Smoking (Mission)

Mission Details:

There were some missions that Kouen could accept the moment he became a Genin, he's hoping to be more tailored to the ones that required some form of running, like mail delivery, pizza delivery, or even courier delivery... instead, he somehow got assigned to the job of beating up some kids smoking weed outside an adults club, it sounded like a bad joke at first but when he saw the mission's letter, he realised it wasn't. It was serious, someone spent their day and money to get a bunch of Genin to beat up the kids instead of doing it themselves. He really hoped it wasn't somebody from the higher ups who were lazy...

Either way, he has a responsibility as a Genin and he intended to keep it. He is only a few streets away from the location of the club, as he didn't want to arouse the suspicion of the kids assuming that they came around again. He did wear clothing, although he wore the headband on his upper arm as it felt "restrictive" on his head, legs, or waist. He wore a white tanktop with a light brown jacket, baggy brown pants and blue sandals. Although a weird set of clothes, it's one that suited him.

He is also assigned a partner for this mission, not being told of the name or the exact meeting time, he'd only hope that whoever he's assigned with doesn't get lost. Kouen liked to be a speedster and had some habits of running around the village and exploring, to him, it felt like he naturally knew everything is in the village like the back of his hand.

(making this an IRT thread, while the thread with Kara and Kai becomes flashback, if it even continues...)

Shiro would just take any job that seemed easy, really. He didn't like spending too much time away from his workshop. Not that he had any work to do there, since his puppets had been stolen a couple of weeks back and the boy was too broke to afford materials for new ones. Alas, such was the life of a shinobi who lived in a crime rate 3 village.

He would meet his partner on a rooftop overlooking the adults club. Shiro had never seen this boy before, but that was alright. He didn't mind working with new people! They were always so completely unaware and oblivious to his general incompetence, it was a bliss really! Generally this unawareness didn't last long, but it was good to while it did.

He wore simple clothes. Black gear, including a shirt, patns and combat boots. On top his shirt he wore a simple cotton jacket. Shiro couldn't afford any fancy clothes either. He'd wave at his partner and he arrived. "Hello! I'm Shiro, Shiro Suzuki! Are you the one helping me rescue the weed today?" He would cheerfully ask. Someone hadn't read the mission report properly.

His partner had finally arrived, a few minutes late, but at least it was only a few minutes. If it were something like a few hours, that's when Kouen would go full mum bowlcut and give him a piece of his mind, but a few minutes wasn't a big deal. What was more interesting is the mention of rescuing weed, which made Kouen think about the mission objective for a split second until it came to him pretty fast that it isn't the mission they're doing. "If you really want the weed then sure... we gotta make sure those kids don't come back though." he's not one to partake in the "devil's lettuce" as one would call them, but he isn't one to pry his nose either in other people's business if that's their hustle.

"Let's get going then, we ought to get closer and then wait for those kids to show up again. I doubt they'll show up if they see a duo on the rooftops. I doubt they're smart in the first place, but it'd be embarrassing if they never showed up because we weren't cautious." he jumped down from the rooftop, safely landing on the ground, although the landing could've been better. He expected his partner to come along. "By the way, name's Kouen." since he was nice enough to introduce himself at least, even if his mission of getting the weed from the kids is questionable itself.

Shiro blinked. What did he mean by "If he wanted it"? Wasn't getting the weed the objective of the mission? Because if not, what was the point of having a level 3 crime level in suna? Well whatever, maybe Kouen had been smoking before he got here. Shiro himself had never tried weed, but he knew it was a very valuable resource and that people were willing to pay good money for large quantities of it. In his head it made sense that the village wanted to acquire it.

The next phew phrases spoken by Kouen made even less sense and only at this point did Shiro realize that perhaps he wasn't all that well aware of what they were gonna be doing. But alas, he was already used to this kind of stuff happening. He jumped down and landed next to his partner. "Okay so what's your plan Kouen? Because I thought it'd be smarter to keep watch from the rooftops you know?" Really Shiro wasn't sure of what his partner's end game was. Could Kouei be even stupider than Shiro? They had every look of shinobis and now they were standing right in the middle of the street for everyone to see.

As he started to walk to the club, he wouldn't be lying if to say what he's saying is making sense, but he felt like being on top of the rooftops is going to garner far more attention than being in the middle of the street. "They won't notice us, I swear, we just have to blend in." Kouen thought he knew what he's doing, but he might actually be winging it. There was a haystack not too far away from the club and if he rubbed some of it away, he could have a direct line of sight to the club. "As a ninja, you have to learn how to hide in plain sight." and just like that, he ran towards the haystack and dived in, a clutter of hay went all over the place. Although to his credit, he completely disappeared.

At least, until his head started to poke out the other end, his eyes staring right at where the club is. "If they come along, we'll see them... this is exciting!" Kouen thought, it felt really ninja-like to be in hiding like this. It would be so hard to detect him, or at least, that's what he believes.

Shiro was once again surprised by Kouei's actions. Either this guy really knew what he was doing, or he was just really stupid. But either options were fine because if he was really stupid then Shiro would be with one of his kind. He blinked twice as his partner ran towards a hay stack and jumped in. That was a master plan, and could certainly never go wrong.

What could Shiro possible hope to do to match this man's genius? First of all, he emoved his headband and put it in his pocket. Then he looked around to find a place to hide and.........a group of delinquents arrived. "Oh hey look, a new kid!" Oh damn, had he been spotted already?! That was quick. "How would you like to join a gang?"

Wait a minute. Shiro would look at the group of three delinquents, all of them about 3 years older than him. "Huh, yeah sure. I love gangs. And bangs."

"Greaaat, here you go. Have a puff" He'd pass Shiro a lit joint. Now that he was this deep undercover, the Genin had no choice but to play along with it. He took it, and smoked. He had smoked Kensai's cigar before, so this wasn't as difficult now and he managed not to cough.

"You're a natural kid! But you gotta do something for us now...how about a simple robbery?"
"Huh? Yeah sure but...like..." Shiro wanted to ask a question. He felt his Intelligence lvel go up by a tier. In the meantime the other dudes were looking at each other, wondering if they'd have to beat up Shiro for refusing. "Have you ever thought how like...shoes are just hard socks?"

High rank int genius kicking in.

Goddammit, Kouen watched from the haystack as his partner started to infiltrate... maybe he misunderstood what his partner said earlier, maybe it was apart of the plan to look like he's taking the "weed" and as soon as he dropped that line about the shoes... he's really selling it. He's already considered apart of them. Kouen exited the haystack from the other end, putting away his own headband and putting it into his pocket, walking up to the gang of kids. Compared to how welcoming they were to Shiro, they weren't as welcoming to him.

"What do you want?" one of the gang members coldly said, "He looks a bit gay." another one said. Kouen knew that when it came to these sorts of gangs, you can't take their insults, you had to insult them back. "Yeah? you look gay as well." Kouen confidently said. The gang member was quick to show anger. "That's because I am gay, you got a problem with that?" Kouen was quick to apologise. "No, no, nothing's wrong with tha-" but before he could even explain himself, they interrupted him. "Oh, we got a homophobe over here! let's scoot, we don't deal with homophobics." and as they started to walk off with Shiro, Kouen was just poker faced at what transpired. "What the fuck just happened?" he thought.

Regardless, Shiro infiltrated their gang and that's what mattered. It was clear that due to his masterful way of pretending to take the weed and having a line that sold like he's actually high, he's going to get far with these guys. Kouen would maintain his distance with the group, though he stayed behind corners so he wouldn't be seen.

Shiro blinked twice when he saw his partner get out of the hair stack. due to the chemicals now present in his body it took him a while to realize what was happening and they were already mid way through their conversation before the Genin could intervene. He opened his mouth to say something but the words simply wouldn't come out....probably because he forgot what he was about to say. It didn't matter, the gang wanted him to do something, and so he railed after them. At least part 1 of the mission was complete! They gan was no longer smoking weed next to the gentleman's club...now they were smoking weed in front of what looked like an abandoned shack. "This right here is our hangout place! What's yer name kiddo?"

Shiro found it a bit weird being called kiddo by a guy who wasn't all that much older than him. But he shrugged it off. He couldn't reveal his true identity! He was undercover after all...but what name would he give? He thought, and thought, and thought but names simply didn't come to his mind so he ended up blabbering the last one he heard. "My name's Kouen! "

What a masterful grand plan. Now they would never be able to identify Shiro by his name! "Huh..alright Kouen, get in. We have a test for you..." Shiro looked around before entering the door. He felt he was forgetting something...or someone.

He followed them to what appeared to be an abandoned shack, in a poorer part of the residential streets. He only assumed that some people who lived here were poor themselves, or lived the more criminal lifestyle. If this is the part where those kids actually come from, it would explain their misguided behaviour in life. He stayed around the corner, keeping an eye on the shack. It wasn't until somebody was right behind him, somebody around his same height but their features were gentle, short-brown hair... a female. "We got a peeping tom, huh?" and he grabbed Kouen by the hair, prompting him to go "ow ow ow!" as he got dragged along to the shack.

"Guys, explain why we got a peeping tom?" and his head was brought up, shown to the gang of people that he was just tailing. "Aw shit! he followed us... he must really want to join us... but he's homophobic." then she raised an eyebrow, looking at him. "Are you homophobic?" and just like that, Kouen was forced to answer. "No..." he quietly muttered. "There you go, he's not homophobic... let him join us." but one of the gang members tried to protest, but an intense stare from the girl got him in line. "... Yes Mistress." he said.

"What should we call you?" the girl asked, "Kouen." he said, and some of the boys looked suspicious. "Uh... no, we have Kouen right here." then another one looked at the both of them. "Wait a minute... are you guys messing with us?! that can only mean one thing..." the gang member said, as he went deep in thought. "They pranked us, they got us good, goddamn! you guys can definitely join us now." and the gang bursted into laughter... seriously, what the hell is wrong with these guys? and why did they think Shiro was Kouen?

"Anyway, we gotta get ready for the robbery, we're good on manpower now..." and it looked like they were about to get details of a crime they're going to commit. It looks like both Kouen and Shiro have successfully infiltrated the gang.