piratejournal | [backdated to March 21st]

... You saw my post on the journals, didn't ya?

[The hands behind her back, positioned to look innocent, drop to her sides. Then her smile fades and she looks sympathetic.]

I'm sorry, Luka. I know most of us want to go home but it's still easier to be here with friends than by yourself.

[She finally steps into the room further and peers at the dartboard and tries another small smile.]

Could I play with you?

... Never said I wanted to be myself.

[she smiles, and walked over to retrieve the darts]

Sure, we can play. This was a thing Marvelous was into, you know...

It looks fun. [And something she could be good at since she throws knives at targets for a living.]

Was he good?

[hands several of the darts over to her]

Yeah, he did it with weighted bracelets. It was a training exercise.

[Takes them, weighing them in her hands. Much lighter than kunai.]

There was training like that back home too, before we graduated the Academy. We used kunai and tree stumps instead of a target boards and darts though.

[She gets into position and throws, hitting one of the outside marks and creating a louder than necessary thunk. Probably threw it too hard and its awkward to aim compared to her usual kunai.]

Oops. This is a much smaller target though, and much smaller projectiles.

What about you? Did you train with him?

Sometimes, sometimes... [she laughed at Sakura's attempt, before lining up her own shot]

It wasn't easy for us, all the time, either. We used a bunch of other super sentai teams' powers, you see... we didn't always master them right away...

Super sentai?

You know how I turn into the form with the bright yellow outfit? That's the power of the super sentai. We Gokaiger had the power to become previous teams' forms.

[She can kind of relate to that; her Yin Seal is something she learned from her master. Naruto was trained by Jiraiya, and Sasuke by Orochimaru, in a way. Those three were a team before them.]

So you mastered the powers of someone like you from a previous generation.

It's worth it though in the end, isn't it? Even if it's difficult.

Edited 2014-03-27 23:10 (UTC)

Oh yeah, sure. I have to admit though, it was a bit easier than you'd think, considering there were around thirty five of these guys...

That's quite a few...

[Considering her Academy classes had 30 kids in one room.]

Yeah, now consider the fact that each team had at least three members, multiply that...

At least one hundred and five people.

[Not the size of shinobi army with magic powers but still sizable]

Yeeeeep. And I'm pretty sure I heard the term "199 heroes" thrown around a couple times, so it was more that that.

In retrospect, I think we had a pretty easy time with those powers after all.

That's pretty amazing, you know.

[She lines up her second dart.]

That those powers have spread so much with so many people.

[And throws. There's a much softer thunk, and she hits just outside the bullseye.

A grin spreads across her face.]

[Luka whistles, clearly impressed]

Pretty sharp eyes you have there, Sakura. Bet you have plenty of other talents~.

[Can't blame the candies this time.]

I just got lucky.

[Tucks some hair behind her ear bashfully.]

I just determined the angle to throw by calculating the distance and height. Velocity is up to chance, plus you have gravity and air resistance to account for and--

[Pauses. Sakura's secret is she's a huge nerd.]

But it's difficult to apply all that off the top of my head, so I guessed. I didn't hit center though.

[Luka listened to all that, and by the time Sakura reached the end of it... she just laughed, shaking her head]

You still came pretty close, though. A combination of planning and flying by the seat of your pants... I like that.

[An awkward smile.]

I guess I did.

Does that mean I'm winning?

[backdated to March 21st] - [voice]

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