#willofashinobi

In the years following the war, things had changed. Where she had doggedly trained for a full three years to catch up to Naruto and Sasuke, all of her efforts had been crushed into dust when the Sage of Six Paths himself had revived Naruto and Sasuke when Madara had singlehandedly killed them and granted them powers that had been their birthrights over a thousand years before their time. While Sakura couldn’t begrudge what had effectively been a cosmic emergency for the world on the brink, it had opened up her eyes to how weak she really was. Weakness that Katsuyu had sympathized with and worked to help her through. So, two years and a new summoning contract, sage mode, and three kekkei tota later, she knew she was almost to the point Naruto and Sasuke were... even if it wouldn’t be totally close enough.

The kunoichi often spent her nights on the rooftop of the Haruno house, left to her once her parents had moved to the Northeastern Isles in the Land of Neck, the archipelago also where Shikkotsurin was located. As the home was only a reconstruction of what had been there once, her parents decided that enough was enough, and Sakura understood. Still, she was a Jonin now and needed some roots. With natural energies regulated into sage chakra that caused her irises to glow and chakra pathways to glow with starry veins beneath her skin, the chakra signature of someone else doing something similar impacted her like a meteorite. 

Someone who likely felt the feedback of hers, too.

“Okay, so, this might seem kinda touchy, but...” Well, maybe touchy wasn’t exactly the word for it, so much as most clans kept their Hiden closely guarded secrets that went beyond just hijutsu. Thing was, being as extensively traveled as he was meant picking up on the frayed threads of rumor and trying to weave them into something coherent. 

bandaged  hands  carried  a  huge  box  ,  from  his  back  sprouting  two  great  ,  flaming  claws  ,  each  one  also  carrying  a  large  box  .           the  contents  were  scentless  dog  shampoo  ,  conditioner  and  various  types  of  treats  .                when  lee  said  he’d  help  ,  he  meant  it  .        naturally  ,  lee  loved  all  animals  ,  though  he  couldn’t  deny  dogs  held  a  special  place  in  his  heart  ,  the  leaf’s  strays  being  his  first  childhood  friends  ,  even  before  gai  -  sensei  adopted  him  .            barking  welcommed  him  as  the  leaf’s  tiger  approached  the  inuzuka’s  property  .       and  lee  was  fully  ready  to  give  lots  of  hugs  ,  pets  and  kisses  .      of  course  ,  also  to  bath  some  dogs  ,  the  thing  he  came  for  .                                    ❝    i’m   not    late    ,    am    i    ??    ❞            LEE    NEVER    WAS    .

even  for  an  hercules  beetle  ,  little  akio      (      shino    named    him      )      was    HUGE    .       almost  twice  the  size  of  a  regular  specimen  .      not  that  it  was  a  surprise  ,  the  beetle  had  a  hard  time  pulling  through  in  it’s  larva  state  ;  and  of  course  ,  lee  being  lee  ,  offered  to  nurture  it  with  matatabi’s  chakra  the  second  shino  mentioned  it  .         lee  began  to  become  really  invested  in  the  beetles  shino  rescued  and  raised  .                ❝    just    look    at    him    !!    ❞              little  akio  flew  from  the  back  of  lee’s  hand  to  rest  on  his  shoulder  .          it  seemed  fond  of  lee  .     or  matatabi’s  chakra  at  least  .

( Valentine’s Asks ) 

“Thank you Tsudade-sama, you did not have to go to the trouble,” he says, pocketing the little box of chocolates. 

                          ❛    ‘morning  ,  dad  !  do  you  have  a  MISSION  today  ?    ❜