Hinata said, "I don't know."
Senju Hanaoyu nodded, indicating that she understood.
But she continued, "Actually, you should understand the rules here. If you want to get something, then naturally, you have to give something in return."
"I won't truly give anything away for free."
Hinata nodded. "All right. What do you want?"
Senju Hanaoyu's eyes lit up slightly, and then she said something to Hinata.
Hinata remained very calm from beginning to end. After hearing her out, she merely nodded. I'll do my best.
Senju Hanaoyu nodded as well. That was fair. But it didn't matter. After all, the information Hinata wanted—
might be very difficult for outsiders to uncover,
but to insiders, there was no secret to it at all.
Once the terms had been agreed upon, Senju Hanaoyu finally spoke.
"You should be asking about the recent movements of Naruto's faction and Root, right?"
Hinata said, "Mm. Can you be more specific?"
Senju Hanaoyu said, "Sure. Wait a moment."
With that, she turned and went into the back room, apparently to busy herself with something.
But very soon, Senju Hanaoyu returned with a thick stack of documents and handed them to Hinata.
"The information you want is all here, though I've removed anything completely unrelated."
"After all, you probably aren't interested in things like some shop opening."
Hinata said nothing and reached out to take them.
She unreasonably snatched Senju Hanaoyu's stool, then sat down and began carefully going through the documents.
Three hours later, Hinata left the tailor shop.
Naturally, she had not disturbed Senju Hanaoyu's business during that time, because there were often days when Senju Hanaoyu could not make even a single sale.
As for how Senju Hanaoyu had managed to gather so much information, Hinata neither knew nor had any interest in finding