Mizukage & the missing... [closed mission]

[Yagami Okura]

Your village civilians have been turning up missing steadily over the past few months, and there's been reports of suspicious activity in the area concerning a crime band. Leave the village and head to a motel (where the disappearances have been linked to) nearly two days away to find any information pertaining to the disappearances. Infiltrate and take down the crime band. Use caution, as the last two shinobi to accept this mission have disappeared as well...

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"Mizukage-sama! Be careful, many people have mysteriously gone missing, and the numbers increase day by day..!"

"I know the details of the mission, elder. I'll be back in a week,"

Okura nodded to one of the village elders and to the rest of the village who had come to see him off. Many insisted on taking on this mission themselves, but Okura had insisted back that they had already lost many good shinobi already, and that he was determined to bring them back himself. Being the most powerful shinobi in the village gave him the edge, an edge that would not permit him to fail under any circumstances. Turning away from everyone, he walked out of the village gates and headed West. What made this mission take so long in order to reach the area was because Okura had to ride a bost from the Water Country over to the shores of the main continent, and then from there begin a long hike towards the area.

Okura arrived at the shores of Mizu no Kuni's West Bay, where a large boat was boarding passengers from many different towns. Thankfully none that were here were actually from Kirigakure, so Okura would not need to worry about being questioned about his absence from the village. He left it in the capable hands of his friend Aogetsu, seeing as he was training the man in order to succeed him in the evenet of Okura's untimely death. He had trust the village would be fine while he was gone, so he decided not to think about it while he was riding the boat across the ocean. Okura boarded and took a seat up on the second floor of the boat and sat down on a bench, overlooking the ocean as several minutes later, the boat finally took off from port. The boat ride itself would take half a day, and the remaining day and a half would be hiking into one of the countries. It was a country without a hidden village in it thankfully, so he wouldn't be running into any shinobi along the way, or that's what the norm should've been.

Okura went over the details of the mission in his head once more. Missing villagers as well as neighbouring towns people have been going missing from the local area. These disappearances have been linked to a motel in a neighbouring country. The government of this country denies any involvement of these incidents and has even stated that they too have have towns people gone missing from their local area as well. This is why they hired Kirigakure, due to their high mission success rate. However, a few shinobi from Kirigakure who have taken up this mission have gone missing as well, which is where Okura comes in. He decided to head this mission up personally as there would be no chance of him failing. It would've been helpful to have some information regarding what was going on and how these people and these shinobi were going missing. The only leads they have so far is that it's being lead by a band of criminals, however whether they are criminal shinobi or criminal thugs will make all the difference here. It's more than likely that it's being lead by shinobi, as simple thugs would not be able to trap and capture shinobi from his village.

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[Yagami Okura]

NPC"Send word to the boss, it appears we'll have our hands full this time,"

A man, dressed up as a common monk with a colonial straw hat on top of his head whispered over to a similarly dressed man beside him. The two were sitting on a bench on the same floor as the Mizukage, and the two could easily identify him as a powerful shinobi of Kirigakure due to the aura he gave off as well as the forehead protector worn around his forehead, allowing easy identification. However, this did not phase the two men. They kept their cool and aloof appearance and remained sitting, staring at the floor so that their hats would shade their faces. Nodding, the second male stood up slowly and at a similar pace, walked off in the opposite direction of which the Mizukage was sitting.

Arriving at the front end of the large boat, the man glanced around with the corners of his eyes to see who was around. Nobody that he could see. He pulled out a small scroll from his pocket and opened it, biting his thumb and wiping it across several seals. Performing five hand seals, the scroll turned into an eagle with a note wrapped around its left ankle. He nodded to the eagle and it nodded back before taking off into flight and heading towards the main continent.

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