Hikari looked up at Kuro, her eyes still glowing purple as she did. She leaped up to the branch as he dropped down, never saying a word. The girl had made a bad choice in looking up at him, watching as he came down. She was trapped in genjutsu the moment his eyes changed. The poor girl never stood a chance. Oh well. She supposed that the girl had no way of knowing he could use the Sharingan anymore than she could know what she had been doing to her before. After all, he looked nothing like an Uchiha. Quite the opposite, actually. It was rather curious indeed, though not a lot of people questioned it, especially since he did have the Sharingan. Most people probably wouldn't be brave enough to question it even if he didn't. But she supposed it hardly mattered.<br/><br/>These thoughts went through her mind in a fraction of a second as she observed her surroundings, not bothering to look down at him. Somewhere beyond her vision she sensed someone heading this way. Arashi. She glanced down at Kuro just in time for him to finish and tell her it was time to go and that someone was coming. She nodded to indicate that she knew before grabbing her bag, ensuring that they had left no trace whatsoever of their presence, which took a fraction of a second with her Issekigan still active, and then she leaped to a branch and followed after him, deactivating her dojutsu.<br/><br/>Once they were a safe distance away he explained what he had instructed the girl to do. Except that he didn't. Not really. He had told her what he wanted her to know, but hadn't told her everything. She didn't know what, but she knew he'd left something out. Why? She wondered but it didn't show on her face. People never seemed to realize that lying to her, even by omission, never worked. She could always tell, no matter how good someone was. Even if it was just a feeling or a sneaking suspicion, there was always something that told her that something was off, and she'd learned long ago to trust her intuition. It hadn't led her wrong thus far.<br/><br/>She glanced at him for a split second as he spoke before looking away, not saying a word, not questioning what he had told her, at least not verbally. She simply added it to the puzzle in her mind. This, however, was a different puzzle, the puzzle that was him. Everything was a puzzle to her, including people, but most people were simple enough to figure out. By now she would typically be able to tell you almost anything and everything of note about a person, yet with him she didn't know much more now than she had to start with. At least not much that was concrete, at any rate. But she had learned a few things and had some theories about other things, yet there were still certain things that bothered her because she couldn't figure them out, things that didn't fit, things that just felt off. She may not figure him out now, but one way or another, given the chance, she would. Eventually.<br/><br/>Theoretically, she could find much, if not all of this using her Issekigan, much like she had done with the girl. It would take a few seconds for her to read his conscious thoughts and find out what he had neglected to tell her. And it would be plenty easy to delve into his mind while he slept and find whatever information her heart desired. But she wouldn't do that. That was no fun, and she didn't make a habit of using her Issekigan on her allies, even if they hid things from her, and even if they didn't seem to particularly like her, or people in general. No, she'd find it another way, unless the time ever came when they were no longer allies. It was more fun solving puzzles this way at any rate.<br/><br/>She didn't bother to tell him what she'd learned from the girl, she simply pieced it together in her mind, adding each piece to the puzzle within her mind. It was beginning to come together and she had some ideas now about what was going on, who they were targeting, and why. She expected that these suspicions would be confirmed the more they learned. If he wished to know the details, she would give him the basics, but there were far too many details to go over them all, and nothing was important enough to require immediate discussion. She didn't even bother to confirm that she had gotten everything she needed from the girl. Doing so verbally was unnecessary. It should be obvious enough based on her actions. If she hadn't succeeded, she would have said as much. But that was a silly notion. She never failed.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Sen finally came into view of Arashi's Byakugan as he neared her. He could have sword her saw something move, somewhere along the edge of his vision, but it was too far away, he couldn't make it out. Probably just an animal. It didn't take long for him to reach her, finding her against the base of a tree where he knew she would be. He dropped out of the tree and deactivated his Byakugan, no longer needing it, but activated his Issekigan and looked around the area, just to be safe. He didn't see anything unusual, so he deactivated it and scooped the girl up into his arms. She appeared to be out but it was hard to tell whether she was sleeping deeply or unconscious for some reason or another. Given that she hadn't awoken yet, he guessed it was the latter. Strange. He wondered why she was unconscious out here. It didn't sit right with him, but he saw nothing to indicate foul play, so he made a note to ask the girl about it when she woke up. For now he jumped up onto a tree branch and began carrying her back to where they were staying.