So when Pakura leaped away first, she was not targeting Kaguya. She was trying to escape being surrounded by Konan and Kaguya.
But after she jumped clear, she found the situation had taken an unexpected turn.
Had the two of them turned on each other? The thought flashed through Pakura's mind, then she dismissed it.
That was impossible.
Pakura trusted Uchiha Yin deeply. If Konan and Kaguya were that kind of women, she could not believe he would have fallen for them.
She soon realized that they seemed to want a fight without regard for their identities.
Konan and Kaguya were treating themselves as neither Sunagakure nor Konoha Ninja. The three of them had set those affiliations aside to fight as they would without them.
Only then would the match be fair to Pakura.
Of course, fairness was rare in the Shinobi World. If anyone other than Pakura had reached the finals, Kaguya and Konan would probably have eliminated that opponent first.
But Uchiha Yin had already marked Pakura as his own, and she would one day be a sister to Kaguya and Konan. That was why they had chosen to make the match fair.
This way, Pakura would not come away resentful, feeling that Konan and Kaguya had ganged up on her.
Without quite realizing it, Konan and Kaguya had begun looking after their relationship with Pakura.
When Konan saw how quickly Pakura had caught on, a faint smile appeared on her face.
She was pleased with Pakura's response.
But while Pakura, Konan, and even Kaguya understood one another's intentions, the spectators had no idea what was going on.
The civilians were one thing, but even some of the Ninja were baffled.
For Ninja, who put the interests of their own Ninja Village first, the situation was harder still