"This is true. They will take any chance to get praise and mess with authority figures." She hums. "We should change before we leave the shrine. Naruto, you can go back to my house and stay there tonight. Mama won't say anything."

"Alright! That makes sense. Anything else we should plan? Traps are gonna be hard to set if he's watching us..."

"Which of us is best at stealth?"

"I'm good. When I remember to. But I forget sometimes."

"I scored well, but I don't know how I measure up against you."

"Naruto, you probably have enough to focus on with the transformation. And I'm going to be you, so I might play that up a bit. Run him around the village." She looks to Sasuke. "I think you're our best bet, if you can make a clone and sneak out of the house. You're the least suspicious and the most likely to seemingly want to actually win."

"What's your plan, then?"

"Sabotage and traps. We could make a minefield out of the training grounds. I can draw up a map and we can chose where everything goes so one of us doesn't set them off. Plus then Naruto gets input, since he's the best at traps."

He frowns. "He'll know to check for that, and very well might arrive early... Unless we could disguise the purpose of the traps, or hide them so cleverly a jounin wouldn't spot them. It might be possible to fake him out, make it look like I'm betraying the two of you."

"That would definitely help. Make it seem like you're doing recon for yourself."

Nod. "I have paper and writing supplies with me, but I don't know the training ground's layout."

She looks down at the wood carving and quickly finishes it off.

"Let me at it. I'll draw it up and Naruto can work his magic."

He nods, and hands over the supplies.

It takes her a while, she remembers everything about the training ground -- her memory is beyond perfect -- but she takes the extra time to make it look good. If she's going to do something, she wants to do it Right. And also show off a bit.

"Is your memory eidetic?" Sasuke asks after a bit, distracted from talking to Naruto about potential traps.

"The very definition. And my memory goes back to when I was born," she makes a face at that.

And before, but now is probably not the best time to mention that.

Naruto makes a face. "Ick!" Then he pauses, seeming sad suddenly. "Though it'd be neat remembering my parents."

Sasuke makes a curious noise.

"They died. The day I was born."

Sasuke has no idea how to respond to that. Why did he try to find things out about his team, it was inevitably going to be awkward. How does talking to humans work.

-- awkward silences, nnnot something she is Great at. She changes the topic.

"My clan is having a celebration in a few days. It's tradition, sort of a Welcome To The Family party for you both. We tend to get a bit... much. So I'll understand if you want to pass? We could arrange something smaller with just my mom and siblings. If at all."

"That'd be great!!!"

Noncommittal grunt, then, reluctantly, "I don't need to be worked around."

"You say that now, but you haven't been to a clan party before."

He crosses his arms.

(He's not trying to be rude, but words are tiring and he's talked a lot in the past hour.)