Re: Smooth Criminals

Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:06 am

It didn't take long for Saturn, or his clone to be more specific, to find where she was. During this particular moment it didn't really matter whether or not Meika was aware that the person was a cloned Saturn or not. And from there, the curly haired shinobi took over with the operation of the chimney intruder and tormented him with some sort of dragonfly technique.

It was obvious that this lad had all sorts of unordinary tricks up his sleeve.

But their job wasn't finished just yet. So far they were only aware that one intruder had been captured and dealt with, they needed to soon figure out the other member's status with their own burglar.

Before that could happen though, Saturn voiced out a reasonable concern that had bypassed Meika's mind.

The whereabouts of the house owner.

The Kamigawa woman was unaware that the house owner was even missing.

She slouched backwards against the wall while placing her hand against the edge of her chin, obviously in deep thought as she tried to see if there was any way she could recall any possible explanation to his disappearance.

"Have you checked in the game room? I believe I heard the wife mentioning it earlier." She briefly hummed to herself while continuing her pondering state. "Hmmm~ How reckless. The owner wandering out during such an operation is above my pay grade. They never listen."

As soon as her sentence ended, there was a sudden bomb and the mansion seemed to quiver. Almost as if there was a heavy force making impact.

The raven haired woman breathed out a sigh as she looked back at Saturn. "Well what comes first. . Missing mansion owner or finding out the cause of that commotion?" Meika waited, curious to see how the shinobi would decide.

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Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:08 pm

Goro's buildup for the punch sends him sliding across the floor with the amount of energy behind it, where he collides with poor Mimas, his fist landing straight on the head. Both of them freeze for a moment before an audible shockwave is shot out, sending paintings and vases flying off their stands, and a gust of wind vibrates the skin and flows the hair of those around him. All of a sudden, Mimas is sent barreling out of the other side of the house, leaving a 10 meter in diameter hole in the walls it traveled through, and a trail of snow that was dragged by Mimas' flying body. Goro holds his fist in that position for a moment as steam flows from it, turning his head as Jun tries to get his attention. Goro was quick enough to react, ripping one of the floorboards out from underneath him and using it as a shield for the hair needle senbon. A technique Goro has never even heard of before, this was turning out to be interesting for him. "Heh. Alright. Seems like you're not the average bandits after all!" Goro says before cracking both of his knuckles, and extending a green blade-like mass of chakra from his hands that impale the floor, splintering the wood and ripping through it, leaving a trail as he slowly walks towards Jun, his face obscured by his big ushanka hat and the shadow it casts over him.

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Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:41 pm

Saturn's clone put his hand on his chin and observed Meika while she pondered on his candid question about the house owner. Standing only a couple of meters away from her, he could passively perceive some of her personality traits with his psychic abilities. Sagittarius. Likes: Sushi, Tea variants, Nightfall, Musical instruments, Herbs, Windchimes. Dislikes: Spicy food/drink, Being ignored, Being dependent on others, Spiders, Dishonorable or uncapable Shinobi, Being or feeling useless or weak. She was certainly a kunoichi with a lot of quirks. Saturn caught himself staring for too long, and snapped out of it when she mentioned the game room.

"Sushi. What? Game room, right!"

He blurted out, looking up trying to remember where that room was. Before he could remember, they heard a large thud coming from downstairs.

Although Mimas was a disgusting purple sludgy blob, it was a crafty disgusting purple sludgy blob. As it absorbed the blow from Goro's devastating punch, it was knocked back, but it would not allow the paintings and vases around its wiggling body to fall. Its disguised face would unravel, and its body would seem to melt into a sticky purple goo, its imitation of Saturn's attire would twitch and contract into its sludgy body while its head spun around. It transformed almost immediately into its original form, standing at six feet tall (its size actually fluctuated). It extended its eight tentacles in the nick of time to catch every falling piece of house decoration. When its back slammed into the wall, it left dents, but its new jelly like texture helped absorb the impact, preventing the creation of a ten diameter hole on the wall. Its suction grips helped hold everything in its tentacles firmly, without dropping anything. It was still shy about revealing its real appearance, and its cheeks flushed red as it tried to use patches of yellow stars imitating the pattern on its owner's clothing to hide its ugly purple body. "Mimas!" It shrieked, telling Jun to kick Goro's ass, as it was unable to throw hands - or tentacles - with the assailant while holding eight pieces of room decor.

Saturn did not hesitate when presented with options by the Chuunin. He gave her a piercing glance, his eyes inquiring if she had asked a pointless question. "Jun is downstairs with Mimas, they'll be just fine," he said confidently, before calmly making his way towards the game room. If Meika joined him, they would soon find themselves in the game room, a grand hall filled with every piece of gaming equipment imaginable. The massive foosball table appeared as though twenty-two people could play at once, and various arcade and slot machines were arranged side by side with no buffer.

The Genin strolled past the punching arcade machine to the slots and inserted a 100 ryo. The machine displayed a mismatching row of images, and a dreadful beep signalled that his money was now gone. He groaned, reaching for his pocket to grab more change when he thought he heard a commotion outside.

Saturn remained calm as he made his way to the window and looked out to see a group of bandits lingering near the rear entrance of the house. It was the same band of at least twelve masked individuals he had spotted earlier while he was in the jacuzzi. "Oi, Meika, take a look at this," he called out nonchalantly to his compatriot, beckoning her to witness the sight for herself if she were present. The bandits were accompanied by a thirteenth man, and from a distance, he seemed familiar. It was the house owner, and six of the masked men were all pointing pocket knives at him. "Shit!" he exclaimed, his mind quickly forming a plan of action.

"Hey, bandits! Over here!" He shouted before he formed the Rat and Monkey hand seals, summoning a ball of space-time energy and firing it at the lawn below. His chakra then picked up a clump of snow, and he hurled it at the man closest to the snow-selling businessman, making him flinch and look up, along with the rest of his crew. While they were distracted, one more man would beeline at the crowd. It was Saturn, in the flesh. He wasted no time in grabbing the house owner by the back of his coat, and using Instant Transmission to teleport himself and the Snow dealer into the master bed room. Immediately afterwards, three owls would begin to swoop down and peck at the troupe of twelve bandits, disorganizing their position as they waved their fists and jumped, trying to slash their knives at the birds.

WC: 771
TWC: 2399

Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:35 am

Jun shot his hair made senbons at the unknown intruder, trying to turn him into a pinsushion, but to the young genin’s surprise, his jutsu was easily brushed off, as the bulky guy just ripped one of the floorboards out from underneath him and using it as a shield for the hair needle senbon. “Such skills and fast thinking suggests that this masked assailant is no mere bandit, but rather a Shinobi… perhaps a missing nin? Nah, he looks too young for that… perhaps another stranded Shinobi at the Winter Wonderlands?” analyzed Jun.

- Hey, baka! This floorboard you just ripped will cost me a kidney! You are a Shinobi, aren’t you? Why don’t you remove that balaclava so we can talk properly? I’m a shinobi as well, my name is Jun Shibasaki, from Kumo… - but before Jun could finish his “introduction”, the unknown person crackled his knuckles, which made Jun realize the guy was still up for a fight. He
quickly extended a green blade-like mass of chakra from his hands that impaled the floor, splintering the wood and ripping through it, leaving a trail as he slowly starts coming towards Jun.

- I TOLD YOU NOT TO BREAK MORE STUFF, I’M NOT PAYING FOR THAT SHIT!

Jun was eager to kick the ass of the intruder, but he recomposed himself before his anger got the better of him and started once again thinking rationally. Fighting the unknown shinobi wouldn’t help Jun complete his mission, quite the opposite actually, as he got distracted by the assailant and completely forgot about it. Yes, although possibly fun, that fight was pointless. Still being reasonably distant from the intruder, Jun quickly made some handseals, Bird + Hare + Snake + Dog + Ram + Ox + Dragon, activating his Taiyōton: Shōshin ōra (Sun Release: Immolation Aura) technique, surrounding his body with a burning Solar Chakra aura expelled from his tenketsus.

- One more step and my immolation aura will hurt you – warned the Shibasaki clansman as the shinobi was approaching even closer – Let’s start once again, my name is Jun Shibasaki from Kumogakure. Who the hell are you, mysterious shinobi? – calmly asked Jun, trying to defuse the situation.

As he waited for a response from the short guy, he used his Tengan for a quick scan of the mansion to see if he would locate the house owner and his teammates. From afar, and thanks to his doujutsu, Jun could detect the thermal signature of Saturn and Meika, who appeared to be handling the criminal group pretty well. “Well, It seems that they can take care of this bandits by themselves…”

WC: 440
TWC: 1900

Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:40 pm

Meika raised her brow in question when Saturn blurted out the word, "Sushi" at random before he redirected himself back to their situation.

It didn't take long for the blonde Genin to answer her question with a simple, easily calculated response. "Splendid. That should give us plenty of time to locate the house owner." And so the two ventured towards the room that was indicated to be the game room. Which was massive to say the least, and crowded with many sorts of things that Meika believed to be a total waste of time.

Her eyes scanned over the rows of lit - up slot machines and was at slight disappointment that the house owner was nowhere to be found. This mission was definitely being dragged on and next time the Chunin wouldn't be objective to leaving the owner tied up somewhere safe and hidden.

The Chunin was just running through any other options within her thoughts about where to look next, when Saturn called her attention. Her ghastly eyes glanced over towards him at the window. The commotion that was taking place outside the window drew her in, and the raven haired kunoichi took a few steps closer to the window. Sure enough, the man that they were searching for was within the crowd of bandits.

Saturn was quick to act as he summoned forth some sort of attack that consisted of being shaped like a ball. Sure enough snow went flying upon its impact and all their attention was captured, just before another Saturn dashed into the crowd and succeeded in taking hold of the house owner.

Meika didn't waste any time asking any questions, her hands wove together as soon as she was aware that the house owner was no longer within the ground. A chain of chakra took form from her left hand, as her chakra took the shape of a large dog. The air around the dog figure cackled from its lightning form and the ground of bandits cowered from both the dog and the owls that swooped down onto them.

"I'd prefer to take all of you into custody with not much blood shed, but move a muscle and I won't object to making you into dog chow either." Meika spoke from the open window. Her other hand braced against the pane as her eyes gazed coldly down at the bandits. The lightning dog remained in a stance of being ready to pounce. If any of them dared to move at all in the slightest, the chain within her hand will rattle as the dog pounced onto them. Shocking them into a state of paralysis.

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Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:55 pm

Goro makes a psychotic smile, remembering the time his own mother threw him into a volcano, and compares it to this. He is absolutely flabbergasted at the thought that his opponent thinks he can't handle the heat. Goro chuckles lightly to himself as the stock energy sword sound effect can be heard all throughout the house. That immolation aura would have worked on any other type of shinobi, but unfortunately for Jun, medical-nin are known for their precision and careful control of their chakra. Goro's technique, Chakra Scalpel is quite literally made to pierce through any protective armor and clothing to make incisions on the body. This more specialized version of the Chakra Scalpel was made with a more sinister use in mind, to break through defenses and slice a target open. All of these things together (and seeing as Immolation Aura has no health), Goro pierces right through the barrier and holds the tip of the blade millimeters away from Jun's throat. "Please, if you'd think I'd drop my guard in order to take off my mask in front of the man who threatened me from the moment I entered this trap, you are sorely mistaken. You can either believe me or don't, it makes no difference to me." Goro says, staring directly into Jun's eyes with his own, glowing (super edgy) ashen crimson eyes. Unbeknownst to anyone in the village, Goro has awakened his potential as a Chinoike. Jun's heart begins to speed up as he can hear it echoing through his head, and his breathing becomes labored. "I'm Goro Chinoike of the Cloud. But what is it that a 'cloud shinobi' is doing out here with a... Disgusting fleshy creature pretending to be our comrade? What is it that a 'cloud shinobi' is doing luring other Cloud shinobi in with this creature and then threatening them for their money? In fact, what in Jashin's green Earth is a 'cloud shinobi' doing inside this mansion that very obviously does not belong to them if they need money so desperately?" He says, grinning and waiting for a response.

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Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:29 pm

Saturn came down the stairs in time to hear Goro's introduction. Having recognized his voice and his size, the Genin was unfazed by the chakra scalpels held to Jun's throat. Probably some playful banter, he thought, as he scoured for Mimas. "Yo, Chinoike-san, long time no see. What are you doing in here? What's with those eyes? Jun didn't make you smoke something did he?" He asked casually as he checked the furniture, and under the sofa for his octopus. He checked if it was the table, or one of the paintings on the wall, but could not sense his familiar. Growing more worried as he searched, he hesitated to call out, when he remembered having sensed just one more foreign presence in the building, after accounting for the boy who turned out to be Goro Chinoike. His eyes widened, and he wandered into the kitchen cautiously, with his hand on the wall. He first noticed the open back door, and the dirty footsteps that trailed towards the interior rather than outside. On guard, he glanced around and spotted Mimas face first on the tiles, still camouflaged well but knocked out cold.

He couldn't use Mind's Eye of the Kagura, it had just worn off and he needed more time to recover. "Uh... Jun?" He called out from the kitchen, then communicated the rest of his message quietly so as to not alert the last intruder. Keep your eyes peeled, there's just one more.. He nudged Mimas to wake it up, and then put the blob in his pocket. He heard a creak, then a thud. With his heart pounding, he leaned back on the wall and stayed alert. That was when he saw a fat shoe print manifest from thin air, heading towards the living room. Saturn crouched, and got hold of a ball of snow that he gathered from outside the open door. When he saw through the act, he gave chase to the bandit, and just as he expected, more footsteps formed one after the other as he instinctively ran away from Saturn. He marked the man with a snowball.

"Over here!" He yelled, running after the invisible man.

WC: 362

TWC: 2761

Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:48 pm

Jun and the mysterious shinobi were at a stalemate, with the Shibasaki clansman with his Immolation Aura activated while Goro had his Chakra Scalpels on both his hands, ready to cut the blonde genin into pieces. The masked man tried to cut through Jun’s aura, and he maybe thought he acutally had a chance into doing it so, but as the Chakra Scalpel is pretty much sharp blade made entirely off of chakra, it actually clashed with the aura, which is pretty much a Solar Chakra stream expelled form Jun’s tenketsus. While it may be true that the masked man’s technique can cut through anything that doesn't resist it's power, such as bones, flesh, and chakra constructs, Jun’s Immolation Aura actually have a higher power than the Scalpels, resulting in the chakra blades being absolutely vaporized on the parts that made contact with the constant stream of solar chakra.

After his failed attempt, Goro tried to intimidate Jun with his own doujutsu, looking right into the Shibasaki genin’s Tengans. He started saying that he was called Goro Chinoike, that he was a cloud shinobi himself, and that he thought that not only Jun was lying, but that also that he was lured into a trap in the mansion, supposedly planned by Jun and Mimas, just to steal his money… something that Jun never asked for. After Goro finished his sentence, Jun could not believe that this whole situation was actually a big misunderstanding and confusion, and that the mysterious assailant was actually a fellow Kumo shinobi. This made the young genin pretty mad, as he was distracted from his mission and from helping his teammates by a confusion made by another genin.

Feeling the anger take over, Jun activated his Stage 3 Tengan while Goro looked him in the eyes with his own doujutsu. Jun’s eyes started glowing even brighter than before, making it really hard to look at directly. The Tengans starting expelling wild Solar Flames from their sides, which made the temperature around Jun to dramatically rise, perhaps even making it difficult for Goro to stand near him. Looking back right at Goro with his almost perfect Tengan, the young Shibasaki clansman told him:

- Baka, I’m Jun Shibasaki, Genin of the Cloud, the Shibasaki’s last heir. Me, Saturn, Meika and Mimas, the octopus you just punched, are in an official mission here and you just started disrupting things and attacking people at random. Now, stop playing around like a child and get the hell out of my way, or… - Jun’s eyes started glowing even brighter now, but before he could finish to threat the other Kumon, Saturn showed up.

The fortuneteller acknowledged Goro and Jun, and he just passed by and entered the kitchen looking for something or someone. As both Shinobis were familiar with Saturn, this kind of defused the situation. The fortuneteller quietly communicated Jun from the kitchen that there was one bandit left. Before the young genin could scan the environment around, he heard fast footsteps coming from the kitchen, the sound of someone running. Jun looked at that direction and was able to see the thermal signature a man coming from the kitchen, running from Saturn, who threw him a snowball in order to tag him.

As the visual prowess allowed Jun to actually see the invisible bandit, he precisely threw a Shuriken right at his Achilles tendon as he passed by running, making him fall face first into the ground. As the bandit was clutching his feet, with the shuriken still stuck into it, and screaming in pain while still not visible to regular eyes, Jun looked back at Goro:

- I would kick your ass right here, right now… put violence is forbidden at the Winter Wonderland… and I love this place. If I deduced correctly and you're a genin like me, we'll meet again soon...… at the Chuunin Exams! There, we can have our little rematch…

WC: 650
TWC: 2550

Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:03 am

After the other bandits were taken into custody, Meika came down to the main area just as one of the Genin brought down the last culprit with the throw of a Shuriken. Her eyes glistened with approval, which shortly dissolved after witnessing the little bit of destruction from their little battle.

Her ghostly eyes looked from one Genin, to the other. Luckily Goro and Jun were no longer at each other's throats, but Mekia had already heard most of the fight between the two.

"I'm going to save myself the trouble of asking questions, I'll just make sure that the owner is compensated for any damages done here. . . Not that he really needs it I'm sure."

Meika crossed her arms over the front of her chest, glancing down at where the bandit continued to whimper, though apparently invisible to her eye. Realizing that they were able to detect the invisible culprit with little difficulty. "Job well done, especially for err. . . Mimas." Meika did her best to recall the name of the blob that she knew little of. Waving her hand off as she moved towards the door. "I'm heading back. Don't get lost."

And with that Meika would leave the mansion and wait outdoors for the rest of them. On their way back, she traveled behind the group while thinking over their missions. For a moment, she recalled when Saturn randomly blurted 'Sushi' and the way he was able to communicate within her thoughts. Something about it had been gnawing at her curiosity. That was until she was able to relate where the word sushi could have come from.

Was it possible that the curly haired shinobi was able to see more than what she expected?

Meika didn't want to believe it was possible, but for good measure, just in case the brat did intrude in her personal space, she chucked a firm snowball at the back of his head. -Exit-

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Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:48 pm

Goro was nearly on the verge of killing Jun before his scalpel that cuts through barriers like butter evaporated like water on a hot day. Immediately after, Jun managed to stop his Chinoike genjutsu, which had a reputation for being able to put even the strongest of doujutsu under a trance. If things weren't confusing enough, Saturn, the real Saturn walks into the room. "Huh? Huh?! HUH?!?!?" Goro says in disbelief at everything that is going on. "Why the heck didn't you open with that, Bakayarō! Konoyarō! I could have killed you!" He shakes his head before noticing the third bandit who he throws a kunai at the opposite leg of, at the same time as Jun does. When Meika walks in, Goro almost loses it "WHO THE-" He stops himself when he notices the identification of the Cloud on this one, making sure not to make the same mistake as earlier. He takes a deep breath before continuing. "That would be best, ma'am. Just tell the owners that there was a 'struggle with the bandits' so we can avoid all the unnecessary paperwork. He does a low and respectful bow before turning back to Jun, who already seems to be walking away. He smirks before using his super strength to launch a snowball with the force of a canon, which hits like a truck. "Right back at you, Bakayarō! Konoyarō! But I'll have a way around that barrier of yours by the exam, so I hope that's not the only trick you know. Otherwise, we're going to have a long rivalry, winner is next Raikage, you hear me Bakayarō?" With his final word, he walks out of the building, fully expecting Jun to retaliate with a snowball of his own, but he is convinced that Jun doesn't have the strength to knock Goro on his ass.

[Exit]

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