" - First day in the forest, like a few hours in, we were attacked by a guy Chihiro identified as Orochimaru. He kind of just. Played around with us, said he was testing us, then I guess felt satisfied, put this seal on Sasuke that's been messing with him and put a seal on my Kyuubi one that's messed up my chakra control. We've kind of got a lot of injuries and would like not to have the seals." As an after thought: "Oh also the Sound team guy called him 'sama,' so they're working with him." Then: "We can do a proper report? But would kind of like medical attention."

"Orochimaru...? I- have to go report this. You three... There are rooms upstairs. I'll- see if I can get someone to help."

"Right. Thanks, sensei."

Iruka make a sign of concentration and disappears.

Hopefully the rooms upstairs will have somewhere to wash... And beds...

Yes to both. There are two floors of rooms. Kiba, Hinata, and Shino have camped out on the first, having arrived late last night.

The team from Suna has laid claim to the second.

They'll... Just leave the Suna team alone, and keep to the first floor with familiar faces.

This is wise.

The other team says hello, but given their, uh, state, will leave them otherwise alone to wash up and such.

That's appreciated. (Naruto is kind of tiredly friendly).

They don't really have anything like changes of clothes, and a lot of the blood's dried by now, but they try to at least get the worst off their bodies and some of it out of their clothes.

(Naruto strongly does not appreciate changing back into dirty clothes. Maybe he can poke Sasuke about hiding more stuff in that vanishing-books thing he does...)

He sticks close to his team, kind of hovering around Sasuke, as they wait. (Do Team Eight know where they can get food and water?)

(He doesn't feel it's particularly smart to do anything like try to get their stories straight - there's stuff he's already planning to conveniently fail to mention but saying out loud they should lie seems... Really dumb.)

There's a sort of cupboard with rations at the end of the hall.

After a couple hours, Kakashi shows up.

"Yo."

Kakashi gets hugged!

"Sensei! You know seals, right, did Iruka-sensei tell you about the one on Sasuke - "

Naruto has no clue how to even begin undoing that, and it feels urgent in a way Chihiro's doesn't.

(Sasuke losing control might've scared him a bit...)

Pat pat.

"I heard, yes. Let's take a look."

Sugira pulls aside the collar of his shirt a bit, says, "It's here."

Kakashi sucks in a a breath.

"Hm. This is not good."

"Can you fix it?"

"Nnno. I think I can fence it off from his chakra system somewhat, though."

"Will that stop it reacting to - stuff?"

He should be able to remove it on his own in a bit, too, assuming his magic can interface with it - removing curses tends to take a third or fourth level slot, at least, and he's on the verge of managing third level spells.

"And what about the seal on Naruto?"

"It should be less of a hair-trigger, at least. As for the other... Messing with that is a little beyond my skills."

"Who can, then?"

"...Not many people. Fewer allied with Konoha. The Hokage's recalling Jiraiya, he'll be able to."

Nod.

"How long?"

"A little less than a week."

He nods, apparently satisfied.