I have a reason now Not like I didn't before, but I felt like I didn't. I've changed up my schedule a little so in addition to lots of training, I'm also substituting at the Academy and tutoring a few students who are either significantly faster or slower than their classmates. It strikes me that it would be very easy to just stay this way, or just ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write this down for a long time. I've had enough. I thought it would be the best thing for all concerned if I took a sabbatical from teaching, I didn't know when I would be ready to come back, I'm still not sure I want to, but doing nothing is making me go insane by degrees. Well, strictly speaking I haven't been doing 'nothing ( Read more... )

Well, the festival was... interesting. Poor Hinata looked so nervous to begin with but she played very well! I really hope Ino-san is feeling better soon, and that everything that was less obvious but nearly equally confusing and worrying between my former students has resolved itself.

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Warning! This post was written under the influence of sake.

Well, I was going to update about my little training trip, but the disturbing rumour that I recently heard is disturbing more important. Neji and Temari are getting married? This is a joke, right? The lady at the grocery store told me and then proceeded to tell me that I don't get out ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't fallen off of the face of the Earth, I've been training- and for a change in scenery, I decided to get permission to leave the village and ramen and prove to myself that I remembered all those obscure little survival tricks that are second nature when you're a more active shinobi, but gradually fade when you aren't.

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So, I've upped my training and while I have no life, I have a schedule which includes meals, sleep and exercise at regular intervals. But I haven't gone drinking with friends in the longest time! I MISS that! Itai... my shin's still sore from training today. It was more interesting than usual ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally out of the hospital. I seriously considered sneaking out at least twice, but decided it would be prudent to find out what was wrong with me. Not to mention Shizune-san or someone would probably be more than a little upset with me and I might have to wait even longer to take the Jounin Exam. Well, it appears that as usual, I can ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what woke me up, but I swear the first thing I thought was 'That isn't my ceiling', as I instinctively reached for the kunai that wasn't under my futon, because I was not on my futon. The room was dimly lit, darker than my room, nighttime I hoped, not my eyes... "Where...?" I didn't finish my sentence, I was so tired I didn't even ( Read more... )

I feel more disconnected with everyone else every day. I mean, I went from a respectable sensei, a steady bachelor, to another of those 'rabble-rousing' chuunin. Really, I'm still me. I'm still Umino Iruka. It's like everyone else is different. Everything's blurring together, though, the past week or so ( Read more... )

I was training today. I got a few stares, but mostly because I haevn't left my house in a week or so... It was surprising how easily I slipped back into my old skills, though. It was exhilerating, moving at speeds I ahven't needed to move at for at least a year, feeling my blade slice through the air and buy itself in wood. My accuracy is dead-on, ( Read more... )