Quick Fix

Masuyo would arrive within Hou Zhuan Square by the time she finished writing on her notepad. Stopping at the center of the bazaar she would pivot herself on her heels to face Taichi who would be following her along the way. Extending her hand she offered him a note. It was more or less a shopping list for his own good. "You're severely lacking in equipment. We will be leaving the village on this mission and spend several days on the field. You need to pack yourself with necessities to survive, as well as defend yourself. You need to return to me with these items in total: twenty shuriken, sixteen kunai-- one for your leg holster and the rest for your hip pouch, five explosive tags, one flash bomb, one smoke bomb, a backpack, one-hundred and fifty feet of steel wire, and a bag of military ration pills. That's the minimum you should carry for basic shinobi tools. Feel free to buy additional items, or more of a particular kind you fancy.As for general equipment: a canteen, three parchments, charcoal to write with, a pencil, notepad, and some dried food. For long missions, generally a cook is tagged along. In these instances we're more than capable of foraging and fishing ourselves. In the event we're unsuccessful, we have dried food to fall back on. We lose those, we have our ration pills."

Masuyo gave time for Taichi to review the list in silence before continuing. "Come back to me when you're ready and we'll head out. I will be in this exact spot." Masuyo stood in the center on the market place allowing Taichi to find his goods. She expected him to return in a timely manner. There was no time for lollygagging when their mission required daylight.

He looked at the list of equipment he had to get with a shot down look. "So much to buy..." but he then quickly put off the look as he remembered what happened giving attitude to his sensei from last time. "Oh, thank you! this makes it much easier." giving a quick fake smile, hoping that he didn't set her off, he then quickly went into the lively marketplace, looking around constantly with a few looks back down at the notepad. "I'm sure I'll have some ryo left after all this... but this is sure going to place a dent in it, sheesh." he then entered the weapons shop that had a kunai board on top, the same one he entered the other day to buy his shurikens and kunai. As soon as he entered the shop, he saw the guy by the desk with glasses on, reading his book until he closed it up, seeing Taichi walk in.


"Back again?" he asked, Taichi had a surprised look until he said "Don't be surprised, most genin come here a second time to gather the rest of the gear they usually didn't think to buy." Taichi sighed, not saying a word and just placed the note, the list of things he had to buy on the desk, the man turned the note around to look at the list properly, "Well, I don't have all the general equipment you're after, you'd have to go about two buildings over for that... but I can provide all the ninja tools, but I'll tell you now... it'll be a bit costy." Taichi lightly nodded, "Yeah I got that idea... I already have ten shuriken and one kunai, by the way." the man nodded, he then started going back and forth, bringing out all the ninja tools for Taichi, 150 feet steel wire, five explosive tags, one smoke bomb, ten shuriken, fifteen kunai, one flash bomb, a bag of military ration pills and a backpack. Taichi looked surprise at the amount of stuff on the desk, while the man is calculating the prize. "So, that comes down to... 18050 ryo." 

Taichi hesitantly brought out the ryo from his hip pouch, bringing out just the right amount and giving it to the man, who counted the ryo to check that it's all there, and then said "Enjoy." he then quickly went back to reading his book, Taichi put all the ninja tools inside his hip pouch and then he put the backpack on his back, wrapping it around his shoulders, he grabbed the note off the desk and then he exited the shop and went about two buildings over like the man said, and found a general store, it was a faster transcation and far less expensive this time around as he got the charcoal, parchments, pencils and dried food he needed and placed it in his backpack, as soon as he was done he went back out and back into the marketplace, looking for Masuyo as he believes he got everything from the list.

Masuyo caught Taichi among the crowd as usual, his features not being hard to separate from the ordinary townsfolk. He was geared up, his holsters all donned and hip pouch no longer flat and deflated. He also wore a backpack which was also full of useful gear. When Taichi would see Masuyo, she would also be fully equipped with a similar setup. Finally, he was ready to not only go on a mission, but taking it serious as well. As he approached Masuyo clapped her hands together in excitement. "Wonderful! Now you're ready to go on a mission!
Become familiar with your new setup. I expect you to maintain that gear whenever I run an inspection. You may not ever use all of them, however having them at your disposal is useful for options. Let us get moving, then." Motioning Taichi to follow Masuyo would lead him to the village main gates where they would check out of the village begin their task.

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He was clueless it seems when it came to trying to spot Masuyo out of the crowd and fortunately, he'd get picked out by Masuyo out of the crowd easily enough, his features are easy to tell apart from the rest it seems. He felt a sense of pride as Masuyo had checked to see his bags and holsters were mostly full. He felt ready for the trip, even though he gave Masuyo lip earlier with his attitude, he's starting to see the usefulness behind the tools and equipment if they're really going to be camping outside the village for several days. He still had a few opinions about Masuyo, but he knows that she only wants Taichi to be prepared for this trip, and started to follow Masuyo towards the village gates.

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