Tails between Our Legs Arriving - [Travel: Rice to Fire]

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As the sun almost reached the point that marked noon eight figures dropped from the trees to the ground at the last bend on the road before Konoha's gates. Five of the figures wore the uniforms and masks that marked them as members of Konoha's ANBU. Two of those brought up the front and at the end were two more with the fifth member in the walking next to the lead and second-tallest of the unmasked figures. That figure seemed to have an odd deformity of the left shoulder until the "deformity" moved. Then it would be apparent that the deformity was in fact a kunochi who had been gagged & bound with copious amounts of ninja wire who was also sporting a number of bruises. Behind the two were a taller and short figure - the former accompanied by a panther of all things and the later by a small cat.

For whatever reason the white-haired Konoha chuunin (if one was to believe the forehead protector and chuunin flak vest worn openly) was carrying on what seemed to be a one-sided conservation. At least it seemed one-sided until you were close enough to hear the muffled sounds that managed to work their way around the improvised gag that occupied the kunochi's mouth. It was through too much exposure (at least after the "hand on breast incident") that Toshiro found himself able to at least partially translate the kunochi's noises. One particular string of what sounded like curses directed at one of the ANBU bringing up the rear caused the chuunin to shake his head and smack his burden's rump in the same manner one would an erring puppy along with giving a similar command to what one used with a misbehaving canine. "Oh hush." Instead of compliance that treatment brought a frantic squirming and another string of curses. "You should consider yourself lucky to have just ended up gagged after pulling that. I mean hitting on an almost-married man is bad enough but what possessed you to try it when his fiancés sister was standing right next to him?" Yet more sounds that to most would be completely unintelligible follow that, and at one point Toshiro's head cocked slightly to the side as if considering something before he shrugged without concern for how it made the kunochi's bruised abdomen ache more. "Okay maybe using the oldest sock in a pack that hadn't been washed for a few days on top of being pummeled into the ground was going too far. But you did press your chest into his hand when he offered to carry you and I'm sure that "oh kami take me now" you moaned didn't exactly earn you much leeway. Now hush or I'll let Neko-ANBU-chan be the one to bring you in for interrogation."

That last seemed to cause his prisoner to go still, something that made Toshiro look over his shoulder for the cause out of instinct. In doing so he quickly found the cause - one cat-masked ANBU kunochi whose mask was looking in the direction of the prisoner on his shoulder. The white-haired chuunin had no doubt that behind that mask his distant cousin was glaring at the "over-blessed slut" who had hit on her sister' fiancé and debating how much pain she could get away with administering under the guise of "resisting arrest and incarceration". Grinning as an idea to assure himself some peace and quiet for the rest of the trip, Toshiro went for the proverbial low-blow with his next words. "Actually maybe she'll even do the interrogation herself - weren't you considering a spot as an interrogator Neko-chan?" If he had thought the burden on his shoulder had been still before, now she went absolutely rigid - probably with terror at the thought of being put into the hands of a near-sadist with a serious grudge against her. Then the captive kunochi was shaking her head so fiercely that the chuunin couldn't help but chuckle even if the action made her entire body twist in the process. Giving her another puppy-like pat on the rear and a "good girl" Toshiro turned his head enough that he could see both his genin before giving his final orders for the trip to and back from Rice Country. "Okay you two, go check in with the guards. Rin, after that you get to drag Boney here to the hospital to make sure his stitches don't need to be redone. I'm going to drop Miss Nympho here off Torture & Interrogation then I'll make the official report. You both did pretty good but we have a lot of room for improvement so training resumes the day after tomorrow and I'll make sure you get your pay tomorrow morning. Now git brats." The last part was quickly becoming one of his favorite ways to address his genin. Not because they were brats (or more than a year or so younger than himself) but because he was about the only one who could get away with calling them that.

His team dismissed, Toshiro turned back to the ANBU and gestured for their squad leader to lead the way. A request the masked shinobi acknowledged with a nod before signally for the rear-most pair to make sure that the genin followed their sensei's orders - especially the part about getting cleared at the hospital. Then the white-haired chuunin and three masked ninja were off through the gate and on their way to drop off one very unnerved kunochi.