Two days after he received Ibiki's report and the preliminary medical examination, Tsurude walked into ANBU headquarters for the first time in nearly six months ( Read more... )

Ibiki's footsteps echoed quietly in the concrete corridor. The flickering fluorescent lights provided just enough gray-blue illumination to see just how stark and bare the walls and floor really were. Further down a pipe dripped artfully, the soft plunking of moisture almost musical in contrast to the quiet buzzing overhead. The doors lining the ( Read more... )

Uchiha Madara knew that, sometimes, some things worked out really really well. It had taken some nudging and manuvering but it seemed that someone was going to act on Sasoriza's... tragic... death all those months ago. It really wasn't surprising that it was the hot headed Deidara; TobiMadara could care less. She was just pleased that SOMETHING was ( Read more... )

Despite the warm spring days, the cool breezes, and the beautiful nature surrounding her as the caravan of ninja made their way through Fire Country to the capital, Asuka wished she was holed back up inside her home. With the windows shuttered closed and the doors locked. And in bed. With a pillow over her head. Not that this was an unusual train ( Read more... )

[ooc: set the night before everyone heads to the gala]"...you want me to take care of a sick person ( Read more... )

( folded note on Tsurude's desk )

Happens between Paperwork done? and Honesty is the Best Policy

Ibiki watched impassively as one of the senior interrogators schooled a fresh-faced kid in the art of resisting torture. Those new to Torture and Interrogation were never given quite the same instruction as the previous crop. This way no one could ever prepare for what possibly lay ( Read more... )

[[Backlogged to October - takes place between this and this.]]

( Are you suicidal? )

[ooc: takes place after Where are the swells who run this show? and before Necessary Paperwork.]

( ''Explain what happened on your mission, Uchiha.'' )

[ooc: set after the return from the Otogakure mission retrieving Haku.]

( Simple as that. )