After coming from a briefing back home, Karin arrives in the back area of the Dawn Tavern again. Before she steps inside she decides to change her wardrobe. Karin wasn't one who liked hiding behind disguises as she felt no need for it. Instead she changed into her old Akatsuki robe and usual Lavender shirt with cut off, black shorts. She let her hair down and placed her glasses back on. To be cautious, she tucked away her Konoha headband inside her robe. She then walked in and headed towards the ladies room, all the while checking for the chakra of a certain person. She became startled to sense that the chakra she was indeed sensing, had been combined with other chakra. It was very difficult to distinguish it from its original and a looming feeling came over Karin as she thought.
Oh well that's great...good for you guys...If you excuse me, i need to go. Only reason i came here was because i was searching for some guy....and instead i found a friend.
There was a girl sitting next to him now. Though nothing of importance was happening in the tavern - the man who had peaked Kabuto's curiosity and inadvertently led to his position, from which he could gather more information to find the man he needed, had left the tavern, and no one else seemed interesting - this woman would be distracting if anything were to happen and he would miss it. As such, Kabuto decided to ignore her and sip from his mug, continuing to subtly observe the area around him.
"Is this...Kabuto's chakra? I can sense several others meshed with his. It's to the point of being unrecognizable. He hasn't fully turned yet so he is still in there somewhere but it is faint. What could have happened to him?"
Karin kept heading towards the bathroom and made note of his chakra, trying to stay locked to it the entire time. As she approached the mirror, she took out her makeup bag and took out some lip gloss and applied it to her lips. She then placed it back and took out mascara to apply it to her eyelashes as talked to herself in the meanwhile, hoping no one is in the bathroom listening to her conversation.
"Wow...he sure has changed. I remember he was just a quite little boy making his poppa proud. Now...from the intelligence I received he is way beyond the man I met so long ago. I still admire him though...nothing changing that. But I wonder if he will even listen to me. I have nothing to hide...I really don't. Convincing him is the hard part."
Finishing her application and putting away her bag, she checked one of the scrolls she received and read it carefully again. She put it back in her robe, looked at the mirror to make sure her make-up was on right, and headed out the door to look for...Kabuto.
It was quite easy now to find him since she had been concentrating on his chakra for a while now and pinpointed to his table. She approached the man sitting in a table by himself. She flirted with him hoping he would respond in kind or at least decently though all the while trying not to draw any attention to their table.
"Sensei? My, my fancy meeting you here. Would you mind treating this girl to lunch or are your pockets empty from your poor gambling habits? Before you answer me, would you mind going upstairs to a more private setting?"
Karin pointed to the upstairs balcony area, hoping to eat with a nice view and discuss some things with her former sensei, Kabuto.
The girl moved, now sitting on the bar directly in front of him (yes, I'm sitting at the actual bar, not a booth). Forcing his eyes up so that he could not be mistaken as a pervert due to the girl's new height in relation to himself, Kabuto looked up at her with yellow, slit-like eyes. As he recognized the woman's face, his navel snake hissed quietly within his robes.
