The Four Rings of Revelation
The mission itself goes off without a hitch, and at the end of it all Saburo hands each of them a shiny small pendant. "Consider it your tip," he smiles and winks, and then he is off, heading to where his next escort will pick him up. Itachi eyes the jewellery critically. It is a little bulky ring made of shiny metal, barely big enough to fit over his pinkie.
"Itachi-kun, always so critical," Sakura chuckles, catching on to his scepticism, and he blushes, much to his own chagrin. He watches their sensei kneel on the ground and pull out a scroll from her travel bag. A little puff of smoke rises up as she unseals a roll of surgical thread and cuts off four even pieces with a kunai.
"Here," she says, smiling, and hands them the string. "This doesn't look very stable, Sakura-sensei," Mamoru ponders even as he follows her example and makes a makeshift necklace for the metal ring to dangle from. "Oh yeah?" she replies with a raised eyebrow. Hooking one finger under the thread, she pulls and pulls and pulls, until Mamoru's face is right in front of hers.
"Alright," he mumbles. "It is quite sturdy."
"Wear it like that until we get home. Then you can go and find some real chains for them," she says. Itachi doesn't see the point. The rings are baubles like any other. They are not even pretty, just four simple pieces of metal.
Lagging a bit behind his team, he drops the pendant into his kunai pouch, deeming it unworthy of further consideration.
A/N: Rings of metal – any idea where I got that from?
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