Bandit Trouble - April 6, 2015

== Participants ==
Nara Ban
Orochi Sora
== Bandit Trouble ==
Kresky: - As the rain showers itself over the amegakure a young man dressed in all black with a trench a coat and his face covered briefly walks uptown towards ame's mission office to retrieve task to complete sora kept his hands his pockets feeling a little bit chilly as he continued heading to his destination as he was casually walking the young orochi spaced out and thought to himself how he could be proper when approaching his teammate and act professional about what he was doing. this is his first mission and he didn't want to screw up as he snapped out of it reaching his destination quietly waiting outside of building waiting for his partner he analyzed his surroundings to see if anyone was around the front entrance. -
Kare: - At the stroke of midnight, Ban had received a message from a courier. - “You must prepare yourself and head to the Mission Office by 9am tomorrow and meet with another genin named Orochi Sora. The two of you will be tasked to handle a couple of bandits causing some trouble for Amegakure. More details will be provided at the briefing.” - It was about 8:30am when Sora had arrived at the Mission Office and Ban had already been there for about 2 hours, hiding within the shadows of the alleyway just across from the building. The last time Ban was seen wandering the streets of the village, he had undreaded his locks and had his hair flowing freely beneath a straw hat, but since then, he has dreaded his hair and held the locks together in a ponytail with a leather band. Ban wore his forehead protector, black tinted goggles, a gray t-shirt beneath a thick beige wool sweater with its collar popped and over that he wore a dark brown trenchcoat that reached down just above his knees; beneath the right sleeve of the wool sweater, Ban kept a kunai laced around his forearm with wire. He also wore ¾ dark purple thermals under worn gray shorts and handmade durable sandals. On his back he carried a backpack that contained all of his standard equipment. Ban also wore matching beige wool gloves to keep his hands warm. Ban kept himself in the shadows and then whistled to gain Sora’s attention since they  were the only two in the general vicinity. - “Orochi Sora… I’m your assigned partner for this mission. Come here and let us wait for the jounin that will brief us.” - The volume of his voice was loud enough for Sora to hear, but not loud enough to put a strain on Ban’s throat. -
Kresky: - Sora heard the whistle and turned walking toward the individual with his hands in his pockets, he gave Ban a respectful nod staring at him. He stood next the to his fellow partner with his back leaning against the wall shaking his head a little bit trying to shake some of the rain off of his silky long jet black hair as they were waiting for the briefing not saying a word he just stared at the individual and at his appearance thinking to himself. - “Damn this guy is the real deal. I guess the Nara are no joke when it comes to using the shadows." - He adjusted the scrolls and pouches on his trench belt checking if they were secure curious to see what await for him and his partner. -
Kare: - As Sora walked into the alleyway and pressed his back against the brick wall, Ban shifted his eyes to analyze his posture, attire and equipment. - “I’ve seen you in the Academy before. I believe we were in the same class. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you.” - Ban turned his body to be parallel to Sora’s and extended a hand and waited for it to be shaken. If the hand was shaken, Ban would turn his body back to face the building and keep his hands in his trenchcoat pockets. If his hand is not shaken, he’d just retreat his hand and take a mental note of that and then proceed to turn his body towards the building. By now it was 8:59am and a male figure would appear out of thin air behind the two of them. - “You two must be Ban and Sora. I’m Lu, the jounin order to brief you on your mission.” - Ban wasn’t really startled, but he turned around and nodded at the words of the jounin and began to walk towards the entrance of the Mission Office. - (I’ll be controlling the jounin for the briefing. Any text between this symbol, #, correlates to the jounin.) # As Lu finished his quick introduction, he patted Sora on the shoulder and motioned for him to follow him into the building. # “C’mon Sora, it’s briefing time!” # He said in a slightly louder volume and with haste entered the Mission Office and headed to the Briefing Room. By now the two genin and the jounin would be in the Briefing Room either standing or sitting on a chair. # “I’m going to get straight to the point. There is are 5 bandits on the outskirts of Amegakure, lingering around the edge of the forest. They’re stopping traveling merchants along the path from Amegakure to Yonshigakure at random and they need to be stopped before they mug another merchant. Your mission is simple, locate the bandits and eliminate them, but be careful. One of those bandits is at your level and is capable of utilizing chakra to perform jutsu as well. Some of the surviving merchants say that the bandit is capable of utilizing lightning. Any questions?” # - Ban stood there listening to the jounin’s words intently and took a mental note of what he said about the bandit with an affinity of lightning. - “I have no questions.” -
Kresky: - Sora shook the young mans hand in a professional manner while giving him eye contact as he spoke about them being classmates. He spoke in a mysterious snake hissing voice with the cloth covering his part of his face creepily staring at him - "Ah yes, I remember… You were one of the top Academy students, it’s a pleasure." - After speaking with Ban, he turned around quickly and felt the presence of the male figure who appeared out of thin air behind the two of them. He also nodded at the words of the jounin and began to walk towards the entrance of the Mission Office following the jounin feeling his hand on his shoulder and jounin speaking to him but said nothing back . At the end of briefing Sora didn't not say anything but, nodded his head. He was ready to proceed, mentally taking note of the kind jounin's words. -
Kare: - Ban waved to the jounin as he began to exit the Briefing Room and gestured for Sora to follow alongside him. - “Let’s get going Sora, the faster we get there, the more time we have to plan out this assault.” - Ban exited the Mission Office with a slip of paper containing rough sketches of what each of the bandits looked like and a vague description of each of the bandit’s skills the investigators managed to gather from the reports the merchants had turned in. Once Sora was beside Ban, he would hold the slip of paper between them, so that they could both have a clear view of the contents on the page. - “So it seems that the leader of the group is easily distinguishable by the complexion of his light brown skin, burn scar that covers 25% of his face, and his messy spiked dirty blonde hair. Then we have this guy here who has a large red “X” painted over his face and then there is a female with two toned eyes. One of her eyes is light blue and the other is light green. I can’t really see the picture of the other two, what do you see?” - Although, Ban could perfectly see the sketches, he wanted to see how Sora conveyed the information on the slip of paper to him. Something inside of Ban wanted to really understand how Sora worked, perhaps it was his unique background that drew Ban in. He stood there, under a steel awning, waiting for Sora to describe what he has gathered from the information on the sheet of paper. -
Kresky: - Sora nodded in response to Ban’s request to get going and was curious in what fun was in store for him. As they briefly stepped back outside in the chilly weather he payed attention to Ban. Sora listened to Ban’s explanations about the first three shinobi as he went through the descriptions he was surprised at how detailed the jounins sketched out their faces so precisely. He took the paper from Ban’s hands, taking a look at the sketches. - “The young Nara is testing me.” - Sora says, thinking to himself. Sora spoke in his snake like voice. - "What marvelous looking prey. It seems that this one has a 2nd degree burn on his left eye following very rugged and spiky light blond hair following the rest of these slash marks all over his face and his brown eye. This next one looks very young and small. He has very long jet black hair like mine following his light blue eyes we should avoid using short range attacks because how quick he may be for his size." - He finishes and hands the paper back while looking at Ban. - "Ready?"
Kare: - Ban stood there, listening to Sora describe the two other bandits and wasn’t disappointed at his ability to extract key information from a piece block of text. - “I’m ready. Let’s head out to the North Gate.” - Ban rolls up the slip of paper and stuffs it into a side pouch on his backpack and proceeds to dash through the village streets, dodging all incomming traffic by swiftly leaping to the left or right, depending on the side that was clear. Once Ban and Sora arrived at the North Gate, Ban flashed his I.D. to the jounin guards that were stationed at the gate and waited for them to grant him access outside of the village. - “What is your business outside of Amegakue… Nara Ban?” “My friend and I were assigned a mission to deal with the bandits who’ve been terrorizing the merchants heading to Yonshigakure.” - Just as Ban finishes saying that, he pulls out the rolled up slip of paper and flashes it towards the jounin who questioned him. - “I see, you’re free to pass. Be careful.” - The jounin would pull on a lever and the large steel gate doors would open wide like the mouth of an alligator waiting for its prey to creep near the opening. Ban would take back is I.D. and take a few steps forward, walking under the arch and then turn back to Sora, waiting for his I.D. to check out. -
Kresky: - Sora casually gyro flips off building to building, parkouring his way behind Ban while heading towards the North Gate to continue the mission. He ended his parkouring spree by doing jumping off the highest building before the North Gate and performing a double flip and landed elegantly into a bow in front of the jounin. In silence, Sora reached out for his I.D. around his neck and presented it to the guard, holding it on the tips of his fingers like he playing a game of poker. - "Here you go, Mr. Jounin, sir." - He then waited for the gates to be open and nodded on cue to follow Ban. The gates opened and Sora stepped forward in front of Ban and looked behind him with his creepy white eyes and his masked face and nodded at him to follow him. - "Ban, we are going to need some sort of way to catch the bandits. There is going to be a chance they are going to make diversion to ambush us and get us cornered us. Use your shadows to best of your ability and see if you can pick up anything ahead until we reached the general vicinity where they are hiding. I know they are just bandits but, I want learn how they operate. It can make our mission easier so we don't play into their hands." - Sora ended what he wanted to say and summoned a couple of regular snakes and slithered to them to trace any large heat sources within the woods. He then signaled Ban to follow behind him. -
Kare: - Before the mission even began, Ban felt like he needed to take the position as the leader of the duo, but at this very moment, he felt like he should let Sora take the wheel for now, till things get chaotic. - “There is no need for me to use up my chakra when you’ve already summoned a couple of snakes to scout ahead. They’re more effective at tracking our targets than I’ll be with my shadows.” - Ban stated as he followed behind Sora and reached out to the back of his backpack and pulled out a kunai which had its handle laced with an explosive tag. He kept the kunai ready incase of an ambush as he trailed about five feet behind Sora. -
Kresky: - Sora casually shrugged at Ban’s response and continued to concentrate on the mission. As the snakes did their work and traced the heat source for their master. They suddenly started slither off the main forest path towards a rugged dirt path covered in moss with an endless amount of  thick trees in the vast distance the surrounding area they were headed. It seemed like it was untouched by any locals or shinobi but they continued pursuing the snakes. Another 2 miles on the dirt path and the snakes stopped as slithering they had finally reached their destination. They arrived to what seemed to be an abandoned imperial themed house behind a bunch of trees. Sora got behind a tree and signaled Ban to do the same. -
Kare: - Ban swiftly pressed his back up against a tree and looked over the side to see if he could spot anyone in plain sight around the front of the abandoned house that was just about three miles from the North Gate of the village. Ban kept looking around the perimeter of the house intently and suddenly coming out from around the house was a person. He was certain it wasn’t the leader of the bunch, but looking closely at the physique, he was sure it was the female with two toned eyes. - “Sora, we’ve have a target in sight. I will take care of her, just make sure that nobody else creeps up on us.” - Ban wove the hand seal for rat and focused his chakra down into his shadow and began to manipulate it, utilizing the existing shadows from the trees around the area to minimize the amount of chakra he had to pump into keeping the technique in play. The female was about twentyfive yards from their position and Ban had his shadow extend from her right flank as she slowly walked towards the front of the house. Within a couple of seconds, Ban had his shadow slithering behind her, but before he could link their shadows a figure appeared behind her and pushed her out of the way. It was the leader of the group. - “Aye! We’ve got company boys!” - The brown skinned shinobi cried out and the front door of the house swung open and three guys came darting out. The brown skinned shinobi began to run towards the direction the shadow came from, but Ban released the technique. - “Shit… I didn’t see him anywhere. Not only can he utilize ninjutsu, he is also pretty fast. Sora, how good are you at hand to hand combat?” - Ban went down into a prone position and waited for a moment, thinking of a way to lure bandits all together and blow them up within an explosion. -
Kresky: - Sora creepily responded, getting a little bit sadistically excited. - “I should be alright in combat. If we can keep one of these marvelous prey alive, I will be satisfied. I wanna know where they are hiding the stolen goods.” - Sora began summoning more white snakes and commanded them to hide within his sleeves. - “Lure them into the woods, we will have the advantage if he follows the shadows.” - He quickly sprinted up into the trees and pulled out some senbon so he could try to hit the leader’s main chakra points on his body or kill him. He waited for  the leader to advance 20 feet away from Ban and he would then jump out of the trees and throw a senbon at the bandit, hoping it would hit his neck. He then let his snakes free from his sleeves and hissed at them to forcefully go and strangle his neck. He backed up a little bit and threw his guard up being prepared if anything went wrong. -
Kare: - The brown skinned bandit was wandering the woods nearby the abandoned house and within a matter of minutes, he spotted Sora leaping down from the tree top. Sora’s attempt at impaling the bandit with a senbon in a vital spot was a complete and utter failure. The brown skinned bandit swiftly stepped out of the trajectory of the senbon and reached into a pouch he kept strapped around his waist and retrieved a kunai. Sora would’ve commanded his small snake summons to try and wrap around the bandit’s neck, but before they could get into range of even grazing his skin, the bandit disappeared and reappeared behind Sora, who was now on the ground with his guard up. The bandit attempted to drive the kunai into Sora’s side. If successful, he would proceed to send a surge of lightning through the kunai and into Sora’s system which would cause Sora’s muscles to tense up and stiffen his joints for a brief moment. During all of this, Ban was laying prone and had woven a set of hand seals corresponding to the Clone Jutsu. Ban would get up and begin to run towards the 4 other bandits that were situated in front of the abandoned house. - “Hey! There’s one of the intruders! Get him!” - They all shouted and began to sprint towards Ban with the intent to kill burning within them, but in reality, Ban was manipulating his shadow behind the clone who was running head on into the 4 bandits. -
Kresky: - Sora opened his eyes in shock and disbelief that he missed, as the bandit disappeared and reappeared behind him. Not being able to swiftly turn around in time to dodge him, he could feel the surge of lightning through his system. Even though the pain felt so sharp, he didn't yell or scream because he has been through worse. He didn't want to reveal his emotions and give the enemy pleasure from causing him a good amount of pain. His muscles started to tense up and stiffen his joints as water slowly streamed down his oni mask as slow as molasses. After the brief moment another one of his snakes creeped out of his coat from the rear of his collar and slithered on to the bandit’s arm, tensely wrapping itself around his wrist and attempting to bite it. If successful, the snake bite would return the same amount of sharp pain that he felt. He started to slowly sadistically laugh. -  “Pain is beautiful, isn't it?” - Sora completely mentally lost his shit after being stabbed in the side and wanted to rip the bandit’s insides out but, he knew he had to focus on the mission first and tactically eliminate the enemy so he could have it his way. He quickly yanked the kunai from his side with his right index finger on the hole at the end of it and swiftly turned around and tried to chuck it at the bandit’s forehead. -
Kare: - Sora’s large robe managed to conceal his identity well enough for the brown skinned bandit not to know that he was attacking an Orochi head on and would have to suffer for his reckless action. As the kunai impaled Sora’s side, a burst of lightning rushed through Sora’s entire body, but as this occurred, a white snake slithered out from the collar of the robe and swiftly lunged downward with an open mouth and successfully sunk its fangs into the flesh of the bandit’s wrist. - “Fuck!” - The bandit let go of the kunai and leapt back a few feet and Sora would’ve pulled the kunai out from his side and turned around to while releasing the kunai towards the bandit’s head in an attempt to try to land a headshot. The bandit was distracted, but Sora’s aim was off and the kunai grazed the side of the bandit’s head. - “Oh shit! You’ll pay for that!” - The bandit crushed the snake within his clenched fist and tossed it to the ground as he began to charge at Sora with a desire to beat Sora to a pulp. Once about ten feet from Sora, he would weave the hand seal for ram and vanish from sight. As Ban’s clone come about fifteen feet from the four bandits, it leapt up into the air, revealing an abnormal shadow trailing behind it, but the bandits weren’t paying attention to the ground, but the illusion of Ban that leapt up into the sky. - “Gotcha…” - Ban thought to himself as his shadow slithered onto one of the male bandits who had painted their face with a large red “X”. - “Linkage successful.” - Ban thought to himself as he watched the bandit freeze up as the rest of his pals didn’t seem to notice at the moment. The illusion of Ban would vanish and the bandits would stand there in confusion before noticing that their pal was frozen. - “The fuck is wrong with you? Oh shit! What is that?” - Ban would stand up from his position and begin to throw punches at the air, but in reality he was utilizing the bandit he linked his shadow to in order to fight the other bandits. He landed a couple of punches to the bandit with a burn over his left eye, but the female bandit with two toned eyes noticed something moving within the trees and began to sprint over there; She was heading towards Ban. Ban was busy playing puppeteer with a live person and didn’t give himself enough time to prepare himself for the female. The female charged through the trees wielding a kunai and lunged forward with the intent to drive the kunai into Ban’s chest. Ban would’ve unlinked his shadow, but he didn’t have enough time to get out of the way of the kunai and the female was successful. The kunai impaled Ban in the left section of his gut. - “Baka…” “Shut up you little twit!” - The female didn’t think it her action through enough and Ban wove the hand seal for rat and female suddenly lost control of her own body. Ban stepped back a bit and motioned his hand to slit his own throat, but he was actually doing this so that the female would slit her own throat with the kunai in her hand. Her body dropped like a rag doll and the brown skinned bandit appeared beside the females lifeless body. - “You sick fuck… Guys! They’re over here!” - He cried out and hunched his back and let his arms dangle loosely over the ground. Only two of the bandits showed up to the scene, standing next to their leader. - “They must've killed off their pal thinking he was an agent.” - Ban thought to himself as he stood there leaning forward slightly with his left hand applying pressure onto his wound. -
Kresky: - Sora was surprised at Ban killing her. - “You could've at least kept the decent looking prey alive! Unfortunately, getting my ass handed to me by a scumbag hurts like a bitch. I guess we have no choice.” - Sora casually slipped his right hand in to his pocket and quickly grabbed 2 smoke bombs and slipped them into his sleeve. He yelled at Ban to get back and threw the smoke bombs. Immediately after the smoke bombs made contact with the ground and went off front of Ban, Sora attached explosive tags to his 4 kunai. The cloud of smoke spewed out of the smoke bombs and he waited with Ban and then hid five senbon within his left sleeve, waiting eagerly for the moment the bandits would attack them and meet their explosive fate. - “I am ready to murder these sons of bitches.” - Sora backed up a couple steps and threw 3 senbon at the bandits’ position, hoping one of them would hit their leader’s neck. -
Kare: - Ban didn't speak much and just went with Sora’s plan and leapt back about four feet. Sora would toss the smoke bombs out in front of them and then come to stand near Ban and fling three senbon into the smoke. Ban didn’t hesitate and wove the hand seal for rat and then reached into a pocket on the side of his backpack, retrieving a roll of wire and a kunai with an explosive tag laced to its handle. He tied the wire through the hole at the end of the handle and rolled it out till the length of the wire was about twenty feet and then clipped it from the roll. He placed the roll back into his backpack and stood there waiting while his shadow extended out around him about ten feet in a full circle. A cry of pain could be heard from the smoke and Ban thought to himself that maybe one of the senbon had hit one of the bandits within the smoke. It did indeed jam itself right into the thigh of the bandit with a burn scar over his left eye and cause him to drop to his knees while the other two pressed on and leapt through the smoke and nearly face to face with Ban and Sora. The brown skinned bandit wove the hand seal for ram and vanished from plain sight, but he reappeared right behind Ban and instantly froze in place. Then the smallest of the bunch tried a low sweeping kick at Sora’s legs to attempt to bring him to the ground. If the sweeping kick is successful, Sora would fall to the ground and bang his head against a small rock. This would cause him to start bleeding from the point of impact and be a bit disoriented. -
Kresky: - Sora jumped and lifted his legs up as his knees touched his chest avoiding the low sweeping kick at the legs in attempt to bring him to the ground. He chucked one of the explosive tagged kunai at the smallest of the bunch. If successful the kunai would impact the bandit’s shoulder and Sora would quickly hop back a few feet. He prepared to throw his final smoke bomb and weave the following sequence of signs, ram, snake, tiger and then attack the injured bandit with two snakes hiding within his sleeves. If successful the two snakes would wrap around the bandit's neck and strangle the living shit out of his while biting him several times. -
Kare: - Sora was able to successfully leap over the bandit’s low sweeping kick and the kunai laced with an explosive tag flew out of Sora’s hand and straight into the bandit’s right shoulder causing him to yell out in pain and grip the handle of the kunai in an attempt to pull it out as he laid on the ground, but his attempt was short lived as two snakes Sora had summoned slithered out of his sleeves and lunged out to wrap around his tiny fragile body. One of the snakes wrapped itself tightly around its prey’s neck and would constantly sink its fangs in and out of the fleshier parts of its prey’s face. Meanwhile, the other snake tightly wrapped itself around the the torso of the prey and squeezed with enough strength to cause three of the prey’s ribs to snap. When the three ribs snapped, one of them punctured the left lung and the bandit’s life slipped through the gaps between his fingers. On Ban’s side of the field, he had the leader of the bandit’s caught in his shadow and rendered the bandit’s ability to escape useless. - “You’ve caused enough trouble for Ame… Now you may join the rest of your friends…” - Ban would weave the hand seals dragon, tiger, rat and then his shadow would begin to wrap itself around the bandit’s legs. The shadow overlapped itself around the knees, shoulders and neck of the bandit and immense pressure fell upon those points. The bones in those area were crushed by the pressure, but suddenly the person Ban had thought to be the final bandit exploded in a cloud of smoke and the real bandit came charging at Ban. Ban wasn’t expecting the bandit to have the ability to utilize shadow clones and was caught completely off guard. The bandit rammed his right knee right into Ban’s stomach and slapped his hands together over Ban’s ears. Ban fell over on his side in a fetal position trying to ease the pain the flushed his body. The bandit was too quick for either Ban or Sora to track with their eyes since he frequently utilized the Teleportation Jutsu to get around. The bandit wove the ram seal and zipped behind Sora and attempted to put Sora within a sleeper hold and he was mentally prepared for any slithering snakes. If successful, the bandit would fasten the sleeper hold and then proceed lift Sora up off his feet and then slam him down into the ground. While this occurred, Ban managed to tap into this remaining strength and would pull on a wire he had previously tied to a kunai which he dropped when the bandit rammed his knee into his stomach and retrieved the kunai. He managed to fling the kunai towards the bandit before he could prepare his arms for the sleeper hold and would detonate it a couple of feet behind the bandit to precisely use the blast from the explosion to push the bandit and Sora off balance and launch them forward while causing himself to roll along the ground. The bandit would fly right into a tree and suffer a major head injury, while Sora slid around the ground and clashed into a boulder. The bandit would die because of internal bleed, while Band and Sora would slowly make their way to each other and walk back to the village of Ame and head to the hospital to have their injuries treated. Two weeks later, Sora would meet up with his team and sensei for their first training session, while Ban would stay at home letting his wound fully heal. -
== Results ==
Sora suffered minor injures which healed before he had his training session with his team.
Ban remains at home letting the wound he suffered from being stabbed by a kunai in his gut heal fully, although he is capable of performing tasks that do not require intense physical strain.
All 5 of the bandits were killed and were dealt with by the Officials of Ame.