| [Jun. 12th, 2009|12:09 am] |
Tsume stared out at glittering water and a slowly setting sun. "Spent more days than I can remember down by the river, stealing things from kids who thought they were tougher than me. Eventually even started to win. That count?"
There was a drawback to eating heavy, fatty, warm meat pie. It made you sleepy while you digested. A chakra pill would solve the problem, but a nap would certainly help more in the long run. They had limited time; a nap wasn't high priority right now. She wasn't sure how a chakra pill would react, with her lines stretched as they were. It likely wouldn't be fun.
Leaning on Asuma probably wasn't helping with the sleepiness, but he smelled like something other than fish and halitosis--even if she still wasn't thrilled with cigarette smoke--and his chakra was calm and warm. The swell of muscle under her jaw wasn't unpleasant, either.
"How far out do you think they got? Wolf's teeth, that's my job." She grimaced, trying to remember the scent she'd been tracking. "They've got hours on us. Trail's at least six hours old." They'd made good time--when they'd started, the trail had been easily eight hours ahead of them. Six hours wasn't good enough, though. "Don't suppose you have enough boating experience to find us a fast one...?" |
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