i didn't know a sharingan could do that, did you? uh, what's a sharingan?
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"Our majority is based on competency tests, which most people pass at twelve - though you could argue there's graded competency, most genin aren't allowed outside the village on their own, and usually it takes two or three years to reach either chunin or enough of a track record for solo missions. I passed mine at eight."

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"Oh wow. I didn't start training until I was twelve."

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"There is a... theory, in our galaxy, that less-developed societies tend to pressure younger children harder, because they have fewer resources available to invest in their growth, so they need to know sooner if a child is worth the effort."

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"Mostly it's the factor that our system is best learned the younger you start, and there's no point in keeping someone who's passed basic competency from getting experience. We also don't have limitless resources, nor time; the current system is a major overhaul that allowed those still learning to get to where they'll probably survive in peace, and the Warring States period is only barely not in living memory."

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"It's far from perfect. I'd rather we never be at war, and be able to teach things like sealing and medical arts to everyone, even at a leisurely pace. But we don't have - the buffer needed for that."

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"It is a long-term aspiration. There are- many steps."

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"Maybe we could help. If, y'know, we're here for that long."

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"I'd like to try returning you two to your world, but - if that doesn't work out, well, even if the current generation grumbles, future generations will appreciate it."

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"That'd be neat."

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"If there's any possibility of you guys as a long-term stabilizing or peacekeeping force, I'll have to rethink my approach some..."

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"There are only two of us. But if we are stuck here, it would be good to be useful."

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"Last thing I'd want if I got dropped somewhere was being stuck in some corner, definitely."

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"How would you have to change your approach?"

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"Establishing you two as a more generally neutral force from the start, for one, rather than any hint of being a potential resource on Konoha's side - the latter would provoke paranoia in general, and potentially attempts at preemptive attacks; if you two definitely weren't going to stick around, I would be aiming more for 'long term secret' than any establishment plan."

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"What do you see the chances of being able to send us back as?"

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"We've never successfully managed cross-dimensional transit in proven history outside of the summoning contracts - and summons' worlds are tied tightly to this one, and have defined paths already - and most of our greats died in the Third War or the attack several years ago. But, some sort of dimensional manipulation is - rumored - in documents pertaining to the higher forms of my bloodline. There's also... If you can be taught sealing, the usual constraint on seals is that they take a long time to develop, almost no one passes on their full corpus even to students, and very frequently techniques die with their creators. You do not have those problems. Even if you don't have chakra, you should be able to develop a seal eventually, and at that point if humans still exist trying to find someone to put you back should be relatively trivial."

"So - eventually? Approaching guaranteed. Soon, on a scale of months? Extremely unlikely. Soon on a scale of years - it depends on how well peace can be maintained, and how well you take to sealing, I suppose. The Second and Fourth Hokage both developed revolutionary space-time techniques in between missions, by thirty years of age. I don't know how revolutionary dimensional transit is, though, nor how much raw power it would tend to take."

(And, hell, if they successfully manage even a brief peace let alone a lasting one, he'll declare them honorary family and will his eyes to them for study and use.)

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"In that case- I think we should make preparations for the peacekeeping idea."

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Sigh. "Thanks."

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Sounds like fun.

"How does making a seal, uh, work?"

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"Uh, details would take a while, but - standard sealing as used in Konoha, there's a set of images that have various meanings. Sometimes people use specific sealing glyphs, sometimes they just use kanji. The arrangement of those glyphs is determined mathematically. You can also do a seal with pure math, using the glyphs to represent certain concepts, equations, or results - this is easier if you're doing them on the fly I think? Seals are usually at least somewhat radially symmetrical, and written with special materials, preferably on special paper. You can use normal ink, but things like specially treated inks and blood are - more conductive.

"The general theory behind seals is that they act as channels, forcing chakra into shapes it wouldn't normally take and that are hard to maintain otherwise, and often storing the chakra channeled into it for later release - either as a function of the seal or of its materials. Chakra in certain arrangements has certain consistent effects on the world, so part of developing new seals is probably figuring out the correspondences between new arrangements and what they do."

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"So it's trial and error?"

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"There's patterns, which you can get a feel for, or some people have managed to find actual calculable ones for some things. Which would probably work better if we had better computers."

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"Accelerating that development may be worth our while."

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"It'd be greatly appreciated in general - seals do a lot, the decline in masters has really hit most places hard..."

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