|| [Hatake] : Fascination : [Kakashi] || [Part VI] ||
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It was the start of yet another long and gruelling day of travelling and Oriko had finally found something to occupy her while they walked which also doubled as a form of training; as sad as she thought that seemed to make her. As she walked, she pulled a leaf off a nearby tree, and placed it on her forehead attempting to keep it in place with chakra as she walked.
This was something she found quite initially tricky, and more than once it fell to the ground, and, as though purposefully, underneath her footfalls. It began to get easier though, and soon she was so enveloped in concentrating on keeping the leaf in place, that she hadn’t noticed some of the group had stopped walking. As she kept going, she could see Kakashi in her peripheral vision, but didn’t pay enough attention to see that he was no longer walking, and subsequently walked straight into him.
“W-what?” She croaked, stepping back, now fully realizing what had happened, “Kakashi? Why did you stop?”
“I-why didn’t you?”
“Sorry I was concentrating on trying to keep a leaf on my forehead,” She said, twiddling the leaf between her forefinger and thumb, sensing Kakashi’s eyes on her,
“Did you know, that is a very old training technique, designed to increase one concentration and stamina and it’s the origin of the Konoha headband which stems from that training…you seemed to have a good eye for these things, as with that chakra trick you pulled on Asano,” He chuckled lightly, seeing initially interest written all over her face as she intently listened to his explanation, but rolled her eyes at his mention of the other day,
“Do we have to go over that?” She sighed, again eliciting a small chuckled from him,
“Don’t worry, there’s no harm done, except perhaps for a bruised ego…and that’s maybe to his benefit,”
“Yea…you can say that again,” Oriko was preparing to again bring the leaf to her forehead, but instead remembered a question that she meant to ask him, “Hey, I’ve been reading up on genjutsu recently, but I’m still a little uncertain about to construct the illusion,” She didn’t look at him, but she could see in her peripheral that his once visible eyebrow (at least) raised with interest,
“Oh? Well, to be honest you don’t need to complete the illusion yourself before your cast the jutsu; the power of suggestion can be enormous and you only really need to provide the idea of what you want them to see.
"People are easily convinced of things, all you really need to do is to provide the framework, all you need is the basic premise of the jutsu clear in your mind, then your…victim’s mind will do the rest,” He explained easily, his pace keeping steady, silently wondering how long it would take her to develop genjutsu – as well as what sort she might inflict upon himself; sensing that she wouldn’t miss an opportunity to play some form of mischievous trick.
“Ah, I see…that makes a little more sense…”
“Genjutsus are tricky to grasp, you must have excellent control over your chakra, exert a strict control over your enemy’s chakra and structure their chakra in a very specific way. It takes a great deal of practice, but the best thing you can be doing right now is your chakra control, moulding and working on your stamina – keep up with that along with your ninjutsu, that’s most important for now.” Kakashi seemed to hold a tone of commanding, confusing Oriko,
“Are you trying to slow me down?”
“…Merely, trying to guide you, to prevent you getting overwhelmed,” She didn’t trust his tone,
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Hatake Kakashi: Fascination
FanfictionKakashi thinks he's in for a nice break, free from students, after Naruto's recent departure with Jiraiya, but he hadn't counted on a beautiful stranger turning up in Konoha whom Tsunade thinks would become a powerful asset were she to be trained as...
