He nods, pokes her on that a bit - but does, eventually, let her go.

Does she have preferences on where she wants to stay?

She already knows Hisame and Sasuke.

He agrees that she can stay with them, if their parents will have her - perhaps a bit too easily, but it's hard to tell with him.

She's hardly going to make a fuss about being given what she wants.

Then she can be dismissed without trouble.

Off she goes.

She doesn't check very hard to see if she's followed.

Hisame and Sasuke are waiting for her with their older brother.

"How'd it go?" Hisame asks.

"He didn't throw me in jail, and he said I could stay with you if your parents agree."

"Great! And they will. Wanna go ask? Dad's at work right now, I think mom's doing some clan stuff..."

"Okay."

She tracks down their mother, first, who agrees easily enough, and says their father won't want to be bothered at his work.

"Well, do you wanna do something until dinner, then?" Hisame asks. "Father won't be back until then. We can go to the park! Or the library!"

"The park sounds nice."

"Awesome!"

She leads the way, dragging her twin brother at a few points. The park she picks has fewer children and more shadowed, peaceful woodland paths with willow trees and water features along them. It's quiet, except for the sound of a flute and the low murmur of the village in the distance.

"Quiet here."

"Sasuke likes it a lot. There's also one that's better for meeting people if you'd rather."

"I think this is better for now."

"Oh, good! What do you wanna do?"

"Dunno. What kind of games do you play?"

"My brother and I play assassin a lot! One of us has to ambush the other. Usually it then turns into a tickle fight. Sometimes we also skip rocks, or climb trees, or race, or see who can find the most cool rocks..."

"Assassin would be fun."

"We'd need to figure out how to do it with three people..."

"Still just one assassin and they have two targets."

"Or everyone's an assassin going after the other two."

"We should get to recruit whoever we catch. Or be allowed to switch sides, if we've got three sides."

"Only after you get caught, though."