Then that feeling could only have come from the beautiful, intelligent woman.
The moment Uchiha Yin realized it, he felt anything but relieved. A chill ran through him instead.
If she had been an enemy, he could have dealt with her directly. But she was from his own village, and a beautiful woman at that. This was much harder to handle.
Wanting to know what Uzuki Yugao was up to, Uchiha Yin slowed his pace.
That would let Uzuki Yugao catch up easily and give her a chance to make her move.
Uzuki Yugao had been struggling to find a natural way to speak to Uchiha Yin while he was so far ahead of her.
When she looked up and saw his figure suddenly looming before her, she panicked. The Chakra throughout her body instantly fell into disarray.
Uzuki Yugao's foot slipped, and she nearly fell from the tree.
But she was an ANBU ninja, after all. A mishap like that was easy enough to handle.
With a sharp twist of her waist, she bent backward in midair and caught a nearby branch.
Using her momentum, she swung toward the next tree with a whoosh. She straightened her waist, landed with both feet on a branch, and released Chakra through her soles at just the right moment.
It held her firmly to the tree. To anyone else, the whole maneuver would have looked deliberate.
But a master like Uchiha Yin could see straight through the act.
He nearly laughed. The way she pretended to be calm was genuinely adorable.
For both Yugao's dignity and his own, though, he struggled to hold it in.
The first thing Uzuki Yugao did once she steadied herself was check Uchiha Yin's reaction. Seeing that he had not looked back, she breathed a sigh of