B-Ranked Mission: The Monkey, The Tiger & The Wardrobe. [Chunin Test for Asura][B-Ranked Mission]

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At the light of Dawn, Heise arose from his earth made cocoon and stretched his arms. He’d had been sleeping outside of Iwagakure for quite some time now. It wasn’t because he didn’t have the money, but upon becoming a Monkey sage, Heise had felt more comfortable outdoors. He sat upright for a moment and then released a breath of air from his lungs.
“It’s going to be one of those days.” He groaned to himself.

Heise’s morning consisted of the usual chores: cleaning his rock cavern, creating his own lake and cleaning himself and meditating for an hour or so. His mediation had been thrown off track when a Ninja from Iwagakure appeared next to him on the river he’d created.
“Lord Heise, You’ve been ordered on a mission.” He said to him. Heise not moving or opening his eyes from their meditative state responded to him.
“How did you guys even know I was in town.” Heise asked.
“There were reports of a Monkey in a local lounge.” The Man replied. Heise’s eyebrow twitched but he remained calm. He took in another breath of air and stood up. He then turned around and faced the man and smiled.
“So what’s the mission?” Heise asked.
“You and Asura-“
“Asura?” Heise said rubbing his chin noting that that name sounded awfully familiar. In fact there was a sense of Danger when it came to that name, Something he was suppose to do.
“That’s your mission. Asura has already been informed himself. Find him and begin your mission!” The man said disappearing into the ground.
“As if there is only one Asura in Iwagakure.” Heise said as he began to move towards the village.

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This had to be the oddest, most unorthodox form of a chunin exam every for him. Asura was anticipating this and yet-- it was the oddest of challenges. His chunin exam was indeed a mission. Iwa really did love to skimp on things but he had to work iwth a shinobi from another village. Thus it led him to the meeting spot in Iwa square.

He waited there, twirling his Shinkou dagger in his grasp as he waited for this ninja he was suppose to work with. He was still trying to recover after a certain tiger attack. Regardless he had wanted to clear Genin rank for so long and gain the privileges of being a Chunin.

The qualifications were simple. If he completed the mission and by both the client and this advising Ninja's word that he performed exceptionally-- he would be promoted to Chunin rank instantly. It was not the ideal way Asura wanted to be promoted but he learned never to turn away a gift if it would help him.

Plus he would get pay for the mission itself. He just had to be patient now. Sitting at a nearby fountain, he looked till he found the man he was suppose to work with. Little did he know it would be a certain monkey ninja.

Heise rubbed his eyes as he slumped over and walked into the village. This wasn’t a place where he really wanted to be. Heise naturally didn’t like people or talkative people. He mostly stayed to himself and his monkeys.

On a day like today, Heise wore his full Sengoku no Arashi garb which roughly translated to a storm of civil war. The Senju clan had adopted the garb while in the earlier stages of the feudal time. The Arashi garb consisted of the the shinobi clan armor underneath a large trench coat. Over his forehead was a large red headband with Six golden coins, a set of 3 on top of another set of 3, was wrapped. Heise had found that his ancestor Toka Senju was the last remaining senju before the Sanada family branch was created. Heise had two large bangs of hair flowing on either side of the head piece and the rest of his hair was tied into a pony tail.

Most people noted when Heise wore his Arashi garb he looked older. Being he was 21, He didn’t mind people calling him older.
“Someone’s dressed up today” A rather brutish voice said behind him. Heise’s eyebrows twitched but he kept his composure.
“I Hope you know they found out I was here because your scandalous deeds.” Heise argued as he continued walked straight.
“We’ll we can’t all be married and forced to live life waiting for your wife.” The voice said behind him. Heise turned red and turned around in a panic.
“I’M NOT MAR-“ He began to yell but there was no one around him. He must have returned to the Water Curtain cave. Though it did leave everyone in the market place staring At Heise in a lunatic fashion.

He was a few meters away from the meeting location when he spotted Asura.
“Aww Shit.” Heise said aloud after spotting the boy.

Asura kept quiet and meditated. For a long time now, he looked to the ground, his red eyes looking in reflection. Despite how strong he was, he still had much to learn. I twas a shock as he actually had EXCEEDED his peers in his studies and training. He was stronger than most. And yet he felt restless, the desire to learn and do more as a ninja. He was not power hungry but he itched to learn more.

Once more, he tried to solve the riddle of why his Tengan-- his clan's power-- wouldn't trigger for him. He praticed many Jiin clan exercises and even mastered extensions to their powers. But yet the eyes would not open. Master Roku told him he was to wait for the eyes would awaken in their own time but still, he was growing impatient.

Either way, he took another breath and attempted to clear his mind.

It was then he heard a loud commotion from nearby. He turned to find someone. Perhaps the Shinobi who was his 'handler'. But what shocked him was the fact it was a certain ninja he recognized. He was still clad in new crimson armor-- sharp looking duds to that Asura wanted to get himself. But what interested him was the fact he KNEW who it was.

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Heise the monkey sage!!

Asura jumped up as he saw Heise. "HEISE!!" Asura shouted. He gave a smile and frinedly wave as he jumped forward, now a solid meter away. "Hey there monkey sage? How you been?"

.... WHAM!!

Asura had been running forward, seemingly to greet him-- and greet him he did. With a solid Taijutsu powered punch right for the jaw! Asura clearly was now pissed at Heise as the punch packed a wallop as an unprepared man would be sent flying several meters from that little sucker punch.

"YOU DUMBASS!! I OTTA BURN YOU TO ASHES AFTER THE SHIT YOU PULLED!" Asura shouted, clearly pissed off at him. "You left me on my own against that giant pussycat that tore up half of Iwa!"

Without any hesitation Heise flew backwards knocking into a watermelon crate. Just as he’d expect to. He stood up and rubbed his face a bit and looked at Asura. He would have retaliated but, he could have killed him.

After his recent training with Hayabusa on the special training grounds, Heise had reached a new level of power even he thought was impossible in pure physical strength.
“Still,” Heise thought to himself as he began moving forward towards Asura, “Kid can pack quite a punch.” He said. Heise released yet another sigh from him mouth.
“It’s going to be one of those days” Heise muttered as he reached for his pouch.

“Look about the whole cat thing. Totally meant to go help you but, uh… I had other priorities” Heise said referring to his own training session which he had to attend.
“Anyways, did the Iwa ninja get to you today about some mission where suppose to be on?"

Asura was pissed with Heise, despite his excuse . He growled angrily with his fists clenched tightly. Perhaps Heise was far stronger than him. It didn't matter, he deserved a good punch regardless. And it wasn't like Asura was slouching. He was growing stronger and stronger with each passing day.

"Priorities?! I WAS SECOND FROM BEING Catnip!!" he shouted. Clearly Asura was one whose anger and rage was one of his more potent qualities. However, he took a breath and calmed down -- just a bit. "First off , I know about the mission. Strangely enough, this is my trial in order to become Chunin rank for Iwa. I am to complete this mission and be graded by a forign shinobi for my capabilities. However-- they failed to mention i was to be evaluated by YOU!" he said, clearly not amused.

"I was told to wait for you and we would go to the office together to take on the mission," Asura said, glaring at Heise with distrust. "YOu better keep to the mission. You try to ditch again and I am gonna personally barbecue your ass!"

Heise laughed and rubbed his head a bit. He knew Asura had reason to doubt his abilities. Asura hadn’t fully seen Heise in battle ever, and as goofy as he was, Heise didn’t seem quialified to grade Asura.
“Look Asura,” Heise said now being a bit more serious. His seriousness usually showed up when Wukong wasn’t around or he was in an extreme situation.
“I understand that I haven’t given you much to truly gauge my abilities and where I stand. But I assure you, compared to these Jounin here, I stand more than enough chance. In fact I am almost confident that I rival even the clan Heads in this village. So I am more than capable to grade you on your service.” Heise said as he held his fist up to his chest.

“Now,” Heise said retrieving the scroll from his side pocket. He unraveled it and began to read over their mission schematic.
“Are job is to Head to Pushan and rendevouz with Prince Alma and his already escort. She feels she is unable to complete this mission and we are to aid in bringing both back to IWA.” Heise said. Pushan was one of the legendary mountains of Iwagakure. Though not as famous for its peaks as Kumogakure’s mountains, Pushan was said to be a dormant Volcano and also a place where great ninja trained. Heise was already curious as to what could gravitate them towards that village.
“The trip to Pushan is 2 days Time. I need you to pack as if you were going off on an A-ranked Mission. Tell me what would you bring?” Heise asked.

Asura almost wanted to laugh when Heise said he could rival the clan's head of the village. He would pay money to see Heise fight against Master Roku, his instructor and one of the clan's strongest. Let alone Ravana, but rouge shinobi didn't count. Still his ability was not the issue here. It was his sense of dedication and responcibility that Asura had his doubts in.

"Its not your ability I'm concerned about. Its your dependability that I worry about," Asura corrected, but then again, he wasn't the most forward or diligant of souls himself. It was no better than kettle calling the pot black.

Letting out a sigh, Asura gave in . "Alright, alright... Fine, " he said, grumbling as Heise took out the mission info. "But bail on me again and I swear I'll set your ass on fire. That's not a threat-- its a promise!" he growled. He listened to the mission and understood. He was already packed, prepared for this Chunin examination. He had his weapon, his shuriken, his tools and food rations and medicines. His own bare fists alone were capable weapons. "I'm good and ready to go.  Ideally I would have more scrolls to learn more Jutsu but I have pretty much read every katon Jutsu I need. I wont be able to learn another element till after this mission." He said.

Clearing his head and putting his issues with Heise to the side, he was ready and rearing to go. "By the way, where is the OTHER monkey boy?" Asura asked, wondering about Wukong.

It wasn’t easy to gain rep as a well recognized ninja once one had been given the name of the Monkey Sage.
“it’s your dependability i’m worried about…” Asura said. Heise understood where Asura was coming from completely. He did bail on him during the fight with the giant tiger. But then again, at that moment his training with Hayabusa had become priority. He wanted to tell Asura about Hayabusa but he knew he wouldn’t understand.

Heise closed his eyes and ran his fingers through his hair and breathed in out.
“I’ll set your ass on fire,” Asura said. Heise’s eyes winded as he did kind of feel a bit scared. Heise had seen Asura working on fire jutsu once or twice and knew that he was proficient in it. Not only that, Heise remembered the punch that Asura packed earlier and if his jutsu carried the same weight behind it, then Heise would be in for trouble.

“You’re to confident kid” Heise said noticing that Asura already had most of his gear attached to him. Heise created a few hand seals and then procceded placed his hands on the ground and a cloud of smoke appeared. From that Cloud, A Giant Gunbai fan, attached to a large staff appeared. He placed both on his back and smiled.
“These are my choices of weapons” Heise smiled as he continued preparing himself. As he did he heard Asura make the comment about Wukong.
“He’s the real monkey.” Heise corrected, “I’m the monkey boy.”

As Heise turned around, In front of him appeared the ninja who’d approached him earlier as well as two other ninja in the same sort of uniform(A swamp green overall with a straw hat covering their faces).
“We’ve been told to inform you from the acting head, Prince Alma is the next Daimyo and is very critical to our land. Please retrieve him alive. As for the girl, She’s yours to deal with. Return her to Konohagakure or leave her in Iwa. The decision is your.” The one standing in front of the two. As before, the three ninja crumbled into rocks and disappeared.
“Damn Shoudu Ops, the Second Dai-Lee” Heise said making a note of Iwagakure’s black ops before the 2nd.
“Well then Let’s be off.” Heise yelled again running in the direction of Pushan.

(Very nice. )

Asura turned and with a sigh, allowed himself to go with the flow of things. Now that Heise was prepared himself with weapon and all, Asura moved and headed for Pushan.

The trip was relatively quiet. Perhaps this mission would be easy but he kept ready and his senses open to the best of his ability. It was a good opportunity to travel outside of Iwa. He had been stuck there for so long it was almost torture for the free-spirited ninja. He hated to be couped up in one place for too long. It was not in his nature.

Regardless, they soon reached the dormant volcano where their client and company was waiting. Slowly they would ascend the steps, reaching the small mansion at the side of the mountain. It reminded Asura of how his clan's home was.

As they approached, they knocked on the door, where two guards stood inside. "UM... hi there. We are here to pick up Prince Alma for his trip? They should be expecting us," he stated.