Chapter:86

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The blond Academy student looked at her blankly as if to say, 'seriously?'

"OK then." he said after his mind rebooted, "In which case, we'll start off in Sub-Area 1 to get you accustomed to fighting chakra mutations. They are a bit different to humans."

"No duh!" Tenten deadpanned before grinning, "Lead on then."

"Hold up." Naruto picked a stone up from the ground, "Doton: Gansetsukon no Jutsu!"

As the stone transformed into a long staff, Tenten jumped slightly and stared.

"Whoa! Didn't know you could turn rocks into weapons!" she said a bit jealously.

"Eh, basic Doton jutsu." Naruto shrugged.

"So is earth your primary affinity?" the brunette asked interestedly.

"Nope; I have a Wind affinity primarily, with a sub affinity for earth." Naruto replied, "What about you?"

"I…don't know." Tenten admitted sheepishly, "My team focuses on the physical side of things, taijutsu, weapons styles and Shurikenjutsu, to the exclusion of all else. The only real ninjutsu I know are the Academy Three."

"That's…!" Naruto was struck dumb by the stupidity of that training style, before he remembered something, "Your team has that Rock Lee guy, right? The one who can't use ninjutsu or genjutsu? Maybe that's why your teacher isn't training you in it, to make things fairer on him."

"True…that, and the Hyūga Prodigy, Neji, is on my team too." Tenten nodded glumly, "He disdains anything that isn't the Jūken Taijutsu Style of the Hyūga Clan. So I'd be the only one learning anything."

"That's still unfair to you." the Uzumaki frowned before shrugging, "Meh. If I find any jutsu scrolls in here, have a look at them and see if they interest you. Heck, I'll even teach you the couple of wind and earth techniques that I know."

This earned him another hug from the brunette.

Inside Sub-Area 1...

"Holy crap!" Tenten gawped at the three [Rabid Red Squirrels] as they snarled at her and Naruto, "Those things are huge!"

"Yep and they're about to charge." Naruto said grimly, "So get ready! Doton: Iwa Bunshin no Jutsu!"

As twenty Rock Clones clawed their way out of the ground, Tenten gawped for another moment before shaking herself out of her stupefaction and drawing a kunai in each hand.

"Any hints for weak spots?" she asked.

"Once they leap, they're vulnerable, but they can still twist in midair, so jump in, slash and retreat." Naruto advised as he spun his staff in a familiar way, "Here they come!"

While the chakra mutated squirrels were fast and agile, for an experienced kunoichi like Tenten, who sparred against taijutsu monsters like Rock Lee and Hyūga Neji on a regular basis, they may as well have been moving in slow motion.

Counter-charging the mutations, the Weapons Mistress deftly sliced the throat of the first squirrel before throwing her off-hand kunai into the forehead of the next one. She then leapt up over the last one and buried her weapon up to the hilt into the base of its skull.

'Holy crap! She took them down without even breaking a sweat!' Naruto thought in stunned awe. He hadn't been able to on-shot the damn things until just recently, and that was with careful aim with his staff. Tenten had managed it with two kunai!

"Yikes…" Naruto whispered.

"These things weren't so tough." the brunette said with a grin as she retrieved her blades.

"Considering they're the weakest mutations in the whole area and you're an experienced genin, that isn't a surprise." Naruto noted, "I call those ones [Rabid Red Squirrels]. They have bigger cousins I call [Gnashing Grey Squirrels] and they're a lot tougher."

"Oh? Then let's get to finding them." Tenten said as she wiped her weapons clean of blood.

Nodding, Naruto led her through the trees, surreptitiously closing the window detailing how much EXP had been divided between him and Tenten. Evidently, even an ad-hoc party like this still allowed for splitting experience between party members.

"So how many jutsu have you found in here anyway?" Tenten asked as the two kept their eyes out for any [Gnashing Grey Squirrels].

"Eh…five." Naruto replied, "Doton: Gansetsukon, a scroll on basic Fūinjutsu, Fūton: Kaiten Shuriken, Doton: Dangan and Ninpō: Karada Kyōdo Kyōka."

"What's the last one?" the Weapons Mistress asked curiously.

"A very-much lesser version of Senju Tsunade's chakra enhanced strength." Naruto replied.

"Seriously?!" Tenten squealed, "Can I borrow it? Please?"

"Sorry, I gave that jutsu scroll to a classmate of mine as a present." the blond boy said apologetically, "If we find another one here, it's your though. My chakra control is way too spotty to use the blasted technique."

This earned him a grin and a nod from the brunette.

With Tenten's superior strength, it only took them half an hour to clear Sub-Area 1 and move on to Sub-Area 2. Here, Tenten had a great deal of trouble against the mutated moles, as the Dangan they fired off were immune to her thrown weapons.

She switched to close combat and unsealed a sansetsukon (three-section staff), leaping around the boulders to smash the [Slavering Star Moles] over the head so quickly they had no time to hit her with their claws.

The kunoichi clearly knew how to strike the chakra mutations for best effect, crushing their skulls with every blow she dealt out. Naruto made a mental note for the umpteenth time to not get on her bad side!

"You are a very scary girl, you know that Tenten?" he said after the last mole fell to her.

"Why thank you!" the brunette beamed at him, as if she hadn't had such a nice complement in ages.

Naruto made another note to himself that strong kunoichi were slightly weird.

As they made their way to the entrance of the next area, Naruto compared his style with Tenten's and found it wanting. She moved quickly and precisely through her enemies, dealing with them with minimum expenditure of effort and maximum amount of damage.

"Hey Tenten, what taijutsu style do you use?" he asked curiously.

"Hmm…? Oh, I don't really use a taijutsu style." The brunette replied, "I almost always have at least a kunai out, preferably more than one. When I do fight barehanded, I guess I use a modified version of the Hakage Style that my dad calls the 'Sōkō-ken' or Armed Fist Style. Mostly because I wear these."

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