Her katana and kodachi were still in her room at HQ, but hey! That was what all the kunai she carried in her pants were for, right?

Katsuko nodded in response to Tsume's caveat, stepping away from the Inuzuka pair as she started to plot her strategy. With Kuromaru in the mix, she'd be hard pressed to defend herself. Best way to get out of this with all of them unscathed was to keep her distance, spar one of them at a time. Now, how to separate them...

"Clones allright?" she asked, fingers already twisting into the familiar seals. Her chakra flared.

"There're going be a lot of them."