@fistsbled -- ;
Part of Sakura found it hard to believe that a whole two years had passed since she and Lee had first begun their sedition against the Leaf, what had begun as trials and the decimation of ROOT from Danzo’s brambles, in their success did heavy brands fall upon them and Lee’s father, Gai. Marked for treason and forcibly exiled from both the village and the Land of Fire, even as the Elder Council had been stripped of their rank and titles, Danzo had gone into hiding and had disappeared from the intricate tapestry of the village that not even Katsuyu nor herself in sage mode had been able to detect. It were as though he’d learned the Niidaime Tsuchikage’s vanishing technique himself, which Sakura was beginning to wonder.
The pair had fled for miles on one of Sakura’s Crystal Release dragons that allowed for swift transport, the stillness in their flight able to lend to her sage mode cloaking her chakra whilst Matatabi had been able to manipulate sage chakra in Lee to afford him much of the same, rendering them undetectable.
It was in the Land of Waves that they finally made landfall after two and a half days of continuous, on and off travel that Katsuyu had suggested they finally rest just as twilight was descending on the world. Sakura allowed the crystalline dragon to dissolve into fractals once they’d dismounted, sighing as she felt relief flood her once they finally touched solid ground.
“Gods, any longer and I feel like my legs might’ve turned to jelly. How are you and Matatabi-sama holding up, Lee?”
