Word: Panjandrum |pan-JAN-drum| noun

Meaning: a powerful personage or pretentious official

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~Naruto~

Team Seven did not take many missions after the Fourth Great Shinobi War. This was mainly due to Kakashi being named next Hokage, and also not many missions after the war required the team's specific skill set. While Naruto had become arguably one of the best sensors due to his Sage Mode, the team just was not cut out for tracking missions. In fact, the only missions they seemed to get were the ones where Murphey's Law was in full effect. As it was the norm, Team Seven got adept at improvising missions quickly. Like the time they stopped an apocalypse when harvesting potatoes (Naruto thought it would be as good a time as any to try out exploding his bunshin. He got a bit too close to a half empty gas can).

Sakura is stumped as to how she managed to survive growing up in Team Seven. So many missions that took a wrong turn and ended with an S-Class missing-nin fight. (This doesn't even include their first Chunnin Exams). Many would say that Sakura started to form a mission's mask that wouldn't let too many emotions show in extreme duress, but they were in fact wrong. Sakura never really hid her emotions while in the field; she just got way to use to the ridiculous things that happened on basically all her missions that she stopped caring.

Sakura actually remembers one mission where things did not go to hell in a handbasket. She was escorting a nobleman from Yugakure to Konohagakure with minimal difficulty. The down side to that mission was that almost everything about this man annoyed her. He was a panjandrum. He was chauvinistic about social classes, gender, and social classes by gender. He had flirted with her for the first part of the trip (She would normally be flattered from being flirted with, but when he insulted her gender and her profession, she was very close to letting her temper out), but then some bandits attacked. He looked at her in particular, looking like he was about to yell to her to take cover, when she uprooted a tree and proceeded to use it as if it weighed nothing, swinging it with the dexterity one would swing a bo staff.

The nobleman didn't look at her for the rest of the trip, and she remembers the little smirk she wore as she reported to Tsunade.

~Naruto~

Thanks for reading. I felt like I could have done a bit better with this one, but I think it turned out decently. Another day done, a new chance tomorrow, I suppose.

Have an amazing day (or what's left of it),

Silently Fleeting