Diablo

Mission:

Anzo is standing atop the Northwestern Gate of Konoha, feeling antsy as he watches some kind of giant moth moving towards the village; the summoner had at least been smart enough to attempt to summon the creature a bit further away from the village, given the massive size of the thing, but with the way the giant summon was moving, there was no way the summoner had survived. Anzo had to wonder just what kind of genjutsu could have been used on a summon like that which could have made it rampage in this way, but he was unlikely to find an answer on that front. For all he knows, the summoner could have also been training his genjutsu and accidentally trapped the summon in one.

This mission was actually a two-ninja mission, although Anzo had stated he didn't really need a partner; however, this second ninja was one of his own clan members, and so he'd agreed to at least let his fellow genin shadow him for the mission, and probably even take part as well. It was good to make a more direct connection with members of his clan. The quartermaster that had given Anzo the mission had also warned the Aburame that his partner for the mission was neither man nor woman, but he didn't find such a thing hard to keep in mind.

He keeps an eye on the beast, but he's sure he won't have to wait long; Konoha messengers were extremely quick, and judging by the size of the beast compared to the trees, it was still a kilometer away, giving the other genin plenty of time to meet him on top of the wall; if they moved towards the beast, they'd end up moving towards the Northwestern Gate anyways. Anzo raises a hand to push the yellow sunglasses up on the bridge of his nose with his middle and index fingers of his left hand, his right buried in the pocket of his long red leather jacket that ran from his nose all the way down to his ankles, hiding almost the entirety of his body, in the style of the typical Aburame. His spiky blonde hair was certainly an outlier, however, as were his unique sunglasses and the odd color of his jacket. Everything else about the 6'5" ninja certainly fit the Aburame clan to a T.

A crowd had begun to gather, and so Anzo looks over his shoulder at the growing throng and calls out loudly enough for all of them to hear.

"All of you, return to your business. This is just going to be a normal day for you; the Aburame clan is going to solve this issue before you're ever affected by it. The Human Typhoon will make sure of it!"

Keno wasn't overly social, which wasn't unusual for someone like them. It was unusual for anyone to rarely meet other members of their clan, though, which was something Keno could also lay claim to. When they were assigned this mission (something about needing to get out and do work, not just sit in their lab and improve upon their insects), they were told another Aburame would be working alongside them. Someone more experienced, apparently, who had insisted on doing this solo but had been rebuffed totally. It would be a good chance for Keno to watch and see how others conducted themselves in these situations.

The beast was still a good distance away from the village, so Keno decided to wait in the gathering crowd and watch what Anzo did while he waited. They were dressed a bit nondescriptly, which is to say not like an Aburame. They had their coat tied around their waist, their sunglasses pushed up into their hairline and hidden by the parasol Keno liked to carry around to keep the sun out of their eyes. They raised their eyes up to their cousin, making mental notes on the man's height and total demeanor from Keno's vantage point. When he turned and addressed the crowd, Keno figured it was as good a time as any to get a move on.

They climbed the wall quickly, putting on their coat and pulling down their shades as they did so "The 'Human Typhoon'?" They asked without preamble, a delicate brow raised in question "Was that declaration supposed to be comforting or humorous? Truthfully I can't say either inspires confidence..." Keno spoke blankly before turning to look at the giant moth, examining it and wondering what the best method of approach would be.

Anzo grunts quietly enough to Keno that the crowd down below wouldn't have heard it when his cousin seems to question him about his title, and he only looks at them from the corner of the eye, his bright blue eye visible in the slit between the sunglasses and the side of his face. He speaks a bit quietly, still loud enough just for Keno to hear.

"I didn't pick the name, that's just what they called me."

With that cryptic answer out of the way, and Keno already looking at the wild and rampaging summon, Anzo himself turns towards it. It's still approaching, but it's not yet close enough for him to do much, as it was still 120 meters away. Judging by the apparent size of it compared to the Senju trees, it was traveling at a pace of 45 meters per second, so it would be in range for him to intervene soon. He speaks to Keno again, turning his eye to them as well.

"See the wings? Those are the most fragile. We just have to be able to pierce those a few times and it'll be grounded. After it's grounded, we'll just lock it in place until the genjutsu wears off and it returns to the summon world it came from. No need to piss the rest of them off."

With that, the giant moth has finally reached them, or at least come within 60 meters of the village, and it lets loose a wild roar as its wingbeats send gusts through the air. Anzo is already performing handseals by that time, gathering Earth Release chakra in his stomach before holding the Snake seal at the end, expelling the Doton chakra as a rock that grows bigger while in flight, before smashing through the wing on its left side, piercing straight through the scale-like structure of it and making the poor insect need to flap its left wing harder to stay airborne.

OOC:

Jutsu Used:

CP: 210 - 3 (Ninjutsu cost reduction) - 3 (A-rank item cost reduction) = 204

Keno mimicked the look Anzo gave them somewhat, a vibrant yellow eye turning the blonde's way despite the shorter Aburame facing forward towards the rampaging moth. Keno watched intently at the hand seals Anzo performed as he launched his assault Stone Pistol, Amplified. Simple yet obviously effective. Keno thought idly, their head tilting to the side as their gaze followed the flight path of the boulder. It pierced through the wing handedly, causing the beast to struggle with its flight. There was a twinge of sympathy within Keno for the poor creature, owed both to a medic's compassion for the injured and an Aburame's kinship with insects. But it was a danger, so Keno could only let their sympathy go so far.

"I'm afraid I don't have anything as far ranged as that. Not to mention nothing as powerful." Keno made a hand-waving motion towards the moth, making it obvious that they were referring to the attack Anzo just launched. They adjusted their parasol, switching the shoulder so that it was resting on the one facing away from Anzo and allowed Keno to more easily watch their cousin at work "I'll cover you going forward, if you need any covering that is. Do try not to be crushed by it, I don't have any methods of defending others or healing large scale trauma." It was said matter-of-factly, however Keno made sure to watch Anzo's movements keenly, preparing themselves to follow behind when prompted. They were a team, after all, and Keno would do their utmost to help in this situation, even if they were at a bit of a disadvantage in regards to being learned in various jutsu.

OOC Info:

Anzo grunts softly as Keno states that they don't have any ranged options to match the Stone Pistol technique, or at least nothing powerful enough to match the damage he's dealing to the moth summon. He has to admit that he doesn't like hurting the thing either, but he's also quite aware that if it weren't Keno and himself working to bring the moth summon down, it would be someone with the intention of killing the moth. He has to perform the handseals again, this time aiming the next boulder he spits out at the summon's right wing, punching a hole straight through.

This time after the projectile hits its mark, the moth is unable to keep itself airborne; when the bottoms of its wings hit the ground, it's forced to land on its heavy body, unable to move nearly so quickly on its legs. Anzo nods to Keno when they mention that they'll provide him with cover.

"Well, let's see what cover you provide. I'm gonna need to get closer to this thing so I can make sure it's trapped in place."

Without waiting for a response from his temporary teammate, he drops down from the gate and approaches the moth rapidly, gathering chakra all over his body as he prepares for what the giant summon might try next, and hoping he can simply trap it rather than needing to beat it to stillness.

OOC: Same techniques

CP: 204 - 6 = 198

Keno quickly got a handle on the empathy they were feeling for the creature, it wasn't conducive to the mission after all. Instead they took their time to consider the facts of this mission. They considered these facts as they followed Anzo down the wall, remarking idly that the man was about as fast as Keno themselves were. Either he was slowing himself so they could keep up, or he wasn't all that fast to begin with. The likelihood of him showing that much consideration to a complete stranger was low, family or not, so Keno assumed it was the latter. They didn't mention it, instead turning their eyes towards the moth and its predicament.

"It is a curious circumstance, is it not?" Keno mused to Anzo as they made their way closer to the massive summon "It is an entomological fact that insects are immune to Genjutsu, the structures of their brain being all at once too simple and complex for illusions to take root. Summons are very different from their natural counterparts, true, but it stands to reason that insectoid creatures would at the very least have a heightened resistance to Genjutsu." Keno stated steadily, not too loud as to alert the moth to their approach but loud enough for Anzo to hear. The mention of insects seemed to wake the Kyoshochu beneath their skin, setting them to moving about and preparing themselves for whatever their host needed. Keno felt a little ping of satisfaction at the presence of the hundreds of little lives that called their body home "Which is to say it would take a powerful Genjutsu indeed to keep one trapped in such a state for this long. That or what we know about insectoids is far removed from the reality of insectoid summons." There was a slight pause and then "Would it be insensitive for me to say that, had the summoner been more intelligent about oversight, this would've been a very good experiment over all? I'm not good at recognizing such things."

While Anzo indeed isn't actually slowing himself down to make sure his counterpart can keep up with him, he's restricting the use of most of his other techniques, since he doesn't know how well Keno would be able to keep track of him if he did decide to increase his speed, through Taijutsu or through Body Flicker. Keno is also lucky that Anzo is capable of listening to them talk and understanding their insight into the workings of insects and insectoid summons. Any other person might have told them to remain silent in order to maintain focus on the mission at hand, but Anzo is somewhat used to splitting his thoughts and attention; it made medical techniques quite a lot easier to maintain if one can use their conscious mind for one task and their subconscious mind on autopilot for another, usually tedious job. Not that a conversation with Keno was anything but tedious, because their question about insectoid summons possibly being resistant to genjutsu was something worth considering.

Even so, his response is rather curt and short, since they need to focus on the mission and not on asking questions just now.

"You can ask the moth summon itself once we restrain it."

That said, he can see that the insect's strange fluffy antennae begin to swerve this way and that, likely picking up their movement and probably the sounds of their voices, and so Anzo makes the executive decision that the insect needs to be halted right away. With a sudden rush of Earth Release chakra, the Aburame slams his own hands to the ground, flooding the immediate area with his Doton chakra and exerting an immense amount of control with what was certainly his favored elemental release, and a pair of walls shoot up directly between the two Aburame and the moth summon itself, restricting its view of them. What follows are several more walls erecting themselves in an octagon around the moth, several dozens of meters high, then several more walls to act as braces for the first eight and further trapping the summon inside. Anzo climbs up the nearest wall to look down on the moth, then waits to make sure Keno has followed him before letting them watch him perform two additional handseals.

Almost right away, the earth underneath the trapped moth becomes a sticky, heavy mud, trapping all six of its legs and even the ends of its wings in the mud, but Anzo is careful not to make the mud too deep; he wants to simply stop the moth summon from moving for now, rather than drowning it.

"Hmmm... It shouldn't pose much of a problem now. Your turn, Keno. Do you know Genjutsu Kai? You might be able to break it out of the genjutsu instantly."

Of course, if Keno were to state that they didn't know Genjutsu Kai or simply didn't want to risk going down into the pit, they wouldn't have to wait long for the moth to be freed from the Genjutsu simply from the chakra that had been used to set it into a Genjutsu ran out, freeing it from its illusion. Anzo gives it a quick little salute as it disappears in a massive plume of smoke, then hops down and returns to Konoha, with the mission completed successfully.

OOC:

Jutsu Used:

CP: 198 - 10 (Ninjutsu Skill decrease) - 10 (Ninjutsu Skill decrease) = 178

Attempted Thread Exit, Mission Completed

Keno followed Anzo dutifully, watching as the man trapped the moth with practiced ease. They hummed a bit to themselves, thinking about what elemental release they might use in the future. They hadn't discovered it yet, which wasn't exactly atypical for Genin but many others were flitting about throwing fireballs or making water clones, so it was hard not to feel left out. When asked if they knew Genjutsu Kai, Keno shook their head a bit solemnly and added it to the list of things for them to learn going forward. It would be useful for themselves, as well as any more errant summons they might encounter in the future. They watched as the Genjutsu faded from the moth's mind and gave it a wave before it desummoned. They smiled to themselves as they returned to Konoha, choosing to believe that the small twitch of the moth's antennae was them waving in return.

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