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At any other time, Kenchiro might have felt warm and fuzzy, not to mention a bit full of himself, for having officially rescued somebody. And, truth be told, he did feel that way, at least a little bit. At the same time, however, he was currently pondering the future heartache this little act of chivalry would create. After all, now he was responsible for keeping this guy alive, at least until he could get him to wherever he was headed. And, after taking a second to look over the message, he got an answer that only added to his trepidation. Sunagakure? Of all the places he was looking for, he was looking for the Village Hidden in the Sand? Kenchiro did not see that one coming.

Still, he put all that in the back of his head, pocketing the note before the wind took it from his hands. "Don't feel too bad, Money," he said, reaching for his tool bag as he shook the traveler's hand. "No amount of research can really prepare a person for the deserts of the Land of Wind, especially when they've never been around them. Experience is the best teacher. You know what they say; whatever doesn't kill you..." He pulled out a square cloth, which he folded into two triangles and dampened with some water from his flask before handing it over to the traveler. "Here. Tie this around your mouth and nose. It'll keep the sand away and prevent you from drying out too quickly."

He took a moment to listen to the wind. The storm continued, but fortunately it did not sound like it was getting any stronger. With any luck, the worst of it would blow over shortly, at least enough to travel in. "Name's Nagakin. Kenchiro Nagakin. I just happened to be in the area looking for interesting things, when you stumbled along. You're a reporter, you say? From Tsuchi no Kuni? What sort of business do you have that would require you to go out searching for ninja villages in the middle of nowhere like this?"

Kenchiro made a noise, one part resolve, one part surprise, and about forty or fifty parts annoyance. Picking up a man and dragging him across the desert was hard enough (A muscular ubermensch the Genin clearly was not.), but to do so in the middle of a sandstorm, with one hand in the seal of the tiger, trying to focus and maintain his rudimentary shield of wind, was more than a little bit beyond his skill-set. He, and the man he was "saving" got more than a brief exposure to the flying debris despite Kenchiro's best efforts and, beaten, buffeted and thoroughly miserable, he deposited his fellow traveler behind the relative safety of the stone wall.

He huffed, feeling the exertion tugging at his muscles and generally adding to his discomfort. To make matters worse, he could not even complain; the only one around to hear was in an even worse state than him. The Genin made that distinctive noise again, with a few more parts of annoyance thrown in for good measure, as he looked the traveler over. How in the world did this guy manage to get so banged up? It looked like the desert chewed him up, spit him out, and used him as a toothpick to get bits of him out of the desert's teeth. But now was not the time for poetic flourishes. It was time for Kenchiro to continue his duties as the big freaking hero of the Land of Wind. Hooray...

Putting his hands together, he began to rattle off another series of hand-seals. That done, he placed his hands on the traveler's chest. A faint green light began to glow, pumping the traveler full of a special blend of healing chakra. Not enough to put him in the pink of health, naturally (A prodigy in the field of medical ninjutsu Kenchiro was not.), but certainly enough to take the sting off of what had to be days of half-cocked wandering. Kenchiro groaned at the sensation of chakra leaving his body through his hands. "Let nobody say I'm not earning this paycheck. Hey, buddy. You still with me? Come on, you know what they say about falling asleep in a sandstorm."

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Shousen no Jutsu (Mystical Hand Technique)
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Type: Supplementary / Medical Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Handseals: Yes.
Chakra: Low - Very High
Special: Heals and counters damage equal to highest rank known.
Description: Shousen Jutsu is one of the most fundamental yet vital Medical Ninjutsu techniques utilized by medical ninja. This technique allows the ninja to heal wounds by focusing their own chakra to their hands. If the ninja is highly skilled, they are able to heal more critical injuries. Highly skilled medical-nin can use their techniques to perform surgeries that otherwise would not be possible.
Domain: Medics

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Investigating the Desert
Rank: C.
Shinobi Required: 1.
Mission Information: In order to protect the Hidden Village of the Sand from impending threats, random shinobi are often sent beyond the village gates into the wild to scout and discover travelers that intend to infiltrate the secret location. The shinobi must simply exit through the village gates, investigate, and return with a full, written report of their adventure in the wild. However, due to the lowered expectations of difficulty pertaining to the mission, any Sunagakure ninja sent on this mission are not expected to combat or intercept potential threats, but are expected to give assistance to any inflicted, endangered civilians. The maximum amount of time spent during their adventure into the wild cannot exceed more than three days; if one does not return after that duration, they will be assumed Nuke and sought after.
Special Information: Repeatable. Intermediate.
Reward: 50 EXP & 1,000 Ryo.

The storm was picking up. Kenchiro had tried to outrun it, but it was a fool's errand and he knew it. Luckily, he found an old fragment of stone wall from who knows what that he could hide behind when the storm got really bad. He was a full day into his scouting mission for the Kazekage, and at the rate he was going he was going to be lucky if he found anything more exciting than this in the half a day before he had to start heading back towards the village. After all, when the penalty for being late to report back was an instant brand of nuke-nin, it paid to not take any unnecessary detours. As he leaned against the wall, he sighed. Still, he thought, if nature was going to be the toughest thing he would have to wrestle with during all this, he would take it happily. A paycheck was a paycheck, after all.

He stared off into the distance, when suddenly he saw something. A black speck way off in the sand, fading in and out of existence between waves of dust. A mirage, he told himself as he fitted the tracker to his right eye. It wasn't. Or, if it was, it was the most accurately human shaped mirage he had ever seen. "Oh, wonderful." Kenchiro stood up, putting his hands together in a series of hand-seals. "This guy could have shown himself any time. Why'd he have to come around now, of all times?"

Focusing his chakra, he began to envelop himself in ribbons of glowing green chakra. The flying sand parted behind him, creating a circular area in which most of it just did not go. Right,

Okay, so these are questions that probably have semi-obvious answers, but I can't seem to find them in the rules. They concern the limitations on ninjas carrying around weapons. To wit, Genins:

May carry up to two (2) Main Weapons on their person, without any extensions, at any given time!

May carry up to three (3) Secondary Weapon Packs on their person, without any extensions, at any given time!

May carry up to three (3) Accessories on their person at any given time!

First off, can these limitations be circumvented in any way by techniques like the Item Summoning Jutsu, and if so, to what extent? In canon, for instance, Ten-Ten used the Summoning Jutsu as part of a technique to positively spam all manner of weapons, the amount of which far exceeded the limits on secondary weapons as the rules allow them. The trade off for this kind of variety, naturally, is the fact that one has to spend chakra to bolster the amount of weapons they can field at once.

Secondly, can I assume that since we start out with more weapon packs than we can field from the very beginning (5 Secondary packs vs. 3 carried on their person at Genin), one could take that to its logical extreme and collect as many weapons as their little heart desires? I had an idea that my character could change up his overall strategy based off whatever weapons he randomly decided to take with him to battle from his arsenal.