While Fujin was meditating, Tsume walked up to the 2nd floor with her ninja dog while muttering, "Since one team came so early, I expected the others to come in soon too. But this is too boring. Proctoring is boring! Luckily there are a lot of training rooms here."
The training rooms here were made for the instructors who'd be bored waiting for the genins to reach the tower. In a way, these training rooms were their reward or payment.
Tsume went into the same Dodging Practice Training room as Fujin had earlier. On opening, she was shocked! 'Why are the weapons littered all on the ground?' She checked some of the mechanisms and noticed that there were no weapons in them.
She got out of the room and yelled, "TOSHIYUKI! GET HERE!" The shout was loud enough to be heard throughout the tower, except in the training rooms. The chunin named Toshiyuki, who was in charge of maintaining the training rooms, immediately went to her and asked, "What happened, Tsume-sama?"
Her mood got even worse. She yelled at him, "You didn't do your job of cleaning and refilling the training rooms, and you have the courage to ask me what happened?"
He was shocked. But he maintained his composure and replied in a neutral tone, "Tsume-sama, I cleaned and refilled all the training rooms last night." However, his face displayed slight anger at being wrongly accused. Tsume noticed it.
She asked, "Really? Say that after you check this room." She pointed towards the training room.
He entered it and was shocked to see that all 100 attempts were used up. He quickly said, "Ma'am, I refilled the mechanisms here last night. I did it for both the dodging rooms. So someone must have used it all."
Tsume calmed down and asked, "Someone used all 100 attempts? Who all have been training here?" He replied, "How can I know that?"
She snorted and looked at Kuromaru. Kuromaru said, "Let's check." Both she and Kuromaru began smelling the room. Soon Kuromaru said, "Here" and moved towards the wooden weapons and grabbed a kunai, and handed it to Tsume. Tsume smelled it and realized, "This smells like that civilian brat from Renjiro's squad." Kuromaru also confirmed it, "Yes."
She looked at the chunin and asked, "Were those 3 genins told about the training rooms?"
The chunin nodded, "Yes. Takeshi said that they were asking a lot of questions and he told them to spend their time in the training room." She replied, "Oh!"
She looked at Kuromaru again, who was smelling all the weapons. He looked back at her and replied, "Many weapons have scents, but all belong to the same kid. No one else was here." She said, "So that brat was the only one here? And he used all 100 rounds? It's unbelievable!"
She looked at Toshiyuki and asked, "Are you aware of what those brats have been doing in the tower?"
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He shook his head and replied, "No one kept an eye on them. But from what I heard from others, two of them came down for lunch and breakfast and returned to training rooms soon after. And one didn't come for lunch and came an hour late for breakfast. He too immediately returned to the 2nd floor."
Tsume was surprised, "Seriously? They are merely 10 year old brats and have trained all day? No wonder they managed to clear the exam so quickly."
She then sighed and complained, "My son, on the other hand, plays all day and never trains. And though my daughter is serious and loves studying, she too would never train so willingly. She too became a genin this year, but her sensei didn't even enroll her team for the Chunin exam."
Toshiyuki kept listening to her while trying to maintain a straight face, 'First, she yells at me wrongly. Then she complains about her kids in front of me! No wonder her husband ran away!'
Tsume looked at him and said, "You can go. I'll train in the other room." He left as quickly as he could. Tsume walked towards the room while thinking about how she could lecture Kiba to train harder.
On entering the training room, Tsume, just like Fujin, turned the lever to 100% and pressed the button. She and Kuromaru both begin dodging. Occasionally, she deflects weapons that were about to hit Kuromaru.
After the 1st attempt, Tsume looked at Kuromaru and said, "I was hit 6 times." Kuromaru replied, "8 times for me." Tsume added, "And I deflect 3 weapons that were about to hit you." Kuromaru said, "We seem to have slacked off."
She patted his head and said, "Last time, we were able to dodge everything perfectly once every 11 attempts. Let's try to improve it this time. And since that brat did all 100 attempts, it'll be embarrassing if we can't do it too."
Kuromaru barked loudly in response and said, "Let's do it!" Both Tsume and Kuromaru trained in that room until they completed all hundred rounds.
Till the 22nd round, they didn't manage to dodge all the weapons. There were instances when either Tsume or Kuromaru dodged all, but not in the same round.
On the 23rd round, they both managed to dodge all weapons for the first time.
In the 100 rounds, they managed to dodge everything perfectly 11 times.
Tsume left the training room feeling proud and told Kuromaru, "Let's increase it to 15 times tomorrow."
It was 10 PM by the time they were done. The chunins in the tower were very surprised when they didn't see Tsume during the dinner. After hearing the story from Toshiyuki, they realized that she too decided to complete 100 rounds.
After entering the dining room, she found that it was empty. She began preparing her dinner and called for a chunin. When he arrived, she asked, "Any update for today?"
He replied, "Nothing of importance. No other teams passed yet. No unusual activities have been reported either in the forest or the tower." Tsume nodded and asked, "What about the ones who passed? What have they been doing?"
The chunin replied, "All 3 came down for dinner. After dinner, Uchiha Mieko and Hyuga Hoka explored the tower for a bit before going into their rooms. Suzuki Fujin was seen heading back to the 2nd floor. We checked a few mins ago, the Wind training room is still occupied."
She was surprised once again. However, soon she just sighed and muttered, "Seems like he is a training maniac. Let him keep training."
Forest of Death -
Not much fighting happened in the forest of death. Among the Kiri genins, Kohaku was very injured, and others too had a lot of cuts. They chose to apply first aid and waited till the wounds closed up and didn't cause any pain. The Nara-Yamanaka-Akimichi team also stayed hidden.
The Hyuga team found the team from Suna. However, their fight was inconclusive as Suna genins kept attacking from a range. They both ended up retreating.
The team from Ame clashed with the last Konoha team. They lost but managed to retreat. So except for the Nara-Yamanaka-Akimichi team, all others had their scrolls.