Sakura: Visionaries focused upon that forested area once again, her spirit burning with determination and purpose. To advance further into the mountain pass for privacy would possibly have proved ultimately suicidal if they were to be trapped somewhere within by their pursuer, so she assumed it best to nullify the threat there and then. “I’m going, Yugito. I’ll trust you to watch my back, but we can’t let them continue to follow us,” the kunoichi stated clearly, though her vocal range increased several decibles (decables? I can’t spell that shit) to a full-on shout – a bit of that firecracker personality she was quite notorious for. “Come out already! We know you’re there, so just do it! What is it you want!?”

Sasuke: Intrusive as he was, his common sense never left him, and he pressed to listen to their conversations with more fervour. His presence had
apparently been spotted, as one of the two women shouted in his general direction, drawing the elusive male’s thoughts from himself at once. With a faint
movement, he managed to shift himself onto a tree branch further away from both of them, but close enough to be spotted at least by Sakura. After carefully
jumping down from the elevated height, he allowed himself to be unmasked from his formerly concealed state, dark optics locking onto the exotic haired girl’s
figure. How long had it been since he had last spoken to her? Perhaps too much of a time frame for him to entirely care to delve further into. Making sure to
turn away and begin walking, fast enough to keep a distance between him and his former teammate, but at enough of a slow pace to indicate that he was
travelling further away to diminish any chance the other kunoichi had of following [c]
Sasuke Uchiha: him. The tree shrouds served to hide him once he stepped into the vegetation, and even further obscured the light from streaming in his
direction and admonishing his attempts at extracting Sakura from the group to take from her the information he desired. To make one shinobi speak, he would
need to manipulate her.  [e]


Sakura: To say she was not completely stunned by the revelation of her former teammate from amongst the fauna would have been a severe understatement, and yet, with age, slowly came reason. She was not paralyzed by uncertainty and despair as she had once been the day she, Naruto and Sai had encountered their former comrade at Orochimaru’s hideout for the first time since his departure. Even if his presence was a knife in her determination, it made sense that Sasuke would be here, as his interests no longer laid in the same plane as her own. Her eyes narrowed slightly, thinned brows knitting in concentration as he slipped so suddenly from her field of vision, the shadows of trees and bushes enveloping his form all over again. A slight tilting of her head signified some attempts to decipher the situation and his behavior…It was a clear attempt to lure her inward to a place that would be less advantageous to her. Certainly he was aware of her inability to perform very well in long-range combat, and that was very likely the reasoning behind his lure. However, like a moth to flame, she could not resist her quest for answers and for confrontation with her former teammate, and as foolish as her behavior was, she entered a brisk sprint in his wake. “Wait!,” she shouted, violently shoving a bothersome branch aside as her gaze desperately searched for any sign of an impending assault.