Mission 16 - Delivery of item - Murder someone for the organization and dispose of the body.
He'd only recently arrived in Wind country when a call came through his headset. It was the organization, and there had been an incident in Bear Country.
Junan listened to the request, it was being broadcast within the country, they knew he'd either be here or in Stone around this time so likely had sent a messenger out to try and get his attention. The message spoke of a woman. She was dark haired, by all accounts stunningly beautiful, and had been a Cloud shinobi, Genin rank when kidnapped. Sold to one of the wealthy merchants of Bear Country she was to be another of his wives. The man had taken four already, two of which previously supplied by the organization and things had been going well.
On the day of the wedding however things went sour. The bride-to-be had seemingly seduced one of his guards and they had run off together. Whether they had located the chakra suppression bead that the organization had placed in her or not, and removed it, was unknown. They didn't have people to spare but the couple were last seen heading towards the Wind boarder. The message went on to detail the female runaway again before saying that the order was for him to hunt her down and kill the bodyguard, before meeting at the delivery point at the Tear-Drop Oasis. The date that he was to deliver her by was in two weeks time... how on earth was he meant to find someone matching that description in two weeks in a land this size?
Finding a spot nearby he performed some seals creating three clones. It was the best option available to him to search the largest area as quickly as he could, and so they moved off to search in various directions while Junan himself went towards a certain spot closer to the border. If he could get there then he could spend his days walking down the border and hope that he might find someone. Day turned to night and he let his clones disperse, regaining their knowledge, nothing, creating a new set he sent them off as he continued to walk. Sleep wasn't a requirement for him so he did this, day and night, twelve hours between each set. Days passed, a week, till it got to the night of the tenth day.
When he let those clones disperse one of their memories had given him all the information he needed. But it was half a day moving at a reasonable pace back in the other direction, and he then had to travel quickly to the rendezvous after taking them down. He made his move and quickened his pace, he'd reach the location in eight to ten hours, what was most concerning was that they had gone to a surgeon. Someone who likely was getting rid of the chakra suppression bead. It could make finding them impossible should she be allowed to recover, and capturing them in time difficult as well.
As he arrived his initial movement took him to the last place his clone had seen them, the surgical practice, they weren't there anymore which concerned him, but that should have been expected, it had been about nine hours since they had entered it by now. However had she recovered in time? Junan's own chakra reserves were getting depleted as he'd not given himself the ten minutes he needed to fully recover for nearly a full day now. This is what it must have felt like to be human and not sleep...
Feeling drained he moved towards where he'd seen them seemingly use as their base point. They weren't there either. Damnit! He asked the owner if they had said anything about where they were going, and found out the direction they were traveling in, but they had been on the road for several hours already. His mind raced, and he sped off after them. The organization would not accept failure from him, he had to prove his worth! So he went after them.
On his travel after them he found the dead body of the guard, so she had been using the man, and her trail seemed to veer off, she was heading towards Fire Country, and probably going to look for a boat across to Lightning, at least that was his assumption. Using the appropriate puppets he tracked her movements, she wasn't moving as quickly as he was, he could tell by how easy it was becoming to track her, and then he found her. He'd been traveling for over a day now and he'd been using jutsu to speed himself up and to track her. He was reaching his limit so he took five minutes to rest, it would recover enough of his energy to make him capable in a fight and would only add a short amount of time to his tracking of the girl.
Sure enough an hour later he'd found her.
He approached her, though because she had no idea who he was she wasn't on guard. In the blink of an eye he had placed her in a puppet, the binding trapping her in there, the more she struggled the more she cut herself. She screamed at him at first as he started heading towards the Oasis to make the delivery. Then it turned to begging. She offered her body in return for freedom, but Junan had no interest in such things. Reaching the location he was late, if only by a few hours. The man waiting for him was still there. Junan opened the puppet, inside the girl had bled to death, he'd not thought to feed or give her water either, it would have been a horrendous death, cramped inside a puppet, every movement cutting her a bit more, over the course of days, dehydrating, starving.
Junan shrugged as he handed the girl over. It was a successful mission... but at the same time it wouldn't earn him any brownie points.
He'd only recently arrived in Wind country when a call came through his headset. It was the organization, and there had been an incident in Bear Country.
Junan listened to the request, it was being broadcast within the country, they knew he'd either be here or in Stone around this time so likely had sent a messenger out to try and get his attention. The message spoke of a woman. She was dark haired, by all accounts stunningly beautiful, and had been a Cloud shinobi, Genin rank when kidnapped. Sold to one of the wealthy merchants of Bear Country she was to be another of his wives. The man had taken four already, two of which previously supplied by the organization and things had been going well.
On the day of the wedding however things went sour. The bride-to-be had seemingly seduced one of his guards and they had run off together. Whether they had located the chakra suppression bead that the organization had placed in her or not, and removed it, was unknown. They didn't have people to spare but the couple were last seen heading towards the Wind boarder. The message went on to detail the female runaway again before saying that the order was for him to hunt her down and kill the bodyguard, before meeting at the delivery point at the Tear-Drop Oasis. The date that he was to deliver her by was in two weeks time... how on earth was he meant to find someone matching that description in two weeks in a land this size?
Finding a spot nearby he performed some seals creating three clones. It was the best option available to him to search the largest area as quickly as he could, and so they moved off to search in various directions while Junan himself went towards a certain spot closer to the border. If he could get there then he could spend his days walking down the border and hope that he might find someone. Day turned to night and he let his clones disperse, regaining their knowledge, nothing, creating a new set he sent them off as he continued to walk. Sleep wasn't a requirement for him so he did this, day and night, twelve hours between each set. Days passed, a week, till it got to the night of the tenth day.
When he let those clones disperse one of their memories had given him all the information he needed. But it was half a day moving at a reasonable pace back in the other direction, and he then had to travel quickly to the rendezvous after taking them down. He made his move and quickened his pace, he'd reach the location in eight to ten hours, what was most concerning was that they had gone to a surgeon. Someone who likely was getting rid of the chakra suppression bead. It could make finding them impossible should she be allowed to recover, and capturing them in time difficult as well.
As he arrived his initial movement took him to the last place his clone had seen them, the surgical practice, they weren't there anymore which concerned him, but that should have been expected, it had been about nine hours since they had entered it by now. However had she recovered in time? Junan's own chakra reserves were getting depleted as he'd not given himself the ten minutes he needed to fully recover for nearly a full day now. This is what it must have felt like to be human and not sleep...
Feeling drained he moved towards where he'd seen them seemingly use as their base point. They weren't there either. Damnit! He asked the owner if they had said anything about where they were going, and found out the direction they were traveling in, but they had been on the road for several hours already. His mind raced, and he sped off after them. The organization would not accept failure from him, he had to prove his worth! So he went after them.
On his travel after them he found the dead body of the guard, so she had been using the man, and her trail seemed to veer off, she was heading towards Fire Country, and probably going to look for a boat across to Lightning, at least that was his assumption. Using the appropriate puppets he tracked her movements, she wasn't moving as quickly as he was, he could tell by how easy it was becoming to track her, and then he found her. He'd been traveling for over a day now and he'd been using jutsu to speed himself up and to track her. He was reaching his limit so he took five minutes to rest, it would recover enough of his energy to make him capable in a fight and would only add a short amount of time to his tracking of the girl.
Sure enough an hour later he'd found her.
He approached her, though because she had no idea who he was she wasn't on guard. In the blink of an eye he had placed her in a puppet, the binding trapping her in there, the more she struggled the more she cut herself. She screamed at him at first as he started heading towards the Oasis to make the delivery. Then it turned to begging. She offered her body in return for freedom, but Junan had no interest in such things. Reaching the location he was late, if only by a few hours. The man waiting for him was still there. Junan opened the puppet, inside the girl had bled to death, he'd not thought to feed or give her water either, it would have been a horrendous death, cramped inside a puppet, every movement cutting her a bit more, over the course of days, dehydrating, starving.
Junan shrugged as he handed the girl over. It was a successful mission... but at the same time it wouldn't earn him any brownie points.