Another ‘Lion’s Mane’ variant, this time it was something that allowed her to protect herself and others, blushing at the reminder of her incident that had caused her to blind herself. Still, she wound up in Akari’s arms as a result, so all's well that ends well. This time it was the Boar hand-sign, another one she would commit to memory, but then she was suddenly surrounded in the hair giving them a very intimate moment of kissing again, smiling widely at her comment and thinking of a suitable excuse to give others instantly. “I am certain that the Hokage will have many ‘private conversations’ with her student that simply cannot wait and require a bit of seclusion.” They would have to come up with some sort of silent signal to indicate that they wanted to do that, but such things could come later.
With a little regret, she gave Akari a small kiss again and then finally took a step back, allowing herself to emerge from the smaller woman's concealment. Once separated, she focused and then began to manipulate her hair, closing her eyes as a new idea came to mind as a combination to the needle cloak. First, the cloak surrounded her as she slowly moved into a seated position to the point that she looked like a big mass of spiky hair. Then she combined it with another technique, an E-Rank one called ‘Cloak of Invisibility’. In theory, her hair, in substitute for the cape one would normally use, would begin to slowly change in color until Kagura, to the untrained eye, looked like a large rock, blending into the ground. After a second or two like that, she stood up and disbanded both techniques, her hair resuming it’s normal glossy and straight appearance. “You think that one would work? Fool someone who didn’t know what to look for? I tried to use the Cloak of Invisibility technique.” Naturally, she was thinking that was a method they could use to hide from the public eye as well… not even considering the fact that there were two eye-type bloodlines that would be able to see through the ruse, one of which literally.
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