Room 504, Tuesday Morning

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Ino... had heard radio. Thanks a lot, radio.

Ino was now contemplating hiding in her room for the rest of the day just in case Temari-san had heard, and took offense, to what had been said.

It didn’t look much like she was hiding, since she had the door open and was ostensibly just doing a thorough check up on all of her many plants. She was honest enough with herself though to know that she was hiding. If Temari-san had really wanted to have words with her then a closed door was hardly going to stop her.

Just... staying out of Temari-san’s way sounded like a real good idea right about now. So that's what Ino was doing.

[Open door, open post.]

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Ino pondered that.

"How is anyone weird when you've got well, me," Ino said, "a boy who controls shadow, a girl who can see through things, a boy with bugs living in his body, and another boy who can make his body bigger and stronger all in the same class?"

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He paused. "Not my fault you live in a freak world," he teased her.

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She tried to whack his side for that. "My world is normal to me!"

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Ichigo let her for some reason. "People thought my hair was weird. How do you explain bugs crawling out of your ears?"

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"What's wrong with your hair?" Yes, that's all she got out of that.

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"Have you seen people from Japan?" he asked. "Everyone has black hair."

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"Dojima-san's from Tokyo and she'd got blonde hair," Ino said dubiously.

Ah, different universes.

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"Maybe she's just foreign," he suggested.

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"Nope," she said. "She's not. Born and raised in Japan and her family has been there for eons."

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"She could be a fluke like me," he pointed out.

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"Maybe," she conceded. "Though I don't see why it's a big deal. My best friend back home has naturally pink hair."

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"They're teenagers," Ichigo said simply. Then paused. "No, that's not true. They're people. Anyone who looks different, must be different."

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Ino rolled on to her back. "That's depressing."

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He shrugged as he glanced down at her. "It's true."

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"Shouldn't be," she said stubbornly. "It's different if it's, like, a symbol you wear deliberately, but not just what you're born with."

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"Hey, I don't disagree," he said quickly, "but you deal with it."

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"Stupid," she muttered, though it wasn't an insult directed at him.

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"I kicked their ass." He did sound smug about it too.

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That got a laugh. "Good."