[X] Training Noburi: Star of the Show
[X] Training Noburi: I Will Be the Next Tsunade
It seems to me that these two training directions present two narrative paths for Noburi's character arc.
1) The Traditional Badass, Star of the Show:
Noburi has always been in the shadow of those "greater" than himself. In Mist, he was part of a clan that was/is looked upon as little more than "chakra batteries." One of the main reasons why Noburi bonded with Team Uplift was because, even during Hazou's baby-sociopathic phase, they never viewed him as a gateway to his bloodline. At the end of [one of] the Hazou-Ino Date chapters (I think it was the one where Hazou asked Ino to vote for Kei's Consort Bill), Hazou mentioned that this was the way that he'd planned Noburi to go for (boost up Water Dragon Bullet) and Noburi expressed gratitude that Hazou was helping Noburi become a badass jonin.
Now, I don't know what conversations had been going on with the hivemind at the time (I had only just joined, iirc) but the narrative momentum is there. This potential character arc has Noburi coming into his own and stealing the spotlight in the more "stereotypical" jonin-style.
2) His Found Path, The Next Tsunade
Noburi has expressed great pride in being a medic. It's not something he has due to his bloodline, it's not something he was handed. He had to
earn his medical prowess the hard way. He's expressed an enthusiasm while studying under Kabuto and was a little reluctant to weaponize medical jutsu (when Hazou mentioned the possibility of severing an opponent's tendons via Mist). This indicates that Noburi doesn't just have an academic curiosity for medicine, but that being a healer resonates with some aspects of his personality. Noburi was also distraught (to put it
mildly) when Hazou's First Killbox meant that he could no longer study medicine in Leaf.
Pursuing this option means that Noburi-the-character rejects the "stereotypical" notion of a jonin (fireballs, summons, etc) and instead seeks his "own" type of fame. And besides, with a brother like Hazou at his side, Noburi won't be lacking for ways to weaponize his medical knowledge (or otherwise leverage it into jonin-level threats) if he's forced to.
Conclusion:
Barring QM-negation, I think that Hazou-the-character should ask Noburi his thoughts on his own training. The narrative layer of their character sheets is that "Hazou has The Thing and is
frighteningly good at lists." Noburi, Kei, and Akane all trust Hazou to optimize their training (even if QM-fiat means that they may make their own decisions to pick up a skill, such as Akane spending XP to learn 1 level of sealing way back when).
We should ask Noburi-the-character what he wants his
own development to be, so that we can help him get there. Granted, the two aren't
necessarily mutually exclusive, but... well, Noburi's current medical knowledge is
twelve. That's lower than Hazou's
calligraphy skill --and the QMs have been "hinting" that we need to level it up for a
while, now. Without access to FOOM, Noburi isn't going to have access to a wealth of XP to waste [chasing two different build-styles].
Edit:
However, if the QMs say "don't put the onus on
us to make the decision for the playerbase, just assume that, on a narrative level, Noburi-the-character will agree with the playerbase's decision," then I retract everything in the above and submit an apology for committing the sin of spoon-theft!!!
