[Arai Shimako]

Shimako listened to the girl explain her experience level and the difficulties she was having with training. So she had some experience, but not a lot, and she needed help getting in shape in order to be a better taijutsu user. Simple exercises like pushups weren't working for her because she could think of more efficient ways to do them with another skill set. Alright, that really put what she needed in focus.

"Something I've learned through years of experience is that while simple exercises like pushups are good for you, they're not very practically related to what you'll be doing in the field. When you exercise, it's good to try to echo what you might actually be doing, to build the muscles you're actually going to use," she said.

"So to get started, let's imagine a scenario a puppeteer might find themself in. You're stuck in the middle of the desert, you've used all your chakra in a fight, and you've got this big, heavy, expensive puppet you don't want to leave behind. You're going to have to carry it all the way back to the nearest village. There's a practical fitness problem, right?" Shimako asked.

She grabbed a practice puppet to haul onto her back and said, "Let's go out into the sand, and try to do some resistance training like this."

[Tachibana Miori]

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While Miori had expected this to simply be a retreading of training she had already done, the young kunoichi was surprised to find the elder shinobi push her in a direction she hadn't expected. Had her lie been that obvious, or had Shimako somehow known of Miori's activities? No, what she told the jonin and what she had responded with had a clear journey between, no leaps were made. Admittedly it was a exercise she had never even bothered to try, given that she did not need to waste chakra maintaining her strings, and she never imagined being so desperate for chakra that she couldn't form those very strings.
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As the thoughts crossed her mind, Miori found Shimako had already left the area, expecting the younger woman to follow. "H-hey!" Miori's half stumble as she tried to keep up with the Head Researcher was perhaps the most genuine reaction she had in a quite a few years, and although unintentional it did line up with the core of the whimsical kunoichi that was trapped underneath the repressed trauma. Using chakra strings to grab a near by test puppet, Miori would allow the wooden figure to rest on her back as the tanned kunoichi utilized her self made webs to catch up to Shimako. "Wait up!"

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