* cheers to 200 chaps, yay
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Minato sighed.
There really was no getting out of this with ease, but to be fair it wasn't like there were that many reasonable options for them. Perhaps they just had to wait and see how this would play.
And so together the trio walked back home, opting for the long road instead of portals just in case they managed to change their minds along the way.
Well, they never did.
This was why, when they got to the palace and Otaru went to the queen to report their findings, they had expected anger or something close to a crash-out, seeing as Mika and Cronos had hurt Kiyomi Kimura, yet they had come back empty-handed.
"You didn't come with good news, did you?" Sakura asked when she saw you standing at the door of her study. She could see the worry on his face and yet there was a hint of plea for mercy too.