Raijinslayer
Aoi Don Maquia
With Akio's words, the harlequin felt butterflies in her stomach, relieved that faith wasn't lost on her leadership skills, if we could call it that. Akio being pretty much the dominant of the couple took a hold of Aoi to deliver a rather enjoyable kiss. The petite female could only blush at the sudden initiative and close her eyes for that brief moment, only to realize they were still on the run. She then chuckled at the jump in confidence Akio expressed all of a sudden, reminding of Aoi just how much her girlfriend had improved since the times they had met. In response to their little pause, Aoi would whisper back.
"Heehee, thanks Kiki~"
With said, she give a slight kiss on the girl's cheek before resuming the monkey jumps all over the branches, releasing Akio from her grip so she could maneuver herself a bit more. And then, a wild Ice Minx appeared and for some reason confided to the least intelligent member of the group. Aoi gave her a rather dumb stare at first, not quite sure what this problem stemmed from. Unlike Akio, she didn't really have this stigma of Rin being a slut, or at least had a hard time seeing it as pejorative given she would herself be pretty active with her own girlfriend. Maybe it was because she did it with more people? That concept still seemed quite bizarre.
Luckily, the Tendou intervened while a drop of sweat fell off the clown's forehead. She just nod at what her lover said at this point, over and over, to avoid staying submitted to this awkward situation. Eventually, Akio's full diagnosis would be done and a little idea lingered in the clown's idea. She simply had to add it, otherwise she'd feel incomplete.
"Maybe he's... Not into women~"
She giggled at the idea that Shouken was indeed gay, even though his reactions indicated the contrary. She didn't mellow her response either, making sure everyone could hear it quite well, including Shouken. They wouldn't be too far from Sunagakure as the temperature slowly rose as they approached the scorching desert environment of the land of wind. Luckily, Shouken's orientation skills and experience would lead them through it rather easily until they'd reach the village.
Sunagakure
It was already dusk when they would arrive at the village hidden in the sand, the entrance of the village would be nothing like the old times. A giant bridge would be presented before them, arcing over the artificial river surrounding the massive city. From this distance they could see the big contrast between the high advanced infrastructures of the oasis city and the desert surrounding it. We could compare this sight to Dubai, an extremely rich hot spot in a desperately poor country. They were of course welcomed by a couple of men who were expecting them to solve this case they were given, for some strange reason. It didn't occur to Aoi as to why they couldn't handle this themselves, especially when the Suna shinobi were known for being particularly rigorous and cruel when serious.
They walked over the massive bridged and would be brought to a rather luxurious five star hotel where they'd be escorted to a rather large suite reserved for those with a ridiculous amount in their bank accounts. Here they would have a set of boxes on a large table, all containing files on the case they'll be working with, but nothing else other than what one would expect from a large hotel suite. They were likely going to have to wait for somebody (I'm assuming Masaki will intervene here), so in the meantime they could likely get familiar with some details and discuss their own strategy on how to approach this.
"Okay guys! No time for slacking off~ We gotta do what we gotta do!"
She randomly tossed some confetti on the heads of her colleagues before she picked one of boxes. Aoi gathered the many papers and pictures of various crime scenes regarding the disappearances and possible linked deaths. She of course had a hard time reading reports, often tossing them to Akio so she could make better sense of them.
N.C.4
Gin's manifestation of his thoughts once again distracted N.C.4's powerful rationale. Or rather, it didn't understand why he would bother to want to know these things, after all he signed a contract and knew what he was doing. This was the type of job where the less you knew, the better it was for everyone else. Luckily, Chihiro would intervene and add her own two cents in the pit, detailing her perspective of the thing and how her mindset was the most adequate for this type of operation. A lot went on in the machine's mind to acknowledge their behavior toward Junshiro's retorts, at least Gin had the ability to calm his nerves when brought back to reality. Hopefully Chihiro's words would seal the deal and keep him in check.
"Precisely."
It simply answered in response to what Chihiro said, though it suddenly focused on the item held by Chihiro. Her phone, an element the robot forgot to consider and was indeed something that had to be handled. Why was she texting an externality when they were doing a very sensitive operation? It narrowed it's eyes at the equipment before nabbing it. With a quick and dexterous move with her right hand, N.C.4 unlocked the back of the phone and had the battery plop out before giving back the disassembled item to its owner.
"No communication, yet. And I must insist ... What is that Quiet Game you speak of, Hiro?"
It asked all so awkwardly, but before an even more awkward response could be made, the sound of breaks would interrupt the scene. They had arrived, and the chauffeur would promptly walk over to the passengers' door and open it. N.C.4 would of course be the first one to exit in order to insure the safety of the VIP of the mission. Once it was clear, it would gesture Gin and Chihiro to exit the vehicle. They would of course be greeted with a typical red carpet for the Hyuuga princess to walk on with all her splendor.
They would be standing before one of those most refined and ancient castles in the world. Its size said a lot about the family's wealth and influence, to have such a coveted household would surely be a display of great initiative and reach over their empire. They were greeted by a set of guards all coming from barracks, but they all kept their distances from the operatives. N.C.4 and hopefully Gin by instinct would stand behind the Hyuuga Princess as she would have to walk forward until the main gate would open, revealing a silhouette shrouded by the blinding light from inside the building.
"Hiro, if I may. This is our target. Remember, nothing until I finish my part."
It whispered to her as if it were giving advice like some sort of assistant, deluding any form of suspicion from it. They were going to finally interact with the root of their problem, and it was only a matter of time before N.C.4 would seize the right moment to exact the objectives given by the higher ups.
