Apartment Above the Boards, Tuesday Morning

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Like Zack, Ino hadn't slept much after they'd sent Kueng home. There was a lot to think about and--in her case--a lot to read, look at, and watch. Tseng, Kueng's Tseng, had come through for her with every little bit of information he could scrape up that might change the future.

She'd wanted to go through it herself, first, before sending off copies to both the Tseng in her timeline (even in her head, she wasn't sure about calling him 'her' Tseng) and to Reno, with an email explaining what this information was and how she'd gotten it.

Then she settled in to review the information again.

Maybe it was morbid to watch herself die, but the fact she went out laughing, made her smile.

[Late post is late, but open, sure~]

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Reno followed her finger, looking back up the stairs, and then smirked and shrugged before starting to run back up the stairs.

Why the hell not? It would take Tseng a while to catch up either way.

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"Yay yay yay yay!" she squealed, hugging his shoulders.

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Reno was grinning as he took the stairs four at a time, then pushed himself off the wall and jumped up to the next landing, then the next.

Showing off for a happy kid was... kind of great. He'd happily do that any time.

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And each leap to the next landing was accompanied by more gleeful noise from Ino.

See? See? She'd known he was a ninja! He was totally a ninja.

He was the best.

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Reno climbed the stairs even higher than the floor they'd been at, this time, before jumping back over the edge. Hell yeah, free fall!

"Wooo!"

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"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

They fell and fell and fell and she wasn't scared at all.

This was way better than the elevators.

(Not that Ino really understood what those were yet. But it had to be better.)

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And once again, Reno threw out a hand, catching the ledge, swinging back into the landing, and then running down a few more steps so that they were on the right floor again. He grinned over his shoulder at her.

"So, how about that bath?"

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She only recognized that last word through sheer repetition.

Ino nodded. A bath sounded like a good idea, and she'd already had a bunch of fun, and they'd said she'd get food after.

"Bath!" she said brightly. "And then ramen! And maybe then more running around?"

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Reno grinned as he pulled out his passcard and swiped to open the door, and then sauntered on through it into the building.

"Bath," he mused, "then food, then... whatever we do, how's that sound?"

They were going to blather the same thing at one another in two different languages.

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Ooooh, hey! Hey, what was that?

Ino peered over his shoulder interestedly, pointing at the passcard. "What's that?"

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"Hm?" Reno glanced at her, then looked at the card. Then back at her. And then he nodded in understanding. "Oh, this?"

He held up the card in question?

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She made a grab for it.

"What is it? How'd it open the door? Is it some sort of jutsu thing?"

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Reno shrugged and handed it over, and then shut the door again and crouched down.

"Wanna try?"

He couldn't explain it to her, but he could let her play with it for a bit.

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She investigated the card first, flipping it over and back in her hands and trying to figure out if there was anything special about it.

It didn't look special.

But she waved it at the door hopefully anyway.

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And the panel made a little beep, and the light changed to green, and Reno reached to open the door.

Magic!

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Ino clapped happily, keeping a death grip on the keycard.

"It opened, it opened! The light changed!" She turned the card over again. "Do all doors open with these?"

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Well, all the doors opened for the Turks, anyway.

Reno smirked down and shrugged his shoulders, then held out his hand for the card.

"Beep beep," he said. "Got the key to the whole building here. But sometimes you gotta have a code, too."

Hence Reno's elevator trauma.

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Ino didn't give it back.

"Do I gotta? she asked, wheedling. "I won't drop it, I promise."

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Reno laughed and shook his head.

"Aw, c'mon," he drawled. "I gotta have that, Rookie. You," he pointed to one of her jacket pockets, then slipped a hand in and pulled something out of it, "got your own."

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There were two of them?

Ino supposed she could give this one back, since he had another one.

"Trade you?" she said, offering his card back.

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"Here you go," Reno said, passing her the card he'd pulled from her pocket and taking his back. "Now you can get almost wherever, too."

He opened the door again and held it for her.

"Shall we?"

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Oh, fine.

She toddled through the door, giggling and waving her keycard at it as she did so and, with a glance back at him, once through it, kept on making her way down the hall.

Maybe he'd let her have the next door!

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Hey, why not? Reno was nothing if not willing to share door opening duties, after all. He smirked and followed her down the hall. The laundry rooms were down near the far end, so it wasn't like he had to herd her in the right direction yet or anything, anyway.