The Personal Tale of a Shinobi on the Path of Youth and Glory

"OOOOH!! SUPER COOL!!"

On the one hand, he has gone beyond what we have set out to do - a simple, friendly jog. But he is also training his own powers this way, and it certainly is also a challenge for us to keep up! VERY WELL!

"Come Gaara-kun! Let us show Jack that we can indeed catch him!" With a loud, determined huff, Gai began to run faster yet again.

"YOOOOOOOO!!!! WE'RE COMING JAAAACK!!!"

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Gaara was surprised by his friend's clever move, and he also initially winced when the green-clad taijutsu user shouted so loudly right next to him, but then a small smirk creased his lips as he quickly figured out what he could do himself.

"I'm sorry, Guy, but I must leave you here." The redhead told the man as he called upon his innate ability to create sand from the dirt on the ground, and within minutes, he was standing atop a sand platform and soaring through the skies.

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Frost glanced back just for a second as he was curious about the others.
He had turned this from a jog into a Naruto Kart racing or something of the sorts. The elf stared perplexed at Gaara. "I didn't know he could fly."

Well, least it made things more interesting as he gave a head nod and continued to swish and flick his hands and feet quickly.

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"UUWAAAAAAH!!"

Gai had to think fast, or else he would be left behind. And he could not let that happen.

"AHA!" Upon coming to his realization, the Jounin flipped high into the air. He reached into his leg warmers, undid a few snaps, and pulled a set of weight straps from within. When he landed, he dropped the weights, and tremors were caused despite the relatively short distance to fall. Dust clouds rose high into the air, and from them burst forth Maito Gai, now with nothing holding him back. Zooming along the path, he soon caught up with Jack and was running beside him. There was a great big toothy grin on his face as he revelled in the sheer thrill.

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The loud crashing noises caused Gaara to turn his head back to see what had happened, and the sight was actually quite familiar to him, as he remembered the time when he and Lee fought against each other years ago, and the same weights that were tied to the boy's legs. Now, Guy was running much faster, practically flying down the path as he caught up to Jack's position very quickly, and the sand wielder decided to stay out of the path by veering his platform off to the side. Guy stayed in-between them and the three were running along in unison, although Gaara inwardly wondered if this was going to turn into some kind of competition - and to think it had started out so innocently, just as a friendly jog...

"Guy. Are you all right?" He called down to the man in inquiry.

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Frost was shocked. How did they catch up? He tried to utter that to Gaara and Gai but all that came out was nonsense.
As Frost glanced over at both of them. Gai looked like he just had a shot of caffeine and Gaara;

Frost called out to him, "Looking cool there, Gaara." Frost flashed a phony smile his way.

However now Frost was intrigued to try and go even faster.
But him himself didn't know if he even could.

"Well, Gai. Looks like you're getting your work out now, eh?"

Followed by a high pitched laugh of his.

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At first, there was no reply or any sound at all, save for Gai's steady, determined breathing. Then while maintaining his pace, he flashed Gaara a thumbs up. "Of course! Now my blood and my spirit are really pumping! Ha ha!"

Gai's attention turned to Jack (though he also meant his address for Gaara as well). "So are you - and a most exhilarating one at that! Could there be a better way for three friends to strengthen the bonds of their friendship?!" He too laughed, a most hearty and hot-blooded laugh.

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"Thank you, Jack." The sand wielder replied to his friend with a genuine smile, and then after surveying the unique ice skills for a few moments, he commented in earnest, "Your abilities are remarkable."

At Guy's question, Gaara tilted his head slightly to the side in a gesture of curiosity as he mused over the words, and when his light turquoise eyes flickered across his two companions, he thought this was certainly an interesting way for them all to bond. "I believe there are many different methods for people to strengthen their ties to others. This is certainly one of them. Jack. Guy. Which activity do each of you prefer the most?"

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Frost shouted back to Gai, "Over a long meal, prehaps?"

"Thank you now. But you're probably just as good with the sand, eh? After all it is your element now."

Frost paused for a moment, since he relayed on following those two for the most part, "Well, I do rather enjoy ice skating... What about about yourself now?"

At which he relieved how tricky it was going to be on making a corner turn without using too much space now but he could do it, right? Of course he could.

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Somehow, Gai was indeed able to continue conversation despite the EXTREME jogging. He is Gai after all. Of course, simply running while he answered such a question would not suffice.

"I too enjoy...ice skating!" he began, leaping into the air and doing a triple spin.

"And just as we are now, running!" His next step was a great, leaping bound.

"Sparring! HUAAAH!" A flying kick that, for a moment, put him a few steps ahead of the others.

"Dancing!" Taking on a more elegant air, Gai somehow managed to turn high-speed ninja dashing into high-speed ninja prancing. His grace would have made a ballerina jealous. Or sick.

"Oh, but truly there are too many things to name! Whatever ignites the passion between friends, creates fond memories, reminds us that we all have kindred spirits who share the same flaming soul and will always be there to run alongside you or pick you up when you've fallen! That is what activity I prefer with my comrades!" At this point, great big tears were beginning to form in Gai's eyes.

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A small smile of amusement formed over his lips at the two's enthusiastic answers; so this was how it felt to have close companions and relax when one wasn't too occupied with other important duties. Gaara took his responsibilities with the utmost serious intentions, and he was completely devoted to his position, but on the other hand, he was only sixteen and still young enough to enjoy life, a concept that he wasn't all too familiar with at this current point.

"I don't know how to ice-skate." He admitted to his friends without inhibition - there was, after all, no chance of getting snow in the desert, so how was he even able to go skating? Unless he traveled over to one of the villages with that kind of suitable environment... but he didn't have a whole lot of leisure time to do things in Suna, let alone wander over to another place.

Dancing was another area that Gaara had no knowledge about, although he did see other people his own age parttaking in that activity before, and idly wondered if perhaps Matsuri liked to dance... would she be willing to teach him? Hmm...

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As Frost turned the corner sharp he noticed there was ice ahead. Did they go around that fast. Amazing, really.

Frost smiled over to Gai nodding in agreement. Couldn't argue that now.

Then looking over to Gaara he frowned. That's right, desert boy. "Well, maybe you'll get lucky one of these days and it will snow in the desert." Frost shouted to him, followed by a rather large smirk on Jack's face.

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"A stroke of fortunate that certainly would be!" Gai shouted. He too then noticed that they were approaching the beginning of Jack's ice ring. "So we've already run a lap have we? My goodness how time zips by when one is zipping along with precious friends!"

"I say when winter comes, we should have another run such as this one, only upon ice! Yes, we should have a grand 'jog on ice' as it were, ha ha ha ha! Why, we should get together and do this on all sorts of different terrains! Truly would it test our endurance while strengthening our friendship! What say you both?"

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"Hmm. Yes." Gaara agreed, feeling his smile widen a bit at his friends' enthusiastic behavior toward the event, though part of him wished he could express himself in that same manner; still, many years of suppressing emotions made it a difficult process.

"Running over ice?" The redhead blinked at the suggestion and pondered on how that would work - he didn't have very much experience with that particular kind of terrain, so he would have to dely on the advice of Jack and Guy. "Wouldn't that be dangerous?"

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"Well not really. I mean if you have ice skates and all now."

Frost paused with a grin spreading over his face; "We don't have to wait till winter ya know."

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