>>5801547>>5801556>>5801564>>5801656>>5801907“Sounds a little boring.” Says Naoki, of all people. “Are all of our missions going to be so… Sedate?”
“Yes. Generally. D-rank missions like this are miscellaneous nuisances that need to be taken care of, because a ninja is fundamentally a mercenary and we make our living completing contracts on behalf of the people. It’s not always glamorous. Genin generally start off doing D-ranks, missions where there’s no expected combat. C-ranks are missions that involve conflict, but not with other ninja. You’ll get to that point once you’ve proven yourself in tangible terms. B-ranks involve the potential for conflict with other ninja and are given to chunin. They take care of C-ranks too. A-rank missions are for jonin and usually involve things that are of… Legitimate consequence. Sorry to be blunt. S-rank missions are highly sensitive issues that are only given to experienced jonin. Generally speaking ninja stay in their lanes, D and C for genin, C and B for chunin, and A for jonin. S-ranks happen once you have the personal confidence of the Hokage himself. Not that this system is without flexibility, your speciality influences what you might get, and sometimes seemingly easy missions turn out to be more complicated, or more complicated missions turn out to be quite easy.”
Naoki crosses his arms. “In that case, we need to become chunin as fast as possible. I heard there are exams every six months. What’s the pipeline for getting there as soon as possible?”
Hotaru smiles at your teammate. “Why, it’s when you can stand on water without sinking, dear child! Hop on in and show me how elite you are!”
Naoki unfolds his arms and jogs back into the warm water with the utter lack of enthusiasm of a man who knows he’s going to take another humiliating splash. And he does.
“That’s what I thought.” Hotaru turns her nose up at him with a dramatic huff. “You’re ready to become a chunin when I say you’re ready. And I’ll say you’re ready when you’re truly ready because I’m a discerning and realistic woman in addition to being beautiful and kind.”
It seems your jonin team leader had a childish side to her that was slowly coming out now that she was getting more comfortable with your teammates. How annoying.
“Otomo, I don’t like that look on your face, get back in the water.”
Damn it.
