Ume crossed her arms and shook her head. "We don't trust each other, we don't know the strengths and weaknesses of one another. And we don't have the time to go through and figure this all out, because we have a mission coming up so soon. The best way to figure this all out... Is probably a mock fight. Except there's three of us, not two or four, which means either a free for all or two on three. Or," her tail twitched, "we grab someone or something to be a mock target. One person plays the part of bodyguard while two others attack. We do this until we know how to read each other's movements enough to predict where they're going and what they're doing."<br/><br/>It wasn't exactly an original idea of Ume's. Her own jounin instructor had Ayame, Tsubaki, and herself run through the drills until they dropped from exhaustion and exertion. And then kept running the drills until each could predict where the other would go before they did.