"I can't believe she stabbed me."
"To be fair she did say she wouldn't hesitate to harm us in the fight, y'know after she broke my wrist."
"I think our plan of trying to enrage a jonin into chasing a single genin was a little flawed."
"No shit Hinata, she stabbed me!"
"Calm down Sasuke the medic nin already patched you up, there's not even a hole in your hand anymore"
"Yeah but it still hurts. And you know you'd be madder if she had done the same to Haruka."
"Haruka is my girlfriend of course I'd be madder. And she injured all of us so it's not like you're the only one who got attacked."
"Yeah, breaking my wrist hurt a lot."
Sasuke looks at Haruka seeing the fully healed wrist. "You know I hadn't thought about it yesterday, but how did your wrist heal before we even made it to the hospital?" He had been too delirious from the poison to question anything yesterday. Kurenai had told him it would cause necrosis but all it really did was cause him to hallucinate and to become feverish. She had been playing them the entire time.
Haruka looks down at her wrist and then shrugs, "I just heal really fast I guess." She wasn't sure if it was because she used the nature transformation or if it's the demon inside of her. Maybe both.
The three genin were currently gathered in training ground 14 once more. Their sensei should arrive any minute now. With a puff of smoke the woman appears. Speak of the devil. "Good you three are here. Before we begin I wanted to congratulate you one more time on passing my test. You three need a lot of work, but you might just make it."
"Apologize."
"For what Sasuke?"
"For stabbing me!" Hinata lets out a sigh of annoyance.
"Will you shut up about that?"
"Not until she apologizes."
"Would stabbing you again count as an apology, because that's the best you're going to get if you keep talking."
"Shutting up."
Haruka speaks up. "Hey Sensei. I hadn't really thought about it yesterday but what was the purpose of the glass balls?"
"They represent an important package that you don't want to damage fighting another ninja. Be it battle plans, a hostage or official you're looking to rescue/capture, or just a jutsu scroll that we might not have in the village. In any of those situations you would fail your mission if you damaged those things. But you three have nothing to worry about, like I said you passed and that includes not damaging the balls. They were also meant to make you work against each other but you three didn't even consider it. A large part of the reason you passed."
The redhead nods along with the explanation, it made sense so she didn't question it. The red eyed woman continues."Now then as I said yesterday I'll be breaking down our training schedule. We'll meet here at 8am every weekday. Until 11am we'll be doing teamwork exercises. This will include practicing moving in formation along with combination attacks, and general training for teaching you to predict your teammates action. Then we'll have lunch and go to the mission office. we should generally be finished by 1pm. Then I'll have the three of you spar against each other in a free for all for either an hour or until there is a winner. At 2pm I will train the winner in a one on one session, then at 3pm I'll train the person who comes in second. Finally at 4pm I'll train the one who came in last. While you aren't required to stay and train while the one-on-one is happening, I would encourage you to take the time to train with the person not training with me."
Before they can ask any questions she continues. "On Saturday we'll meet here at 9am and will be doing mock battles. Sometimes it will be all three of you against me, other times it will be two of you against the other. And sometimes I will have other leaf ninja come act as your enemies. The ninja I bring in could range anywhere from an elite jonin like myself to another team of genin. We will do this for two hours. Then you'll be given a lunch break and We'll do more one on one. This time it will be for two hours each. On these days the order is picked randomly. You will have Sundays off. I recommend avoiding training on those days to give your bodies a chance to rest. Constant work will only do harm. Lastly I encourage you to do your own physical conditioning as I will not be wasting our time by making you run laps. However that being said, I wake up at 5am to begin my own work outs, if any of you are industrious enough to find me then I'll allow you to join me. Now, any questions?"
"What will we be doing during the one-on-one? And will there be a difference between the weekdays and Saturday?" It was the only male member of the team who asked.
"There will be differences between the two. On Tuesday, Thursday and an hour on Saturday I will be training you in the subject you chose for your self study. On Monday, Wednesday, Friday and the other hour on Saturday I will be training you in the core ninja arts along with one extra skill I think you would benefit from. The order of what we focus on will be different week to week." Sasuke nods, accepting that answer.
Hinata takes her turn and asks. "What should we expect on these missions?"
"They're D-ranks. They're going to seem like chores at first but try to look for the hidden training in them."
The redhead asks. "Are we not taking missions on weekends?"
"No, the weekends are for having a greater focus on training and relaxation. Everyone needs a break sometimes." Seeing as there are no more questions she continues. "Alright, we've wasted enough time talking about training, let's actually start training. We're going to start with the basics." She takes out three blindfolds and one of the glass balls. "I want you all to put these on, over your eyes. Hinata, if you activate your Byakugan, I will know and I will punish you." The three genin each walk up and grab a blindfold, putting it on and awaiting further orders. "Good, now I want you to pass the ball between each other. If the ball breaks then the person who wasn't supposed to be throwing or catching will have a small dose of poison injected into them. It will only subtly change their senses but each dose will increase the effect. Don't worry it won't cause any lasting damage and isn't lethal. The antidote is fast acting as well."
"Why is the person not involved getting punished?"
"Because more often than not it's not you who is punished for your mistakes, it's your teammates." Her tone was grim, there wasn't a single jonin in Konoha who hadn't seen that principal first hand. She walks over and places the ball in Haruka's hand. The girl gets the message and speaks, "Incoming Hina-chan." She tosses the ball to where she last saw the other girl. The sound of a ball shattering rings through the air. Kurenai expected as much, Hinata and Sasuke are going to have an especially hard time with this, they've been trained to rely on their visual prowess. She walks over to the boy and gently pricks him with a poisoned senbon, she then takes out another ball and gives it to him.
And so it goes, by the end of the three hours the kids could barely toss the ball straight. Unsurprisingly Haruka had the easiest time catching the ball and working without her vision. She had a sneaking suspicion the girl had already started to develop an immunity to her poison, Kurenai would have to give her more potent dosages.
That was another benefit of this exercise she didn't tell them, they'd all develop an immunity to basic sensory and paralytic poisons by the time they actually mastered the exercise. Seeing as they need to move on she quickly tosses three senbon into each of their necks, this one laced with the antidote. In less than a minute all three of the kids had stopped staggering and removed their blindfolds. "Alright let's go get lunch. Today we'll eat out, you can consider it a celebration for becoming my genin, but starting tomorrow there will be a rotation of who brings lunch for everybody, Sasuke your first. Buy it or make it, it's up to you. Hinata your after Sasuke, followed by Haruka. I'll bring lunches for us last."
"What's the point?" Sasuke didn't get what the point in having them all eat together was.
"You all might be teammates and it's fine if you can just work together, but things work better for everyone, well maybe not your enemies, if you three actually forge interpersonal bonds. It makes it harder for someone pretending to be you to slip in and it gives you a base to build morale." Sasuke was quickly finding he liked his new sensei. While Iruka was fine he never went nearly as in detail when answering questions. Though to give the man some credit he had to work through ten years of civilian curriculum in six as well as finding the time to make sure they are ready to actually be ninja.
"Now then anywhere in particular you'd like to go?"
"Ichiraku Ramen."
"Yakiniku Q."
The two girls spoke at the same time and stared at each other. Hinata's expression is stern, Haruka's is challenging. Haruka's turns into a pout. Hinata sighs, "The Dumpling shop?" It was also known as the Dango shop. Haruka nods her head, she'd settle for that.
Kurenai looks at the boy, "You fine with that Sasuke?"
"I don't mind."
Kurenai nodded and said, "Then let's go to the Dumpling shop." She wonders if a certain snake summoner will be there.