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[With all the commotion of Konoha-nin showing up and then disgusting mind-controlling candy showing up directly after them, Sasuke has nearly forgotten about the other encounter he had on Empieza the day he met his former teammates -- but there's finally been a lull, and he's perched as high in the rigging as he can go without the journal blowing out of his hands when he remembers.]

Has anyone seen this?

[Believe it or not, he has actually put effort into this drawing, but a dragon is not a battle diagram.]

It was looking for a skinny kid with brown hair.

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It's a basic skill for shinobi.

[A funny sort of sound, like an excited exhalation of air.] Shinobi-- a covert agent or mercenary. I believe there is a pop culture reference that would result in you being in a world largely comprised of pirates being comical.

... the only part of that that made sense was covert agent or mercenary. That's roughly accurate. [Or it used to be, before they got involved in outright warfare.]

I've never met a true Shinobi. It's a pleasure.

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... that's not what non-shinobi usually say. [He sounds dubious.]

[A chuckle.] I am no shinobi, but I do appreciate learning. Meeting with someone of a profession I never have before is a new experience, I'm sorry for the uncommon exuberance.

Are you hoping to learn the shinobi arts? [Even more dubious-sounding; they're hard enough for people born to the life to pick up in some cases.]

Are you offering? [Don't give him any ideas, Sasuke.]

Do you have experience with combat, let alone using your chakra? [He's not a good teacher anyway.]

Combat, yes. Chakra I would have to research further.

There's not much to research about it in this world. That Meep guy said that there's someone in Yuezhong who knows about it, but it didn't sound like the kind we use.

[And as far as teaching someone else about it ... Sakura would probably do a better job than he would, if he has to admit to a shortcoming.]

Hm, that is unfortunate. I don't suppose it's as easy as to assume that you're referencing the chakras in Hindu beliefs?

There have been things that are the same across worlds with different names. If you tell me what the chakras you know are I can confirm if they're what I know.

The names I'm finding listed are Sahasrara, Ajna, Vishuddhi, Anahata, Manipura, Swadhisthana, and Muladhara, though I'm lacking in any personal or practical knowledge of them myself, this is simply information I've discovered by running searches on the topic.

I don't know them by those names. We have eight seats of chakra that center the flow of chakra through the body.

It's probably a different concept with the same name. [He's used to weird incongruities between things he thought he knew by now.] Unless people in your world use these 'Hindu chakras' in combat?

I'm not finding anything in regard of Hindu chakra being used in combat, no.

...you use them in combat? [You can practically hear him becoming Interested Cat.]

Yes. That's how shinobi techniques work. [His voice is confused, now; he can't work out why someone who seems to know about ninja wouldn't know this.]

[Gomen for Philip, Sasuke. He's sort of a weirdo.] Mm, fascinating. Perhaps I could inquire on this further in person?

Yeah, if you want. [He still sounds perplexed by the request.] If you haven't had any prior training, you probably won't be able to pick up any techniques right away, though.

Certainly not any chakra-based training, but... [He chuckles for a moment, shrugging.] I know my way around a fight.

In that case, we'll see.

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