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Haruno Sakura knows Death before she knows anything else. Knowing doesn’t prepare her for Team 7.
Unlike what everyone seems to believe, it does not start with seeing dead people. That, actually doesn’t come until much, much later. -
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“Is this an unregistered doujutsu? You said it was a Haruno thing.”
“Aha, nothing as fancy as that.” She gave him a closed eye smile. Kakashi was now realizing it was quite irritating to be on the receiving end of his trademark expression.
When he kept staring at her unimpressed she finally relented, “There is chakra in all living beings. In us, in animals, even in plants.” Yes, yes, Kakashi was familiar with the concept of Nature Chakra.
“It is not actually seeing so much as it is knowing, that there is a disturbance in where that chakra should be naturally flowing. Nature has its ways, its own signature, hard to miss when man interferes with it, no?” She shrugged as if she hadn’t just revealed an incredible level of sensory ability, “I just always know.”
She can feel nature chakra? To this degree?
Academy had called her “potentially adept at genjutsu”, fuckers probably had no idea. At least Kakashi finally had his answer. It was an interesting application of chakra detection as far as traditional Sensor ninja went, but it would be undoubtedly advantageous. If she also learned how to cast genjutsus, not just detect them like she did, she would become a little terror.
If he hadn’t known team 7 was slated to be a frontline assault team he would have thought there was something at play here, pairing her with an Uchiha. Together they could actually turn into a complete nightmare. Alas, as tempting as it would have been to drop the two of them at Kurenai’s door and call it a day, there was still Naruto, who would never have the subtlety to be on an ambush or subterfuge squad filled with eerie and morose genjutsu masters. Eh, he was growing attached to all of them anyway.
Still, no harm in some extra training.
Sakura mulled over the conversation she had had with Kakashi-sensei last night while they broke camp. She hadn’t lied, technically. It was just that the truth, the whole truth with its decaying skin and naked bones, was not something people other than Harunos could ever fully comprehend. Mama had taught her that long ago.
It wasn’t entirely chakra sensing, nature or otherwise, that gave Sakura the ability to detect all genjutsu, although it surely helped. After Shisui had coached her in accessing chakra, she had realized ghosts did disturb nature chakra where they stood. All living things had nature chakra no matter how slight. The dead, well, they were a void where life once had been, where life should be now if they hadn’t stayed behind so unnaturally.
But what Sakura had was actually an inability to be caught in any genjutsu unaware. She was telling the truth when she had said she didn’t see the world in the same way. Since she was 8 years old, coming out of the water, light fracturing the world into new colors and shapes within a dead boy’s empty eyes, her vision had been filled with ghosts. Sakura always saw the world in layers on top of each other, she would always notice a genjutsu as if it was another ghost faded onto her reality.
In the end, Kakashi-sensei had called her a Sensor Ninja.
It was not a bad title. Ironic in a way, considering her own Senses. It was something Sakura could don like a cloak, something people could at least understand, as she wandered through this ninja filled strange world.
get my mind off of that masked kid. How did you know who they were, Kakashi-sensei?”
“I don’t know who they are, Naruto. But that mask is recognizable by itself, it’s a pattern only a subset of elite Kiri nin wear. Colloquially they are known as the Undertakers, since they dispose of corpses. So thoroughly that it’s like they never even existed.”
Sasuke scrunched his face in displeasure. Naruto just looked confused. “Why?”
Sakura was staring at him from underneath her lashes, gaze uncomfortably soft and sad. Well, they had to learn sometime.
“Even after death, ninja corpses tell too many tales.” He sighed, this really wasn’t a conversation he wanted to be having with essentially toddlers, while he was recovering from a Sharingan hangover, but. They have to learn sometime. “An enemy ninja can still learn much about the skills of the ninja from what they leave behind, about their secret techniques, about their villages. It’s not a risk most ninja villages are willing to take.”
It would be the same for Kakashi one day, the eye implanted into him alone was far too valuable for Konoha to ever risk, even if his body was not Uchiha or had similar pathways to deduce how the original would have worked. One day, he too would be disposed of, silently and without a trace.
“Shinobi’s bodies are not their own. Not in life or in death.”
His body hadn’t been his own since Obito’s final gesture. He would have been bitter at his friend, but he doubted his body had ever been his, long before that.
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Dead Men Tell Tall Tales by jarnho954
Haruno Sakura knows Death before she knows anything else. Knowing doesn’t prepare her for Team 7.
Unlike what everyone seems to believe, it does not start with seeing dead people. That, actually doesn’t come until much, much later.
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