Boar Attack! [Group Mission]

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Nikkousato's Strip was a not a familiar place for Kokoro. She had never been here, and had been told by her step father many times to shy away from. She knew only its reputation, and the reputation itself was enough to turn her away. But the girl had taken on a mission that day, and the location was none other than this filthy place, filled with thirsty gamblers that willed gambling halls to suck their money dry, like vampires craving blood. It was a disgusting addiction to the young Inukura, although she knew that if people only knew her addiction to alcohol, they would probably say the same thing about her. She was wearing a black dress with matching leather high heeled boots, her wakizashi in her hand. From what she had been told, she would be going on a relatively simple mission with a partner, the objective being killing a boar. That sounded simple enough. in fact, it seemed rather strange that she would have to even go on the mission with someone else. A boar wasn't hard to tame, and definitely wasn't hard to kill.

She wondered who her teammate was going to be, having very little interaction with other Sun shinobi with the exception of her half brother Sojiro and her brother not related by blood, Genkumaru. Everyone else just seemed like a daze. She had one friend though, Arashi, who she had gone on a couple of missions with. But he seemed always busy so there was no chance for them to meet or socialize. Then again, it was probably better that way, since socializing was not her strong point at all. The girl's blue eyes would scan the crowd, looking for her partner. Though she knew nothing about who she was working with, she would pretend she did, sooner or later being able to find him or her in the process. Kokoro would weave in and out of the crowd, a look of absolute disgust on her face. She caught sight of his jacket first, an interesting symbol she had never seen before was etched to the jacket of a man in the distance. He seemed to stand out oddly, his look of disinterest at the crowd around him mirrored hers. He looked so out of place that she knew almost immediately that he was probably the man she was looking for.

But before the girl could go up to him and ask him if he was her partner, there would be screams off in the distance. The boar had started to attack civilians, she thought to herself, immediately running in its direction. If the man was truly her partner he would follow her, without even caring whether they were a team or not. Her eyes narrowed as she got near the boar, the creature lashing out and random passerby. Although she sometimes sympathized and even empathized with animals, she would not stand for a creature who dared harm humans, her animal instincts strong as she gritted her teeth. Recently she had begun to show more signs of her clan's personality traits, something she could blame nobody but Sojiro for. Kokoro wouldn't even look back to see if the man she had seen had chosen to come this way, her eyes locked on the boar that was kicking and lashing out at people. What a disgrace of an animal...she thought to herself angrily, her hand gripping the hilt of her sword while she ran.