...I questioned it, when I first found out. If she would or not. Her and my old- my dad. [Pause.] He's the Jonin Commander, so.

[So he has the authority. And both him and Tsunade... he wondered at one point, if they had been told. Felt it twist in his gut until it made him sick. Physically sick. But.]

But I was upset, and I was scared, and I let that get to me. I wasn't thinking with my head then, and that's what all of my friends - what Chouji and Ino and a lot of other people - count on me to do.

That's what I'm doing for them now. Because telling them this would hurt them, maybe more than it hurt me. And it's a problem that will just grow bigger and bigger if other people from home show up someday.

So no. I don't think it's better to talk about it and decide what to do from there. Once it gets out, there's never going to be an end to it.