"I'd prefer to talk to someone, actually. Someone I know is loyal to the Leaf."

"Field trip option, okay. Sasuke, you have anybody in mind who's accessible?"

"Kakashi. Naruto. Tsunade. Jiraiya."

"Tsunade's probably in the Leaf. Approaching might not get good reactions, I don't know. This technique's usually a weapon."

"Naruto's not in the Leaf right now," he says, confidently. "And he's beside Jiraiya. Be right back."

And he vanishes in a flash of yellow light.

"Whoa, he can teleport, that's awesome! I didn't know ninja could teleport!"

"I think he's technically traversing the space in between, if I identified that technique correctly as a modification of my Flying Thunder God. Though he's going faster than I ever managed."

"Less cool. But still cool."

Sasuke, who's still working on the next resurrection, comments, "Teleportation is theoretically possible but probably requires a bloodline or a lot of math."

Hee hee.

Since they seem to be between dramas, to Cam: "Can you make bodies with bloodlines?"

"Don't know. Perhaps, if it's just genetics, but I have a suspicion there's something more complicated going on because the human population I'm familiar with doesn't have any such things."

"Something that bears experimenting with."

"It'd have to be something that could be identified without the person needing to do anything, since I can only make mindless bodies."

"I can sense the presence or absence of a bloodline, and how developed it is, but a mindless body might interfere with that."

"Might it? How do you do it?"

"I can sense at fairly high levels of detail. The yang portion of chakra is different between clans, and different if any modifications have been done to the body. The yin portion of chakra is greatly reduced in those bodies, though, to about the level I would expect in an insect. Some bloodlines, like the sharingan, rely greatly on small differences in yin chakra, while others rely primarily on yang chakra."

"I'm curious what you can sense off me, if anything."

"Your body isn't human, though your mental patterns are. You're fairly old. You've never actively wielded chakra, and I'm unsure if your body needs chakra to live like ours do. The wings and tail aren't original. You have some level of control of your body that's atypical for most untrained humans. I also get about as much detail off of chakra as far as emotions go as most people do facial expressions, though I can't read expressions."

"Huh, all correct or things I've speculated myself."

"I tend to have more detail about natives when I try, since I'm used to how the patterns ebb, but I don't tend to look that closely at people. Usually I pay more attention to anything relevant to potential conflict, or to medicine if I'm healing someone."

"Makes sense. So if you can sense me that means I don't just not have chakra and leaves wide open the question of why nobody where I'm from has ever discovered its uses."

"It might be a property of this universe, or a property that any who pass through gain. Also, there are no recorded instances of someone learning to use chakra without a teacher. We supposedly had a single original teacher from whom all traditions sprang. It's unclear where he might have learned."

"Oh, okay, that could do it, especially if bloodlines have to be deliberately created instead of popping up sometimes."

"There's instances of new bloodlines arising from an interaction of two others, but none of bloodlines from nowhere."

"I wonder if you could conjure the Sage of Six Paths, to at least confirm whether any such person ever existed."

Sage of Six Paths mini plastic?