Correction: her element's starting to show up!
"I don't like this. I really, really don't like this, Papa." Hotaru told Soichi as he brushed her hair into high pigtails at the back of her head. "Something just doesn't feel right."
"It'll be alright, Sweet Pea. It's just the first part of the Chunin Exam." He assured her as he let Kin take over to braid the pigtails into millions of braids tipped with beads. Soichi sat off to the side, returning to his morning tea. "After all, it's just a test and you've always been good with tests. The questions might be a little outrageous but it's only an exam. You've taken those similar. All 3 of you are brilliant genin. I know whatever effort you 3 put forth, you'll all make the Otokage and the Sound Village proud."
"That's not it. I…I sense something's wrong and that nothing'll go right." Hotaru answered, turning to look at her father. "There are others like me here…I can feel their chakra like…like they were the rain and I was a lone leaf. I don't like it. I don't like it at all."
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"So, our little Hotaru can feel those who have chakra as great as her own." The Otokage said, looking at the genin through the windows on the 2nd floor. He was hidden in the tree with Soichi leaning against the trunk. "She is becoming quite the interesting subject."
"It's been getting worse. I saw the seal on her stomach last night. That damned Demon is trying to break free." Soichi told the Sound Shadow. "I can't do anything without her suspecting something. And then it'll kill me because I've made the first move."
"Don't worry. Your students will watch over her in the second part of the exam."
"That reminds me. The teacher of those Sand shinobi said she was going to die in the 2nd half." That got the Otokage to look down at him. "I have a feeling he's planning to sneak in and kill her himself. He knows how valuable she is to our Village. Unlike Uzumaki, we know the trials she's under going and we have excepted her for the destiny we have put on her shoulders." The younger Sound team walked passed the other genin and moved on to the 3rd floor. "She knew it was a genjutsu. How clever. Those eyes are truly wondrous."
"And teaching it to her was time well spent." The Otokage smiled. "I will take my leave for now. Report the results to me when the exam is over."
"As you command, Otokage."
Now, I'm officially creeped out.