You will be, future tense, and in the meantime being strong. Like January all over again, a few details changed in the repetition, a different set of victims: and was this what true shinobi life was? Jounin had been his goal for so long that he'd shot right through achieving it into something else, and maybe this was it, the else.

He saw the movement happening and kept his body still -- involuntarily remembered the captor he'd spent the most time with in Waterfall. Something about the way they moved was similar, a conviction in things that somehow seemed clearer now than before.

"It happens to all of us," he said after a pause, remembering what his two agents had said through the bars. "I'd rather get back to work as soon as I can. When should I report back to duty?"

He meant: when do I start the investigation up again, though at this point the situation was less one of investigation and more countermeasures.