Special Needs

After a series of some crazy missions that involved bandits, giant mutant trees, giant skunks, fake haunted mansions, creepy old people and ghosts from the past, the genin wanted some peace for a change. He was meditating on the roof of his house, feeling the cold breeze of the mountainous Kumogakure no Sato right on his skin when a noisy raven arrived, breaking Jun’s concentration. The bird carried a message in his claws, which he dropped when right above the blond shinobi. Jun easily caught the scroll in midair and opened it, kind of curious of who was breaking his peace.

“How would you like to make some money?
I am sure that you have been made aware of the sighting of old man Bumi. He seldom visits the village, but his arrival presents an unrivalled opportunity for all shinobi who have the ryo to pay him for his scrolls. I am sure that you are also aware that his rates have increased this year, perhaps as a result of inflation. As such, we have no time to waste in acquiring as much ryo as we can, to acquire as many scrolls as we can before he closes shop - if your goal in this regard is the same as mine…(continues)”

That language, that handwriting… before he even finished the message, Jun already knew that it was the flamboyant shinobi known as Saturn who was inviting him to make some money by doing some B-Rank missions. The young Shibasaki then layed down on the roof of his house while he mulled over his fellow genin's proposal. On the one hand, Jun was a bit drained after his last few missions and would like some chilling and training. On the other hand, money was always welcome and the possibility of buying jutsu scrolls with Bumi and thus learning new jutsus was tempting. After some brief self-brainstorming, he decided he would quit being lazy and would accept Saturn’s proposal.

Jun climbed down from the roof right into his bedroom through his window and started preparing to meet the eccentric Ninja at the Village’s Gate at dawn. He would put on his traditional clothing: his baggy black sweatshirt with the Shibasaki clan symbol (The Shibasaki Sun) printed in the back area, in addition to black cargo pants with two pockets on each side, and all-black sneakers. He packed some kunai and shuriken and left for the village gates after saying farewell to his mother.

After some minutes of walking, Jun arrived at the village’s gate, and for his surprise, Saturn was already there waiting at the arranged rendezvous point, as he would normally just randomly show up via teleport out of nowhere.

- Greetings, Saturn. When are we leaving, and where to first?  

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WC: 460

As soon as Jun arrived at the village gates and greeted Saturn, the flamboyant shinobi started rambling about the gigs he arranged in order to make some extra money and make the most of Bumi’s scrolls. Jun was kind of disappointed that Z and Moyasu wouldn’t be joining this time, as their help could be very useful, but still, they had plenty of time to make some extra money. As Saturn explained what would be required of the pair, he walked at a casual pace in the direction of the Lightning Country’s borders. There, they should help a local settlement set up a sensory bubble. Jun was very excited to visit the borders of his new country, as he did not even leave Kumogakure’s surroundings since his family migrated there many years ago. The young genin did not miss the time he and his family wandered as exiles through the Shinobi world, but he did actually miss seeing new landscapes and discovering new places.

Their second mission would require Jun’s ninjutsu expertise and some creativity in order to build a new elementally themed training grounds in Kumogakure.

- Interior design, what the hell is… - replied Jun when asked by Saturn, before being interrupted by the more than ever chattier Saturn.

They kept walking for some more hours at a regular pace, with Saturn rambling while Jun listened for most of the time. The young Shibasaki clansman wasn’t upset at all, but actually glad that his fellow genin did not simply teleport or vanished in a smoke cloud out of nowhere for a change.

Both genins finally arrived at their destination, near Kumogakure’s border with Frost country. The weather there was chillier and it was lightly snowing as winter was approaching.Tthe landscape was mountainous, not so different from the one seen in Kumogakure, but there were some valleys that could be seen from the place where the shinobi were, which was a high and strategic place for a sensory room that was supposed to scan and guard the borders. The actual sensory room was actually pretty destroyed and looked pretty old, but with the new Kage administration, Kumogakure military sensory division received a substantial budget increase and now had the resources to renovate their facilities across the nation.  
There was an old man there, most likely the responsible for that specific sensor room, waiting for Jun and Saturn’s arrival, as he waived and greeted the genins as they arrived.

- Hello there, fellow shinobi. You both must be the consultants. I’m glad you’re both here! My name is Hiro Hasumo, and I’m the responsible for Lighting Country’s border sensory division! As you can both see, the former administrations weren’t so kind with my division, but as they say: new Kage, new times! So, you both have a lot of work to do, and please, feel free to ask me for anything you guys may need!

Jun had no proficiency whatsoever in Sensory, but he knew that Saturn was an expert in that matter so, for this first time, it should be the flamboyant ninja the one leading the party. As soon as old man Hiro left them both, Jun turned towards Saturn and told him:

- Lead the way bro, I really, really suck at Sensory. If it was not for my doujustu, I wouldn’t be able to detect a Rhino riding a skateboard coming towards us, so… after you.

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WC: 570
TWC: 1030

While Jun and Saturn inspected the current Sensory site, a maiden brought two hot cups of matcha tea for both the shinobis, which Jun politely thanked her for. And yes, the current state of the place was pretty shit, as Saturn stated. “How did the previous Kages could let such an important defense structure decay to that point?”. Knowing that the current Kage was actually investing into renovating Kumogakure defenses showed Jun that at least the current Kumogakure leader had good intentions. And the Shibasaki clansman was even happier when Saturn told him about the rumours of an upcoming Chunin Exam. In Jun’s mind, not only that was a great opportunity to rank up and evolve as a Ninja, but also it would place Jun against the best genin of the village, and perhaps this would finally satiate Jun's hunger for real combat.

- Yes, of course I’m taking part! What about you, Saturn? – replied Jun, when asked by the fortuneteller if he would be joining the exams.

They took another look at the site before entering the old building so that Saturn could explain his complicated – but effective – plan. For non-Shinobi that could have sounded as total bullshit, but in “shinobi” theory, it should work fine. Jun was insecure that perhaps the contractor would find all of that too complicated and would say a hard ‘no’, but somehow, using his charisma and just a tiny bit of “blackmail”, Saturn sold the idea to Hasumo san, who nodded in agreement at both genins.
Jun by himself wasn’t so sure what would be required of him in Saturn’s plan, but when they got outside, his fellow ninja explained his part: dive into the reservoir and use his Laser Eyes technique to carve a hole through the cliff from inside in order to make like a big waterfall... if he did it correctly.

- Say no more, I’ll get it done!

Just as Jun finished replying to Saturn, the fortuneteller did one final remark before letting himself fall backwards off the cliff, diving down to the river in a cheeky fashion. “Well, it took him long enough to do something Saturn style this time…”. And as the eccentric shinobi left, Jun got on his way to the water reservoir near the site, a cavity in the mountainous terrain filled with steaming hot water. The young shinobi used his skills to jump from rock to rock, dropping down to the reservoir’s level. With one final jump, he entered the reservoir area, activating the Surface Walking technique before making impact with the steaming water; The place looked like a sauna so moist and warm it was, and Jun started sweating like crazy, even having a greater resistance to heat for being a Shibasaki.  “Gotta do this fast before I melt in here…”.

With no time to waste, he activated his Stage 2 Tengan, with his eyes starting to flow with huge amounts of Solar Chakra through it, turning them both into two small fireballs emanating pure solar chakra, becoming bright yellow in the center and orange at the extremities, with both eyes resembling in snake eyes in shape, emitting such a strong shine that it would almost light up all the reservoir. He looked into the direction that the hole should be made, and seeing through the reservoir wall with his thermal vision, he could see the river down the mountains in a dark blue color that greatly contrasted with the orange color emitted by the steaming water from the reservoir. Jun calculated the size the hole should have and marked the spot of the precise location of what should be the center of the hole by throwing a Kunai into the reservoir’s rock walls. ‘Serpent, Ox, Tiger, Bird, Ram and Dragon’. After doing the handseals, Jun’s Tengans started to shine even brighter, with loads of Solar Chakra being concentrated on both.
 
- Taiyōton: Rēzāaizu!
 
Jun then shot from both his eyes a powerful and blinding beam of pure, vaporizing Solar Chakra. It had a cylindrical shape and at first was very thin, only hitting right at the kunai tha Jun threw before to mark the spot. As soon as the kunai was vaporized and the beam hit the cave wall, Jun showed his mastery over Solar Chakra control by making the beam wider, reaching up to 15m in diameter before he stabilized its growth and held it on that size. In a few moments, the solid rock walls of the reservoir started to get red and red and very bright red as the solar chakra beam heated it, before completely piercing it. As a result, with this new gigantic hole, the water from the reservoir started dropping down through the mountains into the river direction, creating a beautiful steaming waterfall. Jun admired the visual beauty in the Tengan’s vision of the collision between the dropping hot water and the ice cold river water, before starting to climb back up to the sensory site to meet with the flamboyant shinobi, Saturn.

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WC: 835
TWC: 1865

Jumping from rock to rock and using the surface walking technique for better adherence, Jun quickly reached the sensory site, and de-activated his doujustu. There was no sign of Saturn yet, and the weather was getting worst, so Jun reached for shelter and maybe some extra tea inside the Sensory Facility. There, the maiden graciously provided some extra matcha tea to the young genin. Jun decided to update the contractor, Hiro Hasumo, about the renovations and what was done so far. He gently knocked into Mr. Hasumo’s office:

- It’s Jun Shibasaki, Hasumo sama.

-  Come, young shinobi.

As Jun entered the tiny, old office of Mr. Hasumo, and beautiful eagle came flying through the open window of the room and landed on the old oak table, scaring the contractor a bit who did a tiny jump out of his chair as he had no idea what the hell was happening… but Jun already suspected why that happened. Upon looking into the eagle’s eyes, his hypothesis was confirmed: it was indeed Saturn, who possessed the eagle and turned it into his messanger:


“Our work is almost done. Come down to the river and have a look “– said the eagle, with Saturn’s voice

- Don’t worry, Hasumo sama, my friend has unusual methods of communication and transport…

- Jeez he almost gave me a heart attack…

Jun and the contractor went outside and saw the two dragonflies, Yanyanma and Nokocchi, waiting for them both to fly down to the river level;

- I told you he had unusual methods when it came to transport…

- I…I’m not riding those!

- Come on Hasumo Sama, I’m sure my associate summoned a very safe creature for the great Head of Kumogakure Border Sensory Team… I’m 100% sure!


“Well, maybe 99% sure...”. The contractor hesitated for a while but then climbed onto Yanyama’s back, still a bit frightened. Jun climbed into the other dragofly’s back, e beautiful creature named Nokocchi. The duo had a very pleasant flight down to the river level…well, at least for Jun, as Hasumo sama looked terrified through the whole trip. Jun was amazed by the creatures that Saturn summoned, and as he recently just learned the Summoning Technique, the young genin now desired to have summons of his own.

After the short voyage, both Kumons arrived into the river level, and Jun realized that Hasumo sama was still shaking his legs after dropping from the dragonfly’s back. “I hope he still pays us in full…”. If Jun had any doubts, after the contractor examined the genin duo’s work, he was absolutely amazed.

- Wooow, look at the waterfall from the reservoir, carved from the inside! And look at these two large rocks strategically positioned to be convergent point! It’s marvelous! How did you move these gigantic rocks? What did you use as conductors? 

“6^th Raikage? That guy is old…”. While the contractor approached Saturn to understand, or try to at least, the shinobi science behind the new sensory structure, the young Shibasaki clansman was also admiring Saturn’s ingenuity. Jun quickly activated his Tengan in order to analyze the huge rocks that Saturn placed, and his doujutsu revealed what the rocks actually were:  Demonic Rashomon Gates, disguised by some kind of jutsu to look as stones. A Space-Time technique, something that Jun also recently learned “That is a cool jutsu as well…”.  Yes, Jun did his part, but this was all Saturn’s plan. Jun knew that still had a long way to go when it came to honing his skills and match Saturn’s, but he was determined to do it so, very determined. Jun contemplated the beautiful landscape around him, before he suddenly remembered something that could “facilitate” Jun’s evolution: Bumi’s Scrolls. He needed some extra money, so maybe they could do the interior design gig before Bumi departed.

- Yo, Saturn! Do you think your majestic Dragonflies can give us a ride back to the village so we can do one extra gig before Bumi leaves?

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WC: 685
TWC: 2550

After collecting their reward for setting up the new sensory facility on Lightning Country’s Border, Jun and Saturn hopped on the dragonflies back to return back to the village. Indedd, the dragonflies where not that fast, but as Saturn mentioned, it would be good to give their legs some rest. Unluckily for the duo, halfway through their journey it started pouring some really heavy rain as the genins were caught in the middle of storm, something usual for that time of the year in the country.

When he as his family first moved to Kumogakure, the weather was something that Jun really hated about their new home. All the cold and the raining was kind of unfit for the Shibasaki bloodline, as they were raised and were used to warmer, sunnier climate. But as timed passed, Jun got more and more used to Kumo’s weather so he wasn’t bothered by the rain. After a few more time riding through the storm on Saturn’s summons back, the duo would finally pass through the Heavenly Gates of Kumogfakure, before arriving at their second gig’s site. It was a training facility located at yet another cliff. Jun was absolutely drenched in water, so he had an idea for some fast drying: “Bird, Hare, Snake, Dog, Ram, Ox, Dragon”.

- Taiyōton: Shōshin ōra!

Jun started expelling from every tenketsu of his body a constant stream of pure solar chakra, creating a cloak or a “aura” around the genin. While the solar chakra was harmless for Jun himself, its high temperatures quickly evaporated the water that soaked Jun’s clothes, while also protecting him from the rain, as the water would hit the cloak around him and evaporate instantly. Jun looked upon Saturn and saw that he was rolled the edge of his top to soak some of the water out, and then he did the same to his knit cap, that when twisted revealed to be an octopus! He twisted his familiar, Mimas, like a towel, before looking back at Jun.

- Woow, is that your familiar? He was disguised as your knit cap this whole time? Damn, you’re full of surprises, Saturn.

Suddenly, the doors of the training site behind Jun’s back opened, and a fellow Kumon shout at the duo:

- You guys are late! Hurry, come inside!

Both genins entered the facility, and Jun deactivated his jutsu when he had a roof over his head. The guy that called them guided the genin duo through the facility, that was again a very old an abandoned site, pretty much empty with only some old debris inside. The space was large and there were several doors, which led to other separate rooms. “The new Raikage is indeed renovating Kumo’s infrastructure… this place is huge! But also, it has been abandoned for a good while… there is a lot of work to be done here”

The guy lead Jun and Saturn into a back room, the only place that have any kind of furniture: another old oak table and a couple of wooden chairs, probably his office.

- My name is Shiro Toguma, the keeper of this place! Welcome to the future Kumogakure Elemental Training Facility! As you can see, there is plenty of room for creating a pretty cool elemental themed training ground in here! Well, I don’t expect you two lads to do all the work, but as this is part of the new Raikage’s renovation project, and he is in a hurry to improve our training facilities, it will be required from the two of you to build 3 separate, elementally themed of course, training rooms. Each room must be specific for a single basic element, so you guys will have to address at least 3 of the basic elements!

“Shit...”. Jun was well versed in Fire Release, and just recently he learned and was honing his skills in Lightning Release, but he wasn’t really good in it yet. He knew also that Saturn also had some familiarity with the Lightning Element, so that meant they would have to figure out how to address a third element, unknown for both of the genins.

- Don’t worry, Toguma sama, me and my associate are experts when it comes to the basic elements, we we’ll get it done in no time! Uh, Saturn, a quick word in private, please?

Jun pointed to an old door nearby, so the genins headed into the door’s direction direction and went inside the other room.

- We’ll need your ingenuity again, my friend… by my count, we both know a total of 2 elements, and we must make 3 rooms of 3 different elements… you leave Fire with me, and I think I have an idea about a Water room! Can you figure something out about the third one? I know you’ll have an amazing idea, good luck!

Jun hastily left the room and went on to work, as he already had a couple of ideas. He collected all the wood he could find among the debris inside the previously abandoned site, and headed into an empty room. There, he created two Shadow Clones to accelerate the process. The trio of Juns started assembling the old parts of wood together into some sorts of scarecrows, that would simulate human targets and would train the users precision, while also making piles of the rottenest pieces, were the casters would have to use powerful jutsu in order to light up such old wood. “Power and precision, seems good enough training for me… to the water room!”.

Jun was not familiar with the water element, but he had a plan to use Kumogakure’s signature storms into his favor. The trio of Juns went for another separate room of the huge facilty in its east most part, collecting as many bricks and stones they could. This part took a while as they needed a lot of rocks for Jun’s plan. After gathering enough materials, Jun commanded his clones:

- Let’s dig up a hole using our Laser Eyes, fellas.

The trio activated their Tengans and used Jun’s signature move, the Lase Eye Jutsu, creating a trifecta of Solar Chakra Beams, targeting the ground. The trio combined the beams powers and concentrated in a 5m diameter area, creating a circular hole of about 3m depth. They’ve tossed the rocks into the hole, covering its whole area with old rock in order to protect the soild, creating some sort of huge water well, which the water users could use as a source for casting their techniques. Jun told his clones to assemble targets made of the remaining debris, while he would do the grand finale for the room. They still needed water, after all.

“Snake, Ram, Tiger”

- Katon: Great Fireball Jutsu!

The young Shibasaki clansman expelled from his mouth a 5 meters’ fireball from his mouth towards the roof, which was easily blasted by the Fireball, creating a prefect hole of 5m in diameter, right above the newly build well, which allowed the water from the heavy rain to pour inside the well through the roof, slowly filling it. “This should provide water to Suiton users… and with Kumo’s regular rains, the well will always have enough water”. His clones finished the debris targets right after that and poofed out of existence, as Jun was really exhausted from all that weight lifting from before. He headed back to the facility keeper’s office, hoping that Saturn was also finished with his room so he could go back home for a well-deserved rest, with his pockets full of ryo.

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WC: 1270
TWC: 3820

EXIT CLAIMS:
2x Mission Rewards with Beloved Presence; 36000 ryo, 120 AP


New Balance: 105907 ryo


1875 words towards Taiyōton: Nikkō Shokei (Sun Release: Sunlight Execution) (25% discount by having max stats)
563 words towards Taiyōton: Taiyō no Kakera Shuriken (Sun Shard Shuriken Technique)  (25% discount by having max stats)
375 words towards training Taiyōton: Taiyō no Kakera Shuriken (Sun Shard Shuriken Technique) to rank C (25% discount by having max stats)
375 words towards training Ninjutsu Amplifier to B-rank (25% discount by having max stats)
375 words towards Lightning Release: Lightning Sphere's (25% discount by having max stats)
The remaining 257 words towards Stage 3 Tengan  [1818/4500] (25% discount via max stats. - I already had 1561 words toward this as stated in my stat page.)