4th Punch

[medicalpunch]

[After Luceti Valley fades away, Sakura spends a couple days hunting down her patients, healing anyone who asks for it, trying to wrap her head around the changes she went through, trying to reestablish herself as Haruno Sakura, medic-nin of Konoha.

But when the morning dawns, two days after Luceti returned to normal, Sakura is gone.

A week or so passes, with no Sakura in evidence.  And then...]

[Action - By the river]

[That sure is a yelp, a flash of white, and a very loud splash as Sakura lands squarely in the river.  For a second she sinks, too startled at the abrupt change of scenery to react, and then she starts kicking toward the surface, the skirt of her dress clinging around her legs and interfering with the movement.  It'd be tempting to take a kunai to it... if she had one on her.  As it is, she doesn't .  Whoops.

She breaks the surface, gasping and shaking water out of her eyes, then pauses to stare at the village, a scowl on her face.]

Really?  Really?  I get sent home for all of an hour at best, and then this again?

[There are a couple visible changes to her -- her hair has lost all the black and red dye again, back to its normal pink from root to tip, and there's a blue diamond mark in the center of her forehead now, one that will look awfully familiar to any Konoha-nin who know her teacher.] 

I guess I should be grateful.  [She snorts]  At least it isn't the dead of winter this time. 


[Video - A little later] 

[Sakura's dry and dressed again, and she takes to the journals, flipping through it for a long moment to figure out just how long she was gone.  Not long -- a matter of days, she guesses, maybe a week or two -- but sure as heck longer than she was home!]

Hey everyone.  I'm back.  Guess they just couldn't do without me after all.  

Hinata - I hope you haven't given my room away in a week!  [She's trying to make a joke, okay.  Even if coming back from the battlefield again makes joking the last thing she wants to do.]

Sasuke... I'd like to talk to you at some point. 

[A flash of something unreadable crosses her face, and then she shakes her head.]

Everyone else... well, I hope you didn't miss me too much!

Comments

[elongatedsmile]

Humans without magic, I am. [At least in her head she is. More so if she gets to use her wings in the jumps.] You spoke before of 'your world'. Have you been to this land before? You know where the village is.

[medicalpunch]

Yes, I was here just recently; I only went home for a little while, and now I'm back. [And remembering everything, and almost wishing she didn't.] I'm not sure how long I was gone for, as Luceti goes, but I wasn't even home a full day.

[elongatedsmile]

Good. Then you know your way to the village the humans stay in. [She was enjoying her nap and this means she could get back to it faster.] They may know when you left. [As she sure doesn't.]

[medicalpunch]

I do. It shouldn't be far from here, I don't think. [She's pretty sure she's been by this part of the river before.]

I'm sure I'll find someone who can fill me in.

[elongatedsmile]

Then travel safely to the village. [Xzana dives back down under the water; settling herself at the bottom of the river. It was time to go back to that lovely nap she was having!]

[medicalpunch]

Thanks. I'll see you around, I guess. [Maybe, if she comes down to the river more often. Either way, she heads off toward the village proper.]

[elongatedsmile]

[Xzana gives a small nod of her head before she settles down. Letting Sakura know that she was heard, but gives no more response then that. She was still learning the finer methods of human talking such as greetings and goodbyes. She's slowly getting a bit better at it.]