The First of Many (Private Flashback)

The forest. The place where mystery is held. The silence of trees as winds blows through, trying to make its way to the end. Few live in the forest and few live to tell the tale of what happens. This is a story about how something that was forgotten brought back. This is a story about 7 ninjas chosen by their higher ups to investigate a series of missing people. From different villages none knew how this would turn out. But in the end, it turned out in a way no one expected. This is their story.

Near the walls of Dokugakure, a forest laid dormant. Small villages lived in that area and nothing really occurred until one day, people began to go missing. The number of missing began to grow slowly and so the Ninja Countries never took concerns to it. But then the number began to rise rapidly. Dokugakure sent an investigating party to the area of the missing but the villages that used to be there, were gone. Was the party look around, they found a small girl. Terrified, they girl tried to hide from them, but eventually she knew that they could be trusted. When the party filed a report, they stated the villages were a ghost town, there were no traces of people there. The girl tells of a creature known as a Wraith and it was behind the disappearances of people. Wraiths were regarded as legends (those who wore the flesh of humans and ate them) and nothing more and so they believed that she did not know what she saw. Couple of days later, another village disappeared with the same MO as the first villages that disappeared. The disappearance were beginning to spread and would eventually reach the areas of the Ninja Countires. The kage of Dokugakure sends a message to the other ninja villages to state what was happening and wished for aid for a further investigation. In response kages sent one or two ninjas to the area where the first disappearance occurred to meet up with three ninjas of Dougakure. Yuki sent one ninja Hidio, Amegakure sent two ninjas Kain and Hakkyou, and Dokugakure sent three ninjas; Vincent, Shikaru, and Hetoru. But in all of unlikeliness Dokugakure asked for aid from a missing nin that hung around the area. Interested, the missingg nin agreed. That missing nin was Jiro.
Waiting at the spot of the disappearance, Vincent await for his fellow ninjas to arrive and start a new investigation. Vincent held a folder with information on the status of what was going on, but nobody knew the truth. Chills run down his spine. The silence of the village was way to quiet. It felt like a graveyard would have been more cheerful than this. Looking around he noticed a word engraved into a tree "Croaton". Vincent strokes his hand on the craving to see if it was real. It was.

OOC: There are a few things wrong with this from what I can tell:

1. I'm a missing nin so I don't technically have a village, and even if I did, Konoha and Doku can't exist simultaneously as Konoha became Doku; Hakkyou/Ejiki is from Ame and, as stated before, Konoha no longer exists, so Konoha can't really send ninja to help Doku since they're technically the same village now.

2. As stated above, I'm a missing nin and therefore can't go on missions as I have no village to take missions from.

Just saying. Those things I said just kind of confuse me. You should probably edit before we continue. To what, I don't know, but at the moment, it wouldn't really work yet.

Hidio look around the forest it seem to have a tangy air. The trees looked demented and bent out of shape. "So this was the village of Konoha forest." Hidio had removed his bandanna and most of his snow gear. Hidio continued walkthing through the forest there was seem to be a rotten smell in the air. "I'm too far Yuki. Luckily My body heat makes me able to deal with heat." Hidio walked through the forest "Where are the people in this place." Hidio look into the forest and saw a man touching a tree. "Let me guess your one of the ninja your village sent to investigate, I'm the Yuki ninja Hidio Hoshi."

OOC: I hate you Jiro -_- anyhow i made the changes you wanted me to
IC
Laying his back on a tree, Nightray reads a book. The area was calm and peacefully. He believed that the reports were over exaggerated. To him the claims made by the villagers were nothing more than a figment of their imagination created out of fear of the unknown. Regardless, Nightray obeyed his order and landed in the area. Couple of hours after Nightray arrives, the ninja from Yuki arrived and introduced himself. The snow ninja called himself Hido. In response Nightray presented himself. "Hello fellow ninja. My name is Vincent Nightray, but everyone just calls me Nightray. To answer your question yes, i am one of the ninjas sent by my village and i expect two others from my village to join me and more ninjas from other villages should be arriving soon. Also that is what we are trying to figure out. The people of this area disappeared without a trace. The only evidence of the scene that was left, was a word craved into that tree over there which reads Croaton." He points his finger to the tree with Croaton engraved.
Nightray looks over behind his back and notices Shikaru arrived. "Shikaru, thanks for coming. You got the report from the kage right? You know what's going on and what has happened?" Well talking to the ninja from his village, he almost forgets to introduce the ninja from the snow. Point his hand towards Hido. "Shikaru, this is Hidio. He is the ninja assigned to investigate with us.

Jiro was heading to the spot where he was asked to be at around this time. He was jumping from tree to tree. Revisiting this location would undoubtedly bring back both good and bad memories of his past. He hadn't been here since Konoha was attacked and taken over. "Such memories... above all, hopefully I can return here again one day for a different reason." Jiro thought to himself. He snapped out of his thought when he had arrived at the location. He was now in front of several other people, all whom he assumed to be the people that he was supposed to help out. He leaned on a tree nearby and crossed his arms, not saying a word but letting everyone else know he was there. He was waiting for his traveling partner and bodyguard Ejiki to catch up.

Ejiki caught the tree branch and flipped up, landing next to Jiro. She had never been to K- well...What was left of Konoha in her life. She turned to Jiro, her stance alert and ever-watching. She spoke quietly as to not be heard.
"Are these the people, Jiro?"

(Hakkyou you don't have color. Pm me your approved app then you may post, until then all places you have rped atm are on hold)

OOC: Posting hold is lifted and now may continue. Note there is no posting order until all characters have posted

OOC: If Kain and Hetoru do not post by the end of of tuesday (Eastern Time) then we will continue without them. Also they will not be in the newly formed group.

OOC: With the failure of Kain and Hetoru to post, they will not be in the group. The posting order will be Me, Zodiac, Z, Jiro, and then Hakkyou.

Two pigeons dive from the sky onto a tree branch. One bird was from Amegakure and another from Dokugakure. Messengers birds that came early before missions began were signs that a mission was about to go bad and wrong. Sticking his arm out, the two pigeons fly onto his arm and both held a note in their legs. The bird from Amegakure stated that Kain was sent to on another mission and was not able to arrive, and the bird from Dokugakure stated to Hetoru had paper work to do. Pissed off, Vincent crumbles the notes in his hands and then throws them to the ground.
"Well you guys looks like this is it. The two other ninjas that were suppose to meet us here aren't coming, so this is what we are gonna work with. But first things are first, the mission. For those of us who did not read the report, there have been several disappearances in this area. The disappearance numbers have reached in the near hundreds. To make things worse, small villages have also begun to disappear. We have been assigned by our kages to investigate. In all honesty I don't know what is going on and neither does my village's kage. But..... Vincent takes a huge pause because even he couldnt believe what he was about to say," There was a witness who says that she saw what was taking people. She said it was a wraith.......in human flesh. In the modern world, wraiths are extinct. They were all hunted down and killed. No trace of them. But even though this is might be a wild goose chase, our kages seem to have taken an interest in it. They sent us here because this is where it all started. Several investigation teams have come but were unlucky, they believe that we will have a better chance of finding a clue. The only clue that they found was the word Croaton found craved into that tree over there." He points to a tree right next an abandoned wooden shed.
Vincent shakes his head not believing that he just said things that made him seem like he was crazy. "Anyhow, since this is all of us, please introduce yourselves. If there are questions you can ask them."

Hidio looked at the ninja around him. "Like I said before my name is Hidio Hoshi I'm a jounin of the Hoshi clan. Pleasure to meet you all. I have the need to tell you that I can get a little crazy." Hidio leaned by the tree and looked at the ninja round him waiting for their anwsers.

OOC: We will continue posting without Z, who has not shown up in the last couple of days

"...These are them." Jiro muttered lowly to Ejiki whom was next to him. Jiro shrugged off the introduction of this "Hidio" and decided to respond by introducing himself, if only for the sake of getting it out of the way. "...Jiro Uchiha." he finally responded to Hidio's question. He stopped leaning on the tree and walked into the group a bit more. "I'm pretty sure my name is all that's required? The whole.... introduction thing isn't for me." Jiro continued then motioned for Ejiki to follow him into the group, and more importantly, to also introduce herself.

Ejiki dropped down next to Jiro and looked to the group, the entire introduction of this 'Hidio' confusing her. Regardless...
"...Ejiki Hyuuga. Nice to meet you all."
She crossed her arms and sighed. Hopefully this wouldn't be too bad.
Hopefully.

OOC: Use your imagination on this mission lol Also this is what we are hunting after evidence is found http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith

IC: After the ninjas introduced themselves, Vincent decided it was time for this mission to get started. "Before you guys had arrived, i had found tracks covered by a falling tree that looked like a body was dragged. We will follow those tracks later, but for right now let us look around and see if there are more evidence of something. And be prepared we dont know what we are dealing with here." He breaks from the groups and looks around more to see what had been missed.

Hidio looked at the two new commers. "Who are these two. " Hidio looked at the both of them. "Wow i guess the rest of our team isn't showing up." Hidio knelt down and touched the tracks. "Something went through here and it was dragging smething the impression is deeper here than the spot before the suppose attack spot." Hidio continued to check the tracks.

Jiro sighed and crossed his arms. "Can we just get this over with? I have better things to be doing right now..." Jiro grunted with annoyance. He hated this waiting and just wanted to get to the part that involved testing his skill, as surely this beast was stronger than most normal humans.

Ejiki lowered her head, and spoke quietly to Jiro.
"We should get to looking, Jiro. The faster we find it, the faster you get what you want."
And with that, Ejiki motioned to the tracks and any other odd things and began following them.

Vincent hears the mumble of the Jiro and Ejiki. This "team" was slowly losing its patience, but who could blame them. There was little evidence to use and to track this thing that they were looking for. He walks over to the tree with the word Croaton engraved into it. "Croation. I swear i have heard of that word before. But where?". He turns his head to see if anybody else had any better luck. The only person to find anything suspicious was Hidio who believed that he found an attack spot. But the question raised in his mind, why couldn't the other investigation team find this like we did? "Hey Hidio, did you happen to find any blood at that attack spot?"

Ooc: We are hunting Cleaner missing nin ok? we are keeping it naruto related.
Hidio looked up and saw the body hanging from the tree, blood was dripping form the dead body. "I found blood alright just I see no head." Hidio walked forward the blood came down in rivers of blood. The neck had jagged lines. "Judging by the way there is no head and the lines on the neck something bite this off and I don't think a big o bear can hang someone in a tree." Hidio studied the body closer.

Jiro followed but didn't say a word, nor did his expression change. He didn't care what did it, he just wanted who or what ever it was dead. He didn't even know why he agreed to such trivial things, but he was reaching the limit of his patience. His hand was shaking, not from fear, but out of eagerness to draw his blade and kill someone, but held himself back for now, although his hand was still firmly grasped around the handle of the katana attached to his back with a black leather strap.

Ejiki frowned as she noticed Jiro getting a little too impatient, and speaks towards Hidio, who was in front of both of them.
"Hey, how recent is the wound? If it's fresh, that gives a little hope in that the murderer is still in the area."
She looked to Jiro, sighed, then got about to seeing if the wound was recent. Better the poor damned murderer rather than poor damned souls that happened to be near.

Noticing that jiro's hand was shaking, he though that ti was due to the lack of fighting that they had done since they arrived. There were rumors that the missing nin wanted to kill constantly, that they killed people in their own village just for the hell of it. Vincent walks over to Jiro, "You know if you want something to kill, help us out and find out what we are after. From the looks of it, it is skilled in hunting and cleaning its tracks. Here is the deal, you actually help us find this thing and then i will let you have the first attack on it. Deal?"