Luckily she was saved from having to explain as Tsubaki rejected her plan by pointing out the major flaws in it. She was right, it might have worked if they where starting with the element of surprise in their favor but without it the Mizukage would see right through her illusion.
But what else could Alkaid bring to the table? She had a special ability that let her erase her presence temporarily but while it might work on the likes of her teammates someone like the Mizukage would likely be able see right thought it. Plus it had a major downside in that lowering her presence also lowered her own ability to perceive the world leaving her nearly blind. Until she raised her perception to compensate it wasn’t something she wanted to use.
Before Tsubaki could contiune on for long about how this was the Mizukage and how they they couldn’t beat him with little tricks Yumi interrupted saying that it was prudent that they dealt with Alkaid’s nosebleed first. Considering her Alkaid was currently breathing thought her mouth she had to admit Yumi had a point, the last thing she needed was to get accidentally blood down her throat in the middle of a fight and choke on it.
She watched curiously to see what Yumi would do, ready to stop her if she was going to try any ijutsu since that would simply be a waste of charka. The damage would regenerate on it’s own given some time so it was really just a matter of stopping the bleeding. It seemed Yumi was on the same page as she handed Alkaid two pieces of gaze to use. Medicine might not work with her but a bandage was a bandage and would serve just fine.
“Thanks Yumi-san.” said Alkaid with a wide grin. If this wasn’t such a serious situation she would have given the girl a hug. Taking her free hand out of her pouch to accept the offering she then quickly popped the goze into her nostrils.
Then since her hand was at her face anyway she used it to wipe away the blood that had already leaked out as best she could, taking it from her visage and slathering her katana blade with it so that it was nice and lubricated.
Listening to Yumi explain her plan Alkaid’s eyes went wide with astonishment. At most she could layer two genjutsu together, maybe three if she was really stretching it and yet here Yumi could do as many as five at once. It just went to show the difference between an amateur and an expert.
Other then the risk of them getting caught in the illusion along with the intended target is was a good plan. That many illusions at once was bound to give the two cousins an opening, they would just have to make sure they made the most of it in order to pay back Yumi’s efforts.
Alkaid glanced over the pages Yumi had indicated, skimming them just enough to pick up the gist of the techniques she wanted to use. While she was far from an expert she knew enough to extrapolate low level techniques like this without going into then nitty gritty of them. Avoiding the sound based one was simple enough to do as long as she knew it was coming and the rest was straightforward from there.
“Alright sounds like a plan. Let’s go with this.” she said as she drew her wakizashi with her left hand then moved into position so she’d be able to launch straight into her portion of the pincer attack once the signal was given.
If the goal was to split the Mizkage’s focus so they could slip an attack though his guard then two swords would server the purpose much better then one even if it meant she couldn’t cast jutsu while wielding both.