In the dim vision.
One, two, three, countless chakra clusters appeared in the field of view.
"Phew!"
Karin woke up from her sleep in an instant, shook her fire-red hair, and took a few deep breaths.
Then she closed her eyes again, and instantly one chakra cluster after another appeared in her vision.
Karin opened her eyes wide, her face full of excitement.
'It seems I've awakened a sensory ability?'
Although she knew about sensory ninja, Rengoku hadn't mentioned it to her back at school.
So she still didn't know what her ability was.
"I need to hurry and ask Shishou."
Karin hurriedly grabbed her clothes and started putting them on, but she found the clothes a bit tight.
'It seemed I have gotten fat?'
She quickly finished dressing and went to the mirror, tugged at her somewhat tight chest area, pinched the flesh on her belly a little.
"Oh no! I should've eaten less!"
"Will Shishou scold me?"
Karin made a mournful face.
Because of these recent outputs of life energy, she had entered a period of ultra-fast growth.
So she felt hungry every day.
Rengoku spoiled Karin, and had given her quite a bit of money.
Recently Karin had been letting herself go and spent a lot of money on food.
Her body gained flesh at a visibly fast pace.
If before she had been a tall, slim girl, now she had started to form some curves.
Karin, being only ten years old in mental age, didn't have these concepts in her head; she only knew she had become fat.
The clothes Shishou had just bought her wouldn't fit anymore.
Karin pouted and decided to go find Shishou.
She closed her eyes and began to search for where Shishou was.
———
[Uchiha Clan Compound, Training Ground]
Rengoku habitually came here.
But he found that not only were there no people, there wasn't even a shadow.
It seemed the village was really short on people.
Rengoku left all the village affairs to Nara Shikaku and the others.
Professional matters for professional people.
He himself wasn't good at managing the village, so he wouldn't add to the mess.
Now he waited and watched the reactions of the other villages.
By his estimate, Kirigakure would be the first to lose patience.
The entire Hyuga clan had been dispatched, and messages had already come back.
A large number of Kumo spies had entered the Land of Fire.
Suna, strangely, was unusually quiet for now; no intelligence had come back yet.
It had been five days since Hiruzen and his group left Konoha.
Shikaku had people go and hand over the properties of the clans that left, and they discovered something: many street and house property documents were missing, including records in Kushina's estate, the Baiken, Sawayu, Yokotsu streets.
One possibility was they had been burned in the Hokage Building; another was that Hiruzen and the others had taken them.
Rengoku didn't have time to investigate now; stabilizing Konoha was the top priority.
After some thought, Rengoku planned to go see how Orochimaru was doing.
Sensing something, he turned his head and vanished in a flash.
At that moment, a figure with deep crimson hair peeked around the edge of the training ground.
Karin stuck her head out secretly, but Rengoku, who had just been standing in the training ground, had already disappeared.
"Huh? Where did Shishou go?"
Karin gathered chakra, closed her eyes, and discovered that huge chakra cluster was right behind her?
"Karin, what are you doing?", Rengoku's voice came from behind the moment she opened her eyes.
"Ah, Shishou," Karin jumped and then backed up a little, a bit embarrassed.
"What's up?"
Rengoku had been busy the past two days and hadn't noticed Karin; now he found that her body had changed again.
Karin felt embarrassed, "Shishou, I got fat."
Rengoku sized her up and noticed the signs, "This isn't just fat, girls look better with a little meat on them. You look better than before now."
"Hehe, really? That's good," Karin was visibly happy to hear the praise from her Shishou.
"But…", Rengoku stroked his chin, "that shirt's small again. Buy a new one."
Karin felt awkward; she'd only bought those clothes not long ago.
She thought of something else, "Shishou! I woke up today and found I have a sensory ability!"
Then Karin told Rengoku what she had discovered.
Rengoku instantly knew, 'This is Karin's Kagura Mind Eye.'
'Karin is only ten… oh, by body age she is sixteen, so it is fine.'
"Not bad, this ability is very powerful. It'll be useful in many places."
"When you have time, go find Nagato and let him teach you how to properly use your ability."
Sensory ninjas are rare in the shinobi world; sensory abilities vary wildly, and those who can train them are not usually strong.
The truly powerful ones are normally talent freaks, like a certain golden-bodied Naruto's sensing ability.
Nagato also had strong sensory power; in the original timeline, after he was reanimated, he easily sensed Kabuto's exact location.
Letting Nagato guide Karin would save her from taking many detours.
"Hehe! That's great," Learning her ability was real, Karin visibly brightened.
"Come on, I'll take you to buy some clothes."
Rengoku affectionately ruffled Karin's hair, feeling like his daughter had grown up, and in just a few days.
It was kind of funny.
Karin patted her belly, "Shishou, I'm hungry."
Rengoku smirked, "No problem, let's get you something to eat first."
———
[Land of Fire]
[Hiruzen's Group]
After leaving Konoha, everyone kept their spirits up, ready to respond if the Uchiha attacked.
But in fact they had been traveling for seven days and the Uchiha hadn't left Konoha at all.
It was as if they didn't care that these clans had left.
"Old man, it seems Rengoku doesn't plan to attack us," Jiraiya sounded a bit tired these days.
After all, besides Hiruzen, he was the strongest fighter, and most of the guard duty fell to him.
Hiruzen grumbled, "You not happy that the Uchiha didn't attack?"
Jiraiya laughed, "Of course not."
Then his expression turned serious, "Old man, are you really planning to just leave Konoha like this?"
Hiruzen lit his pipe and took a slow puff.
"Asuma has already gone ahead to the Daimyo's mansion; the Daimyo definitely won't agree to this."
Jiraiya hadn't expected Hiruzen to plan to get the Daimyo involved.
"You're going to have the Daimyo mediate?"
Hiruzen looked at the large number of civilians behind them and nodded.
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