Resolve

It was finally time. After a few days of wandering and learning about the village she had come from, lost in the excitement so deeply she had barely had the chance to train, she was finally ready to head home. Grabbing up her things she headed out of the gates to move quickly to the edge of the borders. " alright. So a quick stop to rest in taki and then the second half of my journey begins. " she took off at a run, jumping upward to cross the distance before her in long bounding hops before entering the heavy wooded terain before her. She landed at the base of a large tree as she passed the entrance to the heavy woods surrounding konoha and with a small leap she floated off the ground, this time catching her heels against the bark to push off giving her a much farther flight between jumps, though losing elevation. The woods passed quickly from her sight thanks to her speed and maneuverability and it felt like only moments before she could look back and no longer see the village behind her. "It is a beautiful day to travel" she said to herself as she rose her arm to catch on to a tree branch hanging around fifteen feet in the air. Her momentum swung her in a deep arc and as she reached the apex she released to send herself flying once more. She enjoyed the travel, mostly because she was always able to find new and interesting ways to shorten the trip by increasing her momentum with slingshot methods or vaulting or find a short cut to allow the trip to be shorter all together. Even the entrance to the woods and anything she remembered or recognized about the land of fire was a small spec behind her at this point but she still had taki to finish.

(308 words instant travel to taki)

Approved

She entered the land of waterfall once more. It looked different then the last time, though mostly because of the reverse in direction. "I made it. Now only one more trip and I'm back to yuki to check on my students and then off to iwa to talk to echo..." She was apprehensive to to to iwa after her run in with echo in konoha. As she stopped to cath her breath, drawing one of the bottles of water from her bag and uncapping it to take a slow draw of the cold liquid her mind went back to that day. She hadn't even considered the possibility that what happened could be negative until the rage in echo's eyes enlightened her. She realized now that she had brought shame and embaracement to her leader and had vowed to never allow the problem to happen again. She took off once more, capping the bottle as she ran to slide it back into the large brown side bag that set at her hip. It was unfortunate that their last meeting was less then a week before she would come to him humbly to request joining his village and leaving her rogue life behind but she believed echo had a kind heart. A lesser man would probably have spilled her blood across the floor of the ramen shop but he didn't. Even after an unfortunate reflex of fear stopped her from accepting his unusual punishment he had not assaulted her. This was the man whose village she hoped to be a part of that she could never bring shame upon him again. It was for him she trained her jutsu stronger, and for him she would risk her life. She moved faster, vaulting higher then before as the thoughts renewed her vigor and increased her need to get back and prove what she knew to be true.

(314 instant travel to yuki)

Apprkved