"Could ask the fox that too."

"I'll add it to the list!"

And eventually Naruto can be left in his new apartment.

Cam emails Sasuke Naruto's in 406 if you want him.

Thanks.

I'll talk to him, I guess.

Jiraiaya took 408.

I'd rather not run into Jiraiya but I guess I can email Naruto to ask to meet him while he knows his teacher's elsewhere.

Yeah, I told you so you could avoid it. Naruto seems like a great guy!

He's very himself. Makes odd friends.

Odd like how? He did mention the fox but I think if someone's stuck in your head trying to make friends is pretty sensible.

He has made multiple friends with someone actively attempting to kill him.

That's really impressive!

He's kind of terrifyingly good at reading people sometimes.

There's not like a technique for that, is there? Just facial expressions and stuff?

I think just facial expressions and word choice, he's been doing that since I've known him, and really experienced shinobi sometimes surprise him. 

Cool. There keep being things that are just barely not outright nightmare fuel around so I'm a little on edge around all the near misses.

The Yamanaka are the only mental technique users I know of - I think I mentioned them. They're the ones who have a temporary body possession technique.

Very bad but not outright nightmare fuel if they just mess with the body!

There's rumors of a memory reading room in the Leaf, but if it exists it'd have to rely on very obvious inscribed techniques, and probably on a target who's already unconscious or close to it. Messing with other people's minds is hard - bodily possession can be thrown off even by people without training.

That's good to know! Anything else in the space? Recommended reading?

Orochimaru had some literature on resisting mental techniques, and on how the Yamanaka do them, that might have stuff I've missed.

He lists the titles of a few scrolls.

Cam throws them on the pile of stuff for clones to read.

Orochimaru's body-jump technique has a historical grounding in the Yamanaka's Mind-Body Switch, which can temporarily put the user in charge of someone else's body. A small number of Yamanaka can control someone while remaining in control of their own body.

Also, Sasuke apparently missed that to Orochimaru's knowledge exactly one Yamanaka (Inoichi) has a touch-ranged telepathy technique. Orochimaru knows it allows people to share memories and thoughts, is fairly certain it can't force people to do so, and is uncertain how to use it (the last to his own frustration), since Inoichi seems to have avoided writing anything about it down or sharing anything with a node on Orochimaru's spy network. Inoichi definitely needs to be touching people, though - Orochimaru is fairly certain of that from past encounters with the man.

There are also writings on extending illusion-resistance to mental techniques.

Cool, how do you do that last thing?

This seems to involve a lot of meditation, and apparently at least some shinobi can visualize and enter their own mindscape, because this assumes that's a skill someone already has. Making the mindscape hostile to visitors is the effective summary, with a few suggestions for how.

Does Sasuke have any recommended reading on the mindscape thing, that sounds fun and practical.