he would wait to see if anyone joins him then head towards his favorite sushi spot and get a table and eat.

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Having finished his task in the bathhouse and had returned to the group he noticed that people had taken slight with his quick unclothing. Which was baffling to him, after all they were shinobis, seeing people in the nude seems to be minor in comparison to the real possibility of seeing the entrails of other humans from combat and war. Crom simply shrugged at the others reactions at the time and now that he was back and clothed he was just waiting for the rest of the group to be back from their sections. He wasn’t sure if it was due to the difficulty of the rest of the bathhouse or number of traps in others sections and maybe he had been lucky with his section but it felt like it took a bit of time between the others though when the first one came back Crom had some ideas on why it took so long.
 
Ciel was the first to return looking refreshed and calm, Crom assumed he probably dipped into the bathes themselves but at least his section was now considered done, Ryumi was next arriving with a reddish face though Crom wasn’t sure if that was because something had happened in her section or if it was simply from the heat regardless now everyone had regathered with the bathhouse now cleared of any traps that had been planted and Youta was giving out instructions on what to do next along with reporting the clearing of the building to the client. He wanted the people who had interacted with the “stalker” from earlier to give a report to the father so Crom approached the older man not waiting for Ciel to join him so that he could give his side of the report first and get his work done with. “The man who is following your family is a man of Medium height and build, with brown hair and brown eyes. Very plain looking though I think the person is simply an admirer and not a threat overall. Regardless I would follow Youta’s suggestion and improve security on both the bathhouse and around your family. Better to be prepared and not need it then to be unprepared and suffer from it.” Crom said having talked the most now out of the whole day, he had given his report in a very meticulous tone and matter fact manner.
 
Now that he was done with that report he listened to the rest of what Youta had said for the team to do while they waited till the day turned to night so they could take care of the last part of their mission. The suggestion to spend more time with people outside of the mission seemed like a bother and something that Crom actively didn’t want in the slightest. So when the invite came, “I will excuse myself now as I have things I need to do to prepare for the night mission.” He would say without any disdain and after he made sure he had confirmed where they would be meeting again he would depart to his apartment to read his books and relax in the comfort of his home. Once it started to get darker Crom prepared himself once more to make the trek to the gate of the cemetery as instructed a bit earlier to make sure he wouldn’t be late.


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Now that the whole team was back together it was safe to assume all the tags had been removed and it was time to move on to the next mission, only problem was that the mission wasn't supposed to start until later on tonight. So that gave Ciel and the rest of the team a few hours to lounge around until it was time for them all to meet up again, only thing is Ciel had no idea what he would do for a few hours. He would have loved to start training or working out but knew he would lose track of time and he rather not have his team come looking for him or even worse miss out on the mission altogether. As he looked around it seemed like the rest of the team had an idea of what they would be doing for the next few hours and then there was in, as he was just about to give up and just go home for the next few hours he could feel his stomach growl.

"Well i guess today has been a very busy day so far, a meal could be just what i need right now. If anyone of you would want to join me you are more than welcome to", he would say with a smile. No one wanted to eat alone and Ciel was no exception to that. He would much rather have people laughing and enjoying the meal together, than him just there by himself eating alone. After a second or two to hear would be going with him to eat he now had a harder task on had, deciding where to eat. He wasn't in the mood for anything in particular but at the same time, he didn't want to just eat junk food, especially since this would be his last meal for the day since he didn't believe in eating food before bed. He believed that eating food was the reason a lot of people were gaining weight and that was the last thing he needed right now.

"Well I'm off to the ramen restaurant down the street, see the rest of you all later on tonight, don't get lost and lose track of time, or ill be taking your share of the reward", Ciel would say to those who didn't come with him to the restaurant. He had hoped that tonight would go by fast so he could get back home sooner than later tonight.

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This whole entire situation had been caused seemingly by the old man having a bit more than just some creepy ass admirers. It was almost as if everyone wanted to kill him for simply being a wealthy man that had existed within the village for some reason. Or perhaps kill him and then try and rob his own family fortune? Which didn’t even seem to be the best cause of actions as killing him wouldn’t do much good for them as well, especially when it came to be inside of a bathhouse of all things. This whole situation was an effort to try and kill the old man for some sorta reason. She felt like she needed answers as to why the old man was being hunted down, everything winding back into place as everyone else had been busy getting done with all of the bombs within the area. The blasted bathhouse had this sweltering humidity to it that made the muscled girl sweat. But she seemingly didn’t care much about it in general, her only worry now was to make sure that the group had come back all safe and sound in regards to all of the rapid fire missions that had been done in an instant. It made her lips split open to reveal those shining white teeth. Giving Youta a surprisingly very strong pat on the back for the efforts he displayed and how he was the main one who had been able to deal with all of the bombs.

“If it wasn;t for you we’d all be scratching our heads at the moment. But maybe I could have simply tanked the blast with my two bare hands!”

She gave a small chuckle when she saw everyone else begin to pool into the same main lobby filled to the brim with that sweltering heat. Causing the girl to wipe her head with her arms. Which only seemed to spread out the clear liquid around her head instead of getting rid of it entirely. But at least for right now she could focus mostly on the mission that was meant to come right after this one. Just right after Youta and the group got out of the bathhouse before proceeding to deter those stalkers from coming and trying to attack the man in question who they had been guarding for all of this time. His supposed Dojutsu certainly looked to be very impressive, making Ryumi wonder what else that kind of power was capable of in the right hands. It gave her that courage to keep on training. For what wasn’t a little bit of fun without seeing to it that she was able to get in a few good spars.

However the plans that were being made to go to the cemetery later tonight was met with a small nod, Ryumi’s purple eyes gazing towards where she remembers where her cemetery was at least. It was right near the Hogokage’s place, perched atop one of the many hills lining the village's outskirts. But Ryumi only gave a small nod before noticing Crom’s slight apprehension of any sort of matter involving social gatherings. So she too would begin to take her leave as well. Giving a small smile towards the three boys before walking away, shouting towards them with excitement.

“I’ll be seeing you guys soon! Just gotta check up on Lloyd! Afterwards I’ll join you both in eating!” She shouted before running off. Going to spend time with Lloyd as she’d eventually make her way towards the Ramen place and wave a quick hello towards the Uchiha. Picking up her Ramen and waving goodbye to Ciel before moving onwards while eating. Having a massive appetite while eating her bowl as she hadn’t eaten much for the whole day. Which resulted in her finishing the bowl of Ramen right as she got to the Sushi place. Sitting with Youta as she simply ordered two Volcano rolls, sitting with the leader as she’d begin to eat with him. Hoping to simply pass the time before heading off towards the Cemetery after eating.

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Youta would say to Ciel “I will join you it has been a minute and it would be a good chance to catch up. We have not had a good team meeting and training session in a while.” He would follow Ciel to the Ramen spot. He would order and ask Ciel “How have you been doing buddy? Have you talked to Sebastain lately?” He would let Ciel respond then continue “ I do not know if you have heard but he is gonna be heading out of the village to an outpost to help guard against invasions, once it is set up. I think I am gonna go join him you should think about it too but I am not here to influence you and I do not think it has been officially announced yet so keep it between us.” Before Ciel could even answer Ryumi would come in and Youta would turn “Hey Ryumi we are over here!” He would wave her over “So how do you think today has gone so far?” He would let her reply and they would all continue to make small talk. And a little earlier then would be expected for a dusk mission but not super like maybe half and hour or so. He would say to the lady coming to collect to ryo “Hey I got it covered” and hand them the ryo for all the meals and then turn to his teammates and Youta would say to them “I am going to go early to the cemetery. I have something I have to do and check out. You can join or not, it makes no difference to me. I would just ask for a minute alone eventually.”

He would head out not really paying attention to if the others followed or not. He would head to Zerefs Grave and say to the others if they followed “can I get a minute?” He would walk up and thankfully Zerefs grave was untouched so he would clean off some of the leaves and leave a ryo on the base. Then head back to the others and wait for Crom to arrive.

Once crom arrived Youta would say “Ok let’s split into 2 teams and patrol around and make sure that no one will disrespect our fallen friends again.”

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Crom arrived at the Cemetery after the rest of the group and was the last to arrive but wasn’t late so that was always a positive when it came to time sensitive missions. He knew that they would be patrolling the cemetery to stop anyone from disrespecting the dead and defacing any of the graves. Crom didn’t really care about the people in the graves but it didn’t make sense to disrespect or defile things that had no way of defending themselves. It doesn’t serve any real purpose and to Crom just seemed like a cowards way of acting tough.
 
On his arrival Youta gathered the group and instructed that they would be splitting in two groups to do the patrolling which Crom didn’t have any issue with. So once whoever was decided to come with him he would begin his way to patrol a path through the outer section of the cemetery and work his way in with whoever decided to come with him. He was busy using his clan’s ability to sense heat and chakra signatures to see if he could find anyone that wasn’t the team hiding in the area though he hadn’t seemed to find anything of interest so far into patrol and so far it did seem like there wouldn’t be any issues on this side of the cemetery maybe they would find something as the went along or maybe the other group would find something. “Well it seems so far this will be simple though pardon my lack of speaking as I have to concentrate to sense other sources even with its limited range.” Crom would say to whoever came with him explaining to the other person what he was doing and slightly excusing his lack of interaction.
 
Though hopefully by now the rest of the team would have noticed that Crom simply didn’t care to speak when he didn’t have to and simply wished to complete the mission assigned and go about his way. He didn’t show any signs of annoyance or disdain Crom was simply uninterested in doing more then what is required for the mission.

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It seemed only Youtah would be following Ciel out to get food. It didn't surprise him much that everyone wanted to do their own thing, he was happy that Youtah chose to join him though. It didn't take them long to reach the ramen shop and get seated. Youtah placed his order and then started asking questions and at first Ciel wasn't trying to talk. He had been starving and the only thing on his mind was eating his food but he didn't want to be rude to his friend so he decided answering him would be best. "No I can't say I have, I've been doing a lot of solo training and haven't had the time to catch up with sensei", He would say to Youtah before placing his order. 

He made a mental note that it would be best to catch up with sensei sometime and get some training with him. Once the orders were placed, Ciel was asked another question by his friend and teammate, but since the food was already on the way it was no need to be grumpy anymore. "You know that sounds like a fun idea and when everything is finalized come and find me cause ill be happy to join you guys", he would say with a smile. He wouldn't mind getting out of the village and camping out at a hideout somewhere in the forest. Not too long after Ryumi had shown up and got Ramen as well, but surprisingly before she could pay Youtah jumped up to cover not only her order but both of theirs as well. "Thanks, buddy", Ciel would say as he finished up his food. 

Once everyone was done eating they would all regroup and would be dispatched out in teams of two, with Ciel following Youtah. He would watch as Youtah stopped past the grave of one of his fallen friends and clean it off. As Ciel stood there a good thought came to his mind, and in a few seconds, he would summon two clones. "You two follow Youtah and follow his every order", he would say to his clones as he would then turn back to everyone else. "I'll be heading off to do something, Once everything is done here these clones will let me know what happens, I doubt it should be extremely strong people here so these clones should be enough to complete any task you need",  he would say before wandering off into the night.

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