[Yamaguchi Kyoko]

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it was time for their separation and honestly, Kyoko was worried especially since things wouldn't be going exactly like how her brother had planned. yet at the same time, Kyoko had complete faith in her brother, and though they would need to be flexible in how this might change she was hoping overall it would end up with the same result of rescuing the children. Taking the scroll Daichi made and watching him go up the side of the ship Kyoko began her expedition.[break][break]

First things first was getting into the porthole without making too much noise. If it didn't have glass on it she would have been able to squeeze through no problem, but the glass meant she needed to possibly make some noise alerting the pirates of her position. So how was she to reduce this noise to not alert them all if any at all? Well, it was a risk, but she was willing to try it as she pulled out her explosive tags. Taking the tags stick surface used to attach to objects she would cover as much of the glass as she could. Usually one would use chakra to activate these tags, but instead, Kyoko was using them similar to tape hoping their adhesive was strong enough for what she was about to do. Taking the blunt end of Nuibari she would smash through the glass hoping the tape would stop it from spilling the glass into the ship and possibly lowering the noise made when it shattered.[break][break]

When the glass of the porthole was broken she would pull the tape and broken glass through the porthole to her side and hide the shards and tags in her pouch so they wouldn't drop into the water making a splash. Once completed she would then sneak her way through the porthole and attempt to use the shadows for cover as she activated her Yamaguchi eyes to keep tabs on those around her.

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[yamaguchi daichi]

Clambering up onto the deck, Daichi quickly hid behind some barrels that would give him a brief period of cover while he figured out the layout of the deck, the people on board, and how to tackle this particular challenge. Based on the positioning of the enemies on deck it was clear that he would need to take on the man at the helm first, though he also had the strongest chakra signature, and if Daichi fumbled a quiet assassination attempt then he’d be dealing with a lot of enemies all at once. Though if drawing attention to himself meant that Kyoko was able to get away safely with the kids, then that was what mattered more than anything else. The ship still needed to be sunk, but that would be easier to achieve with the kids safely gone. Ideally, though, he’d be able to take care of the guy at the helm discreetly… then the rest of the mission could go smoothly from there. He quickly wrote out another Shishi Heiko tag for his own use, a plan rapidly coming together in his mind—take out the man’s ability to use chakra, then take him down quietly before he had a chance to sound an alarm. A simple plan, but hopefully effective. Once the tag was prepared, Daichi formed a single handseal to flash-step up the deck and behind the man at the helm; in one smooth motion he slapped the Shishi Heiko tag onto his back, and in the next drew a kunai to stab into the meat of his throat, aiming to silence him before he could cry out for help.

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[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world yamaguchi daichi

Kyoko's technique was successful in reducing sound, the plop in the water was met without any resistance as it just sounded as part of the waves smacking gently against the ship down below. She would be able to sneak in easily and start moving through the area without much resistance. Everyone here seemed to be asleep it was Daichi who was dealing with truly 'live' enemies.

Or at least awake ones.

Daichi was cooking up a plan, quickly. He came to a conclusion to silence the man at the helm, the most well trained of all those on the deck and those below with their fuzzy signatures. A flash step, a seal to cut off the mans' chakra and then a slice to the neck would be enough to take him out. The man did gurgle a little bit before falling forward against the helm, his body anchored by the helm slightly which meant he did not create a loud thud upon falling dead... But the weight did turn the helm and thus it started to turn the ship.

The turning of the ship, Kyoko would feel down below the most but she continued on through the deck below quietly, scanning the area until she focused in on several smaller bodies that were held in a separate area.

"Ach! What the hell?" One of the men groaned up on the deck turning towards the helm to address the Captain, and it was up to Daichi then to duck out of sight so that his stealth mission would not be compromised.

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[yamaguchi daichi]

Daichi’s gambit succeeded, thankfully, the quick one-two of a complete shutdown of the captain’s chakra system combined with being relieved of the burden of his trachea enough to remove him from the equation, and his lifeless body slumped against the helm. Which, naturally, set the boat to turn. Wasting a moment to curse himself for not accounting for something like this, Daichi ducked to crouch behind the captain’s corpse, tucking himself down small behind the helm and hopefully out of sight of those lower on the deck. He wove three handseals, and with a carefully thin application of suiton chakra, he conjured a rolling fog—he was cautious about it, using a razor-fine application of chakra and pinpoint-perfect control to try to make the fog seem to roll in as naturally as possible, common as any other foggy night at sea. With any luck, he would lower visibility quickly and subtly enough to allow him to pull the captain’s body off the helm and adjust the ship’s course back to normal. If the alarm bells could not go unrung, however, and the man on deck came up to investigate what was going on, Daichi would be waiting, palming another kunai in hand to prepare for an ambush.

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Name:Kirigakure no Jutsu - [Hidden Mist Technique]
Rank:D
CHAKRA USAGE: Medium
Type:Ninjutsu
Element:Suiton
HANDSEALS: 3
Requirement:Kirigakure Shinobi Only
Description:

Kirigakure no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu utilized by Hidden Mist ninja. The ninja causes the surrounding area to be covered in fog. The low visibility allows the ninja to silently and secretly assassinate their target.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world yamaguchi daichi

The man looked around when the mist started to roll in.

"God! It's just one thing after another! Boss you better straighten the course or else we'll never get out of this bullshit!" The man shouted, just in time for Daichi to in fact, straighten the helm out enough to set the course back to normal.

Kyoko continued onward following towards the small bodies that she saw all huddled together. Once she was in the room she noticed it was a prison like area where the children were being kept.

The kids gasped but Kyoko shushed them gently and tried to coax them towards her, explaining the situation quietly as she felt the ship shift again and wondering what her brother was doing up on deck. With a bit of finesse she opened the cage and got the children out, one by one until they were out of the port hole - she had them hold onto her as she made her way off of the ship.

Though it was foggy she did not have much issue navigating back to the Kirigakure ship.

In the meantime, one of the men nearby turned towards the helm.

"Boss, you sure you know where you're going?" It was hard to see, but it seemed like no one was there.

"Boss? Where are you?"

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[yamaguchi daichi]

Daichi’s passive sensory was more than honed enough to tell him that Kyoko and the kids were making their way off the ship, back out of the porthole and en route to the Kirigakure ship. One task of the mission successfully completed, that left only one thing left to do: sink the kidnapper’s ship to the bottom of the ocean. Easy enough for someone with Daichi’s skillset to do. The pirates were beginning to realize that something was up, and the fog would only cover Daichi’s tracks for so long—he had to act fast. He hauled himself over the back of the ship, using tree-climbing to quietly slide his way down and switching quickly to water-walking in order to stand on the surface of the waves beside the keel. Channeling a razor-fine pinpoint of chakra to his fingertip, Daichi quickly inscribed an exploding seal into the wood of the ship, pouring as much chakra into the technique as he could muster—it would leave him more or less tapped out for the day, but if he did it right, then he wouldn’t need to worry about running low on reserves. Then he ran across the surface of the sea, slapping a few extra tags onto the side of the ship for good measure, then took off after Kyoko. As soon as he was a safe enough distance away, or when the alarm bells started ringing, Daichi formed a single handseal to detonate the heavy-duty explosive seal. If all went according to plan, the explosives would blow a massive hole in the most important part of the ship’s structure, and send it to hell. The sailors on board would die slow and painful, shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, but Daichi couldn’t quite find enough empathy in him to feel bad for a group of kidnappers.

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NAME: Shikoku Fuuin - [Finger Engraving Seal]
RANK: C
CHAKRA USAGE: Low [Continuous]
CLASSIFICATION: Fūinjutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:

Chakra is released into the tip of one's finger, increasing its temperature as a small flame-like discharge is generated. This allows one to write upon almost any surface and leave a scar-like mark, working to inscribe the formula of seals or write messages if a writing utensil is not readily available.

NAME: Bakukami no Jutsu [Exploding Seal Jutsu]
RANK: C
CHAKRA USAGE: Low - Very High
CLASSIFICATION: Fūinjutsu
ELEMENT: -
HANDSEALS: 0
REQUIREMENT: N/A
DESCRIPTION:

One of the simplest jutsu taught to almost all beginner fuinjutsu users. This technique has been used for centuries to create Explosive Tags. The idea behind this jutsu is to seal a certain amount of the user's chakra inside of a tag and release it at a later date using a simple seal. The user is capable of inscribing the seal onto any non-human surface and the explosion strength can be varied depending on how much chakra the user puts into the seal, a [Low] amount being what most use for the average tag.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world yamaguchi daichi

"Uh, boss?" One of the men called out again now approaching the helm properly only to find that there was no boss, or rather he was very much dead and the fog had somehow concealed this fact.

"We're under attack!" The very same man went off, announcing the very fatal situation that the crew was in without having noticed. Alas, it was all entirely too late as just as this occurred an explosion shook the vessel with such ferocity that one of the men fell down against the deck, another was thrust against the body of his deceased leader and a few more just narrowly managed to avoid being flung overboard entirely.

As Daichi would return to his ship, in the distance he would be able to hear screaming and general disarray and discontent sowed with the enemy vessel. In this case though, Daichi did not have much sympathy for they had kidnapped children for one reason or another and thus did not deserve sympathy.

Kyoko was already up on the deck of the ship sitting down with the two kids she had yanked from the brig. They appeared shy but not quite as fearful as one would expect a child to be, clearly they had some bravery in their heart.

When Daichi approached Kyoko would give it a go, standing up looking at Daichi.

"Maybe you'll have better luck talking to them about everything?" She whispered.

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Mission Objective Complete

Secondary Objective: Convince children to join shinobi academy

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[yamaguchi daichi]

It was a big boom. The sounds of chaos cast clear over the dark waves of nighttime, screams echoing so much farther than he thought they would have. Hopefully the kids would be able to tune it out. He had blown through a lot of chakra with that final maneuver; if it had taken him any longer to get back to the ship he might not have even been able to maintain water-walking. He was damp with mist and sea-salt spray when he hopped up and hauled himself back up to the deck of the ship, heaving with effort. Kyoko slipped up to his side. Automatically, instinctively, he reached to pull her into a one-armed hug, squeezing her shoulders briefly in an unspoken gesture of fraternal affection. She was tapping him in to talk to the kids, which—honestly, he thought, giving the pair a once-over, they seemed to be doing better than he expected. These weren’t shivering, frightful babies that they’d rescued; shy, yes, unsure of themselves and what was going on, but there was something stalwart in each expression. "Hey,” Daichi said, kneeling down to get to kid-height, on eye level with each of them. "I’m Daichi. That’s my sister, Kyoko—we were sent from Kirigakure to help you guys out, and deal with the bastards that kidnapped you. Can you tell me your names, where you’re from?” He knew generally that they were from those new settlements in the archipelago, but knowing exactly who to return the kids to would be a different story. "You did a really good job,” he said, grinning, clapping a hand on each of the kids’ shoulders. "I mean it. Those pirates were nasty, and it took a lot of guts to go off with Kyoko, and I bet there’s other kids out there just like you, in the same spot you were in, who weren’t half as brave—who need more help. You could, if you want. It’s what we do.”

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[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world yamaguchi daichi

The kids glanced between the affection that Kyoko and Daichi showed each other, the eldest's shoulders seemed to droop a bit. If they were nice to each other, then they would be nice to them. Not that Kyoko had been mean, but she was not quite as soft as when Daichi came and knelt down to be at their eye level. The youngest had ducked behind the eldest, only peeking out on occasion.

"A little island, papa said we belonged to the waves." It was unclear where the kids were from, or at least they certainly did not seem to fully know. But the mission briefing was enough to indicate that the kids were from around Mizu no Kuni and that general area of the map.

"There's a little village." The youngest whispered. "It's the littlest village."

The little ones flinched a bit at Daichi's gesture but then smiled, finding it a bit amusing the way he assured them of how well they did.

"What you do?" The youngest whispered again, still shyly smiling.

"I wanna do what you do..!" The eldest piped up, perhaps with a little more gusto than moments before when asked about where they were from.

"Yeah!" The youngest echoed a touch more quietly.

"Can-can we ask our parents to help? How?"

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[yamaguchi daichi]

Daichi wasn’t even a full year older than Kyoko—twins, but Kyoko was late to the party, their father liked to joke—so he didn’t have any real memories of looking after a smaller sibling the way the older was looking after the younger, here. Quite the opposite, in fact—it was always Kyoko who was looking after Daichi, so it felt strange but a little sweet to have this moment with them. It felt, a little bit, like it did when he was helping out Tota. "If you really want to,” Daichi said, "you can ask your parents if you can study in the shinobi academy in Kirigakure. But it’s a lot of work—you have to study a lot, and train a lot, learn how to fight and hide and use ninjutsu. So you really want to make sure that you’re ready for a challenge, first.” He glanced up at Kyoko, then to the ship’s captain who was lingering nearby. Sure, he was oversimplifying things a little… but Daichi was no recruiter, and he remembered how badly he’d wanted exactly what these kids were asking for when he was around their age, maybe even younger. "But let’s focus on getting you home safe, first,” he said, straightening up. "If you want, Kyoko and I can show you some basics on the way there. How does that sound?” Daichi had to put his faith in the ship’s captain to navigate them safely to the general area that the kids were talking about—hopefully once they arrived at the little groupings of outer islands, they could track down more information and see the kids safely returned to their parents. Maybe one day he’d even see them again, if they chose to follow through with enrolling in the academy. And in the meantime, well—he’d send them off with a few new skills, a fun surprise for the next time kidnappers came calling.

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[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world yamaguchi daichi

The kids stood there and nodded towards Daichi gently. The idea of learning how to fight seemed fun, though it was definitely a childish naivety. The eldest was getting gumdrop thoughts of one day being a big hero kind of like this young man standing in front of them.

"Yeah! Show us!" The youngest finally got the courage to not stand behind the elder sibling and was smiling towards Daichi - apparently having decided that Daichi was in fact their person and seemingly by force taking hold of Daichi's hand to hold onto.

In the meantime the Captain of the ship had let out a sigh and shaken his head. He knew where to go in terms of where the kidnappings had been happening, but it would be a bit hard to locate the parents if the kids didn't know exactly where they were from. Such was the issue of them being well, young, it was not uncommon for kids to not fully comprehend where they lived aside from the fact that they lived with parents.

Though it seemed that both mission objectives had been complemented and both Kyoko and Daichi would in fact be recruited to show the kids some fighting tricks as they would excitedly try to drag both of the siblings into the endeavor.

[fin]

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