| The Weight of the World [Ryouma, Hayate, Katsuko] |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|07:47 pm] |
[[Takes place 8 days after Blood Will Make It Right and 5 days after Sunburst]]
The crutches fell victim to a katon jutsu in the hospital courtyard on the fifteenth of March, exactly ten minutes after Ryouma's examining doctor told him he could resume training with only a supportive brace for his knee. He marched back to HQ without limping at all, changed from jeans and a hoodie into shorts and a tee, grabbed a water bottle and a towel, and slid down the banister for two full flights of stairs. The teenage agent he met on the first floor landing looked shocked, and then mildly envious.
"I'm supposed to stay off my feet," Ryouma told him.
"Uh," the boy said. "Right. You go ahead and do that, senpai."
Not rookie, Ryouma noticed. Not even though the kid had probably worn the Hunter's mask a year longer than he had. Was the deference due to age, height, injury? Or just to the mistaken assumption that the only ones insane enough to slide down the banisters in ANBU HQ were the veterans who'd already cracked?
( He took the last flight down to the basement the normal way, just in case. ) |
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