[Uehara Shin]

Dragging these poor fools back to the street and two of them at once was more physically taxing then the rest of the mission had been for him, but he didn't let it show as he dragged them behind him to leave. In parting, he just said to Kumori, "I don't care for the "glory", you can have it, but you should work on your eyes." And with that, he vanished into the grass and bushes, only leaving two dirt tracks behind him where he pulled the bandits along. He left on the same way that he came and took his time getting there. When he arrived, he tossed the two guys he'd taken with him to the ground and almost immediately two muscular men came picking them up and stacked them on the cart, where the three first bandits already were placed. "Alright, there are more guys back there, but be nice to the woman, or I'll let her beat you down too." Shin said as the only order and then sat on one of the spare, nearby rocks, pulling out a stack of paper, and he then went to read through it while he waited.

Meanwhile, these so-called 'employees' of Shin were making their way through the high grass in a rather quick manner as they approached the bandit camp. As Kumori would see it, one after the other tall and muscular men were coming out of the high grass, and they lined up quickly. If it wasn't for the fact that these guys all wore the same shirt that was half black and half white, just like Shin's hair, then these guys would have looked no different from the bandits they previously vanquished. There were eight guys in total and without introducing themselves, they got to work, quickly collecting all the bodies and anything that looked worthwhile like, well, like they were experienced bandits themselves. To top it off, Kumori would be able to hear them whisper with each other and possible her words like, "Is that the new secretary?" and "The boss really got good taste", before these men finally had picked up everything and everyone, except the bandit Kumori had her foot on and without saying goodbye, the left.

These guys walked back to the cart just as fast as they came, even with the added weight of people and some spoils or battle. When they arrived back with Shin, they dropped everyone they'd take with them on the wooden cart, that started creaking under the weight, and handed the valuables to Shin. The Uehara spawn only smiled and waved them away, so that by the time Kumori would come back, these guys had vanished in some direction of the high grass far off from the road as if they had never been there. Shin got up from his rock and said in a low voice, I'll be nice to her this time..." and with that he got two of the healthier bandits to go in front of and pull the cart back to the village, starting as soon as Kumori would come back with the last bandit.

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[Mission End - Shin Out]

[Futago Kumori]

Kumori glares at the various men, feeling her anger rise a little when the bandits discuss her being a "secretary" and how Shin had "good taste". She fully considers knocking them out herself; after all, they weren't official Kusagakure ninja, and were therefore not technically authorized to participate in the mission at all, and so she would also be well within her rights to beat them simply for interfering in the mission. But she knows from their color-coded dress that they were actually under the employ of Shin, although she didn't think their employment was strictly above-board. With no proof, she lets them do the work that Shin had clearly ordered them to perform, and she grumbles as she lifts up the one still conscious bandit, though he cries out for an instant when her jostling him makes the broken bones in his wrist move just a bit. There was nothing she could really do about that. She carried him out anyway, giving Shin an even more harsh glare. The statement about her eyes had been extremely odd, but she decides not to throw it back at him.

She did fully consider throwing the final bandit at him, though. As it is, she has just enough time to toss the final bandit onto the back of the cart, and when he starts to sit up, Kumori is already pressing the tip of the weighted wooden sword at his nose, pressuring him to lay back down and keep completely still so she wouldn't have to beat him half to death as they bring the cart back to Kusagakure with them. It was a completed mission, but Kumori wasn't sure she felt a sense of accomplishment.