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Vykin woke up, suddenly surprised to find herself in a different place than her house... but then she remembered that Hatari had had her start living in his house. She looked around the room, still getting used to the new surroundings. There was nothing really to complain about, considering Hatari had outfitted her with everything that she could possibly need. In her room, it was basically sparse. There was a bed and a dresser for her clothes, which she didn't have many of, so the rest of it was filled with her stash of liquor, considering she didn't want to have to walk back to her house every single time she wanted a beer. Sure Hatari took some of it every now and then, but it was a small price to pay for the amount of time and effort Hatari had already put into her training. The Genin smiled slightly as she thought about the man who had been there for her a lot recently. She decided that as a sort of payback, she would start doing some missions for the village without Hatari having to help her out or order her to do it. They didn't have anything planned today anyway, so Vykin decided to ******** training with her sensei and start giving back to the community. So she started out and headed towards the missions center. She was ready to be... dare she say, nice?! Nah, she'd prolly still be a b***h, but a helpful one.

The Genin walked into the other room that was basically hers. Her room was right next door to the blacksmith that the village shinobi generally used for their weapons. Vykin walked over to a wall that she had claimed. She had made several hilts for future attachments for her device, and they were all clamped to the wall. There were around ten in all, but the only one that was really finished was the original one, the simple blade one. She attached the blade to a clasp on her belt that she had designed specifically for the attachments for her device. The Genin then walked out of the building that was now her new home and out towards the village. She knew that Hatari personally got all of the missions that were officialized, but she could pick up ones that weren't officialized... And just give Hatari some of the money that she got for them later. It was an ingenious plan. With a small maniacal laugh, she continued towards the village.

As she wandered back towards the central area of the village, retracing her steps that she had taken just moments before. She looked to the side of the bar where she had originally seen the man who had asked her for a lap dance. But to her annoyance, he wasn't there anymore. She looked around in a slight fury, wondering where the ******** that the guy had gone to. She walked over to the bar, creaking open the door. She stood towering in the doorway with her six foot four stature. Anyone would've thought she was old enough to drink anyway. But as she scanned the crowd of people with beers in their hands, she didn't see her target. As she walked out of the door again, she found him. Running down the street without any clothes on was her target, streaking down the road in the complete opposite direction as the dock. With a sigh, her body was covered in her water element chakra without much effort. Since her initial training with Hatari about not using seals, mainly because of the lack of one of her hands, she had become better and manipulating it, and the chakra completely surrounded her within six seconds. With the water element chakra surrounding her body, she looked forward towards the man, activating the water flicker jutsu as everything began to slow around her. She quickly sprinted towards the direction in which the drunken streaking sailor was headed and quickly appeared in front of him. As he was running, she slid past her target's left side, spinning in midair. The attachment to her device was grabbed in her right hand, not feeling the need to actually fix it into her device, and she smacked the streaker across the face with the broad side of the sword. She felt the sword break something in the man's face as he went flying backwards, skipping across the ground a few times before coming to a rest right in front of the bar again.

The Genin deactivated her skill and began walking slowly towards her target. She had caught the attention of some of the villagers who were already staring at the streaker, then they stared at Vykin, perplexed at what just happened. The Genin ignored them, slinging the streaker over her left shoulder, his unconscious body merely dead weight. His legs were in front of Vykin's body and his head was facing her back. She grabbed onto his upper calf with her right hand as she walked, his crotch against her shoulder. She wasn't that disturbed by it. It wasn't the first time to that she had seen another man naked and wasn't that disturbed by it. He wasn't that good looking anyway, so she wasn't distracted by him either. She made her way back to the dock carrying the naked sailor, and tossed him up on the deck of the ship that she had obtained the mission from, and the captain looked at the man, then looked at Vykin, a smirk appearing on his face. He said, "Well, I was expecting him uninjured... but at least I won't have to listen to his voice for a while. You broke his jaw quite well. What was your name again?"

Vykin returned his smirk and said, "Vykin. Ranamaru Vykin, captain."

The man nodded slightly and said, "I like your style Vykin. Harsh in order to get the job done. I have some other jobs I can use you for... do you think you can handle it?" he finished in a dry ******** yeah, capitain."

As Vykin continued down the docks, she found the store that the captain had pointed out to her. She knocked lightly on the door frame as she entered the store... Gusty Equipment eh? The name fit the store, that seemed to be in a terrible shape, equipment everywhere, just thrown to the ground in some sort of order that she couldn't realize. She walked through the store, looking for some sort of owner when all of a sudden, coming from the merchandise came a scrawny old man popped out with a rather loud, "Hello, can I help you find something?!"

Vykin was instantly startled, turning around and nearly punching the man in the face. As her fist stopped mere inches in front of the man's face, she sighed, knowing that it would be bad to punch someone that she needed for this mission in the face. She said to the man, having rest her head against her chest to see the tiny man, "Yes, I'm looking for the owner of this store. I wish to buy a cord for the captain of the S.S. Mercedes."

The man's eyes seemingly flickered with excitement. He said to himself, "Heh, that old badger, getting a girl to do his dirty work for him..." then louder, "Well, it seems that you're s.o.l. ma'am. I'm out of any cords for that particular type of ship and I'm out of materials to make anymore... however," his eyes flickered slightly again, "You could collect the items that I need."

Vykin's eyes narrowed. What was this? A mission within a mission? The Genin sighed slightlky as she said reluctantly, "What do you need?"

The man smiled again as he said, "Well, I'm going to need three things. I'm going to need flax for the strings, then I'll need a bee based wax for binding it together, and I'll also need coal to start the fire that I need for the binding process. Here," the man held out a bag. Once again, it was filled with ryo. The Genin looked back at him with a slight look of confusion, before it all clicked as he said, "You'll need this to pay for the goods. If you bring back enough of the materials, I won't charge you for the rope, because you'll have saved me a couple trips. Now, as for where you need to go..."

The man mapped out where she was supposed to do. The coal miner was out by the source of coal on his property out to the east of the village. The bee tender was northeast of the village, and the flax farmer was to the north. Vykin decided she was closest to the coal miner, so she would go there first, then make the loop to the flax farmer last. She waved an annoyed good-bye to the owner before going out of the shop annoyed as all hell. She was pissed that she was running errands for this ******** moron and all of his ******** tools... but it was unavoidable. That was what missions were.... time consuming things that she could just do faster. The Genin sighed as she went ahead and jumped onto the rooftop of the "Gusty Equipment" shop, and headed off for the coal miner.

Vykin continued moving through the forest, satisfied with the chaos that she just left and jumped from branch to branch as she went on her way. It was then that she spied a rather large hill in front of her in a clearing in the woods. With a small sigh of relief, she jumped onto the hill and moved over it, landing on the other side. It looked legit to her as she looked and saw that there was a small shack with a hole in the side of the hill with old and rotting boards holding up the small entrance to the coal tunnels. As she moved towards the shack, the door creaked open and Vykin saw another fairly old man wandering out of the shack. The man went and saw Vykin and said in a kind hearted voice, "Why hello there, what can I help you with miss?"

Vykin could hardly be a b***h to someone that was this obviously nice to her, so she answered in a similar fashion, "Well, I was told that I could buy some coal here... I am buying for the shop called Gusty Equipment."

The man smiled and said, "Well, it just so happens that I've run out of coal. I was just going to get some more. Would you like to come down and see the mine? I can see that you're a shinobi, so you shouldn't be afraid to get your hands dirty."

Vykin smirked at the man and said, "Alright, sure. Better than just sitting around here."

It was as the man started walking towards the shaft that Vykin saw that there was going to be a problem. The man was walking incredibly slow and with hard effort towards the shaft. Vykin, an impatient woman, sighed heavily as she followed the man into the shaft.