As the crowd dispersed, a green-robed figure strutted over to the knots of chunin who had been put on the two new teams.<br/><br/>He wandered over, hands in pockets, his mess of spiky black hair bobbing as he walked, a small puff of smoke trailing behind him from the cigarette in his mouth, his Konoha headband wrapped lazily around one arm. With a half grin and an enthusiastic "Yeah!", Senju Akigo made his presence known to the new chunin.<br/><br/>A small scar creased his face, neatly spearing the left of his bright green eyes, further creased by the sloppy grin he wore. He stopped in front of the group, nodding to each, still grinning as he spoke around his cigarette.<br/><br/>"Senju Akigo. Who're the Shouties? Meet your jounin for your first mission. That's right, you got the Cockerel leading you for your first B-rank! Try not to jump out of your boots in excitement, now."<br/><br/>Chuckling, Akigo fumbled around in his pockets, bringing out two small scrolls, both sealed with the green leaf of Konoha, and a darker, bluey-green seal of the Hokage.<br/><br/>"Hyuuga Kayo? The cute purple eyed girl? Here. You're fronting the Visionaries for their first B-rank, too."<br/><br/>Akigo tossed her one of the scrolls. On it, when Kayo read it, was a terse notification of her temporary promotion to lead-chunin of Team Vision, for one mission only, signed speedily by the Green Shadow himself.<br/><br/>"Now, gather round kids. I'mma tell you a long story, cut short. I bet you didn't quite believe kooky ol' Ikuza when he said you'd be called up soon, but you better kiss any boyfriends and girlfriends goodbye for a while, we leave today."<br/><br/>Akigo seemed to grow serious. Well, maybe just less jovial than before. It was hard to imagine Akigo ever being totally serious in any situation.<br/><br/>"Being the smart and gossipy chunin you all are, I'm sure you've heard about the rumours of a shitstorm going down over in Mist. Well, here's your official notification of it. It's civil war, guys, and we're all going over to take a look."<br/><br/>Akigo broke open the other scroll, using it as prop notes, apparantly translating the highly classified information with his own colloquialisms and drawl.<br/><br/>"Green Shadow already sent Team Finger there when it all broke out, in complete secrecy. That was nine days ago, and we haven't heard from them. Now some of you will know the Fingers are all highly-skilled stealth and recon jounin, and for them not to make their daily reports is damn strange. Team Vision, you're going to find them...or what's left of them. We need to know what intelligence they've gathered as it's bound to be important, or if worse comes to worst, you need to find out who killed them.<br/><br/>Team Shout, my guys, we're going as well, but we're taking a different route from Vision. They're going in subtle, with one objective. We're going in not-so-subtle, with several objectives, which is maybe why yours truly was chosen to lead you lot. Reports from both Daimyos and civilians is that plenty of non-combatants are being mixed up in this hairy situation, and we're going to gather as many wounded or defenseless as we can, make them safe, or extract them to safe areas outside of the Mist Village. We're going to be overt and obvious, to let as many people as possible know that Konoha is around and trying to help. People who can't ask for help from one faction or the other in Mist may feel safer with a neutral party, and that's what we are gonna be."<br/><br/>The messy-haired green eyed jounin paused, took a deep pull on his cigarette, looked about the group with his shining green eyes, then continued.<br/><br/>"Us Shouters are also taking in a massive crate of aid and supplies, to be distributed to whomever needs it most. This needs to make it to Mist safely.<br/>Now both teams do share one objective...and that is, under no circumstances, DOES ANYONE KILL ANYONE. Restrain, incapacitate, hell, I don't care if you've gotta sleep with them to render any hostiles non-hostile, we are not killing anyone. I don't need to tell you that such an act would be cause for inter-village war, and we like the Misties. Well, whichever Misties were in power, now we're not so sure, which is another reason we're being sent in.<br/>Because Team Finger is already there, we hope, and that these are technically non-combat missions, simple aid and recon, that's why we're sending in mostly chunin on B-ranks. Jounin on A-ranks would definately be seen as a hostile action by anyone still in power in Mist.<br/><br/>Now, are you all still following this scruffy, loud-mouthed Jounin? Coz I'm about to embark on another verbal journey, giving you some meaty info on who exactly is fighting who inside of Mist. Do I still have your undivided attention?"<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>