Wide Load [Mission]

[tom116]

~Wide Load~
Rank: C
Numbers requested: 3-6
Briefing: Down near the river ferry to Cha Country, the dock hands have become a little short on workers, and so they called us to come and help out. All you will need to do is load three crates filled with crystal tableware without breaking a single item, they are very fragile, and then you are to escort them down to Cha Country safely. River Pirates have been sighted on several occasions, so it is best that you leave prepared to defend the ferry.
Reward: 1500Y

Takumo walked excitedly down the busy Kusa street observing the bumbling workers running around with extreamly heavy parcels and falling over left and right. Takumo rummeged through is hip-hostler and caught hold of his scroll explaining the mission to him. 'Seems like a bunch of gruntwork at least untill the protection portion of the mission' Takumo sighed 'Why is it i either et the physcopaths or gruntwork oh well as longas I got some pretty good partners forthis mission it should turn out fine' Takumo thought smileing slightly at the intreging prospect.

Spotting the Office in the distance he hurried his pace slightly, grabbing the scroll again he read if it said anything about who is going to be with him for this mission, unfortunatley all the scroll statedwas that he must meet them outside the Amegakure office and head off the east, then in the corner of his eye he saw a dumpling shop, looking back at the office then to the dumplings he ran into the shop thinking 'Damn my stomach' walking out of the shop quite satisfied he quickend his pace to the office, in the ditance he spotted a figure about his hieght outside the office, but just the one, still walking Takumo examined this figure 'Wait is that skunk head! from the academy this is great!' wolfing down his last dumpling he ran for the black and white haired figure, maybe not a great idea ona full stomach ^^.

[kouushimei]

Kouu wandered through the streets of the Village, holding the scroll in his hand for his new mission... escourting a caravan. It was going to be less exciting than his last mission, but at least he wasn't going to be getting into any serious fighting. Kinda wish Kini was here now he thought to himself as he saw the caravans ahead getting loaded up. Would have been nice to get on more missions with him.

Sighing, Kouu walked over to the nearest caravan and went to lift a box of goods... and struggled. He stood up, rolled his shoulders, and made a second attempt - successful this time. He stumbled over to the nearest wagon in the group and did his best to carefully place the goods on board. This time, at least, he managed to get it on there. 'I need to work out more, I guess.'

He turned around to see another Genin nearby, standing outside the Amekage's office, and waved to him - and he ran straight over. 'Hey there... erm...' he paused for a moment, trying to remember his name, 'er... Takumo!' He smiled, glad to see someone else he knew. 'I guess we'll be working together on this then, eh?'

[kujira]

Walking down the streets of the village, Kujira hastily unwrapped the scroll that contained information about his very first mission. A caravan escort mission....sighing he almost missed the other part on the scroll. River Pirates! He could hardly believe his eyes, this might actually turn out to be a very exciting mission!

Walking a little more brisquely to the Amekage's office he checked over all of his equipment nervousness creeping in. Suddenly he released he he was at the Amekage's office. Gulping nervously he calmed himself" The mission will go smoothly,it will be fine , no pirates and my first mission will be a success". Looking around he noticed a genin in a white Gi with a black belt and long black hair conversing with a genin with a sports jacket on and a tilted shinobi headband." These must be the two other people assigned to my mission". Walking up to them and smiled sheepishly" Uhhh hi"

[tom116]

Takumo smirked looking at Kouu "Took you some time to remember eh? haha well we should get started" liftting a few crates that read 'Fragile' in big red letters, although Takumo could lift 4 or five crates with little trouble, he stuck to two at a time in order to abidethe warnings that were plastered all over the crates. Takumo looked around at the shakey crew of this caravan, wondering what they were so nervous about.

"Uhhh hi" he heard from behind him turning he saw a slightly sheepish looking nin he was about a half a foot taller then himself looking up at him " Hey Youthe 3rd guy?" Smileing andnodding at the stranger, without nessecarily waiting for an answer Takumo turnned and grabbed another crate and placed it on the almost pyramid like structure that began to form. "Well come on buddy get started would ya'" Takumo said almost sarcasticly seeing as the 3rd ninja was slowly lifting a crate.

[kouushimei]

Kouu was a little worried about these two - Takumo being a little overly energetic, and the other one being more nervous. At least he could figure out what his last partners would do. Every experience is good experience, I suppose. So Kouu moved over to the boxes and slowly, jadedly started to load them onto the wagons, straining with each one because of his small build and weak muscles.

((I know its short, but I couldn't think of anything else.))

[kujira]

Seeing the other two Nin beginning to load up the crates onto the ferry, Kuji hurried and struggled to load a crate on the ferry with some of the dock hands. Struggling they finally got it up onto the ferry." I definatly need to train harder physically" Kuji looked up and saw that all the crates had been lifted and secured onto the ferry. Blowing a sigh of relief Kuji hoped the mission would all be downhill from here , and just turn out to be a nice ferry ride.

During this lull in the ferry ride Kuji turned to his comrades and began to reflect on them. Takumo seemed like a jovial albiet loud person , but generally an all around good guy. Though this Kouu seemed a lot more aloof towards people. Walking toward both of them Kuji thought" Well Im here with them now on my very first mission, I might as well get to know them incase I work with them again."

Swiftly walking up them Kuji said" I think we've loaded all the crates. Maybe we should prepare to depart on the ferry?"

[tom116]

Lifting the last four crates reletivly easily over his head he senced that his team mates were a little withdraw seeing how strong Takumo was. Kouu expecially was cross examining himself and Kuji. Kuji was a little shy like Takumo was usually probobly the sweet dumplings got him a little sugar-high the thought to himself strapping the crates down. Kuji asked if it was timeto go Takumo nodded saying "Yup".

A few miuntes later the ferry was moving toward the cha country. Takumo was looking around and still saw that the crew was very shaky. He walked over to Kuji and asked "Hey have you noticed how scared lookingthe crew is? I got a hunch that somthing happened on the last trip to make them this scared" Wondering Takumo looked overthe edge of the boat "Hmmm" he muttered then smiled "This could be fun!" he said.

[kouushimei]

'Hey have you noticed how scared looking the crew is? I got a hunch that something happened on the last trip to make them this scared' Wondering Takumo looked over the edge of the boat 'Hmmm' he muttered then smiled "This could be fun!" he said.

Kouu looked at him for a moment, and turned back to the across the water. 'Yeah, fun. I thought a fight would be fun as well. But its not all that it is cracked up to be.' He looked down at his hands, remembering what he had done back at the border patrol missions only days ago, and looked over. 'Saying that getting into a fight is fun is one thing, but being in a real one... where your friends get cut up badly, and your anger takes over... trust me, fighting isn't all that fantastic, Takumo.'

With that, Kouu looked around to see the faces of the crew, and in there scared faces he saw what he had felt the day he had to kill a dozen people with his own hands to save his team mate... and it was enough to worry him. 'If anything happens, Takumo, I want you to take the front of the boat and guard any crewmen there. Kujira, You should handle the back. I'll stay in the middle; my Jutsu's are mainly support- and ranged-type, so I'll be better off from there.'

[kujira]

Kujira nodded in agreement with Kouu's tips and tactics for preparing the ferry defensively. Not knowing much about actual battle,only what was taught at the academy, but his tactics appeared sound and the tone in his voice hinted some experience. Nervous fingers twitched and checked over his equipment , when the time came he would be ready.

Pacing across the ferry front and back Kujira could only notice the frightened nervous expressions on the crew members faces. Kouu and Takumo were right , something had happened and the crew expected it again. Cursing his stupidity at not checking the previous trips made by the ferry Kujira only nodded at Takumo and Kouu signaling he was prepared for an ambush. Walking to the back end of the ferry noticed the boat was swiftly becoming enclosed by shadows. Peering ahead he noticed that intense leafy foliage was obscuring the sun for quite a stretch of the river , he couldn't see the end to it in the distance. Giving Kouu and Takumo another glance he could feel what was going through their minds , this was a perfect stretch of the river for an ambush. Kunai concealed in his hands he went to the back of the boat.

[tom116]

Takumos eyes changed his face went solem at kouus words. "Ok I can see that you have gone through some tough stuff in your time" Takumo was lifting his sleave and reaveling a almost horizantal scarr runing across his arm "Ive also seen some tough times ..". Takumo looked over at Kuji who was starring out at the carpet of leaves and branches and mist come closer and closer to the boat. Takumo new it was a dangerous place to be in this situation.

The next little while was very quiet between the three ninja and they allstood at theirposts thinking to themselves. Takumos arms hung from the banister his eyes shifted left toright looking for any sign of danger. This eyes shifted again then suddenly stopped his headshot up “Shit” he cried out as he saw a raggedy yet strong looking ship. And heard the sounds of laughing evil voices. Acting quickly Takumo grabbed his umbrella from his back and hurled ithigh overt the enemiy boat “Downpour of needles!” The yelled doing a few handseals.

Name: Jouro Senbon (Down pour of needles)
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Shoots 100s of needlesat the oppoent through a umbrella
Special: Bird, dog, Tiger
Drawback: Usesquite a bit of chakra
Description: Jouro Senbon is a Ninjutsu technique that is utilized by Rain ninjas. After hurling their umbrellas into the air, they will unleash a torrent of needles. Using their chakra they can guide these needles towards their opponent.
Limit: Must be from the Ame no sato must have umbrella

senbon rained onto the opponent Takumo was a little dissoppointed at only hearing a few cries of pain as many pirates swung on grappleing-hooks and began to climb the hall of the boat. Seeing a large andfrankley scarey individual hope the banister and approached a crew member. Takumo ran, Weilding a sword the thug swung down onto the crew member, but Takumo grabbed the thugs wrist before it could do any damage. Bring his arm back and giving the thug a devastating straight right-hand at the thugs face thinking ‘Explosive impact fist!”

Name: Explosive Impact Fist - Bakuyaku Shintou Genkotsu
Rank: C
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: A powerful form of univesal Taijutsu techniques.
Special: None
Drawback: Takes a toll on the body expesialy the limbs
Description: A Powerful form of conventinal taijutsu forms. The user realeses a short-range burst of chakra on impact, this causes a small to large shock-wave that sends opponent back with ever powerful strike, adding in the users origanal strength and durability, a good combination. The draw back to this technique is the recoil from the shockwave, this causes pain in the impact area, fist, foot, knee or elbow. Depending on the users capability the shockwave can range from small, or large, able to send the oppoent back 10-15 yards and easily break bones in the oppoent, unfortunatley this also increases the probibility of breaking bones in the user, like knuckles and bones in the foot and arm etc.
Limit: Must be a Taijutsu specialist, must be phisically strong and durable

The thug was sent flying backward into the banister, Takumo winced slightly at the recoil that ran up his arm but shook it off and was surprised to see the thug standing growling fiercly at him. ‘Damn! This guys really durable, the full brunt of my fist wasn’t enough to take him down! Time for a different apporoach!’ Doing a string of handseals Takumo stoped at the ‘bird’, thrusting his arms forward he thought ‘Demonic Illusion, Thorns of the underworl’

Name: Thorns of the Underworld
Rank: C, B, A
Skill: Genjutsu
Effect: An powerful illusion that makes the opponent believe that he/she is being binded and crushed/impaled by massive thorned vines
Special: Dog, Horse, Dragon, Ox, Ram, Bird
Drawback: The C rank version can be countered with the 'Kai' spell, any genjutsu specialist can learn it, Cannot have an excessive distance from the opponent
Description: The user does a string of hand seals, and instead of releasing a flow of chakra the user releases a powerful burst of chakra at the opponent, the burst alone is powerful enough to push the opponent back and make a D-C rank opponent lose their footing (the advantage to using a bursts instead of a flow is that the speed that the jutsu connects, which can be in less then 3 seconds, the downside is that the distance is much less extensive). Then the opponent will suddenly enter a strange realm similar to that of a wasteland, then the opponent will believe that they are being encircled by massive thorned vines the thorns are long enough to totally impale the opponent, the vines will then constrict the opponent crushing and impaling them, this causes intense pain and panic. In the "C" rank version of the technique the opponent has to be in a radius of 5m, the opponent has a chance of passing out and it can only be used once in a battle. The "B" rank version the user can bein a radius of 10m the pain lasts for 2 turns with excessive use of chakra the opponent has a higher chance of passing out from this jutsu. Finally the "A" Rank version, the most powerful version, can be used also in a radius of 10m but The pain of this technique spans for 4 turns In this form the users chakra will be nearly totally depleted and the opponent might die from the shock given to his/her body
Limit: Must be a Genjutsu Specialist

The Thug stopped his tracks his eyes became huge and he bagan to franticly grab and clench parts of his boddy and held his throat as it being choked. The thugs breathing became erratic and then suddenly the thugs arms stoped moving and he fell to the ground passed out. Takumo realesed the handseal looking at the thug he picked him up and threw him overboard turning around to see the frightened crew member. Then turning to his teammates “protect the crew and the cargo at ALL COSTS!” he yelled

[kininata]

((Takumo, The thug ahead of you vanishes in a puff of smoke and you then hear a sound behind you. Kujira, two nearly identical-looking thugs jump onto the boat near you, one on your left and the other on your right. Kouu, a black-clad figure lands on the side of the boat, holding a pair of tonfa's, and looks at you.))

[kouushimei]

Kouu heard feet landing on the side of the boat, drawing his attention from Takumo and Kujira... a figure clad in black, taller than himself and wielding a pair of wooden tonfas was standing on the railing of the boat. Kouushimei slowly moved his hands towards his shuriken but stopped as he saw the figure preparing to strike as he moved. He'll attack if I do anything. Great. Not knowing any real Bunshin jutsu's of worth, Kouushimei hung there for an instant thinking of what to do - and it came to him. I have to move really fast for this!

Kouushimei gathered his Chakra, and kept his eyes on his target. He closed them for only a brief instant and brought his hands up to form the Rat hand seal. Raiton: Hirameki no Jutsu! A blast of light came from his eyes as he opened them on the black figure, and could see that for a moment he or she would be distracted. One last jutsu! Fuuton - Daitoppa ! With what Chakra he had spared in gathering from only seconds ago, Kouushimei released a strong, hard-hitting wind at the figure - with the senses distracted by the blindness, he could not effectively evade it and was knocked off the boat into the river water. 'That wasn't so bad.' He said quietly as he drew out three shuriken and prepared for his next Jutsu in defense of the boat.

[kujira]

Seeing his teammates Tokumo and Kouu in conflict Kujira prepared himself to aid them. When suddenly with two loud "Thuks!" two nearly identical thugs armed with scimitars landed to the left and right of him. Surprised Kujira back up in shock.

One of the thugs licked the blade of his scimitar" heh heh look its just a kid, lets finish him quick!" Both of them started advancing on Kujira

Kujira's eyes darted around, his teammates had their own conflicts and he was almost surrounded. He would have to get himself out of this situation. But first he would see to his own safety. Swiftly gathering chakra as the thugs approached he formed the hand seals. "Mizu Bunshin No Jutsu!" swiftly puddles of water materialized on the deck and began to take substance. Within Seconds becoming lifelike replica's of Kujira. Four clones and Kujira stood on the deck, all swiftly pulling out Kunai's and getting in a basic battle stance.

Unfazed the thugs continued their advance, one smiling maliciously. "Those are some pretty tricks for a boy ninja , no matter I'm still gonna have your guts for garters." Only smiling slightly Kujira launched his attack , two clones on each guy with Kujira standing back. Kicking and punching his clones launched themselves into the attack against the trained slashes of the thugs. One clone went down in a splash of water under a accurate slash across the throat from one thug, then one more clone from a series of huge swings the same thug. One thug was free and headed for Kujira. Suddenly another clone jumped up over the railing from the river and jumped on to the thugs back and wrestling him into a full nelson. Then one clone disengaged from the other thug and came to stand in front of the thug trapped in a full nelson. Forming hand seals the clone pressed his hand against the mans stomach " Suiton: Suirou No Jutsu!" Swiftly a mass of water engulfed the man and formed into a sphere trapping the man.

With that Kujira's plan had become clear , he had created five clones with the Mizu bunshin no jutsu, with one hiding under the railing of the ferry, then the clone had joined the fray at the appropriate time and one man had been trapped with his jutsu.

The other thug seeing his buddy trapped went into a flurry of blows slashing at the one clone remaining on him destroying it. Heading for his friend trapped in the water clones jutsu , only Kujira and one water clone left to stand in his way. The last remaining clone went down under a gigantic hacking motion from the thug and it was only Kujira left." Yaaaar , I'm gonna have your skulls for skittles for all the trouble you caused me!" Backing up slightly Kujira gathered his now severely depleted chakra. Forming the hand seals he released the chakra, and formed his hand into the rat sign holding it." Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu!" With a flurry of leaves that obscured the thugs vision the world faded away , suddenly he was alone on the boat , silent with no more sounds of conflict, and no signs of human life. Suddenly what appeared to be a rotting hand gripped the railing pushing itself up. Within moments stood a horrible fetid cadaver that looked like the rotted corpse of his thug. Mouth forming incoherent babble the thug screamed and lept over the railing.

Seeing the last thug leaping over the railing into the river , Kujira gave himself a slight smile , Though he was on the verge of a collapse from his use of chakra he willed the clone holding the thug in the Suirou no jutsu to allow a small air bubble within the spherical prison." Might as well keep one prisoner..." With that Kujira wearily took out three shurikens and looked around for more river pirates.

[tom116]

Smiling at how well the others were doing Takumos eyes darted around and his eyes met the belly of a massive thug towering at least 2 feet higher then Takumo and three times wider. Before Takumo could react the thug already swung his club that he was wielding at Takumo who was thrown into the railing. The metal bars of the railing were bent and blood came dripping down Takumos face. The huge thug laughed and licked his blood splattered cheek “Hahah a chubby little ninja like you’z shoz’ be a goo’ food! And after yo’ comes yu’ friends little boy” The thug spluttered as he looked at Takumo. Takumo looked up at him with his blood covered face his eyes full of genuine anger and killer intent. Takumos face horrified the thug who stepped back a bit. Takumo stood slightly wobbly “ Your dead meat..” before the thug could so much as scream Takumo struck him 3 times the forth, his fist connected with the thugs face chakra exploded from his fist and the thugs face twisted and his massive body was blown back breaking some of the pirates’ boat.

Takumo turned and said “Who’s next” Menacingly some of the thugs jumped over the railing in fear But two stood their ground shaking slightly, One was wielding a spear like weapon and ran at Takumo “ I’ll kill you!!” he bellowed coming at Takumo the second came shortly after wielding a pair of knives. The spear wielding thug attempted to impale Takumo who gripped the staff portion and threw his leg over chakra focusing at the impact point landing a hard roundhouse which sent the thugs head flying into the wall. Quickly Takumo grabbed the wounded thug lifting his body Takumo threw it at the second thug who was approaching the thug knife-wielding thug was sent back but got up throwing his limp team mate over the railing in the process. The thug ran for Takumo who was standing in a fighting stance. The thug was very fast and jumped knives in hand at Takumo. Takumo felt a cut emerge from a stray dagger on his arm but quickly gave the thug a back fist to the nose. The thug was sent back nose bloody and broken. After the thug hit the ground Takumo looked down and realized how deep the cut really was starring down at it Takumo winced in pain. Takumo almost fell over at that point forgetting about how much blood he had actually lost. Gripping the railing he saw at his regret the thug stood and quickly came at Takumo again. Takumo stood up and took another fighting stance. The thug ran for Takumo again ‘Time o finish this so I can get some help…’ Thought Takumo, doing a hand seal “Demonic illusion, Brutal Barrage” Takumo blocked his arm spinning around he gave the thug a hard knife-hand strike to the thugs neck sending him stumbling slightly the thugs eyes rolled back in his head as his body jerked and moved quickly as if being pounded repeatedly. The thug gasped for air and clenched his stomach and then tripped and fell over the railing. Panting Takumo gripped the railing and looked around and then clenched his head as a surge of pain erupted. Takumo as glad to see the numbers of the thugs were severely depleted but hoped his partners could finish the job.

Name: Magen, Kyouaku Renden - Denmonic Illusion, Brutal Barrage
Rank: C, B rank
Skill: Genjutsu
Effect: With one strike the oppoent expieriences as if beaten sensless by 30+ strikes.
Special: Tiger handseal, strike the back of the neck
Drawback: Must gain some sort of contact with the oppoent, preferably at the neck
Description: The user runs at the oppoent and strikes the enemy in the neck, sending the flow of chakra through the nervous system, the oppoent will think that he was struck 20 times or more when in reality there was only one strike. The severity of the technique can range from the oppoent simply being stunned and falling to the ground(C rank), or the technique could trick the mind to such a degree taht the opooent coughs up blood, gets the wind knocked out of the oppoent and the muscles tense up and the oppoent goes numb(B Rank).
Limit: Must be a genjutsu specialist

[kininata]

((The last of the thugs see that their comrades are being easily taken out by the Genin, and realise that they can not win. The last of them jump back into the river and swim as hard as they can to the shore. Within moments the crew of the ship come out and rejoice, bringing out first aid supplies to treat wounds and congratulate the Genin. However, the journey is not over yet...))

[kouushimei]

Kouushimei sighed in relief, enjoying the fact that the thugs had left before he really had to unleash his assortment of Jutsu's like he had done before. He looked over to Kujira, seeing that he had captured one of the thugs, and then turned to see Takumo had been beaten down pretty hard. There's always one... he thought, remembering Kini's injuries during his first real fight. He leapt down to the deck, walking past the crew as they celebrated the victory, and knelt down beside him as the ship's medic started bandaging the Genin.

'Not as fun as it sounds, fighting, is it?' Kouu said, sliding his shuriken away. 'Don't worry - you'll get better at dodging those attacks one day.' He got up and wandered over to where Kujira was, patting him on the shoulder. 'nice capture there. Lets hope he feels like talking.'

[kujira]

Kujira felt himself blush a little as Kouu congratulated him. Then suddenly the fatigue hit him, his vision blurring and a throbbing pain in his head he went down on one knee. Suddenly he heard a splash as his water clone collapsed in a puddle of water and the prison on the thug faded away. Luckily the crewmen of the ferry could restrain the prisoner before he could move away.

Minutes later with a grey blanket around him Kujira felt a bit better." Damn I must have used almost all of my chakra in that fight,got to be more careful next time" he saw the crew and his two gennin teammates go up to the thug and begin to start question. Heaving a sigh he took of the blanket and with only slightly faltering steps he took a spot so he could listen to this.

[tom116]

Takumo fell over onto the railing clutching his head the crewmen congradualted him not fully realizeing the extent of his injurys. Once it was aparent that Takumo was not very well the crewmen quickily started to bandage the wounds that Takumo had "Quit being such a smart-alike Kouu.." Takumo answered slightly bitter from his remark. Takumo took a large water bottle the crewmen gave him and drained it rather quickily. Takumo looked over at Kuji after throwing the bottle into a trash bin he saw him colapse and like wise to his jutsu the prisoner didnt so much as take 2 steps before he was over powered.

The other two ninja interigated the thug for a little while and all they got was a "Bite me A**hole!" and a "Go jump in a river!" Takumo had had enough as much as it pained his head hestood and stomped over to the thug angerily gripping him by the shirt, Takumo lifted him up a foot into the air starring into his eyes "Look you piece of scum! Your party threatened and harmed my friends on this ferry and then left broken and iching for a successful pilage! and I know that if we werent trained properly as we are they would have done MUCH worse. And I am Not going to let anyoneelse get hurt because of a group of river scum trying to make a quick buck!! Make it easier for yourself and speak!" Takumo barked at the thug tightening his grip terrified the thug then, began to talk

[kininata]

((As The Thug:))

He constantly wriggles around as he is held, and laughs at Takumo. 'Go to hell! Ukoto will take this ships cargo like every other one thats been here! He's killed punks a whole lot better than you squirts!' He smiles at Takumo with a wicked grin.

[kouushimei]

Kouushimei tapped the face of the thug, smiling. 'At least we know your boss' name now. thanks for that.' Someone who's killed ninja before? This could become a problem. There's almost something familiar about this. Kouushimei walked away from the thug and began searching through the bodies of the defeated bandits on the deck, and his eyes widened as he looked at one of them... he had seen him before.

'I know these people...' Kouushimei said, his hair standing on end. 'Some time ago, I was on a mission with my old team and we had to take out an entire bandit camp... but we found out that they had a Ninja in hire. We destroyed the camp and killed most of the bandits, but we never encountered the Ninja - this was one of the ones that got away.' He closed his eyes and sighed. 'It's likely that the same Ninja is still working with them, or is leading them. This is not going to be an easy mission after all...'