Stacking those missions. Like a BAWSS.

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Smugglers
Rank: C
Repeatable: Yes
Description: Konohagakure must be properly supplied and for that the shinobi, at times, must complete rather crude tasks. A shipment of goods, the contents kept in secret, must be protected from bandits on the road. Guard the caravan fiercely, for thugs will attempt to steal it.
Reward: 50 EXP and 1,000 Ryo

Helios was rather astounded by the fact that he couldn’t get much sleep; normally he would require around ten hours sleep just to be able to keep awake for the rest of the day but, for some unexplained reason, he could only get a few hours sleep and was wide awake as anything. He began to wonder to himself if this was because he was beginning to get anxious about doing more missions.

The boy’s face turned to look at the overhanging clock and noticed that it was only four in the morning, only achieving five hours sleep; only half of his usual sleeping pattern and yet he was ready to climb the stairs of the mission office anyway. With great agility he spun off his bed and onto the floorboards with his back turned to the walls. Quickly he grabbed his equipment from the cabinet and his uniform from the hangers on the door, whipping his clothes on with great haste before setting out the door.

The sky was still pretty dark as well as Helios stood outside in front of his door and taking a look around. The dark violet of the sky blanketed the village of the leaf and a dreaming vale of shadow, all except Helios of course. The breeze was pretty cold as well but the young boy could handle himself; he had handled a lot worse considering some of the missions he had gone on over the last week or so. Regardless of the weather around him the boy began to make his way to the mission office.

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The entire mission office looked so much different during the early morning than it did during the brightened day; the hallways were shrouded in darkness and shadow as the wooden walls turned from a mid shade of brown to a darkened purple color, with the only sources of light were scattered lights across the walls that sat between each office door as well as on the opposing walls in parallel with each other. Helios couldn’t help but feel a tad unnerved too.

Nonetheless the young boy made his way to the mission captain’s office room in order to pick up a new mission but, as he turned to the door, noticed that it was ajar with the light dimly lit as though someone had broken in. Opening it slowly and peeking in, he couldn’t notice anything out of the ordinary from where he was. Instead, he fully walked in and turned up the lighting to see only the desk empty except for several sheets of paper, more than likely mission statements.

The boy found that all of them were of C rank missions, all with different information and objectives. Each document had a few pages to each one but Helios couldn’t wait for the captain to come back if he was indeed gone for the moment. Instead, Helios picked up each file, all seven in total, and placing them in his pouch except for one he kept held in hand. He decided that this would be the first mission he would undertake for the day; a delivery mission of some sort.

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It was time to get a move on despite being so early in the morning, although as Helios began to make his way to the sanctified checkpoint he began to understand that an early escort mission would mean that, hopefully, bandits would not be scouring the roads for unwary supply caravans. The sun was still set upon the early morning horizon so it proved to be valuable cover for Helios considering he was cloaked entirely of bright white clothing.

After around thirty minutes the boy made his way to the marked checkpoint; a large stone tower that had a sort of docking bay for caravans. It seemed that at every checkpoint the caravan would restock on rations for the people travelling with it, which was around fifteen minutes per stop before they were sent on their way. The tower had several archers along the spire while foot ninja stood upon solid ground at the base, most more than likely Chuunin or Jounin.

The boy made his way to the single caravan that was parked next to several loading crates next to the tower’s western face, taking a quick scan of the area as he saw two Konoha ninja loading a few crates into the caravan. An elderly man stood by watching, who was more than likely the caravan’s escort. Helios made his way to the convoy as the three turned to him, with the two shinobi loading the last of the shipment. ”I’ll be your escort today. Do not worry; you’ll be safe as long as you’re with me.”

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Already making good time Helios and the old man walked several yards in front of the horse-towed caravans as they made their way down the dirt path in the forest on their way back to the Hidden Leaf village. Helios didn’t seem to pay much attention to his surroundings despite the recent bandit activities that occurred outside of the village some time, but he knew that whatever he encountered he could take care of it within record time; after all, he had some combat experience already.

However, the horses seemed to become considerably anxious the more they proceeded through the forest. Helios began to hear rustling in the trees and in the bushes despite there being absolutely no breeze outside; it was just considerably cold and yet he could hear the swaying of branches and the flutter of leaves upon trees and shrubbery. The horses slowed to a quick halt as they themselves began to look around to where the noise was coming from.

Suddenly several darts flew out from the trees striking at the horses, killing one of them and injuring the other in the hind legs causing it to collapse in a heap on the ground. The old man was visibly scared as he ran around to the back of the caravan and jumped in. Helios, however, was not fazed by such trickery despite the caravan stalling. From within a quick moment of time four bandits jumped from the trees to the ground below, each drawing a small dagger from their sheathes.

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Helios didn’t seem to mind the abrupt company, although in real fact he applauded their tenacity as well as welcomed their unspoken wishes for an early demise. The four bandits were rather intelligent in knowing that they had to get rid of the young boy first before they could proceed to capturing and looting the caravan back to wherever their main base was, although they were not as intelligent as Helios would give them credit for.

One of the bandits to the left of Helios made a quick dash for him with a dagger held up in front of him hoping that some sort of spiked charge would get the better of the boy. Helios simply smirked as his body shifted to the left to face the bandit head on, and with a single swiping motion of the chokuto he slashed the bandit from bottom left to top right, severing his entire body in half as the other three bandits looked on in horror.

As though a means to catch the white haired swordsman off guard another bandit from behind charged in before Helios would turn around or even to react to the bandit’s movements. Helios didn’t need to though as he was quite contempt with where he sat for the time being. He could hear the bandit approaching and as he got within reach Helios plunged the chokuto blade behind him, impaling the bandit in a crouching motion so he could not reach with the dagger. The blade continued through his abdomen before jutting from the bandit’s back, causing a painful and slow death as he gurgled blood from his open mouth before slumping to the ground in a heap.

The last remaining two tried a pincer flanking attack as they both dashed in with daggers at the ready, although as both tried to charge in Helios drew his newly acquired katana from its scabbard and doing a powerful three-sixty degree turn, striking at both Bandits and decapitating them swiftly. The blood was more than what Helios could hope for today even in the darkened sky he could make out the crimson glistening upon the floor. In any case, it was time for the boy to proceed on, somehow.

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It seemed that with one of the horses dead and the other injured the caravan was a sitting duck for the time being. However, the old man was a smart one and, from within the crates that were supposed to be delivered to the hidden leaf, found a flare that the Konoha ninja would pick up as a distress signal that had the Hiraishin seal upon it. The old man jumped from the cart of the wagon and set it up, within second flying up into the air and leaving a light green trail of smoke in the sky.

Within a few minutes the two of them were happy to see several Konoha nin show up in order to help out with the carriage. The medic nin with them was able to use her techniques to heal the injured horse as it raised back to its hooves steadily. Within moments the caravan was beginning to move on again this time with several Konoha Chuunin in tow in case any more bandits attack. Helios didn’t mind though, he welcomed their petty challenges.

In as much time as it took to get to the checkpoint the caravan got to the Konoha gates relatively unscathed besides the one fallen horse. Helios didn’t seem to care though as he took out the mission statement and putting a big tick on the back of the sheet to show that the mission was done. Now he had to move onto another assignment scroll that he picked up back at the office.

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Incrimination
Rank: C
Repeatable: Yes
Description: A Chuunin within Konohagakure has proven to be quite the trouble by stirring up the youths, persuading them to cause nothing but trouble through vandalism and wanton destruction. This man must be an example for what happens to dissenters, yet we cannot arrest him for he has used only words and is guilty of no crime directly. Incriminate him for any crime you see fit. Use your imagination and fine shinobi skills for this.
Reward: 50 EXP and 1,000 Ryo

The next mission statement was one that perhaps Helios had to wait for; some Chuunin has been inciting the younger students of the academy to start causing trouble for the village although Helios could not possibly begin to understand why they would ever consider doing this to their own village. The boy scanned through the document and noticed an attached photograph pinned to the underside of the sheet with the Chuunin’s face. He didn’t recognize the man in the photo but nonetheless decided to take a look around to see if he could find him.

Helios proceeded through the Konoha gates and back into the village square, but as he made his way towards the academy, where he believed the Chuunin would be located, he began to see some of the listed vandalism traits that were in the mission sheet upon the walls of the village buildings. The boy took note that they all seemed to be random graffiti tags in various colours although they were illegible; they were just random whirls and lines. Further down he could see more serious crimes that of broken window panels, holes in the blockwork of structures, removed pavement slabs, so forth.

Looking at the central clock tower in the middle of the village the time only showed half-past seven. The sun began to creek in from the darkened horizon, chasing away the dark with its bright violet veil. It was still relatively early for the academy students to be arriving so Helios decided he had to hang around for another half hour or so, at least until the Chuunin instructors arrived at which point he could try and have words with the offending officer.

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The sun seemed to fly across the sky with heavenly grace as the darkness was chased away from the brightness of daytime. Helios couldn’t help but feel somewhat anxious to get this mission over and done with; he hated the thought that there were those who were in the village that wanted to cause harm to, what was essentially, their sanctuary from the rest of the threatening shinobi world. The boy could not help but want to gut this Chuunin instructor like a helpless trout, but mission requirements dictates it cannot be.

Helios began to notice that many of the kids were starting to flood into the academy’s front courtyard as they waited for their instructors to open the doors for them. The kids did, well, usual kid things; Helios saw a few of them playing ninja, other kids playing tag, some of them simply showing off what their parents bought them during the weekend ranging from small wooden weapons to painted festival masks. Whenever Helios saw those masks he always wanted to purchase one, although he didn’t want to appear so kid-like.

The bell began to ring for the students to line up outside, as good form meant good practice. Three instructors walked outside but none of them were recognizable to Helios and none of them fit the photo supplied. One by one the many lines of students began to walk through the double doors, but Helios took note of three particular students; those kids were the ones he had shown the importance of academy jutsu some days ago. As the last of them walked in, Helios proceeded to follow.

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It was pretty hard to find the Chuunin amidst all of the activity within the academy, to the point where Helios was finding it difficult to get the co-operation of the staff that worked here. Despite the fact that he was undertaking a rather important mission on behalf of the village he was continuously told that he would not be able to walk freely looking for whoever he was looking for. He could begin to understand considering that if he began to go headhunting for a Chuunin during class hours it would arouse suspicion from the students. He had to be rather discrete.

Eventually, the boy was able to get the attention of one of the senior Jounin instructors. Helios showed the man the picture, who immediately recognized the Chuunin in question. The only issue was that the Chuunin, Tetsuo Yamato, was currently scheduled for a meeting with the Mission Captain and was not to be disturbed, and after that he was scheduled to teach basic academy techniques later on today. It seemed that Helios had to come back later during the day.

However, as soon as he was about to leave he saw one of his little academy friends, Jiro Joutou, coming out of one of the classrooms. The boy had his head down and a single palm over his head. Helios had wondered what happened to him; he didn’t look okay. The boy proceeded to Jiro with a concerned look on his face, but Jiro, not seeing where he was going, bumped into him. As the boy stumbled back his head lifted up to reveal a bruise on his forehead and a small cut on his cheek. ”Jiro? What the hell happened to you?”

”Oh, Helios! It… it’s nothing! I just got into a fight, that’s all!”

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Helios couldn’t believe in Jiro’s words; he wasn’t great at techniques but he was a strong and capable child. From the wounds that were inflicted it must have been from a heavy blow, definitely not something capable of a child of his age group. ”Jiro I think we both know that that isn’t the truth. Come with me, you can tell me in private.” It was a wonder why Jiro accepted without hesitation, maybe he was scared of Helios or maybe he just needed someone to talk to.

Without Chuunin intervention the two of them made their way out of the academy doors and into the courtyard. With all of the other students inside the area was a deserted aside from Helios and Jiro. They made their way by the swings under the tree branches to conceal them from any onlookers from the higher storey classrooms before Helios began to speak. ”I’ve seen beating from people and what’s happened to you is not something a child of your age could do. What you got looks like a beating from someone older. So, come on Jiro, tell me what happened.” The boy was almost in tears by this stage.

”I… Me and some other kids… we were told to cause trouble around the village. And if he didn’t, he… he’d beat us…!”

Helios was intrigued by this and yet disgusted at the same time. It was definitely the same guy who was instigating the vandalism that was beating these kids. Helios looked down at the boy, seeing the tears well up in his eyes. He dug into his pouch for the paper and the photograph and showed it to Jiro. ”Jiro, can you confirm if this is the guy who hit you?” Jiro looked up, eye widened and nodded as he looked up to Helios. ”It’s my mission to find this guy and bring him in, and now that we’ve evidence of child beatings we have something to convict him of. Don’t worry; this bastard will go down one way or the other.”

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Helios waited outside in the courtyard as Jiro had already returned back to class. According to the Jounin instructor this Tetsuo Yamato would arrive back at the academy at just before lunchtime, at 11:20 PM. Helios did not budge from where he was; for hours he waited patiently for the scumbag Chuunin to turn up, sitting on the swing as other members of staff kept walking past him giving him awkward looks. Helios did not care though; his eyes would not deviate from the academy entrance.

Suddenly, there he was; within sight of Helios was the Chuunin he was after, approaching the academy entrance. Helios smirked and, with a single hand seal, use his Henge no Jutsu to transform himself into a small child version of himself. He hoped to use this to draw the Chuunin’s attention, which undoubtedly worked; the Chuunin turned to see Helios sitting on the swing, swinging his legs back and forth. The Chuunin, looking rather agitated, made his way over to Helios.

”Hey kid, you’re supposed to be in class. Or, if you want, you can do your teacher a little favour. Take these spray cans and start hitting up the village. If you do, I’ll teach you a really good technique!”

Helios reached out and grabbed one of the cans. It was of a dark red color, the same color as the graffiti tags that he saw on the way here along one of the buildings. However, Helios chucked it behind him with a defiant look on his face. ”No, I don’t wanna do any naughty things! I won’t listen to you!” Helios changed his vocal pattern to sound a lot more child-like, but that only agitated the Chuunin even more. Suddenly the Chuunin raised his hand behind him and gave Helios a powerful slap in the face as he tumbled backwards off the swing.

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It was enough for Helios though. As he got hit, the transformation wore off and revealed his normal, more mature look. The Chuunin was shocked; he had recognised Helios as a violent Genin from some of his peers. Things were not about to change though; a single unlock of the eight gates sprung Helios to his feet and, with a quick motion of his sword, he slashed off the Chuunin’s right hand. It angered Helios knowing that there was some scumbag in the village who would hit children and make them do his dirty work, but he let it get the better of him despite the plastered smirk on his face as the Chuunin yelled out in pain while he collapsed to a seated position in the grass.

”You’re coming with me, shit head,” Helios did not try to hide his anger from the fallen instructor as he proceeded over to him. With a single arm he hoisted him up to his feet and then turned him away, grabbing him in a headlock and using his sword to cut off the equipment pouch from his leg so that he couldn’t reach for any weapons to retaliate. ”I’m sure the captain will have fun hearing how you beat children with some nice evidence to back it. Oh, before I forget, any sign of struggling and I will mount your skull a top of my sword.”

Minutes later Helios handed over the Chuunin to a couple of Jounin outside of the captain’s office along with the sheet the mission was documented on. Helios put a tick on the bottom before handing it over as well as the previous mission he had taken. Without a word from any of them Helios proceeded back into the village square, getting ready for his next listed mission.

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