#'the actual most disarming face in the village' bc a few paragraphs early obito has some mean thoughts on minato

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Regular ninjas can also walk "like a civilian" and Tori is a freak because she does it all the time, or I have misunderstood the situation?

regular ninja can imitate, but to be good enough to move 100% like a civilian all the time to fool another observant ninja usually takes a lot of training/practice. plasticity!tori uses the fact that passing for a civilian is a difficult skill to her advantage a bit: her cover as a "harmless" civilian is pretty absolute because she, naturally, has no tells.

i expanded a little on this in an unpublished toxicity bit (reborn au au, obito POV):

Tori hummed, pulling apart a piece of bread and watching steam rise from it with a look of childish joy. Obito watched as Shikaku eyed her. Tori was wearing a baggy sweater and skirt, sitting there for all the world like a completely normal civilian child. She managed it in a way neither Deidara or Itachi could, stuck as they were moving unapologetically like trained ninja even if they were as small as children. She held herself in a way that would make any undercover specialist envious, like only someone who had spent an entire lifetime as a civilian could.  Shikaku was clever enough to recognize Tori’s little trick for the danger that it was. Every neuron in his massive brain must want to dismiss the actual most disarming face in the village. Obito watched, thrilled, as his brows furrowed ever so slightly. He hoped she made him nervous.