Missions for Team 7!

Missions:

So, today was the day he was to meet his new team. Bet was already up and getting dressed for the day, putting on his yellow undershirt and then his red gi. His tail wrapped itself around his waist as soon as he slid on the pants. He grabbed a rice cake and headed out the door of his clan compound to begin his trek to the area he was supposed to be meeting his teammate. They had been briefed on their missions beforehand through a letter left by their sensei, Rei Hyuuga, they just needed to meet today and get them done. He arrived at the location, a training ground designated to team seven, and waited under the shade of a tall tree. Well, he waited for five minutes and then grew impatient, even though he was early. So, while he waited, he started running through some taijutsu katas on a nearby wooden pole. Punches and kicks, he had started doing a thousand punches, though he surely wouldnt get to finish all of them because his teammate would be there soon enough. That thought didn't discourage him though, as he continued to punch away at the wooden post. he was around a hundred punches in when the post started to splinter and break apart due to the added stress.

Even though she had graduated from the Academy some time ago, the young Uchiha had not been immediately assigned to a team, which was concerning for her because she knew exactly what caused the delay, her lack of a Sharingan, certainly. Understandably as the days went by she began to wonder if anyone intended to help her become a Ninja at all, but now she had finally been assigned a team, and the young girl was excited to go on her first teamed mission, even if it was another fairly domestic set of chores. However, she was incapable of getting out early as her teammate could because it naturally took longer style her long ebony hair into two high pigtails with bright pink bows tied around the bands. When Akira was finally in the sight of Bet, the small girl would be wearing black combat boots, what looked like a tan skirt but was actually a skort, and a plain black t-shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back of it, left visible by the fact her hair was up, a book held in her arms.

"Please don't break the training equipment before I get a crack at it." the girl's voice was soft as she stopped beside the Taijustu Kata he was using. Easily she recognized the male for he was actually the same age she was, having graduated sometime around her. However, Akira held little care whether he recognized her or not, especially since she already knew he wouldn't, after all, she had not interacted with her peers much, just excelled academically like her Clan did, to most she was just another Uchiha doing what Uchiha did, nothing about her stood out. Of course, the girl was not considering the fact of how young she looked, and that the fact she was 14 with no Sharingan may not be so top secret, thus making her stand out in that way, even if she tried not to.

Bet was really tearing into the post when he heard a voice. He immediately jumped back and stumbled a bit out of surprise. "Wha-? Ahhhhhh!" He had just been so focused that he hadn't even noticed her approach him, how could he be so careless? Looking at her, he realized that she must be his teammate. She looked familiar, but he couldn't place her name off the top of his head. Not wanting to sound rude or anything he would recompose himself slightly and hold out a hand. "Er, Nice to meet you, I am Bet Shoten! I'm guessing that you are my team mate? Ak... Ak... Ummmm, what was your name again?" How could he be so stupid, he was making a fool of himself in front of the one person who he would be spending a majority of his time with. In his embarrasment, his tail had taken the liberty to unwind from his waist and flick back and forth nervously. He didn't notice it though, as he was busy trying to recover from his foolishness. After hearing her name, provided she introduced herself, Bet would speak again, "So, our first mission seems pretty easy, just delivering some noodles, right?" It should be easy enough after all, they were two genin! official ninjas of the village of Konohagakure! They could handle some simple chores!

The post had some pretty decent damage on it, and that was concerning for the young girl, she would have to make sure this boy did not get to the other post's before she did, as then she wouldn't be able to tell if she had done anything to them in the future past his damage. Already she could tell her teammate was more physically adept than her at the moment. He didn't know sword fighting right? Akira really did not want to look at someone else ahead of her in something she thought she could do well in again! "Uum...You can't sword fight, right?" she considered that bit of information more important than actually introducing herself properly, not that she really thought to introduce herself, the teenager had no idea how to treat those outside of her Clan, she had no friends after all.

"It should be, we're going to the Hyuga compound after we pick the ramen up." though she couldn't say she was too eager to be going into the compound of another Clan, it was frightening! Yet, if it helped her become a powerful Ninja then Akira didn't mind, so long as she wasn't behind in everything again. "Let's go." brushing a few wood chips from the splintered post from her long hair, the young girl turned to head out, wanting to get her missions done swifter. The sooner she completed all her missions assigned as a Genin, the sooner she could do something like become a Chuunin or just become someone in the village.

Looking over the girl and listening to her first words spoken to him he was somewhat confused. "Eh, no I haven't trained in using a blade yet. I've focused mostly on taijutsu and preparing to learn my clan techniques! What about you?" His question would go unanswered as she seemed more interwsted in going to pick up their delivery item. He didn't even manage to get her name. This was going to be an interesting team for sure. Once they arrived at the Ramen stand and made their order he had another opportunity to ask while they waited. "Hey, Pigtail-chan! You never gave me your name!" He just wanted to get things off on the right foot as this was the person he would be training with and whom he would be putting his life on the line with in harder future missions, so they needed to get better aquainted than just knowing general appearances or even just names for that matter. Asuming she gives him her name, he would smile and say, "Well its nice to meet ya, Akira-chan!" After their ramen was given to them and the address, Bet would take the lead and make his way there, provided his teammate followed.

Being confused by the small Uchiha would likely come to be a trend for her team-mate, considering how little she knew about interacting with people outside of the clan. Hearing Bet mentioned that he had never handled any sort of sword before, was a relief for Akira, she had felt really good ever since she started practicing with that wooden sword, she really had not wanted to be behind someone again, thus she was relieved that she would not be falling behind there. Once more, she let questions asked towards her go without any sort of response, a habit of hers that was becoming all too clear, she dodged any reason to speak with other's that she reasonably believed she could, unless it was another Uchiha then she seemed fine.

Pigtail-Chan, well it wasn't worse than other things she had been called and it told her things about him that he didn't resort to one of the nickname's that had become somewhat common for people to call her which were Marionette and Bloom, apparently he was the kind to glance and pick. Had she been teamed with the kind to rashly run ahead into fights with no planning and try to win on brute strength alone? Oh, these years were going to be so fun, she couldn't wait, but that was sarcasm. Instead of introducing herself, she kept on task.

Once they arrived at the compound? The duo would run into the first problem of the day, swiftly the branch family refused them entry, clearly, miscommunication having caused an issue where they did not know to expect the children. Akira walked away, turning down the next alley, out of earshot now she looked at her teammate. "You ready, Bet, we're going to sneak into the Hyuga compound, but we can't be caught until we get to our destination and our captain vouches for us, we stand no chance against them in a fight." but they weren't about to get in her way.

She seemed to ignore him again when he asked about her name and skills. In fact, she didn't say a word to him until they arrived to the Hyuuga clan compound. It was much different looking than the one of the Shoten clan, it was much larger and differently oriented. Even after moving away from the monastery, the Shoten clan compound retained that sort of stylistic appearance with dojo's and meditative gardens and the like. Though this was neither here nor there. His companion finally spoke as she led him away from the compounds main entrance and towards an ally way to the side. She said that they would be sneaking into the compound. Sneaking was never really Bet's style, though he remembered the words of his father, 'Bet, you can't always win by punching someone! Sometimes, you have to be stealthy and THEN punch them!!' His father had always been his biggest rolemodel, so he drew in each and every word like a sponge. "Okay! Stealthy and THEN we punch them!!" He would strike a fist in the air pose before leaping over the fence surrounding the compound and would then proceed to hide behind a bush. He wasn't the one carrying the Ramen after all, so he needed to wait on Pigtail-chan!

The more 'traditional' style of the compound sort of reminded the young girl of the Uchiha District, at least some of the houses and such within it, considering that she was fairly confident of her ability to figure something out here. Of course, this was all reliant on her team-mate being able to stay silent and follow orders instead of being rash, which she doubted him capable of currently. Akira was well prepared to abandon Bet so to speak, so she could reach their mentor and get the older woman's help while Bet tired himself out some, if he caused trouble by thinking he could take on the branch family at his age. "We won't be punching anyone." she muttered it quietly as he leaped over the fence after throwing a mock punch at the air, picking up the ramen, not bothering to go straight up and over the same way he did. Instead of rashly leaping and hoping to not be spotted or land in some thorn bush? Akira pushed a trashcan over against the wall and crouched on top of it to peer over the fence, checking first to ensure no one was around, once the coast was clear she simply flipped herself over the fence, not bothering to hide at the moment.

Placing a finger over her lips and looking at Bet she nodded towards one of the larger buildings where she suspected someone who held enough importance to become a captain may be staying. Swiftly she made her way until she reached one of the decks, crawling beneath it and glancing to see if her partner had also made it beneath the 'building' with her. If they traveled close to the house's under the deck's, they stood less of a chance of being spotted, she didn't know how many things she lost beneath the one at her house! Hopefully, Bet was smart enough to stay silent and continue following her as she darted from deck to deck and crawled beneath each one working closer to the largest of the buildings.

His teammate had made her way over the fence not long after he did, she did a 'shushing' motion with her finger against her lips and somewhat motioned for him to follow her to one of the nearby buildings. She then crawled underneath one of the decks of the buildings, obviously hoping to stay out of sight. This stealthy part was taking much longer than Bet had figured it would, but his fathers words rang in his ears, he would be punching someone at the end of his stealthiness. He just had to remain patient and wait for his opponent to present themselves. They crawled and crawled, it seemed like forever to Bet, although it had only been like three minutes. But, he had enough of this stealthiness! Crawling past Pigtail-chan he would crawl out from under the deck and look around. He noticed someone sitting at a desk in a nearby office looking room with an open window. He decided he would make this person tell him what they needed to know. So, he allowed the stealthiness to continue, ever so slightly longer. Sneaking in through the window as silently as possible, his tail twitching behind him in anticipation, he would go for the attack, just a very basic haymaker type punch straight to the back of their head. Though, this woman seemed focused entirely on her paperwork, there was a certain aura about her that Bet could pick up on. She had a lot of energy within her, almost as much as his dad did before he ascended. Maybe she wasn't the best target after all...

Everything was going amazingly well for the fact they were just green genin, she was impressed with how things were going, she had expected to be caught near instantly with someone like Bet at her side, but they lasted about three or four minutes before things went haywire. When everything went wrong? It happened pretty much exactly the way she supposed it would, her teammate couldn't keep his self-control and brashly rushed into the open. Yet, she was still disappointed because she had already told the boy they would be punching no one. Bet didn't land his hit, and the still 'concealed' girl was thankful rather it was due to an actual miss or due to the Hyuga's ability to- Hey she knew that Hyuga!

Akira pushed the container with the rame out first, quickly emerging behind it, springing to her feet and using those natural ninja leaping skills to quickly make her way into the room and come between her teammate and the older woman, so he couldn't try to punch her again. "So much for teamwork or any kind of strategy you dimwitted idiot, I said no punching people! Especially not Rei." she spoke angrily, a mildly upset expression on her face, she was not much for those outside the Uchiha but this was an outsider close to the Uchiha so this was an exception. "You're lucky it's Rei and not someone else!" wait Rei, weren't they told.. Akira turned around sharply, running in front of the desk into Rei's sight, holding the ramen container to her chest. "Wait, Miss Rei, You're The Only Rei Hyuga Aren't You?! You're Our Captian!" setting down the container her upset expression had vanished. If Rei remembered anything about the young Uchiha, the expression now on her face was the same one she wore in her Clan's district, not the overjoyed happiness most people had but a content one.

Bet had already been in motion when suddenly his attack just seemed to be deflected by an invisible force of nature. It was surprising to say the least, but he had been training since he could walk in taijutsu, so it would take more than some invisible shield to slow him down! He used the momentum from where his hand was brushed to the side to continue to spin and attempt to deliver a reverse elbow thrust to the woman. But, he stopped mere inches away from her dead in his tracks when he geard his teammate conplaining about punching. "Oh, Gomenasai, Pigtail-chan! Did you want to punch her first? Be careful! She has an invisible shield!" He backed away from the woman he had just attacked and waited for Pigtail-chan to finish talking. When she did, she had revealed a crutial peice of fact, "WHAAAAAAT?! This is our sensei?!" He jumped back and pointed, a look of shock and slight awe in his voice. He would then bow in a traditional martial arts manner, "It is an honor to meet you, Shield-sensei!" He would then return to his normal standing position, looking around the room absentmindedly.

She was very happy with herself for getting in his way when she noticed that he had been about to kick Rei, if he had actually hit their teacher, she would never be able to work with him! It wasn't like their captain was some total stranger to her after-all, he would have been trying to hurt someone who actually mattered, if only just slightly. "I don't want to punch anyone!" Simply punching someone would never be enough to win a fight, she didn't know where the boy got the idea that punching one's problems made them go away. "Her name is Miss Rei!" normally just out in the village one would not get these responses from her, but Rei was close to not just her clan, but the head family of it, given this, the emotional side of the teenager easily burst through.

Akira smiled softly when Rei confirmed that she was indeed the captian assigned by the Hokage to them, happy to have someone she was at least somewhat acquainted with as her teacher. Inside the girl was happy to hear Rei scold Bet for his stupidity, but like most Uchiha she had a damn good poker face, so this 'mock' was not evident upon her features, at least not clearly. "Sneaking was the right way, since we had no way of communicating to you the trouble we'd run into, and couldn't harm anyone in the compound not only because of our skill level but because they're also leaf ninja." she explained her reasoning, looking at their mentor wondering what they would be taught next.

Bet rubbed his head where his new sensei had bopped him. "I'm sorry, Rei-Sensei! I didn't realize you were our sensei! Show me how to do that shield thing! Do you know any cool Taijutsu Techniques? How strong are you? You said the Hokage picked us directly? That's awesome! Do you know the Hokage?! What's up with your eyes?" He had so much energy upon learning that he had just met his new sensei that he was barely able to contain it, his tail waving back and forth in excitement. He couldn't help but let his mind wander to all of the different missions and trainings they would do. Now was the time that his shinobi training really took off! After being so easily defeated in his first time technically attacking her, he made sure that he would ask his father for the beginner scrolls on their clan techniques. It would seem he had gotten as far as he could on basic hand to hand alone, and would need to actually focus on learning real techniques from here on out! But he relished in the thought of actually learning things!