"...Thank you."

She departs.

And he and Sasuke go to work on training.

Sasuke tries not to worry. At least Naruto's playing around with seals is distracting.

Chihiro shows up on time the next day, apparently none the worse for wear. She still has Zabuza's sword with her.

"Hey! Thing go well?"

She tilts her head.

"Things did not go poorly."

"That's good. We should practice with you using the sword today maybe? So me and Sasuke can get used to the thing."

"That seems prudent." She unships the blade from her shoulders and attaches the hilt.

Then they can practice! Different combinations of them fighting each other, and all of them against Kakashi if he ever shows up...

Sugira adjusts well to fighting beside Chihiro, and remains a sneaky pain in the ass as an opponent.

Chihiro wields the blade with surprising finesse given its size. She kindly stops short of cutting anyone's head off, though some trees do not survive her wrath.

Kakashi shows up late, towards the end of their normal training time.

"Ah, I see you've all been productive today."

"Yeah! We might need a new training ground eventually."

"Try to go easy on it. They'll make us fix it up if you break it too badly. Anyway, I thought we'd try something a little exciting to end the day with." He displays a small slip of blank paper.

"Oooooooh what is it what is it?"

"Elemental affinities. I was going to wait on this, but with how the last mission went, I think you all are ready for some more advanced ninjutsu."

"Oh! Cool! I've been practicing my chakra control lots, too!"

"Good, that will help. Here, everyone take a piece of paper." He passes the slips out. "This is chakra paper. It will react with your chakra in different ways depending what your affinity is." He holds his own paper up between two fingers and it suddenly crinkles. "I have a lightning affinity, so it does this. For earth, it turns into dirt. Water will make it damp. Fire will ignite it. And wind will split it in half. Everyone channel just a little bit of chakra into your paper and see what it does."

Naruto's splits in half rather violently.

Sugira's crinkles like Kakashi's.

Chihiro's also shears in two, though somewhat more sedately.

"Two wind, two lightning. Isn't that convenient."

"Good affinities for bladework."

"Exactly. Naruto, Chihiro, I'll start you two off and then you can help each other while I work with Sasuke."

"Okay!" Naruto says, as Sasuke nods.