<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff"><div style="text-align: center">Aoi's eyes narrowed and she was quick to follow the Suna nin's words of silence; she set the meat she'd held in her hand on top of her bag, slipped something from the bag into her pouches, and pulled the small black half-mask up from around her throat to cover the lower half of her face. <i>Assassins, indeed. Probably sent by their target</i>, she mused, <i>after all, they weren't after just another nin, they were after a S-rank Rouge. If their villages had managed to gather enough information to send them after the Rouge, then there was reasonable room to assume that the Rouge had enough information. Possibly to send his/her own assassins.</i><br/>
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It did surprise her as well that Yaku had been the first to sense the intruders, not Kaosu; however, she assumed this was due to the fact that the Suna nin had been the one to set up the perimeter in the first place. Aoi lowered her voice to a faint, faint whisper as she tied her hair back to keep it from hindering her view; "They must have been sent by our target. What course of action shall we implement?"​</div></span>