While Feng Zheng was Meditating, Inuzuka Tsume walked to the second floor with her ninja dog, muttering.
"Since one squad arrived so early, I thought the other squads would be here soon too. But this is too boring, being an invigilator is so boring! Luckily, there are many Training Rooms here."
The Training Rooms here were prepared for invigilators who were bored waiting for the Genin to arrive at the Tower. In a sense, these Training Rooms were their reward or compensation.
Inuzuka Tsume entered the same evasion Training Room that Feng Zheng had used earlier. As soon as she opened it, she was stunned!
"Why are weapons scattered on the ground?"
She checked some of the mechanisms and found that there were no weapons inside.
She walked out of the room and shouted.
"Toshino! Come here!"
The shout was so loud that it could be heard throughout the entire Tower, except for the Training Rooms.
Toshino, a Chunin responsible for maintaining the Training Rooms, immediately went to her and asked.
"What happened, Lady Tsume?"
Her mood worsened, and she yelled at him.
"You didn't even clean and restock the Training Room properly, and you dare to ask me what happened?"
He was shocked. But he remained calm and replied in a steady tone.
"Lady Tsume, last night I cleaned and restocked all the Training Rooms."
However, a hint of anger due to being wrongly accused appeared on his face.
Inuzuka Tsume noticed it and asked.
"Really? Tell me after you check this room."
She pointed to the Training Room.
He entered the room and was shocked to find that all 100 launches of the training were used up. He quickly explained.
"Lady, I did indeed restock the mechanisms here last night, both evasion rooms were restocked, so someone must have used them."
Inuzuka Tsume calmed down and asked.
"Someone used up all one hundred? Who trained here?"
He replied.
"How would I know?"
She snorted and looked at Kuromaru. Kuromaru said.
"Let's see."
Both Inuzuka Tsume and Kuromaru began to sniff the room. Soon, Kuromaru said
"Here."
Then walked to the wooden weapons, picked up a kunai, and handed it to Inuzuka Tsume.
Inuzuka Tsume sniffed it and found.
"This smells like that civilian kid from the Renjiro Squad."
Kuromaru also confirmed.
"Yes."
She looked at the Chunin and asked.
"Do those three Genin know about the Training Rooms?"
The Chunin nodded and said.
"Yes, Takeshi said they asked a lot of questions, and he told them they could use the Training Rooms."
She replied.
"Oh!"
She looked at Kuromaru again, who was sniffing all the weapons. He looked back at her and said.
"Many weapons have a scent, but it's all the same child's; no one else has been here."
She said.
"So, only that kid came here? And all one hundred launches were used up by him? That's incredible!"
She looked at Toshino and asked.
"Do you know what those brats did in the Tower?"
He shook his head and said.
"No one was watching them, but others said that two of them came down for lunch and dinner and quickly returned to the Training Rooms. One of them didn't eat lunch, and was an hour late for dinner, and he also immediately returned to the second floor."
Inuzuka Tsume exclaimed in surprise.
"Really? They're just ten-year-old kids, and they trained all day? No wonder they passed the exam so quickly."
She sighed and complained.
"My son only knows how to play all day and never trains. Although my daughter is serious and likes to study, she wouldn't willingly train that much. She also became a Genin this year, but her teacher didn't even let her squad participate in the Chunin Exams."
Toshino tried to keep a straight face as he listened to her, thinking.
"It was wrong for her to wrongly accuse and scold me first. Now she's complaining about her children in front of me! No wonder her husband ran away!"
Inuzuka Tsume looked at him and said.
"You can go, I'm going to train in another room."
He quickly left.
As Inuzuka Tsume walked towards the room, she thought about how to scold her son, Inuzuka Kiba, to train harder.
Upon entering the Training Room, Inuzuka Tsume, like Feng Zheng, set the joystick to 100% and pressed the button.
Both she and Kuromaru began to dodge attacks. Sometimes, she would block weapons that were about to hit Kuromaru.
After the first training session, Inuzuka Tsume looked at Kuromaru and said.
"I was hit six times."
Kuromaru replied.
"I was eight times."
Inuzuka Tsume added.
"I blocked 3 weapons that were about to hit you."
Kuromaru said.
"It seems we've been a bit lax."
She patted his head and said.
"Last time, we could perfectly dodge once every 11 times. This time, we need to work hard to improve. Since that kid did it a hundred times, it would be too embarrassing if we couldn't."
Kuromaru responded loudly.
"Then let's begin!"
Both Inuzuka Tsume and Kuromaru trained in that room until they completed one hundred rounds.
They couldn't dodge all the weapons until the 22nd round. Sometimes, either Inuzuka Tsume or Kuromaru could dodge all the attacks, but not in the same round.
In the 23rd round, both of them successfully dodged all the weapons for the first time.
In these 100 rounds, they perfectly dodged all attacks 11 times.
As they left the Training Room, Inuzuka Tsume proudly said to Kuromaru.
"Tomorrow we will increase this number to 15 times."
By the time they finished, it was 10 PM.
The Chunin in the Tower were very surprised not to see Inuzuka Tsume and her group at dinner.
After listening to Toshino's account, they understood that she had also decided to complete 100 rounds of training.
Upon entering the dining hall, she found it empty. She began to prepare dinner and called a Chunin over.
When he arrived, she asked.
"Is there anything new today?"
He replied.
"Nothing else important. No other squads have passed the exam yet. No abnormal activity has been reported either in the Forest or in the Tower."
Inuzuka Tsume nodded and asked.
"What about those who passed? What are they doing?"
The Chunin replied.
"All three came down for dinner. After dinner, Uchiha Mieko and Hyuga Hodaka explored the Tower for a while, then returned to their rooms. Suzuki Kazemasa was seen returning to the second floor. We checked a few minutes ago, and someone is still in the Wind Attribute Training Room."
She was shocked again. But soon she sighed and muttered.
"It seems he's a training maniac; let him continue to train."
Forest of Death --
Not much fighting happened in the Forest of Death.
Among the Hidden Mist Genin, Kido Kohaku was severely injured, and the others also had many cuts. They chose to hide and perform first aid, waiting until their wounds healed and no longer hurt before moving.
The Nara-Yamanaka-Akimichi Squad also remained hidden.
The Hyuga Squad found the Sunagakure Squad. However, because the Sunagakure Genin kept attacking from a distance, their battle was inconclusive. Eventually, both squads retreated.
The squad from Amegakure clashed with the last Konoha squad. They lost but managed to retreat.
So, except for the Nara-Yamanaka-Akimichi Squad, all other squads still had their scrolls.
