"I joined the ANBU to protect my friends." Which wasn't much of an answer, but she was stung that he'd compare the two of them. Until she realised exactly what he was implying. She felt icy cold dread creep up on her- it wasn't possible, was it?

"You're saying that you were ordered to kill one of our most powerful clans. That every single one of them was a danger to the village? Who would..." She trailed off. Yuugao wasn't stupid, she was older than him, and most importantly, she listened. "Let me go."

She needed to find the truth. He could stay here with an illusion of his family, or whatever he meant, but she would go back and find out if Konoha's most infamous missing nin was a lie, set up by the authorities.