Lost

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Lost
 
Mrs. Yurika has misplaced/lost her golden watch, usually we would not be bothered with such trivia but she is willing to pay a large sum for our help as it is her Late Mother's gift to her before she passed on. Although Mrs. Yurika assumes the Watch was simply lost I think otherwise, I think it was stolen. It is your job to head over to her house and find clues then hunt down who ever stole her watch and make sure you get it back. Be on your guard.
 
Mission Rank: D-Rank
Shinobi Assigned: Shikasame Nara
 
 
 
 
 
Mission Log
 
                                                              Mission: Lost
Assigned to: Shikasame Nara
-Down the street from the Hokage’s mansion, Shikasame, was going over the mission details. He should have been rather happy, seeing as how this was his first mission, but instead all he could think to himself was “what a drag.” He came up to a bench under a tree that provided a lot of shade, sitting down he was reading over the last part of the mission specs, Lady Kage seemed to think foul play was involved which made the mission seem a little more interesting. Standing up and stretching, he put the mission file into his pouch, continuing down the street Shika figured he should probably stop by the store and pick up some items. Picking up his pace he jogged around a few corners and a bridge, that went over one of the many rivers that went thru the village, arriving at the shop he entered. Inside he bought his usual purchase, 2 flash orbs, 5 fire tags and 5 explosive tags, some simple graphing paper, and 3 pencils, he didn’t need to purchase any kunai or shuriken due to the fact that his parents got him a set of both containing 10 of each in his holster on his left thigh. Walking out of the store and packing his pouch on his right lower backside, he started for Mrs. Yurikas’ residence which was only a few blocks away from the store he just exited. Moving in the direction of the house he decided to check out a few things. Circling the block of the residence he noticed a few trees that grew in such a way that someone could have easily snuck into the residence and taken anything they wanted. Climbing one tree, that was closest to a window, he began searching for something he was sure he would not find, but as soon the thought left his head he found a footprint on the “Y” shaped part of the tree. Noting in his head the place of the foot print he dismounted from the tree and continued to Mrs. Yurikas’ front door. Knocking on it he heard a voice from inside, “One minute please I will be right there” assuming the voice inside belonged to Mrs. Yurika he let hos hand fall away from the door. As the door opened he was greeted by the owner of the house who introduced herself after seeing the shinobi. “Oh my, Lady Kage must have decided to take on my request, oh joy I cant tell you how excited I am about this” she said in an upbeat voice. “Yes mam I am the one who was given this request, I gather you need help finding your misplaced item” he replied inquisitively. As she invited him in she was still going on about what the object was, a Watch, and how it meant so much to her but all Shika was doing was looking around the house as far as his sight would allow him at the time for evidence of entry without consent. “So if you don’t mind mam I would like to begin searching for the watch, if it’s okay with you?” he said kinda cutting off her rambling. “Oh yes be my guest, the last time I saw the watch was upstairs in my quarters, it is the last door on the left” she explained. Noding his head Shika began up the stairs and down the hallway. On his way through he was noticing how some things were out of place almost, like a rug that looked like someone tripped on it while hurrying, arriving at the last door on the left he placed his hand on the doorknob and turned it, as the door open he noticed that it creaked very loudly, keeping that in mind he entered the room and flicked the light on. Automatically his eyes were drawn right to a mark on the now closed window, to the untrained eye it would look like nothing, but to a shinobi it was clear that someone had broken into the house thru this window. Walking back downstairs he informed the lady on his discovering the evidence and explained that he would be back with her watch. Running back up the stairs he opened the window and just as he guessed the tree with the “Y” shaped branch was right in front of him, taking out his graph paper he drew a layout of the area around the house, using a few mathematical equations he estimated where the perp would have jumped to and where they could have landed. Following up on his summary he searched a few of the places and found no trace, it was only that he went down to the river front that he found some very deep footprints leading to the river, assuming it was the perp he was searching for he decided to follow them. Getting to the river he looked out across it into a rather large lake where a couple of rock formations. Doing the next logical thing he began readying some of his equipment, taking out one fire tag and one explosive tag, he equipped them each to a different kunai. Placing the explosive tagged kunai in his left sandal to where the circular handle was facing straight up  towards his hand he fit the fire tagged kunai into his right sleeve. Focusing chakra into the soles of his feet he began to slowly dash out over the river and into the lake. Arriving at the first rock formation he searched it up and down and could not find any trace of normal activity. Setting back out over the water he set his sights on the second rock formation, this one gave him a bad feeling. Upon arriving at the second formation he began to hear voices inside a small cave. As he reached the cave he pushed his back against the wall on the right hand side of the opening. Whoever the people were inside he did not know but he could tell there were three males in the cave. The majority of the talking was being done by one man in particular, who was bragging about his gift at breaking and entering then stealing items, “the last house I broke into was some older lady, yeah she had this really siny golden watch sitting on her bed side table so I snatched that thing as quick as possible, and I hear she even submitted a report to the Hokage for a missing watch like the had simply misplaced it, HA!” as he finished his sentence Shika knew without a doubt that this was the guy he was looking for, and that Lady Kage was right about foul play being involved. Gripping a flash orb from his pouch he rolled it down into the cave, just as he heard “WHAT THE HE….” The flash orb detonated, rushing in with his eyes squinted he only had a few moments to act. Knowing the advantage of surprise was a factor he needed to make his next move count for something because he heard the one who was bragging about the theft barking commands a the other two in the cave with him, running down into the cave he threw the fire tagged kunai into his right sleeve just above the trio of bandits as they were startled by this Shika used the Shadow Clutch Technique, which is used to grasp and manipulate a target that has been hooked by the shadow, as he used the technique on the guy in the middle he then used the bandits body parts as a human weapon and threw him to one side knocking out the bandit on his left knocking them both unconscious , the bandit on the right however had made a full recovery to the flash orb and proceeded to draw a kunai from his holster on his right thigh. Preparing for close ranged battle, Shika realized he used a lot of charka using that technique, decided now was the time for the Nara clans’ trump card. Shika dropped to his right knee and pulling out the explosive tagged kunai in his left sandal he let it fly right at the bandit, as it flew the bandit took this time to rush forward at Shika, which is what Shika wanted rolling to the left of the bandit that was charging the explosive kunai went off at Shikas back 5 feet behind him which cast his shadow in the direction of the last bandit as his shadow extended he held his hands in the Rat hand sign signifying the use of the Shadow Possession Technique, as his shadow connected with the bandits he stood up and gave his hands a couple of shakes, as he did so did the bandit. Getting serious Shika slowly reached down to his kunai holster on his left thigh as did the bandit who was shadow possessed facing away from Shika, Shika said four words in his deepest voice possible “ where is the watch?” he asked menacingly. “I… It….It’s under that table over there” the bandit said, shaky. Just as he answered Shika threw his kunai right at the bandits spinal cord knowing where to hit for a non lethal hit, before the bandit got hit however Shika released the technique so he would not get injured as well. As the bandit collapsed on himself, Shika walked over to the only table in the room, and just as the last bandit said it was there, he picked up the watch and placed it safely into his pouch. Leaving the cave he had tied up the trio of bandits using some rope the bandits had and embed it with his own chakra. He then started focusing his chakra to the soles of his feet to get back to the river front by Mrs. Yurikas’ residence. Knocking on the front door as he arrived, he heard Mrs. Yurika inside shuffling to the front door, before she arrived he had reached into his pouch to retrieve the Watch he had just taken back from the bandits. As she opened the door Shika presented the Watch with a smile on his face he said “Mam, I found your watch.” As he finished saying that he had found her watch she was overjoyed with the fact that she had her late mothers’ watch back in her possession, “oh I knew you could do it you are indeed a brave and clever shinobi” she said with a tear in her eye. Shika only replied with “thank you mam you are too kind but thank you for the compliment, I have to get going now” he said “ I have to get back to the Hokage.” As he walked back up the street he turned and waved at Mrs. Yurika, even though the mission started off as a drag he was happy he helped someone. As the house left his view he looked towards the Kage mansion, Speeding off to report back to the kage about how his mission had turned out.-
END MISSION