((OOC: Takes place before Leigh and Naruko went to Suna, Sna's looking for a good date for it. Xd))Naruko wanted to train, Sachiko was off skulking around somewhere, Sakurai was busy with work, Jimaiya was....off getting "research," and Naruko did not want to be involved in that sort of thing. Nope, nope, nope. Besides, why would she want to go ( Read more... )

[ooc: Takes place before Leigh goes to Suna with Naruko and before Sakurai goes off to get kidnapped.]

( *insert whitty phrase here* )

It was evening, making the sky get almost gray. Aki stumbled a bit, blinking in a bleary fashion. It was hard to see...even to just move or think. He looked around. The guards at the gate had dug up a pair of old pants for him - which was more than he had had in months. He licked his lips, ignoring the traces of blood and dirt. How long had he been ( Read more... )

[OOC: Set a couple days after this thread.] Even though Hanato had said it was fine to come visit, it had taken Hinaji a few days to gather the courage to do so. That he'd been exhausted after meeting with Tsurude and Jimaiya didn't help matters much, either ( Read more... )

After getting the clearance from the physicians supervising Kureno's recovery, Rin had worked carefully for half a day, putting together a non-sedative pain killer for the laid-up jounin. It had taken the twelve hours he'd assumed it would, and he'd been relieved and heartened by the fact that every step came easily to him from memory - though for ( Read more... )

( Setting out from Konoha )

( D’you think it’s possible to make a statue out of all this? )

( A question for Tsurude-sama! )

( Despite his very best efforts, a dozen scenes from Jimaiya's 'Icha Icha' books flashed through his mind, all dealing with vaguely analogous situations... )

[[Takes place about a week after The Great Escape, and before Kabumi returns to Orochimayu and The Sound]]

Life, Sasoriza had just decided, is a bitch.

She frowned as she looked up at the posterboard of one-hundred-and-ninety-two ice cream flavour combinations; then smiled, licking her lips.

( Life is defintely a bitch. Life is -my- bitch! )