The thing about Makoto that was unusual, for a puppeteer, was how much she liked to... up and close with her opponents. It was the dynamic of their team, Kotone dealt with threats at range, Makoto brawled on the front line, and Yuki was allowed the freedom to move between the two. When Yuki saw her in the morning, she was sitting outside her puppet in the girl's room, working on some upgrades. Kotone and Maki went on their own early on, leaving just Makoto as a training partner. From where he stood in the doorway, all he could see was the messy ponytail on the back of her head and her silhouette in the skintight suit she often wore.<br/><br/>Perhaps it was a mistake letting her know he was going to train. She replied that she'd be there shortly... it was apparently an excellent opportunity to test her new upgrades.<br/><br/>Thus, while Yuki was practicing his form by a tranquil lake... the telltale sounds of giant metal claws leaping from one tree to another could be heard in the distance. They grew louder and louder, until finally a large hulk of metal landed some twenty feet from Yuki. The puppet didn't look too different, tan and brown with a shell kind of like a turtle, two long legs, a dome on top holding a camera, and weapons mounted on fin-like appendages upon the side. Makoto herself was visible only from the stomach down, sitting in a seat that protruded between the puppet's legs, leaving her legs dangling.<br/><br/>The camera whirled around and focused on Yuki, "Hello, Yuki-kun!" Both of the weapon mounts waggled up and down, the closest thing to arms that the puppet had... Well, without her 'drones' at least.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>As indifferent and passionless as Tarui was to most things, she took her Jounin instructor duties seriously. She couldn't refuse a student asking for some last minute training, especially on the even of the Chuunin exams. The woman declared they'd find a nice secluded spot for their training, so as not to be interrupted. After a while searching, they came near to the place where Jin-Ryu had first met Tenten the day prior.<br/><br/>Underneath a bridge overlooking a canal, with fairly gradual banks on each side. Shady, secluded, and even sound would be muffled by the stone above them and the flow of the water going downstream.<br/><br/>"So, I was going to teach you this before the exams but..." Tarui bobbed her head and shrugged, "Time kind of ran away from me."<br/><br/>His teacher was dark-skinned with long blonde hair down to her waist in the front and to her ankles behind her. To anyone unfamiliar with her fighting ability, all that hair might seem like a liability. Jin-Ryu knew it, the long sleeve over her left arm, and the whirling of her blades, all made for a splendid, dazzling display when she did fight. It made her movements hard to track.<br/><br/>"You already know how to channel elemental chakra through your wires, hmm?" She raised her bandaged hand up and then grasped her wrist with the other. Her eyes were half-closed, the exemplar of boredom as always, "Doing the same thing through your own body is much more difficult but... I think you can do it."<br/><br/>Electricity began to cackle and crack around her palm. It began to grow in intensity and brightness until she closed her fist, dissipating the elemental chakra, "Would that interest you, Foxeyes?"<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Hanabi was happy to indulge her always sociable protege. She started the day off with a banana breakfast smoothie, even getting some of it on her upper lip as they were leaving the soft serve restaurant. An unusual place to eat breakfast, but Hanabi had her tastes... She still didn't seem to notice the residue over her mouth as she said, "So! Are you having fun in the village, meeting all these new people?"<br/><br/>She elbowed the younger woman, "I heard you were putting on quite the show yesterday with a certain Jounin from Kumo."<br/><br/>The Jounin went into an elaborate diatribe with a sing-song voice, "Oh, Hanabi, do you know what your student was doing? Hyuuga-San, it was shameful! Did you<em>tell</em>her to do that?"<br/><br/>Then suddenly she went quiet, leaning in close to Azuki with her eyes half-closed almost seductively with a cat-like smile, "Did you get her number?"