To claim that he hadn't been apprehensive about ending up assigned to a mission with Adela would have been a lie: for all that they'd apparently hashed things out in front of Obito's office, Sasuke's default mode of engagement on missions over the past year had become something akin to disaster control. Still, he'd hoped that the possibility that the good luck that had struck with inexplicable frequency on his last mentoring mission would somehow hold over to this one.
It had seemed to stick at first, too; they'd been bothered only by the usual civilian-level bandits in the region, easily swatted out of the way. They'd barely needed to really rest in the designated stopping-point, but with the weather unpredictable as it tended to be this time of year and their schedule working out fine, there hadn't been any reason not to take advantage of the town.
That had, evidently, been a mistake. Whoever had been tailing them for the past half-hour was far more skilled than the bandits had been. Sasuke had been hoping it was merely a patrol keeping an eye on territory, but to be followed for this long was well out of the norm, something he assumed Adela had already noticed from her question.
"I'll keep the decoy," he said, low out of the side of his mouth as they kept walking and referring to the imitation case they'd created. It had been meant only as a precaution, but apparently they were going to need it. "If needed, we can split up and you can hide the real one somewhere until they're handled."
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It had seemed to stick at first, too; they'd been bothered only by the usual civilian-level bandits in the region, easily swatted out of the way. They'd barely needed to really rest in the designated stopping-point, but with the weather unpredictable as it tended to be this time of year and their schedule working out fine, there hadn't been any reason not to take advantage of the town.
That had, evidently, been a mistake. Whoever had been tailing them for the past half-hour was far more skilled than the bandits had been. Sasuke had been hoping it was merely a patrol keeping an eye on territory, but to be followed for this long was well out of the norm, something he assumed Adela had already noticed from her question.
"I'll keep the decoy," he said, low out of the side of his mouth as they kept walking and referring to the imitation case they'd created. It had been meant only as a precaution, but apparently they were going to need it. "If needed, we can split up and you can hide the real one somewhere until they're handled."