"I'm not good at running away." Yuki took a few steps back and smiled up at the tree branch girl.  It took more than your average explosion to bring him down, anyway.  "And I wouldn't be a good guest of the Village if I didn't check up on weird sounds, would I?"<br/><br/>He wore his headband over his forehead, plainly displaying his allegiance to the Sand.   "I didn't mean to disturb your training, so much as to ascertain which direction I should or should not go while enjoying a little nature walk."<br/><br/>He was content to leave it at that, but it would be rude to run off on a potential new friend (and a slight opportunity to gather intelligence).  Reading people was hardly his forte, but it was far easier to read them than it was to talk to them.  Maybe this girl would be easy going enough that his ability to trip over his own tongue twice in the same sentence would not damn him...