Trash time [Mission]

[Raizen]

Today’s mission was an easy one for Natsumi. Today Natsumi and her four companions were going to pick up trash at a local playground. Of lately the playground has been a dump site for trash and parents refuse to bring their children to this playground because of broken glass and so on. Sighing softly to herself, Natsumi and her companions were heading to the playground. Natsumi had just finished up some basic training from this morning and she was getting closer and closer to her goal. Natsumi was going to be the strongest in the Inuzuka pack and she was going to one day because the leader of the pack. Natsumi was perfectly set on that goal even though it was years out from where she was. Sighing softly to herself she looked down at her ankles to see the four puppies playing with each other which was rare since each had such a different personality from the other three. Smiling to herself she just kept walking.

Once she arrived at the playground she was mind blown. It was like she just stepped into a dump site. ”Ok guys ready to go?” asked Natsumi as she walked over to the fence that ringed around the playground where a poking stick sat with many trash bags. Several barks were heard and many happy tails wagged. Natsumi grinned as she pulled out a trash bag and opened it u with a few loud shakes. Once the bag was open Natsumi grabbed the poking stick. Standing where she was she survade the area to see where she should start first. ”You four will try to make piles of trash while I go around and pick up glass. Be careful so you don’t step in any. I don’t think granny will be happy to attend to cut up paws when we get home,” called Natsumi as she tied the back to one of the poles in the fence and left he stick on the fence.

[Raizen]

Natsumi started out near the jungle gym where the kids would play and scoured for glass. With her canine like eyesight she was able to spot the shiny pieces of glass with ease. It took a while to pick up the pieces of glass which thankfully were all large pieces which seemed to have come from broken beer bottles and sake bottles. Natsumi would make a nice pile on the ledge of the jungle gym. Natsumi found her fingers getting slightly cut up but it didn’t bother her much since she had been bitten so many times a child when she messed with the older dogs too much. After almost an hour Natsumi finally was picked up all the glass around the jungle gym so now this part of the playground was safe. There was the swings and the grass area that surrounded the jungle gym that just need to be checked for glass.

Going back over to fence she untied the bag and gently pushed the glass into the bag before she went to the swings. The swings didn’t have any broken glass just a bunch of bottles which were easy to collect and drop into the bag. Once that was done Natsumi went over to where her puppies where. The four of them had made a very large mile of trash which was mostly newspapers, plastic bags, candy wrappers and other things. ”Good job. This pile is huge. I am almost done just need to look around for more glass and then I will help you guys get that trash into a bag,” smiled Natsumi. Sano wined and walked over to his master standing up on his back legs and placing his front paws on her leg. ”Sano I am fine. They are just little cuts. I promise I will go and get them checked when I get home,” reassured Natsumi as she pet him gently with the palm of her hand avoiding getting blood on his pure white coat.

[Raizen]

Once Natsumi had reassured Sano she was fine she went back to her search of glass. This took a bit longer than the swings and jungle gym since the grassy area was a bit larger and there were a lot of smaller pieces unlike the larger pieces she had found around the jungle gym. Natsumi spend a good few hours on her hands and knees picking up smaller and sharper pieces of glass which she would drop into the trash bag she held in her hands. After Natsumi finished up her hands were covered in small little cuts which stung gently which meant Natsumi should probably bandage them before they get infected. Going over to one of the benches Natsumi sat down. Gently opening her pouch she pulled out bandages for her fingers and gently started to wrap them up. Sano and Sumi seemed to have noticed Natsumi’s small distress signals and had run over and leaped up onto the bench beside her either one on either side of her. ”Hey guys I am fine. Just a few cuts that’s all,” reassured Natsumi as she slowly started to bandage her fingers on one hand.

It took a good five minutes to finish the bandaging to her hand but once she was done her hand felt perfectly normal. Holding her hands out in front of her she balled them into fists before releasing them back to open palm position. Natsumi did this a few times before she found her hands stretched enough to work again. Once that was done Natsumi went to picking up the pile of trash the pups made into another black plastic bag. It didn’t take long for the five of them to pick up the rest of the trash in the surrounding area. Once they finished they had five bags of trash that sat at the entrance of the playground and were all tied up in tight knots. ”Well we are done. Let’s get home. I think granny is making jerky today,” smiled Natsumi as her and her dogs went back home. Natsumi would check in at the office once she got some jerky.