Kapitel 30: Ch30. First mission with apprentice 1
Ringo glared at the approaching forms of her sensei and his teammate.
They still looked like white and black smudge in the distance to her but she recognized they were happily holding hands as they leisurely walked towards the gate. She wanted to strangle them!
Six hours. That's how long it took them to finally decide to show up!
By the end, she was sure she knew every location of every hidden ANBU as she heard them laughing at her! She could only bitterly grimace. Rei was her superior first and sensei second. It was time to stand up and greet him while holding back her bitter tears! Sniff.
Rei held Konan's hand and could feel the soothing sensation of her gentle water chakra coursing through his entire body through his hand, making him feel as if it was devotedly massaged. He returned the favor by sending his water chakra into her body, making her pleasantly shiver and chew on her lower lip. As if she could win in a fight of suiton chakra with him, he snorted. It was so tempting to just spin her and kiss those seductive quivering crimson lips as her amber orbs were narrowed in delight, showing her light-purple eyeshadow. Unfortunately, Ringo was already served double Kakashi for today. It was time to get going.
"Hello, baka-deshi Ringo." Rei joked. At first, he did it to satisfy his pettiness. Wanted to feel like those whimsical wuxia masters who were sending their disciples on brainless adventures to satisfy their pride. But after a while, he stopped, and now it was just a recurring joke.
"Master!" Ringo bowed mockingly, making Rei chuckle and Konan roll her eyes at the girl.
"Well, the mission is simple enough. We are to assassinate a noble in the Land of Marsh."
Ringo looked bewildered at her first mission being something only a jonin would do.
"Don't worry. The mission is more for us than you." Konan joined. "You are here to observe and learn and..." She stopped.
"And to kill my first human in the field." Ringo nodded.
"Geez, they really teach them well in the academy, don't they?" Rei muttered.
Both Konan and him knew the academy curriculum and this was a tradition of sorts. They kill each other during the genin exam... reducing the class to half. But that's only for civilian-born. The clans would never stand it. The clan children usually only show that they are ready to be shinobi and be forced to kill a bound prisoner to blood themselves.
Hence, the first mission served to 'properly' have a first-kill in the field. Against someone who fights back. It was Rei's responsibility to provide such a person. Either on the way to, during, or the way from the mission. Ringo WILL kill someone and they won't return until she does. If she won't be able to kill a man in a month, she will be deemed useless and... Hence, the high mortality rate of the Kiri genin. But then again, Kiri has the best assassins and in a war, they clearly keep up even with their lesser, more trigger happy, military force and stay deeply rooted in the big five.
It is said the losses were almost the same on both Kumo and Kiri during the second war. But that is only statistically. Both lost around fifteen percent of their force while another twenty were out of commission due to injuries. But Kiri had a lot less shinobi than Kumo therefore Kumo lost more. Pre-canon Kiri was strong power, indeed.
Nevertheless, Rei still didn't see a reason to cull Kiri's young genin due to a weak stomach. They were barely ten... Ah, blast it.
"Sigh. Idiotic traditions." Rei shook his head. He could always just report she indeed did kill someone and be done with it. He really didn't understand the hype.
"Let's go."
They left the village. It took them a few hours but when they were sufficiently distanced and checked that nobody followed them, Konan made her paper platform.
"Come on, Ringo." Rei gestured to her to get on it.
Ringo was staring in confusion at it. What could it do? She indeed stepped on it and... she shrieked and shrieked some more when she was yanked at high speed towards their destination.
Twenty minutes passed and Ringo was finally calm, observing the landscape from above as they flew around the clouds. She suddenly saw a glimmering blue mass of water and sandy beaches. They reached the sea. It was mesmerizing for her to watch as the waves crashed into other waves. This tranquil sight... she will never forget.
...
Ringo, Rei, and Konan stood on a paper platform, marshes all around them. Before them, a majestic Japanese castle stood proudly on the only hill, a solid mass of earth, around. It was the depiction of the unconquerable. The marshes would stop any sizable army and the castle was positioned well. It would take a lot of effort for an army to breach it. But...
"Ringo, I want you to tell me, what would you do first in this kind of situation." Rei squatted near the girl, quizzing her.
"Uh... I... infiltrate?" Ringo tilted her head. She knew she was not the smartest tool in the shed but... wasn't that obvious?
"How?" Rei smiled while Konan giggled and Ringo felt her answer was not what he wanted to hear.
"Ah... I need to kill the Lord, yeah?" Seeing Rei nod, Ringo continued sure of herself. "I would pretend to be a courtesan, then! A henge into a beauty, perhaps?"
Rei chuckled. A textbook answer, alright.
Ringo heard his soft amused chuckle and beamed, thinking she was right! Until... her face impacted the softened paper of the platform as Rei swatted the back of her head.
"Wrong baka-deshi! What if the guards won't leave the room and you will have to have sex with him to keep your cover? Your henge would dissolve and the Lord would find himself sticking into a ten years old girl, or in the case of another kunoichi, a different person than he paid for. He will either be amused and continue... Then you just might survive it as he might not call his shinobi guards to deal with you as he will fuck you, humiliate you, and then when you are sufficiently broken, throw you to his guards." Rei sighed in exasperation and continued.
"Leave honey trap missions to kunoichi who chose that kind of life and are trained for it. You wanna be a combatant, not honey trap, baka-deshi. Back to the situation, OR... he will NOT be amused since he is not a pedophile. Most nobles that we are tasked to assassinate are tyrants. Not all, but most. You do not want to be caught by these people. That's why every honey trap kunoichi can request an implant of a cyanide capsule into her mouth. It is much better death than what she would have to go through otherwise. Anyway, these requests are ONLY made by the Daimyos themselves as if a civilian or other noble could request a Hidden Village to assassinate a noble, the entire system would eventually collapse by Daimyos being assassinated left and right. Any idiot who tries is promptly executed. Anyway, IF the target was not amused, you would be thrown to guards where you would be their toy for a day before your throat is slit. Game over. Try again." He gestured with his hand in 'come on' motion.
Ringo heard the impassive voice of her sensei as he lectured her while pouting as she sat up.
"Then what!" She petulantly crossed her arms, looking to the side. "I dunno. Charge and kill?" She muttered, making Rei laugh.
"Pin-pon. Ringo-chan~. Correct."
Ringo looked at him with wide eyes. Did her sensei just tell her they were going to massacre the entire castle!?
"Remember this Ringo. Every client is asked... specifications when he submits the mission. There is ALWAYS a clause about the preferred approach. Force? They send an assault team, depending on the location, enemy, and the type of the mission. Assassination? They send an assassin or someone from the Seduction Corps depending on time, the personality of the target, and so on. It is NOT an easy process to pick who to send. The mission passes various evaluations before it is delivered to the shinobi. That's why the village takes twenty percent off your paycheck. They check if it is all legit. At least, for missions above B-rank such as this." Rei explained.
Konan continued before Ringo could do more than a nod.
"And even with all the checking, the missions are dangerous. If you suspect that something will go wrong then it most likely WILL go wrong. That's why you always ask about the desired approach by the client. When you can kill everything with a Jutsu, you DO NOT go dancing inside in a weak henge, possibly getting fucked. We are an assault team so assault is what we do."
Rei took the reins and added his input.
"Some teams only take missions they can steamroll through, like us. If the approach is not to your tastes, you are free to refuse. Only S-rank missions are not rejectable."
"But... nobody asked me if I accept this mission?" Ringo muttered in confusion.
"Ah, they only ask the leader of the team. Even jonin-only teams have one leader who speaks for the entire team in these matters. In this case, it is me, baka-deshi." He cooly eye-smiled at Ringo.
Konan nodded and continued.
"And even then, refusing is not a hard matter. The village has at least five potential teams who could be sent prepared. If they ask you to go, that means somebody refused or you were first in the line. You are in no way special, you see. And if somebody requests specifically YOU for a mission, you are ALWAYS told beforehand. It prevents a lot of backstabbing since more often than not when somebody requests you and you do not know that person personally, it is a trap."
Ringo nodded and silently waited for instructions. She understood Rei-sensei didn't want a battle plan for her but only wanted to make her say something wrong so he could explain. He always did it. Ask questions. Swat her for the wrong answer. And then explain. The lesson stuck. That Ringo could not refute. Even if it hurt her pride!
"Well, Ringo. I choose this mission exactly because it is an entire castle. I wanted to show you what a proper ninjutsu technique could do."
Ringo started to get excited when Rei-sensei said that! His raiton techniques were amazing! And he was going to show her a large-scale technique!? She bounced up and down with sparkling eyes!
"Let's go." Rei chuckled.
Kapitel 31: Ch31. First mission with apprentice 2
"Konan, if you will?" Rei asked Konan.
Ringo's cheerful mood dropped. She wanted to see some of Rei's raiton! Not some paper techniques!
Rei saw Ringo's dimming excitement and smirked. A half-year might have passed but they never showed her their Suiton or Doton. It was time to show the girl.
Konan nodded at Rei and put her hand in front of her chest, her index and middle fingers outstretched, showing her dark-blue nail polish and her perfect nails.
Ringo knew Konan did it to mock her! She always gritted her teeth because her nails were always chipped or cracked from sword practice. It was only when Rei showed her a way to reinforce and protect them with chakra, her nails finally stopped being damaged! Konan laughed for two months straight at her for being dumb and not asking instructors in the academy about it! Ringo was jealous alright! Even the beauties in the Seduction Corps didn't look half as good as Konan! They even invited her there! Well… granted, that didn't go well for them. Konan almost skinned them alive... if not for the Mizukage...
'SWAT'
Rei again swatted Ringo for not paying attention. Ringo's face planted again into the softened paper that Konan prepared under her exactly for this occasion. She pouted and focused on Konan as her sensei wanted.
Konan only watched the young girl with an amused smirk. She noted the girl was looking intently at her hands and shook her head. The hand sign she was 'using' was exactly that. Just a useless gesture without any meaning. She was using it to fool anyone who was looking. Konan knew how to mold her chakra internally without the signs. Two years was enough to learn it and be in complete control. Hence...
"Suiton: Thunder Hail Waterfall."
She pushed her created Suiton chakra and released the hold on her molding to start the Jutsu she held semi-finished until Ringo started paying attention. She was happy for that distraction as it provided her the five minutes she needed to mold her chakra into the massive technique she was about to unleash.
It was easy to create your own Jutsu once you could consciously mold chakra however you wanted. Yes, it still took time to fine-tune it but at least it was possible and manageable. Most ninjas... took years to create a completely new Jutsu when Rei would need a month and even then it would be for fine-tuning. Konan… could do it in two months, much to her dismay. Rei was just better at these academic things. All thanks to the inner knowledge of chakra molding and how exactly the Jutsu were made from that point all the way to the flashy effects. That's why sealless Jutsu were so revered.
Ringo tilted her head as she heard Konan exclaim the name of the technique. Nothing happened. She was about to open her mouth when a droplet of water landed on her nose. She looked up and her eyes instantly widened as she crouched down and curled into a ball, her face snapped towards the ground and her hands covered it protectively while quivering from fear.
It was only then a thick rain fell on the castle and its surroundings. It was so dense, it was more of a waterfall from the sky rather than rain. The water level rose, the marshes became small lakes, sweeping everything in the hailstorm of water. The greenery disappeared under the water in a moment as more and more water unceasingly fell from the sky.
Ringo peeked at her sensei when she didn't feel herself being crushed by the torrent of water and found that a dome of translucent futon chakra was around the still dry paper platform. She saw Konan looking at her mirthfully and her sensei raised an eyebrow at her reaction. Ringo grimaced but relaxed and straightened up.
She marveled at the gorgeous sight as she spun and looked around. She couldn't see the castle anymore. She couldn't see even the surroundings! It was like a thick mist surrounded them! Only, it was made of densely falling water from the sky instead of fog! Ripples were continuously appearing on the futon dome as the water impacted it and flowed down while more water and more fell into the never-ending stream. It was as if Ringo was looking at multiple rivers flowing into each other, battling for superiority all around her! The only thing she could hear was the loud fizzing and cracking sound the water produced as it impacted the dome. Any other sound was quickly absorbed by the waterfall's own symphony.
To be honest, the technique was terrific to Ringo. She was sure that just the initial torent of water was enough to crush a human to death. Such an amount of water falling on somebody at once? Ringo shuddered from the thought.
But here she was. It was a minute and the heavy waterfall of water still fell from the clouds. Ringo heaved a sigh of relief when she saw Konan stop doing the hand sign and the absolute downpour started weakening. It took three more minutes until it stopped completely.
Ringo looked around... at the newly made lake. Trees were crushed as their broken forms barely peeked from the surface. Everything was only clear water all around them. Only the hill and the castle stood proudly but even then water flowed out of the castle's drainage as a violent river, down the hill into the newly-made lake. Ringo's thought about how many people were crushed to death by the technique as she saw the slight reddish color of the water flowing out of the castle.
"Don't worry. Every person in that castle was a mercenary who helped the Lord suppress the locals. The Lord didn't allow them to bring prostitutes into the castle. Nobody 'innocent' died." Rei chuckled at Ringo's pondering expression.
"Well." Konan interrupted before Ringo could speak. "That took three-quarters of my chakra." She rolled her shoulders as if mockingly showing how tiring was leveling the surroundings. "Rei, your turn."
Ringo's jaw dropped. "Sensei! you are going to use a technique!?"
"Well, the castle is still standing, after all!" He smiled and ruffled Ringo's hair. Then he pointed up with his index finger. "And this is a combination technique, anyway. I couldn't in good conscience waste all that effort Konan put into it." He grinned as he already started molding his chakra ever since the water started pouring down. He couldn't let that effort and chakra be put to waste, indeed.
Ringo looked up again and froze. The clouds... were completely black. Massive bluish sparks could be seen raging in them, just waiting to be released onto the ground in a flurry of destruction. Ringo suddenly got a very bad premonition about what's to come.
Rei did the exact same hand sign as Konan.
"Raiton: Thunder Hail Waterfall."
It was another downpour as Ringo stared in awe. The downpour of lightning.
The roars of lightning impacting the ground reverberated through the land as the ground trembled from continuous lighting strikes, the thunderous roars completely deafening everything around. In a way, it was worse than its predecessor, the water. Ringo could clearly see the castle being continuously destroyed by the thick lightning beams as they thundered down onto it, destroying towers, walls, the hill itself. The water all around them got agitated as the lightning impacted it, loud crashing waves started to form and swirl around, reaching meters into the sky as they completely bypassed the hill and washed around the castle's wall, getting inside through the damage done by the lightning. Ringo thanked that they were on the paper platform, twenty meters above the land as she was sure these ten meters waves would crush even the Mizu fleet without much resistance. She was sure that the people who won't die of lightning, will drown in the castle as the water was slowly flooding it.
It was ten minutes later that the lightning still danced all around in a furious symphony of destruction, tearing down the landscape and making the newly-formed lake rage under the unceasing thunderstorm. For ten minutes straight, Ringo's world was filled only with deafening thunders as with gritted teeth and her hands on her ears, she dearly wished the painful sound to stop. Finally, it ceased as Rei put his hand down. And the hill and the castle... were no more.
Only a clear glittering lake was left behind. The world regained its serenity.
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