crocodile must diee

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Wild Crocodile! Rank: C
Ninja needed: 1-3
Mission info: A massive crocodile is roaming the countryside. Find it and kill it. Or tame it - the choice is yours!

Some time had passed since her last mission, but this time around Kanae felt it better to go it alone and get the job done on her own. There was never going to be anyone who could get something completed quite as well as she could, and she wasn’t feeling the whole ‘relying on someone else’ to help her succeed.

And, seeing as how her last mission with partners hadn’t gone so well--

Nah, fuck that. Mission partners always seemed to complicate things or slow her down, and today she’d need her speed and to keep things relatively simple. Today was all about hunting down a wild crocodile in the countryside that had been running amuck lately and Kanae intended on getting rid of the reptile in a timely fashion so she could try squeezing in another mission before the day’s end.

Now, if she were a crocodile – where would she be?

With a roll of her cornflower hued eyes, fingertips found their way to the edges of her facial scarf and they set to work immediately skimming over the fabric in routine, ensuring the accessory remained in its proper place draped across the lower-half of her face. Once confirmed that it was still in place, Kanae set off down the path that would undoubtedly lead her deeper into the countryside, and ultimately to wherever the pesky crocodile was lurking about.

“A fucking crocodile… really?” Ugh…

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It didn’t take much time, a lot of walking, or even a ton of looking or effort to come across the crocodile. Maybe that’s just how crocodiles were… they didn’t give a fuck as to where they were hanging about, what they were doing, or who they were inconveniencing. Sure, the crocodile had been attracted to a small body of water – as many of those existed in the countryside – but the massive reptile still had a ‘I don’t give a fuck’ air about it as Kanae came upon it.

There it was, having just decided to flop itself down on the bank of soggy land that nestled by the water. With its back turned to Kanae, the crocodile looked dead already – but Kanae knew that with the nature of crocodiles, this appearance was definitely deceiving. But, she couldn’t deny the slight rush of egotism that washed over her while she observed the creature.

Looking like the creature from the black lagoon, the crocodile was slimy and caked with mud which darkened the coloring of its scales to very earthy shades. Whether or not it had just emerged from the water or hadn’t even submerged itself in it yet remained unknown – and uncared – to Kanae, but if the crocodile had been in the water already then it certainly hadn’t done anything for cleaning it off.

In her mind, Kanae thought it best that she would have the advantage over the crocodile since its back remained turned to her. By gaining the one-up on the croc and surprising it with her attacks, she stood a better chance – especially since she was alone – of taking the reptile out quickly and without much fight put up by it. With her plan in mind, she began with a few hand seals.

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After having performed the needed hand seals to set her plan into motion, Kanae watched as a picture perfect identical image of herself appeared and moved out and away from Kanae, approaching the crocodile from an outer flank so that Kanae’s true position wouldn't be given away once the crocodile spotted Kanae’s water clone.

Once the water clone neared the crocodile close enough to gather its attention, the crocodile stared long and unwavering at the seemingly young woman that approached it without fear. Annoyed by the ever-closing distance that the girl was making, the crocodile became antsy in its position and shifted its weight to one side, and then the other, as it readied for any kind of brawl the foolish girl might think of bringing on. With its cold, killer eyes targeting the girl, the croc settled itself into a motionless stance as it lured its next meal into its proximity.

Meanwhile, the water clone – still seemingly clueless and fearless – inched evermore closer to the reptile and seemed to even taunt the beast by wriggling her hips at it. With that last insult, the crocodile broke free from its stoic resting place and with a thrashing of its curved body, made a beeline straight for the water clone, jaws opened and teeth glinting; ready to spill blood.

In mere seconds, the crocodile was snapping at the young woman and the young woman was attempting to dart and dodge her way out of the crocodile’s toothy trap, and was also at the same time trying to simultaneously find a moment’s opening to get some kind – any kind – of hold on the reptile. When she saw her chance; the briefest of moments when the crocodile’s snout had closed momentarily from a previous snap at her midsection, the water clone angled herself out of the direct frontal range of the croc and went in at it from a diagonal assault.

To any onlooker, this act would seem hysterical, ridiculous and suicidal even. But as the water clone danced around with the crocodile, the true Kanae stood a safe distance away preparing her next move. It was when the water clone seemed to be losing its advantage that Kanae knew she had to implicate her next action.

The water clone grasped onto the large side of the croc and clung as the reptile instantly thrashed in attempt to remove the annoying attachment to its body, and if this didn’t work then the crocodile planned to move instantly into one of its key moves: death roll right into the water and take the girl with it.

The clone, extending her arms, wrapped herself around what little of the crocodile she could and clung before exceeding her limits and bursting into what she’d originally been made from – water.

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Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Clone Techqniue)

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Without hesitation, and having no time to spare – seeing as how her water clone was being tossed and turned every which way and would soon break – Kanae focused and gathered needed chakra for her next needed action. Once her chakra was gathered and focused, she channeled some of it down to spread along her feet and coat them in a defense that she would need for what was to come.

Then, with the hand seals she needed executed, Kanae began to spew a special sticky liquid from her mouth. Jaw slacked and lips parted, the shinobi appeared to be vomiting, but she was far from ill.

The sticky liquid that spewed from Kanae’s mouth pooled around the crocodile, surrounding the area beneath its massive form and inevitably securing the reptile to the ground in a gooey mess. Kanae knew that with the crocodile have been distracted by her water clone for the few moments she needed to gather her chakra and target her focus had been all that she needed to get the crocodile into the predicament it found itself in presently: stuck! And vulnerable.

Aware that she had to be cautious of her chakra use and the duration of time in which she used it, Kanae quickly made her way a little closer to the trapped reptile and gave her hips a wiggle as she prepared herself for her next move.

“You stuck good and shit? I hope so, cause you’re gonna’ love this next bit!”

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Mizuame Nabara (Starch Syrup Capture Field)

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As she promised, Kanae had one final act in store for the waiting – well, let’s not mince words, the motherfucker was stuck tight – crocodile. With her excitement increasing for the final blow, Kanae gave her hips one final wiggle before she focused her chakra once again and stared hard at the target before her.

Fingertips moving gracefully, she did a couple hand seals that were required to seal the deal. Feeling the energy rising up within her like a static surge, Kanae slammed her foot to the ground beneath her and dominated the hell out of the…dirt?

But alas… rather, a large rumbling sound shook the immediate ground beneath her and vibrated the surrounding grounds around both she and the croc as Kanae’s final performance went underway.

A surging wall of water blossomed from the ground where she’d stomped her foot and rose up before her, and then with increasing speeds jettisoned in the direction of her trapped target. With density much thicker and sharper than that of just seeming water, her dangerous weapon impacted cleanly with the crocodile’s rough skin and sliced through it simply, quickly, and deadly. Like a warm knife to butter; need I really go on?

In the wake of Kanae’s Rising Water Cutter, the lifeless corpse of the crocodile – who seemed to want to talk such shit, if it ever could – lay splayed, severed in two with its yucky innards seeping out.

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Mizu Kamikiri (Rising Water Cutter)

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“Eew…so not what I wanted to see!”

With a wrinkled face, Kanae raised her hand to brush fingertips along the angled outline of her facial scarf, to ensure it was still securely in place. It was. Glancing once more at the deceased success of her mission, and feeling accomplished, Kanae averted her eyes once more from the gory scene.

She considered herself bold; a fighter, a killer even, able to handle things and to dish out deadly blows when and where they were needed… but she didn’t have to be so fond of blood, guts, and gore right? Ah well, she didn’t have much time to think about it any more than that. She wanted, after all, to squeeze in another mission before the day was through, did she not?

So, putting that into consideration, Kanae turned heel and abandoned the croc’s corpse on the bank at the side of the small body of water where she’d found him. Something would come along eventually and have their way with him, and with the way nature worked out, maybe something that would’ve been on the croc’s dinner plate would turn out to be having the beast for dinner? Funny how things work.

“Tee-hee.”

[Exit; Kanae]

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