Buying explosives [mission]

[gabriel1]

Name: Explosives From The Land of Earth
Rank: C-B
IIC Length: 2 Days
Difficulty: Moderate-Hard
Description: A group of shinobi are to leave their headbands with the Takigake and embark as common wayfarers. Their destination is to be the Land of Earth. Here, the ninja must buy explosives and other destruction materials. These items will be used for the destruction of the village gates. Normal materials and explosives are worthy of the completion of a C rank mission. However, if one acquires Sankuchi explosives, it is equivalent to that of a B rank mission.
Objective: Obtain explosives and other destructive materials from the Land of Earth.
Reward: Normal Explosives - 3000 Ryo
Sankuchi Explosives - 5000 Ryo
Maximum Shinobi: 3

Finally she had entered the land of Earth. It hadn't taken long to find a big road and then follow everyone to the great capital Corner Stone. It had all gone smooth, and no one expected her to be a shinobi at all. What she hadn't been ready for though was the huge wall of the capital, and the many people there. She had lived in the land of Earth once, but couldn't remember much about it. Nothing had given her any hints to where she was, and she had found it as foreign a country for her, and any other. It had been a relief really to realize how she only had one place she thought about as home, and to see that like she didn't know anyone, no one seemed to know her. She had no loyalty for this country, but it had still been somewhat of a test for her. A test where she liked the answer.

"Sooo big." She felt the words as an echo through her entire body, translating the sounds into words in her mind. She was getting better, but she was not nearly as great as she properly should have been. The bugs were right though. As she stood there with the sun in her back, looking up and trying to see everything at once. It was impossible! She vaguely remembered she had the same feeling when entering the village of waterfall, though that was of the beauty. This time she stood stunned in awe, of the sheer mass. The amount of stones that had been used to this wall was incredible.

"Mission."
Once again she more felt than heard the words, and shook her head to clear her mind. What was it they had said? Mission, thats right she had a job to do. She couldn't waste time here. Taking a deep breath she began to walk under the huge wall that made her feel so incredibly small. And then suddenly she was past the wall, and had entered the city. People walked everywhere and a constant murmur of voices rang through the air. So many smells entered her nose, of both cookies, fire, sweat, dust and many more. It was pure chaos, though people seemed not to notice. All the sounds, the smells, the colors, everything. She even felt how her colony felt small. And that was no minor feat at all. They were sure that nothing could beat them ever. She walked forward looking for something like a bazaar or a square where she would be able to buy what she needed and get home.

[Katsuki, Little Brother]

Katsuki followed eagerly behind his elder sister, taking in less of the sights and more of the people, mostly the people who looked at Taira. He gave any one of them that looked at her a dirty look, and added a rather rude gesture if it seemed to be more a look of lust than interest. Yes, he had to keep her safe, like always.

After a good while and plenty of Taira's sudden turn-arounds to check on him, Katsuki had effectively changed anyone who gave attention to Taira back to himself, and with much less pleasant looks than were given to her. He didn't mind really, he always was good at capturing attention from her. He was the baby brother, he had to be good at it.

[gabriel1]

This city was overwhelming, and her many hundreds of bugs all buzzed around inside her, making gibbering noises that she was unable to make anything sane out of. She only understood a few syllables from scattered words which made no sense at all. She looked around trying to find anything at all, but deep inside she knew she properly wouldn't be the one finding it, since she as always was distracted by the world and city from the outside and the bugs from the inside. They walked around just the two of them, in the big city not knowing really where they should go.

Suddenly she stopped. Hadn't she seen this building before? She wasn't sure. They had taken some twist and turns a while back, and she had made sure she could trace her step back if anything should happen. The problem now was that she couldn't. Looking around she tried to find anything that could be used as a pointer but no. They were lost. Or at least she was. "Katsuki I am very sorry, but I think we are lost." Though the words were grave, her voice was as calm and friendly as always. It had taken many years of training for her to get that voice, because she had to play mom for Katsuki. She had promised herself back then, never to hold anything back, and always to be completely honest. But with that promise she also needed to keep him calm. Though he was as old as her, she never wanted to make him worry about them. She took take care of the home.

"Explosives"
Once again her mind had wondered, as she had looked at him. It happened so often now, that she didn't think about it, but she couldn't let it wander now. She had to stay focused on the mission they had. An apologizing smile crossed her lips as she knew what Katsuki would say. She just were faster. "I guess we have to ask for directions then."

[Katsuki, Little Brother]

Katsuki frowned at his big sister. She had all those fancy bugs to help her but she still couldn't handle directions worth a fake 100 ryo. He always was better at them, how, no one knew, considering he was completely house-ridden for the first several years of his life. He once heard of a strange theory about men being better at directions because they had more of something in their body, Nah, that guy was a crackpot, even the other people thought so. In his extreme protection of Taira, he had managed to spot a few landmarks and reoccuring locales. By now, he had had a big jigsaw puzzle in his head, with everything they had seen filled in. He remembered the directions as well, and filled that in with a mental red line. And in a matter of moments, he grabbed her hand, stopping her. "Follow me, miss compass."

In seconds, he easily navigated the crowded streets to the local construction office, which frequently used explosives, and would know where to find only the best. She had those bugs, weren't they supposed to help her out? She should have thought of that almost an hour ago! They entered the office, and Katsuki quizzed the manager where he got his best explosives, and if he ever used Sanchuki explosives. As he waited for the man to return with the receipts and directions, he looked back at his big sister, in all her clueless glory. She was a great fighter, sure, but she was never on the same level of pure practicality as him. It's got to be those bugs, I'd be distracted too if I had to deal with that much whining all the time.

[gabriel1]

((ROFL!! I almost fell down my chair with laughter. You have just captured her so much, and wrote it so fantastic... ^^))

Her cheeks turned pink, as he looked at her with that look. She saw him think for a bit, and was amazed how fast and how great he did it. He had always been the better of those two at being outside, and she really couldn't function right without him. She took his hand and followed him around so many people and structures through streets she was completely sure she hadn't walked on, until he stopped outside an office. She looked up, and her cheek flushed crimson red for a second. They had walked past this one some time ago, she had just not seen it, because she had, as always, been thinking about so many other things. She walked in behind him, and looked around while waiting for the man to get back. There stood a young man in the shop too, writing at some papers. He looked up and smile to her, and suddenly once again she heard the echo of hundreds of tiny bugs talking just to her. "Talk to him. Make him scribe with his..." "Explosives. Thank you sir." The man had just come out from behind, and she smiled thankfully to him, while trying not to think about her bugs. Or the handsome man in the corner.

[Katsuki, Little Brother]

Katsuki glared at the younger man who had so suddenly attracted Taira's attention. His stare could pierce solid steel, and he made sure that pretty-boy knew it, too. When the man returned, they got their directions to the best shops, even one with sankuchi explosives. He knew it wasn't Taira that liked that boy, it was probably her stupid bugs. Same things that got her lost earlier, and now their crazy breeding habits are going to her head. Maybe not having bugs was a good thing.

Katsuki now deftly directed them to the good shops, adding bag upon bag of items to his back. He couldn't give them to Taira, he knew his manners. Men did the work. Perhaps that's terribly old-fashioned... He cried internally as he soon realized that his dad, granddad, and probably their dads, were utterly stupid, as he carried roughly 40 pounds of high explosive on his back. Prayer followed soon after, [/i]Please don't explode, please don't explode, please don't explode...[/i] Luckily the packs were all sturdy fire-retardant material, so his rampant fears were mostly ungrounded as they left the large city for the road home.

[gabriel1]

She saw Katsukis stare at the young man and with pink cheeks of shame she turned her face away. She couldn't held it there however and with a last glance at the young man she followed Katsuki out to buy a safe bag and other things. Being his older twin, she didn't even bother asking to help him because she knew he was chivalrous at this point. instead she held a lookout, for anything they might use, and held him company. mostly though she looked at the food, seeing if there were any way they could buy something home, something she wasn't able to get in waterfall. Without luck though, because nothing would be able to hold the trip home. The walked through the city, and began the walk home. She hadn't been to much help inhere in this big city, where she felt so little. But she knew she would be do her part on the way home, with her ability to turn most things into a meal. A skill she had learned in the early years where she didn't quite know what to use and how to cook properly. She had turned it to something good though, and now she could use that ability. She was also pretty good at talking with farmers, and offer help for a good nights sleep and a small meal. As long as she had Katsuki by her side anyway, because he was the secret to her doing many things much better than she normally would.

Just as the went out of the city, she felt free again, and the spark in her eyes that had been missing in there went right back to her eyes. She began to hum lightly an old song their mother had sung for them, back when they were children. The melody was calm but joyful, much like Taira herself, and she was glad to hear that even her bugs hummed with her, as a rush in her blood and more on the sensing plan that on the hearing. But they did sing with her, and that meant a lot to her.

[zuka]

OOC: Katsuki and Taira, this needs to be picked up a bit. The IIC is up, and if you do not post soon, Katsuki, I must remove you from the mission. You'll still be payed but it will be reduced.

[gabriel1]

((we have gone back to our travel thread. But I will write him a pm ^^))