I apologize for not writing for so long; I have been training and sparring with Sand-nin in my spare time, as well as helping civilians and exploring Suna.  (I can run a thousand laps around with no trouble now!)

Gaara is making excellent progress; I think I may be able to leave soon.  Once he's gotten all the basics, I won't be needed.  All he has ( Read more... )

I can think of only a few things that can even begin to compare to desert sunrises or sunsets.

It’s been - two days.  The afternoon of my second day in Suna.  I would have written earlier, but I was pretty busy yesterday and this morning.  Can you guess what I’ve been sent here to do?  Oh, I’ll just tell you -

I’m going to train Gaara - the ( Read more... )

My dearest friends, I have just received a most interesting order.  I am to travel to Suna - by myself - to personally oversee the training of an as-of-yet unknown individual.  I don't know why Hokage-sama didn't tell me; all she said was that I have to talk to the Kazekage about it, and then she pointed me out of the room with a bottle of sake.

How ( Read more... )

My wonderful friends, I have just returned from my latest mission after rescuing Gaara-kun - I mean, Kazekage-sama.  It was a superb test of endurance and perseverance, a challenge of infinite proportions!  But I must not be idle - two hundred laps around Konoha, and then, if no one wants to grab lunch, I'll climb up a waterfall three hundred times ( Read more... )