[Squad-0 training ground]
Hinata, Ino, and Tenten stood in front of the Anbu squad. Tayuya had a mad grin on her face, Kin tried her best to resist her amusement, Yugao looked empathetic for the Kunoichi and Taiju was all smiles.
"Alright, Maggots! Today's lesson is surviving us with no use of Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. " He cracked his knuckles, "Rely on your body to keep in one piece. " He chuckled.
"Wait–like Rock Lee training?" Tenten asked, taking steps back
"Of course, this will mend your body to expect anything, your Ninjustsu is only as effective as your body is," Yugao added.
Woosh.
The 4 blurred out of vision, Tayuya attacked Ino, who barely blocked her fist, Tenten did her best to avoid the combos from Kin, a roundhouse kick nearly kissed her temple.
Hinata's Byakugan assisted her in predicting Taiju's kick positioned at her right shoulder, using her forearms to block the kick that stung her nerves. She winced at the impact, sandals digging into the ground.
"Nice block." Taiju chuckled.
Yugao observed the matchups.
Hinata: Too dependent on her clan's ideologies of combat, shy, and lacks battle aggression.
Solution: Elemental affinity test, fighting styles that complement her fluid movement while maintaining power and decisive hits.
Ino: Body possession jutsu is not effective against stronger opponents, body conditioning is subpar, and they don't take training seriously.
Solution: Extreme conditioning, practice calm power on different opponents, preferably more than 2 at a time, and possibly teaching her Kenjutsu.
Tenten: Decent conditioning, Ninjustsu non-existent, summing at weaponry level, and lacks tactical brilliance.
Solution: Conditioning, summing practice, weapons training to mastery level, and tactical books.
Yugao finished her analogy of each kunoichi, observing them.
The following weeks consisted of them relentlessly training, hand-to-hand combat, end one can't move anymore. Weighted seals during workouts and repetition of hand seals until you can do it within a second.
"This is torture. " Ino panted on the ground, body coated with sweat, her body wouldn't stop shaking, and to make her situation worse, Tayuya was just smiling down on her.
"You wanna give up blonde?" She teased.
"Shut up." Ino spat back, legs buckling at her attempts to stand up.
Tenten was in no better shape, knuckles bruised as her arms refused to move from countless summing attempts.
"This is so useless!" Sge growled, no matter how many times I do it over, it's still going to be the same speed. " She complained.
Kin pointed a senbon at her, "You should be able to summon weapons before I even release my senbon, so start again."
Tenten murmured something under her breath and continued the summing patterns.
Hinata and Yugao were working on her fluidity of striking.
"Hinata, your movement is good but you need to be critical with hits, no second-guessing. Use your Byakugan to target Chakra flow so no counters can happen. " Yugao instructed.
"Right." Hinata nodded, activating her kekkei genkai to face the purple-haired Anbu.
Taiju sat by a tree, reading a book about curse seals and sealing theories.
'So all seals have a formula to activate them, the more complex the formula, the stronger the seal–so the best way to break a seal is by reversing its original formula back to the base formula. ' He thought to himself. Sealing wasn't a strong suit of his but it could be useful in future battles. The Sealing of objects isn't as difficult as not breaking the bindings that keep them sealed, living organisms require more formulas to maintain them and the binds. "The Uzumaki were truly geniuses to master the sealing arts." He praised.
Taiju was determined to master sealing so he could release Tayuya, Kin, and Anko from Orochimaru's clutches. His main problem was that Sanin was able to seal a part of his soul along with the cursed mark. Curses required exorcism to rid oneself of their control. So now his main focus was his calligraphy and formulation. These two variables need to be at an equivalent level to even activate a seal. After that, he can worry about cracking the pattern of Orochimaru's seal.
Looking at the Kunoichi hard at training, he couldn't help but smile at their determination. 'Kurenai, you really wanted me to make more monsters for me to flirt with~'
"Oi! I can't hear your perverted thoughts you sicko." Tayuya cursed him out.