It's the renaissance! [D Rank Mission]

[kininata]

Mission Name: It’s the renaissance!

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Rank: “D” Rank.
IIC Length: 2 days.
Difficulty: Easy.
People required: 2-4 Genins, 1 Chuunin/Jounin or 1 Chuunin/Jounin with 1-3 Genins.
Objective: Reconstruct buildings in the city using ninjutsu or taijutsu.
Description: Many homes were ruined during the last invasion. One of the major construction companies has asked the Raikage for help in reconstructing the village. They need people who are apt taijutsu or ninjutsu users. Ninjutsu users can for example use raiton jutsus to charge things with electricity while taijutsu users can use their muscles for more labor work. Participating in this mission will be a GREAT help for Kumogakure!
Reward: 4,500 ryo (3,500 ryo for a non-nin).

Kininata arrived at the construction site indicated on the mission slip. He didn't wear anything that identified him as a shinobi of Amegakure no Sato, but his looks and dress sense would set him apart from alot of the locals in the village. There were quite a few workers at the site, performing various tasks - timber butting and prepping, transporting, rigging and reinforcing, trench work for foundations. The place was abuzz with activity.

After watching for a few moments, one of the foreman at the site turned to realise that Kininata wasn't some onlooker gawking at them but. The foreman came over to him, gave him a once over with the assumption of a foreigner, and asked him what his business was here.

He passed over the slip, and took off his jacket. The foreman read it over, smirked, and gave Kininata a look over again. 'Kid, I don't know what sorry joke the Raikage is making with you, but you look like a scraw-' He stopped as Kininata took off his plain clean shirt. His scars, faded and healed as they were, could still be seen clearly to anyone up close, and his body wasn't the thin lithe form it had been. Years of sword training and manual labor building and maintaining his lodge had helped him build an athletic and agile, muscles developed and toned.

'Yeah, everyone makes the same assumption.' He said in reply. He pulled out an old torn shirt from his pack and pulled it over, then walked to set his pack down in a communal area. 'Blacksmithing and sword training will keep you in shape, in my experience. Saying that, it's your site. What do you need being done at the moment, boss?'

[Marii K. Kazeraikou]

"Blacksmithing and sword training will keep you in shape, in my experience. Saying that, it's your site. What do you need being done at the moment, boss?" replied the male.
"Hmmmm....let me have a look" replied the older man as he pulled out a list. It contained the work they had to complete that day.

His eyes then spotted something that would be perfect for Kininata. "We just got a load of rebar for our foundation. I want you to sort them by type. The guys will help you out if you're unfamiliar with them. Then, I want you to help them carry the rebars to the foundation over there" told the male as he pointed at the foundation.

"The rebars are located at the cart over there. I already got three carpenters there. A fourth one should be here in an hour.
If you get hurt, we have a medic nin in the blue trailer at the right. Any questions?" finished the foreman.

[kininata]

"We just got a load of rebar for our foundation. I want you to sort them by type. The guys will help you out if you're unfamiliar with them. Then, I want you to help them carry the rebars to the foundation over there" told the male as he pointed at the foundation. "The rebars are located at the cart over there. I already got three carpenters there. A fourth one should be here in an hour. If you get hurt, we have a medic nin in the blue trailer at the right. Any questions?"

He shook his head and gave a slight bow. 'Should be easy enough. Used to help make rebars when I was an apprentice smithy, so should be able to put that to good use.' With that he headed over to where the rebars were stored. There were alot more rebars there than he expected there to be. Then again this wasn't just building a new home, it was rebuilding from a large amount of damage, and there would be dozens of homes and structures needing to be rebuilt because of that.

The first thing he needed was a few extra sets of eyes and hands. He formed a few handseals and created five water clones to add to the workload. It would make this job significantly faster as a result. They worked together to organise the rebars into width, length and purpose - rebars for external and internal weight bearing walls were designed differently due to what they needed to hold, and had clear signs compared to others.

After around half an hour, they started working to move the rebars over to the foundation for the craftsman. To make the moving easier the six Kininata's would break up into pairs, able to move between eight and ten at a time, making quick work of the transport over to the foundation where the workers waited for them. That would take about another half an hour to an hour in itself.

Once the work was done, he moved away with the clones to a refuse area, and dispersed the clones away from the work area - last thing he needed to do was make the ground less stable by adding moisture. Once done, he headed over to the foreman again, a few beads of sweat rolling down his face. 'Rebars all sorted. What's up next?'

[Marii K. Kazeraikou]

"Should be easy enough. Used to help make rebars when I was an apprentice smithy, so should be able to put that to good use" replied the male. The foreman gave him a nod in reply.
He raised his eyebrows when Kininata made five clones that helped him out with the sorting. It did not take him long to sort out the rebars in the right order.

The man looked down at the list to see if there was anything else that had to be done. He then saw the younger man approach him. "Rebars all sorted. What's up next?" asked the Chuunin. "Give me a moment please" replied the foreman before checking his list.

"Oh - I see. We need to mix some concrete for the foundation. I want you to help out my coworkers with mixing the concrete.
I want you to listen carefully. DO NOT USE MORE THAN 0,40 water to cement ratio when you make the concrete!" stated the older male in a very serious voice.

"The man in the red overall there will give you the help you need. You'll find the concrete mixer behind the carts" informed the foreman. He then pointed towards some carts at the west end of the construction site.
This was the last thing his shinobi was going to do that day. But mixing concrete was an easy job if you got the ratio right.

[kininata]

"Oh - I see. We need to mix some concrete for the foundation. I want you to help out my coworkers with mixing the concrete. I want you to listen carefully. DO NOT USE MORE THAN 0,40 water to cement ratio when you make the concrete!" stated the older male in a very serious voice. "The man in the red overall there will give you the help you need. You'll find the concrete mixer behind the carts" informed the foreman. He then pointed towards some carts at the west end of the construction site.

Kininata nodded in response to the foreman, and made his way over to where the mixer was supposed to be. It wasn't a particularly large one, but it would certainly be heavy. He braced himself before taking the grips to lift up the mixer and roll it over to where the cement would be used - he could keep it moist and fluid, certainly, but not forever.

He headed over to the man in red, and lowered the mixer next to him. 'Alright kid, its real simple. The mixer spins and we add cement, and then the sand. We need to keep it simple, and make sure we don't add too much water. Since you're helping me, you get to do the measuring for the mixing up. After all, you're the special help.' The man said, partly smirking, but also showing a little disgust. Kininata's skin did make him clearly a foreigner, and his attire wasn't exactly local either.

'I can handle it. You just start the spinning.' He replied, and formed the seals again for the water clones. He made five of them this time, all of them made to work on measuring up pails for the cement to add to the mixer. Kininata would handle the water himself.

I truth, this wasn't going to even tax him. His master of Suiton was above alot of other shinobi he knew, and his training had been all about finite control and manipulation. The first thing he did was draw out a pail of water, and gently gather his chakra to manipulate, to move the water. He spun the water into a vortex, raising it from the pail into the air - he could use the energy needed to move it, the weight and the volume to figure out how he could maintain the water to cement mixture. He spent nearly fifteen minutes focused on that, practicing the movements and the method to use it for the mixture. To him, this was just a warm up session.

To alot of the onlookers, workers and citizens alike, this looked more than that. It would look more like art formed from water, spinning like a doll on threads. 'Alright, start.' The clones started moving the cement into the mixer - in the time that Kininata had been preparing, they had set up thirty pails full of cement, and fifteen half filled. Each clone would start moving a pair of full pails into the mixer, then as the half pail was being added Kininata would directly flow in one pails worth of water. He would then split his attention - part would be on mixing the water in the mixer along with the machine, while the other would get the next measurement of water - this would get the right mixture.

The man in red would wait until ten cement and four water pails had been mixed, then started shovelling it out over where it was being used. For the next hour or so Kininata maintained this, and he felt the exhaustion catching up on him. He was talented and skilled, but no one could keep this up forever. After laying the last portion of the cement, the man and red gave him a whistle and a wave - Kininata dropped the control, letting the clones disperse away from the site. He crouched down, catching his breath and wiping his brow.

'Not bad kid. Head over to the foreman, let him know I said you did good.'

The red haired man nodded, got back up onto his feet, and headed over to the foreman. His steps showed his fatigue, but he reached the man and told him what the man in red said. 'Gotta say, it was a hell of a workout.'

[Marii K. Kazeraikou]

'Looks like it's time to call it a day' noticed the guy after checking his watch. He then saw the younger male approach him. "Gotta say, it was a hell of a workout." told Kininata. "I know. That's why we wanted someone who was skilled in taijutsu or elemental jutsus" replied the foreman.

He noticed that the younger man had a red flush in his cheeks that matched his hair quite nicely. "It appears that you did the cement job well. Just give me a moment so I can sign the mission slip.
I hope that Raikage knows what she's doing. We really need more carpenters, not shinobis" muttered the male as he signed something on a clipboard.

"Here you are! Give this to the people at the Raikage tower" replied the foreman before handing him the mission slip. He didn't exaggerate when he said they needed more carpenters.
Kumogakure no Sato still needed to maintain its buildings or build new ones. Especially after the disaster that had hit them four years earlier.

[Mission completed!]

[kininata]

"I know. That's why we wanted someone who was skilled in taijutsu or elemental jutsus" replied the foreman. He noticed that the younger man had a red flush in his cheeks that matched his hair quite nicely. "It appears that you did the cement job well. Just give me a moment so I can sign the mission slip. I hope that Raikage knows what she's doing. We really need more carpenters, not shinobis" muttered the male as he signed something on a clipboard. Kininata didn't appreciate the comment he made, but he understood it. He wasn't going to say anything here, though. It needed to be sent back elsewhere.

"Here you are! Give this to the people at the Raikage tower" replied the foreman before handing him the mission slip. Kininata bowed in thanks, grabbed his stuff and headed straight to the tower to hand the slip over.

[Exit Kininata.]