Gone Fishing (M/P)

[Icarus]

Fishing Disruption
Rank: D.
Shinobi Required: 1-3.
Mission Information: A collection of fisherman on the coastal western edge of Kaze no Kuni has been struck with a flu epidemic. They cannot figure out what has caused it, but are now dangerously short on workers that they need the job. If they can’t get enough fish soon most will starve and those that won’t will lose everything, however small, they own due to the poor numbers.
Special Information: Repeatable. As always when travelling outside the safety of the village, be on your guard.
Reward: 20 EXP & 100 Ryo.

He was akin to something out of a Sunday comic or a fishing catalog rather, higan finished his exit into the border of the land of kaze no kuni a few hours ago and had been trekking to the area of his mission, one that he had very little experience in but chose due to the seemingly fun part of its details, aside from the tragedy that of course birthed the need for the mission. He was going to go fishing, what a jest! A ninja who was going to go fishing seemed very out of place unless it was for survival, but what he needed to do needed to be done for the sake of villagers who would starve otherwise, he was given the details that because of sunagakure no sato’s desert climate it was exceptionally hard to do anything but import food, which he sort of figured and as such, someone needed to do all the fishing for the village.

He saw the river coming up in the distance and as he took a cursory glance both left and right he could see it being a tributary and also accepting a stream from and to much much larger rivers, which explained why their were fish in such a not small but not large river. He set his gear down, a tackle box a bucket filled with saltwater as this was water that came from the seas and a box of bait, one that had been picked out for him as he was still a rookie when the topic of fishing came to mind, he thought bread would cut it but apparently live bait such as worms was the best fuel persay to catch fish of any worthy caliber. He didn’t really mind the worms, after all he wasn’t that squeamish.

He pulled from a pile of gear his fishing rod, a wooden apparatus that was very basic in its construction, they were afraid that if they had given him one of the expensive ones the fisherman that might get better at any moment would have gotten a bit peeved. He threaded the fishing line to where he assumed it went and then tied a hook to it, and then plucked a cold slimy worm and poked the sharp end of the hook into it not once, but twice as instructed per a tip of the people that had provided him with the actual fishing gear to do the mission.

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He watched the worm wriggle for a bit and then he decided he’d rather not watch the pitiful creature die for the next five or so minutes and decided to cast out the bait while it was still moving, he guessed this would trick the fish easier or some stupid shit like that. The hook dropped into the water with a slight soft plop sound, a few drops of water displaced into the air as the ripples traveled out but were soon lost with the stream of the river. The hook’s image skewed and soon disappeared and he waited, simply waited for the hook to do something. He wondered what the fish in this river were like, were they some stripey thing, or some puffy shit, maybe some stripey puffy thing. He just honestly didn’t want a really really big fish because he didn’t feel like being pulled into the river along with the fish. It was one thing to be cool in suna but it was a completely different and annoying thing to be sopping wet in the middle of the land of wind. And when the wind started to pick up so did the cold, which was something he would feel like abstaining from.

He felt a small tug and then with all the might he could muster in his entire body he lifted the rod as if it would snap out of his hands the minute the fish realized It had a hook in its mouth. A small, infinitely small fish flew out and then landed on a rock, not goreing it but the fish had stopped breathing, or choking whatever it was that fish did on land. He reeled it in, the fish had a bit of sand on it. I hope they like a little spice on it Because he was told they would scrape and gut the fish once he brought it in, he didn’t actually need to do any of that extra stuff himself since the shortage was of fish not people who handled the fish. He went to the fish and spent an odd minute or so unhooking the hook from the fishes mouth, he figured he didn’t really need to pull as hard as he did before, the fish were getting where they needed to be just fine and he really couldn’t keep hitting them on the ground, too much dirt in the water and he would need to refill the whole thing over and over again.

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A few more fish came to him over and he quickly dispatched them with his mighty rod, they stood little chance against his fishing prowess that he had come to terms with just so recently. He shook the rod a bit hoping the added motion would help get his bait taken so he could start his long trek home and then just go to sleep already, he was kind of tired of sitting in the same spot for so long which was ironic when he figured he would go home just to lay in one spot for extended periods of time. But to no avail, the fish seemed to have caught on or something of the sort as he had been sitting there for an odd thirty minutes since the last catch, was this really the glamorous life of fishing that all the senior men seemed to enjoy so very much?

He reeled in and cast out in a different spot, waiting, waiting, waiting still more. And then he felt again another tug, quite a big one at that! He tugged harder and he knew he could easily outpower this fish but his rod was protesting, it threatened to break and so he tried to figure something to do. He couldn’t return a broken rod, it would come out of his pay! He set the rod down and activated his byakugan, now this was real fishing! He jumped in the water and immediately preformed a kaiten, the swirling chakra knocking fish in every direction including the one he caught. Why didn’t he just do this in the first place? He got out of the water soaking wet and immediately remembered why, now he was wet and had to carry extra fish back to the station. This was a fantastic way to end the day...

Picking up all the fish was a bit of a task as he had knocked out a few more than what he estimated, and he had to gently sort of wash them off in the river while holding them tightly to clean all the dirt off of them, this of course had to be done one by one a most painstaking process. But he cleared the field of all the fish and made his way back to sunagakure where he would deliver all the fish and be sure to return all of his rental equipment safely. Higan has exited the thread

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