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For this prompt: "Training from hell. But something that doesn't involve Gai or Lee."

His genin team have been rushed through the academy; there is a war on and they need more shinobi. They will be dead within the year. They work hard but it's not enough, they are eight, eight, and nine. Two taijutsu specialists, but the boy is more sturdily built than the girl. More powerfully built and he relies on this power in battle. He will be the first to die.

He aims a hard strike at Takao's left shoulder, the boy jumps away and looks up at him with shocked, hurt eyes. Nine, ten is two months away, he'll never make it. The boy aims a hit at him and he allows it to connect just to feel the strength behind it. He relies on strength but the enemy shinobi will be bigger and stronger.
He strikes the boy across the face open-handed.
"Dodge."
The boy is too slow.

The next day he turns his attention to the girls: Sasame and Sora. Sasame is brilliant at genjutsu, she might have a chance, a slim one, but a chance. Yesterday he made her run up and down trees. Today he spars with her one on one, he hits her until her teammates are screaming at him to stop. She has the best chance. When he goes home that night, he hates himself for what he is planning.

One month isn't long enough to change Takao completely, he can't correct Sora's sloppy taijutsu style, but it is long enough for this.


Sasame hits the tree again and goes down with a pained cry. It's been two weeks of pain, of him swearing her to silence and telling her not to get her wounds healed. It has been two weeks and pinned to a tree by her neck, his kunai at her throat and she thinks he's going to kill her.

Then the world sharpens and he lets her fall. The girl has her sharingan. He teaches her after that, forcing her to train for hours upon hours, he screams at her, hits her. She's terrified, but he still pushes her just a little further than she can go.

With her sharingan she can pick up jutsus faster, he forces her to increase her chakra reserves by forcing her through exercises until she vomits. At the end of the month his students are shipped off to war with another team, he is needed to defend the village.

Sasame returns unharmed (physically), she stands at the memorial and hates him and blames him. She lives, the only one of his team who does. The shinobi start to avoid him, he abused one student repeatedly, one a single time and sent two of them off with very little training, those two both died.

They don't care that she was the only one in her year to survive. He isn't invited to her wedding, but years later she bows her head to him in a shop, she understands now, she hates him for it. She knows that she was the chosen one and if she hadn't been there, maybe the others would have had a better chance.

A/N: not sure if it's what you wanted, but it's gone midnight.