Meeting the ocean

[A]

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.

It was another regular day just like any other day in the middle of the dessert. A hot day with dried sand, dry air and little to no people walking the streets, there wasn’t much to it. Youko stretched and yawned holding one hand in front of his mouth. He was on another mission on yet another hot day. He wasn’t really overly excited about this since this mission wanted him to catch fish. Well if he didn’t do it people would starve to death, so he might as well put some speed in it before he was responsible for someone starving to death.

He thanked the secretary for the mission and walked out the Kazekage’s residence. The sun blinded him for a second when he came outside but his eyes adapted themselves to the sun fast, because he was used to the dessert sun shining down on him all the time. A small sudden flash like that wouldn’t be a problem. It was a nice sight to see that everyone in the city was busy with repairing and restoring the village. It felt good that people were working so hard to regain the city’s status. It made him feel proud that he belonged and lived in this city.

He had to go all the way to the west side of Kaze no kuni. That was a quite the trip the travel especially for just a D ranked mission, but it never really was a problem anyway. He liked a challenge though he prefers that it’d be a challenge where he didn’t have to put in any physical effort. When would have to face challenges like this he would first try to look for a way out. Or any way that he wouldn’t have to do it, but since that’s not an option because he’s on an actual mission. There was only one other option left, he sighed. He actually did have to do effort to complete this mission. Now that he was planning on doing this mission one thing he was sure about, he would give it his all.

Now that he made up his mind to cheat on the mission or not he would have to pack up his stuff and go to the west side of Kaze no Kuni. He walked towards his house thinking about what he would need to pack and how the journey through the dessert would go. How would he go there? On a camel by night or just walking underneath the dessert sun wrapped in bandages walking from oasis to oasis? What things were awaiting him was also a big mystery but he did know that this mission wasn’t going to make it easy for him. He arrived at his house put the key in the door and turned it, unlocking the door.

He opened the door and entered his house. Pulled out the key again and closed the door behind him. Now where was he going to find what he needed in this mess for this trip across the dessert?

[A]

He thought it’d be best if he first made a list of what he should be taking with him. But he then first had to find a pencil and paper. With allot of trouble he managed to reach the living room. This room was even worse than the rooms he just went through. He sighed and face palmed. It should be somewhere in that one corner, which was in exactly the other side of the room. He should really clean this place up one time, but he has been telling himself that for years now and he still hasn’t done anything about it yet.

After he finally reached the corner and found a pencil he just picked up a random magazine and used it to write on. He made the list and after allot of trouble he managed to gather and pack everything he needed. He also changed his clothes. He pulled off his original clothes and covered his entire body with white bandages. All that was still visible from him were his hands feet and his yellow eyes and a small part of his nose. He picked up his gourd and luggage and went off.

When he left his house the sun shined at his fullest fortunately for Youko that he put on white clothes. The sun seemed to shine feller the closer he got to the gate as if the sun wanted him to stay in Sunagakure. A grin appeared at Youko’s face. Seems I got my first challenger. He then looked up to the sun. His first challenger, he was sure of one thing. He won’t lose to the sun or anything that would come in his way. The bigger the challenge or the stronger the opponent (like the sun itself) the more excited he’d get from it and the more excited he got the more he would do to beat it.

When he reached the gate he looked back at the city that he was about to leave. He took a deep breath and then turned back to the gate. A small comfortable breeze came by. This was the sign for him to leave. The time came so far and he left the village. Hesitant steps at first since it would be the first time that he’d leave this village. The world that he lived in all his live, he would leave behind all that he knows and explore a new part of the world. He was scared to leave everything that he was familiar with behind but with each step he became more confident that exploring another part of the world would be good for him. Discovering the unknown sounded a little scary at first but every bird has to leave its nest at a certain point. Now it was his time to leave the nest and learn fly on his own exploring and learning new places.
When he was outside he was more confident that this mission would be a success no matter what he would leave behind.

[A]

Youko started walking west trusting on a simple old compass. The sun still wasn’t near of going down and the hills of sand seem to go on forever like an endless sea of sand. With each hill that he passed another hill would come. The thirst for water became stronger the longer that he walked through dessert. He slowly lost track of time, though he was at a point where it didn’t really matter anymore. His legs were getting heavier from all the hills that climbed and went from. Everything was fighting him; the only thing that kept him going was his mind. His strong will to finish this mission to overcome the dangerous threats of the dessert. He couldn’t lose now, there was nothing to fall back on and nobody would find him in the middle of the dessert.

After he walked up another hill his calves were burning of exertion if he would walk any further he would fall down of tiredness because his legs couldn’t take it anymore. Even his vision was getting a bit cloudy. He sat down and opened in his bottle he looked in the bottle, there wasn’t allot of water left. He drank the last of it hasty in one sway. The water ran over his cheeks because he drank it too fast, but it sure was refreshing. His vision became sharp again and when he closed the bottle and looked back up. He couldn’t believe his eyes. He finally saw a village; he could feel a small breeze. That must mean that he was near the sea. He stood back up with a smile. He won from the dessert. He finally made it. With this excitement he went back walking and picked up the pace a little.
When he reached the village he was stunned. It was a small village with stone white houses and air coming from the sea before. But that was not why Youko was so stunned. He has never seen so much water all together. It was unthinkable for him that there was so much water. He just stood there with his mouth open and his eyes straight open. Was that a sea? Then a man approached him.

“You must be the shinobi we’ve been waiting for. Now come with me and we’ll go fishing.”
Because of the bandages the man couldn’t see the surprised strange look on Youko’s face. While still not believing what he just saw he followed the man. With both not saying anything they walked through the town. He could see the starved people, he felt sorry for the people and dropped his coffee bean bag he still had from Kouhi. They walked down the cliff and walked over the beach coming out to the docks. The man pointed at a few boxes and made a gesture that he needed to take them with him. Without any complaints he picked up the heavy boxes and loaded them on the boat.
They set off, sailing away from the docks with the wind in his back. It gave a real good feeling; it was something he wasn’t used to. Since Sunagakure had no breeze as it was positioned in the middle of the desert. After they caught, or actually Youko, caught some fish they raised back the nets on the ship. Allot of them had trash between them. But the good fish were selected and added in the boxes.
After the boxes were full they went back to the shore. There still was a strange silence between him and the man but Youko didn’t care. This wind and this ocean of water made him relax and feel good. It was a feeling which was very hard to explain, it was as if he missed this all along. He no longer felt that he was chained to the city or any location. He felt free.

When they came back to the shore he thanked the man. He filled up his bottle and went back home. This was probably the most educative mission he has been on. It showed him more of the world. He was happy about that. It also made him feel free from Sunagakure for once. With this feeling he went back to Sunagakure.

[Iizuka]

+13 EXP. Your posts had very little to do with the mission itself. For more points in the future, I would suggest focusing more on the mission itself than the preparation before it. Missions often seem boring, but you have the right to add in a little flare to make it fun. Battle a giant fish or something next time, I don't know, but keep to the mission and you'll earn more points!