Feathered Problems [Mission]

[Yasui Iku]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] WORDS 551/1500 TAGGED --- NOTES --- i've been a bad, bad girl ♥ what i need is a good defense 'cause i'm feeling like a criminal Iku's hatred of D-Rank missions was beginning to grow again. Sure, for a while she'd seen the positives of them, and been alright with doing them all the time - especially when she got nice little old ladies as clients, because they tended to give her cookies and stuff - but god, was it really necessary to have shinobi do all of these things? They were menial chores that didn't have a goddamn thing to do with shinobi training, in her opinion. Sure, she guessed that they could promote teamwork if a whole squad was sent to do them, but when it was just one genin, then what sort of benefit did it provide? A good work ethic? But you really couldn't last into being a genin if you had a shitty work ethic, could you? Hmmph. Perhaps she was becoming spoiled due to the recent string of higher ranking missions she had been assigned, including a multitude of C-Ranks and even a B-Rank with Fuku, which had been quite the experience. Ugh, she still couldn't believe that the workers had thought Youkou was trying to get a little too friendly with her. And if they were right... oh, for fuck's sake, she was thirteen and he was most decidedly not and that was just not even something she wanted to think about for more than a second. Anyway, she had been going on higher ranking missions more so than D-Ranks for the past few weeks, and frankly, she thought anything less than a C-Rank was a waste of her time. She was a fucking Swordsman of the Mist, and they were sending her out for stupid shit like this. It was ridiculous. This renewed hatred came from her latest assignment, of course - and it was a really dumb one. Some stupid guy had built a huge aviary for his house and had a dozen exotic birds imported from Sky Country to put in it. That didn't seem like such a complicated thing to do right, now did it? But the dumbass had left a door or a window or whatever open when he was moving the birds and one had flown away. To be honest, she thought that bird was the only smart one. But of course, the man couldn't do something logical like buy another bird or live with only having eleven. Nope. He wanted a shinobi to chase down and catch his bird. Which could be anywhere. In the whole entire village. Or, actually, it could be out in the middle of fucking nowhere by now. Why did she get stuck with all the stupid missions? How fucking impossible was it going to be to find this stupid thing? There was no way she was going to get lucky and find it just sitting somewhere, asleep, so she could just walk up and grab it and drag it back to the guy. Oh man, she hadn't even met the client and she wanted to punch him in the face already. How dumb was he? Shinobi weren't exactly miracle workers, you know. They couldn't solve every problem on the face of the earth just because they were shinobi, something that many people had trouble believing.