Kyo sighed as he saw that Tomoko's feathers were getting ruffled a bit. Right now though she did have the right idea though. A briefing was needed more than a contract negotiations. "Alright since we've come this far then I'll start it off. Right now we are currently at a disadvange. We know not what what our qurry's ultimate goal is, if they even have one. So that brings up these three points." he said holding up his hand.<br/><br/>"1. We need to know who exactly we're are facing outside of shinobi trained crimmenals.".<br/><br/>"2. We need to find out where their next target is going to be and stop them."<br/><br/>"3. Find out what their ultimate goal really is."<br/><br/>He said counting off on his fingers the points so everyone can know what they were facing as far as he could see it before lowering his hand. He had used the idea of them being crimmenals to help ease up some on Tomoko. "Now as I have said before we are currently at a disadvanage. We do not know where the crimmenals headed after their attack on the Kiri village was repulsed. So here is what I am suggesting. We need a map of the surrounding area of the village that was attacked. Namely what are the other surrounding villages. From there we can figure out how far a Shinobi trained cirmmenal can move and what are would likely be their next target. Now a boon to us sort of. Is that it with the last village they attacked there was shinobi stationed there who repelled the attack, so it's a safe bet they have wounded. Now if as Kenishi suggests they want form their own nation they need all the people they can get. However on the off chance they are simply a group of bandits and crimmenals then they are likely not to want to keep the ones who are badly injured which means they dump the dead weight so to speak as soon as it's convient for them. Which presents with a boon which is a double edged sword. It lowers their overall numbers but on the backswing it means that those left are the strongest and shouldn't be taken lightly." he said to them outlining a sembalance of what he could see of this.<br/><br/>"So as my recommendation for our first move I would suggest we head for the village that was attacked and repulsed by the shinobi. From there we can get a better picture of what our foes were after and what direction they headed when they retreated. Once we know that we can begin to draw the pattern of where they are likely to hit next. Once we can establish a pattern we can with a degree of reliblity predict their next attack point and intercept them there. I know it seems like alot of leg work to do and alot of wasted effort. Having tracked several rogue shinobi in my career I can't stress enough that we need to be two steps ahead of our enemy who is already one step ahead of us." he said to them. He had spoken evenly and in a level voice letting them know things as he saw them right now on the board.