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[Akiyuki]

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name; climbing mountain gekitsuu
rank; c
description; A while ago during Kumogakure birthing stages a man once made a bet with a Jounin. The man bet the Jounin that the shinobi’s current students couldn’t climb Mountain Gekitsuu. Mountain Gekitsuu is the highest mountain within’ Kumogakure no Sato and is rumored to be the started point for the famous Kumogakure no Sato village. Anyway, the Jounin accepted the mans bet because the shinobi had insurmountable faith in his Genin. Long story short the Genin climbed the mountain and returned. The Jounin won the bet and all was well. Now it’s your turn to climb Mountain Gekitsuu, and prove to Kumogakure that you aren’t just some shinobi. You’re a Kumogakure no Sato shinobi.
reward; 50 experience, 1,000 ryo
minimum shinobi; one
mission status; interminable

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A tradition for all Kumo ninja’s was to climb the highest mountain within their village. A tradition that formed because of two teachers who clearly lacked common sense sent their student to climb the monstrous mountain. Legend says that it was because of the two sensei’s had a bet with each other, but no matter how much I thought about that bet I couldn’t believe that for that one reason they made a mere Genin risk his life, not that I was afraid it was just finally pay was offered for this tradition.

The amount was decent and stood out on the scroll that I kept in front of my face as I’d begin to jump along different stones to make my way to the main part of town which would eventually lead me to the rooftops. In the middle of this quiet day the people of the village would witness the determination of this young Akegarasu, yes I was sure that they would notice my raven black hair dancing in the wind oh so spiritually as the black cloak I wore loosely on this day gave off the apperance of a phantom in the day.

Though I was not worried about the thoughts of the citizens after all I was something that they should recognize by now if not me then surely the rest of man clansmen wherever they were, we weren’t always the brightest dressed people in the shinobi world after all. “Aki! Whats the rush?” A familiar voice rang out to me, I did not turn my head from this scroll even when I could feel the feet of another behind me she was giving it her best to ride on my heels. “Aki-chan are you being good? Have you been eating?” More words from a person who surely wanted me to end their life, my run came to a stop along the roof tops I was still quite a distance from the mountain so obliging this fool was the least I could do before going to work.

“Please tell me you have some special reason for why your speaking to me.” I could see that the woman wasn’t happy after all she was my biological mother. This mother of mine stood just a few inches smaller than me with the same raven black hair, but she differed her smile was gentle and warm and she had a figure that men easily chased after though she was extremely violent somehow my pacifist father who only had the looks and glares of a beast managed to attract. I clearly was different from this woman, but none the less I pressed on with her as she begun to ask questions of why I was in town and how my duties as a shinobi were.

“I don’t have time for this, I’m on my way to do a mission.” being the quick little devil she was she took the scroll from my hands and I could see the worry that shined in those blue pools that resembled my own, her lips parted for a moment, but she quickly bit her lip she too was a shinobi and had done this very mission the same for other member of my family. “Please be safe Aki.” I nodded to my mother who then slammed into my chest a odd metallic box, I could smell the scent of ramen float from it, then I took notice of her white clothing then I remembered, my uncle and father had opened a ramen shop they would all only be part timers, but they were highly recommended. “Theres the mountain, come home after your finish.”

Words I wasn’t sure I could follow me and the family had our own ways of doing things I had ambitions that would reach over there heads, but in fear that I’d run into more friends along the way I begun my journey again, setting my sights on the incredible structure that I had been ordered to conquer.

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[Akiyuki]

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The houses of Kumo served their purpose perfectly thanks to this method I only had to deal with the minor problem annoyances that came along with coming to town, not that it was a rare thing in fact it happened quite often… I was just good at not being noticed most of the time, so that not even my own family would recognize me, but the trip to this mountain wasn’t a new one it had been a long time since I stood at its base, which brought back rough memories when those feet of mine touched down at the gate that welcomed visitors.

“This is why I say I can’t stand traditions.” that glare of mine shot over to the nearest ninja luckily enough he happened to be a senpai of mine, who seemed quite disturbed by my appearance. The male approached me carefully with a smile on his face and placed his hand on my shoulder. “It has been awhile Aki.” He said though I wasn’t truly feeling the need to give him much a response besides a quick wave of my fingers, we hadn’t been necessarily close after all. Disappointment loomed over him, maybe he was expecting more out of me? The guy was always like this more friendly than he had to be. “Aki-kun the problem today is that there are already a few Genin who are ahead of you so you’ll have to wait.”

“Why do I have to wait? “ The irritation in my voice was all to apparent he immediately responded informing me that they hadn’t brought all their equipment with them and thus their teammate was sent to fetch the rest of the materials since it often got cold at the top there usually had to be certain things that would become useful. I’d knew that it would be pointless for me to fight against my own senpai so instead I found a quiet spot next to the base and cracked open the case my mother had given me, there were four large bowls of ramen and bowl of gyudon, rice balls, and even four travel sized containers; tea, water, gyudon, and ramen was in each of these easy to carry containers.

“What was that woman thinking giving me all this?” The rapper was immediately removed from one of the bowls of ramen, and quickly I went to work slurping down the noodles a great nostalgia filled my stomach, but truly their ramen was delicious. I packed the food back besides two of the four rice balls I ate two on my way to the base of the mountain. The boy who went on the errand had returned while I was eating, and sure enough he returned with a case that was similar to mine… All the way down to the contents…. “Truly… That woman doesn’t think of her customers.” I simply smirked after those words and adjusted my gaze.

Looking up at the structure I took my chain whip out and wrapped it around the box and attached it to my belt tightly so that it wouldn’t fall nor slip from my waist. “Aki what are you thinking?” I assumed he meant my food, but I ignored him surely it’d be heavy, but half way I’d just be hungry again. Without a answer I left my simple minded senpai alone and started my journey by leaping to the rocks that stood out of the stones to start off. Carefully choosing my stones as to keep from falling to my death during this mission.

The every day decent from my mountain home had prepared me for this task leaping to the rocks that stood out and appeared the strongest, this way energy was saved for later when I’d need my hands to help pull me along the rocky surface, but the worry of leaving never went away so I always kept two Kunai in my hand if needed I’d stab into the wall in a fashion to save myself like a pick would. The cloak that was once covering me was packed away into a small ball then used my white shirt as a solution to tie it to my form. With nothing to flutter in the wind chances of the wind fucking my life up seemed to die down.
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[Akiyuki]

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I continued on my journey to the top of the mountain the view of village was beautiful no matter what anyone says as long as people within the village acted accordingly I would be able to ignore their presence, but then again there were always the people who wanted to ruin beauty. The mere thought of how there would probably be war again in this world brought a depression over my head causing me to stop not that far after my stride, I would use this time to stand upon one of the ledges and watch the sunset fall over the village bring a calming crimson tone to the sky.

The other Genin that were making their way up the mountain did as I had done and stopped to watch the sun set, but to them this was an actual rest they hadn’t had the confidence that I had to continue climbing up the mountain by attacking the ledges using them as mere stepping stones to get further in life, it was just like real life using the people around you as they used you to get higher up the mountain, and at night fall I would surely dominate this group who decided that they’d waste their energy climbing the hard way. When one couldn’t see that’s when it was best to use your hands.

With the falling of the sun the other Genin and I had begun again after all this small ledge wasn’t a place to sleep, we… Well I begun to leap to the different ledges once again this time I’d use my kunai as my life saver I was jumping smartly I had released my crows out into the air this time they were my eyes along with that I shut my lids and hid the pools of water only to open up my second eye lids and the world became different to me, I could see the chakra around me even the men that were below me struggling to get themselves up this mountain, I was able to see my crows perfectly in the dead of night just because they were created of pure chakra.

I could see the crows that were ready for me only on ledges that I could reach were marked. Crows that had their head pointing right were good for me reaching with my hands, but the ones with their heads to the left allowed me to kick off of, I was also quite compassionate as I left a few of my crows to be with the men who were left behind in a way I wouldn’t be able to get off this mission easily if I just sat by and let one of them fall to their death, but that wasn’t enough to make me stop my pace I continued on strongly it was quite dangerous to do this job with my eyes closed not to mention the ten that was attached to me jumbling around, but with my own crows brightening my path it was like I was heading closer, and closer to the heavens.

“Hey kid! Have you seen the half way rest stop?” The voice rang up to me, as I just stepped onto a solid surface I believe this was what they were speaking of? It was a large stretch of land that had some odd grass and what looked like a campfire had been set… This odd arrangement I guess was known as a rest stop, but I would only let them know through the connection link through my crow the men showed their joy as they begun climbing faster truly their ages weren’t that much higher than mine and the girls her body was weak looking, I noticed that when we all took a spot around a fire… One of the men was knowledgeable in the Fire release so it wasn’t a problem to light up some wood. “You really saved us there thank you.” The girl of the team said bowing her head to me… It was odd I had no intention of meeting this people yet now we were all huddled around a fire… Maybe I will leave before morning before they start to grow on me.

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POST 3
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[Akiyuki]

The night went smoothly, the group had sat up for some of the night explaining who they were it seems that one of the boys I had grown up with, but he was like me. This child was one of the others that was bullied. I didn’t have it in me to feel sorry for him just as I know he didn’t feel sorry for me we had to be strong as shinobi no longer children, though he mentioned that my special merchandise. It was then that it had hit me that Shingo was his name, yes he was often bullied since they believed I talked to crows, they believed his puppet creating family only made dolls thus we were weak.

The boy next to him immediately bowed his head to me his name was Rinji and he was one of the boys who happened to bully Shingo and I, but I had no will to kill another of this village, but Shingo vowed he would take them out of this world…. It was odd that they were teammates which suddenly became extra baggage along with the woman who was said to marry Rinji when they became of age, at this moment I could only see a painful look on Shingo’s face “Damnit I don’t want to deal with this.” I thought to myself as they begun to drift off Sakuya and Rinji took one side while Shingo came to my side, apparently to talk about the old days, but then I saw his focus on the two sleeping.

“Don’t die.” I said stopping him in mid sentence all I could see was those brown eyes staring over at me with the flames reflecting through them. “Don’t do something you’ll regret… We’re Shinobi your lives are nothing and you are tools, your family wasn’t what hers wanted so if you do something foolish like throw someone off here you’ll regret it.” Shingo laughed, but I didn’t I just let myself drift he wasn’t stupid enough to touch me while I sleep, but when I opened my eyes again I noticed he was gone the group? They were still in sight, but Shingo was giving it his all.

Feeling annoyed I just packed my ramen case to the side and removed my chain from it, the portable containers I quickly fastened to my person and begun again making my movements in double time to make up for the ground that I had lost, those guys had some guts I had to give them that they were willing to let me sleep, and they didn’t steal any of the ramen I had brought with me instead they went about climbing, but they were overlapped “Look for Shingo please…” The girl said, but I paid her no attention what that boy had done or what he decided was none of my business even if we were ‘childhood friends. ‘

The top of the mountain was known for being cold and even my way would be stupid, just to catch up to this fool I was risking my life jumping higher and higher. I could feel the winds starting to pick up and honestly they had changed, it was apart of my village I wasn’t used to being that I haven’t been able to take flight, but I always eagerly looked out for the time that I would be able too…

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[Akiyuki]

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The times changed and it went from morning to noon, and things were different I was no longer in my normal clothes I had found a ledge that would support me as I changed into my cloak, the way of travel was slower now no longer was I able to make life easier by jumping instead I was using my kunai stabbing them into the hard rock, making it so that I wouldn’t have to worry about my hands scarping or slipping against the rocks I just continued on this path using the holes later as a brief foot hold thus putting my upper body strength to the point of breaking, the crows around me immediately begun targeting holes that I could use for my kunai without adding much strength.

This way was more effective than the way the other two were using what worried me now was how Shingo managed to take off, then I saw it, it was a small indent a path that seemed to wrap around the mountain it was hardly noticeable from where I was below it so from the ground it was doubtful that anyone could. He must have found this and used it to increase the distance. I placed my hopes on this bet and touched down on the partial snowed out part of the mountain and begun running now holding my rope dart in hand if I needed to I could easily stab my way into the mountain.

The steps became faster as I noticed my crows acting weird I stopped and immediately flew through my hand seals stopping at my ‘tori’ seal and then through the eyes of my Crows eyes I could see the man Shingo at the top his anger seemed to be high he was nearly to the top on his knees pounding at the ground… I wasn’t sure what was happening the way he looked it was as if his resolve was gone, now was my time I thought. This brought my feet into motion and the seal was broken I begun rushing up the mountain side, but just went I closed in on Shingo the situation had gotten worst he was hanging over the edge. “Aki… I love her.” The words of a desperate man.

With those words that man let himself fall over the edge head first, it was the first time I had seen someone attempt suicide though what was wrong with me? I didn’t want to save him instead I wanted to hit him I was so angry that this man went through this and made me catch him to decide to die! I was going to beat him to death.
With those feelings I took the plunge jumping off the edge of the mountain my crows formed below him and I their weight was no where near enough the man was crashing through them.

It was enough I managed to catch him and with a mighty swing the spear head slammed into the mountain side and caught hold… It was a violent tug on my right arm as we swung I used my feet to take the impact against the wall and merely used all my strength to climb up to the ledge… I had caught on was none other than the break point the stone instead of breaking managed to catch us since we were both small in size.

Holding my arm I looked up at the heavens as Shingo did nothing, but apologize and cry. The sounds of screams came from above as the ninja’s made their way down to check on us. “Say you fell… Your already pathetic don’t let suicide take part in it.” I rolled over and pulled a portable out and begun to drink some of the still heated Gyudon allowing it to break the shock, hopefully one of these ninja’s were a medic and could help me so I could continue where I left off.


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[Akiyuki]

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After a quick rest I allowed myself to rest there was no point in me continuing instead I sat on the rest point once again now out of my cloak looking at the three man cell who begun arguing. They couldn’t believe he had just lazily slipped the woman of their team actually shed the most tears she looked as if her dear husband had fallen. The boy didn’t seem to care his attention was on his teammate… Things like that just made life harder. “Thank you Aki-kun!” The girl exclaimed at me though I showed her no attention even as she made her way over to me and begun to lay down some medic jutsu.

I was indeed happy about this though, I wasn’t sure what I would do if I hadn’t been able to use my arm, but this didn’t change the situation. “Chose for yourself, and stop living life by your families words.” She looked up at me as if she was shocked, but I quickly turned my back to her and opened the tin to grab the final bowl… It was by the fire most of the time so it was warm enough,…. Then I noticed the faces of the fools who hadn’t brought these provisions and decided I’d share the last ramen bowls I had sharing with Rinji it was definitely needed as was the water and tea in the portables.

The next day I would summon my crows once again this time five of them were assigned to take the tin back to my home as I would begin before the others woke my legs went to work feeling fully healed I begun the hustle. The rocks were as stable as they were ever going to be, but the whole thing was annoying before I had reached this point, then again with the holes already made it was quite simple for me to just grip the holes with my Kunai and climb up.

As for that group they continued through the night while I slept they thanked me as I begun my mission the group said they’d climb down, but they would surely make life easier for me… Whatever that meant I could care less I had bigger and better things to do there was a lot of climbing to be done and when I hit that path most of it was killed off running along that spiral path I could feel the top coming closer until I turned my final corner there it was decorated with all types of flags… Then I noticed one that was my family’s Ramen shop bowl was made into a marker. “Idiots..” I thought as I placed my hand over the bowl and in blood I left “Akiyuki.” To signify I had done my job.

The pride I felt for this was amazing and with it all to show out I ran down using my chakra along my feet I’d run straight down quitting from time to time to use my kunai to slide down the mountain to save my chakra though when I arrived at the rest point I noticed a rope with a thank you note from each member describing that I helped them with their disputes… I simply grabbed the rope that was left behind for me and wrapped my cloak around it at avoid rope burn… They had all this rope? And didn’t use it? These thoughts flowed through my mind as I slid down making sure to do it in breaks as not to gain too much speed, but when I saw Shingo he screamed out to me warning me 10 m of the rope was missing. “Shit.”

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[Akiyuki]

Out of desperation I swung myself to the mountain using my feet to slow me down, but nothing would really change besides me ruining my boots, but quick thinking lead me to using my shunshin. Using it quickly I flickered over to one of my crows that was near the ground he was about six meters away. Touching ground it was a experience I never had before now.

With the mission completed and stamped by my senpai I gave a smirk and took off running for the Kage’s office I still had other work to turn in and unfortunately with the time I’ve been using for this mountain trip, I was hoping my other missions wouldn’t be such a pain in the ass.

[DAVID BOWE]

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