Patrol, patrol...patrol

Missions:

Jun Shibasaki was at the elemental training facility that he and Saturn helped to renovate, practicing his newly learned element: Lightning Release. He was so far well versed in both his primary element, Fire, and his bloodline advanced element, Sun Release, but this new element was something completely new to the genin. Fire and Sun release were related to each other, as the Fire element is in the Shibasaki’s bloodline element composition alongside with Yang. Lightning was something absolutely different, and the young Shibasaki was struggling so far. The way lightning chakra should be manipulated, the control over it… everything was brand new to Jun. He practiced hard in a morning session, but so far he could only develop 2 techniques with 
this element.


When it was around noon, and the Kumo genin was about to head home for some lunching, a noisy kumogakure raven arrive, carrying a scroll in its talons, which he dropped to Jun, before leaving in an also very noisy way. “Just when I was about to eat…”  - lamented the shinobi. He unsealed the scroll and opened it to read its content. “Great, more patrolling…”

The Scroll:

Jun was incredulous. Just as he thought he would have a free day for training and chilling, he got assigned for 12 hours of patrolling. And worst, he would have to patrol the slums at night. The young Genin already heard some pretty sick stories about that neighborhood by some fellow ninjas at the headquartes. It’s like he was actually afraid; be he knew it wouldn’t be an easy mission and that it would require a lot of focus… and Jun was just feeling lazy today. But duty called, and he would answer it. At least he had time for lunch!

The Shibasaki clansman went toward the trade district wondering who would be part of his squad for this mission. He stopped by a restaurant for some dumplings and Ramen along the way, as he was starving. The young genin absolutely devoured his food, finishing it pretty fast, so he still had some time before the gathering at the rendezvous spot. “Well, let’s take a look around the trade district”.

The young Shinobi left the restaurant ant took his way to the trade district. He wasn’t very familiar to the region as he didn’t use to walk there much, but he had done a couple of missions on the district before, which made him get to know the place better. The village's trade district is the most active part of the town and Jun knew that Vagrants and Criminals will try to use the very busy streets to commit crimes undetected, like pickpocketing and scams.

The genin arrived at the central square of the trade district, 15 minutes earlier. The district was absolutely crowded, so was the square. “Well, I hope they are not late…we’ll have a lot of work to do.”

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WC: 535

Jun was waiting for his assigned patrol partner at the Trade District central square. As he arrived a few minutes earlier, the young genin was analyzing the environment around him, trying to see through the chaos of the most active part in the village. The place was absurdly loud, with sellers shouting around, announcing their goods for everyone around, trying to lure some customers in. The streets were absolutely packed, and discussions between pedestrians that collided with each other were frequent, as space was something scarce and very disputed in the district. “This is a thief’s heaven…” – considered Jun, as he noticed that there were some guys that only seemed to lurk around, observing the people that passed through the busy streets, kind of like if they were waiting for the right target… but those were only assumptions.

As the clock hit 2PM, some weird movements got Jun’s attention. A teenager with a blond hair, much similar to Jun’s own hair, passed nearby the square that Jun was waiting for his colleague running at full speed, dodging and sometimes pushing people from his way, while holding a tote bag filled with oranges. “What the…” Jun turned his head toward the direction the boy went and before could process what just happened, he felt a hand over his shoulder and someone saying “Gotcha!”. When the young shinobi turned around, the was absolutely surprised that the person in question was actually his fellow Kumon genin and recurring mission partner, the fortuneteller, Saturn!

- Saturn, what the hell is going… - before Jun could finish his sentence, Saturn told him about the thief he just lost, the blonde teenager with the orange bag. He smelled a bit like liquor, so Jun concluded that he was, like the Shibasaki clansman himself, caught by surprise by the patrol duty message, probably while hanging at the Drunken Kage Bar, a favorite of his, and that meant Saturn was his patrol partner for today! – Don’t worry, I’m on it!

Jun activated his Tengan, gaining a refined thermal vision. Although the streets were packed, he could localize and lock on the young boy’s thermal signature, as he was the only person running in the middle of the crowded streets of the trade district. The Shibasaki clansman climbed a building nearby and started chasing the blonde thief through the rooftops of the district, as he could move way better from above. After a couple of minutes, the boy finally looked back to see if his pursuer was still on him, and upon not seeing anyone behind him, he finally slowed down. Jun kept stealthily following the boy from above, and he saw a good opportunity to catch him when he entered a small alley.


Jun jumped down, using the walls of the alley and surface walking, and when he was at an acceptable height, he jumped down with a front flip, landing right in front of the boy, who felt backwards on his ass out of surprise. He quickly tried to stand up and run away, but Jun simply tripped him and made him fall again. He was no more than 14 years old, a little bit younger than Jun, and he looked really scared by the shinobi’s eyes, so Jun held him by his shirt and told him:

- It’s over boy, give up… you’re screwing your life for a couple of oranges?

- I…I had no choice…my big brother was really hungry! He made me do it!

- What the…

- LEAVE MY LITTLE BROTHER ALONE.

Jun turned around, while still holding the boy, to see who was the person shouting at him. Indeed, the boy’s big brother was BIG. A gigantic blond guy, very buffed, with something like 2 meters in height, entered the alley through the other side. The monster of a man kept walking towards Jun direction, with his fists closed, not intimidated at all by Jun’s flaming eyes and with a clear intent of hurting the young shinobi who caught his little borther. “Saturn, if there is a time for a surprise from you, it is right freaking now!”.

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WC: 685
TWC: 1220

It wasn’t that Jun was scared about the seven footer coming at him, well maybe a little, but the question was that he did not had much to do in that situation while holding the boy. Physically engaging the brute wouldn’t be wise, even with Jun perhaps having a superior combat technique because of his ninja training, he was not a Taijutsu specialist by no means and the size and weight difference was simply too great. Using his laser eyes was also out of question, as the technique was simply too powerful and would not only butcher the big guy, but could also vaporize any unlucky passerby, and Jun couldn’t afford such risks.

Suddenly, his patrol partner did what he always does better: a flashy, flamboyant, complicated and full of portals manuever. First, ventriloquism, calling the brute’s attention; then, a boomerang came flying out of nowhere. It was a perfect throw, right at the brute’s blindspot, but somehow he actually dodged the boomerang, barely grazing his hair when he contorted his whole body into a very freaky way. Lucky? The boomerang did what boomerangs should do and turned around in a nearly 180 degrees angle and as heading toward the brute’s direction once again, but one more time the gigantic fella moved in an unorthodox way, contorting his whole spine and avoiding the weapon. “Something isn’t right, someone that size shouldn’t be able to move like this”. But Saturn was still full of surprise, and with the help of his portals, he actually manages to hit the big guy in the noose, BANG! Another portal opened and BANG, another strike to the noose.

The teenage thief’s big brother was rocked but the strikes, but somehow still on his foot after two vicious strikes to his face. He went to grab the boomerang and that’s when Jun was again surprised by Saturn: the boomerang was actually the eccentric Shinobi’s familiar, Mimas, in disguise. The octopus wrapped his tentacles around the brute’s head, covering his whole.
Thinking it was done, Jun looked overhead at Saturn, who winked at him, thinking it was all over. But the big fella simply snapped the octopus out of his own face and threw it hard at the ground, knocking the poor octopus out. And now he was more pissed than ever, coming at Jun in a very scary way.

The young genin had no choice but to release the blond thief from his hold to focus on his big, big brother. But what could Jun do in such a tiny space against such a massive foe? As he approached the young genin with a vicious look on his eyes, Jun took a deep breath and analyzed the environment with his doujutsu, trying to find a way out of that mess without leaving any casualties behind. That’s when he saw a metal fire escape ladder attached to the side of a building overlooking the alley they were standing at. “That may do the trick…”

The Shibasaki clansman did some quick handseals and his Tengans started to shine even brighter, he looked up towards the stairs before he shot from both his eyes a powerful beam of pure solar chakra.  Jun precisely aimed toward the ladder supports attached to the wall, slicing them like butter upon contact with the cylindrical laser beams. Just as the gigantic guy as one feet away from Jun, ready to absolutely destroy him, the whole fire escape metal structure came crashing on top of the brute, who was finally knocked down with a shit ton of metal piled on top of him.


- Now it’s done! – Shouted Jun towards Saturn, while giving him a positive signal.

But just as he looked around… where the hell did the boy went? The little thief actually seized his opportunity to slip away in the middle of the confrontation and vanished. Even with his tengan’s visual prowess, Jun could not locate the boy or his thermal signature. “What a smart little prick…”.

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WC: 665
TWC: 1885

Saturn lost sight of the boy as Jun's blazing eyes came into focus. Although he was mildly scarred by the gory outcome of his last encounter with Jun's power, he was eager to bear witness to the spectacle that was his compatriot's laser eyes in full gory. He was crouched at the edge of the roof, peering in while also wincing and covering a part of his face to shield himself. He flinched when Jun's eyes irradiated with solar energy and shot out a beam towards the metal ladder that was attached to the building he was perched on. The collateral damage to the lateral side of the building was clear, and the beam narrowly missed Saturn's boots. He shrieked slightly, but when he saw how Jun had aimed at the ladder, he disguised his frightful scream as a wicked laugh. "Yeah, bitch!" He screamed out in joy, punching the air as the pile of metal struck the big, big brother knocking him out cold for good. He teleported down with Instant Transmission to avoid taking fall damage.

"I knew you had it in you, Jun." He said unconvincingly, pointing at his comrade before looking out in the distance for a brief pause. "Oh?" He could not see any sign of the orange thief. He was far too distracted by the show. He formed hand seals in quick succession, and his eyes rolled back into his skull before three ravens circled overhead. They cawed before dispersing in three different directions, spiralling out. Saturn stood still, the white of his eyes looking up at the midday sky. After a couple of minutes, his blue eyes came back into their place. "He's gone. That prick. You shoulda chopped his legs off.." He cursed, on the fence between sarcastic and dead serious. He walked over to the unconscious big brother and crouched down, prying the metal ladder off of his torso before checking his pocket. He got a hold of his purple froggy wallet and turned it inside out, spilling no less than ten thousand ryo and some change. He grinned at Jun, he hoped that he would be complicit in this act and bag himself some extra ryo as well, after paying the forsaken merchant, "How much do you think a bag of oranges cost?"

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 Just as the Sun was setting early in Kumon skies, the patrol officers were headed to the Residential Areas. The village's residential area was usually quiet and peaceful. Quite a few of the occupants of local flats would be out on missions of their own, or busy in the trade district making a living. As they walked through a narrow street, a black cat would block their path. It was crossing the road, but now it stopped in the middle to glare at the duo. Saturn looked back at the animal with a burning ferocity in his own eyes not much less tenacious than Jun's Tengans. He opened a blue portal under the cat, and the feline reappeared out of an orange portal behind the two Genin.

"It's bad luck if a black cat crosses your path."


He lectured his comrade as they walked.

They had barely made it past a couple blocks when it would appear that they were met with their next obstacle. 

The two were just about to make a right turn into the next street when Saturn stopped himself and Jun, hiding behind the cover of a large balsam fir tree. He pointed to the roof of a house across the road, carved into a sloping cliff. Right there, creeping on the orange tiles of the roof was a suspicious young boy. He was peering down the chimney of the old house, and when he lifted his head up to reveal his blonde locks, he seemed awfully familiar. Come to think of it, the black plastic bag that he clutched with his right fist seemed like it was filled with oranges. 

"Look who's here..."

Saturn looked at the Shibasaki clansman, looking tempered and restless, resisting the urge to ask him to shoot the bandit down before he noticed them.

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WC: 686
TWC: 1790

Jun’s plan did work out, and he took care of the big, big brother of the Orange thief. But the thief itself was gone. Yes, it was a minor felony, just an orange theft, but Jun learned that Kumogakure no Sato had 0 tolerance when it came to crimes within their own village. The young shinobi wasn’t thinking about physically punishing the boy by himself, but rather he wanted to give a little scare to the boy so he would learn not to steal again.

As Saturn examined the knocked out big fella, Jun was still trying to locate the boy’s thermal signature, to no avail. Jun was intrigued by the boy’s skills on robbing and escaping, even from shinobi, and also about the big guy’s uncanny body movements when avoiding Saturn’s boomerang for the first two times. Not only that, but while the orange thief was a frail and small boy, his brother was absolutely gigantic, with the only thing in common between both of them being their blond hair.

Saturn took out of the big fellas’s body his froggy waller and turned it inside out, spilling no less than ten thousand ryo and some change. That was a lot of money for someone that asked his own little brother to steal some oranges so he could eat. Saturn proprosed to Jun that they kept the money, after paying the orange merchant for his monetary loss.

- Hell yeah, that guy wanted to kill us, it’s only fair that we keep his money as a compensation!


Shortly, the Kumogakure police force arrived and arrested the big fella, who was still stunned when handcuffed and transported away. After all this madness, it was almost time for Jun and Saturn patrol shift in another area of the village: the residential area.

Both patrol officers were walking towards their second patrol area, when a black cat would block their path. Saturn used again his portal technique, this time removing the cat from the way and placing him behind the duo through a second portal.

- You’re quite superstitious, eh?

Saturn started lecturing Jun as they walked through a few blocks of the residential district, explaining about the bad luck attracted by black cats and how you should never cross their path, when the eccentric ninja stopped himself and Jun, quickly hiding behind a large tree, abruptly pulling Jun towards the hiding spot as well. He pointed in the direction of a house across the road, carved into a sloping cliff. There was what seemed to be a boy standing on the roof, peering down the house’s chimney in a very suspicious way. When he lifted his head up to reveal his blonde hair, Jun had no doubts: it was the little thief from before. 

Not only that, but he was holding a plastic bag full of what seemed spherical objects, most likely the oranges he stole earlier.
Jun could not believe the coincidence of that, and also that only a few hours after escaping the law, the young thief was already stealing again. “This time he won’t get away”. As the boy started to climb down the old house roof, Jun swiftly moved toward the boy direction. When he finally jumped down to the ground, he was once again surprised by Jun waiting for him with his arms crossed, falling back on his ass.

- You’ll never catch me! – shouted the boy, throwing the orange bag into Jun’s face before quickly standing up and running at full speed.

Jun dodged the incoming bag, and started again pursuing the thief. As the streets in the residential district were way less busy, Jun could easily follow the teenager at ground level. The boy ran for a while, before entering a dead end alley, with Jun still running behind him. Upon entering the small alley and realizing there was only a wall in front of him, the boy turned around, facing Jun with a great amount of despair on his face.

- Come on boy, It’s you and I in an alley once again… let’s make it easier this time and I promise you won’t be harmed.


But the boy wasn’t buying it. With his trembling right hand, the took out from out of his pocket a small green pill. “What the hell is that…” -  but before Jun could find out, the boy tossed the pill into his mouth and swallowed it. “Please don't be cyanide…”. 

And it wasn’t… after just a few second after taking the pill, the boy’s whole body started shaking, hi started to sweat like crazy, and suddenly, the boy started to grow up right in front of a dazzled Jun. Not only that, all his muscles started to bulk up and all his veins started to show up while getting thicker and thicker. The boy started to scream in pain as his whole body was just contorting itself as the boy kept growing and becoming very, very muscular. This whole vision made Jun absolutely immobile, as he watched on the bizarre transformation… and after just a few moments, the growth stopped, revealing a brand new orange thief: he was now 7-feet tall and had big, gigantic muscles, with his veins looking as thick as a tree trunk, much like his big brother. Once again, the patrolling duo would have to deal with a monster of a man.


- Oh, shit... here we go again!

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WC: 905
TWC: 2790

WC: 907
TWC: 2697

As the orange thief’s transformation was complete, the formerly frail, skinny teenage boy turned into an Ivan Drago doppelganger out of nowhere. “What the hell is going on in here…is there a new drug in town?”. The now monstrous thief as ready for a fight with his pursuer, but before Jun could make a move, Saturn stepped forward a took the lead to face their new foe, telling Jun to stand back.

- Alright, he’s all yours my friend! – said the relieved Shibasaki clansman;

 The brute started to come towards the pair o shinobi, and soon a fight ensued. Saturn showed all his space-time skills, immobilizing the brute with some kind a force-field that amazed Jun… but it wasn’t enough. The boy’s new physique came along with absurd strength, and he freed himself from Saturn’s jutsu with his sheer power while roaring like some kind of animal. His muscles grew even bigger and his eyes rolled into the back of his skull. “Is that… perfect body? How can he…”.

The thief came running towards Saturn in full speed, in some kind of bull rush, and would viciously destroy Saturn if the fortuneteller did not teleport himself out of harms way. Saturn sent a wave of piercing air flying down at the assailant, but the brute once again tanked Saturn’s technique and in an insanely fast manner, counterattacked with a powerful Taijutsu punch technique, which was blocked by Saturn. This attack pissed Jun’s patrol partner, who attacked the thief with a powerful bukijutsu technique, producing a condensed ray of chakra that mimicked Saturn’s kunai edge in shape, greatly increasing the weapon’s range and going toward the boy chest, that was open due to Saturn faking throwing his axe at him.

- You’re going to kill him that way…

The extended weapon pierced right through chest, and then the ground behind him.  And then the boy simply disappeared in a puff of cloud of smoke. It was a shadow clone, what made Jun even more suspicious. “That weird green pill… Could it be that in addition to increasing a human's physical abilities, it also grants people ninja abilities? How is this even possible…”

Jun checked around with his Tengan, but once again the boy just vanished from his doujustu’s range. When looking back at the spot where Saturn faced the monstrous orange thief, Jun noticed a small, white piece of paper that resembled a business card. 
He approached the object and picked it up, and it was indeed a business card

The Business Card:

- Well, looks like there’s a place for us to visit during our patrol shift in the slums… do you think that this Green Dream is that weird pill the boy took before turning into a giant? – asked Jun, while showing the recently discovered business card to Saturn – So, let’s wrap things up here in the residential district and check it out.

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WC: 530
TWC: 3320

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