" - Oh! A secret place I found while exploring. I can show you guys!" He's bouncing. "You okay with going now Chihiro?"

"I have no duties currently pending."

"You talk weird," he says cheerily, then, "Come on!" and leads the way into the woods around Konoha. After a good bit of running, they come to a large shrine, that looks like it half collapsed at some point and has since been (inexpertly) repaired. "This's the shrine! I found it all destroyed, and I thought maybe it had spirits, and they'd be sad if their house was destroyed, so I promised them I'd fix their house! There's a barrier around it, I can get through but other stuff can't unless I'm holding onto them, so you guys have to take my hands."

Chihiro looks at his outstretched hand with an expression of something like confusion, disdain, or perhaps unease.

"...You don't have to hold it for long? Maybe you can just - hold my forearm, or poke me while we pass it? Or try, maybe the barrier likes humans and not squirrels."

...She grips his arm just above the wrist.

And into the shrine they go! He lets her known once they're past the barrier.

She immediately lets go of his arm.

He leads the way in, into a sort of foyer. There's paint cans in one corner, and further building supplies in the others. "So!" he announces, bouncing. "Plans?"

"We should figure out scenarios first. Chihiro, ideas?"

"A survival test where the instructor declares himself our opponent indicates that he will be fighting us. That a time limit was acknowledged to exist but not explicitly defined implies it will last less than a day."

"He's unlikely to demand we actually defeat him. He'll probably be explicitly or implicitly looking for us to show specific qualities. He'll likely set us a task; hence 'survival exercise' instead of just 'fight.' Options... Probably mimic common missions. Protect a target, destroy a target, obtain something material from him, gather information."

"I agree with that assessment. Based on the displayed qualities of this squad's membership at the Academy and the history of its jounin instructor, it is likely that it was formed with the intention of an assault specialization. Therefore, our objective will most likely test our capabilities in that area. Reconnaissance is unlikely, protection is possible, destruction or retrieval are the most plausible candidates."

He nods, and thinks over his spells. It's easy with only nine.

He's been burning one of his four slots on the Rite of Centered Mind everyday. Mage Armor is useful enough - and lasts long enough - he should stick it on whoever is drawing attacks. Grease and Shield... Probably not as useful, not against a jounin.

That leaves Expeditious Retreat, Blurred Movement, Illusion of Calm, Shocking Grasp, and True Strike. He mentally discards Shocking Grasp. ...Maybe he should not use Mage Armor, if a jounin wants to hit a genin he suspects the jounin will succeed, no matter how many spells the genin has layered.

But Blurred Movement gives a miss chance no matter what. That, combined with Expeditious Retreat, will make someone highly mobile. But each only lasts two minutes right now. True Strike is only useful for one blow... And Illusion of Calm is only useful if he's preparing another spell. But he's figured out five-foot-step Dimension Doors, for movement, and can do six a day, which are probably more useful...

So. 

The Rite of Centered Mind, to improve his resistance to mental effects for the day.

Illusion of Calm, to hide what he's doing.

True Strike, his one divination spell, to guide one blow.

And...

It's between Shocking Grasp and Mage Armor, then. Defense, or offense.

He turns to his team. 

"I have techniques I can use. Not ones he'll recognize. I'll only be able to get off three - but I think I can string some together well. I can make an illusion that looks like I'm standing still - I don't think it'll be enough for a jounin, but he might allow it for whichever scenario, if he's playing someone less powerful." Except actually the original Illusion of Calm spell can't be disbelieved until you hit the person who cast it. Sugira's just not sure he built it correctly. "I have one that'll analyze, and make my next attack more accurate. And then I can either use a force technique, to make myself - or someone else - harder to hit, or use a lightning technique, to make my blow land harder. I'm unsure if we'd rather put all our energy into one blow or try for a longer play."

"Hatake Kakashi will have more stamina than we do at our level and a wider variety of techniques. Delaying would only allow him more time to use them."

"So hit hard, hit fast. We should try to hit him together, as well. Close off escape routes, make my contribution less obvious.."

"Yes. He is allowing us the chance to prepare the ground. We should use that."

"That means traps! My specialty!"

Chihiro nods. "You also said you had a new technique."

"Oh yeah! Shadow clone technique!" And he forms four perfect copies of himself in puffs of smoke. "They can do stuff!"

She blinks. "Where... did you learn that?"

"Um! Okay so I failed the graduation test, right. And then Mizuki is apparently secretly an asshole and told me there was a secret second test, and I had to steal a scroll from the Hokage tower and learn a technique from it. And the shadow clone was the first one listed, but then Mizuki showed up and tried to kill me and Iruka-sensei got involved trying to stop him so I made a whole bunch of clones, I can't remember how many but I could basically just see me, and beat Mizuki up."

Sugira, who had not previously heard the entire story, has his head in his hands.

"The shadow clone is an extremely chakra-intensive technique. The average jounin is capable of no more than three."

" - Uh I have a lot of chakra. For reasons. Secret reasons. That I can't tell you, but I can maybe bug the Old Man once we're officially a team?" He doesn't trust Chihiro enough, though she's so creepy she probably wouldn't react about the Nine Tails. And Sasuke would probably attempt to adopt the demon fox. He's like that.