However, with his senses picking up various things from various people, he'd learned a few things recently. Now he could just close his eyes and identify some people around him, and tell where they were by the "feel" of them.
For example there was a slow set of razor-sharp edges which circled around each other. Or a cloud of lazy-seeming light that glimmered sun-bright. Shikamaru obviously. If one went from distance and direction, he was over at the benches near that old playground.
Over there, dark and brooding depths with occasional brighter moods that flitted across the surface. Sasuke.
Not far from Sasuke there was the odd double-image he got from Sakura.
Way over there was Hinata. It was odd, after all the contacts so far - it was as if he could find her easiest of all. He hardly had to search, almost as if he'd grown so used to her mental presence that he was unconsciously keeping track of her.
The Third Hokage was one of those people who were kind of like an ocean. He'd never seen one but he knew the basics from school. You had a lot of fish and stuff in the top portion, and then there was slower and deeper stuff that pushed around in hidden movements.
Well, maybe that wasn't the BEST comparison he could come up with, but comparing it to ramen and broth didn't work even that well.
This was the first time he'd tried something like this. Instead of looking for a specific person, which he'd done the first time completely by accident, he wasn't focussing on anyone in particular.
THERE was something disturbing though. Something dark and nasty and full of poison or something. Whoever or whatever that was, it was dangerous and cold and hateful. It was strong and seemed to react when his attention drew close to it.
That being the case, Naruto kept as far away from the whatever-it-was as he could.
Ichiraku was busy. It looked like Konohamaru was over there too.
Naruto drew in a deep breath, and got ready to try something else entirely new. All by himself as he didn't want to be near anyone else when he tried this.
He was nervous and needed to burn energy after all. Tomorrow morning was the postponed team selection process.
The morning saw a lot of chatter, with various people discussing current events.
Including that the team assignments were:
(Posted Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:45)
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