Mission Tea Leaves

[Saiyuki]

Name: Tea Time!
Rank: D
IIC Length: 1 Day
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Mrs. Fuukomoku is well known within Amekagure as one of its richest citizens. Coming from a well known merchant family she has lived a life of lavish luxury. Yet she is also humble, donating to many charities across Ame No Kuni. Mrs.Fuukomoku however loves white plum tea, and there is a shortage in Amekagure! Thus the Amekage has dispatched a team of genin to retrieve some tea from the nearby....tea factory?
To retrieve some for her!
Objective: Bring Mrs. Fuukomoku her tea!
Reward: 1000 Ryo

Mission Start!

[Saiyuki]

Akira walked out of the tower, ready to do his next mission. He had not really cared what his next mission was, as long as it was something that counted towards his mission count. He looked at the slip of paper he had torn off from the sheet that had the mission on it. It had the address of the woman who had requested this particular mission. Akira thought about his destination and his route for a couple of seconds and then started on his way. This woman was quite rich. Akira had passed by her house a few times and it was like no other in the rest of the village. That just showed how wealthy she was. And she was indeed a generous patron of the village. But Akira did not see the need to hurry as much. Besides, when he got there, he needed to take several seconds in order to get used to the wealth and size of the mansion that Mrs. Fuukomoku lived in.

“Ah, you must be the shinobi that the mistress has requested for to go get the tea leaves? Yes, here is the address for the tea factory. Thank you, young man.”

As the gate opened, butler of the mansion came out to receive Akira. He handed Akira a piece of paper and gave a curt nod/semi-bow before turning and going back the way that he had come from. As the gate closed before the young Kaishin, he looked at the piece of paper that he received. It was an address. Akira also recalled this place quite easily. He also noted how expensive the paper felt, but he simply put it into his pockets as he then started to head for the tea factory. Many a time had he received some free merchandise from the factory ever since he had helped them out by doing a big favor. He had not been there for some while, so he wondered how the factory was doing. In his estimation, it should still be doing very well. Hopefully, they could get the tea leaves that he wanted and he would be done with this mission. However, as the young Kaishin leapt through the ever falling rain, a feeling told him that it would not be so simple.

[Saiyuki]

Akira did not take long to find the factory. After all, he had been there several times. It seemed that they were quite busy at the moment and this made Akira smile. He had seen the factory when it just started out and was a bit glad to see how successful it had become. But that was enough reminiscing about now. He saw many new faces, but he could still recognize the people he knew from before. He sought out the one who knew pretty much about everything that went on within the factory seeing as he was the manager. Akira was told that they did not have the specific tea leaves that he was supposed to get for his mission. Apparently it was supposed to have come earlier, but still had not arrived yet. His friend told Akira that all he could do at the moment was to simply wait for the delivery to come. Akira quietly abided and sat to the side, observing the flow of work and the coming and going of the workers in the tea factory. However, he suddenly stood up.

Just sitting here does not suit me.

After getting some information from his friend, the young Kaishin went back out to search out where the delivery would be. Akira quickly traveled to the customs near the Gates of the village. That would be the first place to get the information that he wanted. After some quick conversing with some of the village guardians, he was told that apparently the package with the white plum tea leaves had already arrived and was within the village. But what was confusing was that the package should have arrived at the tea factory a few hours ago. Now this made Akira suspicious. The guards had not kept track of who had what when they entered, so they could not help in telling Akira what the person who delivered the package looked like. It seemed that he had some ulterior motives with the tea leaves, but he could not guess what those motives would be. Pondering about the situation, the young Kaishin took to wandering the streets of the Village of Ever Lasting Rain.

[Saiyuki]

Akira could not afford to keep wasting so much time on this mission. He had already walked around a little thinking about how to take care of the situation. Failure, especially for such a low ranked mission as this, was unacceptable to the young Kaishin. But he still did not have a clue as to what to do at the moment. That was the moment when his chance came to him. His eye caught something in another person’s arm. That something had the symbol of the tea factory on it. Akira had looked away but immediately turned back to look at that package and its holder more closely. However Akira could only glimpse the back of the man as he hurriedly walked away. He swiftly moved to action. However, he did not try to overtake the man. Rather, he was looking for the purpose of his actions. It rather interested the young Kaishin as to why the man decided to do something else besides deliver that package to where it was supposed to go.

However, then Akira saw what the man was doing. As he closely followed the man, he could see what he was trying to do. Apparently, those specific tea leaves seemed to be extremely rare and thus quite valuable. It seemed that this particular man seemed to be trying to make a profit off of those tea leaves. Shaking his head, Akira swiftly moved into action. When the man suddenly turned into an alley, he noticed that he could not move. That was because his legs were frozen. Then all he could see was a shadow as a leg was thrust into his chest, breaking the ice and sending him flying away as the package he was holding unto was taken from him. He was in a daze when Akira left. The young Kaishin quickly went over to his mission commissioner’s mansion. Within minutes, he reached the place and rang for the butler to come out. Akira gave the package to him and the butler confirmed that Akira had correctly done his job. After all was said and done, Akira smiled as he turned and headed for the Amekage’s Tower.

Mission End!