Now What Have I Gotten Myself Into? ~Enter Konoha's number one knuckle head

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                        Chapter 48

Silence rang out between Kakashi and I as Guy was listening ever so subtly. Probably as subtle as someone like Guy gets. I bite at my bottom lip running through the possibilities again along with a very vague memory. I know Orochimaru is going to attack today but.. The finer details are eluding me. Oh how I wish I hadn't of listened to Aphrodite almost eight years ago and had instead refreshed my memory on this particular anime. Enough with thinking about that. There are more pressing matters at hand. I doubt I have anything to fear as Orochimaru's sound ninja probably know not to attack Sasuke or me. Yet if they aligned themselves with another village as I had initially thought then he probably sees their actions as another way for Sasuke and me to prove ourselves. If that is the case then would he have even told his own ninja to avoid attacking us? Probably not. Glancing around again I raise my right hand and lift my bangs from my forehead so they were out of my eyes again. Eight Anbu well seven if you don't count Kabuto in the back. If I reach out with my energy I could try reading the energy fluctuations such as Aphrodite does but I'm not sure if that is at my skill level. "I would venture a guess that some of these people here are enemy in disguise." I mutter to myself even though Guy now turns more towards me slowly so not to take Lee's attention off of the match. Noting Kakashi and Guy's gazes upon me I sigh releasing my bangs. "Do I seriously have to explain my thought?"

"It would help us understand how you came up with that possibility." Kakashi gently eggs me on causing me to sigh. Would it even matter if I explained myself? The leaf will probably end up taking major damage and many will die anyway. Telling them would give these two the upper hand but as a whole it wouldn't do any good. Therefore it would be unnecessary but, seeing as their eyes are still on me it doesn't appear like I have the choice of not telling them.

"It's like I said. Knowing our enemy is a powerful ninja and that he has plenty of experience he recruited help." Looking towards Kakashi briefly I raise a brow as if he should have thought of this first. "As I had already explained before when I was initially asked about my thoughts and what I have gathered about this particular enemy. It is likely he allied himself with another village. Face it, the leaf isn't too popular with any of the other villages. We are stronger, more advanced in medical and Ninjutsu, also we have a lot of ninja that are extremely talented and well known at that. Look at it this way, to name off some in the nearest vicinity we have... the copy ninja, the green beast, Asuma, and Kurenai. That is only in the closest proximity beyond the Hokage himself. Also from what we have seen in this exam so far is that Konoha has more promising genin then any of the other villages. Just the ones who had made it to the final rounds were three sand genin, one sound, and the rest are leaf." I pause now turning to more face both of the Jonin. "It would be easy for our enemy to turn any one of the other villages against us and use them in order to attack the village. But how would you go about doing that?" I tilt my head pausing shortly to let the question sink in.

"Place people on the inside of the village while the rest are hidden outside, why you may ask?" I mention as I hold up a hand since Guy's mouth opened as if he was going to speak. "That's simple. It's a basic diversionary tactic. The ones inside the village will distract the village's ninja so the ones outside of the village can more easily infiltrate. Just from what I've seen of this enemy he will probably use huge snakes to help bust down the walls and cause further chaos. During our fight in the forest of death he used three snakes that I can count. The one that swallowed Naruto so he could disguise himself as the knuckle head and, two during the actual taunting. I would feel safe saying that snakes are his favorite way of attacking since I got to witness a move he called, striking shadow snake, as well. So now we have huge snakes, a village turned against us, his own men, and him. It is highly likely that we are already surrounded and they are just waiting on a signal to attack."