Anita
```Co-Op Start, this is the Training-Grounds```

The last few months had been... Rather slow for Zengetsu, if she was being honest. Spending most of her free time not doing her Shinobi duties, but taking care of her Grandfather who had, unfortunately, taken rather unwell due to the Winter cold. So she spent most of her time shouldering the house hold burdens, not that she minded of course! Taking care of one's family was just as important as your Shinobi duty after all. Though, as she was a bit rusty, she'd have to admit, she decided that she'd start with something she hadn't had the chance to properly practice before... Ninjutsu!

She was a Hozuki after all, so what better way to break back into the Ninja lifestyle than a Water technique, after all, what kind of Hozuki *Didn't* Know how to use Water Ninjutsu?! So it was that she sat cross legged, a scroll unfurled in front of her, old and tarnished from time, a series of handseals being illustrated as the girl had her tongue stuck out from the side, her own brow knit into an expression of confusion as if what she was reading, or trying to read, wasn't necessarily being absorbed properly. Her hands carefully formed seals amidst her muttering, stopping every few moments as she tilted her head...

"No no no, that isn't right, it's horse, ram, dragon, rat... No no, that's not... Is that... Does a chicken seal? No, that's a bird... Ueeeehhhh... What does that even *Mean*... Why do water jutsu have to be so difficult..." If one were to have been watching from the sidelines... They'd known she'd been doing this for well over an hour now.
Josephine
Hiroki had been there for the large part of the hour is the painful thing, not that he particularly minded. Patient and well meaning, the genin had paused to see just what his old training partner in Zengetsu had been doing - he'd never seen her using nin before so it was a rather sizeable curiosity for him! What he'd seen on the other hand was something a bit sad in some respects - she'd never taken the time to properly memorize her seals and it was showing in the way her chakra signature fuzzed and shifted as it failed to flow properly at her guidance.

Stepping forward, Hiroki steps onto the training ground and emerges from his hiding place. His boots hit the ground hard, allowing her to hear him a few moments before he speaks he speaks up. 

"Hozuki-san, are you having trouble?" His dull voice rises above his steps as he continues approaching. He didn't have to worry about interrupting her seals - she kept doing that herself really. He produces an empty scroll - there was a way he could help her get this down, perhaps. But he waits for her to respond before jumping into anything.
Anita
Hand seals had always been a problem for Zengetsu... Honestly, back at the Academy, it had been even worse. While she herself didn't see Inaro-Sensei's reprimanding as negative, her classmates on the other hand would likely remember the flabbergasted expression on their Sensei's face when it took Zengetsu an honest to Gods 15 seconds to perform a transformation jutsu. The strangest part being it was in no way related to her chakra control, it was fine, average even... But gods did she have the memory retention of a gold fish.

Her awareness (or lack thereof) being what it is, and her concentration being so intense, she honestly doesn't notice Hiroki until he speaks, which causes the girl to let out a rather undignified scream, immediately melting down into a puddle... Before realizing it wasn't a rogue ninja attack and in fact one of her friends.

"AAAAAAH- oh! Boukyakyaku-san! It's been forever!" Her disembodied voice suddenly becomes bodied, as Zengetsu rises from the puddle, giving him a cheery wave as she steps over, looking back to the scroll with no hiding her frown. "Is it obvious? The seals are just... *Fwoosh* In my brain and my chakra goes *Gyugyu* Before it can even do the thingy... You know?"