Menial Tasks (mission)

[Molokai]

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Name: [ Capture the Pets. ]
Rank: D
IIC Length: 1 day
Difficulty: Easy
Description: It seems that Mrs. Yamanagi’s pets have escaped again, and are roaming the village and country, causing trouble for civilians. Cats, dogs, birds and even a few rats are scattered about the area. Find them and return them to Mrs. Yamanagi.
Objective: Capture the animals and return them to Mrs. Yamanagi.
Reward: 700 Ryo

Stretching out his arms and shoulders as he walked along the cool ground of Mist Village, Toru prepared himself for the confrontation with the mission requester. Mrs. Yamanagi sounded like the crazy-cat-lady type, probably the type that would scream and swing her handbag at him once he knocked on her door. . . That was the part that he was dreading most.

So, he developed a plan of action. The first thing he would do is knock on the door and make a point of holding the mission paper in front of him, thus giving the senile old bat enough time to realize that whomever was behind the paper was there to get her animals back. Only then would he reveal his face and hope to hell she didn't forget about the paper when she looked at him.

Tapping on her door with trepidation, he immediately raised the open mission sheet before she could open the door. When she did, Toru stole a glance at her and thanked the heavens that she didn't have a handbag. . . "Oh, you're here to find my precious animals? Good, good. Come see me when you've found them all." She then closed the door without ever bothering to look at his face. . .

Well, that was easy. Moving on, where are these pesky animals? More importantly, how the hell was he expected to know the difference between them and the wild animals? Fuck. Mrs. Yamanagi's Alzheimer's was probably advanced enough that he could bring back any random furry animal and she'd accept it as her own.

Speaking of which, Toru heard the gentle ringing of a very small bell moving around behind him, which turned out to be a cat with a collar and a bell. They both stood there for a moment and stared at each other with wide-eyed surprise, while Toru formed handseals underneath his flytrap that would go unnoticed by the cat. Suddenly, a set of wooden bars erupted from the ground around the feline and formed a solid roof to prevent it's escape.

Breaking his stony posture, he lifted the box gingerly and allowed the bottom of the box to form and support the cat's weight. Meanwhile, the furry vagabond was thrashing and panicking about getting captured by this strange creature, and barely stopped moving long enough for Toru to identify it. "Mr. Mittens. . .? Really? Depositing the boxed cat by Mrs. Yamanagi's front door, Toru continued his search.

Creeping carefully out of a pile of garbage very near to where Toru caught the cat was a rather large rat, wearing an obnoxious belled collar. The vermin definitely belonged to the old lady, and the cat earlier was definitely trying to eat it. Judging by how fat and slow the worthless rodent was, Toru guessed that cat had wanted to eat it for a very long time. Oh, well. Another cage was formed before the rat could hide again, and this too was stacked in front of the door.

What a surprise, a jingling dog soon came wandering into view, sniffing about for something that it was clearly frustrated about losing. Toru figured it must have been the cat. This beast too was trapped where it stood by the magical cage from the ground, and tried very vehemently to bite it's captors hand off as he was deposited back to the home of his owner.

What was next? A bird with a collar? Chirp. dingaling. Yeah, that was definitely what was next. But how was he going to snag a bird? The annoying, colorful macaw was sitting in a tree above the spot where he had captured the other animals, clearly eying him and figuring out his strategy. If the little shit could talk, Toru decided, he was going to bite it's head off. Considering the mission scroll in his back pocket, Toru activated his paper release and stealthily inched the sheet closer to the tree.

It burst upward with incredible speed, wrapping up the bird and causing it to drop to the ground, squawking indignantly the entire way down. Toru stopped it from hitting the ground too hard, and just lowered it gently before creating the cage around it. Dropping the final creature at the old lady's door, he knocked again and took off.

If he got the wrong animals, she'd have no idea.

[Molokai]

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Name: [ Lost and Found. ]
Rank: D
IIC Length: 2 days
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Old man Morosuke has lost a precious family heirloom. The item in question is a intricately carved wooden locket, Morosuke has reason to believe that he lost the item only a day ago, although he is unsure of exactly when he lost it. The elderly man has detailed out his entire day so that someone can go everywhere he went and search for the locket. As this is not a high priority mission, nor is it a dangerous mission we will be sending either a single genin, or a group of genin to complete the task.
Objective:Read the outline of old man Morosuke's day and search each location he visited in order to find the lost air loom. Once found return the item to the Mizukage tower.
Reward: 500 Ryo

Toru's next task was a little bit easier, but a lot more troublesome. More old people constantly losing their stuff, it was getting ridiculous. Aren't old people supposed to be really wise? Dropping a family heirloom in a ninja village didn't seem too terribly wise, so clearly there was something else at work here. Oh, well. At least old man Morosuke didn't try to hit him when he knocked on the door. In fact, he seemed rather pleased and picked up quite quickly that the strange plant man was a shinobi here to help.

He started to read the outline of his day to Toru, who merely snatched it and glanced at it for a moment, his eidetic memory taking a detailed snapshot. Thanking the old man and promising a prompt return, he left his humble abode to search for his pendant. With that one glance Toru had memorized the man's outline, and in the same glance memorized every little detail about the pendant itself, down to how many links were in the chain. Armed with this knowledge, he started at the end of his day and worked backwards.

Toru started off in the market district, checking the ground with a glance and examining all of the things hanging from stalls and such. Merchants were yelling and hawking at everyone that walked by, decidedly ignoring him as he approached to check the jewelry wares for it. Either it wasn't there, or somebody had already bought it, because that locket was most definitely not anywhere in the market district.

Moving on, Toru found himself on consummation row, where every single seller off food in the village came to give customers a wide range of poisons to pick. Why did Toru think it would be here? Why not? It could have fallen off and landed in a particularly juicy cut of brown mystery meat and was just indistinguishable from the rest of the slop lining the streets. But, alas, it was not there either. Stupid little wooden thing, why did the old coot need it, anyway?

Deciding the mission wasn't worth his time, Toru abandoned the search early and decided to just tell poor old Morosuke that his locket was gone forever. Upon the old man's arrival at the door, Toru's sentence was cut short and his jaw became detached from his face. There, in full view, was the locket. Hanging from old man Morosuke's neck, just like he said it was when he was walking. Toru pointed to some vague corner behind the old man and snagged the locket off of his neck when he turned to look, then shrugged and handed it to him.

Old man Morosuke was very grateful. It would have been a disaster if he had lost that locket.