Yamanaka Ino (Iris)

Romeo ~~read his f'list~~ was, oddly enough, in a mood to talk to someone back in Fandom, so he dialed Ino's number.

Ring, ring.

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Ino made a scrabble for her phone, which involved a bit of tripping as she stumbled from the ground to her feet to her bed and then had to grab her phone because it had fallen down the other side of her bed again and caught it on the third ring.

"Hi hi hi!"

She was totally going to accuse him of being physic, oh yes.

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"Ino!" Romeo said cheerfully. "You sound happy. Tell me something good."

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Psychic. Yes. Not physic.

"I have a lot of good!" she enthused. "And you, I was thinking 'bout you, and that's kinda weird but awesome, just so you know. And--guess what I did over break?"

Ino totally wasn't going to wait for him to guess.

"I got to use magic." If sparkles could be words, her words would be sparkling right there.

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He could be physic, too! Romeo had many facets.

"Magic?" Romeo echoed, since she'd saved him the trouble of guessing.

Not that he had a guess beyond 'not going to New York', but anyhow.

"What sort?" he asked instead. "I've used Reno's electrorod but that hardly counts."

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"Zappy magic!" she bubbled. "I guess, sorta like Reno's? But Zack gave me a Thunder materia for Christmas and I got to zap stuff with it! It is awesome and he says I'm pretty good! Zack is my hero for it 'cause now I got magic of my own."

Pink sparkly hearts at that.

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Romeo laughed, not because it was funny so much as it was because the best way he had to express enthusiasm. "Best gift for an Ino," he decided. "What did the Thunder materia do?" A pause as he thought over all of what she'd said. "Wait, are you seeing Zack now? Zack who took Reno's place in the reserves?"

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"No! Absolutely not seeing him! We're just friends. He's dating my sib, Jen," because Ino hadn't gotten the memo that they'd broken up yet and so totally believed that, "but he's just--super nice, you know? So we've been talking a lot and he got me a present." And she'd kissed him, once. And held his hand. But...

Whatever. Yes. Denial was a shiny thing.

A beat.

"And Thunder lets me shoot lightning bolts from my fingers!"

Because clearly Ino needed more ways to be violent.

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"That is cool." What? Romeo knew slang, and sometimes it was the only wording that would do. "It's like having superpowers for as long as it works. I may make you send me some."

Because him teaching himself to use it would be a great idea, yes.

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Ino raised her eyebrows, not so sure of the greatness of that idea.

"Or you could come visit," she wheedled, "and try it out here where people won't think you're crazy for it! And Reno'd probably be able to get some easier than me--I got just the one, you know?"

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"Portal tickets to Fandom aren't cheap," Romeo noted.

As if he ever paid attention to money. He was already all but packed in his mind.

"I could call Triela," he said thoughtfully. "I promised to see how she was doing with gun club, anyhow. And it never hurts to see that Arthur and Leto haven't actually killed each other yet..."

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"Ooooh," she said, smirking. "Have you seen her new look? Bit of a shock, that!"

A beat.

"And portals aren't too bad if you go through a hub," she said, because Ino was a lot cheaper than Romeo was with money, yes. "Just crowds are evil sometimes."

Like around Christmas.

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As no one had informed Hayley that messages had been misdirected or anything of the like, she was going to make good on at least one of the great calls she'd gotten the other day.

She showed up, wearing a dark trenchcoat, and knocked on Ino's door.

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Normally, Ino was the sort who'd just be all 'come in' and stuff but she was in a good mood from talking to Romeo and kinda, well, bored and so getting up and bouncing over to the door seemed like a good idea.

She pulled open the door and tilted her head curiously at Hayley. They weren't, like, good friends or anything so why... well, it was always nice, having visitors?

"Hi! What's up?"

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An astute observer would notice that Hayley seemed to be barefoot.

"Hi!" she said, grinning. "Mind if I come in?"

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Ino did notice the barefootness, but hey--it was the dorms, so why not?

"Uh," Ino shrugged and stepped back, moving to flop on her bed. "Sure, come on in, mind the plants."

The plants that took up more of the room than Ino's bed and desk did, really.

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Hayley did enter, shutting the door behind her.

And then, well, she let the coat hit the floor. She was wearing not a stitch underneath it.

"Ta-da!" she declared, sort of naieve in her effort. She just seemed... happy. Like this was expected.

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Ino... was. Well. Um. Going to first stare because what else were you supposed to do when someone did that without warning?!

And then the giggles tried to hit and Ino was just going to, erm, stare so more and maybe squeak something halfway between hilarity and 'what are you doing?!'.

"Um."

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Hayley paused for a second. "That ain't exactly the reaction I was expectin'," she said. "This was your idea, remember?"

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"...my idea?" Ino asked weakly, reaching for a pillow to cling to and try not to laugh her head off.

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"Yeah!" Hayley said, crossing her arms. "You said to let you see me naked. That's exactly what the message said."

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Ino bit her lip, eyes sparkling with mirth.

"Well," she said, "um, your body is very, uh, nice?"

But Ino mostly liked boys. Unless you got her drunk and then she was rather more flexible.

"...I really didn't know that went to you, though."

Ino was just going to bury her face in the pillow and have her shoulders shake with silent laughter. Please, she thought, put some clothes on!

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Hayley was just sort of baffled to the point of not really caring she was naked.

"What do you mean, didn't know it went to me?"

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