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One Time Luck
ishikawa atsuo. βΎ
Soft rays of mid-morning sunlight shone down upon the Leaf Village, setting a hopeful precedent for the first B-Rank mission of Atsuo's career. It would be a downright lie to suggest the young ninja wasn't anticipating it. He'd been so consumed by the thought of it, in fact, that he'd even forgotten to light up his morning cigarette. Almost. He was within view of the village gates when, out of habit, he dropped a hand down into his pants pocket and felt for his lighter.
He stopped short as it donned on him what he had forgotten. Aw, man.
He popped a thumb knuckle, a deeply frustrated scowl chiseling itself into his narrow face. A few smooth drags off a cigarette would have been just what he needed to remove that edge, but it seemed one of his comrades had already beaten him to the towering entrance to the village. He didn't much care if his teammates caught him smoking, but he'd have rather kept Teruhiko Sensei- who, in this instance, happened to be their mission captain- in the dark about his nasty habit.
Ah, well. As much as it sucked, he would just have to make do until he could find a few minutes to step away from the rest of the squad.
Raking his fingers back through his mess of mahogany hair, Atsuo trudged on towards where one of fellow genin stood in wait of everybody's arrival.
Soft rays of mid-morning sunlight shone down upon the Leaf Village, setting a hopeful precedent for the first B-Rank mission of Atsuo's career. It would be a downright lie to suggest the young ninja wasn't anticipating it. He'd been so consumed by the thought of it, in fact, that he'd even forgotten to light up his morning cigarette. Almost. He was within view of the village gates when, out of habit, he dropped a hand down into his pants pocket and felt for his lighter.
He stopped short as it donned on him what he had forgotten. Aw, man.
He popped a thumb knuckle, a deeply frustrated scowl chiseling itself into his narrow face. A few smooth drags off a cigarette would have been just what he needed to remove that edge, but it seemed one of his comrades had already beaten him to the towering entrance to the village. He didn't much care if his teammates caught him smoking, but he'd have rather kept Teruhiko Sensei- who, in this instance, happened to be their mission captain- in the dark about his nasty habit.
Ah, well. As much as it sucked, he would just have to make do until he could find a few minutes to step away from the rest of the squad.
Raking his fingers back through his mess of mahogany hair, Atsuo trudged on towards where one of fellow genin stood in wait of everybody's arrival.
sankoda teruhiko. βΆ
Ishikawa Atsuo. Shirota Harumi. Tenchochu Cho. Inuzaka Shikoku.
Teruhiko was already well acquainted with two of his four man squad; Atsuo and Harumi made up two of his three usual pupils on Team Thirteen. He couldn't claim stakes to Cho or Shikoku- not that he would want to. Three whole brats was more than enough to a team, if you wanted to know his opinion. He often found it hard enough to keep the attention of even one. But, for the sake of their mission, Cho and Shikoku were his to command.
He scratched his stubble, watching from his vantage point upon a nearby building as, one by one, his squad begin to roll in.
What a pain this mission was about to be. He cracked his neck.
Let's hope these genin can hold their weight. Those missing girls' lives may very well have depended on their expertise. There was a high probability the girls, Moriki Kanae, and Εmichi Shizuko, hadn't just gone off and gotten lost on a whim. They were good kids from well off families.
Kanae was a fifteen year old, recently dubbed genin, and Shizuko helped her parents run an animal rehabilitation center at the edge of the village. The girls had been best friends since they were children, so when they came up missing the same morning, there was no doubt in anyone's head that, whatever had happened to them, they had been together for it.
Teruhiko knew their lack of overall knowledge about the girls' disappearance meant that this mission could go any number of ways. The only credible witness was Kanaeβs younger brother Kusuo. The hokage informed them during yesterday's briefing that Kusuo heard his sister leave their family home before sunrise two mornings ago. When he awoke and followed her outside to see where she could have been going, she was already disappearing, alone, into the forest. According to him, she had left behind her Leaf Village forehead protector, which she would never do.
Both girls' families as well as the hokage suspected foul play. After pondering over the information he'd been given, Teruhiko was beginning to lean the same way.
He reached into his satchel, from which he pulled out a navy blue forehead protector. Kanae's forehead protector. The hokage had gotten it from Kusuo and handed it over to Teruhiko so that Shikoku kid's ninja hound could take a whiff of it. With a lot of luck, hopefully the group would be on the girls' trail by some time that afternoon.
Ishikawa Atsuo. Shirota Harumi. Tenchochu Cho. Inuzaka Shikoku.
Teruhiko was already well acquainted with two of his four man squad; Atsuo and Harumi made up two of his three usual pupils on Team Thirteen. He couldn't claim stakes to Cho or Shikoku- not that he would want to. Three whole brats was more than enough to a team, if you wanted to know his opinion. He often found it hard enough to keep the attention of even one. But, for the sake of their mission, Cho and Shikoku were his to command.
He scratched his stubble, watching from his vantage point upon a nearby building as, one by one, his squad begin to roll in.
What a pain this mission was about to be. He cracked his neck.
Let's hope these genin can hold their weight. Those missing girls' lives may very well have depended on their expertise. There was a high probability the girls, Moriki Kanae, and Εmichi Shizuko, hadn't just gone off and gotten lost on a whim. They were good kids from well off families.
Kanae was a fifteen year old, recently dubbed genin, and Shizuko helped her parents run an animal rehabilitation center at the edge of the village. The girls had been best friends since they were children, so when they came up missing the same morning, there was no doubt in anyone's head that, whatever had happened to them, they had been together for it.
Teruhiko knew their lack of overall knowledge about the girls' disappearance meant that this mission could go any number of ways. The only credible witness was Kanaeβs younger brother Kusuo. The hokage informed them during yesterday's briefing that Kusuo heard his sister leave their family home before sunrise two mornings ago. When he awoke and followed her outside to see where she could have been going, she was already disappearing, alone, into the forest. According to him, she had left behind her Leaf Village forehead protector, which she would never do.
Both girls' families as well as the hokage suspected foul play. After pondering over the information he'd been given, Teruhiko was beginning to lean the same way.
He reached into his satchel, from which he pulled out a navy blue forehead protector. Kanae's forehead protector. The hokage had gotten it from Kusuo and handed it over to Teruhiko so that Shikoku kid's ninja hound could take a whiff of it. With a lot of luck, hopefully the group would be on the girls' trail by some time that afternoon.
harumi shirota.
Waking up early for a mission was a foreign concept to Harumi. She was part of the nocturnal Team Thirteen, after all, and Teruhiko Sensei was a night owl. All of their missions and training sessions up until that point had taken place at night, so, naturally, Harumi had adapted to a schedule that simply did not adhere to that morning's mission.
That's why, ten minutes before she was supposed to be at the gates of the Leaf Village, the young genin was shoving herself into her clothes and throwing any ninja supplies she could find into her bag. How could she have been so careless as to have overslept for her first B-Rank mission? If she really booked it, there was a slim chance that maybe she could get there on time.
With her clothes on and ninja tools secured in her bag, Harumi half-ran and half-stumbled from the front door of her house and out into the streets.
Five minutes, Harumi. You can't be late. Think of what Teruhiko Sensei would say!
Think of what Atsuo would say.
Now that got her fired up. Atsuo was such a jerk, he would never pass up the opportunity to make a snarky comment about her truancy, and she knew it.
The thought of his smug face and biting words were more than enough fuel to hightail Harumi into action. She leapt up onto the rooftop of her home and, from there, began leaping her way to the village gates.
Waking up early for a mission was a foreign concept to Harumi. She was part of the nocturnal Team Thirteen, after all, and Teruhiko Sensei was a night owl. All of their missions and training sessions up until that point had taken place at night, so, naturally, Harumi had adapted to a schedule that simply did not adhere to that morning's mission.
That's why, ten minutes before she was supposed to be at the gates of the Leaf Village, the young genin was shoving herself into her clothes and throwing any ninja supplies she could find into her bag. How could she have been so careless as to have overslept for her first B-Rank mission? If she really booked it, there was a slim chance that maybe she could get there on time.
With her clothes on and ninja tools secured in her bag, Harumi half-ran and half-stumbled from the front door of her house and out into the streets.
Five minutes, Harumi. You can't be late. Think of what Teruhiko Sensei would say!
Think of what Atsuo would say.
Now that got her fired up. Atsuo was such a jerk, he would never pass up the opportunity to make a snarky comment about her truancy, and she knew it.
The thought of his smug face and biting words were more than enough fuel to hightail Harumi into action. She leapt up onto the rooftop of her home and, from there, began leaping her way to the village gates.
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