TRASH TIME [M]

[Areru]

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One mission done, another was to do.
And this one she didn’t mind all that much, surprisingly. Other girls might find it disgusting and would request that they do something else instead of cleaning up trash but frankly, Areru didn’t care whatsoever. She had changed a little for this one, having quickly gone back home to change in to old clothes to prevent her best from being stained with trash-juice, and she was wearing gloves with one of them pick-up devices but apart from that, there was nothing different about what she was doing. She was pretty laid back about the whole picking up trash thing, actually, and didn’t mind getting her hands dirty- She could just clean them afterwards, right? She was almost near the area that needed to be cleaned and frankly, she could tell, as she could see bits of paper and rubbish scattered across the floor.

It was pretty sad to see everything all over the place in such a mess but she was sure that after a bit of cleaning it would look as good as ever- Or, at least as good as it had been after the war had damaged the village. It had never been the same since that had happened, although she looked forwards to the day when Kumogakure was as beautiful as it had been in her childhood- Not to say that it wasn’t nice now, but it could do with better. A few buildings were still a bit wrecked, but apart from that they had done quite a nice job with rebuilding the place- One of her missions was to help with that, so she would probably end up patching up a building or something like that later on. But- Now was the time to concentrate on this one in particular.

Walking down the street with her bag in hand and the grabby stick in the other, she would soon start to pick up pieces of trash and placing them in the bag itself, there being a belt upon her waist where there were extra supplies if she needed any more, like gloves. But, she found that the grabby stick was pretty useful in what it did, and it prevented her from having to bend down all the time- What a marvellous invention! Despite the fact that it had been made easier for her, and she did appreciate that, she felt a bit bored picking up all of the rubbish along the place- She didn’t care if people saw her doing it, that was the least of her worries. Backache was one of the things that she wanted to avoid at all costs! But it looked like she wouldn’t be getting any today.

So, piece after piece she would slowly begin to clean the streets of the junk that had been left after recent attacks that had strangely left trash all over the place. No doubt someone had obviously targeted the waste bins and everything which were around the place, which wasn’t very nice. It just made more work for people, although that probably was the reason that they had targeted them. But it was nice to have missions that made people help clean up both because she could get paid from it, and it helped to make the village a little bit prettier after what had happened. So, really, both parties profited from the whole thing so no-one one really lost except for the people who had dealt the damage in the first place who would see their work cleaned up. Poor them. NOT.
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[Areru]

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She was right.
There wasn’t all that much to do except for pick up trash piece after trash piece. It was interesting to see the effects of the attacks of course as paper seemed to fly about freely like birds, but it was pretty tedious after you’d see the same things over and over again as she was currently doing. However, slowly but surely she could see her trash-removing skills put to work as she’d look behind her to see.. a clean street that hadn’t been in that condition when she had first started. She felt some kind of pride seeing this but, she knew that someone might just mess it up later- But that was no problem, as someone else would probably go to clean it! With a content grin on her face she’d grab a few more pieces of trash and chuck them in the black bin bag that she was carrying, it being at least half way full now.

Continuing to pick up pieces of trash there wasn’t all that much to do, and even though she did like doing nothing or doing very little as possible, this was slowly becoming to bore her, so she had decided to do something worthwhile with her time or at least something that would soothe her mind so that she wouldn’t be mind-numbingly bored by pieces of trash that were lying around the place, waiting to be cleaned up by her. It was almost like some sort of searching game, there were some pieces that she could easily see which would no doubt be very easy to sort out and clean, but there were some hidden behind rocks and plants and so on that she had to look about for. Although it was a bit of effort to clean these ones she did get a good feeling of worth from it, as she knew that she was doing good to the community by doing a job that was so important, yet people hated.

But- It would be nice if Kumogakure had some kind of people on the street to prevent these things from happening, like a group of police who could apprehend anyone who attempted to ruin the area as had so happened- However, she knew that such things could sometimes he done on accident, even though it sounded a bit strange saying that. Perhaps someone had simply cut open a bag on accident, and knowing the storms that sometimes hit Kaminari no Kuni, chances were the contents of the bag might have flown out in the wind. It would have been common courtesy to pick the rubbish up, but people just didn’t do that, and they’d just leave it for other people to take care of, both not giving a damn about the environment, and not being bothered.

She however liked to put stuff in the bin- She wasn’t OCD or anything, she was in fact guilty of throwing trash on the floor at some points but then again when she could find a bin nearby she’d put her trash in there. Her room however, was pretty neat, and she hated to see it get to such a state. So, bringing the elements of her cleaning at home, she having taken the charge of being the only female in the house and cleaning it regularly, she’d continue to clean the streets, grabbing the odd crisp packet and placing it in the black bin bag safely so that it wouldn’t break free in to the wind once more. After cleaning the area, she was hoping that it would stay nicely that nice for at least a few more days before humans would go in to it again and taint it.

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[Areru]

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There wasn’t too much to do now. About ten more minutes and she’d finally be free to do a slightly more interesting mission that she had mind. Her left hand holding the bag, a wild piece of trash would cause her to bend over slightly to pick it up, the grabby stick having not been able to reach that far. After picking it up it’d be plopped back in the black bin bag, and she the cycle would continue as she’d see other pieces. All in all her head had somewhat been in the clouds whilst she had been doing this, but the job was being done, so no-one could really complain as the frail-looking girl would keep walking around the area, picking up any stray little pieces that she would see around the place. All in all it would be strange to see Areru in other clothes, as one would probably guess that her wardrobe consisted only of her main outfit.

But, she did have some other clothes, not to say that the above statement was false- She did have sets of the same clothing, as it was a look that she had developed over the years, and she had finally gotten to be quite proud of it. So, she didn’t really want trash to defile it or to have any pieces of old food to stain her white woots- Having white shoes was quite a risk to take although she polished and shined them every night, so having stains on them anyway would be covered up hours after that had appeared. But, apart from that she had no other obsessions as far as clothing went. The clothes that she wore now were quite baggy, but, she preferred tighter clothing. She didn’t exactly have a hourglass, girly figure, but she was incredibly thin, so she could pull off styles that some couldn’t.

Although, fashion wasn’t exactly the key debate right now, neither was there really a debate to speak about. She was concerntrating right now on picking up the trash that she had promised to do for this mission, so she needed to complete it pretty quickly. Quickening up her pace she would grab all of the pieces of trash that she could, her eyes gazing across the coloured yet slightly faded logos of the products that had once been housed within the shells that show flew about the street wildly like a gang of orphans. Such products she herself had tried in the past, but others had been quite foreign to her. No matter what it was or where it came from, it all went in the black bag that her left hand was taking charge of, it now being almost full, which was just as well, as her working time had almost been up.

Looking behind her, she finally reaching an alley where there was no trash due to her having picked it up already, she’d be happy to see that she had removed all signs of rubbish from the area, and it now seemed like a slightly friendlier place to be than it had been moments ago. A pretty place seemed to get more visitors, so it would be nice to see this area of the village visited by people, maybe they could put a few more plants up near the shop windows to make it nicer for people to look at- But, that wasn’t her decision to do of course. With her job now being over she’d tie the bag, and hold the items in one hand, as she’d walk over to the place that she had received the cleaning equipment from, handing them in, and then coming out once more to the village itself, as she would go onwards to start the other mission that she had requested to do. These would be done in no-time.

EXIT!

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[Axcel]

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