Litter clean up (mission)

Fuu lead the group to the Market district, currently it wasn't very busy but there was lots of things in the road. Bits of trash and that type of thing, there was maybe one person hanging around. "Alright, we gotta clean this street before market hour. can't leave even a little trash and also, if we have the time we can help brush the sand from any empty stalls." Fuu kicked up a wrapper to some sort of candy and put it in a plastic bag she produced from her hip pouch. "Okay, here's some plastic bags. Once we got all the trash I'll go get us some brooms to sweep." She started going down the street and grabbing trash and sticking it in the bag.

This one wasn't going to be much fun for Shao-- as it wasn't as simple as using or practicing his own ninjutsu skills. This one was pretty much boring as hell. It was just to pick up trash along the market area of the village. Normally such an activity would be a drag, but he knew with five of them it wouldn't be that bad. -- At least till fuu mentioned the same bit of cleaning up the sand from the outside.

But that was where Shao could use his ninjutsu to blow bits of it away.

Shao picked up a few crunched up pieces of paper and some cans that were easy to reach, while Mari got a broom and started to pull things into piles, consolidating the mess. Using the plastic bags Fuu brought, both Shao and Mari collected what they could in trips and tucked them into the bag.

"This might be boring but I'm glad we can get it done dedicated enough," Shao said, sweeping some sand away towards the edge of the market stalls.

"I know. This job is the easiest one of all," Kyle spoke to them, him sounding unusually cheerful.

Stopping what they were doing, Shao and Mari turned-- to find Kyle stuffing his face with some food on a stick from one of the vendors. Here they were working their butts off and he took a break for lunch. He stopped mid bite of his food, the kabob dangling from the stick. "What? Cleaning and farming works up an appitite," he said in defense.

Shao and Mari just frowned at him and shook their heads. "Seriously?" Shao sighed, while Kyle obliviously enjoyed his food.

Though Kyle just smirked and with the two others he had in his hand, he handed them over to the two of them. "Well if you are gonna act like that, I guess maybe I should eat these myself? Hmm?" he teased.

The rumble of their bellies answered for them-- and all Mari could do was burst into laughter. It was an ironic turn of events how Kyle's thoughtlessness turned a full 180.

Reo followed behind Fuu and Shao, lost in thought. He needed to get the Hokage to meet with him but the task sounded impossible. The Kazekage didn’t say that he would help set up the meeting, after-all. His comment to Shao had been a slight attempt to see if he would help set up a meeting.

Reo could guess why he didn’t follow along and suggest to do so. First, Reo was simply too obscure about it. He wasn’t the type to ask for help very often. Second, Shao seemed to know quite a bit about Shadow Clones and Reo was beginning to think that Shao knew that there was no way they should know that jutsu. It would become even more obvious once Shao hears about the attempted theft which was surely being talked about in Konoha. Reo felt bad about it but it was a mission.

Reo wasn’t going to hide that he had the skill. If the skill looked like it would benefit him in the Chuunin Exams, then he would use it. Reo broke out of his internal monologue in time to see everyone else already working hard. So, began to do the same. The konoha Shinobi seemed to be complaining or slacking off though.


Great. Now they are all slacking off. Reo didn’t say anything, though. Not everyone has a monk’s dedication.


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Fuu got a little bit of a reminder that it was nearly noon time, but thankfully it's not like the market was covered in trash. Most people didn't just toss their garbage down in the middle of the walk way after all, but that wasn't really an excuse for slacking. Ryo defiantly was going to keep working and besides, Meat on a stick wasn't exactly the type of thing that he was going to eat anyhow as far as Fuu knew he didn't eat anything that could be considered 'fast food'.

Fuu tried not to think about how her friend was focused hard on something else, but she couldn't just let him be a stick in the mud forever. Basically everything was done anyhow, so Fuu made a single clone to finish up and then hooked her arm around Ryo. "Live a little every once in a while why don't you. I bet you never even tried meat on a stick before." She laughed as she got two from the vendor and held one out to him. She tossed her head towards Shao and his little group. "Next on the list is helping old man Kon find his pet lizard, as soon as we're done here that's where we're headed."

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The small snack only took a minute and Shao was back to cleaning. It didn't take much longer and by the time he finished his share-- the others were done too. Though slightly low key, he was glad he got his share done and was able to move on with the others in his group. It seemed the monk was oddly uptight over the snack but what could you do. Even ninja needed to eat.

The next one was finding a pet. That one Shao felt was easy, and knew what would happen. Animals seemed to like him, for better or worse. Not that he minded but it always puzzled him how they were drawn to him. It made Shao wonder if he should invest in a pet of his own.

Either way it was on to the next mission.

(Mission End)

“No no no! I am not eating that. We want over this with the ramen, Fuu. I like my food to look like food and not have the nutrient density of cardboard.” Reo exclaimed - though he grabbed the food despite the complaints. “So? Finding a lizard?”


[shameless 2am post to get me over the 250 count]