[Technically, it's her Tosa ninja squad now. ...or rather, her husband's.
..."it" could be anything, and that's something she tries to tell herself to ease her anxiety as the conversation she is eavesdropping on continues; it doesn't necessarily mean what she fears it means (even though if it was something legitimate, there wouldn't have been any reason for him to have been concerned about letting her see the "mess" in the kitchen, would there?), it doesn't have to mean that at all.
She is almost able to convince herself of that, until the question -
Who else would they be looking for, and whose research could they have? There is only one man who comes to mind and it makes her stomach churn, because that means Kaoru is neck-deep in the business of the ochimizu after all, and that's completely unsafe.
From one dangerous situation to another... how can this have happened? Her hands close tightly around the porcelain trinket she's examining; her grip is a little too strong, and minute cracks form on it. The shopkeeper narrows his eyes before demanding to know if she's planning on buying it.]
...ah, I'm sorry, of course... [She apologizes easily and hands over the coin to pay for it even more easily, but her attention is mostly focused on Kaoru.]
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..."it" could be anything, and that's something she tries to tell herself to ease her anxiety as the conversation she is eavesdropping on continues; it doesn't necessarily mean what she fears it means (even though if it was something legitimate, there wouldn't have been any reason for him to have been concerned about letting her see the "mess" in the kitchen, would there?), it doesn't have to mean that at all.
She is almost able to convince herself of that, until the question -
Who else would they be looking for, and whose research could they have? There is only one man who comes to mind and it makes her stomach churn, because that means Kaoru is neck-deep in the business of the ochimizu after all, and that's completely unsafe.
From one dangerous situation to another... how can this have happened? Her hands close tightly around the porcelain trinket she's examining; her grip is a little too strong, and minute cracks form on it. The shopkeeper narrows his eyes before demanding to know if she's planning on buying it.]
...ah, I'm sorry, of course... [She apologizes easily and hands over the coin to pay for it even more easily, but her attention is mostly focused on Kaoru.]