Chapter 3- Mission
With us introducing ourselves we chat a little more until Haruto speaks up.
"Alright now that we are familiar with each other lets spar. You three against me."
We glance at each other and give each a slight nod. I make a sword from the ground and dull the blade a little to not cause serious injuries. Rushing forward to engage in close combat I'm meet with a parry from Haruto. He is on the losing end though with my strength being greater. He disengages me and jumps back.
Takashi comes from behind him when he lands and thrust a kunai at him. Takashis kunai is dodged and Haruto catches his overstretched hand and throws him towards me. I catch him and signal for Tomomi to attack. She sends a Fire Release: Great Fireball towards him as a encase him in Earth Release: Earth Wall. His only exit would be the top where Takashi is now waiting or through the ground. He burst through the ground where Tomomi is and knocks her down. With only Takashi and I left he quickly takes him down and after a fierce battle with me I go down too.
"Great team work guys. This is by far the best I've see a genin team do. You guys are top 3 for a reason it seems. Ryohei, you have incredible physical strength and have a solid foundation on taijutsu. Takashi, you have excellent awareness of where I was going to be or could have gone. Lastly, Tomomi, you didn't get to show off much sadly but I can see the potential in your Fire Release working together with Ryoheis Earth Release like what was demonstrated earlier. Let's go get barbeque."
With the spar ending Tomomi looks a little upset she didn't get to do much. Not really knowing how to comfort her I just pat her on the back as we are leaving to get food.
At the barbeque place we chat and have fun. Haruto mentions we will be taking D-ranked missions for 6 months then if we are good enough take C-ranked ones, but if we are good enough, we might be able to take C-ranked ones before the 6 months. Since it's not war time anymore we have more time with our instructor, and can take more time to get acquainted with missions and how ninjas work. We can probably start taking missions tomorrow considering how well we did during the spar.
4 months go by quickly. We have been doing nothing but sparing and D-ranked missions. Now we can finally take a C-ranked mission. Haruto told us to meet at training ground 3 today like always to talk about the mission details and probably train. I arrive first, then Tomomi, and lastly Takashi. With everyone now here Haruto appears and tells us about the mission.
"It will be an escort mission not too far away. It will take 1 week at most maybe a little over a week, so bring supplies corresponding. Meet at the gate at 7 in the morning. That will be all you're free for the rest of the day to get the supplies." With that he disappears.
We exchange glances then go get our supplies. We split after we gather the supplies and I head home to train a little then relax.
The next day we meet at the gates and meet the caravan team. It's just one caravan thankfully and after Haruto talks with them for a minute we set off. It goes by quickly and we are back at the village. It took a total of 5 days for the mission. Also, when we set off a system Quest popped up. The same mission as what we got and the reward waws just money. It didn't do that for D-ranked missions so maybe there is some type of qualification.
For some months we did simple C-rank missions until Haruto called us for a more complicated mission. The mission details were to kill bandits wouldn't take long but it was 10+ bandits. He let us know to meet at the gate the next morning. The next morning, we arrive and I can see the anticipation in Takashi and Tomomi. They can't wait to take a better mission.
He tells us that a bandit group is hiding in a cave nearby and they have hit some villages in the surrounding area. It was a group of at least 10 people. We are supposed to go there, kill them, and then report back to the village. With everything settled we head out and arrive there a couple hours later. Haruto lets us come with the plan and the plan is: Kills the patrol and transform into them, head into the camp and scout the area, kill them all when given the chance. With the agreed upon plan, we set off into the camp. I use a shadow clone to help with scouting and to keep an eye on things.
When I get close to a patrol, I kill them and transform into one while my clone does the same. We head into the camp and start to take some out. Not too long after entering I hear fighting on the other side where Takashi and Tomomi are at. Seems they were found out. Leaving the clone here to take out the rest I rush over there and see Takashi and Tomomi fighting some to a draw. Seeing the bandit fight 2 genin to a standstill set off alarms in my head. Rushing over I throw a kunai to ease the pressure off of them.
He jumps back quickly and goes on the defensive. Seems he has chunin level strength. I go on the offense and rush them, with physical strength surpassing chunin and even reaching jonin I know I can take him if he messes up. He tries to attack when a pause naturally happened, but I dodged and cut off his arm with an earth kunai I made. In distress he jumps back and when he does, I create an earth spear right behind him and impale him.
Going over to Takashi and Tomomi I see a gash on his arm and a long cut on her leg. With the rest of the bandits being dealt with we find Haruto and head back to the village. Haruto goes to report to the Hokage while I bring them to the hospital then go home.
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Late chapter but a chapter nonetheless, Hope you enjoy.