>>5828755The vast, vast majority of your missions are pretty uninteresting: Follow my wife to see if she’s cheating on me. Go find my cat, Tama. Hand out fliers for my business. Go find my cat, Tama. I need you to help me weed my garden and remove insects. Go find my cat, Tama.
You had half a mind to kill Tama at this point. He was one dumb piece of shit. His owner didn’t believe in trapping him like a prisoner when cat’s were apparently supposed to be free animals with adventurous hearts, so Tama would just wander into the village and get into ridiculous situations. You’d had three encounters with him so far.
The first was scouring the village for him only to realize that he was at home the whole time, having accidentally been locked in a cabinet. Apparently he decided he would just die because he didn’t even bother mewing and just silently accepted his doom. You didn’t even succeed in the mission because his owner found him on her own after sending you out into town for four hours to waste your time. The most annoying part was that Naoki asked if he could search the house and the woman said no because ‘obviously she had already checked’.
The second was when Tama had apparently jumped into the back of some random trader’s cart and been carried out of the village. It was only pure luck that someone had recognized the cat from a photograph and informed you that he was last seen rummaging in said cart, and your time managed to run the cart down and save Tama’s stupid ass from the woods in the middle of nowhere to the south.
The third time was more normal. Tama had simply managed to phase through some bars and end up in the sewer system. This time you managed to hunt him down pretty quick with your Sensing Water Sphere, thankfully. Though getting into the sewer drains turned out to be a major hassle because it turns out that they’re actually fairly high security to prevent enemy ninja from creeping around without being in the open. That hadn’t stopped Tama though, he seemed to not be affected by physical barriers or protective jutsus of any kind.
Masami suggests that the next time you get a Tama mission the cat should just have an ‘accident’ so you can rid yourself of him once and for all. You almost want to agree, but his owner was wealthy and apparently she had long been a stable patron of genin and their income. Some teams had been known to literally make a living on finding that cat. He wasn’t the first Tama either, he had been known to go missing or get himself killed, so the lady would just find an equally stupid cat to replace him after a month or so of grieving.
What a world.
