"She can make chakra, sir. She's not certain what will happen if she makes it outside of a person, but she can, if you'd like."

"It'd be an interesting test, certainly."

She holds her hand out, palm up, and does, again starting very slowly.

It seems to rather quickly dissipate into the environment, but doesn't do anything dangerous.

"Interesting," Tobirama says. "It's like you're pushing chakra out of your body, without actually depleting yourself."

She stops and signs.

    "That makes some sense, sir - she's making it out of the Force, not from anything within herself; she's only a conduit."

He nods. "And since it seems safe for you to form it outside a body, that should make experimenting with forming it easier. If you need a finer grained read from someone more familiar with the local system, by the way, I am usually in my office, and my brother's wife - another sensor with a different focus than I have - is usually findable by talking to the secretary in the Hokage Tower."

    "Yes sir. She might find that helpful once she's had more time to examine it on her own. Can you describe how your and your sister-in-law's sensory powers differ?"

"My sister in law feels things with a sense that maps onto touch, loosely, though at a much greater range. Her senses are better attuned towards thinking things, and she has a better idea of how emotions and intent influence chakra than I do. She has a very fine-tuned sense for yin chakra."

"My senses you could say take after the yang side. I can identify if two people are related by blood. I can identify what sort of physical training they have, if they favor one side or another, if they have any of a class of lingering injuries. Mine feels like I'm hearing the chakra, almost."

    "Thank you, sir. She'll look for you when she's ready."

"Alright. I'll leave you to your night, now, then."

    "Thank you, sir."

They go back to Desuka's house, where Deskyl settles in to meditate, running through emotional states from calm to furious, pleased, and fearful, ending somewhat shaken.

Love? Did anything strange happen? Something's messed with my emotions.

    Nothing that I haven't already told you about, ma'am. What's wrong?

I'm... calmer. It's subtle, but it's definitely there.

    I don't know of anything that could have caused that, ma'am, but we never did figure out what was happening with Desuka.

Or something else might have had a side effect. I don't think it's an emergency exactly but the sooner we look into it the better the chance of figuring it out. Let's go get Desuka.

    Yes ma'am.

Desuka excuses herself from her job - family emergency isn't quite over, apparently - and takes them to the Hokage tower to talk to Hashirama's clone, who's stationed there for urgent problems like this.

"Can you describe the problem?"

Deskyl paces, signing.

    "Her emotions have been modified; she's calmer than she should be. It's subtle enough that she didn't notice it until she was meditating; Sith's Force techniques are powered by strong emotions, so their meditation involves practicing evoking emotional peaks, and she wasn't able to do that as well as she used to be. She doesn't seem to be impaired otherwise - she says that her connection to the Force is a little stronger than she'd expect, if anything - but it's still concerning."

That sounds concerning!

"Our treatment techniques don't typically have that as a side effect - if I may have permission to touch her for a full medical diagnostic technique?"

She pauses in her pacing and offers her hand.

He takes it, closing his eyes, and a wave of soft energy pulses through her.

He lets go and steps back once it's done.

"To my diagnostic, you appear to be in remarkably - and actually unusually - good health, especially as far as the balance of your yin chakra is concerned. Yin usually governs and is governed by the mind, so if you're used to - and if Sith techniques require or cause - an unbalanced state, that might be the problem."

    "That sounds plausible, sir. Do you have any idea what might have caused it?" (Deskyl rocks on the balls of her feet, as an alternative to resuming her pacing.)

He shakes his head. "Not enough to be sure. Your Force seemed to be doing something we felt odd when Desuka was around, but that and your world of origin and the nature of your injury are the main irregularities we know of."

    "Yes sir. Do you know where Raafi is? She'd like to ask him whether his spells could have done it."

"I know where he's staying, usually, though I can also ask him to come here."

    "Thank you, sir."

    "She'd like to see if her dark side techniques work as expected, too; that should be done somewhere more open than this."

"I can show you somewhere suitable, then - the larger training grounds are mostly nearer the outskirts."

    "Thank you, sir."

"Would now work, while I send a message to Raafi?"