Cloudy Reconnaissance [x2 Mission]

[Skulking Shinzu]

Name: Cloudy Reconnaissance
Rank: “D” Rank.
IIC Length: 1 day
Difficulty: Easy.
Description: A number of Shinobi have mysteriously teleported from the village to the surrounding area within the Land of Thunder. Some individuals have even described jumping from one bordering country to another. Investigate the source of this chaos and ensure the safety of any civilians who may have also been teleported.
Objective: Repeatable. Scout out any clues in the Land of Thunder, safely guide any found civilians back to Cloud, or take down any manageable threats along the way.
Personnel requirements: 1-2 shinobis of any rank.
Reward: 10,000 Ryo

OOC: Awaiting staff to approve above mission before starting.

Therakill

[Cadoc]

approved mission

[Skulking Shinzu]

1/3. Yis eyed the area around him carefully while stroking his flayed chin. The natural geographic formations of mountains, hills, and other solid structures suggested to him that he was still in the Land of Thunder. Combined with his natural Bard ability to sense magnetic North, he easily managed to deduce his new location in relation to the village.

The question was, who else had been teleported to the village outskirts? Sighing, he glanced back behind with crimson eyes. He seemed to be staring off into empty space. Although he didn’t possess super vision, he knew the village was around 200 meters behind. Sighing, he adjusted his black coat while marking his location with a large ‘X’ on the ground.

It was time to circle the perimeter. The task would be arduous for most, but luckily, Yis possessed heightened hearing that was advanced for even a Bard. Grinning, he scanned the area within a 150-meter radius of his body for any signs of human heartbeats. The first he noticed, seemed quite familiar. A rhythm he had interacted with plenty of times before. “Kimi?” He called out.

[Therakill]

How odd, he seemed to no longer be in the tower. In was in the forest outside of town. He had just exited the Raikage’s office. So now he needed to figure out which way the village was. He decided to use a Jutsu he hadn’t used after learning. So he quickly cast the lightning compass to determine which way was north. As he did that he heard his name being called.

The bad thing about this was he wasn’t sure who it was. He went to adjust his weapons and found himself lacking them. “Depends on who’s asking!” It would seem that he had been teleported before he could get his weapons required. So what ever he was doing he would have to do without external aid. He had the proper Jutsu and skills to do that he just needed the time.

So he started to head toward the voice, if they knew his name they might be allies. At the very least he was sure that no one but a few knew his name. So he was couscous about approaching the voice. He would slip into the trees and use Tree Stride to quickly make it to the voice. He would then see Yis standing out in the middle of a clearing. He would quickly exit the tree and appear behind Yis.

Skulking Shinzu

[Skulking Shinzu]

2/3. “The hell.” Yis took a step forwards before turning. Somehow, Kimi had appeared from behind. He could only assume it was the Earth counterpart to his Ice teleportation technique. It seemed as if the world of Ninjutsu was advancing so quickly that it was catching up to even rare and ancient techniques that could once achieve the impossible, such as Hiraishin.

“You sure know how to startle someone.” As always, despite the dramatic words, the sentence escaped Yis’ mouth with little emotion. Overall, the teen tended to speak in a rather monotone manner despite his notable and less than mundane appearance. Sighing, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of north with a skinless index finger.

“The village is that way. You can go if you like, or you can help me find other citizens of Mo. I don’t know what happened, but citizens likely got caught in the crossfire too.” Having uttered the words with no real enthusiasm, Yis wondered if Kimi would be willing to join him in this mission. Some company was always nice. Besides, he knew little of the red head despite being in the same village. This would be a good opportunity to learn more about him. “I am sure the Lady Raikage will reward our efforts. What do you say?”

[Therakill]

“I am ok with helping to look for people, I can cover around nine hundred and fifty meters in a few seconds. So I can search a huge distance. Do you want to spilt up or stay together?” Kimi wouldn’t say this to brag but to be honest. If regular people where lost he would try to help them. Being outside the village is not safe at all. So he would do his best to save those that he could.

He would prepare to step into the tree once more as he waited for Yis's response. He would finish the hand seals but not step into the tree. As he waited he would look around using his eyes and increasing his vision up to four times. Trying to see what he would from within the forest.

[Skulking Shinzu]

3/3. Yis blinked. “Nine-hundred and fifty meters in a few seconds!?” The words slipped from the flayed man’s mouth with an unusual hint of emotion in the form of shock. “Stick together. An enemy force could have triggered this phenomenon for all we know.” Yis almost felt a tinge of jealousy. He could certainly cover that much ground in around half a minute. However, not seconds.

Sighing once again, he careful led Kimi around a quarter of the planned parameter. During this journey, the duo passed by a large number of trees, but no Ninja or civilians. Kimi was likely in his natural environment here. It was just unfortunate that learning Earth techniques was beyond the Kedoin’s capabilities, which meant that Wood techniques were just a finger’s length out of reach.

“So, Kimi. Tell me about yourself. Happy childhood or unhappy?” As always, Yis was blunt and straight to the point. If Kimi had been speaking to other villagers, then he’d know that a flayed man with black hair had been spotted as of late going around being extra social and asking everyone all sorts of weird personal questions. As per the Raikage’s feedback, this was his attempt at getting to know the village.

[Therakill]

Kimi listened and let the Jutsu go as he stepped away from the tree. He walked with Yis as he spoke and noticed the unusual amount of emotions in his voice. But Kimi would wait to respond until Yis had finished speaking. He would flash back to his childhood and how it was. They where not pleasant memories at all.

“Happy when I don’t have to be around my mother. Absolute hell when she was around, I didn’t get away from her until I came to live her at eight. It took me longer than most to unlock my blood limit. So my Father didn’t do anything to help me or break up our “Family”. The clan frowns on breaking up family units. But I spent my first eight years of my life being burned by lightning everyday.” Kimi would actually tell Yis everything if he wanted to listen. He didn’t talk to many about this.

[Cadoc]

Mission approved and payment paid to two people.

x20,000 each

両47,043,665
Add 20,000
両47,063,665

両35,700
Add 20,000
両55,700

[Skulking Shinzu]

+2 D-Rank Mission Credits. Total so far: 2

Name: Cloudy Reconnaissance
Rank: “D” Rank.
IIC Length: 1 day
Difficulty: Easy.
Description: A number of Shinobi have mysteriously teleported from the village to the surrounding area within the Land of Thunder. Some individuals have even described jumping from one bordering country to another. Investigate the source of this chaos and ensure the safety of any civilians who may have also been teleported.
Objective: Repeatable. Scout out any clues in the Land of Thunder, safely guide any found civilians back to Cloud, or take down any manageable threats along the way.
Personnel requirements: 1-2 shinobis of any rank.
Reward: 10,000 Ryo

1/3. Yis raised an eyebrow as Kimi begun to speak. The boy seemed to open up rather surprisingly easily. At first, he seemed similar to the other silver-haired Cloud Genin. Both calm, analytical, and mysterious. However, Kimi the redhead seemed far more talkative out of the two. “Burned by lightning… Huh.” Yis said bluntly as he thought back to his childhood. The two were quite similar in that regards. He wondered if Kimi would assume as much from the sheer amount of flayed and exposed flesh along Yis’ body.

“That’s a pretty tragic backstory. So, what changed at eight? Where’s your mother now?” It was a rather intriguing topic. Yis hadn’t broken the chains binding him to his tormentors until he was around eighteen. If the two were to compare, then Kimi had managed to work up the courage to change his fate a good ten years before Yis even considered the possibility. Perhaps this was why Kimi always carried an air of maturity around him.

While Kimi answered, Yis lead the boy towards the second quarter perimeter that he had mentally created in his mind. When it came to scouting out an area, it tended to make sense to create a radius around a familiar location to search. If this was large enough, one could then split the radius into halves, or even quarters. In this case, quarters made more sense since the duo didn’t know exactly what they were searching for. They could find dozens of civilians within a zone, only one, or perhaps even nothing.

[Therakill]

Kimi listened to his questions, how much was he willing to share? He wasn’t sure but at some point he did need to open up and talk about it. Though he knew that wouldn’t help at all, everyone had been waiting on him to do that. But so far he had told everyone he was fine, hell he even told the clan investigators that
everything was fine. I mean clearly that was a lie, he had the scars to prove it.

“Burned by lightning, I wasn’t just using that allegory. I mean literally burned by it, my Mother hated me. She used me as her target any time she had the chance, which was all the time. If I did anything good, special, showed emotion or left the house. I have the scars over ninety percent of my back and chest.”

Kimi shuddered as he talked about it. But he quickly got himself under control, things had changed since he was a child. “To answer the second part of the question. I awakened my eyes,” Kimi had them active so he looked at Yis with his glowing red eyes. “That proved to my father I had his bloodlimit and he could put a stop to this and break up the family. The Raikage excepted my transfer here after that, so I could live with my aunt and uncle. And here we are.”

[Skulking Shinzu]

2/3. “I know. I can tell when someone is speaking literally.” Yis rolled up the sleeves of his overcoat to show that the flayed bits of exposed flesh reached all the way from his wrist to his shoulders. “Lightning was one of my favourite ways to get burned. It hits once, then done. Fire keeps burning. They… Never put it out. They wanted to see if I had enough rational thinking in-between the mind-numbing pain to drop onto the ground and roll for my life.” Yis sighed while glancing up at the air. “Acid was the worst though. You’d think fire or lightning does more damage, but nope. Acid burns tend to be deep and intense. It's a slow and gradual burn, but there's little you can do about it when restrained.”

Yis continued leading Kimi through the second quarter of the perimeter. Again, no signs of any civilians. Then again, how easy would it really be? He was expecting panicked screaming or muttering to catch his attention. However, what if the teleportation process instantly knocked out anyone not capable of using Chakra? He hadn’t noticed when it happened to him, but a mundane human body may even experience whiplash or other forms of sudden teleportation-related damage. It was always a different ball game when mundane civilians were involved.

“I see.” Yis stated while looking into Kimi’s eyes. He still didn’t quite understand how the bloodline functioned. He had never seen Kimi, or the Raikage for that matter utilising Genjutsu. Was it not illusion-based like the Sharingan? If not, what exactly did Kimi’s eyes do? Yis had once experienced the Raikage slipping her voice into a microphone from several floors above her location. However, why would an eye technique have anything to do with sound or electronics? “I wasn’t quite so lucky. My bloodline is what made me a target in the first place. Activating it for the first time only peaked my tormentor's interest.” The flayed man locked eyes with Kimi and grinned. “Go on, ask. Wanna know how I got these scars?”

[Therakill]

Kimi would wait for Yis to finish speaking. He was surprised that he seemed to have a similar story to his. Not many people would know what’s that like. So as he listened he reflected on what he went through, how his mother treated him.

It wasn’t good, he wouldn’t never sugar coat that. “If you can tell me if you want. I don’t try to pressure anyone into revealing what they don’t” Kimi looked around trying to find anyone that had gotten teleported. They had yet to find anyone which was either really good or really bad.

[Skulking Shinzu]

3/3. “Not going to ask with conviction?” Yis chuckled to himself. He was half tempted not to tell Kimi just to tease him. However, seeing how the redhead was so open about his traumatic childhood, the flayed man made a conscious decision to do the same. “Never met my parents. I was stolen as baby by a guild of assassins. Who wouldn’t want to turn a shapeshifting baby into an obedient hired blade? I never did figure out if my parents were part of the guild and sold me off to pay some debt, or if they were backstabbed. Maybe they were killed in action, so the guild took me in to replace them. Maybe they were the target of a bounty. Endless possibilities, all of which, led to endless shitty torment. The guild’s idea of training was more akin to torture. Apparently, it builds character and weeds out the riff-raff. What you see now is the result of all that torture.”

Yis sighed before pointing his finger towards the horizon. “Bandits, around 150 meters North-East, into that dense forest.” He said whilst completely changing the topic to before. “Our mission is to rescue civilians and scout out any danger. Keeping ourselves safe is part of the mission.” Pausing, his crimson eyes flickered with malice. “But. I just overheard the fact that one of them has a hostage… No, two at the very least judging by his phrasing. I sure do feel like doing some good today. Plus, saying all that about my past brought up some feelings I thought I had buried deep inside. I need to let off some steam. What do you say? Keep going and be a hero, or report back to the village?” Yis eyed the forest intently. Nothing could be seen this far away, but if Kimi approached another 100 or so meters, he'd spot a rudimentary camp within a clearing in the forest.

[Therakill]

Kimi listened and couldn’t decide who’s story was worse. But both made it here so that was something at the very least. So he would have to thank what ever gods brought them both through it. But that had a lot to do with each of them to not just some being that control everything. So he would start to think about the enemies Yis was talking about.

“I can easily make it into the camp and grab the hostage, if you got them. I have a few new tricks up my sleeves.” Kimi would smile as he neared a tree.

[Therakill]

Exit on finish, due to not being able to train in a X2 thread and do a X2 mission at the same time.

[Cadoc]

Approved.

両47,063,665
Add 20,000
47,083,665

両55,700
Add 20,000
両75,700

[Skulking Shinzu]

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