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The few ANBU that weren't taking care of villagers comprised the entirety of the small team that greeted San and his group. A tent was quickly erected outside the Crevice and they were directed in there to be decontaminated.

Meanwhile, Bast overlooked the empty areas and the destroyed districts that comprised Sunagakure. ANBU were reporting back to the Gates as the evacuation finished, as not as many were needed to take care of the citizens as were needed to actually move them. With someone free to take her requests, Bast called over one of the ANBU and requested details on the nails used in construction of the Village, and also requested that nails be brought to her. The ANBU nodded and disappeared, only to reappear several minutes later with the requested information and four different kinds of nails. Bast thanked the boy and went to work.

Bast grabbed the nails and activated Shinranbanshou Douka no Jutsu. Her body quickly converted to the metal of the nails--which was uniform due to a decree of the Sandaime Kazekage's--and she sent a wave of Chakra to the parts of the Village that had been destroyed. Clouds of metal rose from those areas and flew toward the woman, coming to rest in front of her. The woman divided the combined cloud in to four separate piles on the ground in front of her, the divisions made based on ratios that the nails were used that she found in the information given to her.

As soon as the metal and nails settled, Bast went to work converting each pile in to the respective type of nail. She made sure that the nails were all straight, the tips were sharp, the rust was removed, and the heads were in proper shape before calling over ANBU with boxes to collect the building necessities. Another Shinobi came over and cleaned the rust from the Crevice so that it would be unable to harm anyone. The nails would be taken off to be stockpiled for the reconstruction effort.

Bast looked over at San and shrugged.

"You're too late, most of the work is done until the soup kitchens open in the morning. If you want to do anything, make sure that all doors are open in the Residential District so that the water can properly drain," the woman instructed. "Or you could gather tools for the reconstruction effort. I imagine they're littered all over the place in the Residential District. Or, you know, you could actually check in with the Kazekage to see what he would have you do. Oh, and if any of my experimental creations have been damaged, I'm blaming you for not stopping the wave before it got here."

"Interesting as in 'complete failure', or interesting as in 'something of actual interest'," Bast asked, eyeballing the Village from her perch. "On another note, Rouran and the Outpost might have been affected by the flooding. You should run out there and fix things up if you get the chance. We both know that if I go, I'll come back with things that I didn't leave with because it's my job to confiscate illegal items. On second thought, I'll go."

"'It'? What is 'it'?" Bast asked, feeling as if something was omitted from the report that she received. "Automatons and golems are two completely different things. One is a puppet-like thing that does specific functions while feeding off a central power source, and the other is a golem. Why didn't you follow them and take out their power source? Then you could have brought them and their power source back to the Village and we could have run some tests on them."

"If there were any technique that relied on power from the automatons, it would center around the automatons. You probably could have followed, just not closely," Bast said. "If they were able to 'think', then that means that they were being constantly fed orders. Which means that you could have bypassed them altogether and tracked their source back to that ship that you said that you saw, which brings up another question: If you knew that the ship was there, why the hell didn't you go after it?"

"Those kids have been trained enough to understand that when an elder tells them to go home, they go home dammit," Bast responded. "You should have sent them home and advanced with the mission either on your own or with other higher-ranked Shinobi. During this mission, it was up to you, you were being tested, and it sounds an awful lot like you didn't exactly do well. Don't push your work off on to the new recruits when you, as their senior, cannot do it. Trying to do so is irresponsible and endangers not only your juniors but yourself as well."

Al had been brought in by Manfread and decontaminated and treated in the tent, but still needed attention because he'd been exposed longer. As they were carrying him by on the stretcher, he'd heard the last part of their conversation, and felt terrible guilt. He's getting in trouble just because he had to babysit us. He, and James, and everyone else fought really hard, while I just did a trick here and there and overused myself. I didn't even help anything, really... He became quiet, his eyes unfocused as he reflected on his poor performance, and it's effect on his teammates. Silently, he swore he would never let that happen again, if he could ever help it. Off he went, carried to the hospital by two of the Medical-Nin on duty.

//And... Scene. That's a wrap folks. We'll finish up tomorrow... >_>
o_o It would be cool if someone made a movie about a really big Suna-Nin adventure...//

San had to crack a smile at the words of Akane. Standing up for him was one thing, but to Bast sensei was another. And he did raise a few interesting points about the power and abilities of the automatons. He had a good head on his shoulders....as much as San hated to admit it....he was allowed to view himself as a legend in progress. If he grabbed himself some friends and some good team mates....he was well on his way.....Ruffling his hand through the gennins hair, San muttered a few words to himself before he walked out to face the Miyamoto's "grounding."

"Never let you enemy see you spirit...he he he...good job Akane...."

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