Wandering Heathens

Healed

The medic-nin entered Ryuu's room and approached his bedside. "Good news," she chirped, "your legs are fully healed and these casts can come off." Ryuu pulled himself up in bed and flashed her a smile, "about damn time!" he said to her. She returned his smile and tucked a strand of her peach coloured hair behind her ear before forming a chakra blade. She expertly sliced down the casts and helped him become free of them.

He swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood up, shakily and hesitantly at first but with more confidence when his legs didn't buckle under him. Ryuu chuckled as he sat back down and the medic-nin walked around to where he was sitting. "Do you need anything else?" She asked quietly as she moved his legs apart and stepped between them, standing over him. Ryuu looked up at her and smirked before placing his hands on her hips and gently pulling her forward until she was straddling him. "I can think of a few things" he said huskily, his lips coming closer to hers.

"TOBI WILL TAKE CARE OF HIM!" Obita yelled as she entered his room, quickly walking over to the medic-nin and pulling her off of Ryuu by her collar. She pulled her aside and whispered threateningly "touch him again and I will kill you personally." The medic-nin quickly nodded and left the room leaving a confused Ryuu still sitting on his bed. "What. The. Fuck?" He asked Tobi who was busy gathering his effects and giving the room a once over to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything. "Come with Tobi!" She yelled happily as she left the room with Ryuu following.

Shinjo stood admiring the rooms in the Ame tower that the Akatsuki was assigned to. Pein had decided that it was strategically necessary to move the hideout to Ame and thus Ame was now the base of operations for the organization. Aside from the constant rain and depressing architecture it wasn't a terrible place to be. It was definitely preferable to living underground.

He turned to see who had entered the room and was overjoyed that it was Ryuu, out of his casts and walking. "DADDY!" Ryuu happily yelled as he walked towards Shinjo, "I can walk again!" Shinjo laughed at his antics and embraced him in a tight hug before parting.

"Did you have any more memories?" He asked quietly. Ryuu shook his head and was about to speak when Kakuza walked up to Shinjo and touched his arm. "Pein wants to see you two in her office" she stated while her fingers trailed over the clothed muscles of his arm and she had a brief image of his strong arms around her. She glared and cleared the image from her mind before leading the two men to Pein's office. "You know," Ryuu whispered to Shinjo, "she has a nice ass..." Shinjo glared at him and smacked the back of Ryuu's head, "stop looking! Not for you!" he hissed.

Before they could continue their bickering, Kakuza lead them to a closed door. She knocked and entered with the men trailing behind her. She took a seat near Pein's desk, crossed her legs and arms and waited.

"You two feel alright?" Pein asked. "Fine" and "Peachy keen" answered her and she nodded before opening two files and pushing them towards Ryuu and Shinjo who remained standing at her desk. Each man took a folder and read the contents: simple bounty requests from Kumogakure and Yukigakure, each rouge-nin commanding an impressive bounty and had a fearsome crime and skill sheet. Without a word or looking at each other, Shinjo and Ryuu swapped folders and took in their contents before tossing them back onto Pein's desk. "Well?" She asked. "Seems reasonable and a decent way to ease into work" Ryuu said and Shinjo nodded. "Good. For this mission you will be paired with Kakuza and Hida. Dismissed" Pein ordered, waving them out of her office.

Kakuza had gotten up and led the men to their new rooms in a wing of the tower. "Your new rooms" she said indicating the doors. "Thanks. You wanna...help me christen it?" Ryuu asked her from his door with a devil-may-care look on his face. Kakuza sent out a tendril that caressed his face and lips like a lover would do before painfully stitching themselves into his lips so in effect his mouth was sewed shut. She smiled as he tried to scream and he shook Shinjo while crying and muffled pleading for help. Shinjo smirked at him and turned away, "you brought this on yourself so you're on your own" he said while walking into his room and closing the door.

As soon as the latch clicked closed, it opened again and Kakuza entered his room. "We need to plan these hunts" she said as she scanned his room. Zetsuki's clones had moved everyone's possessions to the tower and furnished all the rooms. Shinjo's room was rather bare since he didn't have many possessions to display; he kept most of them hidden in a carrier scroll. "You need some color in here" she observed while looking at the stark grey walls. "Kinda reminds me of home" he replied while rubbing the back of his neck. He felt a little embarrassed to have her in such a plain environment. "Home?" She asked, turning to face him. "Yeah. I don't want to talk about it" he said as he sat down at the desk that was in a corner.

Kakuza stood next to him and bent over the map spread on the desktop. Her dark locks brushed his cheek and shoulder and her tanned stitched arms were gracefully showing him the last reported target movements. He took in her form: her leanly muscled body, her pert breasts that were on show as she bent over and her high tight ass that was temptingly close to his hands. He inhaled her scent and she smelled sweet, feminine with hints of spice and heat.

He was about to say something to her when his door burst open and Hida strode into the room, angry and petulant. "You thought you could fucking keep him to yourself you stitched bitch?!" She yelled at Kakuza who rolled her eyes at her partner's outburst. "The mission wasn't a secret. You could've been here sooner if you weren't so busy pleasing your false god" she replied and Hida's face went red with suppressed anger and she was about to lash out until Shinjo's hands on her shoulders stopped her. He had gotten up from the desk when Hida entered and had moved behind her, ready to stop a fight from breaking out.

Hida turned to look at Shinjo who gave her a small smile and looked at her with kind eyes. Her magenta eyes widened as she looked into his brown ones and she felt safe for the first time in her short life. Jashin had always protected her but this was a different feeling...this was close to...love? "Come here and listen" Shinjo said while leading her to the desk by grasping her arm gently and she allowed herself to be lead. Many confusing thoughts and emotions reeled through Hida but she would have to sort them out later.