Quote:Wai!
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.
Quote:Heh. Should make an interesting contrast to my version, who's being taught by a teacher who is both 1.) personally a toughness-and-raw-power fighter and 2.) planning to hand her over to Tsunade at a future date.
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.
Which is especially apropos since, if you'll recall, the Devil in the Red Dress has informed us that Adult!Sakura is 5' 11" in her stocking feet.
Which, I'll grant, is actually rather unlikely, but I wanted her tall to contrast with Hinata, who, like all Hyuuga, is going to end up a little on the short side. (Don't believe me? Hiashi's 5' 9".)
Since you'll have different meta-reasons, you'd probably want her to end up more reasonably-sized.
Quote:*falls over laughing*
(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.)
Quote:Mmm. Unlike the TGNH edition, -this- Neshan has no reason to distrust Kakashi's judgement... well, more than vaguely generally, since they probably already knew each other through Rin even without the small size of Konoha's Jounin community... so that conversation probably wouldn't happen right off the bat. OTOH, I think Tenten's more than sensible enough to get -truly- frustrated by Pr0nb0i's approach to 'teaching' and try and take it to some other trusted authority figure.
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.
So, yeah, that conversation'd definitely happen, but probably not until sometime around when the Flowergirl and 10^2 situation comes to a head the first time - since that fight or its leadup would make it clear to her that what Neshan's lessons have taught her about teamwork and the team leader's role in it -isn't happening-.
Being Kakashi, he'll probably still miss the point about what he was being chewed out about - since, as far as I can tell, he thinks that teamwork and unity are just these things that are magically supposed to happen when you have a team. Probably because that was all he could see with -his- team, but it'll give us a second Sakura/Tenten showcase match, so let's call that even for story purposes.
Ja, -n
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