Re: Giant Sharks VS Lightning Whales With Swords

Thu Jul 07, 2022 6:33 pm

As Blades, real name or codename, fanned himself at Noboru's comment, the Raikage eyed the youth behind him, called Rizuke of the Uchiha clan, something that got a nod out of the redhead. They went ahead to explain they had limited capabilities, likely fresh off the Academy and straight into the frying pan, a troublesome thought. However, Baraga, in either her strategic mindedness or out of spite, elected to use Rizuke as their bait. The way she spoke indicated it may be out of spite. This troubled Noboru, but it was to be expected; the lass came from one of the most politically and financially powerful families in the country, maybe even the continent, and to be born into such overwhelming power was bound to do something to the psyche. Even Noboru answered to her father at the end of the day, regardless of how easy of a twig her father could prove to be against his mighty hands.

Clad in their revealing bikini, Blades approached the young ninja to assure them that they had options out in the water. It was a touching gesture, especially coming essentially from a foreigner. Noboru would be sure to remember this young man's compassion for one of his own. However, much as the redhead would want to reassure the youngster that everything would be fine, he had to be a leader first, and a friend second. With a snap of his fingers, a katana would materialize in his hand, spawned of smoke out from the pocket dimension that existed for Noboru and Noboru alone. Shoddy in build and make for the blacksmith capable of much more refined works, for the average citizen and ninja it was a remarkable weapon. The redhead handed it over to Rizuke without a word, however, he would maintain his grip when Rizuke tried to take it.

"Being bait is not just a job for the unskilled. It's an important component of any ambush. Do your part, and don't try to be a hero. If push comes to shove, defend yourself to the best of your ability. Only those who die sword in hand can hope to pass the Gates."

With that, he took off to the ocean, chakra coating the sole of his flip flops to stand in the water.

How long they waited he couldn't tell, but he could feel the unrelenting sun bathing him, and the reflection of the water superchargers his skin. When the shark's fin broke through the water though, he had to smile. Even the fin bore a scar, and soon more scars could be seen as the scaly beast emerged, mouth agape, ready to swallow Rizuke and the steak hole. Oh, how he longed for the opportunity to wrestle this beast! But, they had a job at hand. While he might want to discharge his fury on this beast, he didn't like to show off his bigger techniques, lest information about him were to spread, and as such, he wires his body to act in a Drunken matter, loosening up to a state of relaxed violence that propelled him into a sprint across the surface of the water, leaning high beams of water to splash upward in his wake, and performing a few handseals as he watched a brutal whale bite onto the shark and young Blades slicing off the fin of the beast, empowered by the Hiyu DNA within him, Noboru discharged a punch to the side of the beast with the unlocked violence that Little Toy Soliders technique allowed out of him.

The result was the shark bursting, an explosion caused by the sheer kinetic force of Noboru's hiyu strike allied with his enhanced physique via Drunken mastery. No sooner had it started, it ended. The only downside would've been if Blades was still on the other side of the shark, as the shark was split in two by the kinetic explosion, and could've been showered in shark blood and guts. Should that have happened, Noboru would give him a "sorry about that", said dispassionately, just a job hazard as far as he could tell.

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WC: 685
TWC: 1591

Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:49 pm

Baruga would inform Rizuke that he needed to be the bait and would hand him a piece of raw meat with blood dripping off of it. Rizuke wasn’t sure if this was the way, he had heard from fishermen around Mikadzuki Beach that fish was appealing to the shark’s senses, but Rizuke wasn’t about to argue with the kunoichi that could destroy him in combat if she so desired it. Rizuke would accept the task of shark bait (Oooh aah ah) and would take a few steps from the kunoichi when the person that wasn’t from the village and went by the name of Blades approached Rizuke to give him solid words of advice. The ninja informed Rizuke that he should use the substitution jutsu he had learned from the academy. Rizuke would take the advice and put that in the forefront of his mind as he took a few more steps Blades would finish their words of advice by telling Rizuke to leave the meat above the water and to allow the meat to bleed into the water, the bad news was the meat wasn’t as bloody by the time he got into his position because the Raikage made it a point to equip the young Kumo nin with a sword, one that felt light in his hands, but before the Raikage let go of the gift he imparted his words of wisdom on the young shinobi, a ninja code that he would die to live by, “Only those who die sword in hand can hope to pass the Gates.” Rizuke didn’t know if it was a literal sword that had to be in his hands, or if he just had to die in combat and not run away and died a coward, he would ask the Raikage on a later date exactly what he meant, but for now, he had a literal sword in his hands, and he wasn’t going to die a coward’s death.

Rizuke would walk on top of the water to his position a few meters away from the rest of the group and would hold the dried-up meat over the water, nothing would happen if he just stood there like that so Rizuke would take the sword that the Raikage had lent him and would cut into his hand and let the blood cascade into the water causing red water to appear and quickly become the blue of the water under foot. He could feel the cool breeze gently caress him as it traveled over the water’s surface, he would hear the waves cresting and then falling at the beach, and he could hear beachgoers laughing and having a good time on the beach behind him. He would glance at the team that had assembled to kill this shark and then would see it, but he wasn’t the first one. All of his teammates had seen the shark before Rizuke was aware, but he caught it in time, right before the chain of events that lead to the shark’s destruction Rizuke would use a substitution Jutsu and would dash backward as fast as he could ten meters away as to not get blown up, cut in half, or eaten as the leviathan would leap out of the water and that would be the last action of its life.

Rizuke didn’t feel brave at that point, sure he sat in a spot bleeding for a few minutes to draw out a shark, but when push turned to shove Rizuke wasn’t ready for this mission, and he had to run away while the rest of the crew disposed of the threat of Mikadzuki Beach, so while it was a successful mission, Rizuke felt like a failure, he wouldn’t let it keep him down though he would use today, and this mission to push himself further, this wouldn’t happen again, he would learn, accept it, adapt, and move on. With a smile on his face, Rizuke would regroup with the others and celebrate the successful mission, he'd probably have to give the Lord Raikage’s sword back too. He found it hard to meet any of their gazes but found solace in their company. He would cut a sleeve of his shirt off and wrap it around the wound in his hand. It wasn’t a deep cut so this would suffice as an instrument to heal the boy ninja.

WC: 731

TWC: 1725

Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:14 am

The plan went successfully, all things considered. The Uchiha didn't die, Baruga had successfully trapped the shark using her summons, and between the Raikage and Blades, the shark was made quick work of. It was actually somewhat funny, how mundane the shark was. At the end of the day, it was thirty-five meters of flesh and bone. Built like a brick wall, fast as lightning, and lethal to the core, but — it had no chakra, it had no techniques, it had no defense.

Like killing a taijutsu user with only a giant mouth and a propeller on their back, really. That mental image alone drew a chuckle from Baruga.

While Blades made some last minute work of the creature, the artificial island that was helmeted on Mitsunari's head floated along the ocean, with the whale having let go of the shark's corpse. Gallons upon gallons of shark blood were expanding in the ocean water, dying the blue sea a deep crimson underneath their feet. Not to mention the gore and guts. A raw shark fillet was slowly sinking into the beachside — likely easily extracted once it was hauled out, but sinking nonetheless. All this, while a bunch of beach partiers watched the debacle like some sort of movie or spectator sport.

Baruga almost turned away and made some snide comment, satisfied with the mission. Almost.

And then the ocean parted, and a gigantic whirlpool — no, a fissure — no, a mouth! — engulfed the entirety of Mitsunari's midsection. Mitsunari, the fully-sized blue whale with an island for a face. Just as she saw his skin break, as she saw his bones crack, as she saw his blood burst from his blubber, Baruga dismissed him before he actually died, thank the gods. And just like that, there was a great explosion of smoke for a split second, and during that split second —

Crimson chainsaw teeth gnashed down on white wisps of leftover chakra, their scarlet hue layered over one another like dead, bleeding choir boys. The body, in that split second, was a great, black mass. Scales like steel shimmered under the obnoxious sunlight, and the eyes weren't the beady black things that sharks usually had — they were red, with slits like some sort of serpent or demon or devil. Bony protrusions like spikes jutted out of the creature around its lower half and near its dorsal fin, which seemed to be razor sharp, like a blade.

And once that split second was over, the demon shark disappeared, and the water went back to perfect stillness. Sparkling, shimmering, harmless. Like the perfect water for a day out on the beach, like the water on the travel posters that called to weary souls and beckoned them, 'come, swim in me, lay down your arms and dive deep!'.

Baruga whirled around and immediately sliced her hand down behind her in the water, summoning two Gates of Rashomon between the public beach and themselves, before she spun back around and roared. Gone was the prim, proper tone of a royal. Her voice was guttural, raw. Her expression doubly so, her normally beautiful countenance twisted into a grim snarl, white teeth bared like fangs.

"50 meters, one o' clock! Engaging!"

With that, Baruga — without hand seals — slammed her palm against the water and summoned an S-Rank Whale.

WC: 550
TWC: 1705

Exiting thread to continue to next part of ARC Mission.
+ 25 Beachside Tickets
+ 8000 Ryo
+ 40 AP
+ 34 AP (From 1700 WC)
+ 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
+ 1 Pirate Cutlass
+ 1133 WC to Secret of Ryoinsatsu: Ryuuguu-jou (2500/2500)
+ 572 WC to Water Clone (C-Rank) (572/1000)

Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:52 pm

All in all, this part of the mission was more than certainly over and done with by the time he saw Noboru dashing in from his opposing side, ready to clock the sucker into next Sunday. What followed afterwards was a series of events that he never expected, but the majority were not entirely negative in his opinion. Instead of merely knocking out the giant sharp toothed fish, he saw as the Raikage pulverized the shark with so much certainty that it explodes. If that isn't telling of the power lurking deep beneath the rugged man's calm exterior, nothing is. He had a feeling that anyone else in the party would meet the same fate, were they ever to get on his bad side. Yet, as terrifying as that might be to most, it made his hazel eyes sparkle with the utmost sadistic joy. That strength was precisely what he had to look forward to, should he become an equal to them with enough dedication and training. "Guess that settles it... I should have been training spiritually a little more," he remarks to himself, chuckling as a storm of rain falls right on top of him, along with the innards of the fallen beast pretty much bouncing all around until it sinks into the depths of the ocean. He takes a moment to lick his blade clean, alongside wiping himself off a bit, considering the amount he got in his mouth enough to satisfy his urges for the day. It's all over now, right?

Oh, how wrong he was.

Their careful planning and coordination could not have prepared them all for a titantic foe such as the demonic beastie appearing in their midst. He suddenly is very glad he isn't in the epicenter of the blood pool that he was doused with earlier, because poor Baruga's friendly whale was nearly chomped whole in a single attack by one of the most wicked creatures he's ever laid eyes on. It exuded an eerie amount of presence for one of its kind, and he could tell that this one was not only incredibly hungry, and possibly angry, but much different than what they'd bargained for. Like its vicious brethren, however, it's out to kill, which means it's a job for the unlikely quintet. Frankly, despite how much fear could be garnered from the situation, he only flinched at the damage caused by its jaws before it sank below the waves again. At least he knew now that it's time to retreat, regroup and strategize. Speaking of... where was the kid?

Dashing his way back towards the beach, he does recognize that Rizuke made it out safely, and he's at least on land. That's definitely ideal, because now he knows for a fact this undertaking is far above his paygrade. It's actually a little above his, too, but he wasn't going to admit that to anyone. Chuckling to himself, as he does make his way towards the sand, he slips two small, red pieces of paper concealed under his bikini top, with a black seal etched into either side of them both. "This might be the safest way for me to deal any damage, at this rate... lets just wait for an opening." From there, he pulls two kunai that were expertly hidden beneath his bikini bottom this time, and he sticks both Explosive Tags directly to the two knives with a piece of string that comes with every tag, so now he can hold the blades by their handles. By the time he's back, he's hopefully avoided any more trouble with the demon beneath the waves, so he can get back to Baruga's side, relaying his plan to her. She's also summoning her replacement animal by that point, so he works that into his plan, his tone and expression much more serious than before, but in the sense that he's matter of fact and straight with his wording. "Can you try getting that... thing, whatever it is, to get its jaws open again, maybe? I'd just need a few seconds, then I could chuck these puppies into its maw; next thing you know, kaboom."

[Exiting thread to continue the Arc in another thread.]

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Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:00 pm

With the beast vanquished, he walks back to the beach, carefully stepping off the water and into the sand, where he performs a few handseals as he approaches the young man covering his wound. WIthout a word, he takes the youth’s hand in his rugged hands, and a light shine is produced, from whence the wound begins the process of healing up under the Healing Hands technique. “You did well, kid. Takes some nerve to cut your own hand to lure a great beast.” As the wound closed, given how minor of a cut it was, the waters rumbled and crackled, and as Noboru turned around to see what might the issue be, he caught only a glimpse of the bladed shark diving into the water.

Baruga was quick to act, two Rashomon gates separating the ninja party from the beach goers. 50 meters at 1 o’clock, that’s when Noboru would’ve enabled his Byakugan, but without the facelong eyepatch, he would reveal his secret here; instead, he simply let go of the youth’s healed hand to face the ocean.

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WC: 179
TWC: 1770
/exit
Claiming 8,000 Ryō + 15,000 Kage Salary / 40 AP / 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material) / 1 Pirate Cutlass
1770 words towards Sharingan Copycat Technique, unlocking B-Rank, and A-Rank version at 270 words

Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:36 pm

Rizuke would be grabbed up by the Raikage, as the senior performed healing jutsu on his hand. The Raikage would tell him he had nerves and he did well. Rizuke would be proud of himself as he looked out into the water as shark guts and muscles were starting to submerge under the water. From where he sat, they just looked like red clumps and ribbons against the blue hues of the water. He would steal a glance at the Raikage focused on his hands, but then something would break the attention from the Raikage on the teenage shinobi’s healed hand. Rizuke would follow the Raikage’s line of sight into the water. Where they both would see it for a second, the whale getting devoured in one bite by something “Gigantic” would be an understatement. Its red eye would remind Rizuke of the Sharingan from afar. Rizuke would shudder as the two Rashomon Gates would be summoned and the whale dismissed before any permanent damage would be done. He would notice Blades with a kunai attaching exploding tags, it looked like their time together wasn’t done even though this mission had concluded. Rizuke would look around at his team, the expressions on each of their faces were different. Baruga wore primal anger on her face, something Rizuke hadn’t seen before and it was more frightening than her going off on Rizuke hours earlier. Blades had a look of concern one that Rizuke probably wore himself. The Raikage’s face was hard to discern. What was he thinking? Was he worried, or was he ready to beat the beast into oblivion? Rizuke would ponder the questions as he looked at the gates separating the beast from the shore and the beach people.

WC:290
TWC: 2015

Exit claims

20 stats
8000 Ryo
40AP
1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
1 Pirate Cutlass
25 tickets

1083 to Demonic Illusion: Mirage Crow 1500/1500
932 to Great fireball makes 1500/1500 for b rank, and then 1932/2500 (links to my stat page are the denominators)

Fri Jul 15, 2022 12:06 pm

Baruga Ryoinsatsu wrote:WC: 550
TWC: 1705

Exiting thread to continue to next part of ARC Mission.
+ 25 Beachside Tickets
+ 8000 Ryo + 100 Ryo from Genin Rank
+ 40 AP
+ 34 AP (From 1700 WC)
+ 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
+ 1 Pirate Cutlass
+ 1133 WC to Secret of Ryoinsatsu: Ryuuguu-jou (2500/2500)
+ 572 WC to Water Clone (C-Rank) (572/1000)

Partial Approval
Not Approved: 100 ryo Genin Bonus (There is no mission bonus for Genin Rank)
Approved: Everything Else

Blades Chinoike wrote:[Exiting thread to continue the Arc in another thread.]

WC: 692
Total WC: 2,957

Rewards doubled from Beloved Presence. Stat Sheet for proof. (excluding event tickets)

25 "Beachside Ticket Booth Tickets"
16,000 Ryo
80 bonus mission AP
2 Shark Fins (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
2 Pirate Cutlasses

Using 25% Max stat discount.
1874 WC to learn and master Far Sending Technique
375 WC to learn Deflect (B-Rank)
562 WC to learn Glass Shard Swing (B-Rank)
119 WC to complete progress for Hidden Arms
27 leftover WC going into progress for Total Concentration Breathing

Not Approved: Misuse of Beloved Presence. You must choose between (double ryo+AP) OR (double augmentation items). Additionally you cannot receive double the equipment from the mission, so only one cutlass. Please make the required changes and ping or DM me on discord.

Noboru Kaito wrote:
WC: 179
TWC: 1770
/exit
Claiming 8,000 Ryō + 15,000 Kage Salary / 40 AP / 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material) / 1 Pirate Cutlass
1770 words towards Sharingan Copycat Technique, unlocking B-Rank, and A-Rank version at 270 words

Approved

Rizuke Uchiha wrote:WC:192
TWC: 2015

Exit claims

20 stats
8000 Ryo
40AP
1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
1 Pirate Cutlass
25 tickets

1083 to Demonic Illusion: Mirage Crow 1500/1500
932 to Great fireball makes 1500/1500 for b rank, and then 1932/2500 (links to my stat page are the denominators)

Not Approved: WC is off by a substantial amount. Actual TWC is calculated at 1917. Please adjust your claim accordingly and ping me on discord.

Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:11 pm

(100 Ryo Bonus removed.)

Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:07 pm

Not Approved: Misuse of Beloved Presence. You must choose between (double ryo+AP) OR (double augmentation items). Additionally you cannot receive double the equipment from the mission, so only one cutlass. Please make the required changes and ping or DM me on discord.

(I've edited out the errors, and have chosen to double the augmentation items. Sorry for the trouble.)

Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:57 am

Blades Chinoike wrote:[Exiting thread to continue the Arc in another thread.]

WC: 692
Total WC: 2,957

Rewards doubled from Beloved Presence. Stat Sheet for proof. (excluding event tickets)

25 "Beachside Ticket Booth Tickets"
8,000 Ryo
40 bonus mission AP
2 Shark Fins (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
1 Pirate Cutlass

Using 25% Max stat discount.
1874 WC to learn and master Far Sending Technique
375 WC to learn Deflect (B-Rank)
562 WC to learn Glass Shard Swing (B-Rank)
119 WC to complete progress for Hidden Arms
27 leftover WC going into progress for Total Concentration Breathing

Approved

Rizuke Uchiha wrote:WC:290
TWC: 2015

Exit claims

20 stats
8000 Ryo
40AP
1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material)
1 Pirate Cutlass
25 tickets

1083 to Demonic Illusion: Mirage Crow 1500/1500
932 to Great fireball makes 1500/1500 for b rank, and then 1932/2500 (links to my stat page are the denominators)

Approved