Fear of Embarrassment (Mission - The Wager: Yukikage )

[Lucifer]

Mission:

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Name: The Wager: Yukikage

Rank: D

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Difficulty: Easy

Objective: Make sure the Yukikage completes her task.

Description: The Yukikage was caught sneaking out to avoid paperwork again, so her secretary is punishing her. Lana DeThorne has tasked the Yukikage with going out to the local tavern, to cover a shift for one if the employees as part of her bet. She is to work a full shift and get a good report from the tavern owner to be let off the hook. See to it that the Yukikage doesn't escape and skip work.

Reward: 2,500 Ryo and the humiliation of the kage.

Fear of Embarrassment:

Lucifer stood in front of the postings of the current missions. As Lucifer scanned the missions he could not help to feel too old for some of the tasks, of course, Ryo was Ryo, but the fear of public embarrassment had a nearly equal price to Lucifer. This was a momentous mission for Lucifer, for this was his first mission as a genin. Lucifer wanted to prove his value to his village and hopefully become a well-decorated shinobi that could bring peace to those corrupt with darkness in his land.

A crowd of people began to form, Lucifer began to be shoved his way and that as Shinobi threw their hands out and grabbed whatever they could get before being pushed out of the crowd. Lucifer towering over most everyone quickly grabbed a random D-rank mission and quickly walked away from the sporadic cluster of people. Lucifer unraveled the crumpled up mission posting it read "The Wage: Yukikage." Lucifer's stomach had shifted slightly, "this could not possibly be a D-Rank mission if the Yukikage is involved, surely," he thought. After reading it over it was certain there was no helping it Lucifer was to meet the Yukikage.

Lucifer began his travels to the Yukikage's tower. Upon arrival, he planted his rear in the tall snow piles and made a sort of chair out of the snow awaiting the Yukikage to depart the front gates so he could begin his mission. Lucifer was nervous but excited to meet the person who he would one day stand beside as a fellow shinobi.

[Claws of the Tundra]

The wait lasted for about fifteen minutes before the front gates of the castle opened up. Normally the gates were open for entry, but lately they have been closed because of some events over in Yomazu. The weather was pretty warm today given the fact that it was a Summer season.

The main land may be Winter's playground, but the Summer seasons are still warm and even hot on occasion to counter the usually chilly weather. No snowflakes were falling at the current time, and the clouds were numerous which occasionally blocked out the sun to reunite the cold weather until the sun's bright gaze fall back on the area again.

The gates only took a few seconds to fully rise, and open up completely despite being old, and in need of updating. The small draw bridge looming over the creak of water, dropped smoothly to the other side. Once dropped the only person walking across it, would be a woman dressed in shinobi gear fit for a kunoichi, with a white kage robe loosely hanging off her shoulders. Her entire attire considered of slightly light, but mostly dark colors which is a straight contrast from the pale white skin she has.

(Her outfit: Right)

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Although all around her figure they was an incredibly faint light glow making a shimmering outline as if the Sun was reflecting off her somewhat. She wouldn't be too far off from Lucifer sitting on his makeshift chair, and from his distance he shouldn't have trouble telling that she was at a bare minimum for average height. To be exact the Yukikage stood at 5,5 feet tall. So by the time she crossed the bridge, and stood in front of him her full appearance came into view.

Super long silver hair, pale white skin, a tribal marking of three black curves taking up the left side of her face, her left eye being a strong azure blue, while her right eyes was practically colorless despite the faint silver shine to them. Her figure was fairly athletic so its clear she doesn't sit on her ass all day. Her lower body having the most development. Her arms were defined as well, but none of these things take over her feminine body structure. She was all woman, and simply had some strength to add on to her natural figure. So its clear she has some history somewhere.

From this point the Yukikage started blankly at the man before her. His face hasn't been seen before by her eyes, which means he is new to her memory. This was going to be interesting given she didn't expect someone to actually take this mission in the first place. Her left hand gently slipped out of the deep pocket of her kage robe, and made a single gentle waving gesture towards him.

"So you're the one playing parole officer for this mission eh?" she'd say in a calm, stoic voice tone though its still clear she was simply teasing and joking. After such a greeting she'd tilt her head to the right, and look him right in his eyes with a 1000 yard stare:

"So guy, what is your name? I'm Lady Kahimi, the Yukikage you'll be watching over today."

Kahimi's 1000 Yard-Stare

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[Lucifer]

Lucifer is 18 years of age however, he has an unusual early development of manly features. He believes he gets this from his father's giant side. Lucifer is 7'00" and towers over most of the individuals in the village. He has curly, soft, charcoal black hair that puffs out of the openings of his beanie. He bears the oversized club that he purchased off of a settler in his home town before making the trek to The Village of Snow.

Lucifer was still relaxing in the snow, as he viewed the grand exit of what he could only presume to be Yukikage as she made her departure from the office to attend to her other part-time shift. This is why Lucifer was there after all. Lucifer's stomach twister and turned as what he only presumed as the village leader made her way across a draw bridge and slowly into the perceivable distance. Lucifer watched the Yukikage signal towards him as if she was expecting him. Lucifer sprang up from his makeshift ice chair to introduce himself. However, as he stood up he realized there was no overlooking the height difference.

Lucifer quickly moved over his disrespectful thoughts, and attempted to focus on the mission at hand. After the Yukikage asked the first question, Lucifer would respond with a nervous "Yes, I suppose I have been chosen to watch over you my lady, though an individual of your stature doesn't need myself as a company." The Yukikage's gaze suddenly changed into something nearly demonic, a shiver went down Lucifer's spine, he assumed this was it, the end of his genin career, he must have said something to disturb her, Lucifer pondered.

Trembling feeling unable to speak as if his throat was closed shut from within, Lucifer mumbled in response to the woman's question "It is a pleasure to meet you my Lady Kahimi, these lands are blessed to have you leading them. As for my name, it's Lucifer, and you're in good company my Lady Kahimi, I suppose we ought to start moving, wouldn't want to miss your shift." Lucifer would attempt to follow Lady Kahimi as he did not know where anything in the Village was.

[Claws of the Tundra]

(Sorry in advance for the big post )

If she hadn't managed to read over the files of Lucifer before hand, Lady Kahimi would surely think of him to be a super tall grown man. He didn't seem all that young, although the age of eighteen is not very far off. The differences between eighteen and perhaps a twenty year old person mostly ties to their mental growth, as appearances are always deceiving. He was a tall man, and looked aged enough to be in his early to mid twenties from her perspective, possibly seen a lot of things within his life time and it used to having to deal with people trying to cut him down to size.

Though talking to him not shifted Lady Kahimi's perception of the young man. She was older than him by a small number of years, and can tell he has probably be observing more than living throughout his lifetime. At least that is the assumption, since he seems to be nervous around those with titles that outweigh him, or people he doesn't know in general. She was not concerned or interested in intimidating him, so her 1000 yard stare, as flat and emotionless as it looks merely is her observing in curiosity.

His first response was taken with a grain of salt, she could respect and admire his want to be respectful however his own worth shouldn't be set aside to make room for her. That is not the kind of respect and obedience Lady Kahimi seeks from her people. Giving them room to be suppressed and act differently is not the kind of example she desires even if she may be a bit...harsh in response to some personalities or ideals. In other word she wanted him to use the backbone she knows he has locked away somewhere...

After he replied to her question her head moved back to being naturally straight as she kept her gaze up at him. A small little smile curling on those full lips of hers. "You're modesty and kindness is rather cute...and well as much as I appreciate your will to be respectful to me Lucifer. I can't help but pick apart a bit of what you just said...allow me as a leader to teach you for a moment so I can explain." She'd begin pulling both hands out of her robe's pockets crossing them underneath her chest preparing to speak. "You are right about a couple things...However you are terribly wrong in others, which if applied to the real world, out there in nature's playground can get you killed." She'd say very forwardly and without flinching at the idea of suggesting Lucifer could die from his ideologies. In fact she continued without even hesitating after saying it.

"Yes I agree that I AM in good company as I trust and believe that you will be able to handle this small mission quite well. However I think you overlooked some key details in the mission description that can lead to your failure if you aren't careful~" She'd warn with a playful tone in her voice, before it switched back into a calm mentoring tone.

"And yes I also agree that this land although damaged still is good hands now that I am here to help direct its advantages and disadvantages." She'd pause to take a moment to collect her thoughts. Then silently she'd gaze off at the village. Looking to over only once, before turning back to face the tall young man. Her expression now having fallen back into the deep soul piercing stare as she gazed into his eyes. Her tone now also matching that deathly look with an incredibly serious layer of bluntness in her once cute and somewhat flirtatious voice.

"However where you are wrong is naively assuming I don't need someone watching over me simply because of my position of power. Now normally I would be nicer in teaching this sort of things, but you are older and have grown into a fearsome figure which makes me wonder how you could overlook reality in such a way. Then again you are a Genin that lacks training and experience, so I will try to be kinder as I explain to you that the shinobi world we live in isn't that simple.

Your kindness in trying to assume its foolish for me to have an escort even if you are genin watching me at workplace is a mistake in perspective that if applied into a real mission gets people killed by those they trusted wrongfully.

Your mission Lucifer is not to escort and accompany me, it is to keep me from escaping and skipping work which I very well could try to do at any moment despite me being nice to you. I am your assignment now...I am now your high valuable target needing to fulfill a task or be punished. Not just some kage helping out at some vendor that I actually can care less about at the moment..."

She'd say very coldly hoping he understood that although the mission is silly it should still be taken somewhat seriously. However feeling that she was stepping over a line, Lady Kahimi would step back a bit and sigh softly. Retracting her bluntness in favor of being much more creative in her approach in explaining her view on things.

"My apologies Lucifer I shouldn't be so cold with you. This mission is for pure fun, however even if its a silly one what I mean to say is you should still take it a little seriously. This mission is a perfect way to teach Genin like yourself how to discern what is the right way to go about handling things no matter what the stakes are.

If you can't understand why I'd need an escort then think of the situation in the eyes of me being a valuable item. I have a lot of worth to my name simply from being a village leader with access to countless secrets and information that could lead to more riches. Now if you were a crook then I am a real big jackpot just standing here in front of you now aren't I?

Why is that? Well look around you big guy. No matter how it may seem, even in the sturdy walls of Yukigakure there could be someone waiting for me to slip up, and be vulnerable.

Perhaps even more so than the outside world. I am a village leader and have a lot of power at my disposal. Whether I may or may not be capable in a battlefield isn't important by those standards as even the mightiest can slip up if the right eyes are watching their every move.

The proof of that statement is in our villages history itself.

Snow Country was once strong, and prideful only a few years ago back when Ace Onta had the reigns of this hidden village. Many kage before him helped build up this iron fisted country into its glory days, but after he departed things began to fall apart out of nowhere.

The kage after him didn't last, and for the longest time people waited for something good to happen. It never came until I forced it to. I am in this position now for reasons that mostly are not because of my individual might, high valued connections, or even prestigious accomplishments. The council couldn't contact the better candidates, and nobody better cared enough to even try.

But I am still worthy of my title considering that now when you look around you this country is no longer a gang filled hell-hole that it once was. I assume you never knew that, and if you did then it may come as a shock now that you know it was me who organized that.

There are still strong people out there willing to make this country great once more, and bring the pride back Lucifer. I have plans to help our people reach a new age of happiness. One that the world can either acknowledge and leave alone, or dare to stop if they are bold enough. Our enemies will not stop me Lucifer. And I can only hope that you will join the rest of us in seeking that same greatness for yourself and for this country.

But if we are to do that, then we must grow together. So by that standard. Yes someone of my stature needs someone like you to keep an eye on me. Don't ever underestimate the intentions or capabilities of the people you meet in this world Lucifer. However remember not to judge them too much either. There is a fine line we all cross and stand on. I hope your life teaches you how to keep your balance on that line. Now then, enough lecturing. I wanna get this shift over with. We head to the Town Square from here..." she'd say before turning around to casually lead the way.

Her steps hardly hindered by the snow. A suppressed grace flowed through her movements and naturally her hips bounced and swayed from side to side as she effortlessly moved on down the hill top, expecting Lucifer to follow her if he wishes to succeed in his mission.

[Lucifer]

My week days are hectic ill reply when I can, I want to do a good reply. Ill hit you up when I post.

[Claws of the Tundra]

(Been far too long. I'm cancelling this attempt in favor of a retry or someone else doing it.)