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[craters]

❝Hi, you've reached Haruno Sakura. If this is a medical emergency, please leave your name, location, and a brief description of the injuries.❞

𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 🌸 𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 🌸 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

（ ooc; if you'd like to handwave her healing/helping your character, feel free to reply and just put HANDWAVED in the subject line. helps me keep track! ）

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[craters]

I understand your concern.

（ she exhales, and then: ）

What's your plan so far? Maybe I can do more than just shore up your medkits.

[nagano]

[ Kaito whips out a piece of parchment and holds it out for her to take.

A quick glance will reveal several notes regarding the Gallows, the state of prisoners and their bindings, and the equipment the guards are toting around. Below all that, an underlined reminder: ]

Powers and magic are a no-go inside the prison. Everyone in there is relying on brute force and weapons if a fight breaks out. There is one exception, however—the telepathic and empathic bond between Soulmates remains unhindered.

[ He doesn't elaborate on how he knows that, but she can surely guess the implications that are left out. ]

The general state of the Gallows walls seems pretty poorly-maintained, so I'll be sneaking in and filching some keys to break my partner out. This might be a stretch, but if you have any tools that can be used to make a diversion, I'd be happy to buy them off you.

...I'd ask you to join me, but from what my partner observed, she was hardly the only one accosted. Others might look to infiltrate as I plan to. When we all get out, there'll probably be plenty of wounded folks who will need urgent treatment.

[craters]

（ she gives him a bit of a look, and then turns around and heads back towards the clinic with the box in her arms. ）

Come on. I have a few other things that you may find useful.

（ sooner or later, she's going to have to admit she's more than just a doctor. might as well start with someone who has a proven ability to keep secrets of his own. ）

[nagano]

[ Their eyes lock, and lying in plain sight beneath the calm surface of those golds is a smoldering, wrathful anger, waiting to ignite.

But when Sakura, turns and invites him towards the clinic, Kaito bows his head and cracks a smile. Tight, terse, yet grateful. ]

I feel like I'm about to turn the page of this book and discover a few plot twists, [ he remarks, taking a moment to glance about his surroundings (and more importantly, scout out the auras of any potential eavesdroppers) before falling in step beside her. ]

[craters]

（ the clinic is cleared out for the day, and sakura sets the box down on her little desk in its alcove built into the building beside the small canvas tent. just because no one is directly around doesn't mean she's about to speak loudly, though, and her voice is a playful murmur — ）

Only a few?

（ she says that lightly enough, with a look tossed over her shoulder. but she does take a scroll out of a drawer. she unfurls it on the desk and, with her back to him does something to activate it. a box appears in its center, and she opens it up, turning around to him. ）

I don't have much to spare, you'll have to be a bit discerning.

（ inside are an array of shinobi tools, neatly laid out and perfectly labeled with paper tags in an immaculate hand. ）

Take three of each. The grey ones are smoke bombs, the papers are explosive tags — I'm not entirely certain they'll work, given what you're describing of the power suppression field, but if you light them on fire they can discharge an explosive yield — and the little green cannisters are an injectable paralytic. You have to be close to use them, it will render someone immobile for about two hours depending on their body weight.

[nagano]

Too many twists will put us back where we started, so yes, just a few.

[ There's a moment of levity where Kaito meets her gaze with a wink. Curious eyes long for the rest of his body to sneak around and catch a glimpse of what she's doing, but the box she produces (more specifically, its contents) is enough to placate him. ]

Is that onmyodo? Sealing magic? Looks like something my father would do, hiding things within plain objects...

Mm. Thank you.

[ He doesn't hesitate to reach into the box. Deft fingers gingerly handle the smoke bombs, but he snaps up the explosive tags with a bit more practiced ease. However, he only takes one of the canisters. ]

These look valuable, and I can't imagine they're easy to synthesize. I should only need one, tops. If there are any other problems, I can solve them with these distractions or my fists.

Y'know, Naruto had a little slip on the Netherwork the other week. Said he was a shinobi. Does that also extend to you and your other friend?