In the training ground, Tsunade and Akane stood 10m apart. Akane stared at Tsunade with a serious face, but even though he kept a serious face, his mind was thinking of the event that had happened in the room.
The situation was the same for Tsunade, who had a smile on her face and was thinking of everything that happened in the room. Moreover, looking at Akane's serious face, she knew that he was also surely thinking of the same thing, which made things funnier for her.
"Come at me, only taijutsu, no enhancement," Tsunade said, motioning Akane to rush at her and start the fight so that she could assess his levels.
Nodding at her, Akane took a deep breath to clear his mind and focused on Tsunade. Noticing the change in his expression and feeling his eyes on her, Tsunade nodded in appreciation, and she readied herself for his attack.
But then both of them moved away from their place and it was to dodge the golden chain that landed on their former positions.
Moments later, Mito appeared on the ground with several adamantine chains coming from her arms and back.
"Work together and fight against me," Mito said without looking at them and she stood at her place, not moving even an inch.
On the side, Tsunade and Akane looked at Mito with a startled look on their faces and their expression got serious when they heard her words and noticed the pressure she was emitting.
"It won't be easy," Tsunade said, remembering the beatings she had received when Mito was serious in training her.
"Hmm, I know," Akane replied with a hint of familiarity in his tone since Mito used the dream space to fight and showed him a bit of the psychotic nature of a person who survived the warring states era.
They both rushed at Mito while making two Shadow Clones and using the smoke, they transformed into each other while running with the Shadow clones.
Mito, who had her eyes closed was using Kagura's Mind Eye since she knew how good the two were, and all she wanted to do was for them to coordinate with each other and make their coordination smoother for the upcoming mission.
Even though they were strong enough to hold on their own, Mito knew that having more plans is always better than having no plans and their strength would be more than double if they fought together with less effort.
'Since they have basic coordination, I should fight as a ninja instead of a trainer.'
Mito thought. She had already noticed the transformation they had used but she decided to act as if she didn't know anything. The chains around her started to move and rushed in their direction while two of them floated around her to defend against attacks.
Noticing the chains, Akane didn't do anything. Instead, the two Shadow clones of Tsunade formed hand seals and used an Earth-release technique. From the ground, several hands rushed towards the chains, and Akane rushed towards Mito while gathering chakra in his hands and legs as Tsunade did.
On the other hand, the Shadow clones of Akane used their own Adamantine chains to fight against Mito's chains, and Tsunade jumped high in the air to use heavenly foot of pain to attack Mito together with Akane who was going to use the Adamantine fist.
Noticing their attacks, Mito smirked and she opened her eyes. The chains that were attacking clones disappeared from her body and more chains came out. These chains danced around her and soon a barrier appeared around Mito.
Tsunade and Akane attacked the barrier at the same time while their clones started to work together to do the same.
"It's fucking strong," Tsunade said while noticing the strength of the barrier and the mocking smirk on Mito's face irritated her. As for Akane, he was more focused on the barrier and looking at the seals Mito had used in forming the barrier.
"Amazing, such a strong barrier in such a short time. It can easily handle any attack below Kage level," He murmured with an amazed look and tried to decipher the seals to destroy the barrier.
"RASENGAN!"
The two clones slammed two Rasengan on the barrier and noticing the point they had attacked, Mito wondered if it was luck or if Akane had found a way to destroy the barrier.
A small crack appeared on the barrier since the two Rasengans had hit the weak points Mito had left on the barrier.
Noticing the crack, Tsunade changed her position to attack the barrier. As soon as her hand was about to touch the barrier, she heard Akane shouting, "Noooo!"
Akane who had noticed the crack on the barrier didn't think it would be this simple to break the barrier. The smile on Mito's face said everything he needed to know but he was already late in considering it.
The barrier opened at the point Tsunade was punching and due to the force she had used, she was pushed inside. Before Akane could enter the barrier, it was closed again and the crack on the barrier had disappeared too.
"When fighting in a 2v1, stay together to make sure that you aren't separated if you are more in number and if you are alone, try to separate them to increase pressure on them."
"Even after knowing this, you two made this mistake. Maybe because you two are not taking this as seriously as you should."
Mito said while rushing at Tsunade who had been pushed inside the barrier because of her own face. Noticing her, Tsunade was about to control herself but Mito was faster than her.
Slamm!
With her hand on Tsunade's neck, Mito slammed Tsunade onto the ground and the chains were wrapped around her body, sealing her chakra and immobilizing her.
"Fighting against someone who knows many things about you is difficult but it can also be the easiest one."
"Now, a quick question. Why did I say that it can also be the easiest one? Akane, answer it."
Mito removed her hand from Tsunade's neck, and her mouth was covered by the chains to prevent her from saying anything. Outside the barrier, Akane blinked while looking at Mito easily handling a Kage-level expert and he was really surprised because the tactic Mito had used was something he had in his mind.
"Unexpected moves," Akane replied as he heard her question and he saw Mito nodding at him.
"The fights outside will be between ninjas, not simple spars of the ambushes you have done to the Kiri Ninjas who had arrived on the island. Unless you have overwhelming strength to defeat your opponents, the only way to win the battle would be by being more unexpected than your opponent."
"Even if they would keep themself ready for attacks, if you outsmart their thinking, you will win. Like this,"
Akane's expression changed when he heard her words. From below him, several chains rushed at him to capture him. As soon as he had noticed the tremor, sparks of lightning appeared around Akane and using lightning chakra mode, he disappeared from his location.
The chains moved in the direction of Akane, who created several Shadow Clones to distract Mito.
As for Akane, he formed a lightning release Rasengan and threw at Mito who had removed the barrier around her. Two clones rushed at her to save Tsunade from her since she had put her away from herself and openly gave him the message about what he had to do.
The lighting-release Rasengan disappeared in the middle but Mito who had seen the attack had already noticed the trajectory. A wall made of water appeared around her and from the ground, two Earth Dragons grew up and rushed at the two Shadow Clones who were rushing to save Tsunade.
Looking at the two earth dragons, Akane sighed. He knew that it wouldn't be easy to save Tsunade since Mito wasn't taking this lightly. The sparks around his body turned into Lightning Chakra armour and two chains of lightning sparks appeared from his back.
'I have to do that,'
Akane thought and he rushed at Mito at high speed. Noticing the change in Akane, Mito just smiled.
'The intensity of his chakra is a lot more than I expected. Any more and others will notice outside. I should end this since I am sure Tsunade has gotten a good idea of his strength.'
Thinking of this, Mito readied herself and focused her senses on Akane. As soon as Akane had rushed at Mito, various walls made up from Earth-release appeared in front of Akane. Noticing them, Akane moved in a zig-zag direction to dodge these walls, but this decreased a bit of speed.
When he was 5m away from Mito, he saw Mito merely standing in her place with no guard around her. A slight frown appeared on his face but ignoring this, he rushed at Mito while the chains rushed towards Tsunade who was wrapped in chains.
"Haha,"
Mito chuckled when she saw his actions. When he was a metre away from her, several chains rushed from the ground to catch Akane. The Mito in front of Akane disappeared, making his eyes wide and he did a 360 to destroy the chains.
"Got you," He heard the words in his ear and Akane's expression changed when he saw seal patterns appearing on his body. He noticed his chakra getting sealed by the seal patterns and when he was about to fight them, Akane felt his head getting heavier.
"Sleep now,"
Before Akane lost consciousness, he felt a soft body embracing him and with his eyes closed, he lost consciousness.
"Quite good, much better than I thought." "Grandma, have you lost it?!"
Mito said while looking at Tsunade who had caught Akane before he could fall on the ground. Tsunade looked at Mito with a frown on her face as she hadn't expected Mito to use the Four Symbol Suppressing seal in the fight.
"Any more and his chakra would have leaked from the barrier. You don't want everyone to know about a 12-year-old Elite Jonin, right?" Mito said with a shrug but there was a serious look in her eyes. Hearing her, Tsunade became silent and Mito continued, "The battle might have looked simple but there were many thoughts behind each action. Before even using what he knew, he had already thought of what I would use to counter his attack."
"This is a bad thing but he is using this too much. In battle between Shinobi, even a split second is enough to end the battle, and he is thinking too much in the battle."
"I can understand where he is coming from but he has to understand the balance between moving without thinking and thinking while moving."
"He can't expect everything that will happen,"
Mito murmured with a thoughtful face while looking at Akane who was sleeping in Tsunade's arms, and Tsunade nodded at her words.
"Still, he lasted longer than you. It seems you are getting rusty,"
Tsunade deadpanned at Mito who joked and looking at her expression, Mito chuckled.
"Alright, it was me who asked you to lose. Happy? You got a good idea of his strength since I am sure you two wouldn't have been able to fight after what happened in the room."
"Haaahh?"
A shocked face appeared on Tsunade's face, making Mito laugh even more and she disappeared with a puff, hanging Tsunade there, who had a red face.
"Damn her, because of Kyuubi's chakra, she has gotten even stronger and brazen," Tsunade murmured while holding Akane on her shoulder and she disappeared from the training ground to her house.
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