>>5805523>>5805529>>5805533>>5805534>>5805544>>5805550>>5805613You walk through the forest. For the first 30 minutes or so you’re on high alert, but then you pass by a patrol of other ninjas walking the other way on the road and you realize that you’re being a little too extra.
As time goes along you’re letting the conversations of the others go in one ear and out the other while you experiment with your water sensing spheres. You have one up to detect chakra. It’s fairly impassive most of the time, but it warbles whenever you generate chakra just to see what it does. Eventually you notice it shake immensely and your hand flies to your kunai pouch before you see Hotaru giving you a sly look. Unprofessional!
You experiment with other kinds of sensing spheres. First, body heat. A bit of a let down. The problem is that it doesn’t differentiate between friend or foe, and since it’s a sphere of water if it’s detecting multiple particular sources its surface becomes hard to read. As you walk there are waves on its surface pulsing away from you, Kenji, Masami, Naoki, and Hotaru. 5 different sources all making pulsing waves across its surface, which makes the sphere hard to impossible to easily pinpoint any new sources. With sensing electrical fields, the problem is even more intense, as the balls surface becomes just randomly pulsing chaos as it detects pretty much everything around you.
There would need to be some kind of way of sorting through it. With the heat sphere, it worked better when you were holding it in your hand. That way, instead of looking at the surface’s confused nonsense, you could just intuit the direction of everything. This makes it a lot easier to ignore your teammates and their known signatures and instead pinpoint random squirrels you pass. As for the electrical fields, it was simply too broad to make sense regardless. You do, at one point, cut your thumb and introduce some of your blood to the sphere, wondering what it would do. Other than turning the sphere a slight pink color, you notice that when you do that the waves coming from you specifically are red while the waves coming from other sources remain uncolored. This could allow you to very easily find and track a specific person if you can get a sample of their blood.
