The three genin had arrived at training ground 14 at 6 am. Haruka brought breakfast for all of them. It was simply a banana for each of them, a few oranges and apples. More leftover rice and chicken. Along with a Tomato for Sasuke, cinnamon toast for Hina-chan, and a few homemade dumplings for herself. They're not as good as ramen but they're her second favorite food and can be made healthier without ruining the taste. She tried adding strawberries to ramen once, it was a terrible mistake.
After eating breakfast make a plan, they had all memorized the map of traps as promised. While discussing Hinata was helping Haru-chan put her hair up again. Sasuke didn't question it as they didn't even slow down their conversation.
The plan was fairly simple, the girls would charge together against Kurenai-sensei and would likely be defeated in some facet. Sasuke would intentionally insult them, specifically being discriminatory. He would then boldly proclaim real ninja should learn to hide and then he would dash into the forest. If all goes according to plan Kurenai would chase after him seeing as the other two would be defeated. Then the girls will follow her into the forest using Hinata's Byakugan to track them. The two would sneak attack the woman when the time was right.
After the plan was complete they spent the rest of the time while waiting training together to get a better idea of the others strengths.
Of course all this would be assuming they'd be fighting Kurenai in some facet so who knows maybe they wouldn't be.
With a puff of smoke the red eyed woman appears. Seeing them all present she nods. "Good you all arrived early. I hadn't said it but this is something you should always try and keep in mind. If you aren't early then you're late."
"Now then as for your test, you will have three hours to attempt capture me." She holds up a glass ball. And drops it onto the ground, it shatters on impact. She then pulls out an identical ball. "As you can see these are extremely fragile, and I'm extremely clumsy. I have one more on my person. One of you will pass for each intact ball. Don't worry I won't intentionally break the balls to spite you, I'll try and protect them. But if you are reckless in fighting me then they will break. I'd recommend coming at me with the intent to kill. Begin."
The girls immediately begin the plan and charge the woman, with Haruka dashing forward and attempting to drop kick the raven haired woman. The woman simply side steps only to be met with a Jyuken strike aimed for her heart. She grabs Hinata's wrist and throws her into Haruka. Good, these kids were at least taking this seriously. Haruka ducks underneath Hinata and dashes forward once more, throwing a right hook at the taller woman. She moves to block the strike, but it was a feint as Haruka was really aiming to kick her in the side. Kurenai grabs Haruka's wrist while lifting her own leg high and blocking the smaller girls kick with her shin. She had to admit it stung a bit, but nothing she hasn't faced before.
Haruka grabs onto Kurenai's wrist seeing the opportunity to grapple her. Hinata having recovered rushes forward and aims a Jyuken strike at the hand holding Haruka's wrist, Byakugan blazing angrily. Kurenai twists it snapping the wrist and making the girl eat the Jyuken strike. Haruka cries out in pain. Hinata looks at her in anger.
"What? I told you to come at me with the intent to kill and you thought I wouldn't be willing to hurt you in return?" Hinata screams in rage and tries futilely to attack Kurenai. The woman throws the ball up and uses both hands to deflect Hinata's wild strikes. "You're too prone to anger, your concern for the demon blinds you. If you just cut your ties to her you could go much farther as a ninja." Hinata puts all her weight into a strike, only for Kurenai to easily sidestep the sloppy punch. She grabs Hinata by the back of her head and slams her into the ground face first. If the crunch is anything to go by she broke the girls nose. "The Jyuken requires the user to always keep their cool, it only works when you can calmly assess the body of the enemy and see what they are planning based on their chakra flow. You threw that away when you became enraged over that monster."
"God I can't believe I lost the Rookie of the Year spot to a weakling like you. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything better from a woman."
"You better watch your words, Uchiha, I won't hesitate to break your jaw."
"Please, like a weak whore like you could beat the might of the Uchiha. You'd be better off if you just spread your legs so I could get started on rebuilding my clan."
"Ah, I see you wish to be castrated instead."
"What, afraid of a strong man, to tell you how you should act? I know your friends have an aversion to cock, but I guess you d—" He's interrupted as a pale leg finds itself embedded in his sternum. He rockets back into the forest coughing up blood in the process.
"You wanted to know my three extra skills? I'll show you them first hand." She bites her thumb and wipes it along the vines of one of her bandages. It's revealed to be a sealing scroll as a sword pops out. "I'm fairly well versed in the use of Kenjutsu, you'll see first hand when I gut you." She stalks into the forest after him.
"You okay, Haru-chan?"
"Yeah, just a broken wrist, how about you?"
"She broke my nose. I think our plan worked a little to well."
"I hope she doesn't hurt Sasuke too badly."
"It will probably be fine." Haruka suddenly runs forward and holds out her uninjured hand above Hina-chan's head. The glass ball lands right in her palm but is perfectly intact.
"I'm going to seal this so we can keep it safe."
"Good idea." Haruka does so quickly and gently pats the scroll where it's sealed. She may not know how to make her own scrolls but she can at least use them. "All I can do is apply a healing salve to your wrist, it won't do much but it should ease the pain." Haruka nods and let's the other girl do so. In the mean time she sits in the lotus position, planning on using her nature transformation. She focuses her thoughts on Kurenai, and nature. When she opens her eyes next they're red.
"You're going all out then?"
"Yeah, lets go quickly and help Sasuke."
The two girls quickly head into the forest with Haruka in the lead, Hinata is scanning their surroundings constantly with her Byakugan. They find Kurenai just as she stabs her sword through the Uchiha's hand, pinning him to the ground.
"You're out of luck Uchiha, the moment you got stabbed by my sword it was game over for your clan of thieves. My second skill is in the use of poisons and this blade is coated in one made just for you and other misogynists. It will render you impotent by causing necrosis in your testicles. In other words by the end of the day your balls will have rotted off." Haruka rushes forward and attempts to kick the Raven haired woman in the side. The woman leaps backwards only to feel like the kick still partially connect, that's something worth looking into. At that moment Hinata activates one of the traps and a volley of kunai are launched at the woman. She easily dodges only to find she landed on a false covering for the ground. She begins to fall into a pit, which she realizes is covered in spikes, but manages to stop herself with an application of chakra to her hands on the wall. She flips herself up and onto the ground again only to be met with Haruka's foot connecting to her face.
Before she can recover she sees a fireball heading towards her courtesy of the Uchiha, who had been freed by Hinata and then forced himself to work through the hand signs despite the pain. Kurenai uses the Kawarimi with a log only to be met by the heiress.
"You're in my range of divination. Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!" She throws two strikes forward both aimed at the woman's torso. "Two palms!" She throws another two, these aimed at the arms. "Four Palms!" She lashes out with four more strikes all aimed at tenketsu in the woman's torso. "Eight Palms!" She sends out another eight strikes now deviating into attacking the legs as well. "Sixteen Palms!" She's now peppering the woman's entire body with welts from her attacks. "Thirty-Two Palms!" Her strikes had been speeding up the entire time and had become a blur. "Sixty-Four Palms!"
She knew it was the real Kurenai and had avoided the ball all thanks to her Byakugan. She blinks in surprise however as the woman's body vanishes in a puff of smoke. "What?!" She had a chakra system there's no way! She deactivates her Byakugan for the moment, she was running low on chakra after performing the technique.
"Her energy is back in the center of the training field. But I think we need to get Sasuke to a hospital to remove that poison. I just lost the feeling of the energy by the way." Hinata nods at the latter half of the statement, she saw the girls eyes return to being golden and the spikes of hair fell back down.
"Are you saying we abandon the test?"
"She never said we couldn't leave and come back, if we hurry we might pass."
"There's no need for that. You three already passed." The girls blink in surprise and Sasuke just stares dumbly, feeling delirious.
"Kurenai-sensei, but we didn't capture you." It was Hinata who spoke.
"I know I merely told you that you needed to attempt to. You three did just that. Not only that but you passed the secret test."
"What? Senju is the best?! That's a lie and you all know it!" Sasuke could barely tell what was happening.
"I should probably give him the antidote." That said she walks over and injects a syringe into his neck. "He should be feeling better in about an hour." She clears her throat. "Anyways, there is a secret test to see if you three could work together as a team, even when you knew one of you would fail as a consequence. Here in Konoha we value teamwork above all else so if you failed to work together you would have failed together. By the way, you all need to work on your acting skills, Sasuke wouldn't have fooled a child with that act. If you're going to say something don't over exaggerate, I'll bet you two really thought I saw Haruka as a demon." The girls nod, they had been fooled by the woman.
"But I can't blame you, my third extra jonin level skill is in manipulation and torture, I had been manipulating how you three would act since yesterday. And as you might have noticed, I never used a single Genjutsu that fight. That's because I intentionally spread information I wanted you to act wrongly on."
"So are you not S-rank in Genjutsu?" Haruka asks slightly disappointed.
"Oh no that's the truth, but it should be made clear no elite jonin is a one trick pony. Now then, seeing as you all passed I'll give you the rest of the day to relax. You may want to stop by the hospital before tomorrow so the medic nin can patch you up. Meet here at 8am, I'll be breaking down our training and work schedule."
The three kids nod and make their way to the hospital. Eager to get some rest in after the stress of the test.
***
The Hokage stares at the new Jonin-sensei in charge of the first academies students. "Team 1?"
"Failed. Recommendation, send them to the reserves."
"Team 2?"
"Failed. Recommendation, give them remedial lessons at one of the other academies and let them try again next year."
"Team 3?"
"Failed. Recommendation, send them to the reserves."
"Team 4?"
"Kick them out of the program."
"Team 5?"
"Passed. Will be beginning missions shortly."
"Team 6?"
"Passed. Training begins later today."
"Team 9?"
"Failed. Recommendation, send them to the reserves."
"You seven are dismissed. Now then you three." He said gesturing to the elite jonin in the room. "How did your teams do? I want full reports on my desk by tomorrow evening, for now just summarize. Now then Kurenai?"
"Team 7 passed. They showed exemplary deductive skills and teamwork. While they lack experience they already understand the value in helping one another and actually took the time to set up traps in the training field. Each one of them is already strong enough to be low chunin."
"Good. Kakashi?"
"Team 8 passed. They only barely did but they managed to pass the second half of the bell test. Their individual skills vary wildly. Kiba might be able to make chunin but Sakura is barely worthy of genin. Shino might as well be a chunin already."
"Team 10 passed. They have great teamwork and are already intimate with each others skills. They're only mid genin in strength but they've all got talent waiting to be dug up."
Hiruzen nods. It's not often that all the elite jonin end up passing their students. Last year Gai was the only one to do so out of four elites. This is a strong generation indeed. "Good, you're dismissed. I expect to see training reports every week and each of you here tomorrow for a mission." The teams trained by the elites were required to be reported on as they're considered a bigger investment of villages resources. Likewise they are required to take missions everyday except Saturday and Sunday, a regular team would only be required to take three a week. Well assuming they're D-ranks, if they are higher ranking then the normal required amounts are ignored for every week they're on that mission.
The three ninja salute their Hokage and then vanish in puffs of smoke. They had training to plan.