[Sasuke] : This ain't no bed of nails, but they're not roses just the same
*the lake is as still and calm as it always sometimes is, the frozen surface reflecting what little light the afternoon sun is giving off from behind the clouds. It's relatively silent, the only sound being the occasional shift of ice*
*... that is, until the very middle of the lake seems to explode, a thick column of water and ice erupting skyward with a roar of noise -- and from the midst of it, one of the school's infamous sharks comes flying, landing in the snow a second later and twitching and flapping for several seconds before falling still*
*for another moment, the lake is motionless again apart from the ripples of the previous outburst -- and then, from the hole in the ice that the shark created, something considerably smaller breaks out of the water, gasping for air and immediately hauling itself up onto the surface -- *
* -- and here's Sasuke, waterlogged, tired, his sleeveless shirt in tatters to expose his bruised and scratched skin, half of his belt missing and looking as though something bit it off, and the usual bandages on his left arm dissolved and gone to reveal that tattoo he always takes such care to hide. Ignore the snake protruding from his left shoulder, which spits a piranha from its jaws towards the middle of the lake before slithering backwards into his skin and seamlessly disappearing, as well as the blood seal that's returning to its place around the cursed seal on the same shoulder*
*makes it, with more than a little off-balance stumbling and slipping here and there, to the bank and up into the snow where he falls on hands and knees, panting, struggling not to shiver with cold, and positively refusing to collapse, although he looks more than ready to do so*
[ooc; GUESS WHO'S BACK. :D Mingling return!post. Do what you will. ... Tired or not, he's still very capable of hurting you, Karin, if you take that as an invitation to try anything. ♥]
*... that is, until the very middle of the lake seems to explode, a thick column of water and ice erupting skyward with a roar of noise -- and from the midst of it, one of the school's infamous sharks comes flying, landing in the snow a second later and twitching and flapping for several seconds before falling still*
*for another moment, the lake is motionless again apart from the ripples of the previous outburst -- and then, from the hole in the ice that the shark created, something considerably smaller breaks out of the water, gasping for air and immediately hauling itself up onto the surface -- *
* -- and here's Sasuke, waterlogged, tired, his sleeveless shirt in tatters to expose his bruised and scratched skin, half of his belt missing and looking as though something bit it off, and the usual bandages on his left arm dissolved and gone to reveal that tattoo he always takes such care to hide. Ignore the snake protruding from his left shoulder, which spits a piranha from its jaws towards the middle of the lake before slithering backwards into his skin and seamlessly disappearing, as well as the blood seal that's returning to its place around the cursed seal on the same shoulder*
*makes it, with more than a little off-balance stumbling and slipping here and there, to the bank and up into the snow where he falls on hands and knees, panting, struggling not to shiver with cold, and positively refusing to collapse, although he looks more than ready to do so*
[ooc; GUESS WHO'S BACK. :D Mingling return!post. Do what you will. ... Tired or not, he's still very capable of hurting you, Karin, if you take that as an invitation to try anything. ♥]