Savior! Mission [Travel]

[Skye]

Time seemed to move slowly again. The injured just kept coming and coming. It felt like there was no end to them. What he originally thought was going to be hard seemed now like rather a tedious job. Some people were nice and thanked him and waited patiently while he helped those who needed it more. But then there were also those who acted like they were the most important people in the whole freaking universe.

Skye was definitely thoroughly annoyed again. "Hey." He heard Hina say. He was in no mood to deal with her. Then again, when is he ever? Soon after she could feel her touching his back. That crossed the imaginary bounds of Skye's comfort zone. "This is your area, how can I help? I won't be much use over there digging so I might as well help you. You're in charge." He wanted so bad to tell her to burn in hell for all he care. But he thought of better use for her. Skye glanced over at Hina. "If you want to be useful, see that woman over there? Do me a favor and make her shut the hell up." Skye said in a rough voice. He didn't mean to be that harsh. Well he did...but that was the stress talking.

After Skye had finished with one person he quickly moved on to the other. In the distance Skye heard Moriaki yell. "Hey, we found a few. Help me get them over to Sunshine over there!" Skye threw a look at them. They looked in need of attention quickly. One had a gash in the leg, that if not treated soon, would likely bleed out. The other was in a little better shape. He had three cracked ribs, luckily they were only small hairline fractures. Not enough to pierce any vital organs or cause internal bleeding. Skye let the small ball of healing chakra form as he went to work once again.

It was only a couple minutes before Kharashi had come back. In his arms was a woman, who lay limp. But there was still some breathing. He wasn't sure whether she was just unconscious, or if she had life threatening injury. As they neared Skye could see her head was swollen and bleeding. He rushed over to see the full extent of the injury. It looked as though she wasn't going to make it. But that didn't stop Skye from trying. He hoped this wasn't out of his league. He let the chakra flow into his hands and tried his best to save her. At this point all that's all he could do.

[Chaos]

Hina looked over to the woman who was complaining about not being helped. She gave the woman a dirty look and she kept on going.

"I need help and attention right away! Why am I not being helped?! I am a very important person. Stop helping those lowly villagers! I am an important politician!" Hina rolled her eyes and glanced at Skye.

"I won't need a jutsu for this..." Hina turned to Moriaki who was screaming as two bodies were recovered and Skye went to fix them up right away. Kharashi recovered another body and brought her over right away, that one wasn't looking so good. Hina turned away from the scene, realizing how queasy she was getting. She realized she hadn't done anything really but boss the others around and yell at people. That was her comfortable spot but now she felt useless.

"I am higher up! I demand someone to help me! I need to be helped!" The woman's voice rang through Hina's ears like a broken record. The woman was on top of a comfy bed with her legs parted, her left leg looking injured but not much blood. She could probably live with little to no help at all, but Hina wouldn't know. Next to the woman on the ground was a little girl crying her eyes out and sobbing. She was over another woman who was obviously her mother. The mother looked like she was in a daze and was rattled up quite a bit.

"Skye. Help her next." Hina spoke as she slowly walked up to the yelling woman.

"Thank you! Finally!" The loud woman on the bed yelled.

"Not you! Her!" Hina pointed to the woman on the ground, she was nestled up on rocks and sweating.

"What?! I demand to be seen immediately!" The woman started yelling at Hina.

"You are a selfish little pig! Look at you in this comfortable hospital bed while other people are laying on the rocks! You sit here high and mighty yelling your lungs out while other people are sitting on rocks and can hardly stay conscious! You're a horrible person and you say you're a politician!" Hina climbed up on the bed between the woman's legs, who sat with a look of shock. "I hope you never hold a high office ever! If you have one now I hope you lose your next election! If you can sit here for 5 minutes straight yelling for help then you are obviously doing okay!" Hina jumped off the bed and turned. She shot a look at the woman who was about to say something again. "Say anything else and you'll find your intestines in your throat!" Hina made a tiger hand sign and gave a wicked toothed smile with flames burning behind her eyes. The woman's eyes widened and she pinched her mouth close.

"It'll be alright, your mother will be fine." Hina knelt down next to the girl crying over her mother. "When your mom gets help and my friend gives us the okay do you want to go get an ice cream or candy? Will that make you feel better? We'll even get something nice for your mom." The girl looked up at Hina and gave a forced smile, showing she had confidence in Hina.

[Moriaki]

Without much else to do, Moriaki kept digging into the ground around where they found the first group of bodies. He found it rather amusing that Hina bit that wench of a women's head off, but Hina was basically the same as her, except she had a conscience. Moriaki supposed that made a significant difference or something. It was hard to focus on something not stupid when digging.

After tearing through a few more layers of rock, Moriaki was coming up short. He came close to the original soil and decided that was enough down this hole. He climbed out and started digging another hole nearby. These people couldn't be too far apart.

[Ryozo]

Kharashi said nothing as Skye took the woman from his arms. He was curious as to her state, but knew that Skye was busy and likely stressed or nervous; at least judging by the way he looked rather nervous before they arrived at the mission site.

Turning, he found his stomach hadn't let up bothering him completely, though it was a tad bit more restful. Laying eyes on Moriaki, he watched as he climbed up and out of a crater only to get to work at another. He supposed this mission was rather monotonous; yet he had inspiration, which surprised Kharashi. Upon thinking of the reasons, however, he realized that if it were any other way he would seem cold...uncaring.

Once again he rushed over to Moriaki's side to aid in the lifting and removing of the dirty rubble, "One was dead. There's one left, but his condition is unkown. He is rather worried...How are you doing?" Attempting to create some semblance of a conversation felt awkward to Kharashi, but he felt that getting to know his teammates under such situations was most effective, as they would be primarily interacting in similar events...some worse.

Honestly, he still wasn't quite sure to think of Moriaki. He wasn't an outward ass at all times, but he easily could as he spoke his mind without a trickle of thought. Kharashi supposed this made him honest, even if it was in blunt cruelty.

[Skye]

Failure was the best way to describe how Skye felt. He had a chance to save her and he screwed up once again. The others he knew he couldn't save, they were too far gone. But this woman, she was hanging on and Skye was trying to pull her back. Skye disliked that. Giving somebody a chance at hope, only to rip it out from beneath them, as you let them die. "Damnit." Skye muttered as he felt her last pulse.

He looked solemnly at the body, but quickly moved on. This mission wasn't over yet. Skye moved back to the guy he was helping before, the one with the leg gash. He was still bleeding but not as badly as he was before. Taking a few minutes, he finally bandaged the guy up. He looked at Hina who was talking to a little girl.

Not wasting his time on her, he turned to Kharashi and Moriaki. They were still moving rubble. Skye was pretty sure he had gotten all those who really needed help taken care of in his area. He rushed over to Kharashi and asked if he had found anyone. Might as well help them here than have Kharashi or Moriaki drag them all the way back.

[Chaos]

The little girl had calmed down quite a bit. He mother's breaths returned to normal and she started to gain color back. Hina sat with the little girl smiling, now she had to get her ice cream. Hina scanned around, noticing the politician had fallen asleep. Resting on her lap looked to be a wallet. a Sly look crossed Hina's face. Hina slowly reached for the wallet and successfully grabbed it.

"Almost..." Hina whispered. Hina pulled out enough money fo an ice cream and tucked the wallet away again. She noticed a very official looking man watching her out of the corner of his eye. He looked to be some sort of assistant, probably the woman's.He smirked and looked the other way.

"Here! Go buy some candy or an ice cream. We'll watch your mom, will you be okay by yourself?" Hina gave the little girl the money and she nodded before slowly walking down the street. Hina turned towards her team who were all gathered around a hole.

"How are we doing?" Hina stood next to Skye and watched Kharashi and Moriaki dig for the last person.

[Moriaki]

Moriaki dug deeper and deeper into the rubble. He was getting nowhere fast. Frustration began to mount, causing him to pause for a moment. He angrily said to no one in particular, "God dammit!"

With that, he pounded his fist into a nearby rock on his right, causing to move back a bit. To Moriaki's surprise, the moved rock revealed a foot beneath it. For a moment, Moriaki paused in disbelief, but he quickly realized that he might have found the last person. With a great heave, he pushed away the rocks that concealed the body until there were none left. The person ended up being a mid sized man that looked like he was on his death bed. He gently lifted the man up and called out, "I got him, hurry over to me!"

Moriaki slowly pulled the man out of the hole and towards the medical "area".

[Ryozo]

Kharashi knew that both Moriaki and he were in the general area of the final body. In fact, it couldn't have been more than five feet away from them; his bugs weren't very general though it was hard to be specific when everything seemed so monotonous.

Then, from behind him Moriaki gave out a cry of what could have only been frustration. Possibly, it was the stress from saving lives but being unable to find one last body. Perhaps, he was simply frustrated because he couldn't find one simple thing. Or, maybe, he simply wanted to get this over with.

Whatever his reasons, almost directly after his small outburst, he came across the final body and immediately rushed him over to Skye and Hina.

Following immediately after, Kharashi came about the general medical area, but did not wish to proceed too far for fear of interrupting any work or concentration. He wasn't a medic, and didn't know much about the stuff, so he didn't know what to and not to do; so he played it safe.

[Skye]

The last body? Has it been found? Skye asked himself as Kharashi was rushing toward him with someone in his arms again. Skye hoped this was last one. This mission was getting a little tiresome for him. With Skye and Moriakii both heading towards each other it didn't take them long to meet at a center point.

As they met, Skye could see the person in Moriaki's arms whimpering. It looked like he had a compound fracture on his arm. The kind where the bone pierces through the skin, and it sticks out of the body. It was pretty disgusting, blood covered the now external bone. Brutal.

Skye took the person from Moriaki's hands and laid him down carefully. It must've been pretty damn painful. What Skye was going to do next would hurt more. In order to close the wound Skye was going to have to put the bone back in it's place. That meant trying to pull the skin and muscle back over the bone. Grabbing a hold of his arm he started to position it right, hoping not to pierce anything else. He heard the him trying to hold back screams of pain, which would be hard to do. Slowly but surely, Skye got the bone back in position. Now, the easy part, closing the wound up.

[Chaos]

Hina watched as Kharashi and Skye met after the last body was found. Hina stayed where she was, where Skye was previously standing next to her. She watched on as the last patient's bone was wrenched back inside of his body. Hina turned and looked the other way, determined not to let her stomach come up.

Their work was pretty much done here and there was nothing left for them to do. Hina looked tot he littler girl who had returned with a chocolate ice cream cone for herself, it was rather small compared to what Hina would have imagined a little kid to get, but understood when the little girl placed a cold water bottle next to her mother's head. Her mother was fully conscious now, it seems like she didn't need Skye's help after all. Hina turned her head to the politician. She probably wasn't going to be happy when they left without helping her, too bad for her.

"Okay!"

Hina's rather high pitched but powerful voice boomed as she kept her back on her team.

"Once Skye is finished up with him we are gone. Kharashi, make your bugs cover the whole area, not missing a square inch. Make sure to inform you if there are any people left down there alive. If there is no one left then our work here is done." Hina jumped off the rubble and sat down on a rock to wait for the closure of their mission.

[Moriaki]

It appeared as though Moriaki had managed to find the last survivor. He wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do at the moment, but he figured it would be along the lines of carrying more people. He had a feeling that this was it though. Not much more could have survived the chaos that caused this in the first place.

Moriaki turned to Kharashi and waited for him to do his thing. It was all up to him now, "All right then, all we need to do is let "He" scan the area again. Bust a move buddy."

[Ryozo]

Kharashi watched with stale eyes. The man's bone was exposed, and in order for Skye to properly heal the man a painful re-insertion was in order. Kharashi felt, however, that grimacing or shouting encouragement would help no one, and likely anything said would fall on deaf ears. Pain, however, was something that seemed common in the shinobi world, and even so, Kharashi felt some kind of pity. He was far from heartless, but he understood what was useful and what wasn't.

He heard Hina, and then directly after Moriaki spoke. Hina hadn't made an about face yet, so he simply looked to Moriaki and nodded, before the blackness began to spill out of him and envelope the ground below. Soon, they scrabbled through all the cracks and crevices in the area; but no living thing turned up. When they returned and it was confirmed that there were no bodies left, he turned and informed the team.

"The mission is done."

[Skye]

A headache was all Skye needed after today...end sarcasm. Hina's voice was high pitched and loud enough to give him one. Even though they weren't even that far away, she apparently felt the need to yell. She told Kharashi to confirm that no one was left under the rubble as an added safety measure. Skye prayed that no one was alive. He just wanted the mission to end.

Out of Kharashi came an army of bugs. They flowed out of his body as if he were bleeding the things. They soon covered the ground and moved everywhere, doing as they were told. They searched every spot, narrow and wide. Soon enough they returned to Kharashi. Skye awaited the verdict.

Kharashi turned toward the team. "The mission is done." Skye breathed a short sigh of relief, as he started walking away from the team.

[Moriaki]

Moriaki was pretty happy that it was all over and it was time to head back home. To be honest, rescue missions were probably not his strong suit. He preferred something that allowed him to bash a few heads. It sounded a bit simplistic, but that was his only real talent. He motioned for the rest of his team to follow him out of the city. As they moved out of the city, the destruction they saw as they looked back looked a little less intense as when they got there.

They walked for a few hours back towards the village. It was rather quiet the entire time, which made Moriaki a bit uncomfortable. He turned to Skye and asked, "So Sunshine, what are you going to do when we get back?"

As he spoke, the village appeared over the horizon line.

[Ryozo]

After the mission was completed and anyone who could be healed was, the group of four immediately set off towards Iwagakure. There were a few "Thanks" on their way out, but mostly sorrowful whimpers. Life was like that; thanks were less due than tears.

The pace seemed to have changed a bit. Normally, shinobi like themselves wouldn't have simply walked as they traveled from town-to-town, yet they apparently chose to do so. Moriaki was leading the group, so Kharashi figured it originated from him; but it didn't very much matter.

He kept the back end of the group just as last time, continually gazing out across the monotonously sprawling landscape, alert for any danger. It took quite a bit longer on their way back for the village to spill over the horizon. As it did, Kharashi's hands went to his sides out of habit; he wasn't sure why he did it so much. He felt naked without his clay, he supposed, so he always made sure to have it.

From there, he set sights on turning in the mission; the tower.

[.exit .]

[Skye]

Why the team decided to walk back to the village was a mystery to Skye. It was rather pointless to walk. Not like there was much to sight see. The faster that they had gotten back the better Skye might have felt. Skye, however was to "kind" to say something and instead kept quiet.

As the village came to view, the all too charming Moriaki asked Skye a question. "So Sunshine, what are you going to do when we get back?" Skye truly despised that nickname. If he wants some bloody sunshine I'll throw a bomb in his face. There's his sunshine. Skye thought harshly.

He ignored Moriaki, not bothering to respond. He noticed Kharashi in the back again, his hands in his pouches. It was an odd gesture, seeing as how no danger was present. Unless he knew something they didn't know. Skye dismissed the action as the former of the two, and looked back ahead.

[Chaos]

Hina was glad the mission was over. She didn't say much on the way back as she mostly thought about what was happening and the future of her team and her career. She felt very proud of herself. They had completed their first mission and Hina had kept things under control. She was happy but some things worried her abou the team, did they have the right stuff? Maybe their next mission would turn out better.

"We need to drop by the Tsuchikage office to pick up our pay for doing the mission. We should all go."

Upon entering the gates Hina took a slow pace towards the great tower carved into the wall of the mountain, realizing they hadn't stopped to get Kharashi his supplies. She felt bad but didn't want to mention it seeing that no one else happened to.

[Exit]