"What are you looking at?" A voice asked gently from several feet away as vivid red eyes stared out into the distance as the one being spoken too silently went over the silly question in her mind. Turning it over and over before she bothered to answer.
"Nothing. Everything," She paused for a moment before asking randomly. "Did you know that there are exactly three point six million alternative realities?"
"What?" Her companion asked in a slightly puzzled tone. Not understanding what she was talking about. Probably because it was close to three in the morning and he was still sort of asleep.
"Nothing." She said quickly, as a small gust of wind blew around a dust devil somewhere behind her before she said somewhat distractedly. "I can smell them." Which was more like her way of coming right out and saying, 'I can see them.' Yeah that's what she'd meant to say.
Because she did. See them that is.
Not that her companion would understand what she meant anyways. He didn't know the things she knew. He couldn't see them all happening right now. Couldn't smell and taste his own blood. Nor the blood of others. He didn't see the many various times in his own life and how they would shape him and his future. But she could. She could see them all.
Every fight. Every barrier broken. Every bridge that was gapped.
Every friend. Every lover. Every family. Mother. Father. Daughter and son.
The endless possibilities that stretched out before her were...mesmerizing. So breathlessly mesmerizing. Truly they were. And there was so much that she had barely yet to explore. But all roads began and ended the same. And she was far too young to probe the possibilities further.
A big hand touched the top of her head causing her to twitch slightly as she tipped her head back and looked at her companion's wrinkled face. "Come Naru. It's late and you should be in bed."
She knew that. But she couldn't bring herself to care overly much at the moment. She was too busy checking things out. Her eyes starting to sting from the chakra gathered there, allowing her to see what her companion couldn't. "Naru..." Her companion said again as his hand went to her small boney shoulder. "Come on. It's late- And it's cold." He said with a frown as he bit back a yawn.
knowing that he would continue to pester her until she caved in and did as he wished, she sighed in irritation and let the chakra in her eyes bleed away. Causing everything that she had seen so far to disappear as she glared up at him and growled. "Fine." Then swiped at his hand, knocking it from her shoulder and then turned and stomped off.
She'd go to bed for now like a good little girl. But that didn't mean that she wasn't kicking him out of his own bed for his damned interference.