[His first thought is those elves from Christmas. He gives Masaomi a doubtful look - trying to imagine those kind of elves having the muscle strength for something like that is silly - but he's long grown used to this attitude coming from his friend.

Because it's been a month now, hasn't it? To some degree or another.

He doesn't feed into it, playing teacher like he is. Instead he shakes his head and moves to walk around the log and stand on the opposite side.]

I've had you reading up on the general ninjutsu skills. [Most of which will have to be assumed ooc, since there's not a lot of hard data on those besides what I'll make up/put in the chakra guide later.] Today we're going to start putting some of that knowledge to practice.