Hinata, not wanting to intrude, activated her Byakugan, and observed the shinobi training. It was none other than her new teammate, Shino Aburame, and, observing his taijutsu, the timid kunoichi was very impressed. Shino attacked the dummies the same way a fly sped through the air. He was everywhere at once, his hands moving almost too quickly for even Hinata's Byakugan to see. striking one dummy, he spun to the side, striking another, whilst stopping the first from moving with his foot. Shino continued spinning, striking dummy after dummy, and not a single one moved, no matter how hard he hit them. He continued attacking without any particular pattern. A fifth dummy appeared from nowhere, and Shino continued attacking, still not an inch of motion from the dummies. The attack continued, until abruptly, the shinobi stopped. He straightened himself, and looked to the right. "You can come out, Hinata. You wanted to train, didn't you?"
"Uh, yes." Hinata moved around a dummy to look at Shino directly. He was soaked with sweat: apparently he had been at this for a while. She raised her hands in front of her chest, and pressed the tips of her index fingers together. "I... I didn't mean to interrupt you, Shino. Please, continue."
Shino stood in stony silence for a moment. He stepped out from the circle of dummies, and the fifth disintegrated to the ground in a writhing black mass. "I would rather see you try." He stepped back further, staring at Hinata, seemingly without emotion. Hinata felt uncomfortable with Shino standing there, staring like a painting of a creepy clown. He was completely motionless, just staring at Hinata.
The timid kunoichi gathered her courage, and gave it a try. She let out a cry, as she initiated her first attack, which landed on the shoulder of a dummy, it moved almost a half an inch before Hinata hit the other side. She meant to stop it from moving, but the power behind the second attack was too great, and it spun rapidly into Hinata's back.
Shino, without a sound, stepped back into the ring of training dummies. Hinata took her cue to step back and watch. His first attack was the same as Hinata's, a diagonal chop to the meat of the shoulder, sending the dummy spinning slowly. Shino allowed his chop to slide down the dumies body, lifting himself up on the same hand he had hit it with in less than a second. Stopping the dummy from moving hardly anywhere with his foot, he lowered himself by straightening his wrist, kicking another dummy in the arm, which he promptly blocked with his own arm as it fell. Once he was back on his feet, he spun on his heels, attacking three of them low to the ground, which would have sent their feet spinning, had his twirl not ended up in a cartwheel, alowing them to stop their spinning before it started with two arms, which were planted on the ground, and a leg. Shino followed this up by launching himself from the ground by a few inches, hitting all four dummies in a spinning kick, placing perfect shots on all four to stop their movement instantly, though seperately. "They test the mind, not the body."
"What?" Hinata was still awed at Shino's performance. That was all she could say at the time.
"As you attack your target, you need to think about your next move. Use the dummies the same way. Thinking about how to counter their motions you trigger will help you predict and counter your opponent's."
"O-oh." Hinata watched as the shinobi sat down and allowed himself to rest a moment. judging by the sweat that covered his body, and his perfection in using those dummies, he must have been training with them for hours. Hinata tried again with the dummies, this time moving more slowly, to allow herself time to think. She let the dummies move much more than she should have, but slowly, she was picking up speed. Soon she would be able to exceed at them.
Shino watched the young kunoichi for an hour, with interest. She had to have been struck by the dummies at least twenty times in the time he watched her, but she kept trying. It didn't show through his covered face, but he was impressed with his teammate. She was learning quickly. Shino knew nothing of his two teammates before they had been set up together, and now they had to work together flawlessly. Shino observed Hinata further, and was further impressed as she took her jacket off, though for different reasons. The coat Hinata wore was so large and well-stuffed, he had no ideas she had such pleasing curves. Admittedly, the kunoichi's movements, never-wavering determination, and beautiful bosdy aroused him, but Shino knew better than to do anything. It mattered not that there teammate was good looking, only that she was strong. allowing himself to be distracted would only hinder them. Therefore, he continued to watch, and study her fighting style, rather than her body.
The last hours of the day were spent with an exhausted Shino and Hinata laying on the ground, trying desperately to allow their breaths to catch up with them. They had been training for almost six hours at that point, first on the dummies, then on each other, getting a feel for their teammate's strengths and weaknesses, their styles and techniques. Both of them were to tired to move come sunset, and Shino walked Hinata home at dark. Hinata, at first, wondered why Shino would do this, if maybe he had some alterior motive, but the white0clad ninja was silent the whole way. Despite getting to know him to day, he was still a complete... mystery.