Uprise of Demons: Gaia Totem's Jounin Exam

[Neji]

OOC: Okay Gaia, your gonna do this right I'm hoping...At least 40 posts and 350 words per post.

IC:

Mission: Uprise of Demons

Rank: S

Applicant: Gaia Totem

Client: Hidden Leaf Village

Outlook: 3 squads of 4 Jounin each went out on an S-Rank mission. They all brought wakie-talkies to keep in contact with the Hidden Leaf Village and each others squads. One of the squads beeped into the Hidden Leaf Village, saying "Help, help, we walked around and then some sort of demonish type things attacked us! Ahh! We're being amubushed, repeat, help! All four squads are here, over and out!" So they needed a team. But a lot of Higher-Ranked people where already out on missions. Then, Hashirama decided that he would send in the best person avaible. So, he decided upon a Chuunin known to high strengths and abilities. But he knew a chuunin wouldn't stand up to demons if 4 jounin couldn't, so Hashirama decided that, him, himself, the Hokage, would have to go out on the mission with him.

Objective: Defeat the demons and save the Jounin squads

Condition 1-4: All squad-members must survive and minimum possible demons may escape.

Important Note: The First Hokage will be along on the mission with Gaia Totem to assure success. Also, this will be a Jounin exam for Gaia Totem, therefor, if he passes, he will meet expectations of becoming a Jounin. Success relies on instinct and skill. The demons are at the border of Leaf and Sound, and will begin at 9:00 A.M. at the Village Gates in Konoha.

[Gaia]

*BEEP* *BEEP*

~SLAM~

Gaia crushed his clock with his right fist, while still under his covers. He kept the blankets close to him, as he got ready to get up.

He still could sleep for hours, but he had to get up. He was lucky the Hokage gave him time to sleep. The mission was very crucial, and Gaia needed to get ready.

He sat up in his bed, with his hands on his head, and his hair messed up. He stood up and let out a long yawn. He walked towards the shower and turned on the water. He kept his hand in, waiting for the temperature to get to a little hotter than the neutral zone.

When it was where he wanted it, he jumped in and showered for about ten minutes. Gaia walked out of his shower stall, and shook his head, while grabbing a towel. He dried himself off and headed back into his room. He first pulled on a pair of black cargo pants. And then put on a black t shirt. He walked over to his mirror, and swung his hair back, so that he had a little over his bangs, but a majority of it hanging from behind. He then tied his konoha headband on and walked downstairs.

By the door, he tied his boots on and walked over to his locked closet. He pulled out a set of keys and opened the door. To reveal a giant room of arsenal.

He walked in and first strapped his shinobi vest on, and then strapped his giant sheath on his back. And then slid his Mizu-ken in the back. He then walked over to a drawer and opened it. The drawer was full of kunai, in the hundreds. Gaia grabbed some, and stored about thirty more in a sealing scroll.

Gaia walked out of the room, locking the door behind him and walked out of his house. It was a bright sunny morning, and Gaia started heading towards the Entrance of the Village.

He jumped building from building until the center of the konoha. Gaia greeted the merchants as they waved at him, Gaia had been a pretty well known Chuunin, and he hoped that this could be his chance to become better known, and become a jounin. The chance to work with the Hokage, better yet the Hokage recommending Gaia for the mission had been great. Gaia walked over to a stall and grabbed an apple. Gaia jumped back to the top of the buildings, and swiftly made his way to the entrance of the Hidden Leaf Village. He was standing at the top of the gates, while eating his apple, waiting for the Hokage's arrival.

[Shadow]

OOV: Neji This mission? And I wonder where you got this idea from?

[Neji]

OOC: Shadow...I just thought of it, okay. I don't know how...I just did...

IC: The Shodaime Hokage woke up at about 4:00 A.M. and was still pretty tired. It was raining and he heard the thumping of the drops hitting the roof over and over. He walked into the kitchen and pulled out a few dumplings and a glass of milk to start his day. As the dumplings were being cooked, he decided to go brush his teeth. While he was brushing them, a thought came to mind. *So...Let's see...Today I shall be going on an important mission with a Chuunin. And if he is to pass it, he shall be handed on the rank of Jounin. I just hope that the mission goes acording to plan...* Hashirama thought finishing up his teeth. He flossed them and went to get his dumplings. He ate up the dumplings and gulped down the milk. He got into the shower, and washed off. Then he dried off, and got dressed in his red armor.

Now it was time for him to start off his day. He yawned as he pulled out his keys and opened the door to the Hokage's office. It was about 5:00 now, and it had stopped raining. He had pulled out his paper work. A few missions had been applied since night time had passed. He spent about a full hour completing the paper work. Then, he reread what his own mission this day would be. By the sound of it, he was guessing that this would take maybe a week to do it. But, they didn't really have a time limit, because Hashirama was supposed to actually report to 'himself' so he didn't really have a time limit. Although, he would want to get back as fast as he could. So, when he was done with all the paper work, he walked outside. He walked around, and finaly found a ramen shop that was open. He bought some ramen and then he ate it and went back to his appartments. He was a bit low on weaponry, but he still had quite a bit. Although, deffinately not enough. It was about 8:00 now, and most shops were now open.

So, Hashirama walked around the village. He found a nice weaponry shop. He bought 1,000 kunai and put all of them in a sealing scroll. This mission would likely be long so he would need it. He also bought 300 explosive notes and 10 long wires, and sealed those in the scroll too, along with 500 shuriken. He wanted to come prepared. And he had tons of cash because he was Hokage, so he bought these items and left the shop. It was about a quarter 'til, so he began walking to the gates. He yawned as he walked right infront of the gates, and ran into who would serve as his student for the day, Gaia Totem. Hashirama would try to be nice to the boy to raise his spirits, and get him ready. He smiled and said "Hey there. So you'd be Gaia Totem, correct? Well, anyways...I am the Hokage. You may call me Hashirama if you would please. Anyhow, I hope you came prepared for the mission, because it likely will end up being a quite long one..." Hashirama said. He would wait and let Gaia lead him the way to the place. Apperantly, Hashirama had heard it was some sort of a portal. He stopped smiling, and waited. He would try to let Gaia lead the mission as best as he could.

[Gaia]

Gaia waited there for the Hokage's arrival, while chewing on his apple. He had many thoughts on the mission, and knew it was going to be long and difficult. But Gaia had everything ready, physically and mentally. He had his eye on the prize, and nothing else.

Soon the man in red armor arrived, walking towards Gaia, the man had great build and long brown hair. He spoke out with his distinguished voice.

"Hey there. So you'd be Gaia Totem, correct? Well, anyways...I am the Hokage. You may call me Hashirama if you would please. Anyhow, I hope you came prepared for the mission, because it likely will end up being a quite long one..."

As Gaia looked at the Hokage, he kept his face blank, showing he was ready for the mission. He had stunned, that he was actually performing an S-ranked mission with the Hokage. He was very eager but didn't want to show it, he wanted to look professional and to keep a good first impression."Yes, I have stuff sealed away in scrolls that can last me months. Now if you mind, I'd like to get going, we have to get there as soon as possible, Hokage Hashirama."

'The day before Gaia had been specific directions, that were written down from the ninja who were supposedly captive.' It had easy directions to follow, not many turns or changing of directions. It was just a very far distance away. Most likely about a day of travel.

Gaia pulled out the scroll that conceded the directions. "It's mostly a north-bound travel. I'm sure you have heard these directions already but here they are, I memorized them last night..." He simply tossed it at the Hokage, and jumped on to the branch of a sturdy tree, looking down the Hokage with the scroll in his hands.

Gaia pulled out his apple from before, and breathed on it and rubbed it against his shirt. He took a large juicy bite of it, and waited for the Hokage.

Gaia stood with his sword on his back and everything ready. He had all of his scrolls on the back of his belt inside a pouch. He had months worth of food and water, along with a large surplus of weaponry. He also had a jar of chakra pills ready at his disposal.

"We start off North..." Gaia said out loud to the Hokage. And started leaping tree from tree in a north direction, towards the Village of Sound with leaves trailing behind him in the wind.

[Neji]

Hashirama was beggining to think. *Wow, this boy is really motivated, isn't he? He seems so confident it appears he thinks he can do this on his own...But I guess that's more of a good then a bad thing...* Hashirama thought. He began heading out to the north. Hashirama had known that the Sound village was North too, so he just followed as the boy had said. They had time. The kid acted as if time was everything, but the chances that the people were already dead were the same as them being dead 10 minutes from now. Time didn't make a difference. Because what was the chance that 1 day would make the difference? That chance was very slim. So, he would just continue, trying to get the boy to raise his leadership skills. Hashirama smiled as Gaia took a bite out of his apple again, and then he stopped smiling.

Hashirama came upon a decision he had been thinking about. Say that Gaia made a bad decision. Then, Hashirama would have to quickly fix it or it could actually end up causing death to both of them. So a single mistake from the Chuunin kid could end up in the cause of a war started because the Hidden Leaf Village would be at a weak point if Hashirama was to die. So, one wrong move could lead to a mission failure. That meant that Hashirama would have to lead as much of the mission he could with Gaia thinking that he was the one doing most of the work. Raise their spirits and confidence. This will give them friends. Friends lead to strength. Strength leads to victory. Or, at least, that's how Hashirama figured. They continued to head out north.

"Okay, Gaia...This is the half-point from Konoha to the border of the countries Fire and Rice. So we must wait here...If we show up to tired, then we would fail. We'd quickly die. And I know what you maybe thinking...Maybe if we would just head out now, we could surprise them because it's dark. But, in the dark, we know our advantages. Me may surprise them, but it's harder to see. But, we don't know their advantages. For all we know they could sleep in the day, and the only reason they attacked those Shinobi was because they woke him. If that's so, if we come at night, we don't know what they could do. They may be nocternal...They may not. All we know is that those ninjas called them 'demons' and we must go by that figuring that they are powerful at day and night. So we must attack while we are strong, which is day..." Hashirama explained, and then took a tent out of a sealing scroll and began setting it up. There were 2 sleeping bags in the tent, one for Hashirama, and one for Gaia.

[Gaia]

As Gaia and the Hokage neared the halfway mark, the Hokage stopped and spoke out, "Okay, Gaia...This is the half-point from Konoha to the border of the countries Fire and Rice. So we must wait here...If we show up to tired, then we would fail. We'd quickly die. And I know what you maybe thinking...Maybe if we would just head out now, we could surprise them because it's dark. But, in the dark, we know our advantages. Me may surprise them, but it's harder to see. But, we don't know their advantages. For all we know they could sleep in the day, and the only reason they attacked those Shinobi was because they woke him. If that's so, if we come at night, we don't know what they could do. They may be nocternal...They may not. All we know is that those ninjas called them 'demons' and we must go by that figuring that they are powerful at day and night. So we must attack while we are strong, which is day..."

"Alright then, well put." Gaia simply said as he turned around to see a tent put out already.

Gaia simply laughed at his 'tent' and ran a little ahead of the Hokage into the forest.

*SWOOSH* *CRACK* A tall tree fell in front of Gaia with one swift cut of his blade. He chopped the tree into many even pieces, and walked back with the twelve even logs on his back. He threw them to the ground in front of the Hokage. He knew the Hokage's kekke genkai was the manipulation of wood. But despite the fact, Gaia lit a match and threw it into the wood. And walked over to an opening, a few feet away.

*SNAP*

At the snap of Gaia's fingers, the wood ignited into a large flame. Gaia looked back at it, and reached to the back of his belt, and pulled out a blue scroll. And unraveled it, Gaia reached into the scroll, and pulled out two bags of uncooked noodles, along with sides of chicken,beef, and veggies.

Gaia walked over to the fire and started to cook a helping of ramen for him and the Hokage.

"Beef or Chicken...?" Gaia asked him.

[Neji]

OOC: Neji mad...NEJI SMASH! Btw, I'm gonna use a Jutsu I haven't made yet. It's Canon so I will...But I'm gonna make it later...So yeah...

BIC: Hashirama got a little disturbed by him burning wood. But he knew it was for the best. After all, with out the fire, Gaia likely wouldn't be ready for the next day from lack of food. Hashirama could tell that Gaia didn't like the tent, but in response to Gaia's question, he answered "Hmm...Ramen? I guess I'd say...Chicken..."Hashirama answered. He made some handsigns. "Shichuuka no Jutsu - Four Pillar Home Technique!" Hashirama said. He walked up to the tent, and then the tent shot up into the air with wood below it. Then, wood began building around the tent too. It made a whole house. The building was quite big. It was 2 stories. Hashirama smiled and closed his eyes as he began to speak. "You didn't think we'd be sleeping outside, did you? The point of the tent was to test your reaction. We will sleep inside the building...The only reason we got the tent is because insects may crawl into the building, but, we can just spray repelant on the tents entrance so that the bugs can't come in..." Hashirama stated.

Hashirama took his ramen once it was done. "Thanks...Okay now, let's rest up..." Hashirama said. They were both already in the building. Hashirama walked into the tent, and toward the sleeping bag. Hashirama pulled out the sleeping bad, and went into it and went to sleep, not even taking his armor off. As he was asleep, he was thinking about the mission. The way he thought this would go, he would go there. While he destracted the demons, Gaia went and he got the Jounin's out of jail. Then, the Jounin and Gaia helped Hashirama fight back the demons. The demons looked awfully strange, but it didn't bug Hashirama. Then, as the last demon was about to die, it teleported behind Hashirama and began killing him.

Hashirama woke up, sitting up, remembering about his dream. But he knew that wasn't going to happen, so he just got up and he laughed. He too had some food. He would make some while Gaia was asleep. He fried up some eggs, and cooked some bacon and sausage, along with some pancakes. They would want a good breakfest if they were to be ready. So Hashirama made the food. When he was done he filled to glasses with milk. He sat done on a wooden chair at the table, and began waiting for Gaia to wake up. It was about 6:00. So they should be able to make it there by about noon if they left right after breakfest.

[Gaia]

Gaia woke up to the smell of bacon, and basically floated out of bed to the wooden table full of food.

Gaia had an enlightened face as he feasted on the food in front of him, in a matter of seconds. After stuffing his face, he sat on his chair, rubbing his stomach. Implying that he was full, Gaia jumped away from the table and back into the tent.

From inside the tent he called out "THANKS BY THE WAY!" as he got dressed and ready to go. In a matter of minutes, Gaia was fully prepared to get going. He had a full stomach, a full chakra tank, and a full arsenal of weapons. He wanted to get on the mission soon as possible, waiting for Hashirama's accompany to get going on the mission. He stood on top of a tree, overlooking the forest in front of him.

It was a perfect day out, nice and sunny and a slight breeze coming in towards them.

They were halfway, Gaia thought as he looked ahead. They would probably get there in about 6-7 hours, if they didn't get distracted on the way over. But Hashirama already probably knew that, so Gaia paused his thoughts as he thought once again about getting ready for fighting the 'demons'.

Gaia had been hoping for rain, so he could use some more techniques in the mission, but the weather still didn't displease him whatsoever.

A few birds flew directly overhead Gaia, as he smiled at the serene sight in front of him. It was a beautiful day, he hoped it would stay this way.

[Neji]

Hashirama was beggining to nod of as the boy, Gaia, basicly flew into the room, and started eating. Hashirama raised up his head. It was about 5 minutes before the boy ate more then half of the food, and then he ran straight away from it and back into the tent. Hashirama couldn't hide the laughing. He started to laugh quite loud. Then, Hashirama too, just began eating since he had already been there. He took his time. He kept on eating, little by little. He took about a half-hour to eat the rest of the food. The whole time he was eating, he was thinking about two things. First, the mission. And second, how the boy managed to eat so much food so fast. Hashirama started to laugh again. He drunk his glass of milk, and stood up. Gaia had already been outside. So, Hashirama sealed the tent and sleeping bags up, and walked outside the house.

He let go of his jutsu he had been holding up all night, and the house sunk back into the ground, not existing anymore. He walked towards Gaia. "Nice day...Isn't it? Well...In any case...Let's get going..." Hashirama said, as he began walking. But then he remembered the kid did care about how long this took, so Hashirama began dashing tree from tree, with the kid next to him. They where almost there when Hashirama stopped them both. "Okay...We're about a mile away max...So...I say we stop here since there's an apple tree...And restock so we're ready..." Hashirama stopped and grabbed 3 apples. He began eating them, not paying attention to Gaia at the time because his eyes were closed. He finished his 3 apples and opened up his eyes, and turned to look for Gaia as he was sitting on the floor. He stood up and looked around. He spotted Gaia. He wasn't sure if Gaia ate or not, but Hashirama began walking again.

When they reached the outside of the camp, a black figure came up behind Hashirama, and he span, stabbing it in the stomach, and it fell, bleeding.