Chapter 4
You join your hands in the signs you saw yesterday in your book.
“Nora’s Style: Cloak of Blindness.” You mumble under your breath and you coat yourself with your water nature chakra. You feel as if you’re lighter almost as if you’re a ghost.
The small restaurant is packed with people. Every table is occupied by someone, a couple or a family.
“Uh, hi?” The lady at the reception doesn’t answer or even raise her eyes from the computer.
“I guess that’s a good thing.” You walk between the tables and, once again, no one asks anything or even looks at you. You are careful to not touch anybody or anything - the words written in the book echoing in your head.
Though, people can touch me or hurt me even if they don’t see me.
Satisfied with your experiment you head for the exit, but a voice freezes you in place.
“She’s one of a kind.” Shikamaru. You turn your head quickly, alarmed. Chouji, Ino and him are at a table in the back, but they don’t seem to know you’re there or at least they aren’t looking at you. A relieved sigh escapes from my lips.
“I know, right? If I was in this situation, I wouldn't have apologised for Naruto. He was the one that caused trouble and he should have dealt with it.” The blonde girl says with an arrogant tone. You narrow your eyes at the group, you know too well that you are the subject of their conversation.
“Ino, I don’t think you look at the situation the right way. Imagine if it was Shikamaru or me in this situation and not Naruto. We all know that you would’ve done the same thing as Nora.” Chouji says between two bites of his meal.
Your curiosity takes a toll on you and you slowly walk closer to their table. “Honestly, I like her. She isn’t scared to stand up for the people she cares about and she doesn’t care what people will think of her, because of it.” Chouji says with a smile plastered on the face as you blush slightly.
“Was she in our class before she graduated? I don’t remember seeing her around before.” Shikamaru asks, eyebrows furrowed.
“Yes, she was actually. From what I recall, she didn’t really interact with other people, well except Naruto it is.” Ino lean back in her seat. “I’m surprised that you never noticed her. It’s quite unusual for you to miss things like that.” The girl snickers.
Shikamaru shrugs. “I know. That’s why I find it weird that I don't remember seeing her before. It’s not like her red hair is unnoticeable either.”
Shikamaru raises his hand, signaling to the waiter that he wants the receipt. You finally turn around and make your way out.
The street is almost deserted, but you still hide yourself behind a trash bin before you deactivate your jutsu.
“Well, I guess it really works. Now I need to find a way to test the Touch of Blindness.”
You stop in front of a little fruit shop when an idea comes into your mind. A bell rings as you push the door open. You walk around in your search for apples.
“Nora’s Style: Touch of Blindness.” You whisper as your hand makes seals. You then touch an apple, making it disappear to everyone, except you. You infuse your right hand with water nature chakra and you brush the tip of your fingers against an apple, transfering the chakra to the fruit.
You pick two other apples and make your way to the cashier.
"It’s 100 ryo for one apple, so if it works it will be 200 and if it doesn't it will be 300." You put the three apples on the desk.
“That will be 200 ryo, please.” The employee says with a kind smile.
You give her the required money and walk out of the store with a proud smile plastered on your face. You undone the jutsu as soon as you are out.
“These jutsus will be really useful. I will be able to beat Kakashi-sensei easily now.” Your lips curve in a sly smirk.
During the next two weeks, you train non-stop and you perfect your new jutsus. . Kakashi-sensei is supposed to return to the village today and you are excited to show him what you’ve been working on.
Training ground 9 is empty as usuals. You hang your black backpack on a tree and you sit against it. Before your training sessions, you like to meditate, usually, it helps with your concentration and your chakra control.
You focus on the sounds surrounding you, the wind in the leaves and the birds chirping are like a melody for your ears. Even in your past life, you always loved nature. The calm that it procure you is indescribable. You move your focus on what you can smell. You take a deep inhale in and the odor of grass and flowers submerge your senses in a sweet and recomforting way. You then concentrate on what you can feel. Like the subtle heat of the sun on your skin, the tingles on your legs from the grass underneath you or the cold wind as it sways in your hair. You slowly open your eyes and stand up.
You stretch, starting with your neck gradually down to your calves.
“I guess I could run two or three laps around the village as a warm up.” You tie your hair in a ponytail and start to run.
When you finish, you aren’t sweating as much as usual and your breath is more controlled. A genuine smile appears on your face when you realize that it means you are able to run faster than you could before and your stamina is improving. You eat two protein bars that you put in your backpack beforehand and drink a lot of water, just like Kakashi advises you to do.
During the past 2 weeks, you also worked on your sensory abilities. You found out by accident that when you pulse your chakra out of your body, you can feel where and how many people are close to you. It kind of acts like a radar would. Your stomach drops when you sense someone about 150 meters away from you. You reach for three senbons in your hip’s pouch and you throw them where the person is.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?” You ask, trying to hide the fear in your voice the best you can.
“You’ve got better I see. Sensory skills? Didn’t know you had these. Good job.” Kakashi says as he nonchalantly comes out of his hiding spot. Your brain takes a few seconds to process what he said. “Did he just compliment me?!”
“Don’t flatter yourself, I didn’t even hide my presence that well.” His visible eye is boring to yours in a cocky way.
“That’s not the only thing I got better at during these two weeks, you know?” You huff. “I have jutsus that you don’t even know the existence of. So don’t go and think you’ve got me all figured out, huh?” You smirk, knowing damn well that you're just upsetting him for fun.
“So what are you waiting for? Are you going to show them to me or not? I'm not going to wait here all day long.”
“If we can spare, then yes. My jutsus are more useful in combat.” You look at him with a playful smirk.
“Alright, but this time don’t complain if you get hurt. You asked for it.”
You snort. “We will see who will get hurt. Oh, and by the way you should use your Sharingan, even if it won’t change anything.” You giggle when he slightly stiff at the mention of his eye.
You are standing in a fighting stance, knees flex and arms in front of your face.
“I’m not really surprised that he doesn’t listen when I tell him to use his Sharingan, but still I don’t like to be belittled.” You roll your eyes.
“I just want to make something clear before we spare. No one knows that I own these jutsus, including Naruto, and I would like to keep it that way. I don’t wanna brag, but I could be in serious danger if an enemy learns that I created these jutsus. So please, could you keep it for yourself.”
“I can’t promise you anything, because one day I might be forced to tell the Hokage or someone else, but until then I will do my best. Now, you got me really curious so stop babbling and show me.”
You make hand signs, Kakashi eyebrows furrowed at the sight of the new seals.
“Nora’s Style: Touch of Blindness!”
You cast your jutsu on all of your weapons in both of your hips pouches. You grab 8 senbons, one in between each fingers of your hands.
“Nora, what are you doing. You’re telling me that’s your jutsu? You have absolutely nothing in your hands-” You throw all the senbons and you can hear him wince loudly as the needles implant themself in his arms.
“Don't underestimate me.” You say angrily.
“How did you do that?”He asks as he tries to remove the invisible senbons in his arms.
“Let’s fight and I will explain later, huh?” You infuse chakra at the bottom of your feet and sprint towards him. You pull out a kunai and attempt to stab him in the stomach but he kicks your left leg, deviating your trajectory, so you miss him only by an inch. He jumps backwards in an attempt to put some distance between the both of you.
Blue lighting forming in his right hand. Your hands join together, forming a series of hand signs as quickly as they can.
“Nora’s Style: Cloak of Blindness!”
As you slowly become invisible, Kakashi looks more confused than ever. You throw three senbons at him, hitting the chakra point of his right arm. The Chidori disappears and you take the opportunity to punch him in the stomach.
“What the f-” You kick him in the back, making him fall on his knees. You dispel your jutsu and as you reappear before his eye he stands up on his feet.
“So, do you like my jutsus?” You smirk.
“Since when do you have these?”
You shrug. “I developed my jutsus quite a long time ago, I think? Honestly, I don’t remember.”
“How did the idea come to you? And how did you create them? How does it work?”
“My god, one question at the time please and I just told you, I don’t remember. All I know is what it does and what it doesn’t.” You both remain in silence for what feels like an eternity.
“Then tell me about what you know then.” His voice is stern.
“The Cloak of Blindness is a jutsu that has the capability to make me invisible, as I like to call it. I can choose who will be able or not to see, smell, hear and sense me, but even if I'm under the jutsu you can still touch me and hurt me. Essentially, I just need to cover myself in water nature chakra and voilà.
The Touch of Blindness is pretty much the same thing, but the jutsu can only be cast on objects or other people when I touch them. Though, I can’t choose who can perceive the target. I will always be the only one able to see them. There is no limit of time or entities that can be put under the jutsu. To activate it I basically need to coat the target in my water nature chakra, it’s pretty simple honestly.
Also, no kekkei genkai or sensory abilities can see through or copy these jutsus. There’s no other way to stop the jutsus than by saying the names of the jutsu followed by deactivated. As example, Cloak of Blindness: Deactivated. Simultaneously, I need to make a hand sign special to my jutsus. Finally, if I want to remove the Touch of Blindness, I need to be in direct contact with the object or the person. Uh, yeah I think that’s pretty much all of it.”
“Okay….” He massages his temples as if all the information gives him a headache. “Does it take a lot of chakra?”
“Umh….I don’t know honestly. That was actually the first time I used it in a fight, but right now I can say that a little bit more than the fifth of my chakra is gone. Although, I don't think this won't be a problem, I have an enormous amount of chakra.”
“Right, I have a last question. Why does your water nature chakra do such things? Even if I coat myself in some, I won’t disappear like you do.”
You scratch the back of your neck awkwardly. “Well that’s the thing, I don’t know? In fact, I believe it’s water nature chakra, but I’m not really sure. The only things I know for sure is that it acts kind of like a mirror since I don’t typically disappear, you just can’t see me anymore.”
He sighs. “I need to go and report this to the Hokage. I know that I told you that I wouldn’t, but we both know that I really don’t have a choice.” It's almost as if he is giving you an apologetic look, but you dismiss the thought.
“I guess it’s fine. I’ll come with you.” You pinch the bridge of your nose, annoyed.
“Maybe I should’ve kept it secret, huh.”