[Uzumaki Ataru]

The Uzumaki lets his Master take the lead in finishing things off, taking a deep breath it comes out as more of a resigned sigh. Why were people like this? Then again, he knew why and shared a bit of that same sentiment with Shinde that they had chosen their path and lot in life. Who was he to act high and mighty or become some arbiter of moral justice, he was a kid but more than that he was a Shinobi of Konoha. Watching as she takes her time interrogating the hobbled and otherwise tied up bandits, she got her answers and brought forth the solution to end things decisively. Ataru was glad for it, he wanted to leave this forest and go home.

Lounging upon the shoulder of the Ashen Kunoichi's Earth golem, as the terrified faces of the raiders hiding below in the nearby basement are revealed to the surface he is unimpressed as a crossbow bolt shoots forth bouncing off the flat face with a echoing twinge and sound of shattering wood; the Genin showing they were completely over it. "Go ahead and finish them, the last cellar is over there. I even marked it out, should be easy to find. I'll guide you there after we handle this..." He points off in the direction of the other cellar, the last one if what he found and their intel was anything to go by. The bandits had gone to ground but soon enough they would be unearthed and receive punishment for their crimes.

[Hatake Shinde]

It wasn't long before they came to the conclusion. The ending. The bitter battle's final rest as they began their battle in earnest. As Shinde looked to her right. "Don't worry. You're not in the wrong here." She exclaims, and with it, her golem's fist comes to crush and bear down upon this fortification. And for the other, she watched as it was demolished nearly as quickly. The bandits that tried to flee being grasped by strong stone hands, either thrown, crushed, or in one such instance. Swallowed. The man being raised to the golem's jaws and his back crunched with a satisfying pop. And with it, she'd sat back and relaxed as the hardest parts of it were over.

"You were a bit too kind." She mused to herself, though, she did at least spare the ones that conceded. Surrendered when they realized they were outmatched. Yet, she knew that these people were like a plague to Konoha. Perhaps some of them not even native inhabitants, but opportunistic raiders from some other land. Whatever the case, with their work done, they'd cleared a path for the merchant caravan, and as she dismissed her golem in due time, the group would make their way to complete their mission and get their pay. "I hope you don't change too much." She says after a moment's thought. "But also hope that you change a lot." A contradictory statement.

"Let's go get paid and I'll buy us some ramen. All that you can eat." A statement she would come to sorely regret.