Into The Woods[m]

[Cold..]

Cool night air whisked through Kai's jet black hair. The moon sitting high in the sky shone down on the forest below while the Kusa ninja sat cross legged on the back of a giant ink falcon. Calm gray eyes gazed down from the sky, scanning the forest floor. Kaito Hayashi was on the lookout for any signs of a camp. A fire...a smoke...anything. This was his very first mission, the ninja wanted to get it done and done well.

"Quite the quiet night" the shinobi thought to himself. There was this chilling calm in the air that Kai couldn't rightly place. He had just recently been appointed a genin of Kusagakure, yet he hadn't seemed too excited, and what was stranger was that he wasn't excited about being able to bust up some bandits for his very first mission. It wasn't long before the ninja draped in black garbs and a black cloak noticed a slim billow of smoke arcing up to the sky. This had to be them seeing as no one else camped out in the dangerous forests of Kusa.

Without a movement from Kai, the massive falcon swooped down into the treeline. Nimbly dodging trees and branches, the artist leaped from his ink transport to the ground. With the flick of his hand Kai had dispelled the jutsu and the falcon disappeared in a splatter of ink.

The details of the mission were simple. Bandits in the forest attacking randoms and blah blah. Easy enough. How tough could a bunch of random bandits really be for a ninja? Kai launched himself into the air, landing in a squat on a thick tree branch. He'd be sneaky. Stay hidden. Or just surprise the hell out of the group and wreak havoc.

[Cold..]

White drips of moonlight filtered in through thin spaces between leaves in the trees. Kai darted soundlessly among the dark tendrils of tree branches, keeping ever so focused on the goal ahead. What kind of weapons and training could these guys have had? What were they capable of? They were a bunch of bandits, that much was certain, but Kai couldn't really be sure just what they could do or if they could even fight. The details of the mission said that when together the group could be deadly, but was that to a ninja? Only one way to find out.

As he glided trough the trees Kaito pulled the neck of his shirt up underneath his nose to cover his mouth. As he was dressed in all black the ninja was rather hard to see though the little bit of moonlight there was might have shone off of his pale skin. Orange light flickered up ahead as the ninja felt he was nearing his goal. He readied himself. A pale white digit shot into a pocket for a paintbrush, the other hand releasing a painting scroll from it's holster.

Finally Kaito had reached the bandit's camp and was standing in the darkness of a tree just on the edge of it. He peered down into the circle of tents and small fires, counting the numbers of every brute in the vicinity. Five...six...maybe more sleeping in the tents. He squinted. Maybe this would be harder than he thought.

[Cold..]

Kaito plopped himself down on the branch he stood on, crossing his left leg over his right he pulled an ink bottle from his satchel, unscrewed the top, and set it down on the branch beside him. In an instant he dipped the brush into the ink then allowed it to fly over the scroll. He drew a pack of six wolves then his hands moved into a set of seals. On the final seal pack shot from the scroll and began to advance on the camp from the shadows.

At once the thugs seemed to react to the approaching threat of the dogs and began to pull out weapons. A few swords, some daggers. Nothing to get excited about. Kai brought a pale digit to his chin as he watched his pack attack. One by one the wolves began to pounce on the thugs, but a couple of the bandits managed to strike out at the ink animals with their weapons. Two ink wolves splattered, four took down bandits which meant there were two bandits that still needed to be taken down.

Like a scene out of a scary movie the wolves began to circle the bandits. How in the world would they make it out of this alive? Obviously these weren't real wolves which was evident by ink sprayed all over the camp. In perfect harmony each wolf bounded for the remaining bandits, tackling both to the ground in a flurry of snapping jaws and flying claws. It was fairly entertaining to watch to the artistic ninja.

Finally the wolves had ceased their attack as the two bandits fell unconscious. It hadn't seemed as if there were any people sleeping in the tents, but it didn't hurt to check. The wolves snuffled through the tents, making sure every bandit had been dealt with. When they turned up nothing, Kai joined the fray of canines. They rounded up the unconscious bandits and proceeded to head back to Kusa to collect the reward.

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FORESTED TAKEOUT
RANK: C
DESCRIPTION: Given the peril that the forestry within Kusa no Kuni pose, a lot of vagabonds have chosen to set up camp within this dangerous land, claiming it as theirs. Whilst officially they do not rule over the place, they're prepared to guard their camps with their lives. As of late, this has been a problem for people who have gotten lost, or people who have accidentally stumbled upon these camps. Innocent people have been beaten and kidnapped from this, and due to this, in order to neutralize this threat, the Kusakage has asked for shinobi to track down these camps and apprehend the bandits that reside within them, then hand them over to the authority within Kusa no Kuni.
OBJECTIVE: Track down one of the few camps in Kusa no Kuni, and prepare to put up a fight to capture the bandits! They're small in number, but when working together, their attacks can be quite deadly!
PAY: 200 EXP and 1,000 Ryo.[/spoler]

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