"Of course we can't kill them," Sasuke said, startled at the suggestion -- civilians, probably, given that the way shinobi schedules worked out would make it difficult for any one group to produce something regularly as the magazine had promised. Unless they had people embedded in shinobi ranks, which ... still begged the question of what exactly they wanted out of it.

"So -- then, how would you determine how extensive their information system is, if they're not just making things up?" He asked, brow furrowed. "They didn't just invent what was in the magazine; there were grains of truth in things, even if they were tiny. I had spoken to most of the kunoichi I got connected with, for example."