No wonder she was nervous. Without chakra to strengthen her blows, Tsume had enough force to maybe wind a chuunin--if they were a bad chuunin. Raidou took the strike on his solar-plexus with a quiet grunt, letting tensed muscle absorb the damage, and decided this really wasn't going to work. Tsume knew how to kill with chakra, but she'd apparently never learned to do without.

Well, never too late to pick up a new lesson.

He caught her next kick against the palm of his hand, and wrapped his fingers around the arch of her foot. One careful tug was enough to pull her off balance; his other hand blocked her instinctive return punch, and trapped her wrist.

"I'm thinking," said Raidou, "that a spar might not be what you need. Do you know when they're putting you back on missions?"