Bandit Cavern of the NighStrom Knights

Kasuo had been surprised with the letter that was sent up to him in his room, usually not getting many letters specified for him, the purple-haired individual quickly ripped open the letter to see that he had been assigned a mission, with a sensei no less. It meant that Kasuo's individual days were finally over and he had been assigned with a squad, or a teacher at least. Maybe they finally realised his potential? no, that would be too pretentious to think of, to drift away from that he had thought of a riddle for this little momentous occasion. "Some will test me, others will try me. I am as slow as a turtle, yet rewarding if I'm not lost. What am I?" of course, the excitement had made him forget he's by himself currently as there's no one to answer it. "Patience." he wasn't mad or pushy about being put into a squad, he played it patient and calm, and he's being rewarded for it hence the riddles context.

He waited for the allocated time, and started to dress up into his ninja gear for this mission. He had wondered constantly what his new sensei might be like, he's hoping that they're of a somewhat intelligent nature to Kasuo himself, but it's better to temper down one's expectations. He simply hope whoever they are, it isn't too much of a disappointment or rather, they'd get along in some shape or form. As soon as Kasuo was ready, he'd leave about two hours prior to the start of the mission, having plenty of time to walk across Kumo to the gates, walk through the lands and go to the rendezvous that's set up. His dad had gone out for walks in the wilderness sometimes and dragged Kasuo along, so that knowledge is pretty handy for this mission currently as he doesn't have too much trouble finding his way.

After a considerable amount of time had been spent on constant absent-minded thoughts and walking to the location, Kasuo had finally found himself in the bamboo forest, realising that the weather was a bit... odd around this specific area but once more, that didn't bother Kasuo too much. There was a lot of looking around, until Kasuo finally spotted the young, silver-haired boy. It must've been a mistake of some kind, maybe this is a lost boy? there's no way that this person could be his new sensei unless someone's playing a joke on him? no, that's not possible either since the mission documentation was all official like, there's no way that someone would go to that extent to just prank him. He decided to finally stop circling in thoughts about it and ask the boy up-front about it. "Are you my sensei for this mission?" saying this with a blank expression on his face, still calculating and thinking this whole situation through.

Kasuo is a bit surprised that he had been trusted with such a first mission, perhaps there's not much to worry about considering he has a Jounin with him for the mission, so he shouldn't have to worry too much but he's still smart enough to be careful since they'll be dealing with hostiles, even if they are a bunch of tasteless bandits. Speaking off... he's surprised that this individual is indeed his sensei, beggars can't be choosers but he was expecting something a bit more... showy, which is probably the word he's looking for. "This is how I get rewarded for my patience?" he had thought, right after to a thought of regret to being too harsh and too judgemental, he knows well enough that appearances can be deceiving and he should at least give this person a chance.

He soon got asked for his particular style of fighting, since Kasuo is unknown to the Jounin which was a fair enough question, though the heavier rain had started to slightly bother him in the back of his mind, getting his ninja outfit a bit wet. He still answered the Jounin well enough as he started to follow him. "Kasuo Hideaki, My chakra nature is Wind, I've been trained in Kenjutsu and I'm currently training for Genjutsu as I'm suggested I have an unnatural affinity for it from the teachers at the academy." he was pretty straight to the point about it, as he doesn't tend to beat around the bush too much if he can help it... unless it comes to riddles, then that's a different story.

This person was... unique in his own way, Kasuo would admit that. He's pretty well-spoken which Kasuo appreciated, but he did it in quite a weird way, he didn't know how to put his finger on it. Kasuo understood what he meant, at least most of his sentence but his formality in such the current wet climate felt so contrasting, Kasuo would usually be a bit more talkative himself but the rain dropping down and making him wet had distracted his thoughts. When this person started to coat his feet in chakra, Kasuo did the same thing similarly, not having much struggle with it since he was taught the skill at the academy and refined his usage on it.

After his wordings though, and once given the chance to speak, Kasuo would elaborate a bit more on his proficiency of Wind Release. "I'm afraid I'm not quite combat capable at this stage, I know a few techniques here and there but I don't have much combat experience to battle bandits." he didn't even have kunai, shurikens, anything really. He knew the one genjutsu technique and that's for fear, manipulation mostly. He knew two Wind Jutsu's and they weren't very combat-orientated.

It seems his sensei was pretty straightforward and direct in what he wanted to do though, as Kasuo could follow behind what he's doing well enough, such as crouching to stay hidden from the on-coming bandits going inside and outside the caverns who seemed to be setting up counters against the riding, flooding waves raining down from the mountain, and it felt like Kasuo and his sensei were getting the worst of it. After the coast was seemingly clear, Kasuo went along with his sensei across the brutal tides rushing down the caverns between the bamboo forest, though Kasuo could stay on his feet well enough, he was rather slow about it as he didn't want to trip over, lest he wanted to be injured by the waves or worse, in a good minute, Kasuo would make it safely to the entrance of the bandits hideout.

The purple-haired individual was a bit surprised to see the orbs that his designated sensei had produced, creating such light in the darkness. "That's a handy jutsu..." he had thought, who was this person? with how well outspoken he makes himself to be, his seemingly young age and showing rather unique, remarkable jutsu... it's very clear to Kasuo now that he's Jounin for a reason, it's not just a paper title.

Along with him however, Kasuo noticed that the four bandits had instantly drawn out their weapons the moment they had saw the duo of Kasuo and Yun, it seems it didn't take long for them to get noticed... then again, it was pretty hard to not notice the amount of light orbs floating around the Jounin, it was a bit bright to look at him because of it but it wasn't particularly difficult. Kasuo planned to use his servant genjutsu at first, which was stopped because all of the cavern's darkness had been lit up by his designated sensei...

After that plan had failed, Kasuo had no practical means of protecting himself against the oncoming bandit patrol, was he really going to die here? this mission is way too extreme for a first-time genin like him! he really realised that now, Kasuo quickly scattered behind the young Jounin for him to pull some other mystical, unique jutsu to hold back these bandits on the offensive.

Kasuo had only just realised then that the clones he's hiding behind were apart of the Genjutsu that Kasuo knew, the only genjutsu that he currently knew at this stage. It seemed to do the job however as the bandits were stopped in their tracks, believing there were far more people in their group then there actually is, that seems to be the beauty of genjutsu, the illusion behind it. Kasuo covered his eyes when he started to see the blinding cloud, before it was seemingly sent towards the bandits and just expanded in-front of them, blinding the whole group which gave the duo an opening.

Kasuo followed behind the Jounin as they went deeper into the cavern, surprised by the jutsu that he had just witnessed, along the running, he felt prompted to ask who he exactly is. "Who are you? and how do you know such peciular jutsu?" Kasuo had heard cases of very young ninja graduating and reaching high ranks at impressive ranks, and it seems this is such an anomaly.

The member 'KhaixRoze' has done the following action : Dice roll

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'Surgical Dice' : 54, 66, 52

The more abilities the Jounin had shown himself to have, the more at awe Kasuo would simply be in, his normal, riddle-ish behaviour is just put on the side as the mission was distracting enough for him to focus on something trivial at the moment, trying to keep himself focused on the mission despite the fat lot of good he could really do compared to the skillful Jounin. He wasn't expecting that answer out of him though, and even though Kasuo could respect one who's well-spoken, it kept annoying him that he had to speak in such a complex way.

"That's... good and all, but I still don't know your name." the one thing that he really wants to know, which still wasn't answered. Soon enough, he managed to unlock the seal on the door however and they traversed through well enough, seeing the small flame that lit their path. "Very nice... with all your jutsu, do you have something that will either capture or kill the bandits? since that's what the mission wants, after all." referring back to the mission's description, with how he managed to blind the bandits from earlier.

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