Hugh
"Oh . . Uh, yeah, yeah I am."

He said as he moved his hand, trying to hide the slightly marked knuckle. He was a Shinobi after-all! Something like that could never have hurt him! Okay . . Maybe he was lying just a tiny bit, his endurance was never as good as his chakra reserves and such, so he was trying his best to hide the pain. Though his eyes were slightly teary from it, which he noticed himself quickly, and thus he rubbed them, drying them up really quickly. He looked up the person up and down, was she younger than him?

She didn't look younger, she was just roughly around the same height. He was just a bit . . Larger.

"I was- uhm, y'know, training my strength. It's not the best."
Cherie
Kana merely blinked, face completely blank as she watched him get all teary eyed. She wasn't exactly interested in or equipped to deal with some random genin balling his eyes out or something... With a sigh, she tucked her little notebook away in the folds of her top, eyeing the genin. He didn't really look particularly impressive if she was honest. Looks could be deceiving of course. But then again... She didn't know many *Genin* Even that got all teary eyed while training so she couldn't help but think he must be kind of... Soft...

"Obviously... I'd suggest maybe starting with some normal workouts. You know, pushups or something before you move to fighting trees. They're kinda tough, ya know?"
Hugh
"Oh! Right! Normal workouts . . "

He said as he shook his head, he had to think straight. Thinking badly would not help him improve, and he had to get into the quick-witted mindset. He began to get on the tips of his toes, and placed his palms against the ground. He began to push himself up and down, using his upper-body strength to leverage himself. He wasn't that strong, and he wasn't the best with stamina, though he could still go for a while to say the least. He had a strained look on his face, though he had to keep going.

To take a break from all of the intense training that he was doing at the moment, he decided to speak.

"So . . What's . . " He huffed out, trying to catch his breath. ". . Your name?"
Cherie
She was still quite confused by the boy's mannerisms. Kana wasn't entirely sure how one forgot about doing normal people workouts and skipped straight to tree punching... But it was obvious he wasn't anywhere near "Tree punching" Strength. In fact, she was pretty sure he was struggling with basic push ups, which didn't really help increase her opinion of his abilities... She was a bit suspicious that maybe he hadn't even graduated from the academy yet. Shaking her head at him, she seemingly ignored his question at first and instead walked over and planted a foot firmly on his back. She wasn't overly aggressive or anything with him, just a nice little push as a reminder to keep going. 

"Kana, nice to meet you I guess. You're not very used to this physical work out stuff, are you..."

She figured it might come off as a bit harsh. But she was genuinely just unimpressed with his display of endurance and strength so far.
Hugh
He let out a little groan when she had pressed the foot against his back, what was that for? Was he doing a bad job? Oh no. He had gotten a bit sad again, though he wasn't going to let this Chunin put his morale down, he began to push even harder, and managed to even push against her foot a tiny bit, if she wasn't resisting that is. There was no way he was going to beat her strength at the moment, so what he was going to do was try his hardest to keep getting stronger and stronger.

Once she had stated her name, and began to comment, he spoke again, his voice was strained, as if he was focusing really hard.

"N-no . . I mostly do things with chakra . . But . . " He let out another groan, gritting his teeth as he held in his staggered breaths. "I'm . . Looking to get . . Better for my . . Taijutsu!" He exclaimed a bit, trying to use the loud words to make him push farther and farther. He did not state his name at the moment, he was a bit too concentrated.