[b]Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu[/b]

Nodding at Meisa as she looked away, he turned around to his team after reading the coded message. His face grew into a steel-hard expression as he ralied his team. [b]"Allright. Follow me. I'll tell the details on the way."[/b] He said, jumping off the stone faces, down towards Konoha itself. Using chakra to soften his landing, a basic shinobi agility skill, he adopted his marching pace as he headed towards Konoha's gates. He had no mercy for his genin at this point, as the only way to increase their stamina was by doing it. Hence, he forced them to keep up with this rather fast way of travelling. Perhaps in a month or two they'd be able to keep up without getting too tired. In the ideal situation they'd get a stamina just as well as his own after a few years, but he doubted that.

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Once outside of Konoha's gates, and about a dozen kilometers through the large forests near the Easern borders of the town, he threw a look at his genin. They were catching up quite nicely so far, but their destination was still a few kilometers ahead. He was amused though at seeing the differing grades of physical condition now blatantly visible in his students, but he knew that their basic condition and their youth would let them recover pretty much entirely after a few minutes' rest. They had neared an area where the trees started growing smaller, compared to their humongous brethren near Konoha. The faint smell of a campfire reached Kensuke's nostrills and when skimming the top of the foliage he could see the thwarted remnants of the smoke that managed to punch through the treetops.

[b]"Allright. We're nearing the destination. We have limited intell on their camp, but we do know that they didn't feel the need to set up a ring of forward guards, and that the only thing protecting them from a surprise attack is a few guardsmen. Nothing spectacular thus. They are bandits, so we should expect them to put up a hard fight, but they aren't shinobi. Now, I want you to stuff it in your heads that these are bandits and criminals. Don't have mercy for them, for they won't have any for you too. Don't get yourself killed because you hesitated. If you still have questions ask them now."[/b] He told them as they entered the general area. He knew that they might want to rest first, but like hell he was going to order, nevermind even suggest them to. It was their job to notify him of their conditions should anything be wrong.