Assassinations are messy even when the kill is clean.

 

A red dusk looms over Konoha as they return - Kakashi and Tenzō, Hound and Tanuki - and the bone-white of their ANBU masks glint like a blade in the light. Kakashi could have handled the mission alone, but if anyone’s to watch his back, then he’d chose Tenzō over few else. Neither are harmed, although Tenzō lost his standard-issue cloak in the escape. The rest of Team Ro would laugh about such a ridiculous mistake were they here, and Tenzō would be blushing for days, but that is neither here nor now. Their return to Konoha is silent, absent of glee. Tenzō is quiet because Kakashi is quiet, and Kakashi is quiet because he’s Hound.