"Hello, Uzuki-sensei," said Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura cheerfully.
"You're from ANBU right?" asked Sakura.
"Yes, that's right," admitted Yugao. "However, the Hokage left the offer on the table and I was quite interested in the possibility of these special missions."
"'Special missions'?" asked Sasuke.
"Yes, due to Naruto's contacts, there's the possibility of missions open to our team that none of the other teams will normally have available," said Yugao. "As someone who is a jonin and affiliated with ANBU, there are details I might be able to find that will be useful to the village as a whole."
"That's a reason for the Hokage to offer you the position, but not for you to accept it," pointed out Naruto.
"Those are private for now," said Yugao, not denying anything. "Let's just say there are aspects of this Mid-Childan medical technology that I'm interested in."
The three genin nodded at that, each interpreting that in their own way.
"Now," said Yugao. "Two of you can be tested for your elemental affinity in ninjutsu."
"I'm primary - wind," said Naruto. "Sasuke is primary - fire. Sakura is primary - earth."
Yugao blinked at that. "Since Sakura's chakra is insufficient at present to be determined by means of chakra paper, I'm guessing your new abilities determined that?"
Naruto nodded.
"Okay," continued Yugao. "We're going to be meeting at dawn. Sasuke, you and Sakura will be further honing your physical skills and chakra reservoir. That means large amounts of physical exercises. Naruto - you've already got large amounts of chakra but your control needs work outside of spells. I'll show you a couple of exercises to use to hone that. Then we get a mission from the Hokage, probably a D-Rank. Don't complain that they're boring, because everyone already knows that they're boring. If you complete the mission quickly, I'll start you on weapons training. I'm going to suggest sword for Sasuke, Naruto with further staff and sword training, and probably tonfa for Sakura."
"Why not a sword?" asked Sakura.
"You'll learn some sword techniques, just in case, but I want all of you to learn some concealable weapons techniques as well as more obvious weapons," said Yugao. "Tonfa are a good weapon for defensive roles, especially if you're ambidextrous. There are also going to be covert missions where you don't want to advertise what village you're from, or even that you're a ninja. In which case playing the part of mercenary trainees is fairly normal. Those will be the times you want that sword. Naruto, in these other worlds, are there ninja?"
"Some, in some worlds, but most of which are like the old ninja in history books," admitted Naruto. "Mainly stealth experts."
"Okay," said Yugao, considering that. "We'll have to work on situational awareness skills then, in case we find ourselves up against such."
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