Chapter 5: Missions
A month went by, filled with petty missions such as catching cats, fishing, painting houses, walking dogs and more alike. Though the missions bored him to no end, Hono made them interesting in his own way. He catched cats with a no hook fishing rod, fished with his Housenka no jutsu, painted houses while hanging upside down, behing held by a ninja wire and walked five of the biggest dogs in the kennel. Mostly, he got weird looks from the customers and sometimes they tried to pay half. A slit eyed look and a predator snarl later they always came around.
"Very good. So far, all of our missions have been successful."- said Kurenai, congratulating her team. They were at the clearing where they became a team in the first place.
"Those couldn't be called missions sensei. When do we get something interesting?"- the white haired boy asked.
"You're still Genin. We can't just go all nice and dandy into an A rank mission."- she replied.
"I am powerful, Shino is powerful, Hinata's powerful. You're powerful. Why not?"- he asked, grabbing his backpack.
"Thank you for the compliment, and I agree with him sensei. We should get something better. We can't be that great of a help to our village if we don't take on serious missions."- Shino always had a way to convince people.
"I also think we should do something better sensei."- Hinata joined in.
"But-"
"Wait a second sensei. I almost forgot. I've got a gift for each of you."- he went through his backpack and took out three beautiful weapons that made his teammates and sensei gasp. He grabbed two red fingerless gloves that had spikes on top of the knuckles and handed them to Shino.- "The spikes are hollow and connected to your knuckles. Punching someone with them will penetrate easily and let you insert your insects inside of your enemy, making for a much smoother and easy kill or incapacitation as you want. Discreet and dangerous, just like the Aburame."
"They are amazing, thank you! They have our clan's symbol, so I assume it isn't a gift just for me?"- Shino asked, putting them on and seeing that they fit like a, well, like a glove.
"Each of the weapons I am handing is for the whole family of that person. I see it as a way of helping the village."- he replied before taking out two also fingerless metal gauntlets. They were made of white metal and had the Hyuuga symbol on the back. He handed them over to Hinata.
"Uh, what do they do?"- she asked, putting them on.
"You'll notice the seals I've created inside of the gauntlets themselves. If you make your chakra run through them, they create a small force field that you can use to deflect or block enemy attacks."- Hono threw a kunai at her and out of desperation, she made her chakra run through them. A small, blue circle of chakra appeared in front of them, and as soon as the kunai hit, it was deflected up.- "You can also use them to attack."
"Wow."- she muttered after hitting the falling kunai with the force field, sending it through a tree.
"With time and practice, the field will become bigger."- he said, holding the third weapon.
"T-Thank you very much."- she said.
"Now, sensei, both you and I know that every genjutsu user is vulnerable when using genjutsu since they can't really move. So, I made you this."- he handed her a small spike that had a hole by the holder and metal wire going through it.- "It can be controlled with chakra and retrieved just by pulling the rope. It can go inside your sleeves as well to become a hidden weapon. With a bit of practice, it's as deadly as the other two."
"Thank you Hono. But I must ask. Why did you make them?"- she asked, slipping her weapon under her sleeves.
"I got really into seals and blacksmithing lately, so I thought, why not?"- he smiled.
"Did you make any for yourself?"- Shino asked, already training with his weapon.
"Notice my new black sandals and black fingerless gloves?"- he asked, pointing at his feet and hands. He stomped the ground with his right and left feet and blades came out of the back and front of the sandals. He then made a bunshin and struck him with his right palm. After pulling the palm back, the bunshin went flying backwards, broke a tree and fell down before disappearing. Hono showed his palms, revealing the seals on the glove's front.- "Mostly for taijutsu, when my Katon doesn't do much."
"Well, since all of us just got upgrades and you gave me good reasons for it, let's see the Hokage to get a higher ranked mission."- she said before turning around and starting to walk.
Ten minutes later, they were inside the Hokage's room.
"Hey old man. How are you?"- Hono asked.
"I don't have much time, so please cut the bullshit and tell me what you want."- the Hokage answered. He really was getting too old for that shit.
"I want to learn a jutsu from you, "Professor", and we are also here to get some good mission. Walking dogs doesn't really cut it anymore."- Hono replied with a grin.
"What kind of jutsu?"- the elder asked.
"Katon please. You know every jutsu from the Leaf Village, so you must know one that I don't."- hearing these words, the Hokage wrote down some instructions and handed them over to him.
"Hey, old man, we're getting tired of these crap missions! Give us something good!"- they heard a familiar voice ask. They turned around and saw Kiba, Sasuke and Sakura walk in the room. A bit later, Kakashi followed, apologizing.
"Well, we just got a new mission. An escort mission. If your two teams join up, I'll put you in it."- the Hokage proposed. Kakashi and Kurenai looked at each other before agreeing.- "Ok. Your job is to accompany Tazuna, a bridge builder to the Land of Waves and protect him of any enemy. Meet him by the gate tomorrow morning."