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  Daichi instantly looked at the details of the quest and was shocked.

  [Quest created - Identify the Legendary Thief.]

  [A mysterious and highly skilled thief had made their mark all over the world. No one has been able to catch or identify this thief since he/she began their exploits. Find this person's true identity.]

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  [ditions:]

  Gather information and find out the identity of the thief.

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  [Rewards:]

  3000 Exp.

  +2 Level for Stealth skill.

  +2 Wisdom Stat

  +1 Intelligence.

  Reputation increases with the t.

  Reputation massively increased with Kakashi Hatake and Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shigeru and some people in Fire Capital and around the world.

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  [Failure:]

  [Failure to plete the 'Quest - Locate arieve the Missing Item]

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  [Accept Y/N]

  The young Gamer's eyes slightly twitched as he looked at the failure part of the quest. 'If I 't plete the mai without pleting this ohen is that really a choice yiving me, huh system?'

  He didn't wait for the ent reply and accepted the quest. Daichi then looked at the guard and spoke.

  " you tell us more about the Phantom Thief?"

  "Daichi we're here to find who took Kenichi's family heirloom. Not to go after ghosts." Kakashi said.

  "Yes I know that but… You just read the i report. There isn't anything ihat's useful and I'm pretty sure the people who iigated this i a year ago would have pursued all possible routes. What we need is a new angle. A different approach. Do you disagree with my assessment sensei?" Daichi looked at his sensei in anticipation. 'I have to get seo agree with me. The fact that I o plete this quest to finish the main one means This Phantom Thief character is involved in this.'

  Kakashi just sighed at his student's eager eyes.

  Daichi decided to sweete. "Sensei, we'll go over everything in the robbery files and if we don't find anything, what do you say we look through the Phantom Thief's files? Who knows we might actually solve it."

  The Jonin was silent and then agreed. "Fine. We'll do it your way."

  At that moment the guard Shigeru chuckled. "Well, this has certainly gotten iing. I'll bring the reports and files on the mystery thief while you two go over the other report and see if we missed anything."

  The guard left and Kakashi and Daichi went to a nearby table. They both took their time and looked at the detailed report ahrough each line.

  Kakashi carefully examined every piece of information written down in the scroll about the i. 'Daichi was right. Whoever did this left no clue to trace. The ones who searched at that time couldn't even find a st of the thief. We'd be wasting time with this report. We need a neroach…'

  By the time they were done Shigeru returned with a scroll in his hand. "This is everything that's known about the Phantom Thief." He pced the ste scroll oable and ope. Dozens of files appeared atop the scroll.

  "Wow. That's a lot." Daichi excimed.

  "Yes. This is information piled from the five great nations." Shigeru said.

  "Wait? The great nations were cooperating?" Daichi was surprised at that.

  Kakashi shook his head. "No. The thief stole from all the world and from some important people. But even that couldn't force them to work together. At the beginning none of the nations shared any information because they all wao find the thief first. But over time it became clear that it was going to be impossible. So after pressure from the Daimyos the Kages shared whatever ihey had ohief to others oain ditions."

  Shigeru nodded his head. "Precisely. These files tain every locatiohief hit, what they took, wheook and more. Dozens of people looked over these files and couldn't find anything."

  The guard then looked at Daichi and Kakashi. "Listen. I know I joked about it being the Phantom Thief behind this but it's not. In all his robbery he leaves a Red Paper e at the se. There was no such thing at Kenichi's house. And the Phantom Thief disappeared almost a decade ago. The heirloom at Kenichi's house was stolen only a year ago. So I don't think this was done by him. For all we know he could be dead. So there's the ce that you might literally be chasing a ghost."

  "This certainly is a plicated mission. But I have a good feeling about this…" Daichi smiled as he looked at the guard.

  The man smirked at Daichi's fidence. "Well, I'll get bay position. Good luck Kakashi, Daichi."

  The two Leaf ninjas nodded and sat down. They looked at the huge pile of files and sighed. "Well you heard the ma's get to work."

  Daichi and his teacher started going through the files. At that moment Daichi asked his teacher a question that's been on his mind for a while. "Sensei, what did you mean when you said you've e across the Phantom Thief's work?"

  Kakashi had a wistful look on his face as he remembered the time spent under his sensei Minato Namikaze. A few moments ter he answered Daichi's question.

  "It was during the Third World war. I was studying uhe Fourth Hokage with my teammate. My team was sent on an esission. A wealthy mert hired a team to protect him during his journey. He was an important t of the vilge so the Third Hokage sent our team. We arrived at his house and escorted him to the Hidden Waterfall Vilge. There he picked up his daughter and we escorted them both back safely to their home. But once we reached the pce we saw that two items ihe house were missing."

  "Didn't the pce have guards? I would assume that a wealthy man would have a few proteg his home." Daichi asked.

  "He did. There was a team of capable meraries guarding the house. But they didn't notiything. We only found ohing that was out of pce. A Red paper e. The identity of the person was instantly clear to all of us."

  "What did this Phantom steal?"

  At that question Kakashi recalled that day.

  Fshback.

  A ninja with bright spiky yellow hair wearing the Leaf Jonin jacket led two smaller ninjas inte vil. "Team Minato rep."

  A tall, bulky man with long hair and a beard wearing a luxurious dress appeared. "Minato Namikaze. I've heard a lot about you. I'm gd the Hokage has sent your team. I feel safer already." The man smiled at the Leaf Jonin.

  Minato stepped forward and shook the man's hand. "Thank you for the trust you've pced in us, Mr. Makoto. We will make sure any problems are taken care of."

  "Yes. I know your team is more than capable. We will leave shortly for the Hidden Waterfall Vilge. I have to pick up my daughter and due small business. So we'll be there for only a day. We'll return the day after."

  Minato nodded. "Let me introduce you to my two students. This is Kakashi Hatake and Rin Nohara."

  The mert smiled and them. "o meet you two… We'll leave in half an hour. In the meantime feel free to make yourselves at home."

  Minato and his two students looked around the house and saw several artworks and antiques decorating the walls. As he looked Minato's eyes were drawn to a certain painting at the ter of the room. He walked closer and ied it.

  "Is this what I think it is?" Minato's surprised and somewhat shocked question drew his student's and Makoto's attention.

  The man came he Jonin and admired the painting. "Yes. It's the inal. It e quite a lot to acquire it."

  Kakashi was curious about the artwork that drew his sensei's gaze. The painting was of a rge ship sailing away from the viewer. "What is this painting sensei?"

  "This painting was drawwo hundred years ago. It is known as the Voyager. It was named after the ship you see in it. The story has it that the ship carried 100 brave sailors who traveled the world and saw everything they could." Minato said.

  "Yes. The story is that the artist started on this work just as the ship took off and pleted the painting in 4 days right there on the spot. Ohe real ship pleted the jourhe value of this painting skyrocketed and over time it only kept increasing." Makoto said with a smile. "This is the most prized artwork here."

  As they talked about the painting Rin's eyes were drawn to the music box near it. Makoto saw the look of wonder on her fad smiled.

  "That music box ecifically created by an excellent sculptor from the Fire capital. I had it issioned as a gift for my daughter."

  "Very nice sir." Rin smiled.

  Fshbad.

  "It ecial music box. He showed us how it worked and sometime ter we left the house. We returned four days ter and saw that the painting and music box were stolen. In pce of the painting was a small Red paper e. The moment we saw that we khe ces of finding the culprit would be slim to none." Kakashi said to Daichi.

  "Did you guys iigate the i?" Daichi asked.

  Kakashi shook his head. "No. Well, our team didn't. If it were any other circumstances we might have. But we were in the middle of a war. The vilge couldn't put our team on an iigation mission. So we left."

  Daichi was beginning to uand the history of the thief. The two ninjas looked through dots upon dots and he items stolen.

  Hours went by and Daichi pihe bridge of his nose. "Oh Man, this guy has stolen from all over the world. Diamonds, valuable paintings, exotic sculptures, rare manuscripts and scrolls. Exactly 40 thefts with nothing pointing to him except his signature the Red paper e. No one even give a description of the guy. Nobody knows where he's from or if it's even a he…"

  "I told you this is going to be a really difficult case to crack."

  "But not impossible. Everyone leaves something behind." Daichi was determio plete this quest.

  "Daichi, no one's ever e close to even finding this person's identity."

  "You're fetting ohing, sensei… I've never gone looking for him." Daichi had a fident smirk and resumed his work.

  Kakashi looked at his student with an unreadable expression. 'Its good to be fident. But Hubris… That's a dangerous thing Daichi. Let's see how this goes.'

  The two ninjas looked over every dot present. In every case attributed to the Phantom Thief the most valuable item at the location along with something of minor value were stolen. And the signature Red Paper e was left where the most valuable of the two items was.

  "The st time Phantom Thief struck was over a decade ago. No one could figure out how he got in or out of the pces ued. It's how he got his name." Kakashi said as he looked over the reports.

  "Yeah. And in the ihat took pce a year ago, there was no red e and the thief took several things…" Daichi went over every detail given in the i report. After spending several hoing over almost all the dots Daichi came to a clusion. This clusion was something he drew from the moment the sed quest appeared but he o be sure.

  "The thief may not have left a e at Kenichi's home but I'm sure that the robbery was done by the Phantom Thief. Grahere are a few things different in this case but… He's got a certain style. There is a singur sensibility at work here." Daichi said to his sensei.

  Kakashi looked at the items the Legendary Thief has stolehe years and then to the items stolen from Kenichi's home. "So then if that's the case then why? If the history of that heirloom was real and that teapot was indeed more valuable then why didn't he leave his signature behind. And why start after a decade?"

  Daichi was silent as he mulled over the questioried to look at it from several perspectives. A few mier he had a theory. "What if it ersonal? What if the Phantom Thief had some kind e against Kenichi's father or even Kenichi… or maybe someone found the Thief's identity and hired him to steal from them. Regardless, the Phantom thief is involved."

  The Jonin mulled over the information and thought about their move. "You might be right. We o know more about Kenichi's father. We o dig into his history."

  The two ninjas sealed the dots bato the scroll and took it with them. They headed back to Kenichi's home to talk to the man about his father.

  At the moment as Daichi and Kakashi made their way to their t's home they had no clue what was waiting for them at the end of the mission.