Naruto: The First Spark IC

[Ayame]

The Genin would never have seen such a serious expression on Kato's face. They had only known him for about two hours but for Kimishi it was still surprising. Kato glances over his shoulder and looked at Kimishi and Atsuko. "Activate your Byakugan and do not move until I tell you to." Kato walked up to the men with the caravan acting very friendly. "Yo, what're you guys doing all the way out here?" The men retorted with "Just carrying some watermelons to the hidden leaf! This is our last shipment for a week, can't wait to get off of working." The man out front said. This small talk would continue for a small amount of time until Kimishi and Atsuko would activate their Byakugan. "Atsuko do you see it? It looks like there's people in the caravan." Kimishi said in an almost silent voice.

[MiscChaos]

Under the command, Atsuko activates her Byakugan and looks around. She doesn't focus in on the caravan until Kimishi whispers it to her and she confirms the other Hyuuga's suspicion: there seems to be people in the caravan.

"Yes, I see them too. Should Nara-sensei know?" she asks. She doesn't know WHY the people are hiding in the caravan, but everyone should probably know about them

[Thaedael]

Hajime stood in place, a kunai swirling about his index finger that hooked up and through the center of the loop, the three blades spinning around as he sat waiting. They were nothing but people and a caravan. Yet there he stood, between two squinting, bulgy-veined eyes of the Hyuuga clan, and felt just a little on edge.

[Ayame]

Kato began making his way back to his Genin waving happily to the men with their caravan. He walked towards the Genin and pulled them into a huddle "What are they hiding because it's sure as hell not water melons." Kato spoke in a somewhat rushed tone, but before Kimishi or Atsuko could tell Kato exactly what they were hiding in that caravan of theirs Imagawa shouted out to team 5. "Hey ninja there's people and they have weapons!" Kato immediately bolted up and drew a kunai with speed that would impress even the fastest Ninja. "Kimishi, Hajime, Atsuko ready yourselves you're getting an early combat lesson!" Kato said kneeling down onto one knee and activating his shadow possession jutsu. "Kimishi cover Hajime, Atsuko you're on me." There were eight bandits and four of them. It wouldn't be an easy first fight.

[Thaedael]

The kunai stopped spinning around his index finger as he let it slide down and into his palm properly, letting it loose with a flick of his wrist. He missed the leg of his target, only grazing the man running from within the wagon. "Shit" he muttered between pursed lips, it was a shoot he should have made, probably would have made if his head wasn't still pounding from thirst and a hang over. He pulled a second from his belt, this time letting it fly true and striking of them in the knee, felling him instantly.

[MiscChaos]

Atsuko should've just shouted it out then that there were people rather than let everyone be taken off guard. Still, she's impressed by the speed Nara-sensei moves, a kunai drawn and ready almost as fast as she could blink. Still, she has her orders. She saddles up next to Nara-sensei, the form of the Gentle Fist ready to go, prepared to repel any attack that may come her way.

[Ayame]

Three bandits ran towards Kato, sensing he was clearly the strongest out of the four ninja. "Shadow Sewing Jutsu!" Kato yelled and his shadow stretched to the left and right then shot up towards the enemy ninja stabbing them through the legs and arms, effectively pinning them. However one managed to split through, this was why Atsuko was with Kato. Meanwhile Hajime and Kimishi were dealing with four, since Hajime had already managed to fell one of the bandits. Kimishi stepped into her Gentle Fist stance and stayed right beside Hajime. When two of the bandits threw large Fuma Shurkien at the two of them Kimishi leapt into the air in front of Hajime, seemingly ready to give her life for Hajime before a word escaped her lips. "Rotation!" Kimishi spun violently releasing chakra from all 361 of her chakra nodes and formed a barrier of pure chakra. The Fuma Shuriken were harmlessly deflected surprising the bandits. Kimishi stopped her rotation landed and shouted to Hajime: "Now's your opening!"

[Thaedael]

Hajime stood to her side, his arm extend out perpendicular to his body, the strain of it showing as his arm shook up and down the length. Just above his elbow one of the shuriken lodged itself into him, the coat already a bit red with his blood. His arm was extended out in front of one of the bandits, the man on one knee with another one of the tell-tale kunai sticking out from between the joints of his knee cap.

[MiscChaos]

When the bandit breaks through, Atsuko quickly steps forward meeting the bandit before he could reach Nara-sensei. She attacks his shoulders, legs, and center in quick success, aiming to completely seal off the flow of chakra to the man's extremities and then knock him off his feet, disabling him completely.

[Ayame]

Kimishi rushed the remaining two bandits seeing the injury they inflicted on Hajime. She delivered two quick strikes to the nodes connecting the first bandit's core to his legs. Then she turned to the second bandit and delivered five quick strikes to the chest. It would be hard for the second bandit to breathe at this point, not impossible but hard. Kato witnessed as Atsuko systematically paralyzed the guard that had broken through as he knocked out the last two bandits.

[MiscChaos]

Once the bandit she's facing goes down, Atsuko looks around with her Byakugan to see if there are any in hiding that she should be worried about. If she finds nothing, she relaxes and simply says, "So what was that about? with no malice or anything to the bandit she disabled. Almost as if she was asking the weather. She puts her foot on her chest and presses down, letting him know she's willing to step through his sternum to get some answers, her actions much more hostile than her words.

[Thaedael]

He gritted his teeth, pulling out the bladed projectile that had come above the elbow on his right arm, slowly easing the blade out of his arm. It wasn't a serious wound, by any means, luckily missing every important vein and artery in his body. It did, however, hurt a lot more then he would have liked, tossing the bloodied piece of metal to one side and reflexively flexing his arm into and out of a folded position. He could feel the surface damage with each flex, the pain numbing his hang-over as he worked his arm. He walked over to where Atusoko was, pulling her leg off the body of the bandit.

[Ayame]

Kimishi walked over to where the others were standing over the bandit. Atsuko put her foot on him, then Hajime took her leg off of him followed by Kato coming up and putting his foot on his rib cage. Kimishi finally got there and was giggling a little until she heard what the bandit had to say. "T-t-there's a bounty on that man with the cart, they said that a few inexperienced ninja would be guarding it that's all I know!" The bandit said before receiving a swift kick to the temple by Kato promptly knocking him out. "Well that's only going to make our job easier..." Kimishi said sarcastically. She went over to check what else was inside the wagon when she jumped back startled. There was a girl inside, pretty feral looking with a large slip next to her that read 'Sabi'

[MiscChaos]

Atsuko raises her eyebrow again, her eternal fake smile seeming to be strained by this news. Well, that and Hajime touching her without her consent. She had flinched a bit when that happened, so used to equating any touch at all with a blow or slap or some kind of violence. Her smile drops for a moment, a rarity out in public, while she shoots him a glare telling him not to do that again. The fake smile is back up momentarily though, almost as if it didn't disappear.

"How much did the village get paid for this job again?" she asks. She doesn't care that the man has a bounty. Unless it was for molesting or selling women, it's not all that important to her. What she does care about is the village getting shorted. Jobs like this were a valuable source of income after all.

[Taria]

Sabi cracks open a single eye as Kimishi walks up to her cage and sees her feral visage. Her clothes are pretty messed up from the presumable fight she had with her captors before they managed to subdue her, and where her fingernails should be are elongated sharpened claws piercing through her gloves. Even though she is sitting calmly with her legs crossed in a sitting position and her arms crossed over her chest, she manages to startle Kimishi with a show of teeth and a low growl. "What do you want?"

[Thaedael]

He withdrew his hand from the woman, the glare telling him all he needed to know. "Suit yourself, I don't want it on my hands" he simply stated. He pulled at the Kunai lodged in the man's leg, before moving among the fallen men, extracting his weapons as he went. Once more he had the three Kunai he had used, swinging the three of them in his left hand with a finger through the rings, angry at how the events unfolded. He tossed the kunai in anger at the nearest tree, surprisingly few around the rolling grasslands in which they had stopped, the three projectiles landing in close proximity to one another.

[Ayame]

Kimishi saw the women open her eyes and ask he what she wanted. Kimishi leaned back out of the caravan and looked at her team. "We may have a situation here!" Kimishi said not knowing how to deal with what she was faced with at the moment. Kato was thinking the same thing as Atsuko. "We've definitely been short handed on this one and upon completion of the mission we will renegotiate our terms.

[MiscChaos]

As soon as Kimishi mentions the word "problem", Atsuko releases her Byakugan once again and turns toward her, only to find a... rather feral woman in a cage. She's betting SHE was the "watermelons" the bandits wanted to carry through. With her attention and sight split between Imagawa-san and the animalistic being, she asks, "So who would you be, miss?", again like she's asking for the time of day instead of the identity of a possibly wild woman.

[Thaedael]

He once more gather the Kunai, the anger abating finally as he made his way to the commotion, the members of the bandits still strewn about the ground, some in pain, others dazed, a few outright unconscious. The two Hyuuga women were standing at the mouth of the wagon, both looking inside, a girl in rags inside a chain staring back at them. She was as every bit feral as she was dressed, her fangs bare to them, and disdain across her face. Who could blame her really, he would be just as pissed locked up in a cage. He reached for the case, running his hands along the contours of the metal looking for a lock.

[Taria]

Sabi leans forward in her cage, her face pressing against the bars as she stares at Atsuko with a sour expression. "I am Sabi." Sabi places her hand on the bars of the cage and begins pushing against them forceably. What she lacks in subtlety, or fancy ninja abilities, she makes up for in brute strength. Hopefully these people will not attempt to hold her back like those bandits and she can break out in peace and walk away from this whole unpleasant affair. She takes note of the one man among them actually attempting to free her insted of just standing and gawking like the rest of the group.