"I see you've taken my advice and are going all out, okay, let's get started," Tsunade said, looking mainly at Kushina.

Kushina looked to Tsunade like a wary cat. If it was an anime, a tail, and a pair of ears cats would appear.

Kushina's chains weren't as thick as Mito's. It was about the thickness of an adult thumb; maybe a little thicker. However, it was amazing enough to be able to manifest the chains at that age.

There were five chains dancing behind her and pointing forward, at her command, it could strike at any moment.

"Kushina."

Upon hearing Nawaki's voice, Kushina responded with a nasal hum and attacked with two chains from the sides.

However, Tsunade didn't try to deflect it, she seemed to want to know the extent of the power of Kushina's chains, so she created blue chakra around her hands.

*Bang! Bang!*

With crossed punches, Tsunade annulled the chains, making them go toward the water below her feet, she screamed: "It has power, but it's still not enough!"

Suddenly, Nawaki was already beside her, surrounded by lightning purple, he kicked toward Tsunade's waist.

Tsunade: "Substitution!"

With Tsunade's quick hand seal, Nawaki's lightning speed kick slammed into a tree trunk.

"Tsunade-sama, you entered my territory," Hikari said quietly.

Hikari: "Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"

Sliding into the water, Hikari appears before Tsunade, and with soft blows morefast, she lashes out with both hands toward Tsunade's chakra points located on her waist.

Hikari: "Eight Trigrams, Two Strikes!"

Tsunade seems to be able to keep up with Hikari's speed and with her hands, she defends herself by wrapping her hands in chakra.

Hikari doesn't give up and attacks again: "Eight Trigrams, Four Strikes!"

Although quick, Tsunade parried Hikari's razor-sharp fists, blocking and breaking the attack before it even hit her.

Hikari increases speed: "Eight Trigrams, Twelve Strikes!"

*Whoosh!*

The sounds of her blows cutting through the wind echo, and the speed was impressive.

Even more impressive, it was Tsunade who managed to accompany every move and stop the exact moment, nullifying all attacks.

Hikari: "Eight Trigrams, Twenty-Two Strikes!"

In a gap, Tsunade made a shadow clone, and the shadow clone created defended herself from Mikoto's blow that came from her left side.

Because of that, Tsunade was nearly hit in the chakra point on her left arm.

Hikari: "Eight Trigrams, Thirty-Three Strikes!"

Hikari continued to increase the speed of the blows, further increasing the difficulty.

*Whoosh!*

The wind-slashing sounds get scarier as the blows increase.

It was like the frightening sounds that echo when there is a gale.

Tsunade seems to show surprise, as Hikari's maximum limit so far has been fifty hits, however, she was already almost reaching that stage, but, she showed no sign of slowing down the blows.

Hikari: "Eight Trigrams, Fifty-Five Strikes!"

*Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!*

*Whoosh! Whoosh!*

The sounds of the two's exchange of blows continued to echo, while Mikoto was busy with Tsunade's shadow clone.

However, Tsunade suddenly frowned.

"Where is Nawaki?"

"I'm here, Sis~" Nawaki waves to her with the flag in her hand as she sits on the earth pillar created by Tsunade to keep the flag from being submerged in water.

"Is it over yet?" Kushina, who was about to attack using her chains, stopped when she got a few inches closer to Tsunade.

Pouting, Kushina undid the chains. She still had trouble controlling the currents, so it took her time to attack a second time.

While Mikoto, though she did a good job-fighting Tsunade's shadow clone, she wasn't able to land a decisive blow and help Hikari defeat Tsunade...

Well, that wasn't the goal from the beginning, so it was okay.

"As expected, Nawaki did a good work of taking advantage while I was distracted with the girls and stealing the flag," Tsunade said. Soon she stopped looking serious and smiled, "And you girls, good job at keeping me busy and even forgetting that I needed to stop the flag from being stolen."

Tsunade rubbed Hikari's head, "Especially you, Hikari, you've become strong. If it weren't for you, maybe they wouldn't be able to finish this so quickly."

"Hehe, I just did my best..." Hikari loved being praised but felt shy at the same time when everyone was looking at her.

"Good job Hikari." Kushina gave her a thumbs up.

"Yes, you did well." Mikoto walked over to her, and gently tapped her shoulder, and said with a gentle smile, "I didn't expect you to be able to use up to fifty-five strikes."

"Mhm, I was also surprised that I managed it, but, I was only able to because Tsunade-sama took it easy on me," Hikari said.

She was telling the truth, Tsunade was wanting to test how far she could go, and even if she had a chance to counterattack, she didn't, because if she did, she would go beyond the common jonin level and that wasn't the purpose of the test.

Nawaki walked over to her, and rubbed her head gently after Tsunade took her hand back, "Yes, it was mainly because of you that I managed to get the flag."

Hikari flinched from so much praise and Nawaki stroked her head, but at the same time, a smile burst like a cherry blossom in full bloom on her face.

Nawaki winked at Kushina and Mikoto.

The two girls could understand very well why Nawaki also chose to compliment Hikari and even rub her head. The fact that she continues to be shy even now could be a problem later on, so it's good to get her used to it.

"Well done, the test is over, now the five of us are officially a special team, Team 0!" Tsunade exclaimed with excitement in her voice.

"That's fantastic!" Nawaki and the girls cheered, even Hikari spoke a little louder than usual.

Everyone was genuinely happy about this achievement.

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