Kakashi taught Luo Mang and Sasuke Uchiha.
Jiraiya taught Naruto.
Tsunade, meanwhile, taught Sakura Haruno.
Of course, it was not all instruction and grueling training. There was practical combat too, and they had not completely stopped working as a team.
Kakashi Hatake still had his duties as their team leader, naturally. He occasionally took Luo Mang and the others out to wipe out bandits or accept a few C-rank missions, doing jobs such as weeding, finding flowers, and repairing fences.
There was every kind of job imaginable. The nice way to put it was that they offered a change of pace, but overall, there simply were no suitable missions.
Time flew, and two months soon passed.
It was afternoon.
Luo Mang was on his way back. They had just finished a mission to wipe out some bandits.
He could not understand why there were so many bandits. The nobles still needed to conduct trade, and they were ordinary people who could not keep hiring ninja to protect them forever, so there were plenty of paid missions to root out the problem for good.
"Mm~"
He stretched as he reflected on his progress over these two months of training.
His improvement had been particularly obvious. He could now use Lightning Blade properly, which meant he officially had a powerful, destructive ninjutsu at his disposal. It was better than throwing kunai, at any rate.
Then there was his prediction about Jiraiya. Though the man might have been in the village, Naruto Uzumaki had told them first thing the next morning that Jiraiya had taken him as a disciple ahead of schedule.
It was out in the open now. There was no uncertainty left; his prediction had come true.
The reward he had received was purple too.
It certainly could not compare to