An application for a LiveJournal roleplaying community (which was accepted, thank you, thank you). Kankurou is probably my favorite Naruto character, so naturally I wanted to play him. It's based in the actual Naruto universe, not AU like so many of the RPs on LJ. If you wanna check it out, the link is http (colon slash slash) community (dot) livejournal (dot) com (slash) iron (underscore) konoha (slash) profile – as of twenty-one thirty on January twenty-sixth, only Kankurou and Sasuke are taken, though I think someone might be applying for Gaara soon.
Disclaimer: Naruto, its characters and settings belong to Kishimoto Masashi and not Aaron, so don't say I claim them as my own.
Three hundred thirteen words: Rain
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Rain.
It had to be raining.
He was back in Konohagakure for the first time in...well, longer than he cared to remember, and it was raining.
Not that there was anything wrong with rain, really. It gave life to a lot of things - plants, people, animals...kept them clean...
Got everything wet...
Smeared his facepaint...
Waterlogged the wood Karasu was made of...
Yeah, rain was just wonderful.
Kankurou ducked under the overhang of a shop closed for the torrential downpour and tore off his hat, wringing it out as far from his body as possible. Not that it mattered; a little more wet couldn't matter too much. Everything on his person was soaked, including the scroll his dearest younger brother had sent him to deliver. He didn't know what was on the scroll. Didn't even want to know, just wanted to get out of this village and back to the dry of Sunagakure.
A muddy child frolicked in the street before him, and with a shiver, he wondered idly if the kid would come down with something. It was cold up here.
He leaned against the bar, also wet, and put his hood there as well. The child splashed in a puddle, slipped, fell, and Kankurou felt a grin tug at his lips. In less than a second, the kid was up and laughing, shedding a dirty t-shirt and letting it fall to the ground with a squelching plop. A woman who couldn't have been a day over twenty-five ran out into the street after the child, screaming curses and threats.
Kankurou laughed. Facing the ground, he shook his head rapidly side to side, trying to get rid of some of the excess water in his hair and on his face.
It wasn't so bad to just stand here, as long as the rain stopped soon.
After all, he was starting to chafe.