The Next Step.
Ow. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. I am incredibly sore today. Not only have I been running extra errands for Tsunade-shishou lately, but today she surprised me with a new step in my training today. We sparred.
I mean, in a way I've sparred with her before, but most of the time, she just has me come at her and ducks and dodges my attacks, tutoring me along the way. But today, for the first time she actually fought back. Not with her full-strength, or else I'm sure I'd be dead, but with enough focus that I felt like I had been fighting for my life out there for a little while. If not for the extra training I've been doing with Lee-san, I think I would've ended up a lot more bruised than I am now.
And that's the other thing. I can't allow anyone else to heal me; I have to do it myself. Tsunade-shishou tells me that in the battle field, I won't have a convenient hospital full of doctors to treat me. I have to learn to do it myself. This normally wouldn't be a problem at all, but shishou really ran me ragged today and I'm just wiped out! I took care of the worst of it, but my chakra is completely depleted. I'll have to sleep with what's left tonight and hope I have enough strength to heal the rest in the morning.
I think this is also a lesson on how I must improve my endurance and physical stamina. On a mission, I will still be using myself as a shinobi while also needing to keep myself available as a medic. This means I have to think twice as carefully on how I expel my chakra and use up my stamina.
There's suddenly such a smaller room for error now. As a doctor that means one thing, but as a medic-nin, it suddenly means a whole lot more. It makes me nervous, but... More than anything I'm feeling excited.
I'm getting stronger. In my own way... I'm really getting stronger.
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In other news completely though, some of the errands I'm doing for shishou lately are just my payment to her for a large favor I asked of her.
I found out why Shikamaru has been avoiding Ino. I knew he needed a way to tell her how he felt and a way to make Ino stay and listen. But if I was going to help them out on it, I had to make it look like I wasn't helping them out on it. So I thought about what could possibly force those two together in circumstances neither one could get out of. And then it hit me.
A mission! With Shikamaru in charge! That way, Ino would have to listen to what Shikamaru had to say! And since I was the Hokage's apprentice, I had the best chance of making it happen!
Well, I guess it worked, because earlier today shishou informed me she had sent Team 10 out on a mission. One that would help create the exact circumstances I wished for. Tsunade-shishou is so wonderful~!!!
...At least, I'm sure I would mean that more fully if these errands she had me doing weren't bordering on the humiliating. Painting her toenails?! Painting the pig's toenails...hooves....things?! I tried to draw the line at spoon-feeding her sake, but one mention of blowing my cover and I'm stuck. *siiiiiighs* Oh well.
Shikamaru. You had better come back with everything right between you and Ino. Otherwise I'll throw you in a full-body cast, but after giving you a real reason to need it.
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Right now, I need some sleep. Wake me up in a week from now... -.-
I mean, in a way I've sparred with her before, but most of the time, she just has me come at her and ducks and dodges my attacks, tutoring me along the way. But today, for the first time she actually fought back. Not with her full-strength, or else I'm sure I'd be dead, but with enough focus that I felt like I had been fighting for my life out there for a little while. If not for the extra training I've been doing with Lee-san, I think I would've ended up a lot more bruised than I am now.
And that's the other thing. I can't allow anyone else to heal me; I have to do it myself. Tsunade-shishou tells me that in the battle field, I won't have a convenient hospital full of doctors to treat me. I have to learn to do it myself. This normally wouldn't be a problem at all, but shishou really ran me ragged today and I'm just wiped out! I took care of the worst of it, but my chakra is completely depleted. I'll have to sleep with what's left tonight and hope I have enough strength to heal the rest in the morning.
I think this is also a lesson on how I must improve my endurance and physical stamina. On a mission, I will still be using myself as a shinobi while also needing to keep myself available as a medic. This means I have to think twice as carefully on how I expel my chakra and use up my stamina.
There's suddenly such a smaller room for error now. As a doctor that means one thing, but as a medic-nin, it suddenly means a whole lot more. It makes me nervous, but... More than anything I'm feeling excited.
I'm getting stronger. In my own way... I'm really getting stronger.
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[Private]
In other news completely though, some of the errands I'm doing for shishou lately are just my payment to her for a large favor I asked of her.
I found out why Shikamaru has been avoiding Ino. I knew he needed a way to tell her how he felt and a way to make Ino stay and listen. But if I was going to help them out on it, I had to make it look like I wasn't helping them out on it. So I thought about what could possibly force those two together in circumstances neither one could get out of. And then it hit me.
A mission! With Shikamaru in charge! That way, Ino would have to listen to what Shikamaru had to say! And since I was the Hokage's apprentice, I had the best chance of making it happen!
Well, I guess it worked, because earlier today shishou informed me she had sent Team 10 out on a mission. One that would help create the exact circumstances I wished for. Tsunade-shishou is so wonderful~!!!
...At least, I'm sure I would mean that more fully if these errands she had me doing weren't bordering on the humiliating. Painting her toenails?! Painting the pig's toenails...hooves....things?! I tried to draw the line at spoon-feeding her sake, but one mention of blowing my cover and I'm stuck. *siiiiiighs* Oh well.
Shikamaru. You had better come back with everything right between you and Ino. Otherwise I'll throw you in a full-body cast, but after giving you a real reason to need it.
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Right now, I need some sleep. Wake me up in a week from now... -.-