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Shinzu nodded as the Mayor spoke, so they'd lost track of the miners, and had no idea where they went. Well it did make a strong arguement for the miners being the ones behind the raids. "We'll check out the old village and the mountains tomorrow. For now we'll just make sure the raids stop tonight." Shinzu said before taking another bite, the last one actually, of his beef. "So far Andou-Sensei hasn't said anything so it isn't too much trouble. if anything it's something we can handle, right Andou-Sensei, and Batsu?" Shinzu said as he turned to his Sensei who was in his own little world and then his new teamate, who he knew little about.

[Sorry want to speed things along, and my B for not posting for ages!]

The mayor sighed, but composed himself as Shinzu spoke. "All right," he said. "I hope you enjoyed the beef, by the way. It's Asagi beef. We just got it delivered yesterday." His smile was weary and in the dim light, his wrinkles showed.

Andou for his part merely nodded. He'd only just zoned back into the conversation after polishing off his last uni sashimi with great disappointment. So the beef was of Asagi stock? Then it was no wonder it had been so tender. Asagi beef, from the Fire Country, was famous for its tenderness and melt-in-your-mouth texture. Apparently this came from giving the cows pampered lives and the best feed money could buy. In Andou's opinion, it was quite impressive that Daichi had managed to procure such expensive goods from the Fire Country of all places. "Of course, Akara. Don't worry, Mr. Mayor," he said smoothly. "I have utmost confidence that my team will be able to perform up to par."

After dinner, the mayor stood up before Andou and his team had any chance to. "What are your plans for tonight? Let us know if there's anything in particular we could do to make your job easier."

Andou for his part was out of his food daze and as close to normal as he could get. "As my team said, we'll be staking out and keeping an eye over the town tonight," he said. (Of course, "we" meant "Shinzu and Batsu".) "Any rations or snacks for the night would be appreciated but not expected. We are trained shinobi, after all," he said in a satisfied manner. "Ready to go to the Bird's eye now?" he asked Shinzu and Batsu, figuring that they would figure out, or had already figured out, who would do what.

Shinzu thanked the Mayor for the information and the delicious food, before leaving the room with Andou and Batsu. "Andou Sensei, I'd like to travel around the city whilst Batsu observes form the Bird's eye, wiht you permission of course." Shinzu asked with a light grin as they exited the Mayor's place. All he knew for sure was that tonight was for to be very interesting, if not long.

Bird's Eye.

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The rickety watchtower is at the end of the town, about 700-750m away from the last building. It's a short building, but its location with ground level about 500m higher than the rest of Daichi makes it an ideal place to keep an eye on the goings-on of the town. Within the watchtower are several supplies: a coil of rope, a torchlight, and binoculars.

Currently nothing much is going on in Daichi - just the movements of people within the town, people getting off work and going back home, and people closing up shop for the day. The town lights burn brightly in the darkness.

[In case it's not clear, Daichi is situated in a valley]

Two blue people appeared in the Birds Nest tower, both sporting Kirigakure headbands. The taller one, male with bushy blue hair that tied into a ponytail behind him, pushed the smaller one forward a bit, obviously Masaraku, a deep gnash in her uniform on her right shoulder with a recently healed, but scarred wound beneath it. The male spoke first, saying You can 'ave 'er back now, we may need her again in the future so don't go to far without talking to us first." He looked down at Masaraku as if expecting something, the girl was obviously much more shy around her own clan than she was amongst others, it was obvious in the way that she buried her head and hid behind her hair. Nonetheless she gave a long and respectful bow to the elder and mumbled something along the lines of Thank you for escorting me here Kimari-sensei." Her body was shaking before the man for fear of error in anything she did, god forbid she screw up before her own family. The elder man said, Speak up gal, you know I got water in ma 'er." Masaraku turned a bright red and spoke louder, I was thanking you for the escort Kimari Sensei. I appreciate you letting me return to the team to assist with the mission." If he called her out again she would burst into tears.
The large man wiped his hand across his upper lip and said, Damn woman. You need to grow a pair if you ever want to be one of the Seven." He looked back at Andou and gave a half a** salute as he stepped off the birds nest and disappeared. When he was gone Masaraku didn't move for a moment, then she wiped her eyes and stood up from her bow, taking a deep breath. I'm sorry about that Andou-sensei, I hope my absence did not inconvenience the team at all." She had chosen to move on as if nothing had happened, after all, most people are afraid of seven and a half foot tall shark men with giant swords, right?

Batsu was continuing to put the earpiece in his ear when he heard a bit of a commotion.The boy turned and saw a couple of Hoshigaki. One of them was huge in stature and actually looked like he could kick some a** if need be. The smaller of the two turned out to be Masaraku... or raher the shell of Masaraku. What was once a strong and independent female turned into a submissive female. He felt bad for her to be honest. She was bowing to the man and clearly looked like she was about to cry. Even when she was thanking the elder for escorting her, she sounded like she had a lump in her throat

Masaraku definitely needed to snap out of her funk or she would be of little use to the team. So Batsu felt it necessary to antagonize Masaraku. Hopefully the girl would come to. "So... " Batsu turned his head and started fidgetting with the earpiece again. "... they let you out on good behavior?"

With Kimari gone the old Masaraku came back in full swing at the sound of Batsu's joking voice. "How about you joke around a little less and get back to your job." She rolled her eyes and headed off with Shinzu. When they were a bit away she spoke to Shinzu without looking. "Mind filling in the gaps on what is going on around here?" He gills glowed blue for a brief moment as she searched the area to get a whiff of what was normal for the valley air. "And what our orders are as far as how we are allowed to dispose of the enemy." She didn't want to talk about what had just happened, anything but that was fine.

Batsu rolled his eyes and climbed the rickety ladder into the rickety building. Right off the bat, the boy grabbed the binoculars and started watching everything from above. This felt like it was his niche. The boy was likely to be the first to know and it seemed like everything was solely revolved around him. He wasn't one for attention, but it felt nice to actually have something to do.