Kaito and the Case of the Missing Locket [M/P]

[Kaito Takihashi]

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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: 1500 Ryo

Kaito began to back track the elderly client’s schedule the minute he left the Mizukage’s tower. For such an elderly man, the client seemed to be able to get around quite a bit. Kaito decided he would travel in reverse, starting from the man’s home and would go throughout the rest of his day from there.

Kaito headed towards the elderly man’s home, looking for the locket on the ground just in case. That certainly would have made this mission easier, but it seemed as if he wasn’t going to be that lucky. As Kaito approached the man’s home, he noticed a couple of planters at the windows. He looked through the colorful flowers near there, but only found more flowers and dirt.

Next up was the market. The entire market. This man had seemingly visited every shop and stall there was to visit. Kaito began his journey through the market, asking stall owners and some patrons if they had seen the locket. Each and every person answered no. Kaito continued on his way through the busy market, hastily searching the ground, and kept bumping into people.

Still, the locket was not to be found. It seems as if the man had really lost it. Kaito took a few minutes to take a break and grab something to eat. He figured that he would be able to think better on a full stomach. He stopped by a restaurant and ordered some fish. As he ate, he reviewed the next place the elderly man had been to. As he was looking down the list, he noticed that the restaurant Kaito was in had been visited by the client as well.

Kaito began to get hopeful. He approached the manager, and asked him if he had seen the elderly man with a beautiful wooden locket. The manager said the he remembered the man, but he didn’t seem to have the locket on him. Kaito thanked the manager and sat back down. He was relieved that he hadn’t gone through all that trouble just to have missed it.

After Kaito finished his lunch, he began on his path to the next place: a jewelry shop near the gate. Kaito began to head that way and noticed that he was nearing the shadier part of town. Kaito didn’t like to visit this part of town as it housed common thieves and women of ill-repute. However, he wasn’t one to judge. Perhaps many of them had just fallen on hard times. Kaito knew that he would steal if it meant feeding his family.

Still, nothing of consequence happened as he approached the jewelry shop. Kaito was surprised that someone would risk having a store that held as much value. Still, as Kaito asked the shopowner about the elderly man, he received the same answer he got from the restaurant manager. Kaito took a look at the jewler’s wares to make sure the locket was not among them , and he was satisfied after an extensive search that the jeweler had not attempted to sell the locket for his own profit.

Still, this meant that Kaito had not found the locket, and it would get dark soon. He was going to have to increase his speed in which he searched to be able to find it in a timely manner.

[Kaito Takihashi]

Kaito continued looking for the wooden locket, but it was still nowhere to be found. After he left the jewelry store in the seedy part of town, Kaito headed towards his next destination. The next place was a park. It was a park that Kaito knew well, and there would be many places there that the man could have lost it. This was turning out to be more difficult than Kaito had previously thought. The worst thing though, was that this was the last thing on the list. If Kaito couldn’t find it at this park, he would have to go over everything AGAIN.

So, on he went to the park. Much to Kaito’s dismay, there were a good number of people there as well. Even though it was as misty as ever, people had come to enjoy the outdoors. Kaito began to look along the ground. He knew it was a long shot, but maybe he’d find it just lying on the ground. As time passed, though, Kaito realized that he wasn’t going to find it here. No, he had figured that if it were here, it would be in one of the many bushes that lined the large lake that was the center of the park.

Kaito began to look through bush after bush. The worst part of this was that each bush was the kind that had the leaves that poked you a good bit when applied any pressure to the end of them. As Kaito was pressing his body against a bush full of them, he was experiencing some pretty bad discomfort. Still, he knew that this was nothing compared to being in combat. If he couldn’t tough through this, there was no way that he would be able to survive in a fight. He also knew he couldn’t fail. This was his first mission, plus it was only a D-Rank assignment. He should be able to handle this with no issue whatsoever.

So Kaito pressed on with his search through the painful bushes, yet nothing turned up. Kaito sighed and looked out on the lake. He saw something floating in the water. And there it was. Somehow, the wooden locket had made its way out onto the lake itself. Kaito, hopped over the bush in front of him and made sure to distribute some chakra to his feet so that he would be able to walk on the water.(1) As he got closer and closer to his prize, he held his breath. He knew something bad was going to happen. It usually did at this point. As soon as he was about to pick up the locket, a fish jumped out of the water and grabbed the necklace the locket was attached to.

Shit, thought Kaito. He performed some handseals and focused his chakra to his mouth, ears, eyes, and lungs. (2) He also released the chakra from his feet holding him on top of the water. As he swam, Kaito was able to see the fish with the locket clearly. The best part was that it was swimming right towards him. Finally, a bit of luck. The locket was dangling out of its mouth, and as the fished passed, Kaito grabbed the locket tightly. The result was him almost ripping it of the fish’s mouth.

Still Kaito had finally retrieved the locket. He surfaced from the lake and got out onto dry land. He quickly ran home to change into some dry clothes and dry off, then headed straight for the Mizukage’s tower.


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Suimen Hokou no Waza - Act of Water Surface Walking
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: Allows a Non-Ninja the ability to perform even more Advanced chakra techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: Non Ninjas must learn in order to learn Advanced chakra techniques. Ninjas gain this technique for free in the beginning however does not add into Character Class like other starting techniques. Does not work on Animal Companions.
Description: A variation on the Kinobori no Waza (Act of Tree Climbing), the art of water surface walking allows a ninja to walk on water as if it was a solid surface. Focusing an even amount of chakra out of the soles of their feet, they can balance themselves on the very surface of the water. Allows a user to learn up to Any Rank Chakra related Techniques within the rightful restrictions.
Limit: Universal NinJutsu Technique.

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Suichuu (Underwater)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user stay underwater for some time.
Difficulty Class
D Rank Difficulty Class - 20 minutes
C Rank Difficulty Class - 40 minutes
B Rank Difficulty Class - 80 minutes
A Rank Difficulty Class - 120 minutes
S Rank Difficulty Class - 180 minutes

Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: After returning to surface the user must rest half of the time used underwater. As example, if the user has stayed under for 20 minutes, he’ll have to rest 10 minutes before the jutsu can be used again.
Description: Simple technique used by channeling chakra to mouth, lungs, ears and eyes. With chakra moved to mouth and lungs the user gathers air from the water and is able breath underwater, chakra guided to ears protects from the aching caused by pressure, lenses of chakra protecting eyes work like swim goggles.
Limit: Must have Water Release