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Sasuke was tired. The resistance seals were the real deal. No wonder that Naruto had become strong using them. But now that he was also using them, he would become that strong as well. It would take some time, but he knew the prize was worth it. He was getting closer to Itachi. He looked at his team-mates and his sensei. Naruto didn't look any more tired than normal. But he was already used to working with this kind of seal. Kakashi of course was also doing well. He had been surprised that his sensei had joined them doing the exercises, but also pleased. It felt like they were all comrades to him, not only subordinates he had to train. Of course Kakashi's training program was harder than theirs, but it was something to strive to get to.
The worst part of the day was the morning run. He had felt so damnable slow with the seal. Especially when Kakashi and Naruto ran more laps than him and Sakura. He had been jealous of Naruto again, but he swallowed his feelings and told himself he would soon enough surpass his blond team-mate. And Naruto had even told him the key to learn using the seals faster. You had to strengthen your muscles with chakra. Once it felt normal again if you used chakra, you had to reduce the amount of chakra to get the same effect on your own. Well, except if you didn't train, then it would be best to just train your muscles without chakra. With the seals staying active for the next two weeks he would see if that was true.
"Okay, that was enough of a break. Next part of our training is teamwork." Kakashi said.
"How are we going to do this, sensei?" Naruto asked.
"We will do several exercises that will teach you to trust your team-mates." Kakashi said.
He took out two scarves and handed them to Sakura and Naruto.
"Tie them around your eyes." He instructed them.
They did. Kakashi handed Sasuke a piece of wood and a small metal bar. Then he prepared some obstacles in a small round course.
"The intention of this test is to lead your team-mates safely through the course, only using Morse-code. You learned the code at the academy. Now, you will morse them where to go, what to be aware of and so on. The only possibility they have to finish the course is following your instructions. No talking at all." Kakashi said. "We will start with Naruto, then Sakura. Once you are finished, we will change places, I will change the course and we will repeat it until each of you went through the course twice and led the others once." Kakashi said.
Sasuke nodded. He took the wood and the metal bar and began drumming his message to lead Naruto. It was harder than he thought it would be. He had to remember all the commands. And morsing words like left, right, forward, stop and so on took more time than he thought they would. Thankfully Naruto seemed to know the Morse code well enough to follow his commands without problem. Finally Naruto was done. Now it was Sakura's turn. Sasuke began drumming again. Naruto took off his scarf and watched how Sakura fared. He had noticed some problems while he was in the course and now by watching Sakura, the problems seemed even stronger. They needed shorter signals that weren't normal Morse code.
Especially as remembering all the Morse signals was a problem if you were pressed for time, which he guessed would be the next thing Kakashi would have them do. So he went through the Morse signals and decided what would be proper short signals to work with. Finally Sakura, after misinterpreting the signals Sasuke gave her twice, was done with the course.
"Okay, next Sakura will give the signals and Naruto and Sasuke will do the course." Kakashi announced and Sakura handed her scarf to Sasuke, blushing.
Sasuke just took the scarf and tied it around his head, Naruto put his back on. Kakashi changed the course and now Sakura was trying to get Sasuke through the course, which was a lot worse than the two tries Sasuke had with morsing. Sasuke ran into stones, tripped over logs, went too far to the left once, because Sakura wasn't fast enough with her signals. When Sasuke was finally finished, he was cursing. Naruto then went into the course and after hitting a log he always waited for Sakura to finish her signals. Once he heard new signals he stopped to process the new information. It took horribly long, but he avoided further problems that way.
"Next is Naruto morsing." Kakashi said.
"Sasuke, Sakura, I will use four signals outside the normal Morse code. Four long signals mean left, four short ones mean right. One short and one long signal mean forward. One long and one short means back and one short signal, which will be louder than the rest means stop. The others I will morse with normal Morse code." He explained them.
Sasuke nodded. After the disaster with Sakura leading him that was sensible. Sakura grudgingly also nodded. She had hated being the worst in a discipline she should have been good at. But she hadn't thought to practice Morse code much in the academy. It was after all such an overcome method to send messages and everybody could overhear them.
Sakura was the first to go through the changed course now. Naruto's idea to shorten the commands was working well. She managed to get through the course with only making a mistake once and then the stop signal prevented something happening. Sasuke then went through the course and was happy to notice that with Naruto giving the signals he didn't get hit by obstacles once. He also noticed that he had to get used to differentiating left and right first as they were so similar. When he came out of the course, he took off the scarf and turned to Naruto.
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