Meikei Water Base, Ninja Academy(Storage)[Mission]

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(btw, this is Raikou Inuzuka...)

Name: Mist Moving Crew 3
Rank: c
IIC Length: 1
Difficulty: Medium
Description: Now that the supplies from the academy have been brought over, they need one genin to assist them getting the stuff unpacked and prepared in each classroom. There's lots of equipment going around so try your best not to destroy them.
Objective: 1) Unload equipment for each classroom 2) Careful not to set off the practice exploding tags 10 post minimum
Requirements: Solo Genin
Reward: 1300

“Alright Genin, we’ve hired you, so you’d better not mess anything up. You’ll be carrying boxes filled with Exploding Tags used for practice… you set one off and the whole thing’ll explode on you… you’ll be nothing but ashes when we come back… not only that, but instead of your parents getting the money for your death, all the money will go straight to repairing any damages the Exploding Notes do to the Academy… get my drift?” The Chunin asked. Raikou swallowed hard. This was a whole lot more dangerous than what he was used to… ONE false move and he’d be dead? Out of there? Up to the place where you don’t return? Raikou didn’t like the sound of that.

“Y-yes, sir!” Raikou stammered. He didn’t feel comfortable around this older shinobi… he was just that… old… something about older people just made Raikou feel uneasy…

“However, that doesn’t mean you can go slacking on the job! We expect you to carry all the boxes in… on your own… we don’t want anyone else being sacrificed for your screw up.” The Chunin said cruelly. Raikou looked behind the Chunin at a few others.

“M-may I ask where you will be going?” Raikou asked. “You know… if there’s an emergency?”

“Me and my pals here have a mission of our own we need to get done, it requires our full attention so we’ll just be going now, good luck! We’ll be back in an hour to check up on you and get that mission slip signed off!” Raikou sighed as he turned to look at the van with all the practice exploding tags in it. This was going to take a while…

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Raikou sighed. This was grueling work… If he kept moving this slowly, there was no telling how long this would take… but he couldn’t take the chance of the exploding tags going off on him… Raikou sighed. How cruel could the Chunin be? He had hoped this would be an easier mission after having to search for five people among thousands in the capital to try to get a festival started and all planned out for the Mist Village… Why couldn’t these guys just give him a break? An easy mission? Raikou sighed. He’d used up all his ‘easy mission’ passes hadn’t he? Now he was stuck with the hard missions? Raikou shook his head. It was a good thing! He’d been promoted! However… The Mizukage didn’t even know who he was still… how could he be rising in the ranks if she was oblivious to the fact that he even existed? Even after his grueling training… even after going on his fourth mission in two days time… Raikou sighed. It was getting a bit late… The sun was starting to set and things were starting to calm down. By time the Chunin got back it would probably be night time.

Raikou looked back at the van. He had carried a couple boxes out of the van and to the storage facility the Chunin had shown him out back behind the kunai throwing range. It was a building the size of a small house and it stored many kunai and other weapons used for fighting… if the exploding tags went off in it, then it would just blow up inside a cement pit dug to prevent the whole shed from blowing up with one wrong movement. Raikou sighed. He hoped he wouldn’t do any damage… he might end up doing more damage to himself than he could ever do to the building.

Raikou climbed into the van and picked up another box of exploding tags. Raikou suddenly felt his legs tighten. He… couldn’t move… Raikou set the box down and hit his legs with his fists, trying to losen up the cramps. Raikou shook his head. That could have ended badly… if only there was a way to get other people to help him… Raikou closed his eyes… A smile came to his lips and he nearly smacked himself upside the head with an open palm. That was it! Raikou climbed out of the van and ran some water through a faucet meant for a hose to be attached with. Raikou waited for a while until he had enough water and turned the faucet off.

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Well, it was about time he had wizened up! Raikou smiled and made the proper handsigns. The water on the ground seemed to rise into the air of its own accord and acquired the form of Raikou. He smiled.

“Alright guys! Let’s get to work! And remember, BE CAREFUL!” Raikou enforced, he didn’t want them to take any chances… especially if he was going to survive through it… which he might still not… Raikou sighed and allowed all the other Raikous to get their own boxes and start walking down to the storage facility. Raikou smiled, grateful he had thought of this… it would defiantly save him some time from having to carry all the boxes himself… he might even be able to get it all done in half the time he was supposed to! Raikou smiled. This was going to be great! Not only was he going to be safe for the most part, but he was also going to be able to get ten times the work done in a tenth of the actual effort of moving all the boxes. Raikou picked a box up himself and got out of the van carefully. Now was not the time to be making any mistakes. Raikou was half way there when another Raikou came running back towards him. Raikou’s eyes widened.

“Hey! Slow down!” Raikou called.

”Woah! Watch out!” The Raikou yelled as he jumped over Raikou. Raikou looked back over his shoulder at the Raikou. He shook his head. Even working with these guys was dangerous… Raikou wanted to run, but he knew better… didn’t he? Raikou felt like rushing through the project… it was no wonder the clones were running back to try to get it done as fast as possible.

“Guys, we can’t run! I know how we all want to finish this quickly, but I value my life more than getting the job done quickly!” Raikou called so all the clones could hear.

“But that’s no fun! Here why don’t you have a path to get there all by yourself and we’ll run along this path!” Another Raikou suggested.

“No! You know what? I’ve got another good idea!” Raikou said with a smile. “And it doesn’t involve getting blasted by the practice exploding notes!”

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Things were going smoothly and it seemed they would be done soon! The real Raikou wasn’t part of the moving team anymore in case one of them did manage to mess up and send the whole place up in flames, instead, Raikou was counting the boxes the clones were carrying, making sure that none of them were missing and the academy wasn’t being ripped off. Raikou sighed. He had outsmarted those Chunin… they thought they could get him to blow himself to pieces? HA! Raikou would never be so foolish! Raikou sighed as he watched the other Raikous running here and there around each other over each other and almost crashing into each other… it was amazing to Raikou that none of the exploding notes and gone off yet… Raikou shrugged and started counting the boxes in the pit already. Hmm… seemed there were thirty in the pit, the other ten Raikous were carrying ten, so now all he’d need to do is use the supply sheet to count the rest! There were supposed to be 150 boxes of those things. Raikou smiled and started the tally.

It took a while of just watching them go from the storage facility to the van and back… according to Raikou it took 2 minutes for each of them to make a round trip, so it should rightfully take twenty four more minutes until they were done! Raikou smiled. This was perfect! They had finished in half the time they were given! He was going to pass this mission hands down and there was nothing that could stop him! Time seemed to fly as tally after tally was marked on the once blank sheet of paper. They stacked up more and more as box after box was taken from the van!

(one of my shorter posts XD)

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The last of the boxes were being carried away, it seemed like the clones were tired and were aching all over from the strenuous work.

“Hey! Why isn’t the real Raikou working?” One of the Raikous asked. “It’s my turn to count the boxes!”

“Do you WANT me to die?” The real Raikou asked. “If any of us make a mistake when I’m in there then I’ll die, and guess where all of you go.” Raikou said threateningly. The clones mumbled and got the rest of the boxes in the van.

“Alright… so that’s five, four, three, two…” Raikou blinked. Why wasn’t one more clone going in to get the box of exploding tags? “Umm… someone want to climb in and get the last one?” Raikou asked. The clones looked at each other and shrugged.

“There isn’t one more… I think you counted wrong…” One of the Raikou said lazily. “You’ve grown sloppy through not doing real work and now you can’t count!” The Raikou smiled and chuckled to himself.

“Oh, think you’re so clever do ya? And, yes, I can still count!” Raikou grumbled as he went around the van to check inside it. His eyes widened as he saw that the clones were telling the truth and not just saving that one for him. There really WASN’T another box! Raikou frowned… that couldn’t be right… His eyes widened as he caught a scent he hadn’t smelt before. It was… a person… Other than that Raikou couldn’t tell who or what it was… Raikou focused his chakra to his nose and closed his eyes and started following the scent.

“What are you doing?” One of the Raikous asked.

“I’m digging deeper into this Mystery… You guys wait here and take a break… I’ll get this one!” Raikou smiled. It was time he taught these clones who the REAL hard worker was!

(haha! I made a pun! a REAL hard worker! not a clone! hahaha! oh... I crack myself up! ;D)

[Someone]

Raikou followed the trail the person left for a while now… it seemed like the person took the straightest path away from the scene of the crime at first… but then… grew… sloppy? Raikou wasn’t sure how to put it… there were times it seemed the target stopped and moved around within the vicinity, there were times the person had wandered in no particular direction… there were even times where the person seemed to have stopped all together!

“Well… no one said the thief of exploding tags would be very smart… quite the opposite… I’m probably doing the person a favor taking them away from him.” Raikou smiled at the irony. Raikou trudged deeper and deeper into the forest that was next to the Academy. The tracks didn’t seem to be made by a professional thief, so this guy would have to have either come there by mistake, or perhaps stolen it in hopes of making a small profit out of it! Raikou shook his head. Where was the person going to go with a box full of exploding tags? It’d probably sell for a lot if the guy could even REACH the arms shop, however, with a box full of exploding tags, it was doubtful the person could get there without setting them all off… especially if he kept moving in the way that he did… it was almost like a kid was wandering around. Raikou shook his head, wait… what was that? Raikou thought he had heard something… a foot breaking a twig? Or maybe it was just an animal? It didn’t matter, Raikou charged into the brush to find a clearing. A clearing with nothing in it besides some bushes…

Raikou sighed. This was getting annoying… but… wait… what was this? Raikou sniffed the ground. It… was the scent he had been following… the person had come here sooner or later… and all he had to do was follow the trail of-. Raikou suddenly felt something grab his foot. Raikou frowned and looked down. It was a rope… now… where did this look familiar? Raikou’s eyes widened as the rope pulled him down and turned him upside down, suspending him in mid air.

“HAHAHA!” Raikou heard a little voice laugh nearby. There! From the trees! Raikou reached into his pack and pulled a Kunai out and he sat up and quickly cut the rope. Raikou landed on all fours, turned to where the laugh had come from.

“Alright, come out or you won’t be laughing for long!” Raikou growled, ready to go four legs if the guy didn’t follow his directions. From here Raikou could see the box. It was laying on the ground next to the tree the person was hiding behind. Raikou sighed. This guy wasn’t all that smart was he?

[Someone]

Raikou growled as the person came out of hiding. But… Raikou frowned. It was just a little kid? He sighed and bent his head and got up on his two hind legs.

“Kid, what are you doing taking those exploding notes? Don’t you know they’re dangerous?” Raikou asked, knowing the kid was either really brave by stealing them, or really stupid thinking he was immortal or something like that. “Now come on and let me have those exploding notes. Don’t do anything sudden with them and you won’t die.” Raikou said in a calming voice. The kid suddenly snatched up the box of exploding tags and ran off. Raikou’s eyes closed for a moment as the tags jerked around in the box, but when nothing happened Raikou opened his eyes again, confused…

“Wait… Argh! That bugger! Where did he get off to?” Raikou yelled frusterated. He focused his chakra on his nose and took off at top speed, he’d have to follow the scent left by the kid at a fast pace or he’d probably lose him this time. Raikou kept running and running, he couldn’t stop, couldn’t close his eyes, and couldn’t lose the scent… Raikou tripped on a root and fell on his face. No! This couldn’t be happening! Raikou got up and started running again, knowing he was falling behind slowly but surely… Raikou stopped running and shook his head. Was he acting like an idiot or what today? Why did he need to catch up with the little kid immediately? Was he a tracker or wasn’t he? Raikou sighed and followed the scent slowly, making sure that he wasn’t tripping on any more stray roots or what not, besides the kid might get scared! Suddenly, Raikou felt something tighten around his foot… Too late… again… The rope pulled on Raikou’s foot and he was pulled up into the air.

“Hahaha!” The boy laughed. “You fell for it! You fell for it! You’re worse than an Academy Student you stupid Genin!” The kid laughed. Raikou’s eyes flared with anger and the kid got the full blast of the intense chakra emitting from Raikou. “Hahaha! Catch me if you can! You stupid genin!” The kid laughed and ran off again. Raikou had it with this guy. He was going to catch him and that was that! Raikou bent up and slashed the rope with a kunai and landed on his feet. Raikou then took a deep breath and calmed himself. The kid was only trying to get him angry so he would go charging in blindly, he needed to keep calm or he would get caught in even more obvious traps… but he couldn’t be too careful either… Raikou advanced slowly and cautiously, not setting off anymore traps…

“Not that there are anymore traps to set off!” The kid whispered to himself as he kept a good distance between him and the guy that was following him. Suddenly, the kid broke out into a run and seemed to climb up a tree. Raikou ran up and blinked… what was that?

[Someone]

Raikou had been led to a house. Or… rather… a tree house… Raikou blinked and made his way to the tree.

“What’s the password?” The boy who had taken off with the exploding notes asked.

“Look, I don’t have time to play your games, those are dangerous and if yo-” Raikou was cut off by a water balloon landing on his face, soaking him. The kids in the treehouse laughed and got more water balloons. “Hey! That isn’t funny!”

“What’s the password?”

“I don’t-” Raikou started but he got a water balloon in the face again. Those balloons were coming on really quickly… How were they doing that? Raikou noticed something black and snaky in two of the boys’ hands. A giant sling shot? No wonder they were traveling at such high speeds… gravity didn’t really help either…

“What’s the password?” The boy asked again.

“Look, can I PLEASE just get up there?” Raikou asked, nearing the end of his patience. The kids all blinked and looked at each other in dismay.

“H-how did you know the Secret Password?” The boy asked as he lowered a ladder. Raikou sighed. It was ‘please’… wasn’t it? Raikou shook his head as he climbed up the ladder. These type of things always got on his nerves… but it was also the type of thing he would have done if in the same position! That’s what Raikou hated the most about it… that he had known the trick, however, he still had gotten nailed by two water balloons trying to get up…

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“Look, kids, that box is full of highly explosive tags that could blast us all sky high… I only want to try to protect you by taking them where they’re supposed to be! You understand… right?” The kids looked at one another, confused and looked back at Raikou and shook their heads. Raikou growled in the throat and felt a fist tighten. “Look… in… the box…” Raikou growled, trying to keep his cool to these small fries.

“Oh, we know what’s inside.” One of the kids said. “The Chunin made that very clear.”

Raikou blinked, Chunin? What Chunin? These kids were told by… Raikou’s eyes widened. No… it couldn’t be… you mean… his employers… they set him up?

“You know…” The kid he had chased said. “One of the Chunin asked me to do that… I’m not sure why… but he was laughing as he walked away… you didn’t forget that exploding tags don’t go off without a handsign… did you?” The boy asked. “Well, not THESE kind anyway! If you look at the boxes they say ‘practice exploding tags: go off with a controlled bang!’… you’re not very good at reading, are you?” The boy asked.

“Keep at it and you’ll be in more danger than if you WERE carrying a box of touch sensitive exploding tags.” Raikou growled as he took the box and jumped down from the tree house. When he got back to the base, he’d better not see those Chunin again… Raikou sighed. Impossible… he still needed their signatures in order to actually complete the mission… Raikou growled and started his run back to the Academy. Raikou smiled a vicious smile. He didn’t care if they were older than him now… he was going to teach those punks not to mess with a genin… and especially not him as a genin!

[Someone]

Ahh… what a nice day! The Chunin thought to himself.

“Hey, guys… do you think the kid’s done?” The Chunin chuckled to the others. It had been about an hour since they had left the kid to his own devices. With the idea that he would blow the whole place up if he had made one mistake! All the Chunin laughed as they walked back.

“John! That was a brilliant idea! How come we didn’t think of it sooner? We should do this every time we get more exploding tags! Just get other genin to move them under the impression that if they were jiggled around at all then the whole place’d go up in smoke!” All the Chunin laughed again.

“What’s more, I even got a kid to go up and take one of the practice boxes!” Another Chunin laughed. They all joined in. “As soon as the Raikou realizes that one of them’s missing he’ll go into a frenzy of fear! Just you wait! You’ll see that he’ll be petrified! Just look for this kind of face!” The Chunin made a look of complete fear, complete with face turning white and everything.

“Hey! That’s pretty good! That’ll probably be what he looks like!” Another Chunin laughed.

“I… think he’d look more like that for some reason…” Another Chunin said.

“What were you guys playing at?” Raikou asked storming up to them, chakra almost radiating off of him.

“L-look kid, we’ve heard about how strong you are… almost as strong as any Chunin… but come on! I-it was just a joke!” One of the Chunin laughed. “See? It’s funny!”

“Yeah… funny…” Raikou growled smiling. “You wanna see what else is funny?”

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*note* the rest of the story is not suitable to be read by children’s eyes. Therefore, just know that Raikou did something really really bad to them… oh, and it was involving coconuts… don’t ask me how or what he did, but it was with cheese and coconuts… thank you.