"Yes, I... oh," said Hinata. "They've begun. They're going in opposite directions but as the opponents have tried to encircle us, they'll meet behind us."
"Oh?" asked Kurenai, who noted Hinata was completely concentrating on the matter at hand.
Something that sounded like festival fireworks, one of those little chains of firecrackers, went off.
"Ick," said Hinata, who wasn't particularly squeamish. On the other hand, her Byakugan gave her a pretty good and detailed view of what was occurring.
"What's 'ick'?" asked Kurenai.
"Naruto has a technique which causes people he's hit to explode from within," said Hinata. "The last person he used it on - their head exploded into 347 pieces of an average size of 1.2cm with the remaining mass converted to a liquid consistency."
"Ick," agreed Kurenai.
"The two have met back. They're arguing," said Hinata.
"I'm not surprised," said Kurenai.
"row raff!" exclaimed Akamaru.
"That's right!" said Kiba. "Your count must be wrong."
"No, it's troublesome, but I think we tied," said Naruto with a frown. "Did you save one for interrogating?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that," said Kiba, looking back along the trail of destruction he'd wrought.
"Hmm," hmmmed Naruto, leading Kiba back to where one of the bandits was standing.
"You'll never get me to talk," said the bandit. "Never."
"So, if you got fifteen, and I got fifteen, then that leaves seven left still," said Kiba.
"So you're the bandits who have been operating in this area?" asked Naruto.
"That's right, we heard that someone had dispatched a runner to the Hidden Leaf and we set out to intercept you," said teh bandit.
"So it's your whole gang here?" asked Naruto.
"No, just about half of us," said the bandit. "Not that I'm telling YOU anything!"
"Eh?" said Kiba, catching on.
"You're not that well trained as fighters," said Naruto.
"Hah! Shows how little you know!" exclaimed the bandit. "We've got five missing-nin among our number! One's an S-Class! Another is one of Orochimaru's experiments. You don't stand a chance against us!"
"That you're standing paralyzed in a circle of your dead comrades, answering questions you just swore you wouldn't, doesn't matter at all, eh?" asked Kiba as he considered all of this.
"Wha? What did you say?!" said the bandit.
"I hit a pressure point combination where you will answer all of my questions until your time is up," said Naruto.
whissssssssssssssssssssh-THUNK!
Kiba blinked as someone had thrown an axe from concealment at their prisoner, but Naruto had just caught it a moment before the impact could take place.
"Kiba? Do you want first crack at our audience?" asked Naruto.
"On it," growled Kiba, noting that Akamaru was already pointing in that direction.
"Wait," said the paralyzed minion as Naruto started to walk away. "You're leaving me like this?"
"No, you don't have that much longer to live," said Naruto, hefting the throwing axe, then discarding it as not being a particularly quality weapon.
"Swine! We'll kill you and dance on your entrails!" bragged the bandit. "When this paraly- sissss... W-what?!" Ker-sploosh!
"S-class, eh?" said Naruto as he headed towards the noise caused by Kiba and Akamaru fighting the would-be assassin. That could be interesting.
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