There was a brief silence.
"Okay. I suppose that's a good point. Limited senses and all."
"Sakura's really smart," said Naruto, sounding and looking proud.
"Why are you sounding prideful?" asked Sasuke,calling him on that.
"That was the quality about her that resulted in his schoolboy crush on her. Ignoring completely the whole 'prone to sudden violence' tendency and the fact that she despised him."
"That's why he asked me out every day for two years?" asked Sakura, looking at Naruto with some disbelief. Though tempered a bit in that she now actually had an explanation and that it was a quality she actually took some pride in.
"Yes. Let's try this, shall we? These are the 'baseline' stats for Sakura as she is now. Mind you, this isn't too precise as reducing a human being to basic numeric values is just to give a general idea of capability."
[Ninjutsu:1.5, Taijutsu:1, Genjutsu:3, Intelligence:3.5, Strength:0.5, Speed:1, Stamina:1, Hand Seals:4.]
"That gives some numeric values but nothing to judge anything against," noted Sakura.
"Here's the catgirl version."
[Ninjutsu:1, Taijutsu:1.5, Genjutsu:3, Intelligence:3.5, Strength:1, Speed:2, Stamina:1, Hand Seals:3]
"What's Naruto's stats?" asked Sasuke. When everyone turned their attention towards him, he shrugged. "Or mine. That way she has something to compare against."
[Sasuke Uchiha:]
[Ninjutsu:2.5, Taijutsu:2.5, Genjutsu:1.5, Intelligence:2, Strength:2, Speed:3, Stamina:2, Hand Seals:3]
[Naruto Uzumaki:]
[Ninjutsu:2, Taijutsu:1.5, Genjutsu:1, Intelligence:1, Strength:2, Speed:2, Stamina:4, Hand Seals:1.5]
Kakashi hmmmed as he considered the information.
"Naruto has a stamina of FOUR?" asked Sasuke.
"Uzumaki. They tend to have outrageous stamina and longevity. That's a genetic trait like your Sharingan."
"Naruto has a bloodline?!" asked Sakura.
"Uhm, Sakura? This was all mentioned earlier," said Kakashi.
"Uhm, well, it was about Naruto so I mainly tuned it out," admitted Sakura.
"And here's the bunnygirl stats."
[Ninjutsu:1, Taijutsu:1.5, Genjutsu:3, Intelligence:3.5, Strength:5, Speed:1, Stamina:3, Hand Seals:3]
"Five is good?"
"It's a five point scale. As I stated earlier, not terribly precise but it gives you a basic overview. How about this?"
Poof!
"WHAT THE HECK?! WHY HAVE I GOT FUR?!"
"In one world, an artist named Fred Perry wrote about several races of were-creatures, slave races created by an ancient jutsu master who later rebelled and gained their freedom. These demi-humans had a number of animal traits, which gave them some inherent bloodline abilities. I found several realities with variants of these that lacked the infective qualities and instead spread by being dominant genetically. This is the 'weretiger' form."
[Ninjutsu:1, Taijutsu:2, Genjutsu:2.5, Intelligence:3.5, Strength:3, Speed:3, Stamina:2, Hand Seals:2]
"Enhanced senses, particularly in low-level light. Greater stealth capabilities. There's also the healing factor to consider. Not a near-invulnerability like a true lycanthropic creature in the majority of native universes as this is being adapted to the local rules regarding magic use."
"I don't like the stripes," said Sakura, making a face. "And ORANGE? Really?"
"Orange is cool," grumbled Naruto.
Poof!
"Werepanther, same source. Very enhanced sense of hearing. Same stats for the most part."
"I'm PINK."
"Sakura, you've always been pink," noted Kakashi.
"Not to this extent," countered Sakura.
"So that's a 'no'?"
"That's a 'maybe'," hedged Sakura. "Anything a little more human-looking?"
"That was one of the ideas for using the werecat shifted towards bloodline ability. You can shapeshift to either a beast-mode or a form nearly what you have now except for a couple of tells."
Sakura observed the images of herself as a tiger, a panther (still pink), and as nearly the same as herself - but a bit taller and more lithely muscled. There were also marks on her face that seemed to reflect the marks on either form. Around the eyes for the panther and slash-marks on the cheeks for the tiger.
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