Welcome to the fourth installment of Naruto Quest: Feeling Blue #4!
For my returning players, thank you for your continued support. You're the lifeblood of these threads, and I appreciate that you give me your time.
For any new players, I highly recommend that you read the archives here:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Feeling+Blue Note that the first thing I do is archive the thread the second I create it, so realize you may catch up a little sooner than you think! However, for any of you who are impatient and want to join the action immediately, here’s an extremely quick and dirty recap of what’s happening at this exact moment:
>You are Otomo Mizutani, ninja of the village hidden in the leaves.>Your squad consists of yourself, Masami Igarashi, Naoki Fuma, and your team leader, Hotaru Nakagawa.>You are currently on a mission to escort a trading caravan into and out of bandit territory, the territory of an anti-ninja separatist group that calls themselves The Lords of Fire.>Your real purpose is to cripple the bandit group, which may be harder than you think because you have extremely strong suspicions that they’re being propped up by four of the Daimyo’s disgraced former bodyguards.>You just left a temple wherein you met the deceased spirit of a priest named Hiraku Hyuga, who insisted that you purify your soul of an old wound that might one day be your doom.>For your own personal reasons and because you didn’t fully trust him or the purification ritual, you’ve decided not to listen to his advice.>Hopefully that turns out to be a wise decision, but like so many other things in life, only time would tell.>You will soon travel away from the temple and towards the end destination of this escort trip.>You are currently safe and can relax, but every day that passes from here on out will increase the danger to yourself and charges.>For a brief while, you take a moment to relax.>Good luck.>It’s April Fools’ Day so I’m going to waste a little of our time on some foolishness before we truly get started properly. Turn your brain off and enjoy the ride for a short moment.>Like life, it won’t last terribly long.