Aneko's eyes travel to Kirito momentarily before she closes them again. For a while, there is silence until eventually Aneko let's out a small, "Hi. . ."
Aneko is a little surprised to hear Kirito speak, but she replies, "Why are you up so early?"
Takeo appears a few feet away from Hoshi who jumps and lets out a small squeal, "Dammit Sensei! You're late," she folds her arms,
"Actually, you're early Hoshi. I guess I underestimated your enthusiasm," Hoshi fist-pumps the air as Takeo glances around for the others, "I'm afraid I can't say the same for your team mates though. . "
"You're late," Hoshi scolds him smugly, but Takeo gestures at her to be quiet,
"Actually Shiro, we'll be delivering mail to another village today," this causes Hoshi to groan loudly and stomp a foot. Takeo turns to her, "Is that a problem young lady?"
"Sensei, that's so boring! We're ninja, we should be fighting criminals," Hoshi pretends to fight an invisible enemy with her fists and kicks the air with a loud, "Hi-yah!"
"You are Genin, and while you are Genin you will perform D and C rank missions," Takeo replies firmly,
"Aaww, please Hira-Sensei, I wanna kick ass!" Hoshi pouts, receiving a glare from him.
Hoshi gasps, "How could you say that Shiro? You're a ninja now, so be brave!" suddenly, she rushes forward and snatches Shiro's headband, before jumping back a few paces and sticking her tongue out, "You can't have this back until you start acting like one,"
"Hoshi-. . ." Takeo begins,
"But Sensei, he doesn't want to fight anyone! Shinobi are supposed to fight!" Hoshi says to him, her tone convincing and serious,
"Hoshi, not everyone has your energy and enthusiasm levels. If we come across any rogue squirrels, I promise they're all yours. Now give Shiro his headband back," Takeo says sternly, but Hoshi jogs away, flailing her arms,
"NEEEVVEERRRR!"
"in the words of the greatest tactiction and military general konaha has ever seen, what a drag." Shiro says jumping up and flying after her, his hands in his pockets. "hey, hoshi, give it back. not all ninjas like fighting, most of them only fight when the need arises, that's the kind of ninja I am."
This makes Hoshi stop and turn. She glares up at Shiro, her lips forming a pout, "Hmph," Hoshi throws the headband at him, aiming for his head, "Don't you want to take down criminals? You could totally kill them with your magic, gravity, stuff . . . thingy,"
Shiro grabs it before it hits his face. "of course I do, but only if the need arises. I am not going to go searching for someone without first seeing what they have done for myself." Shiro says. "it's to much work doing things that aren't necessary, just because it's the right thing to do."
Hoshi clenches her fist and opens her mouth in retaliation, but then her words become a yawn. She narrows her eyes up at Shiro in an attempt to look intimidating, but she just looks like a toddler after a tantrum, "Whatever, I'm not going to argue with you anymore Shiro," she then makes her way back to where Takeo is still standing.
Tetsu walks up to the group..."sorry I'm late was practicing with kasumi sensei . " he says looking around clearly drained of his chakara..."what's the plan" he says
"Ah, Tetsu," Takeo smiles politely, "Easy mission today, just delivering letters,"
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Hoshi speeds off ahead, laughing. Takeo slides both hands into his pockets and follows,
"Hopefully she'll get tired out,"
Shiro is walking close to the others, they had made it to the forest between konaha and the destination village. (I figured I would help get our characters back on track.)
Hoshi has managed to keep up her jogging pace the whole time. She spins to face the others whilst still jogging backwards, "Haha, you guys are so slow!" she laughs but is interrupted as she trips over a rock and onto the floor. She quickly recovers, her face a bright shade of red as she turns her back once more.
Shiro laughs and rolls his eyes. "you cluts." he says jokingly. "why don't you watch where you're..." he starts, but is inturupted as a throwing star flies dangerously close to his face. suddenly two ninja are on them.
"that letter aint gettin' delivered!" one of them says running towards Hoshi. the other goes straight for shiro. he pulls out a blade and swings it in shiros face. shiro dodges it, he manages to get beside the sword wielding ninja and uses his gravity powers to push him into a tree. "what a drag." he says.
Takeo is quick to react as moments later, he appears beside the ninja running for Hoshi and stabs a kunai into his shoulder. As he staggers back, Takeo takes the oppurtunity to punch him in the jaw sending him flying into a tree. The ninja collapses in a heap, unconscious. Takeo turns to Shiro, and nods at the ninja, "You got it handled, I see?" he turns to Hoshi, expecting to be net with gratitude but instead is met by a fuming blonde,
"WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT SENSEI? I COULD TOTALLY HAVE TAKEN HIM ON! Honestly the mission gets exciting all of a sudden and you just take over. WHAT THE HELL MAN?!"
"Hoshi, shut up," Takeo replies quite simply before turning to the others, "I think someone ripped these guys off about the letter, and someone else wants what's written badly. But not too badly because in all honesty, these guys were pretty lame. . ."
Shiro holds his target up to the tree, the man is struggling against the invisible wall of gravity "wha...whats going on?" the guy said. "put me down!"
"who sent you, then you can go." Shiro asks simply. "I have never killed anyone, and I don't want someone like you to be my first, so I might just let my sensei at you if you don't tell us now."
"Shiro, put him down," Takeo says firmly, "Our main priority is to get this letter delivered and quickly, not to sniff out criminals,"
"Let me punch him Sensei, I have a really strong fist!" Hoshi insists.
Shiro is reluctent, but he does as he is told. "sir, if ninjas are attacking us, I don't think we will have to sniff out the criminal. once he hears these guys where taken out, he will send stronger guys, I was hoping to get us ready for whatever was headed for us." Shiro says.
Takeo considers this for a moment before taking a few step forwards and pinning the ninja to the tree, "I don't know who sent you, and I don't care. You're going to go back there and tell them we were too strong and the whole team was taken out. You will then make sure they send no one else, do you understand me?" the ninja nods, "Good. . ." Takeo let's go of him and throws him to the ground and the man scurries away,
"Sensei that'll never work! You should have just beaten him to a pulp!" Hoshi performs a karate-styled kick in demonstration, "There'll be WAY more!"
"It probably won't," Takeo admits, "But hopefully I scared him enough to convince the one who sent him that we are at least intimidating. It might put them off,"
"Are we almost there yet?" Hoshi whines, now dragging behind the group. Her previously energetic attitude had finally worn off and brought exhaustion with it,
"Mm hm," Takeo replies, quite busy checking the surroundings, "Avout ten minutes. At this, Hoshi perks up and begins walking more quickly,
"WHOOP WHOO-" Hoshi begins but Takeo shushes her quickly, gesturing for the others to stop,
"Quiet, I think there's someone here. . ."