Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20160503155054/@comment-24479578-20160504014412

Post Three

Hitomi stood up and walked over to the counter, picking up the scroll, she opened it up and began to look over it. Studying the script on the parchment with careful scrutinization. There had to be something that she had been missing. Some detail that her mother had overlooked. Pressing her lips together and to the side slightly, she studied the writing with careful eyes. It was all straightforward. Form the seals, focus on the chakra and cut. It should have been so easy to do with everything that she had been able to do. But this one had escaped her.

Placing the scroll back down on the counter, she had once more walked over to the cat. With careful precision, she went through the five hand seals Tiger → Horse → Rabbit → Rat → Dog. This time, she had felt something that she hadn’t the other few times. There was a different feel to the chakra this time. It was more solid. Like she could actually touch it against the table and she would hear a clanking sound. However, when she had, the chakra around her fingertips vanished and she in turn took a deep breath and let it out slowly. What was it about this one technique that had her baffled. She’d push that chakra back around the end of her fingers and concentrate on it a moment before she’d bring her hand down to the cat whose fur was beginning to dry from sitting out in the room with her so long. By this time, her nose had gotten used to the smell of it and it didn’t bother her any longer. It should have moved with the chakra that had been pooling around her fingers, but once more, it didn’t. Sitting down in the chair, she placed her head against the table. What was she getting wrong? Once more, the chakra dispersed and she looked down to the floor. Come the end of this day, she would make that cut. She was determined to.