churning them out. show the author some love?

Tsunade hands him one small favor, in the form of an S-class mission: hunt the leaders of the cell who attacked them, the ones who ordered them to hurt the Konoha ninja.

He leaves her room. He will kill them for her and she will be glad, because this is how they live.

He takes the men out one by one, by rote, and as each one dies his gaze never wavers.

When he returns, Sakura is awake in her hospital room, bored out of her skull waiting for him.

"I killed them for you," he says.

"Good," she says.