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"Ok, you can kill him then." Hinji said with a shrug, turning to Akane and Kami.

"I could just paralyze him." Akane suggested, thinking that worse.

"Either way. He's useless if he won't answer questions like his brother. We need to get back to the caravan to help them before Tetsu arrives." Hinji said, recovering the broken bow pieces.

"Hello ladies." Tsu said as she landed a few feet away from the bound and rather mutilated man. She took one look at him and said "I thought you'd be dead by now." She was carrying the body of Trys, though whether dead or asleep it would be impossible to tell.

"The interrogation hasn't been going too well." Akane explained.

Jedan grinned at Tsu. "The children were reluctant." He told her and arched an eyebrow, "I'm a dead man anyway."

Hinji stood there amongst his teammates and wondered if they were going to kill them, or if he was going to have to step up and do it himself like in the Frost Villiage. "Permission, Tsu sensei?"

"I think Ishiaki Sensei might be able to get the information from him. " Kami told him. "Besides... we don't kill our foes in cold blood. That's not the ninja way..." At least it wasn't her ninja way.

"no, but I ripped his eye from his skull and it looks as if you've not being doing so well... so..." there was a 'thunk' noise as one of Tsu's kunai hit the base of the skull so hard that it buried itself up to the handle. "We've still got this guy," she said, shrugging the man on her shoulders "And Kami, that's a very nice code. I suggest you stick with it. But understand not everyone follows that code."

"We interrogated the other brother." Hinji said as he gestured to the guy slung over Tsu's shoulder. "The man who organized the attack set up a rendezvous point. When no one arrives, he is going to come down himself for the item."

Akane rolled her eye in frustration. Here she had had the man's own eye hanging by a literal thread and Kami made her heal it back in place for no reason. "Feel free to chop this guy's arm off too and dance around with it." She gestured to the man, wanting to be back with Ishiaki and her own squad.

Kami frowned. She still didn't think it was right to kill in cold blood like that. During battle was one thing, but to take a man's life because they already had his brother to interrogate? She didn't say anything, she only hoped it still meant they were better than their foes.

"Can we return to the others now, or shall we remain and debate moralities over tea while our teammates fight for their lives?" Hinji said, looking at the rest of the group before heading off towards the caravan.

Akane watched him leave and said to Kami, "I really really don't like that kid." She had been the one who said to get back to the others in the first place.

"You're hardly the sociable type yourself Akane." Tsu said, standing right in front of her in a sudden blur of movement, staring hard into her face "And you should be careful when insulting people of a much higher station than you. I don't care what you say behind my back, but saying it to my face like that can get you in trouble."

"What? You were wagging it around." Akane pointed out, not quite wanting to argue, but defending her statement. "I thought it was just one of your...things...."

Tsu just stared at her for a long time, silence stretching on. "Don't say anything that could be CONSIDERED an insult," she pointed out "be respectful. While Hinji has certain unsocial points to him, he is still respectful to his sensei."

Kami agreed with Tsu Sensei. "She'll do better in the future Sensei." She said. "She's grown quite a lot in her own social faults. Sometimes it's not easy when you've gotten used to saying what you want." She took Akane's hand, hoping to show her she was just trying to help

Although Kami was support Akane, she was still very irritated. With a huff, she pulled her hand out of Kami's and took off into the sky with a gust of wind. It flung her through the trees and over the canopy, toward the wagons.

Tsu sighed, then smiled to Kami. "Thank you." she said with a nod, before looking back at the dead body "Shame really. If he'd been in a better state we might have brought him back too. But he was a little too... messed up from the fight."

"Mmm..." Kami said noncommittally. She was still upset about Jedan. "We should probably go..."

Tsu gave her a little smile, knowing she was a bit upset "Yeah... yeah we should. You want to go on ahead? Just in case there's another one hiding out there."

"I left my weights a few miles back there." Kami said, pointing to where they had engaged these four the first time. "It'll only take a moment..." She was asking permission to go back, not sure how urgent reaching the boys really was.

Tsu looked back, then shrugged "We'll go together, alright? Don't want to be caught unawares after all." The others could look after themselves. Hell, Ishiaki was there.

Kami really wanted to be alone at the moment and after Tsu Sensei had just killed Jedan like that, she really didn't want to be around her. Still, she nodded and leaped into the trees, heading in the direction where she had left her weights.

Tsu stayed at a little distance, keeping an eye out around them in case someone tried to attack. She could tell Kami was a little edgy, but wasn't sure what about. She just let her be for now.