Gone fishing [Open]

[theregularguy]

It was, all things considered, a pretty good day. Sokka had decided to take the day off and spend the day doing something he loved: fishing. He wasn't sure if there were actually any fish in the river that ran through the city now, but that wasn't really the point. The point was that he had a body of water and a stick with a piece of line that was

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[haruno]

"Any bites?"

Sakura slowed down, momentarily nostalgic for earlier years, when she and friends had been the ones fishing by the side of some of the smaller creeks and rivers around Konoha. There shouldn't be anything to catch, not out here. At least not in the water.

[theregularguy]

"Nope. I actually don't think there's anything to bite in there. But that's not really the point." Sokka seemed happy enough to just laze around by the river, even without the prospect of catching anything.

[haruno]

"No, it doesn't seem like it would be." Not here at least, and not with his overall demeanor. "Has it been working?"

[theregularguy]

"I guess so. Lets me think and just clear my head. I don't have to worry about anything with my line in the water, you know?" He smiled at Sakura.

"I'm Sokka, by the way."

[haruno]

"I'm Sakura." She smiled back, opting to look at the river again after a moment. "It's nice to meet you. Do you mind if I join you for a little?"

[theregularguy]

"Nice t'meet you, Sakura." Sokka casually recast his fishing line. "And go ahead. No harm in some company."

[haruno]

Sakura sat herself, wondering at what was underneath the "ground" beneath her, or the origins of a river on this ship. It might be one of the underneaths she still wasn't quite ready to figure out. There were more of those than she'd thought, lately.

Still, those thoughts fell to the wayside, more content at this strange sense of familiarity. It prompted her into asking another question, not that questioning was something she often held back from around here. Not on the easy things.

"Did you do a lot of this where you're from?"

[theregularguy]

"Hm? Fishing? Yeah, actually. You fish or we go hungry, basically. We get most of our food from the ocean," Sokka replied before flopping backwards to prop himself up on his elbows.

"Not that there's anything to catch here. And we don't really have to worry about going hungry. But it's familiar and it helps me relax."

[haruno]

"Then you lived near the ocean." It wasn't a new concept for Sakura, but it did frame part of a stranger's background. "We had river fishing where I grew up, though we didn't survive off of it. Not unless we were camping."

She found herself looking back at the river. "Familiar things have a way of doing that," Sakura said eventually. She'd been looking to identify things as more or less similar over the months, to feel less displaced and slightly less homesick. It mostly hadn't worked, but a few things, like the sight of flowing water, carried echoes she appreciated. "Which is why I guess the original plan was to wake people with friends, if I understood that right."