Missing Children Plot Mission

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Missing children?

Ami's facial expressions depicted the alarm and surprise that she felt as she was given a scroll by her Gekkousato comrade. She had been on a mission in the Sun village not too long ago and was had thought about returning home when a young man had stopped her in her tracks. At first she had been cautious of the stranger, until he identified himself as a messenger from her village. It seemed that the Sun village had asked for a collaboration in a case that was disturbing its peace. Her mind immediately went to their own case...the grizzly murders and dead bodies that were surfacing like ants these past few weeks. At least there was a hope that these missing children would still be alive, she thought to herself as she took a look at the scroll.

And so she found herself in the deserts of Nikkousato, her eyes taking in the desert plains. The young woman knew that she was going to be partnered with a sun shinobi, which was a nice change of pace since she had wanted to work with someone that was not from her village. Recently she had been going on missions with new shinobi from her village and rarely found herself in the Sun. So it was a great thing, although the heat and humidity of the place still irked her. The young woman scanned the sand until her eyes rested on a figure in front of her. The eye patch...the cigarette butt...it was quite familiar. Ami had definitely seen him before...but where? The Hyuuga would walk closer to him and then like a lightning bolt it would hit her! Tatsuya! That was his name...if her memory served her correctly. She would smile at him and wave. "Tatsuya!"

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As Tatsuya motioned for her to join him, she would, noticing that he was holding some binoculars. She wondered what he was staring at. She hears what he said and nodded her head, activating her Byakugan silently. With the help of her kekkei gekkai, she was able to see farther and perhaps better than her already perfect vision. Ami took the binoculars from his hand, taking a good look at what he had been looking at only moments before. She would take in what she could, her vision had changed so that she now saw chakra systems instead of actual people. It would help her though, at least she'd be able to spot people who she naturally wouldn't be able to see with the naked eye. After a few moments she would turn to her partner.

"I don't see any signs of children, unless they are hidden underground or something. But judging from the chakra systems I can see, there are five people there total. If we want to take them out, with just the two of us, it should be okay. What do you say?" She would wait patiently for Tatsuya's response, handing the binoculars back to him. She wasn't so much concerned with eliminating people, having done way too many assassination missions for her own good. It was the children that she worried the most for. If they ambushed the place and found no hostages, their lead would break. Unless they kept one of those five people alive...she would follow Tatsuya's lead though, seeing as this was a Sun village mission and she felt she'd be overstepping her boundaries if she made any rash decisions.

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Ami would follow Tatsuya's lead, her footsteps careful and light as they traveled the small distance from where they had been scouting to the cave. She agreed to take the lead and him backing her up because of her kekkei gekkai. The two of them would move in slowly, her eyes wandering, looking for chakra systems. It was a dark place, which didn't really phase her. The girl would stop suddenly, her hand raised to signify for Tatsuya to stop as well. She closed her eyes, listening. There were muffled voices, perhaps behind one of the walls. They were met with a divide, left or right, each taking them to different parts of the cave. Even though she could see a great distance with her Byakugan, she wouldn't be able to see all of what either side would give them.

So they had to make a choice.

The girl would take a moment to think. The muffled voices were distant, some coming from the right, she knew. If they could take down whoever or whatever, they would probably still have time to look into the left side of the cave. And if they were lucky, they may find the missing children before having to look through the entire cave. Ami was all for not having to do too much work. "What do you say, left or right?" Her voice was a whisper, not wanting to raise unnecessary attention to the presence as she still kept an eye out for any chakra movement.