[Utsuki Yurako]

Yurako was training harder than she usually did. Her aunt got her new leg weights that were heavier than the last ones she wore. No longer six-hundred pounds but eight-hundred and fifty pounds each. In addition to her new leg weights, she was carrying about another fifty pounds in a backpack that rested upon her shoulders. It hurt her back but she was going to keep pushing herself through the pain. Her breathes were steady and her heart was beating harder than usual.

With all of this weight, she trying her best to run laps around the training grounds as fast as she could. Her forehead was sweating as the warmer spring sun shined down on her, the afternoon being quite lovely as far as weather went. Not a single cloud in the sky. She wasn't wearing her jacket as she normally did but still had on a navy blue crop-top and matching shorts. She had made it in a complete one-hundred meter circle lap she managed to map out thanks to Maharu.

She was managing her best, already completing about fifty laps just as of now. "Coome oonn... Huff, huff! Yooou juuust have to do... Fiiifty moooore!" She told herself for some encouragement. All of what little focus she had was being put into completing her laps. Her reward was going to not only be proud of her training but a nice bowl of ramen. Only if she could complete another fifty.

Her legs stung and her body was nearly soaked with sweat. So much her ears were being slightly weighed down by it, making them flop slightly as they also bounced while she kept running. For the next thirty minutes, she was almost done, her muscles screaming. Thanks to Miho's tips however, she wasn't going to be as sore. She did know soon after she got food she would need a long bath at the hot springs.

"Just... Five mooooree! Come on!" She shouted. She made it to four, then three. She only had two more but she was finally forced to stop, her body not able to fully handle the training just yet, making her drop her heavy backpack, causing dust and dirt to fly up in the air. She plopped down on her butt, holding herself up with her outstretched arms by her side, breathing heavily as she looked up at the sky.

"Darn it! I couldn't do it..." She complained to herself. It seemed no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't be as good as she was with taijutsu as she was with ninjutsu. She began to wonder how she would ever become as fast as she wanted to be at this rate. But no matter what, she wasn't going to give up trying. Trying to steady her breathing, she would close her eyes for a moment.

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