If my senses weren't so ected to literally every inch of the surrounding miles and it hadn't been moving I holy wouldn't have even noticed it. This was enough to raise goosebumps all over my arms because there was no way I couldn't uand the implication of that. This thing could be sitting han a meter away from me when my senses were at their normal level and I'd have no clue at all unless it moved.-

  "Hmm, it seems the boy is more cautious than anticipated. How troublesome. A person of that caliber may prove problematic to the pn and we hoped we'd be able to get rid of him early." One voice spoke from the green haired side of the thing.

  To my surprise a totally different voice spoke from the bck side of it. "He will only have a small impact even if he grows to that level but it would have beeer if we could have removed this uable factor now before it grow to it's full potential. A natural born sage would have a unique impa what is to e after all." the things heavy gruff voice said and I shuddered.

  'IT KNOWS!' I thought in horror and for the briefest instant the overwhelming urge to destroy this thing appeared but I crushed it down as logie that was a VERY bad idea.

  This thing was not stroly but all my seold me that killing it fully would require so much force that I would definitely expose my location in the process. That said there was nothing that stopped me from making it's stealth useless against me. I focused ohing and gathered up the natural energy in my senses full range before branding the thing with all that energy despite this making it freak out.-

  'Sage art: Natures Awareness!' I thought as the brand of natural energy sank into every cell of the thing.

  It tried quite hard to rid itself of the brand as it fled but I s it because this was no simple thing to remove. What this did ermaly alter ones signature as far as natural energy was ed to the point the oh it shone like a bea to any sage in the area paying attention. The best part though was that not even by getting rid of every cell in ones body could it be gotten rid of as it applied to ones very soul via their chakra as well.-

  I had gotten the idea from the odd seal that Orochimaru gave Sasuke during the in exams. the seal was oddly enough made mostly of natural energy set in a specififiguration that was rather unrefined and savage really but effectively gave the oh the seal an imperfe of sage mode by stuffing their bodies with natural energy that is kept from overwhelming their bodies just barely.-

  Creating a brand out of pure natural energy based on this idea was childs py for me as I was willing to bet everything I had that there was not a single living person with as much trol over natural energy as me. I didn't really pn to ever use this teique after I figured out how to do it but for this situation it erfect despite it not having any offensive capabilities. A thing that even I could sehout extraordinary circumstahat also wanted me dead was not something I wao exist.-

  Before as any funny ideas about me being able to use this brand to allow others to bee sages I want to crify that it didn't work like that, or rather COULDN'T work like that. Even the seal Orochimaru put on Sasuke didn't just grant sage mode but rather forced the users body into a simir state by forcibly g natural energy and their chakra. Frankly speaking it was way more harmful than helpful as this csh does serious damage to ones body. In fact I re that each use took years off the users lifespan but at such a small amount at a time that it was difficult to notice.-

  Sage mode was achieved through a perfect fusion of chakra and natural energy at a specific ratio following the users i, my body being the exception rather than the rule. In other words it 't just be "gifted" to someone even by me. The full extent of my ability was to make it easier for someoo feel natural energy and to extract it from them if they lost trol of it. I could also force it into someone's body if I wanted but that was more likely to kill them than anything else.-

  So while I was able to make it easier and safer for someoo achieve sage mode I couldn't just give it to someone. Not that I would have even if I could as I was more than aware that such power would likely cause irreparable harm to the world. A single sage do a lot of good if they set their minds to it but they cause far more harm with the same level of determination. Knowing this I erfectly fih leaving sage mode as rare as it is. Clearly the sage beasts of the world were of a simir mi as they only taught at most a single person at a time sage mode.-

  Anyways with that stealthy thing now rendered impossible to miss for me I turned my attention back to those hunti took awhile but eventually all of these groups eventually tracked me back to the location far above me after finding my shadow es. Shinobi weren't stupid normally so ohey figured out that I had sent out shadow es to throw off the trail they began looking far more closely at any "me" they came across. By process of elimination or pin luck they all eventually found the location above me.-

  It was sort of amusing to watch them all try the same thing as Kakuzu only to get angry when it became clear that I had made it pretty much impossible to follow me. A few of them chose to chase after Kakuzu and that immortals tracks thinking that they would know about it or if anything were me in disguise. I almost pitied the poor bastards as those two were defihe sort to kill those who had the audacity to follow their tracks. Then again they were after my life so fuck them.-

  I also got a total head t on the Root shinobi that Danzo sent after me and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in surprise. A total of fifty two shinobi all at the special Jonin or Jonin level which if i wasn't wrong was almost ALL of Danzo's root members at that level. He used to have a lot more but thehird Hokage took most of them from the bastard so seeing that he was willing to risk so much to kill me was surprising.