Anko's training of throwing weapons at Yusuke continued on for a few more days to make sure he remember all the common weapons' name and usage. When Anko was sure he remembered, she began teaching him how to actually use each weapon properly.

She began simply by showing him the ways to hold weapons according to the intention. "For example, you would hold a kunai like this when you want to stab someone," she explained, gesturing him to observe her grip. "Change it to something like this if you want to throw it," she said, changing her grip on the kunai as she spoke.

"I thought kunai are made for stabbing," Yusuke said.

"Yeah, but when you are desperate, you would use anything at hand," Anko answered. Yusuke nodded in understanding, remembering the time when he used spirit gun to blast him out of the water even though it was made to shoot people. She continued to explain a little more, then moving on to shuriken and explosive tag. Afterwards, she made him demonstrate the grip for the weapons and denote an explosive tag to show that he understood. The weapon grip was satisfactory, but it was the explosive tag that he has trouble with.

The speed explosive tags denote depends on how much chakra is infused with the paper. Just like how the more fire there is to lit up something, the faster it would burn, the more chakra the wielder put in, the faster it would denote. The problem with Yusuke was simply that he has absolutely no control over his chakra whatsoever, so when he put too much chakra, the explosive tags end up exploding in his face.

Yusuke hissed as the affects of the explosion begin to settle. He could feel his hand burning as though he placed them into boiling water, and his gelled hair was a messed. The worst part, however, was Anko's laugher.

"H-H," she laughed, trying to speak coherently, but failed miserably. She hardly cared though, as she was having the time of her life. Training Yusuke was fun, since she got to throw her weapons at a moving target, but this takes the cake. "T-This got to be the first time I've seen someone fail this badly. How much chakra did you put in it? I've never seen an explosive tag blow up in someone's face. The worst was when this rookie drop the kunai with the tag and it blew up at his feet. But this," she trailed off, taking in the look on Yusuke's face. She clutched her stomach and started laughing again.

"Oh, shut up, you crazy bitch," Yusuke growled when Anko continued on in her little world for a minute or so and showed no signs of stopping. He took a tentative glance at his hands. They were still red and throbbed like a bad sunburn, but his innate healing powers was at work. It would probably be all new by tomorrow night.

Anko finally stopped laughing, although her lips still twitched occasionally to a smirk. "C'mon, don't be a baby," she said. "How's your hands?"

Knowing he would probably say something along the line of fine (Guys, really), she didn't wait for a reply. Instead, Anko literally took them into her own hands and looked. She whistled. "That's some bad burn there," she observed, thumb sliding over one palm. Yusuke's eyebrow twitched, but there was no other reaction.

"Yeah? Tell me something I don't know," Yusuke replied, rolling his eyes as he tugged his hands back to his side. Anko narrowed her eyes at him for a second, debating whether or not to continue according to plan. Seeing that Yusuke did look exhausted though, plus the burn, she decided not to. She was a sadist, but even she knew where to draw the line.

"Don't get smart with me, Yusuke-chan," Anko said, watching as Yusuke's eyebrow twitch again, but made no move to respond. "Help me pick up the weapons." She gestured to the training ground floor. All too thankful that they are taking a break (being a moving target for around six hours each day does that to you), Yusuke didn't bother protesting. After storing the tools, Anko walked over to a sturdy looking tree.

"What are we doing?"

"Tree climbing," Anko answered, grinning at Yusuke's palpable confusion. "It's a way to gain better chakra control," she explained after she decided enough tension was built up. She nodded towards his hands. "So that doesn't happen again."

"Yeah? So what do I do?" he asked, never the one to sit still for long, injuries or no. Anko continued to smirk and chose to demonstrate. She walked up the tree vertically, not even needing to consciously measure the amount of chakra to use after years of practice. Reaching to one of the higher branches, she sat down and crossed her legs, then raised an eyebrow in challenge at Yusuke.

Yusuke, never the one to back down at anything, attempted to do the same. He had been watching and saw Anko put a layer of spirit energy (or chakra, as they call) at her feet. Doing the same, he ran up the trunk.

The only female present nodded in approval when she saw him focusing chakra at the sole of his feet. He's learning. She grinned when he went flying backwards after taking a step. Rolling to a stop, Yusuke fluidly stood and stared at the tree where a huge chunk of the bark was broken off. Still doesn't have the control though.

Yusuke tried again, only this time he was less impulsive, almost as if he was testing out something. Anko watched with great interest as he placed his foot against the trunk and was pushed off due to the excessive amount of chakra, only to repeat action again, but this time with less. He continued doing that for a while, correcting the amount of chakra as he went until he got the right amount. Then, with a glance in Anko's direction as if saying "Watch me," he walked up, all the way to Anko's branch without falling. Once or twice gravity seemed to try to take over, but he never followed the natural course, and this was no different. He threw a smirk at her as he took a seat on the branch next to her.

"Impressive. You do like going beyond expectations, don't you?"

Yusuke shrugged, but he didn't say anything; not about Genkai's training and certainly not about how it helped him. Genkai had trained him in several of way, all harsh one way or another. One included him having to balance himself up with only his finger on a needle to learn how to focus his energy. In order to not stab the needle through his finger when he balanced on top of it, Yusuke had to first find out the minimum of spirit energy needed in that finger to keep him balance. Then he had to keep the amount of energy constant for a total of twelve hours.

Yusuke simply changed it a little so the point he need to focus on was the soles of his feet. Figuring out the amount of energy was understandably harder, since unlike the needle where he simply need to throw out enough chakra to not get pierced, the tree climbing actually needed a specific amount of chakra, not more, not less. That took a while to get. Once he got it down however, the rest was easy, since he had practice of keeping energy level constant.

"Okays." Anko jumped off of the branch, landing on the soles of her feet. When Yusuke made a move to follow, she shook her head. "Not you, genius." She nodded at the tree trunk. "Walk down," she instructed.

The demon once again shrugged before walking down, Anko watching for any flaws to fix. "Well?" Yusuke asked as his feet hit the ground.

The lady grinned widely. "Not bad. You're a little wobbly and still have to watch the amount of chakra you put in, but nothing practice can't fix."

Anko watched Yusuke throw in her direction a cocky smirk and decided it need to be eliminated. With a fake hyped up voice, she said, "Now on to the next training!"

Yusuke stopped and stared at her like she was crazy, not that it was news but still... Yusuke coughed dramatically. "No break for me?" he asked, placing a hand on his left side as if heartbroken. He used the other to gesture to the tree where he was practicing like asking "Isn't this enough?"

"Sorry to say," Anko said cheerfully, ignoring Yusuke's snort. She was anything but sorry. "But…" she leaned forward as though sharing a secret. "You're outta luck."

"Well damn," Yusuke said standing up to his full height, not even realizing he leaned in along with Anko in the first place. She sure knew how to be suspenseful. "I knew you were the strict kind, but..." He clucked his tongue, shaking his head. Move his neck from side to side, just like he would when preparing for a fight, he eventually said, "Alright, lead the way."

The water surface walking training was considerably harder, because the amount of chakra that needs to be emitted changes constantly. Yusuke soon mastered that too, however, motivated by the scalding water beneath his foot should he ever misstep and fall in. He would remember this training every time he steps into a public bath, since he was practically a red lobster by the time he finally got it down. Man, the water was hot.

Of course, after mastering this chakra training method, he was forced to combine all his knowledge. These include using kunai and shuriken, the dreaded explosive tag, climbing up trees and water walking. Anko would be attacking and he would be expected to do the same if he still wanted to live. And so the battle commenced at the Konoha Hot Spring between not the pupil and instructor, but the equals. The end of the battle would be signified when one of them reach the training ground, or when one of them could no longer fight. It was truly an epic battle, one of the best in within Konoha actually (battles in the training ground doesn't count), although the main reason was because most people have more sense than to fight in the village, since they would have to repair all that was destroyed. Hiruzen, the Sandaime, was not amused by the bill. Well, he thought, trying to be positive. At least there wasn't a hospital one too."

Not that there weren't any injuries, of course, because believe me, there were plenty.