"There are some very short tests that can tell you very interesting things, I don't know of one for capacity-for-teamwork but it wouldn't stun me, but I don't think he was using a test that was a result of a process that would produce a good test."

"Oh yeah, he was looking for an excuse not to take us on probably? He ended up a pretty good - friend, not really teacher, but he was protective of us."

"What's he up to these days?"

"Don't actually know? I haven't had much contact with the Leaf since I left."

"But you aren't formally a missing-nin, you're on some kind of leave?"

"Yeah! I'm on a training trip with Pervy Sage, since Granny Tsunade agreed with him I should be away from the Leaf while training the jinchuuriki stuff and while the Akatsuki's after me."

"Is this to make it harder for them to find you or to have fewer Leaf-related things around as collateral damage if they do?"

"I think mostly the first, though the training outside of the Leaf is about collateral."

"In case the fox goes on a joyride or something?"

"Yeah, and also 'cause we don't know what happens if me and him end up fighting for control?"

"How exciting."

"With my dad undead so he can fix the seal it might actually be safe to try switching places with the fox a little? I feel kind of bad for him being cooped up in there, even if he maybe shouldn't be let out anywhere near civilization. Though I don't know if we can swap without it killing me..."

"Well, I can get you into space if being in space will help but advise against dying."

"Thanks! I'll have to talk to dad and Pervy Sage about it a lot, they know more about the seal and how it works."

"What's the, like, two-paragraph summary of what sealing as a field in general is?"

"I'm possibly not the best person to ask! But uh..."

"It's sticking things inside other things? By like turning the information into chakra or something? And really weird applications of that. And sometimes people say 'sealing' when they mean 'inscribed techniques' which are a different thing I think?"

"...okay." Seals are Pokéballs! Got it. "What's an inscribed technique?"

"Like a normal technique except you write it? I basically only know of the Flying Thunder God, which has an inscribed technique as the anchor?"

"Huh, I'd think it'd be more widespread but maybe the writing time is prohibitive if you're not a demon and most of your applications are mid-combat?"

"You can prepare some stuff ahead of time I think but I always hear it described as super hard, and working on different like underlying logic than normal techniques?"

"Maybe I'll get someone to recommend me a book. Or, uh, a scroll. Why are scrolls still widely used?"

"I think tradition? We only started using books at all recently, and scrolls are good for like illustrating a linear process?"

"Oh, yeah, I guess if you have a lot of really voluminous spatial information you probably want long paper. - you've invented computers and books are new?"

"Is that weird?"

"That's super weird! These events were separated by hundreds of years back on my Earth."