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Boom. Splinters decorated the air as her fist embedded in the tree next to the head of her new apprentice. "Is this your resolve?" Tsunade demanded answers. "Even with the current standards at the academy, you should be able to muster up a decent punch with some strength behind it."
Ashamed the pinkette was silenced after her pitiful attempt at sparing with the Legendary Warrior.
"Why haven't you been maintaining your basic conditioning? I know you train regularly, you should be at a much higher level now." Tsunade's Inquisition was only beginning and Sakura had no answers left.
Even Naruto with no form and the title of Dead-last was a better at brawling, that Sasuke was a prodigy in taijutsu so it wasn't her team training. Even amongst the other rookie teams were decent even that Hinata the weaker Hyuuga, and Tenten. Though the last one was questionable as she was training under the first Beautiful Green Beast and was a distance fighter.
Sakura struggled with her shame, "I wasn't taking my training as seriously as I should have been. It was my inexperience that put my team in danger and continued making me the weak link of Team 7."
Blue and green clashed and Tsunade breathed remembering she too had been stupid and thirteen "You fought with Ino-san in the semi-finals and you went after Gaara-san with the other members of the rookie teams. You are many things Haruno but you are my apprentice and you are not weak."
"For the next month, you will train for an hour in the mornings on physical conditioning: alternative days of running five laps around the village, and weight training with a focus alternating between both upper and lower body. You will maintain core strength and flexibility along with increasing your overall conditioning for endurance. You will not slack, you are my apprentice and you will be representing me." The blonde Sannin smirked and added with poorly disguised glee "Consider this an incentive you will be sparring in a month against Rock Lee of Team Gai. If you fail to bring the match to a draw you will be immediately training with Team Gai for the next three months in the border station they will be on a rotating guard duty. Do you understand apprentice?"
The blonde relished in the young woman's horror-struck expression; ah, this was why Sarutobi-sensei used to love dropping her team off in the middle of the Forest of Death as training. She shrugged. It was good character building her apprentice would learn or get closer to her goal than she was now. "You can start now," the Hokage called out as she left the training field, after all, she had another young blonde to beat some sense into about the importance of training. And Sensei's kid was going to have to explain how he could allow such slacking into his troop, maybe she would drop some Tora missions into his plate or maybe send Team 8 on a long-term mission. Either way, it would make the lesson stick: none of the kunoichi would be weaker for lack of training. And just maybe she would get a basic medic on every team to keep bringing those leaf nin home and the council can shove it in the crap-pile that was authorizing the type of toilet paper in the public buildings. Waste of paper.