Mission Mailman

[Saiyuki]

Name: You've got mail!
Rank: D
IIC Length: 1 Day
Difficulty: Easy
Description: The life of an Amekagure mail-nin is not easy. Mounds of unmailed letters are found within the mail-nin office and they are severely understaffed due to recent events! Thus the Amekage has decided to employ a team of genin to help the understaffed mail-ninja's in their time of dire need. A cell of genin class ninja are to go to the mail-nin office, collect two large sacks each of letters and deliver them as expeditiously as possible
Objective: Deliver the Letters Safely, to their correct owners and before night time hits the village.
Reward: 1000 Ryo.
Note: May be done Three times.

Mission Start!

[Saiyuki]

Akira headed out of the Amekage Tower, looking at the address of the mailing station that he was to go to. It seemed that there was quite a bit of mail that needed to be delivered throughout the village. Usually this was done by normal civilian mailmen, but there had been a shortage of those lately and so the mail built up. The solution to the problem was quite easy to figure out. It was simply to hire a shinobi. The idea made logical sense, as shinobi were both used to burdens and were much faster than normal civilians. But still, even after going over this idea many times in his head, Akira was still a little peeved that genins like him had to take care of mediocre jobs like these. Still, he had many missions to do before the Chuunin Exams. There was no point in trying to complain now. Akira dashed off into the direction of the mailing station.

After several minutes of running above the rooftops of one of the most technologically advanced villages in the world, Akira reached the mailing station, going through a window to get inside. From the way that he made his entrance and the headband on his forehead, the men that were sorting out the mail could easily tell that he was the shinobi that had been hired to take care of the mail. They pointed to two rather large bags that were on the floor. Akira walked over to them. Then, another employee over there scurried over to Akira with what seemed to be quite a bit of paperwork. The young Kaishin preferred not to deal with so much trouble, but that was not the case. It seemed that Akira was to be given a map. Seeing as this village had an eternal rainfall, the map was laminated, though still flexible, so as not to get wet. Akira thanked the stressed out employee. Then he turned and picked up the two bags and put them on his back as he walked out the door, looking for his first destination.

[Saiyuki]

Akira took several moments to memorize the layout of the area that he was supposed to be delivering to. This was so he would have not to keep referring back to the map after every delivery. That would be too annoying. It would be better to take care of such a thing right at the start. After he finished memorize all of the street names and format of the houses, he started moving. He jumped up onto the rooftops of the village. It would be much quicker this way, as there was hardly anything to block his way as he leapt through the higher levels of the village. There were after all, rooftop upon rooftops in this village, more unique than any other village in the shinobi world, or so Akira heard. He finally reached his first destination and as if the mail that was to be delivered was a kunai, threw it right into where Akira wanted to throw it at. It slipped through the mail opening in the door without as much as a second in delay. Akira then took out another letter and looked at the address. Luckily, this address was not too far from the one that Akira was at.

And so, Akira did not have to walk far in order to get to the next destination. Once he got there, he took out the letter and threw it in a similar fashion to what he had done before. When he then looked through the next few letters/envelopes under the cover of a roof, he found out that the addresses were quite random now, though still within the same area. Akira shook his head. He did not like doing things randomly, but it seemed like he would have to this time around. So he dashed off unto the rooftops to get to where his next address was. He tried to take out ones that had addresses that were close to each other, so he could speed up the process. After all, the young Kaishin did have a time limit on delivering every single one of these letters. But it was not bad training, if he decided to look at it that way. The bags were quite a burden and the rain made it hard to aim right at such a small target. Once he started thinking about it in that way, it did not seem so bad anymore.

[Saiyuki]

As the day wore on, the amount of light that Akira got to work with decreased even further. However, the young Kaishin did not mind that. The more challenging the task got, the less bored he would become. And it seemed that his luck got better as well. He started to find out that more and more of the letters had closer addresses and this make his work a lot faster than it would have been if he had not been able to. This was good exercise too. However, he did want to get this over with as soon as possible. But he still had many more letters to deliver. He sighed as he silently leapt from rooftop to rooftop. Before long, Akira could tell that one of the two bags that he was carrying was going to be finished soon. This motivated him to speed up his pace. Soon enough, with a few more quick throws, Akira was finished with one bag. He headed to the mail office to dump it off before starting on the next set of letters in the second bag.

He went by delivering the mail systematically as usual. He was doing it at a rather faster pace than before, since he wanted to finish up this mission. He also saw that day was fading fast. And it was because of this mindset that when he reached the last package, a fishing hook grabbed it out of his hands. He immediately looked up. A shadow dashed away from him. Dropping the bag, the young Kaishin went on pursuit. The figure that he was chasing was quick. The rain and darkening of day helped conceal the thief’s figure. But Akira was not going to give up. He had been assigned to safely deliver all the mail and that was just what he would do. Finally, when the figure sort of stumbled onto a doorway, Akira pounced on that chance. With a string of hand seals, a great multitude of ice needles completely surrounded the thief. Then Akira saw that it was just a kid, probably not even graduated from the academy yet. He looked at the address of the doorstop that he was in. Then he began to laugh as he lightheartedly apologize to the kid as he walked away, the kid having done Akira’s job of delivery.

Mission End!