The Hokage stared at the silent man in front of him, pacing back and forth, tears flowing clearly and easily down his sturdy cheeks. His long, blonde hair whipped back and forth in the force of his pacing, and the girl simply stared at her hands. She looked the picture of innocence, from her pastel hair, to her small frame. Even her floral name gave him a sense of fragility and made him want to lower his paranoid senses, but the way her light eyes worked, cataloging every detail of the room, and the sheer depth of light shade made ever hair on the back of his neck stand on end. The seal on her forehead, and her casual use of jutsu made every hackle and alarm that he had had in the course of his long life and made him want to chuck the girl into Interrogations and never let her out.

"Report."he barked, and Sarutobi nearly grinned as the young man, still on the cusp of boyhood and manhood, stiffened and placed himself in front of him, acting the part so easily and removing any tension in five seconds flat. Inoichi glanced at his father for a half a beat, before he shook his head.

"This is beyond S-class secret Hokage-sama, not a lot of people should be involved."said the young man slowly, and Sarutobi saw the wisdom, and frank dismissal of the boy's father quickly enough.

"Shou, wait outside."

The man looked as if he was about to protest, but no matter what, Sarutobi only waved his hand dismissively and shot the man a firm glare, though older by a number of years, the man before him was be hard press to come even close to beating him in a fight, and his patience was long gone by now. The Yamanaka head left in a huff.

"She's telling the truth. No one can make fake memories that well, and the sheer depth of her mind... She's definitely not a child mentally."Inoichi was prompt, and he showed weakness easily enough by scrubbing his eyes tiredly.

"What did you see?"

"Her whole life... Your death... My funeral. My daughter."said the young man, and he looked up, trusting whatever he had seen within her mind utterly.

Sarutobi felt the weight of what that meant, and looked at the girl in question, who was staring at them with her large eyes. The weight of intelligence was unmistakable.

"So child, what do you plan to do now?"the wariness was something he didn't try to hide from his voice.