Orpheus looked at the cherry blossom petal for a short while, and then sighed. He walked back into the cave pensively, as if contemplating something. When he walked back out, he had a small sparkling object in his hand. He looked at this for quite some time, before placing it into his pocket. He looked at the sky, and then at the scroll on the stone ground. "What's done is done. With the exception of theoretical eddies in the time-space support matrix. Maybe." With this profound comment he picked up the petal, placed it in his pocket along with the sparkling thing, picked up the scroll, said some indecipherable words, and was gone, with a sound that can only be described as; 'plumph'.
'plumph'. This was the sound that the blond haired kunoichi known to her friends as Ino heard as she was waking up in the morning. This was followed shortly by "Oh fu-", then 'crash!' As one might hear after being propelled at high speed through a glass ceiling, and then the sound that might be heard if something had fallen on a display of expensive flowers with considerable force.
Needless to say, she was on the scene with blinding speed, to discover a man in a pretentiously dark robe surrounded by a pool of blood and broken glass, but more importantly, on top of a display of the rare Konoha orchids that only bloom once a year and were scheduled to bloom tomorrow. Orpheus, (For 'twas our erstwhile hero himself), raised a hand, and before passing out, managed to say something that earned him a memorable beating: "Your flowers got in the way of my death."
