Reconstructing The Village [C-Ranked]

[SqwhirlGod]

Kumogakure, the home of many prosperous men, women and children alike. known for having top military strength and the beauty of the nature surrounding them. Nothing could phase the power of the village of the clouds, but war strikes all leaving everything scarred in it's wake. Kumo could not escape the aftermath that comes with all great battles, many houses of the village still torn apart and ruined completely. As a village, it was not all to hard for the people to come together and try to rebuild, but many did not have the strength to do so. Good thing they had Natsume Hoshigake.

Reporting to the scene was the young Hoshigake, Natsume, his blue skin seeming to reflect the light in such a way it gave him a radiant glow. His baggy black pants sat on his waist, covering up to his ankles where they seemed to become skin tight. Atop the base of the pants are a typical pair of ninja boots, giving away the fact he was a ninja. His white tae-kwon-doe belt sat at his waist, keeping his pants against his body and preventing them from falling. Below his pants he had a set of weights that he wore often to help him increase his overall speed and endurance, not to mention the fact that it helped him get a challenge out of fighting certain opponents.

He wore two wristbands that had a large shark design engraved onto the center of each. His large hands curled into fists as he walked towards his designated area, his Forehead Protector placed neatly onto a scarf he always kept on his neck. His mouth was covered by the cloth from his nose to the lower portion of his face. His semi pointed ears carried a relatively short point at the tip, though they were remotely dull and not a precise point. His gills outlined the edge of his face, seeming almost like black marks painted onto his face due to their stillness.

Raising his right arm, Nat kissed the Shark tooth Necklace he was given, made from the teeth of his parents, and the generations before. The Dozen or so teeth all represented a mother and father of the previous generation. Kissing it he held it tightly in his hand, giving back to the land that had given him so much, Kumogakure.

[SqwhirlGod]

Nat walked into a poverty stricken district of Kumogakure, the amount of grime, rubble and overall filth was rather disturbing. Nat's skinned seemed all too pristine in comparison the harsh environment, it made Nat feel a bit more grateful for everything that he had. It was a good thing he was okay with getting himself dirty and covered in filth, otherwise he would for sure have turned around and left just upon looking at the area. The destruction was evident in this area, it was sort off ridiculous because most of this seemed like signs of rebellion within the area. People outraged with what they had and where they were, causing destruction and mayhem everywhere they went. It was sad really and right now he was even more glad he decided to help out, they definitely needed it.

Small children watched the muscled teen explore the area in search of the obvious construction that was going on. The area seemed to get worse and worse as Nat traveled in towards the heart of the area, but as things seemed to climax, wooden beams and ladders began to fill the scene. Women, Children and even the elderly helped the men as they helped put back together what was once their home. Nat's constant half curious, half serious expression lead him to be caught nearly off guard by the words of the lead builder whom screamed from his right side.

"Oi! You that Ninja we asked for!?"

He asked aloud, Making Nat turn his head slowly into his general direction and blinking twice before he simply nodded and faced the man entirely. Approaching him slowly as he scanned the rest of the area he closed in and faced him, opening his mouth to speak.

"Reporting for dut-"

" Here's a list of Materials, bring them here and make it snappy, i know you ninjas are fast and everything. You look strong to, not like some of those wimps. Look like you were made for this kind of work! Get to it!"

Nat was rudely interpreted as a slave of some kind, not to mention the fact the man had just so rudely cut him off to shove a list in his face. Nat looked at the list and then the man, who had already turned away to attend to other orders, yelling across giving commands. Turning away, Nat left to go do what...ever he was told to do.

[ℐai-ℒin]

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Sorry, I got booted off. Four family members, one comp. :/
I owe you one.
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She rubbed her eyes lazily, sitting up in bed. Er, on the couch. Apparently Jai had stayed up to late. As her senses finally revitalized, her head turned at the clock. “Oh Lord!” She gasped, literally jumping off the couch. She had slept through all morning! So much for stretches and acrobatics before the ‘mission’. LIke a blur, she flew into her bedroom, searching for her array of weapons. Some under the bed, a few exploding notes here and there…

She didn’t even have time to eat breakfast. Which, was not a good idea for a ninja. With great strength can greater metabolism. And with great metabolism, comes the need for immense food.

The blonde Kunoichi jogged out of her apartment complexes, waving at a few of her acquaintances. Realizing the job site was on the other side of town, she picked up her pace, trying to toss her hair into a lazy braid as she ran. Passing though the districts, she finally came to the shabby part of town.

Unfortunately, every village had it’s bad place. And Kumo’s was this one. It was the Grand Station of gangs, trouble, and, well other bad things. It was also the most destroyed. That was what brought her here; Natsume had picked up a Construction mission. They could use the help; everyone was running out of juice.
She game up the street, finding the Forman. They were easy to pick out; generally the guy with the highest blood-pressure and the loudest voice. Everyone seemed rather unhappy around him.

She eyed her Partner, working her way up towards him. Setting a hand on his shoulder, she smiled at him. The man in charge was yelling at him, but looked at her funny. HE was a gruff man, with strong arms, but a soft midsection. He was definitely in charge, she decided.

“Jai-Lin is here to check in, as well.” She smiled to up at him.

“Great,” He said. “I get a shark, that‘s alright. But a girl?” He shouted in frustration. “Whatever. You better keep your pace, little girl.” Jai-Lin furrowed her brow, she was not a little girl. The man gave them a list of things to do and get, and walked off to yell at his next victims.

“Damn,” Jai-Lin said, aggravated. “I wake up late, run all the way across town, and this is what I get?” She complained. But she ended her cooing, because she didn’t want to have a “whoa is me” moment. “So anyways.” She spoke, getting to business.

[SqwhirlGod]

[OOC: Understandable, 2 laptops 10 people in my house, sometimes it's too noise to get proper muse going. It's all good.]

Heading off towards their next destination, Nat found the Jai actually managed to catch up with him and what was going on. He laughed a bit to himself and let a calm smirk slid across his face and seem to scar his mouth in delightful bliss. Smiling like an idiot he read the things off the list deep the the back of his head, realizing something was a bit off about it. This list, was probably the worst list in the history of the world it wasn't just a construction list, it was his lunch list to.


- Cement
- Bricks
- Wood
- Nails
- Bread
- Ramen
- Lettuce
- Cheese
- Ham
- Make Out Paradise


His eye twitched slightly, the way he usually does when something like this is to occur. Starting from a small movement in his eye to a full out head twitch, his ear nearly smacking his shoulder as he felt his time being wasted slowly by this list of ever so strange objects. Nat's ancestors would have bitten into his head by now, but no, Nat was a rational shark, he knew self discipline and self control and he wasn't going to go all out on this small fry of a craftsmen, it wouldn't be right. Brushing off the encounter with simple sigh, he turned to his partner happy and extended his right hand.

"Wanna get him back when we're done?"

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[ℐai-ℒin]

What a loser. He has the guts to ask for shinobi help, and uses them to get him lunch? And that damned book. He sure isn’t going to get that one. She thought frankly. She had to give it to the man, though. He was smart enough to start the list with normal items, so he would have some escape time. She shrugged.

Natsume twitched when he read the list. Which, was the perfect reaction. It was absurd. But the funny part wasn’t that they were ninja. It was the fact that Natsume was a Hoshigake. If he weren’t so calm, this would have been a real issue. It seemed sometimes she was the less stable one. Although, everyone had their buttons.

Wanna get him back when we're done?" He said, extending his hand. A grin broke over Jai-Lin’s face, and she took it.

“Oh, you know it.” She laughed, assuring. “So the to do list… They need help with cement?” She srtached her head. “Let‘s go see what they are up to over there.”

Continuing on, she asked someone for directions to the cementing projects. With help, they found it.

It seemed the whole road was cracked, as if someone used super strength on it. It was a waste, really. People were hauling pieces out; by groups. They were mostly broken in large pieces; but their was no room for a crane in the area. Jai moseyed on over, motioning for Nat to help her. The girl gave some people a hand with lifting, getting a few pieces out of the way. She folded the sheet of paper into quarters, then tucked it into her shoe, like she does everything else, and braced herself to pick up the pavement chunk. “We could probably just handle this ourselves,” She said.

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Having agreed to get back at the man who had set them up on such a horrible errand run, Nat began to think of clever ways to get back at him. And as he did so, slowly began to articulate an awfully terrific idea within the confides of his mind. Every idea he spawned lead to the creation of another, changing a simple prank into a large scale plot against the poor man. When you try to command everyone like they are earth worms beneath your mighty feet, do not complain when they band together and strike back.

Looking half at what he was doing and half at whatever was going on beside him, he began to snap back into place slowly as Jai mentioned they could handle it themselves. The ground looked like a playground for Giants honestly, cement was chipped and broken in so many different places it was almost like the earth beneath it was brown lava to the new eggshell colored earth. Sighing a bit as he reached down and simply lift two large pieces, probably about 50 lbs each, and tossed them over to the edge of the road. Continuing to do so in this fashion the young boy easily did so while plotting against the Foreman.

"Jai! I'm going to run over and take care of the wood pile while you do this, it'll make things go a lot faster."

He said, hurling over another three pieces of destroyed road and walking over to the large pile of wood that sat on the right side of the project area. The Bricks and Wood were pretty much in the same, having to take down the remainders of half a house. Removing the bricks on the side of it and the few on the ground proved to be Child's play, something picking up and hurling the bricks a meter or two away from it's original location.

[ℐai-ℒin]

The girl shrugged, letting her partner run off to complete another task. With a grumble, she gripped the awkward side of one of the blocks. It was probably seventy five pounds, and the weight wasn’t the issue. It was just so awkwardly shaped. With some luck and perseverance, she managed to grip the thing right, but chucked it over out of the way. With the help of the generous, yet tired workers, the job was finished. She figured she would be absolutely no help with pouring cement, and took out the list.

Her grey eyes evaluated it, mentally crossing off cement. She looked down the road to see Natsume hurling brick pieces like no other. Mentally, she checked bricks and wood off as well. Nails, she told herself. The nails from the destruction would be no good. It was for sure that the buildings were old, and it would be a waste of time to try and pry them all out. Jai-Lin scrunched her nose. These were rather indirect directions. Like, cement. She didn’t realize there was going to be broken street fragments.

Asking around, she found out that there was an order that had just come in. She told the workers she would go get it, and they shouldn’t be worried. But she was wrong.

Jai-Lin had run all the way to the village entrance, all the way across the mountain. It must have taken twenty minutes? But it was no sweat for a Taijutsu user. That was like a morning walk. She sighed, signing for the order, and realized, there was no horses to pull the cargo. She raised an eyebrow expectantly to the order man, but he shrugged. “You mean to tell me that people have been coming up here and busting their asses hauling these things?” She asked, furious. Why would they do such a thing? It was against humanitarianism. With anger, she demanded this no longer go on.

But the man was wishy-washy. “Look miss, I don‘t make up the rules for that sort of thing. All I know is that whoever ordered this did not pay for the extension fee-” He began to blabber. She cut him off.

“So, I guess it wouldn‘t bother you if I took this up with, for say, your boss?” Jai-Lin asked. “Or even,” She grinned, cleaning a fingernail, “Raikage-sama?” And with that, she found two quaint horses hitched up to the trailer. “Well thank you sir.” She rode off, bring the supplies back, and saving the backs of some of the workers.

Jai-Lin, happy with her own achievements, found Natsume one again. It wasn’t too hard; all you had to do was mention “Hoshigake.”

“Well,” She spoke to him, “ I guess all that’s left is…” She dragged, sighing at the list all that was left was the man’s lunch. And, Make-Out Paradise.

[SqwhirlGod]

20 minutes, 20 long minutes Jai Lin was gone for and 20 long minutes Nat sat slaving in the hot sun removing lightweight bricks and tearing apart pieces of wood from each other like families during a war. This work almost seemed like second nature to him, even with the sun he wasn't breaking all to hard of a sweat. His scarf was beginning to get covered in wood chips and fine powder from the bricks grinding up against one another. Pulling one arm across the scarf he unwrapped the black cloth and dusted it off, watching the grains fly off into the wind.

He sighed, a bit bored now that the work was complete, and waiting for Jai to return so they could go on past what they were doing now. And she did, each time she appeared she seemed to get weirder and weirder though, this time appearing with a random horse and cart, making him raise a brow, but still comfortably taking a seat. Stretching his legs out he raised his arms and flexed unwillingly before he body dropped limp and limber.

"Okay...so let's get that food, 4 houses up from here, we stop in and pick up the rotten remains we need to make him his...'Sandwich'."

He said with a funny smile, beginning to unravel the complexity of the prank he ahd in store, hopefully his partner would help to.

[ℐai-ℒin]

Even though she seemed to pull some strings for the horses, it had gotten hotter outside. Her back was strained from trying to lift too many of the road fragments; hoping to get them out of the way for the workers that had to do this… Every day. She crawled off the car of supplies, and saw Natsume. Unfortunately he was stuck wit what she would like to call slave labor. Did Raikage-sama know about this? She would take it up , if she had the position to. Someday, when she was someone important. A jounin? Or even, the Raikage. Someday, if she could last long enough.

"Okay...so let's get that food, 4 houses up from here, we stop in and pick up the rotten remains we need to make him his...'Sandwich'." He said, giving her that sharky grin of his.

“Sometimes, Natsume. I just wonder about how far you will take this.” She said, a sly grin trodden across her face. She sighed, observing her partner. He wasn’t too overworked, unlike there poor people. They had been working here for the last week. But, Jai figured he might get a good sun-burn, running around with his shirt off. Although, she wasn’t quiet so sure… Not with his rough, blue skin. She had never really seened him burn.

Jai-Lin was getting hot. Not from working, just that she was currently in her fall attire. Her sleeves were pretty thick. But, they were almost done for the day, and she wasn’t going to complain about discomfort. But, she started up to the ruins of the house up on the hill. Her feet scratched the sidewalk as she made herway to it, the walls collapsed. Looking around for reminiscence of a kitchen, Jai waded through the mess to the region, looking for where they kept their produce; the refrigerator.

“Jackpot!” she smirked, grey eyes getting a spark of mischief in their cores. She crawled down under a fallen wall, finding a tipped over fridge. Jai-Lin drew out the vegtables; lettuce, a tomato... "You know, I think we need regular bread though. To avoid suspicion." She laughed, poking ehr head out from under the rubble.

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Grinning a bit in the eat, Nat couldn't help but show the mischief on his face, the smile was just so sly. It slowly faded and his normal emotionless demeanor kicked back in showing he had no emotions towards this man and none towards his current mission. Like a true ninja Nat was quite capable of doing things with limited to no bias at all and not even questioning his orders. Nat was seen as cruel and heartless, but this man did the one thing he hated with a passion, and that was abuse his power. He could be doing so much better than what he was, but he wasn't he gave in to the dark side and let greed kick in, he deserved no mercy.

Arriving at the building it's walls crumbled and destroyed to some degree, obvious signs of struggle and age sat on the outside of the building. Even more so on the inside of the building, it looked horrible, but the fridge was there and so were the ingredients. He only knew of this ease dropping and hearing workers speak of the putrid ingredients that no one dared to clean out. He nodded in agreement, thinking the same thing, they need proper bread.

Searching about, he found a half nibbled upon bag of bread, rats surrounded it and he smiled as he stomped and watch them clear out. Gripping the bag with on hand he dropped out all but two slices of bread, and dropped it open onto the counter next to the fridge, well what was left of it anyway. Opening both slices, Nat began to throw together the wicked elixir of filth, grime and mold into the slightly stiffened bread. The man might have trouble biting through the bread, and in fact, Nat might himself. ripping the tomatoes he placed them into the bread and closed the sandwich, holding up his creation like the proud creator of Frankenstein.

"She is finished!"

He said, wrapping the sandwich within the bag to hide the odor of it while it was to be delivered.

"We should probably tell him we got someone else to make this sandwich....he might try to dock odour pay."

He said, walking satisfied out of the building and back to the cart, smiling to himself all the while as he dreamed of the man's reaction.

"Ready?"

[ℐai-ℒin]

"Ready?"

“Am I ready?” She raised an eyebrow. “Let me see that thing.” She motioned for the sandwich. It was rough to the touch. The stench was absolutely retched, and the tomatoes were practically green. Scrunching her nose, she was absolutely disgusted. Her dark eyebrows furrowed, and she pushed back the curiosity to sniff it. A small black bug crawled form underneath the cover of its lettuce leaf, and crawled though the rotten tomatoes.

“Gnarly.” Was the only comment she could some up this lunch with.

It was bad enough to put him off work. Which, would be a favor to all of the people. Seeing Justification in her action, she grinned. “It‘s wayy to obvious…” She twisted her mouth in thought. Then her fingers slid to to her back-pouch, popping the clip-button open, and drawing out a red, leather bound notebook. She always carried this. It was full of empty notebook paper; although some had scribbling in them. Tearing out a piece of paper, she put it back in.

Jai-Lin sent down the paper on a nearby bench, and, as if she were a professional, wrapped the sandwich up.

“Now, we are ready.” She laughed, happy with it. It now officially looked like it was an Ordered out sub. It also managed to hide some of the wretched stench.

“Would you like to do the honors? Or shall I?” She asked, figuring a game-plan, and she scanned around for the man.

But, how could this devious little plan be executed without suspicion?

[SqwhirlGod]

Jumping off the cart Natsume couldn't help but lift the sandwich about like it was the best thing in the world. It was awesome and Jai-Lin's wrapping added that extra touch that made it just perfect. Almost wanting to giggle like a schoolgirl, Nat searched around for that somewhat overweight foreman, he shouldn't be too hard to find. Lifting his brow as he searched, he really couldn't find him, just a big stack of walking wooden planks with feet. Wait, Big pile of wooden planks with feet?

"Found him...and his hands are full we can feed it to him ourselves..."

Approaching the man with a sudden feeling of relaxation and calm, he abruptly cut off his walking with his offer of the nasty sandwich. The man looked at him then the bread, then him then the bread and cuoldn't help but think he was up to something. But overestimating his position he simply shrugged it off as him being untouchable and thinking no one would ever turn against him.

"One of the mothers made this for you, i'm not to good at cooking..."

"It must have been the one with the blonde hair! Oooooh~! i knew she liked me, how couldn't you, just look at me!"

He said, confidence oozing out of each word in that sentence, enough so he didn't even realize the bug crawling from the bread of the sandwich. Nat pushed the hardened bread into the man's mouth as he chowed down on the gross experiment and after swallowing his first and second bite, the horrid smell kicked in. The man's stomach was soon turning and dropping the wood to the floor the man ran off, the sound of regurgitation sounding his retreat as he ran into the complete opposite direction holding his stomach.

Smiling with a look of accomplishment, he curled his lower lip, biting it slightly to hold in the laughter as he turned to Jai with a relatively large smile.

"Do you want one?"

He asked with a not so obvious hint of joking in his voice, his usual straight faced humor striking again as he smiled and put his hands behind his head. Turning away he began to make his exit, thinking about his first official mission in quite some time.

"I'll go turn this in, catch you later."

Not wanting to show his fatigue he left asap, not wanting to look weak in front of his partner, plus, one of them had to turn it in right?

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[ℐai-ℒin]

Natsume seemed all to gleeful about this particular pay-back. She had to admit, is was a good one. He had found the man. He seemed to actually be… Working? The idea made Jai-Lin rethink about him.Should they be doing this? Maybe he was just a stressed little man.

No, Jai-Lin told herself, playing with the end of her golden hair. Nobody should have been treated that way.

Natsume came up with what she found to be an absolutely ingenious plan. You see, the Forman was unable to feed himself, being tied up with planks of wood. His face was half as grimy as the worker’s around, but he still disgusted her. Plus, he needed to seriously pay back for the insults. Severely. But anyways, Nat said that one of the mother’s around had made it for him. She held her breath.

He instantly bought it, becoming overshadowed with excitement, blabbering about one of the women. Apparently he had really been over exited, because he automatically wanted a bite of the sandwich. Luckily Jai was able to keep a straight face, almost an angry scowl, to offset the suspicion.

As Nat fed him the sandwich, which was quite strange, he attacked it. More like, he mauled it, scarfing down the sub sandwich as fast as he could. At first, it was apparent that he wasn’t even savoring over it, because her took several bites.

But then, she was his nose twitch slightly, an indication that the putrid scent was kicking in. His grip on the wood automatically released, and his eyes revealed absolute horror. He made a run for it, heading for the hills. Several workers turned their heads, but continued with raised eyebrows.

Natsume seemed very, very exited about what had been done. So much, she could see he was holding about his laughter. She tried to return the reaction, putting a hand over her mouth, but it was obvious she was smiling by the fact that her cheeks were raised, and her eyebrows as well.

"Do you want one?" Nat asked.

She wasn’t sure if he was serious or not. She thought of something smart to say rather fast this time.

“No. But I think I have some leftover Ramen at home from last night…” She spoke, putting a finger on her chin as the thought.

It was sad, because she wasn’t kidding either. That girl had a steel stomach. But someday, that might come back to haunt her. Or, maybe it would help her?

"I'll go turn this in, catch you later." He said, walking away with a relaxed posture.

She shrugged, throwing a single wave up, as she turned in the opposing direction. She decided to go eat the ramen. Once again, another mission complete. They hadn’t reported on one for a while. Although, with the chunnin exams going on, they wuld be forced to take many more. MOst of teh vialges best were involved in it currently, leaving a few gening who decided to wait. But everyone else was involved one way of another.

Maybe they would find a third partner soon? Hopefully someone who would work particularly well with the duo. They were rather specialized to work with each-other, after all. Were they teamed togther on perpose? Or was the system random?

She disappeared over the hill in deep thought.

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Nat: 53 EXP.
Jai: 46 EXP.