Board Thread:Konoha Missions/@comment-34754862-20170109033450/@comment-26510601-20170113053717

It was a mistake on Nana's path to think that Riku was just being quiet and betraying his own nature. After all, he just wasn't being stupid. There was a hidden intellect in Riku that was still growing, perhaps one day such potential could develop into a tactician to lead Konoha's men into battle.

"Thanks, baby," Riku shouted with pride, "you did pretty well back there too! Riku, King of Shinobi, saves the day!"

Riku felt a little tired, but there was still enough in him that he could probably fight again albeit risk himself of passing out from exhaustion. For a moment he bent over, a little happy thinking that this was all almost over, but then more men came. It was like a for just a moment, it seemed that they wouldn't have to see death at all today or anything at least remotely close. Then Taka decided he had no choice, and burnt the men in front of him down to a near-crisp. Riku cringed, his body shuttering as he heard their screams and wails of pain.

He almost felt sick, because of his naivety he failed to understand how it helped them too. Even though it couldn't be seen under his thick, dark glasses: Riku looked to Taka with hatred. His head just kind of hung low as he turned around, Riku didn't want to look at what was happening but then something occured to him.

'If all those men were so easily put down, and they were supposed to be under genjutsu; the ninja must not be among them!'

Riku's body tightened up once again, he was surprised Taka didn't notice this earlier.

"Wait," Riku commanded looking to the both of his teammates, "there's an enemy ninja somewhere! Nana, watch over the prisoners. Me and...," Riku's face turned to that of disgust as if he didn't want to say the Uchiha's name, "Taka will scout ahead and see if anything happens."

Slowly, Riku began to move through the crowd stopping at each and every person making sure they were still breathing and weren't dead. He had no long-term solutions for the heavily wounded, he didn't know much about medical stuff beyond the rudimentary stuff that any average joe should know. Noticing the burn victims and some of the men with deeper wounds, whether or not anyone would help him, Riku freed one of the unconscious men from the starch field before setting them at the end of the corridor where they could safely get to the others and at least bring them somewhere where they could be treated.

Afterward, they would resume pace; Riku couldn't bring himself to look at Taka. He wasn't sure how he felt about the Uchiha, but it was nothing good. The two reached the mouth of the cave, and standing before them was the boss of these bandits. Riku immediately held up his fist, if Nana had listened to him she'd be hanging back safely with the prisoners up until this point. This should've been enough for here to at least get the prisoners to stay put, as for what went on afterward that was her own choice.

"Look," Riku was trying to reason with the boss his voice was firm and loud, "you don't have to do this. My team made sure all your people weren't hurt too badly, we don't have to fight! Just let us go, I don't want anyone else to get hurt!"

Riku was a little tense, normally he was goofy no matter what but since Taka's actions they were beginning to trample over grounds that were taboo for the young Senju.