"What's this..." Nai Hyuga froze for a moment. The Mirror had unexpectedly shrunk back to its original size after leaving her hands.
Once she noticed this, she did not rush to investigate why. She took a deep breath and formed hand seals, and two shadow clones appeared beside her.
With two soft pops, the shadow clones exchanged a glance with her original body, then scattered, using the Body Flicker Technique to dart toward the nearby purple mist.
After leaving the matter of Orochimaru to her two shadow clones, Nai Hyuga settled down and looked at the Mirror on the ground.
"It actually shrank back to its original size..." She had always assumed that the Mirror would retain its shape after growing larger. She had never expected it to instantly return to its original size once it left her hands.
Nai Hyuga bent down and examined it closely for a moment, puzzled. It returned to its original shape after leaving my hands. Could it have lost the chakra sustaining it?
But on second thought, she dismissed that idea. Enlarging the Mirror had consumed chakra, but once it had grown, it had not continued draining her chakra.
"If it wasn't chakra, then what caused it?"
Suddenly, something seemed to occur to her, interrupting her thoughts. Perhaps her intent was still the reason? Just as when she had watched Yui in the Black Mist Space before, if she stopped controlling the image, it would freeze and no longer move.
The Mirror's size was also controlled by her intent. Could the same principle apply?
Nai Hyuga nodded to herself. Perhaps that was the reason.
With that in mind, she tentatively reached out, brushed her fingertips against the Mirror on the ground, and slowly fed chakra into it. As she had expected, its surface did