Sakura stretched as she walked through the village, glancing around happily at the sights that met her. The reconstruction was going well, everyone was pulling together to move on and try to just forget about the past, determined to put the village back together bigger and better than ever. While the critical ninja areas had been completed first, other areas of Konoha had developed somewhat more quickly than others. In particular, the relaxation areas of the village had rebuilt quickly. Tourists hadn't been coming, but at the end of a long day of construction work people wanted to relax, so the bars, restaurants and Hot Springs dotting the village had been rebuilt almost overnight.
And now, Sakura was ready to do the same. With a happy stretch, the 16-year-old kunoichi entered the hot springs near the edge of the village, paying her fee and heading through to the women's changing rooms. Rather surprisingly, she found herself alone, but then again it was the afternoon; most people were still working. Fortunately for her, however, she had been given some time off. "Ahhhhhh," the pink-haired ninja let out a sigh of relief as she slowly slipped into the hot water of the spring, towel wrapped around herself. "It's been so long..." She slipped her entire body, minus her head, into the water, then leaned back against the rocks, letting relaxation overtake her.<|im_end|>
Naruto sighed... Stupid Ero-senin and his missions, still needing the blonde's help after all these years. Jiriya had wanted him to put a special potion in the fountain's water supply... Apparently to advance his research and he knew better than to try and reason with the old perv. The blonde sighed, stretching as he walked away from the supplies, the blue potion spreading into all of the pools, the gentle lapping of the water carrying it around. It was pretty simple actually, it was a variation of healing potions... Stimulating growth in the people it washed over... In the kind of areas the sage liked to document.<|im_end|>