The Gift of Sight

Chapter ONE

Chapter ONE

Green eyes blinked.

A flash of blue streaked through her vision.

It was a mother rabbit.

The girl waited patiently for the rabbit to vanished, then waited a little more just to be safe. All she needed was the general direction. She slipped out of her hiding place and trotted along the trail of chakra left behind.

She could now sense them too. Pretty far, but still there.

That rabbit was a mother to three little baby rabbits. They were very young, too young to run, but their faint presences had helped conceal them.

But they couldn't hide form her.

The quickened her pace. The mother rabbit, having noticed her approach, hopped around her feet, trying to chase her away.

She ignored her.

Nothing could hide form her.

She could see the chakra belonging to the rabbits spike in fear.

She ignored that too. She sent out chakra strings, snaring her dinner.

A few minutes later, she was gnawing on her first meal in days.

She could see all the sources of food in the forest, but she couldn't eat if she couldn't catch them.

Quickly finishing her meal, she went on her way.

It had been year since her parents had died, her clan killed off. There might have been others like her. Survivors. However, she hadn't bumped into any of them yet.

If they did exist.

But it didn't matter.

To a five year old girl left to fend for herself, survival came first. Everything else could wait.

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The girl had been drinking from the river, quenching a day's worth of thirst, when she saw them. Their chakra was of a very highly skilled team of shinobi. She could see that from the way their chakra signatures were forced down and preened to hide within the wild.

But no matter how skilled they were, they wouldn't be able to find her by sensing her, so as long as she didn't show herself, she should be fine.

To someone who could sense any and all chakra around them, they could tell how bright and...loud their own chakra was. Every single on of her kind had mastered the skill of camouflaging their chakra to fit into their environment.

From the firm, sturdy circulation of the chakra from a tree, to the skittish, rapid circulation coming from an animal, to the steady, occasionally spiking chakra of a person, she knew them all. She could see any and all chakra in her vicinity. Her vision was 360, her otherwise black surroundings splotched with splattered of white and blue of chakra.

This ability was unlike a certain Dojutsu she had once heard of, which allowed one to see the chakra circulation of people. Her ability didn't cost chakra.

Her skill to see chakra was just like how someone saw through their eyes.

But instead of seeing the world as 'forest' and 'people' and 'houses', her kind saw them as 'forest chakra', 'human chakra', 'chakra-less object'.

Her ability was the best there was to live in a place full of trees and animals and chakra and life.

But she wouldn't survive long in a place where things without chakra was a constant existence in life.