[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Xiao Li's henchie/pet and Zao as the Storyteller

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[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Post by Gara » Sat Sep 14, 2019 6:27 am

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The day was early, so early in fact that the desert temperatures were still close to freezing, as Xiao Qing got up and began her morning routine. She began as she always did, with an ice-cold shower to help her wake up, and then brushing her hair exactly one thousand times to be sure that it was as smooth as absolutely possible. After she finished brushing her hair she made breakfast not only for herself but for Xiao Li, his cousin Xiao Ning, as well as his brother and their pet Baruch, all the while naked as the day she was born. However, this went unnoticed due to the fact that, as always, she was the only one up at that hour and would continue to be the only one up for another two hours. After she finished cooking and subsequently eating, breakfast, she returned to her and Xiao Li's room where she began to dress for what was probably going to be the most important day of her shinobi career thus far. She was performing an escort mission for a local baker in the village who had been getting threats from a gang of civilian thugs and did not want his earnings to be stolen again.

While Xiao Qing dressed slowly, she did so meticulously and with great care. She would not allow a single wrinkle to appear on any of her clothing and made sure that all of the Fuuinjutsu that her loving fiance had inscribed her with were visible as to not cause any issues when she needed to activate them. After she was fully clothed Xiao Qing strapped both of her Jian to her waistline and then knelt in front of the window and kowtowed to the moon three times in prayer. After finishing her prayers Xiao Qing kissed Xiao Li on his forehead and nudged Baruch awake and led him into the kitchen to feed him. Once Baruch had gobbled up his meal he leaped into the air and glided over to Xiao Qing's shoulder where he remained perched as she left the house to head to the bakery. As Xiao Qing reached the bakery the sun began to rise which was her queue to pray to the morning sun. After three kowtows towards the sun, Xiao Qing rose, dusted herself off, and knocked on the bakery door three times.
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[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Post by Zao » Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:10 am

The young woman was only able to perform two out of the three knocks that she'd planned to do as in-between the second and third the door abruptly pulled open to reveal a short, round man. His face was like a circle and his grey hair was worn a bit messy while his morning clothing already had some smudges of flower from the man's morning baking routine. As the door opened revealing the baker that she was suppose to help today the wonderful smell of fresh baking bread and savory morning treats would almost blast the young shinobi in the face. To some it might have come across as what heaven smelt like. Jito's bakery wasn't the biggest or best selling bakery but one couldn't deny that the older man knew how to back some of the best tasking bread and pastries in the village.

But to think that someone would try to pressure such a man was had to believe, even in the village, but never the less the old man had requested some help with his morning routine that had become more troublesome over the last week or so. He had a somewhat concerned look on his face but after noticing that the female before him was a genin he smiled softly and spoke. "You're here right on time!" Their was a hint of excitement to the older man's pudgy face as he turned behind him picking up a rather large looking pack before calling out to his wife who was still manning the ovens in the back. The shop itself didn't open up for business for a couple hours but he had some morning delivers that he made every other day. Hopefully today wouldn't be like the last time, he couldn't afford to loss his daily earnings again. "Darling, the shinobi is here. I'll be back in an hour or so to help open up. Love you!"

One could hear the affection in his voice as he called back to his wife before adjusting the straps on his pack and stepping out the door, closing it gently behind him as he spoke to the young shinobi next to him. "Thank you for coming, I'm Jito."
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[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Post by Gara » Sat Sep 14, 2019 8:46 pm

Xiao Qing smiled brightly as the elder gentleman greeted her and then bowed slightly to return his greeting. "Good morning sir. I am Xiao Qing and I will be escorting for on your trip this morning and for as long as you need my services today." Xiao Qing smiled once more as she straightened up and stood off to the side. The elderly man reminded her of her own father which made a small fire burn in the pit of her stomach because she could still remember the local thugs beating her father up for "protection" money. While she was in the middle of thinking about her father Baruch nipped at her ear which made her face turn slightly scarlet due to her blushing. "My friend here is named Baruch and he will be assisting on this mission as well." As Xiao Qing introduced him, Baruch stretched his tiny wings out and jumped into the air. He quickly rose into the sky and began to circle them in the air above. As he flew through the air above them Baruch "roared" as loud as he could and terrified a few of the nearby birds, causing them to flee in terror. The sight of the birds panicking made Baruch puff his chest out in pride as he glided between the buildings, monitoring Xiao Qing at all times. While he claimed that he was there to assist in the mission, Baruch was actually there to stand guard of her and protect her should she get in over her head.

Xiao Qing looked up at Baruch in the sky and smiled before returning her gaze to Jito, the baker she was hired to protect. "If you do not mind me asking; how long have these people been troubling you? And how often? If it is a severe problem I can report it to my superiors in the village. However, rest assured that if they bother you today they will get a good beating." Giggling as she imagined pummeling a group of no-good thugs, Xiao Qing tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear and awaited Jito's orders.
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[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Post by Zao » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:18 pm

"Xiao Qing? Hmm..." The fluffy man sized up the tiny genin befire him now and thr od little creature that he had just realized was propped up in the girl's shoulder. "Sounds like s strong name. I like it!" After s few brief moments of pondering to himself he smiled and with a light laugh to himself replied about her name. The man took a half step back when the pet of the shinobi jumped off her shoulder and took to the skies like a little dragon or something. Was this a dragon? Those were just legends... shaking the thought he just chalked it up to a strange shinobi pet or something.

"Oh? " Despite her being a shinobi the old, round man couldn't help but question if such a frail looking little girl could protect him. Letting it a light sigh the man shrugged his shoulders and replied to her actual question. "About a week now, those little hoodlums..." Jito clenched his teeth as he thought about the problem, even bawling the fingers of his pudgy hands into right fists for a few moments. Taking in a deep breath the older man relaxed both his hands and his body, today would be different for sure with this shinobi with him.

"I don't think anyone else will need to get involved now that you're here to help me handle things. " With some afford of reassurance Jito began to casually walk in order to begin his morning delivery route that took him across a decent portion of the village. "This part of the trip isn't a problem, so you shouldn't have to worry about anything. Why did you become s shinobi, Miss Qing?"
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[PB]Escorting The Baker!

Post by Gara » Sun Sep 22, 2019 6:20 am

Xiao Qing frowned when the baker mentioned the thugs that had been harassing him, but then she puffed out her chest and tapped her right fist against it twice before speaking in an absolute confident tone. "Don't you worry sir! With my Genjutsu, those punks won't know what hit them!" While doing her best to reassure her client, Xiao Qing was also psyching herself up. She really wanted to rely on her own abilities to complete the mission that she had taken on rather than having to use the fuuinjutsu that her lover Xiao Li had marked her body with. She knew that the Fuuinjutsu were to only be used as an absolute last resort, otherwise, she would never grow stronger on her own. The only Fuuinjutsu that she could not prevent the use of, however, was the strengthening seal on her back that strengthens her skin with an extra strength of twenty.

After hearing the man's question Xiao Wing began to think quite hard about her answer and it showed on her face. Many different reasons came to mind on why she WANTED to become a ninja, but not WHY she became one. The only thing that came to mind as to why she became one was not even a "thing." It was a person. "The reason I became a ninja is that I want to repay the grace shown to me by one of the most important people in my life. Her name is Xiao Ning and she is the one who not only saved my life, but the lives of my family as well. And she even arranged my marriage to the man of my dreams." Xiao Qing's face turned scarlet red as she finished speaking, but her voice never wavered.
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Post by Zao » Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:50 pm

"Gensuiy?" The old man smiled a bit but couldn't help but question, after all he knew of shinobi but not really anything about the different kind of arts or techniques that they used so when the little girl mentioned using her genjutsu he could only smile and nod as he replied in question. But the motivation and seeming unwavering confidence expressed by the genin was enough to make the man relax a bit as the pair continued to slowly walk away from his baker and towards their first stop. As they continued down the rock paved road, the man listened as she began to explain to him now what had caused her to become a shinobi.

"Ah!" The man couldn't help but find himself drawn into her answer now, to repay a favor was something that any honest person would be striving to do. This caused for a warm smile to appear on the man's wrinkled and pudgy face. It would seem that this little girl was a good person and it made him happy to know that he had the support of someone like her today on his trip around the village. "I'm glad to hear that you've met the man of your dreams. Oh...that feeling is an amazing one." As he smile the man looked back towards the tiny bakery in the distance now and thought deeply about his love who was still working in the kitchen and manning the store till he finished with these deliveries. Their was a warmth in his heart when he thought about the love of his life.

"You're lucky my little friend, some never are luck like us to find our true soulmate." With a gentle laugh the two had already taken the road to the write as the man stopped to knock on a small home's door and an elderly man came to the door. After a little bit of chit chat between the two about the weather and some other things that old men enjoyed chatting about before the two found themselves back on their way. "Well, that's one down. Next we need to head a few streets down and take a left."
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Post by Gara » Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:57 pm

Xiao Qing smiled at the elderly baker as they walked, preferring to follow slightly behind him as though she were an obedient daughter on a walk with her father. She did not want to alert any of the thugs that had been bothering the baker that she was on a mission with him. "Genjutsu is.....creating illusions to trick your target. I can make them see what I want them to so that they can not see what I do not wish for them to see." Xiao Qing spoke softly and did her best to explain what she had been talking about as they made their way through the village. When the baker began speaking of how lucky she was for finding Xiao Li her face turned red all the way up to the tips of her ears. Although she was incomparably happy to have him as her husband she often felt sad because she was not sure if he would have picked her out of a crowd had their marriage not been arranged for them. "Li'er is very good to me, I just hope that I make him as happy as he does me. Our marriage is an arranged one set up by his cousin and my parents." Her voice was very low and meek, almost like that of a mouse, and her face only continued to redden as she spoke.

Xiao Wing was not sure why, perhaps it was because of how much the man reminded her of her own father, but she felt completely at ease while speaking with him. She had none of her usual defenses up and was smiling constantly. Baruch, however, was getting irritable. As he was circling over their heads in the sky, he was attempting to hunt for some food but all of the birds that he attempted to eat had gotten away. In his irritation Baruch swooped down out of the sky and landed on Xiao Qing's shoulder, almost immediately falling asleep.
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Post by Zao » Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:34 pm

"Oh my." The old man nodded his head a few times as the young genin went about explaining a bit about creating illusions. He'd heard through the grapevine of other old men and women about how some ninja were able to manipulate the minds of those they fought against but he couldn't remember just what it was called off the top of his bald head. "Is it dangerous?" He couldn't help but mention back as making people see things or not see things seemed like a scary though, especially to an ordinary civilian like himself who only dreams of living a good live with his wife and running their bakery together. Such thoughts like those of a shinobi, even an entry level one, were rather foriegn to someone like him. They were from different walks of life.

"Ah, this Li'er character..." Though she had mentioned that it was an arranged marriage, something he knew was common amongst certain clan's and higher ranking families, he couldn't help but notice that despite that she did seem to have genuine feelings of affection for this man she was told to marry. Smiling caused for the man's pudgy face to crease and wrinkle a bit as he reaches up with a small cloth from his pocket to dab across his forehead that already had some droplets of perspiration forming on it and the shiney portion on top of his head that was absence of air due to his age. As the pair chatted they made another stop after taking the left a few streets down and cutting through an alleyway to another of the main venues that cut across the village. He made a pair of stops almost next door to each other as the middle aged couples came out to greet both him and the young girl who followed behind him, though they didn't ask directly one could see that they questioned why a shinobi was escorting the old man about.

He'd been too proud to mention to anyone else about the ones who had been causing him trouble, not wishing to get anyone else involved and hoping that the petite genin who walked with him would be able to help deal with these individual's. "We only have one more stop to make and then after that is where I normally run into those little punks. If I was twenty years younger I'd deal with them myself." It was obvious that the thought of those hooligans irritated the man to no end as he balled his hands up and when he mentioned being twenty years younger he patted his right bicep that didn't have any muscle on it these days, as if he was remembering when he was a much younger and strapping man. Shaking his head he put a smile back on his face as the two continued their journey forward to the next delivery that was a few blocks away from where they currently were. That delivery went as smoothly as the last three had, the people paying him for his delicies before bidding him a good day and it was after leaving that door he turned to the shinobi and spoke seriously. "Are you sure about this? I don't want you to get hurt trying to deal with these knuckleheads or anything..."
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