He hadn't intended to stand up his appointment, but he'd had a last minute emergency that he'd had to deal with before he could actually get there... which meant he was going at a dead spring across the village, white coat flapping in his wake as one of his hands held the hat down on his head. He would never understand how his sensei had ever gotten anywhere on time when people would just spring up like that...

He definitely had never mastered the art, and he skidded to a halt just inside the building to see if the person he was meeting had... given up and left.

It wouldn't be the first time.