Clarence
"Well... If we want to get technical, that mission was the first one for a while that had both me and Hitomi on it. I was on a mission with you and then a mission with other people before that. Maybe they were just waiting for both of us to be somewhere where an attempt was easy enough to disguise as an accident. I doubt they would have advanced notice of an impending promotion, unless their notice was only a few days before ours. Hard to say I guess."

*It seemed unlikely to Sana that Amano was actively working with these people, if there were multiple members of the patrol as well as the prime director against them enough to attempt their murder, then surely they would have just accused them of a crime and executed them in some convenient moment. No it most likely would have been successful by now if such a thing was the case.* "Well, just be careful. Never know who could be involved and all that."

*At Takeshi's question, Sana raised an eyebrow, was he trying to get at something specific? He was fundamentally unaware of any reason that someone in the FP at least would want him assassinated. If it was someone from the River Queen, and an ERF assassin, he could understand that on its face. The amount of missions he had been on that directly sabotaged her operations were... A fair few.*

"Takeshi I'm telling you, I really don't know what could have caused them to want to assassinate me. If a director is involved, they would know anything I would, and probably more since they've been on the job longer than I have."
James
Putting two fingers onto his forehead, Takeshi sighs and nods. Anything more specific would waste time. Just for some reason, he feels like there is something being hidden from him. Whatever it is, he hopes that one day Sana could share. Maybe Hitomi. In any case, he should just end the conversation there. 

Now thinking about it, it might not just be the FP that has traitors, however, there is no telling if any of them are MP or PU. For crying out loud, they could be a civilian in disguise too. The one person he is highly worried about is Prime Director Amano. It doesn't seem right to him that the head of the branch would assassinate two people he just recently promoted. It could be for the sake of keeping a close eye on them, but something in his mind doubts that. He wishes he can just talk to him and somehow observe his expressions. Who knows though, the Shinobi world has plenty of liars. 

"I suppose one last thing is, who can I trust? You said you've been gathering allies."
Clarence
*It was a fair question, he didn't want Takeshi to be suspicious of people he had helped and wanted to make sure that he was cooperating with people he should be. Or wanted to anyway. The certainty of having someone that he could confide in besides the currently in danger Hitomi and Sana would probably be a not so insignificant comfort. Well, he only had one person to really tell the Jonin in front of him anyway.*

"I haven't spoken to Hitomi since we've started, so the only person I've talked to is Marionette."

*Sana grinned slightly, it was probably good that he had the ability to trust his partner, although that trust was probably already in there to begin with, and Sana was just erasing any doubt that his friend may have had. Ryoshi had been gone for a while, so maybe that was something that he was worried about. Ryoshi could have even told him, who knows. Either way, Ryoshi was the only other member of the alliance that Sana was totally sure about. He was confident about the others as well, but there was no point in talking about other people unless they agreed to help.*

"Hitomi is working on others, but I don't know the answers to those conversations yet obviously."