"Ran into trouble?" After Neji Hyuga left Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha, Tenten had also successfully obtained a scroll from another team. Seeing that the bun atop Tenten's head was somewhat disheveled, Neji smiled faintly.
"Sometimes, having overly sensitive hearing isn't a good thing either." Tenten nodded. "I ran into a team from the Hidden Sound Village. The sound waves they used to numb hearing were rather novel."
Tenten's five senses had always been developed to their limits. This had originally been an advantage Neji Hyuga had created for her, but some rarer sensory attacks instead made her more susceptible to being caught off guard and injured.
The stronger one's senses were, the more easily they could be overstimulated. Caught unaware, it was Tenten's first time encountering sound waves that numbed hearing, and she had been somewhat surprised.
Of course, in the end, she had relied on sheer strength to snatch their scroll from the three Hidden Sound shinobi.
"There are countless strange and unusual Ninjutsu in the Shinobi World. Stay vigilant at all times," Neji Hyuga casually reminded her.
What Tenten lacked was neither strength nor combat skill.
The strength Neji Hyuga had forged for Tenten already surpassed that of many people in Konoha, and he had also drilled her in a sufficiently diverse range of combat techniques.
What she lacked was experience in dealing with the unknown.
However, Tenten possessed a sound yet cautious mindset. Neji Hyuga believed that no matter what enemy she faced, she would find their weakness and defeat them.
"I will. They were just somewhat novel. I won't fall for the same trick again—not even tricks targeting my other senses." Tenten huffed.
Neji Hyuga smiled and said nothing more.
Not long afterward, Rock Lee returned with a scroll as well. Team 3 had gathered