Quote:Hmm. I have kind of a hard time deciding, because his OOC knowledge is so deeply tied to his approach as a Shinobi. If I had to guess, I'd say that the very first thing would be something I'd already had in my arc notes (N is speaking to 2-10):
Nathan: Assume that you are much the same as SI-Neshan, but a local version instead of a DDP and hence without OOC knowledge. If you had Tenten to teach for the year she was stuck without a team, what would you teach her?
'To someone with your fighting style, the greatest threat is an opponent who uses a chakra-based technique to deflect incoming projectiles - the Hyuuga's Kaiten, for example, or Sunagakure's fan-based ninjutsu. This technique I'm teaching you doesn't have a name - I never bothered to give it one - but it's specifically designed to counter those very defensive techniques. Chakra's most common manifestation is as pressure - pressure holding your feet against the bark of a tree; pressure guiding the ribbons of a Ribbon Dance - any sort of pressure. This technique works by lodging a quantity of chakra into a weapon after shaping it in such a way that the chakra will expel itself as the blade flies - driving it forward like the exhaust of a rocket. Besides increasing the force behind the strike and -decreasing- the amount of time your enemy has to react, there's a third benefit - the blade, having chakra of its own, is able to resist and cut through the chakra driving your enemy's defense.'
The meta reason is that, as much as I'm usually a fan of hers, I found Temari's smirk all through that fight to be -utterly- infuriating.
The other big thing - beyond a few of his dirty-fighting tips along the lines of 'An enemy forming seals is an enemy you have a chance to stick a knife in,' and 'An explosion note is good. An explosion note you can -throw- is better,' - would be introducing her to the idea of weapons that you hit people with. Like swords, or staffs, or things like that. Because if you can only use a tool in one way, then you haven't mastered it yet.
Ja, -n
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