Assassinations are easy. Assassinations when there is an Uchiha-Senju team gawking at him are less so. He flicks the blood off his sword either a frown. The kill has been messier than he had wanted but it had worked out, even with the two idiots tripping over each other. Honestly, who in Konoha had thought the pair of them to be fit to go on an actual mission? They have horrible teamwork and any usefulness they might have had seems to have completely crumbled when faced with Tobirama. He turns to them after a short scan with his chakra to make sure they weren't in any danger.
"What were the pair of you thinking?" He demands, sliding his sword into its sheathe with a satisfying snap. Both of them flinch, whether at the sound or at Tobirama's words he can't tell. They shrink into themselves a little, the Senju chewing on his lip while the Uchiha crosses her arms over her chest in false bluster.
"Well?" That neither of them manage to get a full sentence out (the Uchiha does but it makes no sense- something about adopting, for some reason) just makes him sigh in aggravation, pinching the bridge of his nose in a futile attempt to stave off his impending headache. A bijuu was easier to deal with than these two messes and that's saying something.
"Do you know how to get back to Konoha without getting yourselves killed?" Their nervous glances at each other and their surroundings don't inspire much confidence, to his growing horror. He had wanted to deal with the whole leech thing today but that's out as soon as the Uchiha manages to stumble through and intelligible reply.
"U-um... go, uh, west?" Konoha is, in fact, east. Why were these two let out of the village? He eyes them. They're about the age for genin, maybe young chuunin. ...That is, of course, if this universe's Tobirama got around to making the academy and rankings for shinobi before he left. Manipulated or not, he can't imagine any version of him content with letting young shinobi going out into the world unprepared.
"Wrong," he answers distractedly. "Where's the rest of your team?" The two exchange another look, this one less scared and more confused. He refrains from cursing.
"Th-this is our first mission together," the Senju says hesitantly, eyes wide.
"...Konoha has implemented a team-based system, has it not?"
"Well yeah," the Uchiha says, to his utter relief, "but we're chuunin. Teams dissolve after genin." Well there goes that. Tobirama stares blankly at the girl before sighing explosively.
"Great. Wonderful," he says, words heavy with sarcasm. "Come on children, let's get you back to Konoha." When the shinobi look like they're going to protest being called children he just gives them a sharp look and begins to herd them in the direction of Konoha. When they're close enough Tobirama feels safe to let them go on alone, he turns and shoves the scroll he's been writing on for the majority of their journey into the Uchiha's surprised grip.
"For your esteemed Hokage. Make sure he gets it-" Tobirama is reasonably sure either Madara or Izuna are in charge, "-and reads it. Tell him that I'll know if he doesn't." Then he sends the children on their way.
The note, as their Hokage will find, details out a summary of the system set up in his Konoha, the one that he had created himself. It had lasted his Konoha through two wars. He's not sure the half-made system this Konoha has going on will be able to do the same.
