She laughs. "You're lucky you're young enough you missed me as a genin, Mei-san."

"I thank the Sage every day," she says dryly. "What do you have for me?"

Her expression slides serious. "The Akatsuki. Two of them, Uchiha Jakkou and Hoshigaki Kisame, attacked my team in pursuit of the Three Tails. Kisame recognized me through Samehada. I fought them. Uchiha Jakkou evidently felt pressed enough to reveal an ability of hers, I suspect from her Mangekyou Sharingan, to open dimensional rifts, which she and Kisame fled through. In the process of the fight, Sayuri's bloodline was revealed to her team and the Akatsuki, though it is possible the Akatsuki did not get enough information to surmise the full extent of her bloodline."

"That's is unfortunate," Mei frowns. "I had hoped we could keep that quiet for longer... One less trump against them." Her gaze slides to Amajina. "What of the Three Tails?"

"He's alarmed," she says. "He's told the other bijuu about the Akatsuki and to avoid them and what they can do. None of the bijuu who're still talking to him know anything else, though. The Two Tails and Four Tails haven't seen them, but the Four Tails has been hearing rumors."

"Kisame's sword was really annoyingly effective against his chakra... But it combined really well with Sayuri's thing, since his chakra's easier to transfer to other people safely than a lot of the other bijuu."

"If Akatsuki gets their hands on a bijuu, we need to know about it. Monitor the situation. And if you can make Sayuri-chan more effective by working in tandem, I want the both of you to practice that."

She nods, seriously. "I and the Three Tails will check in with the others as often as they'll cooperate with..."

"And, yeah, it's - obvious there's a lot of use for her thing."

Mei turns her attention back to Shinrei. "Write up a full report of the encounter for Intelligence, but leave it out of the mission summary. One of the genin got sick and you had to abort, make something up. We'll amortize the hazard pay over the next few missions you take, but your team is not leaving the village until we have an actionable plan for future encounters."

She nods. "Increased training at first pass, but that could take years to get them to a point where they can hold their own against the Akatsuki. My jaguars are evaluating Elaise as a summoner, which would improve our team's ability to get immediate back up and to send messages. Leaning into increased sensory range and hiding their chakra signatures should help, too, and could be fastest - especially for Amajina. Chakra signatures can also be obscured through seals. We have that set up for Sayuri and me - though once I was close and actively using chakra, Samehada at least could see through it. Still, it should if nothing else make us harder to track."

Mei nods. "Make it happen. Was there anything else?"

She shakes her head. "Not for now."

"Dismissed, then."

"And, Shinrei-san? Next time you have to warn me about an S-class threat, bring something sweet."

She laughs. "I'll keep that in mind." And out.

That was... fun.

She raises an eyebrow.

"So what are we going to do now?"

"I want to get some training in before bed. Going forward - like I said earlier. Training, especially on sensing and hiding chakra signatures. We'll keep running missions - hopefully including C-ranks, if we can get priority on any in-village."

"I'll want to look over your mission reports before submitting them, too, and I'll want you three to create your own reports for Intelligence."

Nod.

To training, then?

To training.

Ninja hide and seek is really the best way to train this, honestly.

Elaise can see that.

(Plus, it is fun.)

Very much so. 

(Amajina is very good at the seeking part of this game. Not so much the hiding.)

Mas appears to have decided they're on Elaise's team - or, at least, are following Elaise around. 

Is Mas perhaps inclined to offer any actually help or advice?