After Dan Katō passed along the meeting's decisions, the emergency squad had even less to do over the next two days. Once those two days were up, the "move" would begin.
After the meeting, Akaseki and Ranwu made a special trip to the patrol squad.
They had arranged a little get-together for today, provided nothing came up...
Their main reason for coming to the patrol squad wasn't Minato, but... Zhenpan.
Zhenpan of the Uchiha Clan.
A month earlier, Zhenpan had been gravely injured and carried back to the medical station by the retrieval squad.
After a week of recuperation, he had more or less recovered.
But since he had only just been wounded and had lost his teammates, he had been kept at the medical station. Later, he happened to be assigned to the patrol squad, on the same team as Minato and Inuzuka Tsume.
Zhenpan was already twenty. He had originally been only a Chunin, and... an Uchiha Chunin who had never awakened his eyes. It was during this mission that he had awakened his Sharingan.
At first, having only just awakened his Sharingan, Zhenpan had been in a poor mood. His words and actions had become more and more typically Uchiha, and at his worst, he had nearly come to blows with Inuzuka Tsume.
Fortunately...
With Akaseki, a fellow clansman, looking out for him, and... Minato's considerable experience in "getting along with the Uchiha," he had soon settled into the team. A few days earlier, Zhenpan had mysteriously told Akaseki that he would be "treating everyone" today, and that Akaseki could come by the patrol squad if he was free. "Wow, what's the happy occasion?" Akaseki could smell grilled meat from a distance.
The patrol squad was the only squad capable of "treating everyone" here...
If they ran