Team 10 reported to their training field on time and preformed the morning exercises just as Fuka said they would yesterday. After a quick lunch, the team headed to the Hokage Tower to get their first mission. There was energy about Team 10 as they headed for the tower. Most of the energy was coming from Kiba and Akamaru who were pumped to be doing ninja missions for real instead of playing ninja with their friends. Sakura was more reserved as she walked, but there was a slight bounce in her step and a smile on her face. She was just as excited as Kiba, she just could keep it quiet better. Fuka and Naruto had knowing smirks that they shared with each other and not with their teammates.
Once Team 10 got to the Hokage Tower, Fuka led them down a hall to the mission assignment room. This was the room where regular missions that were free for anyone to grab either individually or as custom group were given. Missions where the client had specifically asked and paid a premium a particular team were handled by someone in the next room over who would send out messengers for the team in question. Missions requiring a preselected team were typically high ranking missions and handled by the Hokage in his office.
Both Sakura and Kiba were surprised to Hiruzen sitting at the main table handing out missions alongside several of the administrative chunin. Fuka wasn't surprised since she was used to the Hokage coming down from his office to man that post the first week after genin graduations. Naruto knew that it was a tradition that was started in the middle of his great-grandfather Tobirama's reign. During the Shodai's and the first part of the Nidaime's rule the administration of Konoha had been done in a smaller building known as the Hokage's Hall. That building had been a large open area with a small half wall semi-enclosed area for the Hokage to work in so everyone could see and interact with the Hokage at any time. The administration of Konoha grew rapidly back then as the concept of shinobi villages strengthened causing more shinobi clans and civilians seeking training in the Land of Fire to join Konoha.
Once the Hokage Hall was too small to handle everything the Hokage Tower was built resulting in the need to have a separate office for the Hokage. Tobirama had wanted to keep a similar design to his brother's Hokage Hall. However, it just wasn't practical to keep the same layout due to information security concerns and ease of movement. Tobirama didn't want to become isolated from his ninjas so he started coming down to personally assign missions for the week that the new genin graduated. It let him get to know the new shinobi and keep a benevolent eye on the more senior members of the shinobi force that were too low to regularly interact with him. Hiruzen and Minato had also adopted this practice during their times as Hokage.
Hiruzen smiled at Team 10 as they made their way to him. He then said in his usual tone. "Good afternoon Team 10. I was wondering when you would be here for your first mission. I have three possible missions that I think would be a good fit for you. Jonin Asakawa, the choice of mission is up to you. Your team can either watch over Mrs. Chiba's daughter for an estimated period of 5 hours, clean the park grounds at the foot of the Hokage Monument, or compete a mail run for a sick postman. What is your choice?"
Both Sakura and Kiba stared in shock when they heard the Hokage mention the missions available for their team. Neither of them noticed the very faint click of a camera going off from one of the chunin assistants who took these photos for the Jonin sensei's future scrap books. Kiba started to sputter in shock. "Is this a-"
Kiba's sentence was cut off by Sakura's foot stomping on his own. Sakura then harshly whispered to Kiba, "Don't question the Hokage." Inside her head, Inner Sakura had already completed Kiba's sentence with half a dozen insults thrown in for good measure.
This rather expected by play was politely ignored by all of the other ninjas in the room. Practically all new genins were shocked when they discovered what D rank missions were like. The Ninja Academy technically informed the academy students what D rank missions were by using D rank mission reports to demonstrate how to write mission reports. However, the students thought that reports on catching a cat or cleaning a hotel came from their instructors' imaginations to demonstrate how to write the reports. The regular students never knew that they were looking at actual mission reports from the previous decade.
Fuka quickly made up her mind. "I'll take the mission to clean park grounds." Hiruzen quickly made some notes on the assignment paperwork and then handed Fuka a small laminated card with the mission details. Since this was a semi-regular mission, it had a prepared reusable card instead of a scroll to hold the mission details. She looked over the mission details and nodded her head. The jonin then said, "Alright Team 10. Follow me to collect the cleaning supplies. They're stored in a shed near the park."
Team 10 followed Fuka out of the Hokage Tower in silence. Once outside the tower Kiba's self-restraint ended. "This sucks ass! What the hell kind of mission is this? We're ninjas for the Rikudo's sake and not gardeners."
Sakura piped in. "Sensei, isn't this mission a little below our abilities?" There was a slight frustration in Sakura's voice that she wasn't able to hide.
Naruto let out a chuckle and shook his head slightly. "Guys, this mission is at our abilities. We're raw rookies whose only accomplishment is proving that we able to do well enough not to end up in the Ashigaru. Not that there is anything wrong with the Ashigaru, but for shinobi that's not really an accomplishment. If we want to get a shot at the good missions we need to prove that we can accomplish a steady string of D rank missions without messing up. What client is going to trust you to guard a merchant shipment across country if you can't even deliver some groceries in town?"
Fuka nodded her head and then explained what Naruto had just said in more detail. "Trust in your competency is part of the reason why new genins are mainly given D rank missions. However, there is more to D Rank missions for you three than just proving your reliability. It offer you a chance to practice some of the basic aspects of being a ninja in the field such as teamwork, situational awareness, and observation to name a few in a real life setting with minimal risk. D Rank missions serve a PR role to bring the Konoha ninjas closer to the civilians. Mainly this is within Konoha's Han, but it also helps to keep tensions from forming with the lords and civilians of the surrounding Hans as well."
The jonin paused for moment and her face got a faraway look for a split second. She then continued on in a slightly somber mood. "There is one more aspect to the D Rank missions and it is not something that most shinobi think about until it is necessary even though it is extremely important. D Rank missions give you the necessary skills to blend in as civilians for a short time. Whether it is for collecting information, getting close to a target, being a hidden guard, or lying low after part of a mission has put everyone on high alert the ability to blend in can save your life. Most people don't think about the gardener unless he messes up the lawn. To nobles, the help is invisible and thus a perfect place for either an assassin or a guard to hide. You don't have to do the job perfectly. However, the ability to do various civilian 'chores' is very important. That's one of big reasons why the Shodai created D Rank missions."
This quick tag team lecture calmed Sakura and Kiba's tempers over getting stuck cleaning up a park. They were still sore about everything, but they could accept it. Naruto didn't make any further comments about the duo's reactions. He had known for years about the truth about D rank missions and rookie genin teams' place on the mission totem pole. If it wasn't for Aima Sophia, Naruto was sure that he would be protesting just a vocally if not more than Kiba had.
Team 10 completed the mission and wrote the appropriate after mission reports four hours after they arrived at the park. Fuka collected her students' reports to add to her own report. She gave them a look over to make sure that there wasn't anything wrong or missing from the reports. These might only be one page standard D rank mission reports, but they were her students' first official mission report and they would be going into the official records of the village. Kiba's report was good, but his handwriting was really poor. This was a minor irritant as there were Jonins with worse handwriting. Sakura's report was crisp with wonderful handwriting. No doubt it would be up for consideration in a decade as an example for Academy students on how to write a mission report. Naruto's report read more like a jonin instructor's report without the training observations. This was probably due to his genetic memories of writing mission reports.
Once Fuka was done reviewing the reports, she turned to her students and spoke. "Good job you three on your first mission. This concludes our team activities for the day. If you wish to pursue independent training this evening you may. However, I want you three to remember that tomorrow is a full team training day so don't do any training today that will make it hard to do tomorrow's training. Sakura, I want to speak to you in private before you leave today."
Sakura blinked her eyes and replied, "Yes Sensei." She then said her goodbyes to Naruto and Kiba. Kiba said that he was going to try and do some training at home. Naruto left stating that he wanted to start looking into an apartment to rent. As a genin Naruto was a legal adult which meant he had adult responsibilities such as finding a roof over his head. The orphanages were for children and he had 90 days after officially joining the shinobi force to find somewhere else to live.
Fuka waited for the boys to leave and then motioned for Sakura to sit down. The jonin sat down opposite of her student once Sakura was on the grass. Fuka smiled and said, "Sakura, you have a disadvantage compared to Naruto and Kiba. They have the support of their ninja clans to help them in independent study and you do not coming from a civilian clan. I am willing help you get around this disadvantage by offering you extra lessons once a week after a D rank mission. Do you accept this offer?"
A surprised look appeared on Sakura's face. She hadn't been expecting an offer like this at all. Sakura nodded her head slightly and said, "Thank you Fuka. I accept your offer. Do you want to start these extra lessons now?"
Fuka shook her head, "There will be no extra training of that type today Sakura. Today I want to give you a short lecture about being a kunoichi. There are some fundamental differences between shinobi and kunoichi that affect their training and their future abilities. One of these differences is the fact that all women's chakras have a natural Yin chakra emphasis whereas men's chakras have a natural Yang chakra emphasis. This difference in emphasis is why women typically have more natural talent at genjutsu than men who typically have more natural talent in ninjutsu. These natural leanings can be overcome through training as I am a ninjutsu specialist."
Sakura nodded her head acknowledging what Fuka had told her. She had seen brief mentions of Yin and Yang Chakra in the Academy library, but any details on that level of chakra theory was restricted to active duty ninjas. She then asked, "Is there anything else I need to know about Yin chakra?"
"Not at this time Sakura. The Yin and Yang chakra emphasis only becomes important in certain high level fuuinjutsu or very delicate medical procedures. I mentioned it mainly as an example to show that men and women are fundamentally different from each other. These differences have their own advantages and disadvantages making no gender superior to the other. Rather, men and women normally excel at different things. This seems obvious, but many people ignore these biological facts intentionally or unintentionally for a variety of reasons. One of the most common reasons you'll find in the shinobi forces is that shinobis will try to train kunoichis just like they would shinobis because that is the way they were trained. The issues this develops is handled by jonin or chunin kunoichis pulling genin kunoichis on to the side and offering some advice for the young ninja if their shinobi sensei is making this kind of error in their training. Do you understand?"
Sakura nodded her head and replied, "Yes Fuka." The pink haired genin frowned for a moment as a thought came to her. "Sensei, wouldn't Kiba and Naruto have to be given some pointers by more experienced shinobi to help them since they're shinobi learning from a kunoichi? I mean, if kunoichi have problems learning from shinobi than shouldn't shinobi also have problems learning from kunoichis?" Sakura didn't want to question Fuka's training methods since from what she could see they were very sound.
A small smile appeared on Fuka's face as she leaned over to gently brush a stray strand of hair away from Sakura. "I love that you're thinking things through logically Sakura. The ability to reason and draw rational deductions is a very important skill to have. Your conclusion was good for the facts you had, but you didn't have all of the facts. I, like most kunoichis, know how to train shinobis because I was taught that manner by my first jonin instructor. Also, Naruto has the memories of several very skilled shinobis to draw on so he will be able to point out any issues on the faint off chance I've forgotten something important."
The older kunoichi schooled her face back to a serene teaching look and continued her lecture. "Let us get back to the differences between kunoichis and shinobis. As you may know, kunoichis typically have greater chakra control and lesser chakra amounts than shinobis. The main source for kunoichi's greater chakra control and lesser chakra amounts rests in the female chakra circulatory system. Women have 36 more tenketsu than men; 24 of these tenketsu are in the uterus and 6 tenketsu are in each breast. These extra tenketsu are there to help a woman transfer her chakra into her child's chakra system while the child is still developing in her womb and during the first few weeks of a child's life. Very minute amounts of chakra are needed in a mother's milk to help a newborn's chakra system stay healthy. The time shrinks depending on how developed a child's chakra system is. There is a jutsu that kunoichis are taught when they are older that will let them lactate on command. Many kunoichis use this jutsu to act as wet nurses/bodyguards for infant nobles. There's also a common D rank mission for in village kunoichis to act as wet nurses for the orphanages here in Konoha."
"These extra tenketsu provide more control. However, the extra tenketsu comes with extra length in the chakra network in addition to the extra complexity of the tenketsu themselves and that's a problem when it comes to chakra reserves. One's chakra reserves medically speaking is the excess chakra in the chakra network beyond what is needed to keep the chakra network healthy. It's similar to the circulatory system, but there are no issues with 'high chakra pressure' or clogged chakra networks. When one's chakra reserves are too low, they start dipping into the chakra needed to maintain the chakra network which causes all sorts of problems with the various parts of the body. That's why chakra exhaustion is such a serious medical problem and can kill you if taken too far."
A lightbulb proverbially went off in Sakura's mind and she blurted out. "The extra length in the chakra network is why kunoichis have smaller reserves than shinobis! The extra length means more chakra is needed to maintain the network which is why they have less chakra to manipulate." She then blushed and bowed her head to Fuka. "I'm sorry for cutting you off sensei. That was completely out of line for me to do."
Fuka nodded her head and replied, "I accept your apology this time Sakura. However, I do request that you try not to make a habit out of interrupting me. But you are correct; the extra length and complexity in the female chakra network is a major factor in women's typically smaller chakra reserves. Another major factor is that women are typically slightly smaller than men meaning that they typically have less total physical energy to generate chakra with. Combine these two factors and you get the smaller reserves women are known for having."
The jonin then stood up and offered a hand to Sakura while saying, "Why don't we head to your house now Sakura? This has been enough information to dump on you today. In our next private lesson I'll teach you how to work around the natural limitations of the female chakra network to increase your chakra reserves while still keeping good chakra control. However, I think I should meet your parents and let them know about these extra lessons."
Sakura accepted Fuka's offered hand and got up. She then led her sensei through the streets of Konoha to the Haruno home which was in one of the upper scale merchant districts of the village. Sakura's father Kizashi Haruno greeted the student and sensei duo when Sakura rang the doorbell. The jovial man smiled at Sakura and cheerfully said as he embraced his daughter, "Welcome home my little blossom bud!"
A slight pink tint appeared on Sakura's face as she fought down her embarrassment at her sensei seeing her dad act like this. Sakura was saved from further embarrassment when her mother Mebuki Haruno came walking out to the kitchen and down the hallway to the front door. Mebuki called out, "Control yourself dear! Sakura isn't a little girl anymore."
Kizashi turned to look at his wife while still hugging Sakura. "It doesn't matter how old Sakura gets. She'll still be my sweet little blossom bud to me." Kizashi then turned to look at Fuka and said, "Hello there. Would you please introduce yourself? My name is Kizashi Haruno and this is my lovely wife Mebuki and my sweet daughter Sakura who I think you already know."
Fuka smiled and bowed her head politely. "It is wonderful to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Haruno. My name is Fuka Asakawa and I am your daughter's jonin sensei. I wanted to meet you so that you would know who was training your daughter. Also, I wanted to let you know that I've offered Sakura some extra lessons since her teammates have access to other means to improve their shinobi abilities."
Kizashi looked down at his daughter and then at Fuka. He bowed his head slightly and spoke in a grateful tone. "Thank you Ms. Asakawa. If you have anything that we need to know to help Sakura be a better kunoichi, than please let us know."
Kiba got to the neighborhood where the Inuzuka resided and quickly headed for their house. Kiba waved to several of his extended family members who were outside with their canine partners as he made his way to the house. Once inside, Kiba removed his sandals and put them in his spot on the shoe rack. He then walked over to a nearby board and moved a little picture of himself from the 'out at work' slot on the board to the 'at home' slot. The board was a little something his mother had created so that everyone could keep track of where they were. Tsume's marker was at 'out at work' while Hana's marker was on 'away on a mission'.
The sole Inuzuka male quickly grabbed a soda for himself and then tossed Akamaru a dog treat. Kiba cracked open the soda and took a satisfying gulp from the can. He then glanced at the calendar and confirmed that his sister wasn't expected back from her mission for three more days. His eyes left the calendar looking for something to do as he continued to down his soda. Part of Kiba wanted to do some extra training with Akamaru. However, his mother had been insistent that he not train in any of the Inuzuka jutsus without her supervision or the supervision of his sensei. He could try training with some regular jutsus, but those just weren't as cool as his family's jutsus.
Kiba crushed the soda can once it was empty and chucked it into the trash. The barely teenage boy then plopped himself onto the sofa and grabbed a hunting magazine to start reading. Akamaru quickly found a fresh rawhide and began to chew on it on the carpet next to the sofa where Kiba was lying. Once Kiba finished the first magazine he put it down and grabbed another from a nearby pile. This magazine was an outdoors magazine so it didn't have as many articles to interest Kiba. He grabbed a third magazine after he was done with the second one.
The front door opened just as Kiba was reaching for his fourth magazine and his mother came into the house. Tsume was annoyed from having to spend several hours in a meeting with several merchant guild representatives that the Inuzuka clan had significant dealings with. Tsume was never one to haggle with merchants and some of the representatives had been particularly quarrelsome.
The dog food merchant was particularly troublesome with his trying to get rid of the brand of dog food that the Inuzuka needed for their dogs in favor of a more popular brand. Who cared if the brand was popular or not? The Inuzuka insured that there was a decent demand for small scale production and the company made a respectable steady profit on the brand. Tsume had run the numbers and knew that at the price hikes that filth had been trying to pass off as necessary to maintain the brand that it would be cheaper for the Inuzuka to make their own dog food.
While Tsume was eventually able to get everything sorted out in her favor, the meeting had left her in a bad mood. Her mood only soured when Tsume made her way down the hallway and opened Kiba's bedroom door a crack to look inside. Kiba was jolted from the article he was reading about Tea Country by a feeling of dread. A second later Tsume growled out, "Kiba! Get your butt here now!"
Kiba rigidly sat up on the couch wondering what he had done to make his mother so mad. The young shinobi saw Akamaru scrambling out of the house from the corner of his eye. Akamaru was no fool, when mom's angry its every dog for himself. Kiba momentarily hung his head knowing that he was probably going to be grounded if Akamaru was acting like this. Kiba then piped up in a nervous tone that only a kid talking to his mother can use said, "I'm coming mom."
The young Inuzuka walked like a condemned man to where his mother was waiting with a frown on her face. Tsume opened Kiba's bedroom door revealing a disaster zone that only a young teenage boy could cause. "What did I tell you this morning over breakfast Kiba? Did I not specifically state that I wanted you to clean your room once you got done with your genin duties today?"
Kiba winced as the memory of the morning breakfast conversation came back to him. His mother had told him to clean up his room, but he had been too hyped about going on his first mission to really pay attention to that. Now he was going to get it. A nervous chuckle escaped Kiba's mouth as he tried to explain, "Yeah, about that. You see, I just spent the past couple of hours cleaning up a park and I just wanted to relax."
Tsume grabbed Kiba's ear and gave it a tiny twist. "It doesn't matter what your mission was or how bad your training might be Kiba. If I tell you that you need to do a chore then by all the kami you're going to do the chore and then relax. You're a genin now Kiba, not a little boy! That means you're legally an adult and its time you start acting like it. How can your commander trust you to accomplish a task on a mission by yourself when your own mother can't trust you to do a simple chore the same day she tells you to do it? Now get in there and start cleaning this room while I make dinner. If I don't see some honest effort in cleaning this room by the time dinner is ready then you won't be allowed to take a break for dinner."
Kiba's eyes widened and he blurted out, "But mom I'm getting hungry!"
There wasn't any give in Tsume's eyes as she restated her position. "Then I better see some progress on getting this room clean by the time I'm done making dinner if you want a warm dinner. However, if you spend your time farting around doing nothing than your dinner can wait at the table for you to get your act in gear and complete this chore. Don't expect any sympathy from me just because you're hungry son. If you were on a mission outside the village there would be no guarantee that you'd get three square meals a day let alone hot meals. I've had more missions that I care to count where I've gone all day without getting so much as an energy bar and several of those were when I was your age. Now get your rear in gear and clean this room."
Tsume then walked down the hall to the kitchen while Kiba scrambled to start cleaning his toxic waste dump of a room. As she walked, a small tired smile appeared on Tsume's face as she thought about her son. She loved him dearly, but the boy needed to grow up some more and grow up quick. All too soon Kiba would be going on missions outside of Konoha and risking his life. Any carelessness could kill him and Tsume would rather jump into Naraka than have to bury Kiba because she give him all the training and discipline he needed to live.
Naruto returned to the Shinobi Orphan's Care Complex for the first step in his apartment hunting process. All new genin at the complex were given a personal lecture and help on finding an apartment. The Shodai had set this up knowing that while a genin might legally be an adult, they wouldn't necessarily have all of the knowledge needed to make an adult decision. Naruto made his way to the administrative section of the complex and followed the signs set up to lead the genins to where they could have their lecture.
The signs lead to three offices with two doors closed and one open signaling someone could go inside. Naruto entered the opened door to see a man in his mid-forties with dark black hair tied in a ponytail and a slightly feral appearance sitting behind a desk. The man stood up and said, "Please close the door and state your name."
After closing the door Naruto said, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki."
The man flipped through a list on his desk and then checked something. He then gave a slight bow and said, "It is a pleasure to meet you Naruto. My name is Koga Yoro of the law firm Koga, Ginta, and Hakkaku. My partners and I have come here to help you and your fellow graduates prepare to handle life as an adult in terms of personal finance and initial estate planning. Unlike your fellow genin from clans whether those clans be shinobi or civilian, orphan genins have the extra burden of managing their finances into a living. Your paycheck is your economic lifeblood and not a source of fun money like some of your more fortunate fellow genin may view it. Now, please sit down so I can explain how you can make the most of your paycheck."
Naruto sat down in the seat on his side of desk and then Koga sat down in his chair again. Koga then pulled out a piece of paper and put it on the desk so Naruto could see it. "This is an example of a standard paystub that you will be receiving next Friday and every two weeks afterwards as long as you are a shinobi of Konoha. Before we go any further, I want to make something completely clear that you. You are paid every two weeks and it is the net pay that will be deposited in your account. The gross pay represents the pay you've earned before factoring in taxes that you owe to Fire Country. Depending on how things go over the year, you might be able to reclaim some of the money taken out in taxes in a tax refund. However, no one can make any guarantee as to how big your tax refund might be or if you will even get a refund. For your day to day purposes, it is best to ignore your gross pay. Do you understand?"
The young shinobi nodded his head as he absorbed what he was being told. Koga didn't insist that Naruto take notes like he did with his other visitors because he knew that the boy would remember with his kekkei genkai. Koga then started to explain the parts of the paystub. "As a shinobi, your paycheck is mainly composed of base pay and mission pay. Base pay is the funds you receive from the Daimyo for being part of his military forces and is determined by your paygrade. As a fresh genin your paygrade is K1. Of the three military paygrades, the shinobi or K grade pays the least when compared to the Ashigaru's A grade or the Samurai's S grade. However, unlike the Ashigaru or the Samurai you also have mission pay which is determined by the number and rank of missions you preform."
"Now, in addition to your pay you may have various allowances added on to your pay. One allowance that you will receive is the Orphan Genin Allowance which is automatically issued to all orphans from families in good standing with Konoha. Full details on this allowance and its limitations will be given at a later point in this lecture. Other common allowances that you will likely have in the future is a clothing allowance for certain missions involving the upper nobility and a travel allowance when someone from far away purchases a mission from Konoha. These kinds of allowances are to help defray the personal cost needed to perform the mission."
Koga moved from the paystub to examples of basic bank checks and other common financial statements. After about twenty minutes of going over financial documents he moved on to explaining leases and how they worked for apartments. Koga also went over a brief explanation of things Naruto would need to look at with leases such as utilities. This part of the conversation went on until the meeting reached the 45 minute mark. At this point Koga said, "I know that we've covered a lot of material in a short amount of time. However, there are sources you can draw on to help you in preparing to get an apartment and manage your budget. In addition to various books in the library or bookstore, your Jonin sensei is supposed to help you with these matters as part of overseeing your development. You can also arrange a meeting with me or one of my partners to help set you up with an apartment. The first set of meetings to get you into your first apartment with my law firm is covered by Konoha as part of the Orphan Genin Program."
Naruto bowed his head and said, "That you for informing me about all of this Mr. Yoro. You've given me a lot to think about for the next few days. I will probably contact you in the future for your help in getting me an apartment." Naruto collected all of the information packets Koga had given him. The two of them bowed to each other again and then Naruto left the room leaving the door open for the next orphan.
Once out of his meeting, Naruto headed back to his room at the top of the complex and entered his mind to pull his ancestors memories relating finances and property. One of the first things Naruto pulled from his ancestral memories was that the law firm Koga, Ginta, and Hakkaku was the latest form of a line of partnerships that dated back to the Shodai's time. Minato and Kushina knew it back when the partnership was called Myoga, Miroku, and Koga. The law firm had a long history of working with the shinobi forces very well. In fact, the law firm's clients were almost exclusively shinobi.
Naruto was able to confirm that Koga's advice was very sound for a new genin after comparing what he had told him to what his ancestors knew for several hours in his mindscape. Naruto then left his mindscape and made some dinner. After having dinner and cleaning up the dishes, Naruto wrote down a few ingredients to his growing shopping list for his off day. Then he had to clean his bathroom before he was able to take an hour to relax. Soon enough, Naruto's self-appointed bedtime came and he tucked himself into bed.
Author's note: thank you TrenchcoatMan for catching the spelling mistake I let slip in my initial preview. Also, anyone is free to use my explanation on why kunoichis have better chakra control but less chakra reserves in their stories if they wish.