Filler episode: Got the goods?

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Name: Accepting the Delivery
Rank: D
IIC Length: 2 Days
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Ensure all items are being delivered properly
Description: A purveyor from the Land of Stone has made it to the village with some much needed food for the Iwagakure markets. This is a new purveyor, however, so the Shinobi is being asked to ensure that all items have been delivered properly. Any items not delivered or not properly handled are to be marked down and returned back to the purveyor.
Reward: 1300 Ryo

Honda was back out about in the town making his way through the street's of the merchant's district. He was currently eyeing over the mission slip trying to get the proper address and the details of the job. Seemed this one would involve checking out a new shipping envoy who was to deliver some goods. He had come apparently without guard or aid and was hastily trying to drop his load and disembark, but the village of stone was tedious these days with outside shipments of resources.

We needed everything we bought and couldn't afford to mis a purchased item no matter what the envoys risk or troubles. If he had trouble and got robbed then he should definitely make honest of this, but just in case Honda would be sent to check the inventory of this new envoy. As he came upon a stall where many cart pulled wagons seemed to be lined with cargo, Honda would make his way along the group of surveying and chatting worker's to the head supervisor. It seemed he was currently arguing with the envoy in question: a Mr. Hakizano, who was a rather shady looking fellow to say at first glance.

At any rate Honda decided to not go announcing himself just yet and rather decided to sneak around the back of the caravan cargo hold. Hakizano's shipment included three cargo's of some twenty item's each; all bought in bulk. As Honda simply sauntered past the two arguing men he would look around to make sure he wouldn't be spotted and then lifted a cloth tarp from the back of the rearmost cargo....

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Hikarigan (Light Eye)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Ninjutsu, Doujutsu
Effect: Uses the illumination effect of the eye.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: Loses the seeing elements ability while this is active.
Description: Using the third stage of the eye the user is able to illuminate the darkness around him creating small flashes of light from the lightning bolts within one's eyes. This has no battle purpose other than giving away one's position in the dark or causing a glare in someone's eyes. The distance of the light is up to 25 meters seeing within a darkened area.
Limit: O-Dai Ryuugan. Must be a Kazeraikou

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Once inside the cargo hold, Honda found a narrow walkway to the end of it by about ten meter's would be all he got to walk along and count. He figured it should have been simple enough, but still it was necessary to do this. Of course the way these item's where stacked was kinda weird. They placed five big boxes up up into two columns down so that one really couldn't count what was inn the wall most section of the hold.

Honda began to count the first visible columns first, squinting in the low light of the hold of course, trying to see it was difficult to manage such a thing however and so Honda activated his O-dai Ryuugan trying to envision through the darkness. The lantern neon glow of his orange eye and black inner volt's which turned to a deep neon white-purple tint made the hold light up. Honda was able to see clearly now, and he made a quick count of the front most boxes of course.

Next he would then begin to shuffle the boxes so as to witness what was hidden behind these. He checked first the right wall of course, seeing through the darkness and then re-stacked the boxes there. His ear's caught sound of the outside argument still carrying on. And Honda managed to finish going through the other side as well. All within this cargo hold seemed to check out all ok. "Time to see whats hidden in the second hold..."

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The second Cargo was up next now it seemed. And Honda got there by lifting the cargo's tarp at the back and transferring stealthily into the second hold along the train of cargo's. Here the tarp was tied tighter and so it may have been even darker however Honda was still able to witness through the darkness like it was illumined by his eye's light. Thing's where bright enough to see within and so Honda made his way to the end of this cargo hold counting the boxes up front with ease.

He found strangely at the rear that two boxes where stacked differently slightly to make it seem as if things where all there of course but they weren't...the front two column's checked out at 8 boxes and that wasn't to mention what was to be found behind these as well. Honda began to unstack the boxes so as to have a look and what he found here was the same thing: a total of eight packages coming to a total of 16 within the second cargo, and a total of 36 for two holds.

Honda scratched the back of his head at seeing this and from here he would then make his way to the foremost of the last cargo hoping to find better numbers. This shipment was already too far off of normal errors for a new purveyor. Honda stopped to hear a comment being made about when the proper ninja would show up to count the boxes which encouraged vulgar comments of trust to come from mr. Hakizano...

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Honda would then now make way to the final container under another tarp and begin to count the load here. He walked down the fore of the boxes and counted a total of ten easily with the help of his Hikarigan technique. From here then after Honda would then swiftly unstack the boxes to count what was in the rear of the first column. Things went swiftly and easily of course and Honda would find that now the boxes behind the foremost ones where actually short completely by 4 a side.

This was highly unacceptable: out of a order of over 60 boxes over 48 only made it in to the hidden stone. This was not a good number and more importantly it suggested the hidden fact of employee theft. Because if he where robbed of this many boxes then he would have been robbed probably of all. Honda finally deactivated his Hikarigan and snuck back to the rear cargo hold and exited the tarp into the light of day again.

He swiftly made his way around with a stern face to the clerk and interupted what seemed to be a fight of fist on the verge. "Gentlemen...please this matter is settled...I am the shinobi hired to see our villages order was done right and to be frank it wasn't what we are looking for...we ordered a shipment totaling sixty boxes...I just got done counting your load and you Mr. Hakizano are short by 12 boxes...this is strange though to me because if that many where easily stolen from you in your travel's then why not take your whole load and even dispatch of you and take your carriage and horses...no I think you make swift with your words and hands trying to take some of what you transport...perhaps you even have a small store somewhere for yourself...I'm going to advise you to take your good's and leave...if you want to do dirty buisness then fine...but don't expect the village of stone to pay you for it..."

Honda spoke firmly leering at Hakizano with a silent hint that he should leave immediately. The man snorted in a fit and then got on his carriage and departed grumbling to himself about how indignant this place was. However he would receive a strange surprise as he exited into the land of earth. For being dishonest a team would be dispatched to go out and actually steal everything for free from Hakizano leaving him to return wityh bad news to his own employers...

Honda received a stamp to his mission and was then on his way back to the tower. The day had been a long one but a well one for him...it was time to go home.

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