An abandoned Overgrown Garden

Mission Name: Weed Pulling
Mission Type: Chore
Mission Rank: D
Mission Goal: Remove all Weeds
Description: Miss Hasegawa's garden is overrun with weeds and she needs them removed. Take care not to destroy any of her flowers or vegetables while you're there.
Payment: 10,000 Ryo
Requirements: Genin

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The sun was slowly setting in the West, hours of daylight left but easily considered 'late afternoon--early evening'. It was a peaceful time...the Golden Hour almost. A good time for a walk. Tsukiyo decided to enter one of the old training grounds, tucked between abandoned clan districts. Tsukiyo liked the peacefulness of no one being around...but sometimes, it felt a bit erie. Like a shell of something once alive. Damn that Tatsu...Little did she know the one she damned was soon to be or already dead. But for now Tsu wandered, moving slowly through the forest. She was gaining some attention, a local pack of wolves was beginning to follow her at a distance. To an outsider, they may think the pack was stalking pray...but reality was she had her way with nature, and Wolves was...well, her thing. They only wished to be friendly with her, but was too timid to approach as she waltzed through the woods.

The young woman would be moving about when she tripped over a rock, barely catching herself as she fell to the ground. She huffed and pushed herself up, one of the wolves that had been following her trotting up to check on the female. She sat up and noticed the Wolf, smiling. She gave it a quick pet and sent it on the way. The hell did she trip over anyways? She looked back and noticed a line of rocks, outlining an old garden...it'd been abandoned some time ago, and now was overgrown with weeds and overall unkempt. She huffed a sigh and stood up, walking around the garden, looking at it. It could use some help...

Something seemed to almost come over Tsukiyo. She knelled down by the garden...and almost instinctively, she begun working with the earth...carefully pulling weeds, sometimes struggling to rip them out. She'd grab them close to the base, and pull, the roots coming with them as they came out. She'd start piling the weeds off to the side in a bundle, and continue doing this. The Sun wold slowly creep closer and closer to the horizon, and she slowly picked and pulled the garden, careful to leave the actual plants--tomatoes, potatoes, even some melons.

This would go on for hours...she meticulously removed all the weeds, random patches of grass, and stray rocks from the garden. She would go further to tend to it, doing what she could with no tools and only her bare hands. The sun...it'd set. Night was already upon her and now she worked in the dark. It was hard for her to even see at this point. Tsukiyo kept at it anyways...the wolves from earlier eventually joining her, seen pulling the bundles of weeds she had set aside, taking them off into the brush for it to decompose somewhere out of sight and useful.

She went on into the night, tending to this garden, doing every little thing she could for it...it was like some of her formative years, she'd spent it tending to gardens...it was something she used to do to get away from everyone...old habits died hard it seemed. She was almost in a trance while she did it. Quiet. Calm. Never stopped. It by now had to be at least midnight...and she stood, hands literally bleeding and covered in dirt from the work she'd been doing, but it'd paid off...this garden literally looked like a professional had dealt with it...call it a woman's touch. She gazed on her work, before sighing, wiping her brow with her sleeve, and turning about...surely Tengoku was wondering where the hell she was...or didn't even realize she was gone--sort of all or nothing at times. The woman left the way she came...leaving the old training grounds.