Sasuke stopped to consider the thought, midway through rifling the contents of a thin pouch sewn into the lining of a vest. If they could pull off the genjutsu, it would be perhaps the easiest way to handle the situation. The only difficulty was managing the mannerisms of those who had died in a convincing way for long enough to get the information they needed, and even with the Sharingan active, Sasuke had only captured combat mannerisms.

A glance at Sakura made him doubt the extent of her ability to act like someone else, which meant ...

"It'll work best if one of us handles the genjutsu and the other one uses henge, pretending to be one of the civilians," he said, glancing briefly in the direction of their charges. "We can try to convince them to tell the civilians their demands.

"Which is your strength?"