That first reaction and its accompanying question were good signs, Sasuke thinking about how best to present someone with chakra like that to the gate guards without getting them both immediately pinned down by security, but the follow-up made him blink his focus back to the man in surprise. It was a strangely general way to phrase it, something that made Sasuke question again exactly what it was causing so much fear.

"What kind of people are you looking to avoid?" He asked, though he was also thinking of his own camp not too far away, established in a cave tucked out of sight beneath a cliff face and newly made cozy for his impromptu free weekend. And speaking of his own weekend ... "Or are you looking to avoid everyone?"

He should have been more concerned for his own neck, perhaps, but unless the total panic that had been flickering through this person's expressions up until now were top-notch artifice, he wasn't expecting anything he couldn't handle. And even an outright attack would have been a change from --

A change.

If everyone was the answer, then it was unlikely that he was a specific enemy of Konoha's, though there did follow the risk that he was a missing-nin. But nothing about his movements thus far told of shinobi training, for all the chakra nearly pouring out of him.