Not The Worst Birthday

                                    

                                          
The second part of Jona Ryokou's assessment consisted of them discussing what types of Jutsu they knew and their strongest ones to gage their current maximum.
It was no surprise that Kenta was mostly skilled in shrunken and fire release, while Yumi was good with kunai and very skilled in the gentle fist style of his clan. This was on top of their basic handle of their kekkei genkais. 
Shota showed his affinity for lightning release and his profound progress on the mystical palm technique which he had only learnt about a year ago. He caught a rabbit and used it to show the fast and skilled healing he could now do on cuts. 
He also summoned some of the cats and explained what they could do. He made sure that Jona was far enough away before doing so, the Jonin staring at the cats in a depressed manner as she couldn't pet them.
After this they talked about what they wished to learn and develop. 
The other two both wanted to progress the skills they already had. Yumi wanted to add some more physical weapons to his fighting style, and Kenta stated his desire to try some genjutsus. 
Shota spoke of their plan to get some basics of genjutsu and begin learning multiple taijutsu techniques, as they only had their unique own fighting style at the moment. 
"Well it's lucky you guys got paired with me then!" Jona cheered placing her hands on her hips. "I happen to be a jack of all trades with Taijutsu being my specialty."
She began to walk back towards the village while gesturing them to follow her. "I got some D ranks lined up for us to do some developing on our teamwork. Training will begin at eight every morning at our training ground and after lunch we will do D rank missions. You get Sunday off. There will be consequences for tardiness in the morning, but even bigger ones for skipping breakfast to make it on time. You've been warned." 
She had a sadistic glimmer in her eyes while she spoke. 
The soon found out in the next couple weeks what she meant by consequences. Being late meant having to do a hundred of any workout move she thought of that day. Skipping a meal meant eating, resting for thirty minutes, then doing a hundred laps of the entire training ground at full speed till you dropped, with additional weights on of course.
The first couple weeks of their training went fairly smoothly aside from that. 
They worked somewhat well together in the D rank missions, and each were begining to see developments in their chosen skills they wanted to progress.
Soon Shota's fifth birthday arrived. Team 7 chose that day to kidnapped him. 
Shota's dad and the ANBU team were still on their most recent mission. It had been a month since they'd left. The cats had been taking care of Shota in the mean time making sure he got up and ate in the morning before training. He had progressed very well in learning the basics of Taijutsu.
He was so concentrated on sparring with Jona-sensei in their training area that he didn't notice a familiar spiky haired Uchiha until he was tacked to the ground. 
"SHOOOTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" 
Obito knocked Shota to the ground right before he was about to try and hit Jona-sensei. Shota looked up to see the rest of Team 7 walking into the training area. 
Kakashi and Rin stood in the tree line.
"COME ON!!" Shota was picked up by Obito as he ran back to the group. Team 8 paused for a bit in confusion before yelling at the Uchiha. 
"OI GIVE US BACK SHOTA! WE'RE TRAINING!" Yumi yelled loudly and ran after them, followed by Kenta.
Jona stared at their retreating figures with dotted eyes. "They're a bit early..." she muttered before smiling and jogging after them.