4. I slowly surfaced from unconsciousness, my head spinning. What had happened? I tried to force my eyes open, but they seemed sealed shut. I could barely move. There was something constricting around my chest. I could hear voices. They seemed so far away but at the same time so near. I sighed and tried yet again to open my eyes. I only managed to open them the slightest bit before a stream of bright light forced them closed again. I took a deep breath. Again. Once again I opened my eyes, slowly this time, to allow them to adjust to the sudden brightness. That's better. Takeshi sensei, Ryo and Shoji were sitting in front of me, eating a hearty lunch. And I was tied to the post. Of course. "What happened?" I mumbled. Ryo grinned maliciously. "So, you're finally awake?" "Takeshi sensei kicked your ass." Shoji mumbled, answering my question through a mouthful of rice and meat. "And we kicked your ass, too. We almost got the bells." Ryo added, brushing the hair out of his eyes. Takeshi sensei just nodded in agreement. Well, that's just Perfect. "There any chance of me getting a bento?" Takeshi, Ro and Shoji all shook their heads. I glanced over at Takeshi. "You okay?" He raised an eyebrow in question. "I used that jutsu didn't I?" Takeshi nodded. "I've been through worse you know." Ryo peered at me from over his bento. "What was that jutsu exactly?" I kept my silence. Ryo turned to Takeshi sensei for an answer. Sensei sighed, put down his now empty bento box, and began to explain. "Ren has a rare bloodline trait appearing only twice before in the Kimura family. It's more of a sixth sense than a jutsu really. She can sense other people's consciousness's…. " "Wait. So she can read minds?" Shoji cut in, mouth open. I watch with a mixture of disgust and humour as the food he had been chewing, tumbled out of his mouth. Takeshi sensei gave him an 'are-you-an-idiot?' look. "No. She can sense your current chakra level, as well as how well you use your chakra. She can sense feelings, sense if you're injured or similar and sometimes read your memories. She can also use this sense to store other people's feelings, chakra and even injuries." Shoji and Ryo opened their mouths simultaneously to ask a question, but Takeshi sensei hurriedly cut them off. "For example if you were injured Ren could transfer the wound and the pain that goes with it on to someone else. Vice versa if she was injured she could transfer her injury over to someone else. She can do the same with chakra and feelings. In a battle she could take her opponents chakra and give them her fear, except to give someone something she has to have this herself. Let's say she wanted to give someone chakra she'd have to have some chakra to begin with. " Shoji raised his hand in question. Sensei sighed. "What?" "But when she was fighting you she wasn't in any sort of physical pain, and yet she made you feel pain…..didn't she?" Shoji looked up at Takeshi sensei uncertainly. Takeshi nodded slowly. "I don't really understand that myself." He looked up at me, expectantly. Sigh." It's because I can store these things in myself." "What?" I roll my eyes. "When I get chakra from someone else I can store it. Same as let's say I take someone's sadness I can store that. I don't currently feel these things but they are there. This only does not work with wounds. I can put the pain aside, but not the actual physical wound." I look up, to see if they understand. Shoji looked uncertain, and Ryo's eyebrow was raised, but Takeshi sensei seemed to understand. Good enough.