Interaction mission: Helping out the farm!

As the team waited, Moto was sitting against a tree staring at the clouds like he always did when he had free time. “OK you guys, remember that this is an important mission. This mission is not only important because we will work with ninjas from Snow, but also because the farmer would pay quite a lot of ryo: he was willing to pay 1500 ryo per ninja.
Which means that he is willing to pay a lot of money to get the job done.
Also, this farm exports a lot of products to the entire country and even to neighbooring countries like the Fire and Snow country. Which makes the mission more important” he heard Marii say to them, but he blew it off like he wasn't paying attention, which he wasn't. As soon as the chief farmer came out and introduced himself to Marii. Keeping quiet for the most part, he only spoke his name to the old man. After introductions were made and information exchanged, the team now had nothing to do except wait for the others to arrive.

Gaz listen to the man give instructions. When he was done, he turned from the group and left. Simple enough. Gaz turned toward the oldest of the group, who like herself was a girl. Though she appeared to be in her early 20's. Even though the woman appeared older, she was...shorter. This mad Gaz feel, a little awkward to say the least. The girl greeted her. Gaz bowed a little as she gave her name. "My name is Gaz Manbu. As a Representative of my people, i want to thank you for allowing me into your country's land."

Though Gaz missed the endless valley and country side that was the land of snow, it was nice to get some change. After the greetings, Gaz went right to work reading over the list. "It is not much work...what do you guys want to do? It is 6 things to do and we are 3 people, so we will do 2 things each"

Gaz looked over the list again before she spoke. I can Take up four and five. It shouldn't take that long, and once i'm finish with it, i could help out whoever needs it when i'm done. She looked around to see if anyone had any problems with that.

After everyone had chosen their jobs, Moto was left with the first and third one to do. Almost immediately after, Marii headed for the stables and Gaz headed towards the barn, and it was time for him to get started. First heading towards the hen house, he would do the easiest one first and then get the horses back into the stables.

Entering into the hen house, he saw the place was filled with some crazy hens acting up. As soon as they saw him, they stopped for a second, then continued on with business as usual. 'This will take a bit longer,' he thought to himself and headed over towards the hens to count them. Picking them up one at a time, he placed them in a separate area after he counted them. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw one of the hens coming back and trying to get back in, but Moto put him back. After counting all the hens and chickens, he came up with twenty-three and wondered where the last one was. Looking around for about ten minutes, he finally found the last one and had counted them all, and they were all in place now. Exiting the hen house, he saw the sun still pretty high in the sky and had plenty of time to get the horses back.

Approaching the field about five minutes later, he saw the horses in it and started heading to get them into the stable. Having some experience with animals, he was somewhat of a natural with them a little, but not with horses. To try and get them to come, he first started to pet them softly and make them more comfortable around him so he could move them. After about twenty minutes, they finally warmed up to him, but wouldn't move much from the field. He then tried to get them to move if he made the comfortable while they were heading towards the stable. So after around an hour or so they were finally in the stable at last. The sun was beginning to set on the day and he headed back to the farm and laid on top of the house, staring at the sky and wondering what the other two were doing, if they were done or not.

The trio all seem to get there work done rather quickly. Of course she did not expect anything less. Ninjas doing simple farm work was like beating up a four year old. Almost effortless. The last to join them was Motozai. They headed toward the main house to inform the farmer they were done and ready to leave. Gaz took in a deep breath and released it. She could not help but casting nervous glance to the sun. It was fading fast. It would be dark soon, or at least it would be when they hit the snow country.

The farmer gave them some instructions on what they were suppose to do. It was easy enough in theory. Travel a couple hours up a road, deliver some goods to a store. If you were a snow nin, you recognized the name of the store right away. Gaz was already putting the route together in her head. Thanks to some previous training and missions, she knew the country almost better then a map. What made her nervous was all of the fastest routes, would not be the safest by the time they would be going through them.

The "safer" routes would take them more in the line of 2-3 days to reach the capital. And in the snow, with little food, and clothing not meant to keep them warm for more then a couple hours, 2-3 days was not acceptable. The chunin was giving them orders as they were getting ready to head off. Gaz Took the map and looked at it. It was defiantly no use for them. Besides the fact that it was old, some of the roads it showed on the map no longer existed. Shaking her head, she put the map away. "Gaz-chan, will it be long before we reach the borders?" The words brought her out of her head and into the moment.

Taking a deep breath, she held it for a moment, before answering. "Getting to the boarder will be easy enough. If you press the horses hard enough, we should be there with in the hour. The trouble will be After we are in the country. Sadly enough, our boarders have become...havens" she said slowly with a glossy look in her eye as she remembered a past experience. "Havens for criminals. Most stay far enough away from the capital, however, out more toward the deserted areas, they live in small communities, waiting for convoys like these." Again looking up at the sun and its position in the sky, "and judging by out timing, they will be fresh and ready to go when we enter the country. It would be best..to be on your guard."

With that, she pulled out a white cloak out of her traveling bag. The cloak fell down to her mid calf. Putting her hood up, she looked sat and relaxed a little. With eyes shut for a moment, she then would return to her bag and pull out a beautiful shield. The shield would be cover in a crystal jewels. If Yuki no kuni had any true items of beauty on a legendary scale, Then this shield was it. She nearly lost her life several times trying to get this thing. And here she was, with it in her arms. Touching the handle, she felt the power of the shield. Cool to the touch, she let out a soft smile and threw her cloak over it to hide its beauty from any potential thieves. "When we get to my country, for our own safety, i will be in the tress following you guys. If something comes up, i will stop you before you can run into a trap...If that is alright with you of course?"

( thought i would add some drama to the story:). Also, if you want any more info on the shield, look in my profile.)

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Gaz got her answer. "It is fine with me, but I will suggest you to go a little ahead of us. You know this area better than we do" Gaz nodded her head and waited for them to cross the boarder. It would be easy enough to tell. It would get darker far quicker then normal, the temperature would drop, and despite the trees, the wind would pick up and grow stronger, like a hungering beast.

AS they were crossing the boarder, She heard the other female mutter something. Her head suddenly shot to there right side. The horses speed started to build up soon after. She must have heard something Gaz thought. "Keep following the road, it will lead straight to the capital. The criminals rely more on numbers then actual skill. There are very few i would worry about. If you do run into trouble, just try to out run them, i will try and scare them off. Most will have a hard time trying to fight what they can't see, and just run away."

With that, she jumped away from the two and into the trees. From limb to limb she raced ahead. Checking out the area and making sure it was as safe as possible. Her main concern was that if the criminals were getting desperate, and needed food or supplies, it might be enough to bring out the bigger bosses. And those were the ones who would give them a problem. As she stopped for a moment to take a breath. She sat silently in the trees watching the horses come up the road. The steady beat of the horses was almost enough to make her tired. Shaking her head and trying to keep her mind in the moment, she noticed a soft sound below her off to her right. As she focused on the sound, she began to make out shapes.

Her stomach tighten. she held up her right hand and formed the rat handseal, bring it up between her eyes. The chakra would then began to focus on her right lens.



And thats when she saw it. She saw several bodies all on the right side of the road. Most had moderate range of chakra flowing through there systems. But there were a couple that had a large amount flowing at a very fast pace as if they were either using one, or preparing to use a jutsu. Looking back at the horses, there was not enough time to warn them to stop with out being seen. The horses were moving to fast. AS quietly as she could, she took off her shield and put it back in her bag. Lucky for her, they were more focused on the coming targets then her.

Performing a couple handseals, she spat several fire balls at the group of criminals sitting in waiting. She hoped the sudden flash of fire balls would be enough to warn the other two of the waiting trap.



As the Balls of fire race forward, most of the ninja took action and jumped out of the way. One unlucky soul could not react in time and suffered as the jutsu hit him. Her original target, the one who seem to be casting a jutsu suddenly vanish from Gaz sight. She only had enough time to mutter a single curse before she felt a powerful force hit her back throwing her from her tree into another.

((OOC: Sorry, I must have missed something. I will edit))