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Okay, I’m not sure who to tag in this one:

I have been trying to use a character like that, so I get it. It’s hard.

This character has a keeps-to-himself sort of personality, though, so it’s a bit harder for the main character to notice at first. Besides that, the main character knows their relationship is sort of shaky and they exactly best friends, either. So I use this to avoid suspicion, but you don’t have to.

The main character starts realizing things when a) the main character stops showing up a regularly as they normally do, b) they stop accepting help as often, and c) they don’t offer any really good explanations, are distant, and have stopped helping the main character as often. This happens because the character is working more actively with the bad organization off-page; is trying to improve his own skills, without help from anyone; and is trying to figure out which side he really needs to be on but is being forced onto both by different people with different intentions.

The final foreshadowing comes when the main character asks for the character to join a good organization with him several times, and the character always refuses. The final time, both characters have a fight over why the character won’t explain anything says he’s trying to help the world but when something comes up he won’t do anything about it, and so on. The character finally leaves, and the main character tries to follow (but of course things go wrong on him).

I don’t know if I should go on, or if that answered the question at all, but that’s how I’m doing it for my story. Hope it’s helpful.