It's been an interesting few months.
It looks like nothing has changed here. Nothing too drastic, anyway.
I'm sure I will be updated on the goings on eventually....
I hope nothing truly unseemly has happened whilst I was away. Well, nothing out of the ordinary unseemliness that seems to permeate this place.
I've heard rumor you fought alongside Yondaime, Tayuya. Hope you had a good reason.
I'll give the discourse of where I have been the last while to you at a later time.
I've learned a few new tricks in my absence.
Would you like to try your hands again? I promise this time the outcome shall be different.
Much different.