Perhaps it was the dumplings, or the sunset, or even though I'd only known him for a little less then an hour and I already liked him (probably all three.) but I couldn't sleep.

I was weird like that… the second I talked to somebody for more then five minutes without them getting irritated, or just turning around and walking away in the middle of what I was saying I liked them. There was now a total of four people I liked, four people I truly undoubtingly liked. And two I loved with all my heart. Two of the people on my 'like' list were the kids from my old team cell that one year I was in the academy.

That's right. I graduated from the academy in one year. I kick ass like that.

Team #19 myself, Yoshiboo Maru and Scaryu Shima. Though in the months leading up to my departure from Kiri (I still hadn't found out if it was permanent or not.) both of them had been away on a mission and I was left with only Seikatsu and myself, because the other person I liked was my first sensei, and he had been dead for a few years now, as had my first love.

(Back to the present.)

Sleep had never come easy for me. And normally I like to try and get some every once in awhile.

But I was restless tonight.

Couldn't sit still.

So I contented myself with training.

As of current I'd moved the bed all the way against the wall along with the rest of the furniture.

Except for a couch.

I was perched upon the right arm of said couch on the balls of my feet practicing Mizu/Oya Ryushutsu no Jutsu. It would be either Mizu (cold water) or Oya (hot water) depending on which kind of chakra was applied and if it were used simply as a taijutsu it would be Ryushutsu no Jutsu.

But anyway I practiced Ryushutsu no Jutsu because I simply didn't feel like summoning up and exuding chakra (however small the amount was) just for training.

That fact aside taijutsu is my weakest form.

So there I stood on the balls of my feet gliding easily from the arm of the couch to the backrest, to the other arm to the cushion back to the arm, cushion for a second then the floor. As I repeated this pattern I went through the hand motions. Left elbow, right jab, head butt, a succession of three right jabs, left hook, left uppercut, right palm upwards, left palm straight then upwards and finally both palms thrust forward and at that point I would've emitted either Mizu or Oya leaving my opponent either frozen or badly burned.

I repeated the Ryushutsu no Jutsu pattern, each time increasing my speed until I missed a step and fell off of the back of the couch with a thud.

That was the downfall of the Mizu/Oya Ryushutsu, missing one step even the tiniest bit… would cause the person to lose balance entirely. It was exhausting, I was exhausted, but not sleepy. So heaving an annoyed sigh I picked myself up and resumed the training from the beginning, moving as slow as my first one. And that's how the rest of my first night in Suna no kuni went.