The babble of the large brook was complemented by the different types of birdsong throughout the forest functioned as the perfect background noise for the brunette kunoichi sat in a tree with a book in her lap. The was a book on fuinjutsu left behind by her uncle. Her eyes studied the diagrams and examples accompanying the texts. It was annotated in several places and the books were some of her most prized possessions. If only because they informed her about her heritage, but also held some of her uncle in it. Perhaps if she read all he had read she would know why he had vanished from her life so suddenly...

Her days off rarely had any set plans, but today she had specifically gone into the forest to fish and to study some for nearby the small river a larger village lay. One with a rather well-stocked fabric store, too, which she had plans to visit. But only after she had read a good handful of pages of her book.

Fuinjutsu did hold some of her interest and she was sure she would have been more proficient in it had she known of her heritage earlier, but... it was never too late to learn, right? 

Sayuri would read a handful of pages more before she closed the book and leaped from the tree, landing softly on the ground below and put her book in her backpack before stepping to the river and hoisted up the jar. A smile danced on her lips as she saw it was full of small river fish. 

With the jar with fish and river water attached to the side of her backpack, she made her way away from the river and through the trees. The trees would thin out and give way to the village buildings and birdsong was replaced by the soft murmur from the village square. 

As she ventured through the stands and stores, she would end up buying a bag of green apples as the sight of them reminded her of apple pie and warm autumn afternoons. She would stop occasionally to look at wares, one such time she would turn and walk but in doing so she bumped into someone. A single green apple skipped from the bag and bounce don the ground. A click of her tongue. 

"Oh, sorry, didn't see you there." 

Please don't be bruised... 

She shot a look at the person she had bumped into and paused.