Danzo Shimura considered his members of ROOT carefully. As it was a hidden organization, more people outside the village than inside knowing of its existence, he had to keep from overplaying his hand where it could be seen.
There was a lot of attention amongst those in the know about the odd gemstone and its ability to teach a wide variety of subjects. That the gem was somehow an effective teacher was obvious, though the degree seemed to be dependent on the student's abilities.
Sakura Haruno, for example, had been an excellent academic. Now she was a seven year old prodigy who was throwing herself into developing physical skills and chakra capacity. At the age of seven years old now, she already had developed her own genjutsu and was showing promise as a sniper with that crossbow of hers. Yes, though of a civilian family - she was showing signs that she might become a capable kunoichi once she grew up some.
He'd already started a plan in motion that might see the girl joining ROOT. She was a bit older than he'd prefer for such recruitment, but one made the best one could out of the materials at hand.
Kabuto Yakushi had been sent to try and work his way into the program, but had been turned away by the gem itself. Apparently the same thing had happened with a couple of other candidates, some limit of compatibility with the device.
A pity. Perhaps another candidate would work better.
She was a student of Crane style as well as the Academy style, mixing the two up as she fought her matches.
Crane style was all about evasion and counterattack. As Sakura lacked the strength and mass of the Akimichi, it was an effective style for her. Eventually she hoped to achieve competency in that style, then she could work on Snake style and incorporate the two once she'd become competent (in the eyes of the combat instructors at the Academy at least) in Snake. That would give her combat options for close combat as well as her distance. That didn't even get into her training with the jian style sword!
The only problem was the lack of time in the day to practice everything!
She'd been pulled temporarily from the program because of exhaustion, but there was a chance she'd get back into it later. Since she was being evaluated annually, that could take quite some time.
"Sakura! Are you ready?"
Sakura smiled brightly, managing only to wince slightly at the boy's loudness and eyebrows this time. "Yes."
Rock Lee slipped into his own stance to begin the spar. "Then let us proceed on the road to becoming splendid ninja!"
Being absolutely still and quiet did not come naturally to Naruto Uzumaki. One only had to meet him to realize this.
"This can get awesome?" asked Naruto, fidgeting as it seemed he really hadn't improved that much. To him, at least.
[This particular technique is not yet of rank:awesome, but can be built upon to become considerably more useful.]
"Okay," said Naruto, being familiar with the concept at this point. His little wind-generation technique hadn't been anything special, but that had led him to develop several techniques that he had thought cool. "What's this one do?"
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