Temari nodded once; then he knows that many of his comrades and friends could be from other points in time. That realization is, to her, the most overwhelming and she's glad that she doesn't have to reveal that one to him. She leaned back on her hands for a moment after he's through speaking, looking up at the sky as she thinks through her answers.

She runs a hand through her bangs and makes eye contact again. "There's some things going on behind the scenes; Shikamaru can fill you on a lot of the political machinations. You've heard of the Malnosso, yeah? They like their experiments. Most of them are pretty innocuous."