Genma tracked Raidou's gaze to the schoolyard. "Your brothers?" He hitched up his pants one-handed--maybe he should take Raidou up on that protein shake offer--and adjusted course to head for the Academy. "Are we visiting, or just spying on them?"

Something they'd done before, a time or two, casting henge on themselves and looking in on Hiroshi and Setsurou. The last time, a month or so ago, Hiroshi's class had been calculating how many exploding tags they would need to blow up a dam, and where to place the charges. Setsurou and his class had been working on chakra fundamentals.

Genma eyed Raidou carefully. Only half a week ago, the very idea of facing his brothers from his hospital bed had been enough to set him growling, and Genma had finessed their way out of it with a half-truth about not being allowed civilian visitors. "Do they know we were getting released today?" he asked quietly.