Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20170111035118/@comment-24479578-20170113232112

Nali’s nails continued to bore into the railing as her eyes began to water. Her chest hurt so badly. She would have gladly taken palm thrust after palm thrust from a Hyuga then feel this. Her forearms began to shake with the tightness that she was gripping the railing with. Then came the deep voice that was a bit foreign to her which caught her off guard. Her head shot up but it was the words that made her eyes widen with tears slipping down over her lower lids and flowing down onto her cheeks. Her bottom lip began to quiver but she pulled it into her mouth to keep it from causing her to straight out start bawling her eyes out.

From behind, her hair would fall to just below her rear in white and black as she always had. But she couldn’t wait any longer to see him. She had to see that he was alright. Turning, her hair followed her body like a piece of satin cloth that just fell over her shoulders and slid down her arms. Her face was a bit more mature and every curve that had just been starting when she had left was now full with the form of a matured woman. Silver hues looked to the man that stood before her as she took in how he’d changed over the years. Softly she smiled as she brought her hand up to her cheek and brushed the tears away. She had no idea what he had been through since she had been gone, but she looked to him with so much love in her eyes for him. “...With you always.. Where you always keep those you love… close. Safe. Protected..” She said as she placed her closed hand to her heart where she slowly splayed open her fingers to show him the most safest place she had always carried him.

She wanted to run to him. Wanted to be held by him. If just to know that he was real and no some image that her mind was just throwing there to trick her. But she saw the way his arms were crossed over his chest. Taking a deep breath to try and calm herself a bit, she bit her bottom lip as she looked to him. “You are the most handsome sight I have ever seen. God, I’ve missed you, O.” She kept holding herself back even though her body kept wanting to move forward toward him. A lot could have happened in three years. The look on his face wasn’t the man that she had come to love. It made her feel as if she was now the outsider in a place that she had called home with him. Realization then struck her as she stiffened a bit. *Had he found someone else while I was gone?* The thought caused her eyes to start to well up once more but she tried to not show the thoughts that were going through her mind.