A muscle clenched in her jaw as she looked first to Evan, almost surprised that he'd made it, before turning her attention to Hope. "Sure, maybe you can defend yourselves, but so can we."

They're not listening, these civilians. She'd dearly like to just scream, but her anger is starting to chill into a hard, sinking coolness in her gut. If they were right, and she'd endangered Sasuke and Obito, then...

"I protected my comrades the best way I knew how. I'm not going to apologize for that, whether it's legal or not. A spectator would have seen Bowser attack us first." Her eyes flashed, but she clamped her lips shut and crossed her arms, glaring away from all of them. If Sasuke and Obito were following Lightning's order, then she would, too, but she wasn't going to be the first to say so.