The Life of an Avenger
Chapter 3: The mission starts
An: Well now chapter 3 starts and the mission as well, well cant say much more read to find out: D. Oh and please review.
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--------- a while later
Chapter 3: The mission starts
Jin woke up in the morning and tensed up; his alarm clock didn't wake him up. He picked up the clock and smiled triumphantly he had awoken three minutes before his designated time
"Ah finally something good happened, if I had come late like before Asuma would definitely do something horrible"
I shuddered for a bit but then the clock started to yell now, did three minutes really pass that fast?
"Hahaha must be that stuff Ino talked about, guys being the freakiest in the morning, awake and staring aimlessly and thinking about god knows what; well she was right I always did that hahaa"
After the shower and the other morning affairs I always do I was ready to head out. I checked one last time see if everything was there, the pouch with weapons and my Magi and then I headed out. It was still early in the morning but Konoha being a major ninja city the streets was already bustling albeit not as much as it would be in a few hours to come.
I took a shortcut through the roofs just to be able to skip the people down below but I headed down to street level when I had passed the busiest part of the city. Going a few paces instead of running I realized this mission might not be over and done with as fast as I had believed, well truth be told I was still happy about the its rank, B but everything else I had forgotten about it.
We were supposed to go to an abandoned town supposedly the same where they had found Magi but Asuma wasn't sure about that. There we were supposed to find out if someone was occupying it since our spies in neighboring towns had seen activities going around the major roads coming from and to the abandoned city. If there was someone there we were had to look at what they were doing and report back to Hokage-sama. I didn't understand why the mission was ranked B since it was a simple recon and maybe infiltration but I just had to trust my superiors' wise decisions.
While being in my thoughts I passed team 7 and saw how the three of them was waiting for their sensei and I really felt sorry for Sasuke-san since Sakura clung on him and Naruto was on the other side letting him know that he would never lose. As soon as he saw me he stood up and walked up to me
"Jin where are you going"
Though I was startled he talked to me I think it was merely an opportunity to be away from those two.
"I'm going to my team"
He looked bored but tried to keep up a false curiosity since Sakura was now joining us
She said "So did you guys get any good missions"
I replied "Yes because of Ino and her complaining (I did some complaining to but hehe) we are going to do a B-rank mission"
Both Sasukes and Sakuras eyes bulged out a bit and out from nowhere the orange haired devil came out and said "WHAAAT!!!! And we are just going around trying to find cats"
I smiled at them and said goodbye and hurried away from the three very angry ninjas.
The rest of the way went smoothly when I was there first of all at least that's what I thought until I stumbled on something lying in the grass.
"Hey look where you going"
I looked down and saw Shikamaru in his old fondly lying situation with a grass straw in his mouth and watching the cloud lazily.
"What are you doing out so early?"
He looked at my and motioned me to sit down, probably didn't want to strain his neck by looking at me from the angle I stood Lazy bastard.
"My mom threw me out saying I need to be there in good time…. Oh women are so.. trouble.."
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT WORD"
We both looked at the direction of the voice and saw Ino coming out angry and determined to kick Shikamarus ass, as usual if I might add. Before the killing could start our sensei came out in a burst of smoke.
"Yo everybody"
"Sensei" Shikamaru and Ino replied and I just nodded at him.
"Well let's get going now this mission might take a few weeks and I don't have that much of my favorite cigarettes with me"
Ino frowned "Sensei YOU do know that cigarettes aren't good for you"
He looked at her with a grin "Nonsense"
"Tsunade-sama herself has written a book about it during her days here"
Asuma didn't looked amused anymore and said "Enough of this nonsense lets get going already"
I snickered at Asumas half muttering excuses about everyone doing it.
Shikamarus POV
"Well the long journey through all the country is going to be tough and how the hell did Hokage-sama figure out that we newly ranked genins could handle this when it was customary for chunnins to do recon and infiltration. Besides if any genin team should do this it was better to chose Hinata, Kiba and Shino since they were ideal for this considering all their family abilities, our team is better for capturing an enemy. Maybe it would turn out like that"
While I was jumping from one branch to the other and thinking about the problem that bothered me I heard how Jin was trying to charm Ino….. with no luck at all, poor guy. If there is one thing I have learned from my life experiences is that being love struck is hell especially if it is to a girl like Ino that almost is as bad as my mom, the horror.
Asuma sensei lifted up his hand and pointed down to us and he jumped down in a clearing and we all did the same.
"I want all of you to know that we are supposed to pretend to be normal travelers all the way to the abandoned town" Asuma said to us
Ino just mumbled at how irritating that would be while Jin looked at me and understood what I was thinking about this new order
"Why the hell should we need to do that when we are so close to Konoha and not even near the town, there's no way in hell someone would focus or even try to follow us since there was at least a dozen genin teams coming in and out of Konoha during the day"
"Asuma why do we need to conceal our team when we are still within the borders" Jin asked
"I'm just following rules Jin and we are going to camp here for now, even though the sun is up I want to train your teamwork and your individual strength, I fear this mission might need more skill than you guys can muster" Asuma said with a mocking voice and that triggered Jin and Inos anger. Probably exactly the thing he wanted, now they would pour more energy in to it.
I yawned bored and tried to keep a positive face or Ino would most likely hit me just cause I looked lazy, women….. what can a man do except for trying to hide from them. Sigh.
Inos Pov
I huffed and rolled up my sleeping bag and looked around for the guys and saw Shikamaru already sleeping with his sleeping bag as a pillow.
"Lazy bum he is going to catch a cold like that…. Hum what should I care"
And then I saw Asuma keeping watch a few meters away but Jin was nowhere to be seen.
Eh he was probably still up and training with Magi, that guy never gives up uh even though we learned a bunch of jutsus today. Oh yeah right, he wasn't able to learn any of them…..
I was about to sleep again when I looked at Shikamaru again
"I cant let the guy catch a cold, no matter how lazy he is, Shikamaru will always be my teammate" I frowned inwardly and went to help him.
Jins Pov
"Oh man this thing is so difficult to learn, how can I use these chains better?"
Ever since I learned to keep Magi up from the ground and keep it "light" with my chakra the thing was much, much easier to handle but still, I needed to learn how to use the long wire looking chains better. Every time I fought they were just hanging from the gauntlet and as long as they were a good 2 meters each they did nothing but be in the way and I couldn't use chakra to make them move.
I tried to seep in a bit chakra in to the chains and look if it started to move but nothing happened, not even a vibration.
"Maybe trying to make my chakra go in to it as the same way with the gauntlet is wrong, hmm maybe if I made my chakra entwine each other like a double helix form and let each chain ring be fitted perfectly with my chakra…… without fault without any of it pouring out like the gauntlet……. Maybe"
And so I spent a couple of hours doing so and my labors bared fruit, the chains moved rapidly albeit not as fast as I would want to and not fast enough to be able to hurt any ninja ( if they weren't slower than any civilian I have seen). But still I could do it and now I had a weapon that could both defend me and attack at the same time especially since there were four chain rows so I could take on multiple enemies. I still needed a lot of training to even to be able to use it in a fight not to mention perfecting it.
"Yes now I have a unique weapon and if used correctly I can surprise most of my foes and knock them out if I can make these damn chains move fast……. Hmm I feel tired I ought to rest now"
And so I went to sleep, eager to try more moves the next night.
Asumas POV
Hmmm its very odd, I finally had time to read Jins profile from the academy and it really says that the poor guy cant learn any jutsu not even the easy ones. I wonder how the hell he could have graduated, I remember the time when I had the graduation, we needed to do at least one good jutsu and these student already get one easy one from the beginning Bunshin no Jutsu, man has the standard really gone down that low.
So how the hell did he graduate and then I got the word from hokage-sama that the boy was really talented in every other aspect but ninjutsu and that he made him graduate so that he could advance even further. It was really rare for hokage-sama to interfere and break rules, at least when it depends on the future of the village, if we have to many incapable ninjas we might be attacked but still he said to me to train him and act as if he was normal.
"Maybe then the boy would learn some jutsus…. Like this was about a mental block, I don't think so but hey orders were orders"
Yesterday I was trying to teach them some jutsus and Shikamaru and Ino got the basis and understood almost everything but Jin on the other hand had everything at least the theory straighten out but nothing. It was a very easy jutsu were you substitute your body with another materiel during a combat, I had originally thought they had learnt it in their school days but alas not everything is top-notch anymore and so Shikamaru and Ino got it by their second and third try while Jin could not complete although in his defense he is much faster than both Shikamaru and Ino so he could probably flee from an attack without the technique.
Jins PoV
At last we were near our goal after several of weeks of traveling we had (well Shikamaru and Ino) knew most of the basic jutsu and had started to try more of their family jutsu while I could effectively use Magi right now. Asuma found out about my nightly training sessions and scolded me severely since he said that if my teammates don't know my capabilities our teamwork would suffer so I told them about my new discoveries and progress with Magi. Shikamaru seemed for once interested at what I had told him instead for his lazy attention I usually got and Ino was just happy about me getting a unique way to fight… oh how I hate my chakra incapability's.
Well at least now we had a passable teamwork at least that's what Asuma said and Shikamaru refined our strategies a bit more. The village was just a day's travel ahead and we all had an eerie feeling that someone or something was keeping an eye on us. Asuma was always way behind us trying to startle the person stalking us but to no avail. We saw another village coming up and Asuma signaled us to in there and we understood that most ordinary travelers usually stop at most settlements just to be ably to sleep indoors instead of on the grass, jeez.
The village we stopped at was really rural looking and had what we could see only one Inn and a couple of stores and everything looked run downed. The people we saw loitering around the mud street were really pitiful looking some even looked terrified.
"Asuma-sensei, what has happened to this village" Ino spoke up shivering a bit
Shikamaru nodded "Yeah it looks like they have been at war or are refugees"
Asuma replied "Well that's our mission a lot of ninjas has said that in the past several years this place has become more and more ruined as if there is a force out there that what's it down in the ground. They even say that there used to be a hidden village north of here but that it was destroyed and that was the beginning of this regions lapse of fame."
I remarked "Well if it has been several years why are we coming just right now how slow is the hokage"
"Well it is a bit of the way and no client of ours had any mission for us out here so basically it was none of our business but the hokage seemed to have had an old friend living here so we are ordered unofficially to gather data and report back" Asuma answered and started to light a cigarette.
"Hmm is that so well this doesn't hardly seem like a b-class mission and why do I have a nagging feeling that all of these places seem so familiar…… can this be the way home.. that hidden village could it be my village of the magical people"
End of chapter
An: Well what do you guys think I know the first few chapters are boring nothing has happened no fights or anything but chapter 4 will contain a lot more fun stuff and a lot more info on Jin :D
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