Eclipse's Ultra Rare Author's Note: I feel I must disclaim something really quick. 'Mind Walking' as a Yamanaka clan technique was originally a concept used in CompYES's fanfiction; 'The Cassandra Effect'. That story can be found on right here on and I highly recommend it. I don't claim any ownership of the original idea. That being said, although it shares a name and basic function here, we changed the actual effects of the jutsu. I hope CompYES doesn't mind us using their jutsu and expanding upon it.

In The Last Chapter... "I dunno. I'm not even sure where my friend's are... Let's head down to the training grounds and see if we can find some!" Naruto exclaimed, grinning. He started to drag her along towards the training grounds, running in his excitement.

Karin almost tripped when he grabbed her, accelerating to a full-out sprint in the direction opposite of what she was facing. Luckily, she caught herself after the initial near-stumble and kept up, thankful she was still in her boots and not civilian shoes. "How many training grounds are here?"

"A lot, so I guess we'll just have to check them all until we find somebody," Naruto said, picking up speed. He was smiling, less cheek-hurting than his full-out grin but no less happy.

The kunoichi was surprised by just how energetic Naruto was, not unpleasantly so, but it hadn't been expected. She followed him until they reached the start of the training grounds, and from there she showed off her sensing abilities, expressing which ones were in use and which were not.

"That's really cool," Naruto complimented as they headed towards the first occupied training ground. He'd calmed down now, and they were moving at a more reasonable pace, "Can you sense everyone's chakra?" Her expression turned slightly smug as she pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose, the light catching and reflecting on the lenses.

"That's right. Even if they try to suppress it, I'll know they're there." She knew she was bragging, but it wasn't often she got to show off her talents when not on some kind of mission.

"And you can 'feel' how their chakra is as well? Must be good for gauging if a person is friendly or not," Naruto wished he had that power when he was younger, or even now. He did have a problem with being too trusting... They arrived at the first training ground where Ino, Shikamaru, Neiji, Tenten, Kiba, and Hinata were. They were sparing in pairs, back by the tree line of the grounds across the field.

"It can be, but there's no real way of telling what kind of person someone is until you actually meet. I can tell their intent though," she explained, moving her hands idly. When they were within hearing distance of the other ninja she shut her mouth, glancing over the others and taking note of their individual signatures. The training exercises stopped and she found herself being stared at.

Naruto linked arms with Karin and grinned, walking up to the group of ninjas paused in their training. He called out to them. "Hi guys! I want to introduce you to someone. This is Karin Uzumaki; she's my cousin!"

The reactions were varied. Three looked surprised, two looked only mildly interested, and one kept looking at Naruto, then Karin, then the ground. The red head propped a hand on her hip, the other arm occupied, and looked them over.

"Hey," one of the girl, the politely smiling brunette, was the first to break the silence, "I'm Tenten. The quiet one over there," frowning long haired boy, "is my teammate; Neji Hyuuga."

The blonde came up next, looking her over briefly before introducing herself as Ino Yamanaka plus teammate Shikamaru Nara. The only boy to say more than 'hey' had red triangles on his cheeks and strange chakra that seemed to mix with the dog her was riding. How the canine got to be that big she didn't have the slightest idea.

"I'm Kiba, this is my partner Akamaru, and that's our other teammate; Hinata," he greeted, smiling easily down at Karin.

Naruto grinned, looking between his friends and his cousin. He was expecting them to be nice, of course, but he was still excited to see them get along. He had family now, he was insanely happy, and he'd show her off to the whole village if he could.

"She's going to be living with me for now on, and joining the Konoha ranks," he informed them, nearly bouncing on his feet.

"That's the plan anyway," but with the way things might go tomorrow she wasn't sure.

"You're a kunoichi?" Ino asked, and Karin nodded.

"I was born in Kusa," she explained, not bothering to give more details. If they wanted to know more they could ask.

"And y-you're Naruto's cousin?" Hinata repeated. The red head nodded and caught the other Hyuuga looking at her.

"I didn't know Naruto had any relatives," Neji stated, narrowing his eyes slightly as he looked at her.

Karin shrugged. "I didn't know either until a few hours ago."

"We both thought that we had no living blood relatives left, but we found out otherwise when Karin had to do a blood test at the hospital," Naruto explained, "For being in different countries, we're certainly closely related. Only about two degrees of separation. "

Naruto grinned again, folding his arms behind his head. "She didn't even know her own last name until a few hours ago, she just went by Karin."

"Don't just tell people that!" She punched his arm none too gently and huffed, not actually upset but having been perfectly happy just being introduced as an Uzumaki. It was no one's business how long she had been one.

Naruto rubbed his sore arm and frowned at Karin, puppy-dog pouting at her. "You don't have to be so rough!" he whined.

Kiba started laughing at Naruto's expression and his dog barked loudly, causing the Uzumaki girl to jump.

"So, we've got another Uzumaki running around the village? I hope you're less troublesome than Naruto is..." Shikamaru commented, cutting himself off with a yawn. He shoved his hands into his pockets.

Naruto dropped the puppy eyes, turning his head to grin slyly at Shikamaru. He laughed a bit. "Oh no, she's much worse. Better watch out, Shikamaru..." he teased. He waved his hands in a spooky gesture.

This time Karin's palm connected with his cheek and the girl shoved him without actual force, still not serious but frowning in mock severity. Naruto followed along with her action, even though she wasn't pushing hard, and sat down cross-legged on the ground.

"Quiet you," she ordered.

He pretended to zip his lips shut, grinning up at Karin all the while. His friends watched on, clearly amused, and it was easy to see that Kiba was the loudest of them from how he was laughing.

"You should be nicer to your cousin, Karin," Ino pretended to scold her. Naruto 'unzipped' his lips at Ino's comment, looking up at his cousin.

"Yeah, Kar. You should be nicer to your adorable, awesome cousin."

"The cousin part I'll agree with," she teased, crossing her arms and looking down at him. Her brows pinched together suddenly as she felt a familiar chakra signature and looked to the west, confused. Naruto looked mock-offended for a moment until Karin looked away, where his expression turned bemused.

The other followed her gaze, raising eyebrows all around. "What are you looking at?" Ino asked after a minute. Karin made 'hm' and looked back at her, momentarily forgetting they didn't know about her sensing abilities.

"Lee. He runs faster than I would have thought."

When she elaborated, Naruto made a small 'oh' noise and nodded. "Karin is a sensor ninja," he explained to the others after seeing how confused they looked, "She met Lee earlier, so now she knows how his chakra feels and can track his movements."

"He just went by with someone else," someone with more chakra. Karin kept watching the area she knew they were in although she couldn't see them visually.

There were two sudden shouts of 'Youth!' heard throughout the training ground before the two signatures were out of her range. Tenten and Neji shook their heads, sweat dropping in embarrassment.

"That's probably Gai-sensei. He and Rock Lee are on our team as well," Tenten offered, looking like she didn't want to come forward with the information.

Naruto laughed, getting back to his feet and brushing the dust from his pant legs."Oh yeah, I did tell her a little about Gai. I can't wait to see her reaction to actually meeting him... It's going to be hilarious."

"He's not that bad," the brunette tried to defend, only to give in when her other teammate accused her of lying. She nodded. He was. He was that bad.

Shikamaru sighed, "Ino and I have to meet up with our team in a few minutes for group training. We'll see you around."

"Bye Karin, try to keep your cousin out of trouble," Ino advised, grinning at her as the two walked off.

Naruto and Karin waved goodbye to Shikamaru and Ino, "Bye guys!" Naruto said. Well, this day had been productive.

The morning of her interrogation was nerve wracking, to say the lest. She couldn't stop tapping the hard plastic of the chair she was sat upon with her fingernail, and her other hand was twisting the end of her ponytail between her fingers. This could either go perfectly, or horridly wrong. There was no inbetween.

The T&I department had a distinctly professional feel to it, but underneath the plain exterior of a waiting room she could sense the inner workings of the floors below; there was chakra fluctuating under her very feet and all around her in the form of seals and various jutsu. It was hard to be comforted by the friendly front desk receptionist and off-white walls when the 'T' of T&I was just below the surface. She knew well enough that down there was where she'd end up if they didn't like what they found in her head...

It was soon after that a nondescript worker entered the waiting room and disrupted such thoughts, a clipboard in his hands. The very plain man looked around the waiting room over the rim of his glasses before approaching her.

"Are you Karin Uzumaki?"

"That's right," she said, standing up quickly. It was better to just get it over with, for better or worst, since it was really the suspense that was killing her, "I'm Karin." She barely looked at him, busy pulling her senses back to her after her impromptu observation on Konoha's interrogation methods. From what she could tell, they relied heavily on chakra usage.

The man nodded, gesturing to the door he came in through with his thumb. "Your room is ready. Yamanaka-san can see you now," he told her, his voice level with no inflection in the slightest. He sounded bored to be honest. He let her go first, moving aside to let her though, and then followed behind her. He directed her down the winding halls into the assigned room.

The indifferent way he spoke made it sound like she was just at the doctors office for a check up. That thought was vaguely comforting and her stomach ceased making unpleasant flips. Karin followed the man's direction as she was ushered into a room marked '6', glancing around as she crossed the threshold until her gaze stopped at the face of a blond man. He looked very much like Ino, and the girl decided they were either close relatives or he was her father.

"You're the one that's going to take a look inside my mind?" she asked as the door was shut behind her. She entered the room without further prompt and sat in the chair provided across from the blond man. The man nodded, sweeping his long blond ponytail back over his shoulder.

"Yes, I will be. I've been ordered to go over your memories as a member of Team Hebi/Taka, extract everything you know about the Akatsuki and its leader, and make sure you really wish to become a member of Konoha. We have to be certain you aren't planning on betraying us."

"Betray you to who?" she asked. The only people she was even remotely loyal to now who weren't her cousin were probably in jail. Everyone else was either dead or she wished they were. He hadn't mentioned her time with Orochimaru.

War had been declared, and she was decently strong with insider information, so maybe they didn't want any reason to have to lock her up? They needed all the help they could get, being such a target, and she would be more useful to them if she wasn't rotting in a jail cell. She assumed, if that was true, her morally questionable past would be on a 'don't ask, don't tell' basis.

"Maybe not willingly loyal, but I was told to make sure no one has any blackmail on you either. The Akatsuki, if they have any dirt on you, could threaten you to come back to them." That confirmed her suspicions a bit. They didn't want to hear anything bad about her or have to lose her. "Or Uchiha Sasuke; The report I was given said that you seemed very infatuated with him."

"I was. Until he literally stabbed me in the heart. Whatever you want to know, just ask," she told him as she reclined back in her chair, jaw twitching a bit at the mention of that bastard. She couldn't think of anything the Akatsuki might have on her. Nothing that would make her want to leave her family at least. The man nodded and breezed through a complex series of hand signs.

"Please retain eye contact with me and keep still. This will only sting for as long as you try to fight me or lock me out," he informed her in a pleasant but professional tone. He made a sign similar to the one Ino had made during the chuunin exams, the one that resembled a heart, and pointed it towards Karin.

Odd hand sign as far as she was concerned but Karin didn't fight the chakra that suddenly invaded her senses. Her eyes unfocused and she continued to stare straight ahead.

The man's chakra invaded her mind until it formed into a representation of him in her thoughts. Her mind was visualized by a hall of doors by the jutsu. They stood at the end of the corridor, in the present, so it could be assumed that the doors all lead to memories. The hallway was formed of dark wood that smelt like grass with a warm stone floor. Everything was ordered nicely, with no sloppy gaps between doors like he sometimes saw.

"Lead me to the door where you first joined team Hebi, just recall the memory and we should start walking there," he said. She sighed and nodded.

"Just don't judge me. I didn't know he was an ass back then," she warned, walking towards the door she assumed held the memory. She pushed it open and let the man in, following in after him.

"I'm not allowed to judge you personally in a professional setting," he informed her blankly before falling silent, watching the memory. She stepped aside from the door that closed without her moving it, watching as 'she' kicked away the hand of one of the prisoners from where it had been reaching through the bars of his cell.

Sasuke appeared at the end of the remembered hallway, Suigetsu at his side, and Karin's memory went on from there. It showed her flirting with Sasuke after Suigetsu left to her leaving the hideout with them to go find Juugo. The prisoners had all been freed, and those that stuck around to get supplies cowered away from her as she walked out with the two boys.

The Yamanaka observed with sharp eyes as he watched her leave with the two boys. He had a notepad out and was jotting down notes, a mirror of what he was doing in the real world. "What was the purpose for Team Hebi when it started out?" he asked.

"To help Sasuke find his brother, Itachi Uchiha. We weren't meant to help him fight, just distract anyone Itachi was with until he was dead. Did you want to see that memory too? I wasn't around for the actual fight but I was there when Sasuke won."

A door appeared in the memory and the Yamanaka led them out. They stepped back into the hallway and she glanced in both directions, finding the entire jutsu interesting but weird. The man nodded as the door closed behind them, motioning for her to lead them to the next memory. Not much was reported on the death of Uchiha Itachi and it was always good to know more.

She did so, stepping into the memory of Sasuke, almost unconscious, and the body of his brother laying in front of him. She watched herself rush forward and instruct her ex-leader to bite her, watched it go on until Madara showed up and offered them a place to rest and information. Then the memory cut off and they were in a small, 5×5 grey room with the door on the wall behind them.

"Why did you tell him to bite you?" The man asked, turning to look at Karin, "And that man... Was he Madara Uchiha?"

"It's a healing technique I have. By consuming my chakra the person is healed of injuries, even fatal ones, and re-energized. I can use it on myself as well, but it takes up a lot of chakra," she explained, frowning, "It also leaves a permanent scar. From what I can tell that man is Madara, and he has the Mangekyo Sharingan if nothing else. He even knew to replace Sasuke's eyes with Itachi's so he wouldn't go blind."

The man nodded, jotting down some more notes. He'd have to add that ability to her file. "What else do you know about Madara Uchiha? Tell me everything you can remember about him and his plans."

"He can suck people into an alternate dimension using his Sharingan, he's skilled at taijutsu, and he's the real leader of the Akatsuki. Madara can make himself intangible, so physical attacks don't work. He wants to take over the world and cast an eternal genjutsu from the moon to make paradise. Oh! And he knew the truth about, and was involved in, the Uchiha clan massacre," she summed up. That was as extensive as her knowledge was on the masked man.

The man nodded, having written down all that while we was speaking. "Alright, and do you have any idea what their next move will be?

"Sasuke wants to destroy Konoha, but Madara is trying to catch all of the Bijuu. I think their next move would be for them to use the war as a distraction and take Naruto and that other jinchuriki, Killer B, while everyone is fighting," Or at least that was her guess. And she was not letting them get to her family.

The man nodded again, although that wasn't anything they weren't already expecting. "Thank you very much, Ms. Uzumaki. I'll be ending the jutsu in a moment, but I've not detected any falsehood from you, nor any desire to defect back to Akatsuki. You may return back to your cousin's apartment, if you wish."

That didn't mean without continued ANBU detail watching her, of course, but she was free to go. In all honesty, she should have been staying in T&I for a few weeks rather than a few minutes and having her brain picked. Allowances had to be made for wartime, however, and she'd just have to be called in again.

"Alright. If there's anything else you think I could help with, I'm not hard to find," or her hair wasn't at least.

The man nodded and cut the jutsu. Suddenly they were back in the interrogation room. He stood up and bowed to her. "Thank you for cooperating." He said. She mirrored the action and made her exit, intent on finding her cousin or, if not him, one of his friends.