Yuhi Kurenai!
She understood Tang Ping all too well. After all, they knew each other inside out, and she was fully aware of what he was thinking. That was why she had used genjutsu to warn Ino.
She wanted her to weigh whether to choose the Yamanaka Clan or perish alongside the other two clans.
As for Ino joining Blazing Sun Country with ulterior motives... surely no one thought nobody could see through it, right?
Ninjas were exceptionally sharp when it came to intelligence and vigilance.
If it had been a born spy like Itachi, Kabuto, or Nonō, perhaps no one would have noticed.
But Ino was not!
So after she put on an act with Root and defected to Blazing Sun Country, even though Tang Ping had not revealed the truth, the others had noticed some clues.
Still, she had truly been in danger in Konoha, and they got along well enough with her, so they tacitly accepted her while refusing to give her any intelligence whatsoever.
Yuhi Kurenai sympathized with the girl whose father had died on the battlefield, who had been ostracized within her clan, and who had then been tricked by Root into becoming a spy. That was why she looked after her.
Otherwise, with Ino's meager spying skills, she would have been exposed countless times already.
Nonō, in particular, had been driven to distraction.
It was not that she had a headache over preventing intelligence leaks. That was not an issue at all.
At Ino's level, she could not obtain much important intelligence anyway. As for ordinary intelligence, they had never bothered keeping it secret.
What gave her a headache was how to pretend she had not noticed Ino's little moves.
Yuhi Kurenai had asked her for this favor, so naturally she had to put