Rock lee says " Yosh, that's so exciting. We've been on 3 C rank missions with the new team but haven't fought a ninja yet. We've only encountered bandits and such on our escort missions."
Lee describes their missions in more detail, showing off how strong both Sasuke and Hinata have become, both becoming taijutsu specialist under guy.
In their first mission, an escort mission, they encountered bandits. Lee and Hinata made quick work of them. Sasuke was also more powerful than the bandits, but Lee was too fast. Hinata was barely able to keep up to get her few hits in, treating it like a challenge of who could punch more.
Hinata particularly had taken to Guy 's training like fish to water. While she didn't wear green bodysuit like lee, she did wear a black one, even a black face mask, looking like a Hollywood ninja. After seeing Hinata do so well in 1st mission, Susuke started to put in the work too.
In their second mission, they didn't encounter any trouble, so no one got to show off much. But In their third mission,a body guard mission, they encountered some bandits that were very well armed, likely part of some Mafia.
Everyone got to show off a bit, as Guy Sensie guarded the client. Sasuke had also trained just as hard as Lee and Hinata, getting to see some action this time. By now, the three of them almost match in speed but not strength.
That's because all three of them have different levels of weight. Lee had the highest weights strapped to his body and limbs, Hinata had second most, and Sasuke the least. They were keeping the same speed, but because of the weights, their hits hit with different strengths.
Hinata was actually progressing much faster than the other two, because of her medical knowledge and jutsu. It was a mystery to Sasuke and Lee, but I knew.
She could see her own chakra points and try to manipulate raw chakra to reinforce her strikes, not to empower them, but to better absorb the recoil damage.
The chakra it consumes is relative to the recoil her body is taking. This ability is particularly compatible with Guy Sensie's Strong Fist style. The main drawback of the Taijutsu : Strong Fist, is the recoil it causes to your own body. But that recoil is what makes this the perfect style for Guy Sensie " NO PAIN NO GAIN" mentality.
Every time you take recoil, when you recover you are able to take more. That is the essence of Strong first. It is not a fighting style, it is a training style.
For Guy Sensie and his followers, every fight is a training session, because every training session is a fight.
Hinata is able to control the extent of recoil damage and recovery with great precision. Bringing herself to breaking point and Healing herself has also allowed her to explore the of chakra and human body, like it did for me when I was in team Guy.
But that exploration is taken to next level for her. She can use her byakugan to look at muscles, bones and chakra. Every time we are able to catch up about it, I'm able to learn so much about the chakra and human body from her and her notes.
After Lee finishes the story about how they beat bandits in samurai armor, i asked Ino to share a bit of their stories.
Ino says proudly " We've been to two C rank missions. In one mission, we went to the land of hot water to assist hurricane victims as medical unit. Pretty intense experience to see the power of nature first hand"
" Second was a mission to track Tsunade sama and bring her to the village. We just came back with her yesterday . You must not have heard about it, since you just came back today. "Said Ino.
"Oh, Tsunade sama. What an exciting mission. What is she like. I've only met her once, but I remember that she is very pretty" i say, having served her food as a child once.
Ino said " oh, she is very pretty, but she is a means bitch at heart . First of all, it was impossible to find her in the first place, considering she is a fellow ninja of the same village."
Ino continues " Shikamaru had to use his deer tracking skills in the forest. Me and sensei had to ask around in shopping districts and casinos all around fire country. Atleast choji had fun, He got to try different cuisines of different villages. "
" He even challenged different chefs of different villages to Cook - off. He always had his ingredients in hand, with the eggs from our birds. He always carries some spices that are important Akimichi ingredients too."
Choji joins in "Sometimes I win, sometimes I loose, Everytime I have fun. Plus it did end up helping us in the end".
"Yeah, Shikamaru put our intellegence together and determined the city Tsunade sama was in. But that city didn't have a casino, so we didn't know where to look." Says Ino.
" While we are looking for Tsunade sama, Choji got into a cook-off with a famous chef from that village . They were fighting in a 5 course meal format, each meal is a competition of its own, whoever wins 3 out of 2, will win the battle". Said Ino.
" Word got arround, by the time soup competition was was done, a crowd had gathered. After starters , Tsunade even showed up to bet. "
"Choji had lost the soup round, but won the starter. I spoted her from her description and acted like a book keeper to get her to bet. Tsunade bet against choji, betting on the experiance of his opponent." Said Shikamaru.
" Choji, won the next round. After winning the main course round, He had won 2 out of 3 rounds and became the favourite. This meant that people betting against him got Higher return if they win the bet. In her greed, Tsunade kept betting and loosing, as the odds got more and more in choji's favour and betting against him meant more and more return if he lost.
In the last round, round for dessert, she stepped up, having lost 2 rounds. She declared it as a set up to make money, she refused to belive that a young guy like Choji, already beat the experienced and famous Chef.
Choji had already won by then, having won 3 out of the last 4 rounds. Dessert was just a formality.
But seeing Tsunade make a scene, Shikamaru stepped up. " Tsunade sama is right. Only a couple of judges can't decide the fate of all of our money. Let's accept the bets made till now as spent on our entertainment, and let's make a final bet "
" Let them make enough dessert to feed all the gathered crowd. Let the whole crowd vote. Let's avoid betting on this round, otherwise we can't vote because of the bias" Said Shikamaru.
"Everyone got excited by the thought of getting a free desert from the famous chef and the young talent who beat him." Said Ino
"Choji and the chef both made a big pot full of custard. Everyone got a small bowl of dessert from both pots."
" In the end, Tsunade ended up voting for choji's custard, but the crowd voted for the chef, but accepted choji's talent. They had to vote for the chef. The celebrity chef is a big attraction for the town. A lot of shops in the same street are dependent on the celebrity chef to bring footfall to the street."
"After the cook-off is resolved, We introduced ourselves to Tsunade sama and she greeted Asuma Sensei. Apparently they were close. With Asuma Sensie being her Sensie's son." Said Ino.
"She instantly refused Hokage's orders to come back to Village immediately. Well she didn't refuse, she just said that we should get going, she'll catch up after she got done with her mission. She is in the town with no casinos, so she must be there to treat some noble. But Asuma Sensei said that he knew better. He said that our team will help her with her current tasks, and then we will leave together."
" She was a bitch at the start, but she is an excellent medic. All three of us have mystic palm jutsu and our nurse birds. We were actually able to help her and shizune sama with some of their medical tasks." Said Ino.
"Seeing that we were a full team of fresh graduates, all capable of mystic palm jutsu, she realised that hokage sama is serious about medical training for ninja. " Said Ino.
While she was consulted when hokage gave Eveie permission to teach balmburn, she didn't know how much of an impact that training has. Seeing that this graduation class has so many mystic palm jutsu users, Tsunade will realise how much of an impact Eveie's after school program has been.
" After her mission , she and shizune sama came back with us. While i was ready to apply mind control, and Shikamaru was ready to control her with shadows. Asuma Sensei asured us that we stood no chance. So i guss I'm glad it didn't come to that." Said Ino.