Tsunami was Tazuna's daughter's name. She was a very capable-looking woman, and although her brows showed a hint of fatigue from long-term worry, she still warmly welcomed Team 7.
After enjoying a delicious dinner with local sea fish as the main course, the group decided to rest early to conserve their energy.
Due to limited rooms, everyone spread out their sleeping bags in the spacious living room. The living room was quite large, more than enough for all of them.
However, as they prepared to sleep, Naruto noticed that Satsuki's gaze kept flicking towards the storage scroll by her pillow, as if it contained something extremely important that she needed to constantly confirm its presence.
The next morning, after a simple breakfast prepared by Tsunami, Tazuna went to the bridge construction site to continue his work.
Kakashi, considering that Zabuza Momochi had not been killed and that he now had an additional helper capable of using the rare Ice Release Bloodline Limit, realized the situation had become increasingly complex and dangerous.
To improve the team's overall response capabilities, he decided to immediately have the squad train.
He led the three to a relatively secluded and quiet clearing in the woods near the bridge. Then, he directly instructed Naruto and Satsuki, "You two can train on your own, consolidating and improving your existing abilities."
Next, he turned his full attention to Sakura, beginning to explain and demonstrate in detail the most basic Chakra control training—tree climbing.
It was now certain; Kakashi must have secretly observed Satsuki and his usual training.
Naruto saw Kakashi's trusting 'hands-off' approach to him and Satsuki and immediately understood why.
Otherwise, he would never have let them be.
Satsuki continued to focus on refining her Ninjutsu and shuriken throwing. In the forest, scorching fireballs and screeching, leaping lightning intertwined, accompanied by the clatter of shuriken and kunai accurately hitting distant targets.
Although Satsuki had indeed felt unprecedented fear yesterday when facing Zabuza's terrifying killing intent honed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, in reality, Satsuki's current true strength had long surpassed the level of an ordinary Chunin.
Not only had she awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan on the night of the clan's destruction, which many Jonin might not even be able to activate, but in the days that followed, she had also been personally taught by the former Uchiha Clan Leader, Uchiha Fugaku, who possessed extensive combat experience, and he had taught her everything he knew.
In terms of raw power and the level of Ninjutsu she had mastered, she had even reached the threshold of a Special Jonin.
The main reason she was intimidated by Zabuza's killing intent yesterday was the vast difference in practical combat experience and the number of life-or-death battles between them, like a chasm.
Zabuza was the "Demon of the Hidden Mist" who survived the Blood Mist Village policy, while Satsuki was still just a Genin who had just graduated and was encountering this level of killing intent for the first time.
As for Naruto, after completing a vigorous taijutsu warm-up, he did not continue to delve into the forbidden Ninjutsu in the scroll of seals.
Because even if he managed to learn [Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags] now, he didn't have enough explosive tags stored on him to support the technique.
Furthermore, using such a suicidal-level forbidden Ninjutsu against Zabuza would be making a mountain out of a molehill. Besides, Naruto didn't want to kill Zabuza and Haku; he was still hoping to recruit them into his [Ash] organization.
These complex forbidden Ninjutsu could wait until they returned to the Village, where there would be a safer environment and ample resources to properly research them.
At this moment, he was more inclined to develop a new combination Ninjutsu that was more suitable for the current situation, controllable in power, and more practical.
His concept was very clear. First, he would throw the system-produced giant steel shuriken, which was exceptionally tough, as a carrier. Then, he would immediately use Wind Release Ninjutsu to accelerate it and add cutting power, while Satsuki would simultaneously use Fire Release Ninjutsu to wrap it in scorching flames.
The ultimate goal was to form a destructive flying weapon simultaneously wrapped in violent wind blades and scorching flames!
He even wanted to try further if he could use [Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique] on this giant shuriken, enhanced by the compound Ninjutsu, after throwing it, making it multiply and form a destructive, area-of-effect strike!
It could be said that if this attack landed perfectly, any Ninja below Kage level would at least lose a layer of skin if not die!
Naruto had even thought of a name for this technique, which was still in its conceptual stage.
Wind Fire Release: Spinning Blade Burning Storm Infinite Shuriken Shadow Burial Zero Style!
After thinking of this name, Naruto himself felt a little embarrassed; he seemed a bit chuunibyou.
But when he asked Satsuki for her opinion, Satsuki just nodded slightly, "That's very good, the name has your style, Naruto." To her, any name Naruto chose seemed to be a good one.
A while later, Sakura returned. As in the original story, she showed extremely high talent in delicate Chakra control and quickly completed the tree climbing training perfectly.
After Kakashi-sensei approved her, he "sent" Sakura back, telling her to continue training with the others, while he himself went back to the bridge construction site to protect Tazuna.
Afterward, under Naruto's arrangement, Sakura began taijutsu training to enhance her physical fitness. In fact, back in Konoha, Naruto had originally planned to lend Sakura the set of weighted training gear he used, hoping to help her improve faster.
However, when Satsuki heard that the gear was "Naruto's used one," she almost immediately, without any hesitation, went and bought a brand new set of similar weighted gear and handed it directly to Sakura, her tone leaving no room for refusal, "Use this."
And Naruto's old set? Satsuki expressionlessly and naturally took it for her own use. Naruto looked at Satsuki's actions, feeling a bit bewildered.
The first day of bridge building passed without incident; no one attacked. Everyone returned to Tazuna's house after work and training… and then encountered an emo child who seemed to have been through a lot.