ura_no_ura: (softened look)
[ Festivals are not usually events Kakashi enjoys attending.

They're too crowded, loud, and require socializing, which isn't something Kakashi particularly likes to do very much of. He'd much rather just spend his time with Junko-chan between the pages of a well-read book. But Obito insisted that Kakashi come to this particular festival, so here he is, mostly trying to disappear into the crowd. Hoping that if he's lucky, maybe another version of himself will have had the misfortune of somehow being pulled into said festival as well, which would allow him some respite from the task of socializing.

Or having to face the fact that there probably aren't enough lanterns for him to light.

(Though, one would have to ask if he should even be lighting them, given the dead's propensity for coming back to life, or having never died, in this world.) ]



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whatoncewas: (Sigh)
She'd stayed away from the others a bit more than strictly required, it was true, but she'd wanted to be left with her thoughts as she'd carefully cut and folded the paper for her lantern in the trees, perched on a wide flat rock even as the light started to dim and the first of the floating lanterns had been released, the light shining through the trees, brighter than the fading sun.

She didn't immediately move to add her own to the evening's release though, instead putting even more care into hers. She didn't intend to send one every day as some were, or follow most of the festivities but... but she felt it would be good that this one mattered all the same.
konohasuperstar: (Default)
"Careful with that. Here, grip it right there, see the frame makes it easier to carry~" the taller teen had stopped halfway through to coach his younger self on how to properly carry a paper lantern. Really, if he wanted the object to last the trip whole, it had to be done
"Can we stop to get roasted corn?" of course, the boy was eyeing all the stalls.

"Not yet. Don't you have your hands full already, huh?" the taller sasuke was mostly amused by the smaller one. "Oh, Hold it right there~" he stopped and shook his head. "You got distracted again huh?"
"Distracted?" the younger boy blinked. "I didn't."

"Then what's that, hmm?" he handed him a small paper crane he ahd picked up from the ground and tried not to laugh as the youth paled slightly. His expression was priceless. Poor thing, he was so endearing when looking guilty.
"C-can you... put it back? I promise I'm not gonna let it fall again!"

There was a light chuckle and he placed the small paper bird along where three other colorful cohorts were nestled in the boy's hair. Oh, he -would- remind him about that chakra exercise daily now if he could! "There you go~" he made sure his other self had it secured properly before retrieving his hand.

Eventually they made it to the stream, and the boy was handed a match to light the small candle inside his lantern. The smallest Sasuke did not trust his control to such an extent, and the older one knew that it would be wrong of him to even suggest it.
"...aren't you sending yours off?" the boy asked, looking over to his other self.
"Nah. I'll do that later. The evening's still young, yeah? Here... open your hand~"

The youth's eyes went wide as he was given some ryo. "...for me?"
"You wanted some of that corn earlier. Plus, you did say you wanted to go get niisan and make lanterns with him too, huh? you'll need energy to run back home." hea reached down to ruffle that hair. "Run along now~"
It didn't take more for the boy to give a happy cheer and rush off.

The teen stretched his free arm, usual jewelry shimmering with the neaby shifting water, and as graceful as a feline, jumped up a large rock overlooking the stream, his dark blue yukata littered with small Uchiha clan symbols clinging loosely against him. Beside him, he still had his unlit lantern, gazing at the ones headed downstream.
Spring... for some reaon, he couldn't help but be reminded of Kakashi-sensei always telling them about the springtime of youth...
skeren: (Ray of Sunshine)
Lantern Festival

Finally, at long last, it seems that spring has settled in properly, and the massive thaw a few weeks before was not merely another round of nature being unpleasant. The word out among the villagers is clear. The streams are finally accessible.

Why is this a big deal? That, at least, is easy to find out, as any and all villagers will tell you about the lantern festival. It is the festival to mark the true start of spring, and constant excursions up into the more forest heavy part of the mountains are taken during all hours of the day. All are invited to make delicate paper orbs and boxes, or to create candles themselves from the many colored options that can be found just into the forest.

It is a celebration of spring, and everyone is preparing for the nightly lantern casting, which sends brilliant lights across the sky every night from the water's edge where they were created.

And that's saying nothing at all about the volume of treats being made either, of course.

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