Quote:Before the exams, TXY will be getting back from the Wave mission around the same time as Team 7 would have; because of the upgraded rank of that mission they get a lot more pay. Gai will then spend the week doing the usual team training in the mornings, and individual training in the afternoon when they'd usually have a D-rank mission or two, with the two students he's not working with that day studying theory or working on stealth/information gathering skills - he's not allowed to tell them about the tests, but a chuunin must know how and when to be quiet as well, the better to suprise the enemy with the EXPLOSIVE POWER OF YOUTH!
> Whoo-hoo! Chuunin exams!
Hmm, I've got to winder how Gai would handle training them for those. Partly for those of his team who reach the finals and partly for what training he'd focus on in preparation before the exams even began.
Not being with Team 7, Naruto won't meet Snakehips to get double-sealed, so he won't have the chakra control problem from canon, but he won't be facing Kiba either - I'll probably just sub Tenten directly for Naruto's fights, so she gets to test Neshan's chakra-enhanced throwing against Neji instead of Temari - and since Neji will have had to work out his problems with her before this if she's been (or even asked to be) training with him, so there's no reason to put them against each other in the prelims and no reason for Naruto to want to severely beat his keister. If Ino doesn't somehow get sucked in along the way, she won't have had the more intensive training Sakura has and will get stomped.
After-dinner edit: Rikou vs. Temari and vs. Shikamaru should hopefully be good fights, of TXY Rikou is probably the most balanced in terms of skill (Naruto focusses on ninjutsu, Lee Taijutsu, she's got both plus Genjutsu, but not as muich of any of the three, though Lee only recently surpassed her speed as she's been training with her father since before she could walk) so she would neither immediately overpower nor be overpowered by them.
The real question is who to have Naruto fight, actually - not Gaara, not Sasuke, but otherwise... well, hopefully something will work out twixt hither and yon. I wouldn't even try to replace Lee vs. Gaara, and probably wont even try to render it in text.
Training between the preliminaries and the finals, I will let shake out as it comes. Most likely all of them will spend mealtimes with Lee, and split the day evenly between training Rikou and Naruto otherwise - seperately, since Gai is sure they'll be facing each other in the finals (They are the amazing students of the Handsome Green Beast, bursting with the power of youth, are they not?) and get another asitant yet to be determined (Oh, CAMEO cast...) when he's with the other, or else train Rikou and find someone trustworthy ffor Naruto.
Really, I don't see why it was such a big deal that Kakashi concentrated on one of his two finalists and found another elite sensei for the second, yeah it means choosing one to spin off but it means being able to concentrate on one person and not second guess whether you're setting one up for a fall against the other. At least, if you get a competent substitute it is - I truly think it' the better way to go, only second to getting subs for BOTH of them, so as not to seem to be taking sides. Gai is pretty much a basket case at this time anyway with one of his team mortally injured, so it might be more productiove to do that... of course, Kakashi could well have all three of his lot in too if Ino can't pull off a tie, and be looking for mentors as well. Rikou's mom and uncle will be factors by then too... Answer unclear - ask again later.
E(2)TA: Drakensis, if you want to roll it into TXY, well, you're already on the list of co-conspirators. If not, that's perfectly cool too. Better, even, if it means you'll be Naruto-ficcing as well.
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