Room 504, Tuesday Evening

[intraspective]

Reno having been successfully avoided, Zack having gotten his travel permit to her world, and Ino in a totally good mood having scored some chocolate after a quick stop in town... she was pretty sure most of the things in her world were right and good for the moment.

Ino flopped down, radio turned on because, no, she wasn't sick of the carol thing yet, and tugged out one of her notebooks.

This one was red. She figured it was fitting.

Breaking a piece of chocolate and nibbling on it, she set about dividing her list of questions into smaller sections and making notes on which ones she could probably get away with asking Reno. Which ones Zack would answer with no problems, and which ones Elena would probably answer without arousing much suspicion from her.

She hummed absently as she worked, feet kicking idly at the air. It was Good Fun and Good Use of Her Skills to have something like this to do.

Reno was probably wishing she'd never ever thought of it, though. He had no idea how thorough she could be.

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Her smile turned wry.

"We don't all get to feel hotter, stronger, and better for life."

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"Guess some of us are just lucky," Jennifer said. "So what've you been up to?"

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"Plotting world domination," she quipped. "And making lists of things I want."

Lists of things she wanted to know, mind, but close enough.

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like a good idea," Jennifer said. "Anything I can help with on that list?"

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Um.

Ino eyed her notebooks (with her lists neatly written in her own language and coded besides) and then tilted her head at Jen.

"What would you think good questions to ask someone if you wanted to know more 'bout where they lived are?"

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

Jennifer thought. "I'm guessing 'Hey, tell me about where you're from, please?' is out of the question?"

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"Yeah," she said, lips twitching. "Just a bit."

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"Might help if I know who you want to ask," Jennifer said. "It'd give me a better idea."

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"Can't," she sighed. "It's more than one person. So I need shiny base questions."

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"...Hmmm," Jennifer said, thinking. "Is there a reason you're being sneaky about it?"

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"It's good training?" Ino said, grinning. "And fun, too."

And Ino was a lying liar who lied but what else was new?

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Well, you could always lead them on. Talk about the weather and stuff from your own home and ask them if it was comparable," Jennifer said.

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Ino twirled her pen idly. "That'd work for a bit," she mused. "Even if it's a bit inane."

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"Hey, you could always put them in stocks and throw tomatoes at them until they talk," Jennifer joked.

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Ino tried to picture doing that to Reno.

"...I think he'd kill me," she noted. "Or feed me to a monster or something."

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"Ooooh, so it's a he," Jennifer said.

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Ino did a very good impression of a blush.

"Maaaybe," she said, glancing up at the ceiling.

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"So is this a he that you're interested in?" Jennifer asked.

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"Maybe a bit," she said, with a show of reluctance. "But I don't think he is, so I don't want to be totally obvious 'bout it." Ino shrugged. "We're friends, so sticking with that is okay, too, you know?"

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"Yeah," Jennifer said. "...I could always ask him. For you."

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...

...

A small part of Ino curled up and howled with laughter at that.

"No," she said quickly, trying to look nervous and shy (two states that she did not enter very often, no). "I mean, what if he guessed?"

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"And how is he supposed to guess that from me asking about where he's from?" Jennifer asked.

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"Because I'll want to ask him other questions," she said, nodding. "So if you ask and then I ask things, he'll think it's weird."

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"Depends on the boy," Jennifer said. "After all, maybe I'm interested too." Hers was an evil smirk.

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...

Ino could picture many many ways to answer that. She bit down the ones that she was sure would get her in some sort of trouble.

"Why then would I tell you?" Ino asked loftily. "I ain't going to share."

She was bad at it, and besides--Jen was hitting vaguely close to the mark anyway, though the matter at hand was entirely different.