I've pretty much decided to go with Neshan as Tenten's interim sensei until she can be assigned a proper three-person team, because without a team a genin can't really go on missions outside the village anyway, so one of the Special Jounin would make the most sense in that respect. Since Nathan has said his priority would be on improving penetration of her thrown wepaons and mastering wielded weapons, I came up with one of the latter for her to use - a Sun and Moon Fork. Picture a staff, with a crescent blade on one end attached so the points face away from the length of the handle, made of silvered steel and sharpened on the inner face - this being the moon and the fork. On the other end, a slightly-smaller-than-head-size brass sphere, the sun. A well aimed moon-strike can take a person's head right off, and the shape of the blade means it won't slide away form the target area, while a sun strike can be just as deadly in its crushing force, or moderated to injure without killing. Of course, she'd also get some knife-fighting tehcniques for close and quiet work, if need be, but her focus would remain from outside of arm's reach to the edge of throwing range.
Sasuke's combat style I'm pretty much leaving alone, he favors being a short distance away to use fire jutsu or kunai but is also reasonably capable close in (in relative terms, of course, being compared to other ninja).
This means that for Sakura, when she gets pissed off and demands for Kakshi to give her some serious training, I need a close-combat specialist to balance the team, who can move quickly and unpredictably to open or close the range to let her team-mates work with their distance attacks, or to get inside an enemy's. I have therefore decided to have her learn a combat dance taijutsu style, focusing on evasiveness and leg strikes to maximize the advantages of her lightweight build in speed and strength-to-weight and minimise the disadvantages in toughness and raw power.
(Inner sakura rants happily about the look that'll be on that puffball-head skank's face as she dodges EVERY ONE of the flying weapons, then gets a double-kick to her feakishly-huge chest to go flying into a dumpster, at which time Sasuke-kun will come to his senses and see Sakura is the perfect girl for him, and they'lll kiss softly under a blossoming cherry tree framed by the sunset, and... well, you get the idea.)
I'm also seeing Neshan pull Kakashi aside when he hears about his temporary student having assigned to Team 7... the dialogue isn't firmed up in my mind, but it might be better for N. to comment on and possibly write the scene entirely anway. I figure something about how he'd known that she'd only be with him a year anyway and he'll entrust her, his (first?) student in Kakashi's care, but remind him not to be so casual about things, at least not untill the team has acheived a high efficiency, because even if they're skilled kids, they're still novice ninja and mistakes can be counted in lives. Something like that, anyway. Basically, setting up for Kakashi to realise he's done just what Neshan was talking about when Sakura shows up pounding on his apartment door some morning and drags him toward the practise area demanding he get serious with her training.
(Kakashi was faintly surprised at the strength the girl was showing - not that he couldn't have resisted her, of course, but if this was what she had with only minimal Academy conditioning, he'd been doing her an injustice to let her slide since becoming her superior. Shaking her hand loose from his vest, he gave the scowling girl one of his eye-smiles, then took the lead himself to the practise field. He'd visit Obito and Rin a little later, when he could tell them about his spitfire of a student's first serious lesson.)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Sasuke's combat style I'm pretty much leaving alone, he favors being a short distance away to use fire jutsu or kunai but is also reasonably capable close in (in relative terms, of course, being compared to other ninja).
This means that for Sakura, when she gets pissed off and demands for Kakshi to give her some serious training, I need a close-combat specialist to balance the team, who can move quickly and unpredictably to open or close the range to let her team-mates work with their distance attacks, or to get inside an enemy's. I have therefore decided to have her learn a combat dance taijutsu style, focusing on evasiveness and leg strikes to maximize the advantages of her lightweight build in speed and strength-to-weight and minimise the disadvantages in toughness and raw power.
(Inner sakura rants happily about the look that'll be on that puffball-head skank's face as she dodges EVERY ONE of the flying weapons, then gets a double-kick to her feakishly-huge chest to go flying into a dumpster, at which time Sasuke-kun will come to his senses and see Sakura is the perfect girl for him, and they'lll kiss softly under a blossoming cherry tree framed by the sunset, and... well, you get the idea.)
I'm also seeing Neshan pull Kakashi aside when he hears about his temporary student having assigned to Team 7... the dialogue isn't firmed up in my mind, but it might be better for N. to comment on and possibly write the scene entirely anway. I figure something about how he'd known that she'd only be with him a year anyway and he'll entrust her, his (first?) student in Kakashi's care, but remind him not to be so casual about things, at least not untill the team has acheived a high efficiency, because even if they're skilled kids, they're still novice ninja and mistakes can be counted in lives. Something like that, anyway. Basically, setting up for Kakashi to realise he's done just what Neshan was talking about when Sakura shows up pounding on his apartment door some morning and drags him toward the practise area demanding he get serious with her training.
(Kakashi was faintly surprised at the strength the girl was showing - not that he couldn't have resisted her, of course, but if this was what she had with only minimal Academy conditioning, he'd been doing her an injustice to let her slide since becoming her superior. Shaking her hand loose from his vest, he gave the scowling girl one of his eye-smiles, then took the lead himself to the practise field. He'd visit Obito and Rin a little later, when he could tell them about his spitfire of a student's first serious lesson.)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows