Ryuu sat down beside Tempest and smiled. "How'd the mission go?" He asked.

Tempest glanced from her bowl of Ramen to Ryuu. She knew who he was and was close friends with his wife. She quickly wiped her mouth, a faint blush on her cheeks before swallowing and answering. "L-Long, but good." She smiled gently. "How's Emi doing?"

Ryuu's smile broadened. "Good." He chuckled lightly and looked down at the table top. "She's pregnant again."

Tempest gasped before clapping her hands together in joy. "Oh how wonderful! Do you know the gender yet?"

Ryuu shook his head. "Won't know for a while." He shrugged. "Tonoko wants it to be a male...you know, having a brother." He smiled. "Anyways, I have a favour to ask of you." He said.

Tempest turned her attention back to her Ramen and slurpped it as she nodded. "Shoot, I may be game." She smiled before stuffing noodles into her mouth.

"I don't have much time, so I'll have to tell you the quick, run-down version. If you agree, I'll eleborate when we leave. Family member came to visit, got hospitalized, and someone kidnapped her. I'm going to track her down and bring her back. Emi doesn't want me going alone, and she recruited you. You "game"? We'll be leaving immediately if you are." Ryuu said.

Tempest shoved the last mouthful of noddles into her mouth before facing Ryuu. "I'm so game!" She smiled. "I just need to run home to grab my own things. Tracking people down can be lengthy."

Ryuu nodded. "Thanks." He said. They both left the building and Ryuu left to meet her at the gates while she ran home to collect her things. When she arrived back the two of them left the village and headed out. As they headed further and further from Sunagakure, Ryuu explained the details further, leaving out the parts where Emi and Tonoko were both hurt.

Tempest nodded in understanding. "So, any idea where her kidnappers would have taken her?" She asked.

Ryuu shook his head. "Absolutely no idea. My guess is back towards the Cloud Village. If that's the case, we have a long journey ahead. The doctors said she disappeared sometime last night. A nurse went to check on her at midnight and she was gone. I'm thinking they probably stopped somewhere to rest, so we may have a little time to catch up." He replied.

Tempest nodded. "Hopefully. The sooner you get back to your family the better, right?" She smiled gently.

Ryuu nodded. "The sooner, the better." He smirked.

"Can you just shut up?"

"Let me free, bastard!" Naomi hissed, narrowing her eyes on the mysterious male.

She had woken up not too long ago, and had no idea what was going on. Her head still hurt from Ryuu knocking her out the previous day, but now she felt confused and lost. She figured this male was sent to either kill her or return her to the Cloud Village, but at that moment, she had no patients for this man.

"Look, chick, I need to rest, and your mouth isn't helping any. Do I have to put a muzzle on you, 'cause I will." Shito rolled over to glare at his prisoner.

The previous night, Shito had found a building somewhere on the outskirts of a small village. It seemed to be abandoned, but he took the basement just in case. The concrete floor was cold, and he had found a few blankets that he could lay out to sleep on. He had only recieved about three hours worth of sleep when Naomi woke up and woke him up in the process. Now he was arguing with the woman, wanting just an hour or two more of sleep.

Naomi narrowed her eyes. "Let me free, then you can sleep as long as you want!"

Shito sighed and pushed the blankets off himself. He wearily stood to his feet and made his way over to the bag, reaching inside for a gag he had brought incase she had been awake when he tried to take her and made his way over to her. After struggling with her for a few minutes, Shito managed to put the gag in her mouth. He stepped back and smirked. "There, peace and quiet."

Naomi glared at the male, mumbling protests as loudly as she could without choking on gag over her mouth.

Shito smirked and leaned forward slightly. "I can deal with a little noise. You won't wake me with those pitiful protests." He dragged in index finger across her cheek and returned to the spots on the blankets, pulling them over his body and rolling over. "It'll be like music to my ears, a lullaby."

Naomi sighed deeply and lowered her head. She tried to think of ways she could escape, but with her ankles and wrists tied to a pole, with a barrier to her chakra, was was hopeless of ever even dreaming of an escape.

After two hours had passed, Shito woke up and rolled over to look at Naomi, helplessly strapped to the pole that had so conveniently been supplied in this humble abandoned basement. He yawned and stretched before standing up, scratching his stomach and yawning again. "That was quite a comfortable sleep despite it being on a concrete floor, don't you think?" He asked as he walked towards Naomi.

Naomi kept her eyes shut and her head lowered. Shito sighed and pulled the chakra chain free from the pole, forcing her up onto her feet. "Come on, time to go now." He said and directed her towards the stairs, forcing her up them. Despite her struggling and fighting, he managed to get her to the top and stopped momentarily in the kitchen. "Hungry?" He turned towards Naomi who was leaning back against the basement door that was now closed. "I have food that you might find rather delicious."

Naomi lifted her head to glare at Shito, she tried mumbling something into the gag.

"Hm?" Shito shook his head and stepped across the room, pulling the gag off. "Can't talk with a gag in, chick. Don't you understand that?" He didn't give her any time to say anything. "What did you say now?"

"I said let me go." She murmured, narrowing her eyes. "Just take the dagger and set me free."

Shito chuckled and shook his head. "Sorry, no can do. My mission was to, if I captured you, was to take you and the dagger back to the village. No one or the other, both. So, sucks to be you." He smirked. "Now are you hungry or not? I'm not, so if you aren't, we'll be leaving right away."

Naomi shrugged. "I don't mind starving..."

"Okay, let me rephrase...everything. Either you're hungry or your not. If you refuse to eat, I will force feed you." His smirk disappeared. "You choose."

Naomi kept her gaze from his as she let out a growl.

"I'll give you a few hours to pick, how about that?" He asked and grabbed the chains roughly. He had created a chain around his waist and attached it to the chains around her wrists, allowing a little bit of length to allow for her to walk on her own. Until they reached outside the house, Shito directed her along, and when they were outside in the open, Shito began to walk in the direction of the Cloud Village.

Naomi gritted her teeth as she tried to fight against Shito's chains. At one point she lost her balance and fell face first into the ground. She let out a sigh and refused to move as she shut her eyes. Shito sighed and continued to walk, dragging Naomi across the ground. Shito couldn't help but laugh, Naomi hadn't known that Shito was actually stronger than a normal shinobi. Naomi gritted her teeth as she flipped onto her back so it got cut up rather than her face. She growled at Shito as she closed her eyes again.

"I thought the village wanted me dead..." She murmured.

"Oh, they do." Shito said. "But I'm not from the Cloud Village, and they want to be able to be the ones to kill you. They requested me because, well, it's me." He snickered and continued to drag her along.

"So I guess I cannot convince you that the crimes I'm guilty of, was actually the results of me being framed?" She murmured, gritting her teeth again.

"Not my buisness." Shito said and shrugged.

"Please let me go..." She groaned. "I'd sooner kill myself than return..."

Shito shook his head. "No one will be killing anyone or themselves." He said then stopped. He turned around and winked. "I'll treat you just right." He said and cotinued to drag her along again.

Naomi snarled. "In what world is dragging a girl across the dirt ground defined as treating them right?" She shouted in anger.

Shito shrugged. "Are you going to stand then and walk like a normal human being? Or are you going to do some more failed arcrobatics and pull some more face plants?" He asked and stopped, crossing his arms over his chest and turned to look down at Naomi laying across the ground. A trail followed behind her, seperating the dirt onto different sides. "Well?"

"Untie me." She hissed.

"How about...no? Either walk, or be dragged. Choose wisely." He said.

She stayed silent for a few moments before growling. "Pull me up, bastard..."

Shito moved over and roughly pulled Naomi to her feet. "Now walk." He said, no expression on his face.

Naomi growled again and narrowed her eyes. "Then get back to leading!" She hissed at him.

Shito smirked and waved his hands forward. "Ladies first."

Naomi glared at him. As she moved past him, she roughly shoved her shoulder into his side before walking down the path ahead of him. Shito smirked before following behind Naomi. "Ouch, my arm." He said sarcastically and pretended to whimper. "The pain, it kills!"

Naomi stopped walking and turned to face him. "Look, your job was to capture and take me back, not give me a headache with your sarcasm! So shut the hell up and do your job!" She shouted in his face before walking again.

Shito sighed and reached out to grab the chain closer to her wrist before yanking the chain back. Her body lurched back and collide with his chest, his mouth at her ear. "I can do whatever I like. Whose the one tied up again?" He asked and shoved her forwards again. "Walk, now."

Naomi gritted her teeth as she walked. She let out a sigh and lowered her head as her mind drifted in thought of what she had done to Ryuu and his family. She hadn't meant for it to go so far - it would have been fine had Tonoko not chased after her, and now because Ryuu had, and had her put in the hospital, this Shito guy managed to get his hands on her. She let out a whimper as she lowered her head further. She had not meant to disgrace the Inabikari name, but she figured that, like all the rest of her family, once they found out the danger she was in, they'd hand her over, so to save herself, she acted rudely and even attacked members of her own clan. She regretted it with her life - she was no Inabikari. She didn't deserve to be.

After what seemed like an hour of walking, Shito walked up beside Naomi. "I dare ask again, are you hungry or not?"

Naomi turned her face from his and remained silent, silent tears slipping down her cheeks.

"Hey, I'm not going to tolerant ignorance. Answer." He stated and tugged slightly on the chains.

"I'm not hungry." She whispered, her voice trembling slightly. She bit her lip to try and keep it from quivering.

Shito sighed. "Look, no hard feelings, alright? I'm only doing what I was paid to do."

Naomi shook her head and said nothing as more tears slipped from her eyes. Her bangs kept her face hidden from Shito's view. Shito sighed and glanced at Naomi. For a while, the two walked in silence.