🌄 Morning – Hidden Training Ground #17
Hidden behind a waterfall, obscured by genjutsu scrolls and chakra-masking seals, was Masaki's true domain: an open forest clearing with jagged stone pillars, soft moss beds, and a small creek running through it.
Rin blinked. "Did you… build this?"
Masaki, sipping tea from a thermos, nodded. "And trapped it against anyone with a lack of taste in footwork."
Guy immediately triggered one and got stuck upside-down in a tree.
Masaki sighed. "Case in point."
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🔥 Training Module 1: Obito – Clarity in Chaos
Masaki dropped a wooden blindfold in front of him.
Obito picked it up. "I'm not a Hyuuga."
"You're not an Uchiha either. Not yet," Masaki replied. "You fight with heart, but no rhythm. You chase instinct, not pattern. That ends today."
He summoned six clones and had them surround Obito.
"Blindfold on. I want you to listen. Feel. React. I'll call numbers, but not every number will be real."
Obito frowned. "So this is… fake math and real fists?"
Masaki smirked. "Exactly."
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> Technique: Phantom Drill
Obito wears a blindfold while fighting multiple clones, relying on chakra perception, hearing, and Masaki's callouts—some false.
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The first few rounds were brutal. Obito got kicked, tripped, and headbutted by clones yelling "Twelve!"
"There is no twelve, is there?!" Obito shouted, dizzy.
Masaki sipped tea again. "There is only suffering."
Eventually, Obito started moving smoother—anticipating by breath, weight shift, timing.
Masaki grinned faintly. His instincts were finally catching up to his emotions.
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💪 Training Module 2: Guy – Weight of Will
Guy was doing pushups on top of a moving log floating in the creek.
Masaki walked by. "You're improving."
Guy beamed. "I CAN FEEL MY YOUTH PEAKING!"
"You're also about to fall into—"
Splash.
Masaki didn't flinch.
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Later, he tied two weighted cuffs onto Guy's ankles—10kg each.
"You can take them off any time. But if you do, you'll have to fight me."
Guy's face lit up. "A youthful punishment game!"
Masaki raised an eyebrow. "It's not a game if I break your nose."
The training involved Guy running laps around the forest while dodging wire traps and solving logic puzzles placed on trees.
At first, he got every puzzle wrong. Masaki didn't scold him. He waited.
By evening, Guy solved one. Then another. Then eight in a row—while dripping sweat and laughing wildly.
Masaki watched from the shade. "He's learning to think with that furnace of a heart. Good."
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🌸 Training Module 3: Rin – Thorns and Petals
Masaki handed Rin a scroll with a gentle swirl of medical chakra formulas. She smiled.
"Read that," he said, "and then we start combat healing."
"Combat healing?" she asked, tilting her head.
He threw a kunai at her shoulder.
She screamed and deflected it with a palm barrier.
"Good reflex," Masaki said mildly. "But you need to start healing during combat, not after it."
He had her run chakra through her fingers while dodging low-speed attacks—shuriken, tripwires, pressure plates.
Masaki would occasionally shout:
> "Patient incoming! Wounded lung!"
"Wound relocated—right thigh!"
"Bleeding from three angles!"
She had to conjure diagnosis jutsu, apply a mock seal, and defend herself with smoke bombs or chakra-pushes.
Rin stumbled. Collapsed once.
But by midday, she'd healed a practice dummy's full body diagram while dodging two clones and applying first-aid tags mid-roll.
Masaki handed her a towel. "Congratulations. You just saved someone's life. And your own."
Rin flushed, proud and winded.
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🧠 Final Segment – Group Sparring
Masaki faced all three at once.
"Teamwork test," he said, cracking his knuckles.
"Wait," Rin blinked. "Aren't you a jonin-level fighter?"
Masaki shrugged. "Close enough. Better start thinking."
They didn't win. Not really.
But they fought smart.
Rin threw a smoke bomb and linked Obito with a chakra thread to track movement.
Guy created noise distractions with kunai and flares.
Obito baited a clone with a reckless charge and led it into Rin's pressure seal.
Masaki still wiped the floor with them, but at the end?
He sat down, bruised and grinning.
"You're getting there."
They smiled.
Even Guy, still upside-down in a tree somehow.
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📊 System Update
> Obito:
– Trait Gained: Combat Intuition I
– Reflex +7%, Blindside Resistance +10%
– New Move: Blind Counter Jab
> Guy:
– Trait Gained: Weight of Will I
– Strength Scaling +5%, Logic-under-pressure +10%
– New Passive: Momentum Unbroken – gains slight resistance to knockback while in motion
> Rin:
– Trait Gained: Healer's Grit I
– Healing Speed +15%, Chakra Conservation +10%
– New Technique: Quick Seal – Field Bind (immobilizes target for 1.2s)
> Group Bonus:
– Trait: Flawed but Fearless
When fighting as a unit, they gain +5% coordination and resistance to fear-based genjutsu.
> Masaki's Influence Increased
Disciples have entered Stage 2 Development: "Rooted Belief"
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