Room 504, Monday Evening

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Getting back from Michael's room, Ino didn't manage to completely shut her door before cracking up and laughing brightly.

Green.

She, she was going to do some work; really. Eventually.

For now though she was just going to laugh and laugh. Because, seriously, he was green. That deserved some laughter. She really loved Fandom sometimes.

[Door and post are open! ETA: The fact that Hoshi showed up and they talked about Michael is FB, what exactly they talked about in relation to him is NFB, please.]

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Her lips twitched slightly, almost a smile. "Like how 'friends' doesn't always mean just that?"

... that was mean, right? Ino didn't apologize, she didn't often, but her next words were lighter.

"Did you know Michael is currently green?" Oh-so-innocently. She'd never promised Michael that she wouldn't tell anyone.

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"Like that," agreed Hoshi. "When it comes down to it, though, I'd like to be your friend too, even if that means staying away from Michael." She was sincere, and if Ino was being mean, Hoshi didn't realize it.

"Green? Really?" asked Hoshi.

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There was a bit of mental facepalming from Ino even though she was, in a way, glad that Hoshi didn't, hadn't, noticed what she'd said as being mean. "I," she tugged at her bangs, "ugh, that's not what I meant. It's just, well, we're not-dating, but there's an interest right? So, if you're his friend that's fine with me--he needs more friends, really--but, I guess I'm just asking, that if you want anything more than that, um, let me try and make up my mind first?" That sounded bad, right? Selfish. "Or, let it be Michael's choice to decide which way he wants to go. Because I totally don't control him or anything."

"Green as grass," she said, "his skin is, that is. Really. I saw him earlier."

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"That works for me," said Hoshi. "I'm not really sure that I'm ready to actually date someone yet."

Of course, Hoshi's had her own experiences with being green, but those involved body paint that washed off. "What happened? I take it that this isn't a voluntary thing."

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"Still need more communication practice? Or just not interested?" She was, actually, interested.

"Apparently Liir's green too? And Michael tried to help him and I guess the colour transfered or something. By accident."

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"I think more practice is in order," said Hoshi. "The more I talk to boys or talk to other people about boys, the more I get confused by them."

She smiled. "I wonder if he'll still be green in class on Thursday. Isabel once changed the color of a sweater for me and I guess he thought he could do the same thing."

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"Boys," Ino said dryly, "are complicated. But I wouldn't want to do without them. Boys, definitely, are worth the effort of trying to understand them."

"I will laugh if he's green for that long," she declared, "but only because I care, and because it's funny. Maybe it's because Fandom whacky had something to do with Liir's colour change that he couldn't fix it?" That seemed as likely a reason as any. "I mean, a sweater is natural, so maybe..."

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"I'll take your word for it," said Hoshi. If Ino had two guys that she couldn't let go of, then maybe there was something special about them.

"I've had too many experiences with Fandom weirdness," groaned Hoshi. "I got attacked by a vampire, spent one weekend as an adult version of me, then spent another weekend as a totally twisted version of me."

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Or maybe Ino had a possessive streak a mile wide and got attached to people easily. Not that they weren't special, but Ino did have a tendency to collect people.

"You don't like the weirdness?" Ino grinned. "It's fun, even with the freaking out afterwards. Did you get hit by 'lose your memory' weekend as well? I got that one, and the adult version--that one was fun--but I haven't been hit with anything like being a really twisted version of myself."

Ino didn't count the adult!her to be a fair description of 'twisted', from what she could remember all the decisions had come about in a way that made sense to her.

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"I had the memory one too. I nearly attacked my roommate with a stapler," said Hoshi, chuckling at the memory. "But the twisted version of me was bad. I cut off the bottom five inches of all my t-shirts, participated in some very indecent dancing with a boy, drank a whole bottle of tequila and pierced my own belly button."

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Ino didn't think Hoshi's twisted version sounded all that bad. Short shirts? Sure! And indecent dancing could be fun with certain boys.

... considering what the waltz with Kabuto had turned into... yeah. Indecent dancing was good with her.

"A whole bottle?" That did startle her. "Isn't that stuff, like, really strong? Wow. And they gave you a piercing! Did you keep it?"

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"I would have liked to keep it, but it got infected and really started to hurt," said Hoshi. "One of the doctors at the clinic had to take it out."

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"Ow." Ino winced. "That's a good reason to take it out, I guess. If you liked it though, how come you haven't gotten another?"

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"Ronan and I were just talking about that last week. I'm going to go to a place on the mainland to get it done, eventually. He's going to go with me and some other people," said Hoshi.

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She nodded. "Sounds like fun. It's probably good to have someone with you who knows what they're doing, right?"

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"Plus it won't get infected that way," said Hoshi. "I'll let you know when I'm going, if you'd like to come with me. I should be going now, though. Annette came by to see me after class, and then there was the first Martial Arts Club meeting today, so I still have homework to finish."

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"I'll think about it," Ino promised, "depends on what else I've got going on though, but yes, tell me please."

She looked rueful. "I should probably do some work too, anyway, not homework though. Just other things. I'll see you around Hoshi."