Room 504, Tuesday Evening

[intraspective]

Awesome day had kinda dribbled into augh, blah day, and it was kinda Romeo's fault.

It wasn't that she blamed him, really—or, at least, no more than she blamed everyone else for the issues that came up whenever her world was inevitably compared to theirs—but few people asked so out-right and then the whole religion deal just gave her a headache.

She sprawled on her bed, punching in a text on her phone and stared at it for a long moment before hitting send, and tugging out a scroll to read.

[Open door, open post!]

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[intraspective]

That got a snicker out of her. "You mean you haven't?" Ino teased. "Well, do you think you'd like weapons or not?"

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"I haven't really thought about that," she said. "But I was thinking something hand-to-hand."

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"Fight Club for sure," she said, "they teach punching and kicking and stuff if you don't know how. Mmmm. Let me think about it for a day or so?"

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"Take your time," Jennifer said. "I'm not exactly anxious about all this."

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She smiled at her. "Did you know how to fall?" Ino asked abruptly. "I can show you that much, if you'd like. Falling is super important."

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"Sort of," Jennifer said. "I mean, we trained a lot in dance for that sort of thing. But you're usually expecting to fall, in those situations."

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"That's a good start," she said, nodding. "It's a matter of making how you fall into something that happens automatically."

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"So you don't let getting knocked down hurt you more," Jennifer said. "Right?"

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"So you can minimize the damage, yes," she said. "That's exactly right, which means falling is the first and most important thing you're going to learn. You need to be able to do it even in, like, your sleep."

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"...I don't think that's possible," Jennifer said.

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Ino thought of Rock Lee standing up to fight while unconscious. Of Hinata getting up over and over again while she fought a losing battle.

"It's possible," she said shortly. "But it takes time and effort and you're not likely to be in a position to know how close you are to achieving it. Just--practise, practise, practise."

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Jennifer nodded. "I'm definitely willing to give it a shot. But it's not going to become my... main thing, you know?"

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"I know," she assured her. "But practise doesn't have to take your whole day either--and falling at least, you know what I told people, when I was teaching them? Every night, even if you don't do any other practise, make sure you fall onto your bed. Even that counts."

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"That's good advice," Jennifer said. "Thanks, sis."