A toy really couldn’t be so important as to involve the shinobi of Iwagakure, could it? But apparently to this merchant and his daughter, it was. Reizo looked around the grounds of the large-ish grounds of the merchant family’s house. Apparently, the house had been torn apart from top to bottom, and they had combed the grounds. But this was the last place they recalled the girl having it, and they were already turning the house upside down again in the search for it.
The toy was a little metal spherical object that the girl called an “upa.” She had others of the thing, plastic ones and plushies and… well. She seemed obsessed to say the least. Her room was covered in the creatures. The markings on them somewhat resembled pandas, they had little beady black eyes and little bits of metal sticking off that were apparently meant to resemble ears and feet and even a little metal sphere for a tail…
They looked weird.
Apparently, the fact that this one was metal made it ridiculously rare. It normally hung on a keychain that the girl wore around her neck in the form of a necklace, but she had taken it off to play with it (or something), and now it was gone. Of course.
He had decided the most efficient method would be to work from back to front in long lines, thoroughly searching for the missing “upa.” This of course meant working his way over/under/through various obstacles in the terrain of the grounds. Including a mini hedge maze (who even had one of these things? What was the point?) and the garden, which he had to be extra careful in to not step on the various flowers and plants there. He looked everywhere.
From the tops of trees (he fell out of one or two), to into rose bushes with no luck at all.
So. Reizo acquired a metal detector. He found almost everything else on the grounds, including a pretty piece of jewelry made of gold and some nice little red gems that he returned to the merchant, a couple of other little metal toys that the girl owned and had lost forever ago. Several forks and knives, even a couple of rusted kunai. He even found a metal faucet in his search. (So, even part of the kitchen sink!)
It wasn’t until he had already gone over the grounds two or three times with the metal detector that the idea was proposed to him that perhaps she hadn’t last had the toy on the grounds. Maybe it had actually been on a nearby jungle gym… which of course was made completely of metal. Reizo groaned, but trudged to the jungle gym and started combing it over several times with no success.
He climbed up on a nearby building to get a better look of the surrounding area, wondering if he might catch a glint of metal that would tell him where the stupid little chrome ball was. It wasn’t until he turned very slightly, intending to hop back off the roof, that he saw a glint of metal and a little girl running across the playground to hold her prize up towards him.
”I found it~!”
Reizo stared very quietly for a few moments, then hopped down from his perch, resisting the urge to punch the smaller child in the face.
”Good.”
[color=[pink]”You look upset! Here. Have an upa!”[/color]
And Reizo was handed one of the little stupid spherical toys.
It was made of metal.
And looked identical to the one he had just tried to find for the girl. Except for the panda markings were actually colored in black…
”...thanks…”
[MFT, WC: 620]
The toy was a little metal spherical object that the girl called an “upa.” She had others of the thing, plastic ones and plushies and… well. She seemed obsessed to say the least. Her room was covered in the creatures. The markings on them somewhat resembled pandas, they had little beady black eyes and little bits of metal sticking off that were apparently meant to resemble ears and feet and even a little metal sphere for a tail…
They looked weird.
Apparently, the fact that this one was metal made it ridiculously rare. It normally hung on a keychain that the girl wore around her neck in the form of a necklace, but she had taken it off to play with it (or something), and now it was gone. Of course.
He had decided the most efficient method would be to work from back to front in long lines, thoroughly searching for the missing “upa.” This of course meant working his way over/under/through various obstacles in the terrain of the grounds. Including a mini hedge maze (who even had one of these things? What was the point?) and the garden, which he had to be extra careful in to not step on the various flowers and plants there. He looked everywhere.
From the tops of trees (he fell out of one or two), to into rose bushes with no luck at all.
So. Reizo acquired a metal detector. He found almost everything else on the grounds, including a pretty piece of jewelry made of gold and some nice little red gems that he returned to the merchant, a couple of other little metal toys that the girl owned and had lost forever ago. Several forks and knives, even a couple of rusted kunai. He even found a metal faucet in his search. (So, even part of the kitchen sink!)
It wasn’t until he had already gone over the grounds two or three times with the metal detector that the idea was proposed to him that perhaps she hadn’t last had the toy on the grounds. Maybe it had actually been on a nearby jungle gym… which of course was made completely of metal. Reizo groaned, but trudged to the jungle gym and started combing it over several times with no success.
He climbed up on a nearby building to get a better look of the surrounding area, wondering if he might catch a glint of metal that would tell him where the stupid little chrome ball was. It wasn’t until he turned very slightly, intending to hop back off the roof, that he saw a glint of metal and a little girl running across the playground to hold her prize up towards him.
”I found it~!”
Reizo stared very quietly for a few moments, then hopped down from his perch, resisting the urge to punch the smaller child in the face.
”Good.”
[color=[pink]”You look upset! Here. Have an upa!”[/color]
And Reizo was handed one of the little stupid spherical toys.
It was made of metal.
And looked identical to the one he had just tried to find for the girl. Except for the panda markings were actually colored in black…
”...thanks…”
[MFT, WC: 620]