Enter! Josephine Yukikaze!

"Well you sure were strong. But you did lose, so the Ryo stays with me. Training however, begins first thing tomorrow morning." He could tell she was exhausted and picked her up carrying her towards her home. "You were fantastic for a chuunin. I'm very impressed."

She smiled. "I know you're impressed. I'm not the Two Faced Demon for nothing" she yawned, "tomorrow morning? thats so..." her sentence was cut short by another yawn, and she fell asleep as he was carrying her home.

He smiled. She would probably need a couple days to regain her strength. He walked in and into her bedroom laying her on her bed roll. He sat against the wall meditating throughout the night waiting for her to wake up. Sleep was not need for Zakku due to Shikaru unless he was drained of chakra.

Josephine moaned and woke up, stretching, greeted by Zakku. She squealed. "How.. what. What. Did you stay here? The whole day? I'm so sorry!"

Zakku opened his eyes smiling. "Dont worry about it. Although, a change in your clothes may be required. I did not want to undress you myself." He stood and walked out of the room and sat next to the door still meditating. He pondered to himself. Her skill, was very powerful, even if he had his hands, he would have had trouble defeating her. Her weakness is how much chakra her creatures use. She would need to work on how much she uses to make them, or increasing the amount of chakra in her body. Both possible.

Josephine changed her clothing in the other bedroom and walked out, "training today. So what are we going to do?" she asked , massaging her wrists.

"First, we must complete the most important action of a Sanin's day..." He stood up and led her outside and through the city. "Your jutsu" Zakku said as they walked. "Very impressive, but your chakra capacity isnt high enough to commit to those jutsu. So untill then your ice monsters and blizzard jutsu's are forbidden"

She was shocked, "wh-what? My creatures? But they're my ... " she sighed. "Understood."
"What else am I supposed to do?" she asked

"For now we shall work on meditation... but first.." He turned into a ramen shop. "Two ramen bowls please, whatever your special is." Zakku smiled and put 50 ryo on the bar. "Keep the change." He came back with two bowls and Zakku began eating his ramen.

Josephine eye's beamed, "ramen?! I love ramen!" She said, "wow, thank you"
She began eating the ramen with haste, eager to start her training

He smiled eating slowly and enjoying his meal ordering another bowl for Josephine. It was funny how much she reminded him of Kazuki. He chuckled and continued enjoying his ramen. She also seemed eager to train, but he wondered how long before she realized he said they would start with meditation. It didnt matter, she would realize soon enough.

Josephine started to devour her ramen, "oh man, it's been so long since I had ramen" She smiled, "what cool training are we going to do? can you teach me how to summon?!" she giggled

"All in due time Josephine." He ruffled her hair a bit. Such a positive kid, all ready to do everything. "Finish up your Ramen and then we can go." Zakku lifted his bowl finishing the last bit. He Smiled and turned around leaning against the counter.

She beamed, "finishing ramen is no problem!" she said as she ate the last bit of noodle.
"Now," she said wiping her mouth with a napkin, "training time?" she hopped on one foot to another

He laughed and as they walked out a few kids came up to them both. All looked filthy and smelled awful. They began asking for spare change. Zakku smiled and reached into his bag pulling out 1000 ryo. "Split it evenly kids." They all smiled and ran off with their small fortune. Zakku chuckled. "A good Sanin, gives more than they take." He walked with Josephine tot he lake and sat down. "Are you ready for your first day of training?" He pointed in front of him. "Sit down."

Josephine, amazed by the Sannin's generosity, stared at the kids who ran off and then looked at the man who gave the children the money.
She sat down, and waited. "Now what?" she asked, slightly disappointed

"Close your eyes. Hear the breeze and smell the water from the lake. Feel the earth beneath you, and the heat from the Sun. Clear your mind and heart. Meditate and focus on centering your chakra..." Zakku closed his eyes breathing so slowly it was hard to tell if he was breathing at all.

Josephine tried to make herself comfortable, "okay.." she closed her eyes and focused her energy on her senses. She felt the hot heat on her back, the sound of the river, and birds. She felt the soft tickle on her skin as dust whirled past her .
She felt at peace, calm and relaxed.

But being such an energetic child she couldn't concentrate for a long amount of time, she broke out of her trance. "This is harder than I thought"

"This is the first thing i must teach you..." He smiled opening one eye. "Patience.. Now close your eyes and remain still meditating. Breathing slowly he returned to his trance. He felt the nature energy going slowly into him as he focussed and then released it again. It seemed as if nothing happened, but his energy level had gone extremely high then back to normal.

She sighed and tried to meditate again, she knew this was mandatory to train further. "Okay..." she said as she took in a deep breath, then steadied her breathing.

Once again, she felt her senses tingling, she felt the wind in her red hair, felt the sun on her back, felt the dust whirl around her. As much as she wanted to break out of the state, she maintained her focus.

He peeked his eye open and smiled as she remained in focus. He remained still for the next few hours. He stood and looked at Josephine. "Alright thats enough meditating..."

"Did I do well?" she asked, becoming energetic again. "what now? do we get to train and be all awesomesauce and stuff?" she hopped up and down, she couldn't help it, she was energetic

"Lets burn off that energy with the basics.." Zakku put his swords down and took off his armor. He took his shirt and shoes off and stood there. "We'll start with Basic Taijutsu. No Enhancing Chakra." He looked at a stone and lifted it with one hand then threw it into the lake without breaking a sweat.

"Taijutsu?" she asked, surprised. "Sure thats not my forte but good enough, I guess I can try" she said to the shirt-less ninja. "where do I start?"

"Start with a Horse stance. Like so." He shifted his feet shoulder width apart and then his hands at his waist upside down clenched. "Then we will start with throwing punches repeatedly." Zakku began punching at the air switching hands every time. "1, 2, 1, 2...."