Herbology Institute Construction /Mission&Training

[Kiyoshi]

(OOC: I know next to nothing about making a building, so don't be surprised if my character does something wrong or leaves things out.)

Name: Herbology Research Institute Construction pt B Rank: C IIC Length: 2 Days Difficulty: Easy Description: A new fixture is being constructed in Kusagakure. An institute for the sole purpose of studying plant life, the Herbology Research Institute will provide resources and assistants to any and all budding scientists in the field. They are looking for some ninja to help in the construction of the building. Objective: Aid in the construction of the herbology institute. Pt. B construction consists of laying brick for the walls, assembling the interior with wood, and constructing a roof. This should take 5 posts Reward: ¥1500

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Doubutsu Kougi (Animal Friendship)
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S", "S+B"
Skill: None
Effect: A technique that allows an animal to listen to the user through the course of friendship and kindness.
Special: ---
Drawback: Animal will not listen to the user what so ever. May only learn once per animal. If user gets a new animal user must relearn the technique for that specific animal.
Description: To train you must approach, play, feed, etc with the animal. You must love the animal as if it is your buddy. You must train long and hard to gain the trust and of your animal companion. If user has a Small Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "D" Rank. If user has a Medium Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "C" Rank. If the user has a Large Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "B" Rank. If the user has a Huge Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "A" Rank. If the user has a Gargantuan Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S" Rank. If the user has a Colossal Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S + B" Rank. This means that the user must first learn "S", and then learn an additional "B" because its such a huge creature.
Limit: Must have an Animal Companion. User cannot have if user knows Doubutsu Shirei (Animal Control)

Upon reaching the construction sight for the new herbology institute, Mikio slowed to a halt from his earlier running and took in the scene. It seemed as if the only the skeleton of the structure was set up, there didn't seem to be much of anything else done. Well, he would have a lot to do at least, it didn't seem that he'd have to worry about getting bored with so much work to be done. Civilians could be seen walking around and slowly doing various tasks, the speed at which they were working was close to a stand still. "Well, at least we know why they called in for help, right Gilligan?"

The black and white feathered bird didn't bother to respond, it just continued to fly around and ignored everything at the moment. Mikio shook his head slightly at his pet and walked over to towards where the majority of the workers were gathered. After receiving instructions on how to do the various tasks that he was assigned, he set off to work on building the brick walls first. How would he be able to construct a roof or set up the interior wood without that anyway?

The location of each wall was already marked by the foundation that covered the area that the structure would be on top of, at least he didn't have to worry about any of the measurements. Gilligan followed its owner and watched curiously as he begun to lay down the first layer of bricks, with some mortar placed in between them. Compared to the pace that everyone else was working at, he was working much faster, but that wasn't very surprising considering that he was trained in speed. Once he was done with the seventh layer of bricks, some movement near his feet caught his attention.

On the ground beneath his feet, there was a small mouse that was scurrying around, apparently looking for food or something. A rather loud squawk could be heard as Gilligan eyed the mouse with a predatory glint in its orange eyes. A smirk formed on Mikio's face as he looked back down at the mouse and picked it up by the tail, ignoring its squirming as he met the bird's gaze for a moment. The only warning given for what happened next was a single, loud word. "Catch!" The other workers around watched, slightly disturbed as he chucked the rodent into the air.

Panicked squeaks could be heard as the mouse soared through the air, but they were quickly silenced as his bird caught the furry animal and crushed the small bones between its talons. Landing on a nearby pile of bricks, the bird set down its mean and then ate it. The construction workers choose to ignore what had just happened, simply continuing their assigned tasks and not thinking about the poor little mouse again. "Good boy Gilligan, perhaps I can teach you some more tricks as well?" The boy's voice was laced with sarcasm, making it quite obvious that he wasn't being serious.

Gilligan, however, wasn't that familiar with human emotions, so he just tilted his head to the side in a confused manner. "Oh yeah that's right, you've never listened to me despite you being my pet for how many years now?" Mikio laughed lightly as the bird appeared to only get more confused, finding it amusing that the animal actually tried to figure out what he was saying. "How about you make yourself useful while your here instead of just staring? You could get me some more bricks with your feet or something."

Mikio was well aware that his pet didn't know what he had just said, so he demonstrated what he wanted Gilligan to do. Since he didn't have bird feet, he used his fingers to represent talons and showed the animal how it could help out. After about the fifteenth time of him repeating the demonstration, his pet finally caught on and began to try it. The bird wasn't able to lay the bricks on completely straight of put down mortar, but its owner helped with both of those. Whenever a brick was crooked, he simply moved it into the correct place and he took care of laying down all of the mortar.

As the bird got the hang of moving the bricks between the two places, it started moving faster and even tried being faster than its owner. Mikio realized what they were doing and smirked, there was no way he'd let an animal beat him. The two started a sort of competition to see who could set up the most bricks, with the human at a disadvantage because he still had to correct the animal's mistakes. Just because he wanted to win didn't mean that he'd let the job get sloppy, it'd look bad if he screwed up on his first mission.

By the time the brick was set up around the exterior of the foundation, the construction workers were simply staring at the duo in disbelief, how could anyone work that fast? The checked on the wall and noticed that there weren't any mistakes either, which made it even stranger for them to get done in such a short amount of time. Mikio was laying down on the ground, breathing heavily and trying to regain the energy that he had just spent on constructing the walls. Gilligan was perched on top of his head, also resting from all of the work, even ninja birds need rest sometimes.

Noticing another mouse walking by, the young ninja picked it up and simply gave it to his pet, not really feeling like throwing it this time. Gilligan lazily ate the small animal and continued to just sit on its owners head, ignoring the stares that the construction workers were giving them. A few moments passed before a condescending voice rang throughout the air, accompanied by a smug smirk. "You know I won, right?" The animal couldn't tell what exactly was said, but it still pecked at the boy a couple times because of the tone that he used. The red head chuckled at his pet's antics, who knew that birds could be fun?

[▐Shibu]

+10 -- Learned

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[Kiyoshi]

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Doubutsu Satori (Animal Understanding)
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S", "S+B"
Skill: None
Effect: A technique that allows the user and the animal to better communicate with one another by understanding what they would say without words.
Special: ---
Drawback: Animal will not understand the user what so ever and will not be able to perform tasks. May only learn once per animal. If user gets a new animal user must relearn the technique for that specific animal.
Description: A user and the animal are like two peas and a pod. It becomes an understanding of interpreted friendship. A user can give commands, telling the animal exactly what to do however the user must be specific. The user is able to understand what the animal means when it reacts, and the animal understands the user when he/she speaks. If user has a Small Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "D" Rank. If user has a Medium Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "C" Rank. If the user has a Large Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "B" Rank. If the user has a Huge Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "A" Rank. If the user has a Gargantuan Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S" Rank. If the user has a Colossal Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S + B" Rank. This means that the user must first learn "S", and then learn an additional "B" because its such a huge creature.
Limit: Must know Doubutsu Kougi (Animal Friendship), or Doubutsu Shirei (Animal Control)

Once the shinobi and his ninja pet finished resting, they got up and went to start on the next task. Now that the brick exterior of the wall was set up, the wood interior had to be as well. Since all of wood for the walls was outside, Mikio began the tedious task of moving the wood from outside of the walls to the inside. "I probably should have done this before we put up the bricks up." Sighing rather loudly, he turned towards his bird and glared accusingly. "I blame you."

Gilligan, not knowing what his owner had said, simply ignored the comment and continued to watch him move the prepared wood inside. Mikio rolled his eyes at the bird and continued his work; it became apparent to him that there was a lot of wood that was needed for the interior walls. 'I wish I moved all of this in before we built up the brick, it's a hassle to have to go around to the entrances. Oh well, there's nothing that I can do about that now.'[/color] Hanging his head slightly, he continued his dull task while sulking internally.

The bird wasn't quite sure of what was wrong with its owner, but it could sense just enough to know something was wrong. Gliding down from its position on one of the new walls, it landed on the ninja's shoulder. Gilligan nipped on the hair and gently pulled it, effectively gaining his attention. Mikio was, rather forcefully, pulled out of his sulking and looked at his pet. When his own green eyes clashed with the orange orbs of his pet, which caused a small smile to appear on his face.

"Thanks buddy, it wouldn't have been good if I continued to sulk over a minor inconvenience. You're a good birdie for snapping me out of it." Mikio scratched Gilligan's head for a moment before he continued to work on moving all of the wood. The small animal simply stayed perched on its owners shoulder, thinking that he would suddenly start mopping around again if it left. After a few minutes of just sitting there, it started twitching a little because it wanted to move around.

Mikio noticed the small motions of his pet and smiled slightly. "You can fly around for a bit if you'd like, I think I can manage on my own for a few minutes." Gilligan wasn't able to decipher exactly what they had said, but the dismissive tone in the voice was enough. Black and white feathers began to flap as the bird took off into the sky, simply circling around the incomplete structure. The red head shook his head slightly at his pet, they should know enough to be able tell that he'd be able to be alone for a short amount of time.

While the bird flew around in the air, Mikio was able to finally finish moving all of the wood inside. The others workers seemed to be helping a bit more than they were before, some probably didn't want to think that they were worse at their job than some random kid. Not long after they had moved all of the wall materials to the interior of the brick walls, Gilligan swooped down and circled around his owner for a few moments. The shinobi thought it was a little strange that the bird didn't land on his shoulder like usual, but he didn't dwell on it as he held out his arm for it to land on.

Perching itself on the extended arm, Gilligan sat up proudly and glared at all of the surrounding civilians. Some of the workers stared back while the majority of them just ignored it and continued on with their job. Mikio laughed at the animal for a few moments before moving it over to his shoulder so it wouldn't be in the way anymore. "Just because They don't like me working faster than them doesn't mean that they'll do anything. You seriously need to relax." Listening to its owner, the bird relaxed its tense muscles and started to amuse itself by pecking at the daisy's on the boy's head.

[¤ Lady Raиu ¤]

+10+

.Learned.

[Kiyoshi]

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Doubutsu Chîmuwâku (Animal Teamwork)
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S", "S+B"
Skill: None
Effect: A technique that allows the user and the animal to work together as a team. The user is able to omit a few words here and there without giving full descriptions allowing the animal to attack with the user or how the user instructs.
Special: ---
Drawback: Animal will not work as a team with the user in combinations as well as using lesser commands. May only learn once per animal. If user gets a new animal user must relearn the technique for that specific animal.
Description: Ever seen an animal and master work with one another to the point where a word or two is uttered and they work in sync. This allows this to happen. The user is able to utter a word or two command as the Animal Companion follows. Sometimes the Animal Companion may react already knowing what user may wish for the Animal Companion to do. This allows such feats. If user has a Small Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "D" Rank. If user has a Medium Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "C" Rank. If the user has a Large Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "B" Rank. If the user has a Huge Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "A" Rank. If the user has a Gargantuan Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S" Rank. If the user has a Colossal Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S + B" Rank. This means that the user must first learn "S", and then learn an additional "B" because its such a huge creature.
Limit: Must know Doubutsu Satori (Animal Understanding).

Now that all of the supplies were in the inside of the structure walls, Mikio was ready to begin setting up the wood for the interior. Some of the workers briefly showed him how it was supposed to be done before he went off on his own. It wasn't that he hated the civilians, but their slow pace infuriated him, so he'd much rather go it alone. The only living being on the same side of the wall as him was his pet.

Gilligan was beginning to get a bit antsy, he was bored to flying around and didn't have anything else to do at the moment. The bird did find that scaring the other workers by swooping down at them was amusing, but even that lost its interest after a while. Mikio wanted to help entertain his little feathered friend, but he knew that he should work on the mission as well. The animal had helped him out previously, so was there something that he could have it do this time as well?

Mikio was nailing the wood into place, and he was positive that a bird couldn't use a nail and hammer. The only thing that he could see the bird being capable of was holding the wood in place while he fashioned it in place. "Alright Gilligan, you come over here and sit on top of the wall and hold the wood still with your freaky talons while I nail it down." Gilligan glared because of the knock on his talons, but complied nonetheless. It'd rather have something to do besides flying around aimlessly anyway.

Perched on top of the wall, it had two of its talons securing itself to a stable surface while the other two held the wood in its place against the wall. Now that he didn't have to hold the wood while working with it, Mikio was able to work more efficient. "Alright, let's move on to the next one. Hold onto it once I lean it against the wall." Listening to what its owner said, the bird waited for the wood to be on the wall before grasping onto it. Repeating the instructions for about five of the pieces of wood, he started to just call out 'Next' and Gilligan understood what he meant.

After they had finished one of the walls, a worker approached them with a confused look on his face. "Hey kid, how can you be so fast at this even though you've never done it before?" Mikio couldn't help but roll his eyes at their stupidity, the obvious answer was that he was trained in speed. Not wanting to explain something so simple to a civilian, he simply ignored the man. However, they didn't leave and just stood there, apparently intent on getting their answer.

Sighing slightly, he dropped his tools and turned to the worker, but didn't answer his question. "Gilligan, make this pest get out of here." Hearing the command, the pet followed its instructions and charged the man, pecking at them until they left. Petting his bird, he told it that it did a good job and continued on with his mission. Every once and a while another worker approached them and asked some pointless question, all of them getting shooed away by the bird.

At first, he had to give Gilligan complete instructions, but after a while a simple direction like 'up' or 'left' was enough for it. The bird attacked in the directions that he had specified, sweeping down from the sky for 'up' and approaching on the side for any other direction as well. It attacked the worker from the left side for 'left', from the back for 'behind', and all others like those that were given.

With his bird aiding in setting up and walls and keeping the curious civilians at bay, Mikio was able to finish lining the interior of the walls with wood rather quickly. Once the last piece was up, he scratched his birds head and started whistling happily. The injured constriction workers made sure to give them a lot of space, not wanting wanting to bird to attack them again.

[▐Shibu]

+10 -- Learned.

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[Kiyoshi]

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Hana Bunshin no jutsu (flower clone)
Rank: D
Skill:: Ninjutsu
Effect:: Creates a clone from Flowers
Special:: handseals
Drawback:: Obviously if hit with fire or lighting, the flowers will be destroyed, thus the destruction of the clone and the ability to use the flowers afterwards.
Description::: After forming handseals, flowers from around the user begin to swirl and form together. It takes at least 10 hanakora flowers for the chakra to network and form a perfect clone. Other flowers can be used, but since this technique was designed for hanakora flowers it requires 50 regular flowers. Being made of flowers, these clones will disintegrate after a single hit. After they fall apart, the flowers can still be used in flower jutsu.
Limit:: hanako clan

Looking at the internal and external walls of the structure, a smile appeared on Mikio's face, this place was finally starting to look like an actual building. However, there was a glaring problem that he needed to work on. There was no roof, how could a building be called a building without something covering it? It couldn't, that's how. The red head carefully observed the workers as they began to set up the frame for the roof.

"That makes sense, the roof wouldn't be stable if there was nothing to support it. Right, Gilligan?" The bird just squawked and flew onto the completed wall, watching everyone work with a keen eye. Since they were putting up thick, sturdy, and heavy beams the animal wasn't able to help with anything, it was far too weak to hold up the support for the roof. Mikio wasn't willing to work with the annoying civilians that kept asking questions, so he began to work on the task by himself.

The wooden support beams for the roof weren't easy to carry alone, he ended up dragging them around because he wasn't able to balance it since it was too long. After he had secured the forth piece of wood for the roof, Mikio paused for a moment. 'Isn't there an easier way to do this? It wouldn't take nearly as much time if I had someone to help me, but I refuse to ask a civilian for aid.' The shinobi thought over the dilemma for a moment before something came to mind, there was a useful Hanakora technique that could solve his little problem.

The only problem was that he didn't know how to do it, but that could be fixed. Mikio took out a bag of seed and scattered ten in front of him, making them grow into daisies as soon as they touched the ground. Creating the required handseals, he expelled chakra into them and watched as the flowers on the ground started forming together. As they moved into position, something very wrong became apparent. Once the attempt was finished, the flowers created a somewhat humanoid form, but it had three arms, one leg, and looked like a bunch of petals rather than a body.

As the construction workers started to laugh at the miserable jutsu, a small tick appeared on his forehead. Knowing that it would be bad to attack civilians for laughing at him, Mikio took his anger out on the lump of flowers instead. Stomping on the pitiful form, the flowers broke apart and landed back on the ground, still in relatively good condition. The boy was a little intrigued, the flowers weren't ruined after one use? Deciding that this would save him the trouble of creating new ones, he was going to simply reuse them until he did the technique correctly.

Creating the seals again, Mikio was careful to control the chakra going into them, thinking that would make the close take on the correct form. Once the last handseal was cast, the daisies began to move again. However, instead of creating a barely distinguishable mass of flowers, the shape they made was remarkably more human. The number of limbs that it had created was correct and in the right places on top of that. Vague facial features were visible and the coloring of the entire thing held some resemblance to him as well, but it was very rough.

Even though this new attempt was much better, he wasn't satisfied with it and punched the failed clone in the face, finding it to be more amusing than just dispelling the jutsu. Making the seals for the third time, he fine tuned his chakra control over it even more for the technique. Observing the variously colored daisies as they began to take shape, a small smile appeared on his face as they formed together correctly. The technique appeared to be a success this time, the likeness between himself and the clone was spot on.

Now that he had something to help him that wasn't a civilian, Mikio continued his original task of setting up the support for the roof. The large beams were significantly easier to move into place since there was another set of hands to help him out. The other workers could be heard snickering at first, they found it amusing that the boy helping them out was using flowers for the job. However, their mocking laughter didn't last long once the shinobi and his clown picked up the pace, proving that he was faster at another aspect of their job.

The clone technique had to be recast every once and a while, usually due to it hitting something too hard and breaking. Mikio quickly learned that the jutsu was just as fragile as the flowers that created it, but he didn't mind much. Even with the small delays of doing the technique again, he was still able to put up the beams successfully. Some fell sometimes when the clone was dispelled, but it was incredibly useful in setting up the support for the structure's roof.

About an hour later, the all of the support beams that would keep the roof from collapsing in were in place. Mikio dispelled his flower clone and picked up one of the red daisies that had formed it, placing it behind his right ear. Whistling to himself, he ignored the construction workers as he began to move onto the final task of his mission.

[hotaru]

+10

Beautiful \o.o/

[Kiyoshi]

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Hana Ninpou: Rasenchou no Hanakahen (Flower Ninja Art: Spiraling Dome of Flower Petals)
Rank: D Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a dome of spiraling flower petals.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The technique has no offensive value beyond distracting the opponent. Only lasts for three turns. Weak to fire.
Description: By channeling chakra throughout a mass of flower petals, the user is capable of lifting them up into the air and causing them to float around in circles. The petals move very quickly, around and about in a circle, which can cause a huge distraction inside of a fight. The flowers will circle inside of a dome of chakra that can be no larger than ten meters in diameter for every rank of Difficulty Class that the user has obtained. The dome will remain only for three turns, unless the user obtains mastery over the Hanakora Clan, in which case, the dome will remain for five turns.
Limit: Hanakora Clan Puranto Ninpou : Haeru

Only one part of the mission remained, and that was to finish constructing the roof. Now that the support for it were set up, they had to set up the rest of it. A bunch of beams couldn't really be called a roof anyway, they wouldn't do anything except look weird. Noticing that the other workers were laying down large pieces of wood in between the beams and nailing them down, so there'd be something for the shingles to go on.

Mikio stretched before starting on the same thing as them, dragging the large pieces up a ladder and nailing it to the supports on each side. The wood being used was rather thick, it was strong enough to withstand the weight of the workers. They used this to their full advantage as they walked over it to get to the different places on the soon-to-be roof. As more and more of the construction was completed, the shinobi was forced to work closer to the civilians since there wasn't anything to do further away.

The workers were curious and kept asking him annoying questions, apparently forgetting about earlier when he had Gilligan drive them away. However, he didn't want to do the same thing this time, they wouldn't have anywhere to go if they wanted to continue their job anyway. No, driving them away would only hinder his mission, but perhaps a distraction would take their minds off him? He figured it was worth a shot, if it didn't work then he'd just ignore them until his mission was over with.

Dumping out the rest of the seeds in the bag he had used earlier, he made them grow into the different colored Hanakora daisies. Stopping their ignorant babbling for a moment, they all paused to see what he was doing. Once the handseals were formed, the flowers began to rise up from the roof and spin in a roughly circular shape. They were only airborne for a few moments before the obviously failed attempt fell back onto the wood of the roof.

Laughter erupted from everyone present, which caused a tick to form on the ninja's forehead. "Just shut the hell up already! I can't work with you guys distracting me the entire time!" Mikio was breathing heavily and his face was slightly flushed at the end of his little break out, his green eyes glaring at everyone within sight. The construction workers immediately stopped talking after that, allowing him to work in blissful silence.

However, the chatter broke out again when they neared the end of nailing down the wood. The red head just pretended that they weren't there as they finished laying down all of the pieces, then immediately went to the opposite side of the roof once they were done. Mikio set up the shingles on his side of the building as the rest of the workers did the other, but his solitude didn't last as long as he would have liked. As the two parties moved closer together once again, they picked back up on their questions.

Letting out an deep sigh, he looked over to see that the flowers that he had previously created were still laying on the wood, their location had yet to be covered in shingles. Figuring that he may as well try the technique again, he made the handseals again and controlled the chakra going into them more carefully. When the last seal was formed, the flowers rose from their landing place and went into the air again.

While gaining a few feet of altitude, they began to move in a smoother circle than they had previously. Multi-colored streaks were created by the daisies as they began to move around faster, moving somewhere around the correct speed for the technique. However, just like the attempt before it, the jutsu wore off and the flowers fell down again. Mikio was sure that it was supposed to last longer than that, it did when he say another preform it at least.

If the civilians were laughing again at his failed attempt, he didn't notice as he started over. Figuring that more chakra would increase the duration of the technique, he did the seals again and pumped in more chakra. The daisies rose up once more and began to spin around at a fast pace, similar to how it had previously. Although, it differed from the last try because it didn't fall, it kept moving in a dome-like shape.

All of the construction workers were apparently fascinated with the large mass of flowers moving around, almost all of them choose to stare at the display rather than bother Mikio. The boy was happy with this new development, they were no longer bugging him with distracting questions. Now that he was able to focus on the task at hand, he finished putting the shingles on the roof in record time.

Now that he was apparently done with his mission, Mikio began to leave. Gilligan followed his owner obediently as they moved away from the construction sight. Taking one last look back at his work, he noticed that the dome of flowers was still there. The civilians apparently hadn't noticed his departure and continued to stare at the technique, seeming to be rather ignorant of their surroundings. The shinobi smiled a bit and continued on his way to the Kage's tower, figuring that the daisies would either fall when he got far enough away or after a certain amount of time.

[Exit]

[hotaru]

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