A/N: So short it makes me want to cry a little.
Disclaimer: Not mine, we all know this.
Catching Up
"Master Tsunade, look!"
Tsunade stood up from her comfortable place underneath the tree just outside the Konoha walls. She groaned as she stood up and walked toward her student's back, which was brown and dusty from the dirty earth beneath them. She peered over Sakura's shoulder, and she could hear her heavy breathing from exhaustion.
She looked down to see a hairline fracture in the ground in front of her student, clearly cracking from beneath her and stretching to the tree across from her.
"…Sakura, that's weak," Tsunade told her in a lightly scolding tone.
"I know," Sakura puffed back, but Tsunade could hear the quiver of excitement in her voice. "But I'm catching up."