Missions Make My Day
Mar 20, 2012 13:12:58 GMT -8
Post by ¤ SFS ¤ on Mar 20, 2012 13:12:58 GMT -8
Murder Mystery [1]
Rank: D
Ninja needed: 1-3
Mission info: There has been a murder in the village. Mrs. Pearson’s son was murdered and she has hired a shinobi to find out exactly why. Your first task is to find out who killed the boy and why he was murdered.
Special Info: May be repeated indefinitely.
The trek from the mansion to the murder scene on the east end of the village went by fast enough. There were less people on the streets at this hour and it was a straight shot from the one end to the other. It was the moment he had been waiting for all day, the last mission. A boy had been murdered and like their previous mission they didn't have to solve the whole crime tonight. In the case of this murder they simply had to figure out why he was killed and who did it. He extended the folded mission ticket to the Chuunin to read himself, still stating the key details aloud. "Someone's been murdered, no name was given but his mother's name is Pearson. Chances are it's not kid, a teenager or young adult most likely. The older the victim is though the easier it'll probably be the solve this thing... and they want us to figure out both who did it and why but I figure if we can figure out the who we can just make them tell us about the why."
In the shinobi world people died all the time. As many strings of ramen that were in your breakfast bowl, you could be sure that at least that many people were going to die that day and during wartime like now, the number was easily doubled. The unique thing about Iwagakure no Sato was that it had bore the brunt of many attacks and lost many lives for this war already. It was the most weakened of the Five Great Nations and so it became a target by default. It had become so bad he was willing to trust Missing-Nin before another ninja still affiliated with their village. Nuke-nin followed their ambitions for the most part and the ones weren't nukes followed the orders of their superiors back home. At least with a Nuke-nin you tended to know where you stood with them, but when left room to believe you could truly trust someone the only thing you were guaranteed was an eventual knife in the back. Sometimes it was the happen the very moment you let your guard down to indulge in trust and sometimes it wouldn't happen until generations down the line, but eventually, it would happen. The easiest way for the Leaf, Sand, Water and Lightning to increase their own power was to make the Five Great Nations into Four Great Nations. He'd mostly kept his head down after that stuff back in Suna so he wasn't aware whether Iwagakure no Sato had alliances with them or any other village at the time.
He couldn't even begin to the fathom the ramifications of war for the Hidden Villages in smaller countries like Star, Rain and Grass. But war was an all encompassing thing even if Iwa fell down to the last Stone Shinobi the remaining villages would just go on fighting one another and it would be someone else's turn to watch their village slowly die. His thoughts put him in even more of a stoic mood and he could feel himself unraveling. He needed a bath or a shower. He needed some time to clean himself up and collect his thoughts and that's exactly what he would do the moment he and Hyoka figured out why someone decided to kill this guy.
They got to the crime scene in one piece, and thankfully, the body was still in one piece as well. It had been nearly twenty-fours since he had been found and Sen had to apologize profusely for their late arrival. The body itself had already been moved to keep it from decaying further in the street. The corpse itself wouldn't reveal an abundance of clues as to who killed him or why. The corpse would best tell them how he was killed, and that would possibly help with the who and why. He was used to the concept of death, his training had ensured it as did his constantly attacked village but he was in no place to take his time with this mission. He would make sure he dotted all his I's and crossed all his T's but he wouldn't spend a minute here longer than he had to.