Seeing Hana want to learn medicine, Akira was both surprised, and not, at the same time.
Surprised because the person with a Kekkei Genkai mostly used for sensing is studying medicine, while the person with the physique for healing is studying sensing.
The irony wasn’t lost on him.
And not surprised, because of her gentle nature, and her declaration at the introduction this morning.
“Sure, the byakugan helps with chakra control, giving you an edge with medical jutsus. Fair warning though, it entails alot of reading, even just to get started.” Akira said.
“That’s alright, as long as I can heal people.” Hana replied seriously.
Since he was helping the girls with their training, he thought he might as well go all in, so he turned to Mikoto.
“What about you, Mikoto?” He asked.
Flustered, she quickly shook both her hands and her head.
“No, no I couldn’t possibly trouble you like that.”
“No need to be shy, that’s what friends do, they help each other. ‘Sides I’m the best, there’s nothing i can’t do.” Akira said, puffing his chest proudly, to help prove his point.
Hearing this, Mikoto paused, then she reconsidered.
“Well if you insist, I was planning on using kunais as my main weapons with ninjutsu as support, but my dad mainly uses ninjutsu so, if you could help me with that, I’d be grateful.” Mikoto said, slowly building up courage, and finishing her sentence confidently.
“Actually I started swordsmanship training recently, if you want to come and take a look I don’t mind. Even though the kunais are shorter, you can at least get the basics down, and I’m sure my grand-uncle has notes on how to use kunais.” Akira said
‘His notes are part of my second cheat for a reason.’
“Plus, we can spar together, since we both use weapons.” He finished.
Mikoto gave a grateful nod.
After solidifying their training plans, Hana and Mikoto left, while Akira and Kushina waved them off.
The rest of the month went by quickly.
Thankfully, there was only theory being done at school so Akira just sent a shadow clone.
“No fair, I want to send shadow clones to. The theory lessons are so boring.” Kushina complained one evening.
Mikoto and Hana, who were also at the table, coming more frequently to spend the evening, were silent but in their minds they agreed.
“If you want to do that, then you’ll have to read up on all the theory beforehand. And just like Akira it would only be for theory classes you already know.” Mito said strictly, to all three girls.
She easily saw the look on Hana and Mikoto’s faces and putting the pieces together, that they also wanted to do the same, was easy.
Hana’s byakugan was pure, probably even more so than Hinata’s, giving her much larger chakra reserves.
Mikoto, having the two tomoe sharingan gave her chunin level reserves automatically.
And Kushina, her Uzumaki bloodline, combined with her abnormal vitality, gave her jonin level at 6.
This meant, they could also start abusing shadow clones, albeit less than Akira.
Within a week, they all read the first term of theory and ended up sending shadow clones to school.
During academy hours, they decided to come over to Akira’s place to train.
After telling their parents the plan, and getting confirmation they won’t recklessy use more shadow clones than what they could handle, Mikoto and Hana came almost everyday.
Kushina, since she had more leeway with her chakra, studied fuinjutsu with Mito as well as medicine.
Her medical study session was joined by Hana, who sent one shadow clone to school, one for medicine theory, and her real body practiced her taijutsu.
Tsunade, upon seeing this one day after her mission, was impressed.
Both had impressive mental fortitude to do what they were doing, and they were almost qualified to be her students.
Given that she was finished studying all the medical theory she could get her hands on, and that she was a very strong kunoichi by herself, her teacher was starting to ask for her to take on students.
Luckily she always brushed it off saying she wasn’t ready yet, but she knew that she couldn’t do that forever.
Seeing that there were two students worth considering, and they were both very close to her, put her mind at ease for the inevitable becoming of a teacher.
Akira also continued his swordsmanship training.
One of the first anime he had ever watched in his past life was SAO.
The continued reading of Chinese novels and different anime and manga filed his love for swords to an almost obsessive level.
Taking inspiration from his favourite beater, he also dual wielded, but he did katanas instead.
Thankfully he trained ambidexterity when he was a baby.
Mikoto also joined in on his swordsmanship practice sessions.
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After finding some of Tobirama’s notes on kunais, and comparing them to his notes on swordsmanship, they found that the initial training was almost identical.
Horizontal swinging, vertical swinging, thrusts, slashes, the basic movements were alike, just with a lighter weapon.
They both only started with swinging their respective wooden weapons, to get their bodies accustomed to it before any sparring took place.
Though thanks to the sharingan, that phase quickly passed.
Their spars usually occurred with their sharingan active.
With both having 2 tomoe unlocked, their insight and copying abilities were about the same.
Akira started mixing in Tobirama’s sword style, while Mikoto, the Uchiha sword style that she adapted for kunais, which they found Tobirama had notes on.
Akira almost laughed when he saw that.
Tobirama really did know the Uchiha more than they knew themselves.
Even better, his notes clearly singled out one swordsman in particular, Uchiha Izuna.
Given that he was the one to eventually kill Izuna, Akira only found it natural.
They didn’t use any advanced techniques like the one that mixed genjutsu and kenjutsu, the leaf style willow, that Maruboshi Kosuke, the strongest genin used.
Or Uzuki Yugao’s Dance of the crescent moon, or Hazy moon night.
They left that for the future.
The only other kenjutsu style in Konoha that Akira wanted to aquire, was the Hatake swordsmanship.
Unfortunately, given that Sakumo, Kakashi’s dad, was only a bit older than Tsunade, and that he didn’t have his moniker, the White fang yet, Akira could guess he was still in the Anbu, making a name for himself.
He would have to find an opportunity at a later date.
The girls also got gravity seals from Mito to help their training.
Given the intense training regimen Hana and Mikoto already do, and Kushina’s vitality, they easily adapted.
Akira also decided to teach them the breathing technique.
After getting the green light from the adults, they started practicing, but unlike the grav seals, this took a bit getting used to, and they were nowhere near constant.
In the ending of the first month, their teacher made an announcement.
“Class, we’ll be starting physical activities next week, so come prepared. It won’t be anything to straining but we will be pushing your limits.” Daiki said, addressing his students.
‘Finally, I can see how good other kids my age are.’ Akira thought with some anticipation.