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5th floor common room, Sunday lunchtime

There was a large amount of various tinned vegetables in the cupboards, and River had arranged all of them on the kitchen worktop. The arrangement was a complicated one, organising the cans according to size, colour of labels and content, but none of them passed the test. Instead she decided to make another fruit salad, and proceeded to finely chop all the fresh fruit available, placing it in a large bowl. Especially the chopping up of some big bananas made her grin, thinking about the conversation she had had with Mary at the hotel on Friday.

[Open, of course, and edible fruit salad available]

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Ino wandered in, looking for food, and stared at the counter as she realized what she was seeing. She looked at the other girl, amusement dancing in her eyes, "Do I want to know?"

River looked up. "You will have to make that decision yourself," she replied with half a smile.

"You couldn't decide what to make?" Ino guessed after looking over the arrangement, "... though that doesn't explain why you organized them like that."

"Examined the tinned vegetables, but decided to go with fruit," River said, adding another handful of chopped oranges to the bowl. "The arrangement is just the analysis."

Ino blinked. "I suppose that makes sense." In a strange OCD way. "Want some help putting them away?" She paused, "I'm Ino, by the way. Don't think we've been introduced."

"River." She nodded. "Had planned on leaving them, but have no objections to you moving them." She smiled. "Want some fruit salad?"

"Sure," Ino said taking a few of the tins and putting them away, "I hadn't decided yet what I wanted to make, so salad'll do just fine."

River filled a bowl with fruit salad and handed it to Ino. "Might be ice cream in the freezer," she said.

"Ice cream and salad? Sounds good to me." Ino grinned, taking the bowl, "Thanks. Want some ice cream too?" She could always finish putting the cans away after.

River shook her head. "Not today." She let out a giggle. "Should save it for Berthold."

"Berthold?" Ino asked, checking out the freezer and coming out with some chocolate ice cream. "A friend?" She found another bowl and scooped some out.

"Tentacled monster," River replied, filling her own bowl with fruit salad. "Should be careful where you put your feet down around here sometimes. Not now though. He's under the bed."

She paused midway through putting the ice cream back, and stared at River, "You've got a tentacled monster as a pet?" She asked, making note to keep an eye out on where she stepped. "What sort of world are you from?"

"Different solar system, 500 years into the future." She tilted her head and smiled at Ino. "Berthold is local, though."

"From here?" Ino shut the freezer, "I haven't seen any, are they rare?" She paused, "And is Berthold dangerous?" It couldn't be too bad if it lived under River's bed, right?

"Under Buffy's bed," River clarified, not caring about the fact that Ino didn't actually say that out loud. "He seems to be on his own." She tried the fruit salad, nodding to herself.

Erm. Okay. Ino blinked at her. She was pretty sure she hadn't said that last bit out loud. Did River have mind powers or something? "That's nice." She said dubiously, staring at her ice cream. "Have to had him long?"

"He was here when we arrived." As far as she remembered anyway. Stirring the fruit in her bowl, she made a spiral pattern.

Ino darted a glance at River, then said, "Like, right at the school? That seems like an odd place for a creature." She frowned, then thought hard, Master Skywalker said people around here aren't forgiving of mind powers. If River didn't respond to that, then it had just been a concidence. Or something. Ino's own talents with the mind didn't cover just randomly hearing people's thoughts.

River looked up, the movement sudden, eyeing Ino warily. Then she smiled, equally suddenly. "This is an odd place. Do you like dancing, Ino?"

Ino shrugged, wondering if the look was enough to count as evidence. "It's fun, I guess. I don't get a chance to do it often though." Too busy training on other things.

"Other things keep you busy?" River gracefully jumped up to sit on the worktop, placing the bowl in her lap. "Kept trying to argue that dancing should be as compulsory as shirtlessness in this place." Her lips curved into a crooked smile.

"There's always something else to do." Ino said with a smile of her own. She'd count that as positive proof. "Did you make any headway in that? 'Cause compulsory dancing doesn't sound like it'd be half bad." Mmm. Ice cream.

"Unsure. Organised a party on the roof, but since then there has been little effort to keep it up." She eyed Ino curiously. "Always something to do, yes."

"I like the roof." Ino offered, except for the whole falling off the side of it that one time, "But parties up there in the winter might be a little unpopular." She thoughtfully ate some ice cream, "I'm a little less busy here than at home, though. Missions take up a lot of time."

"Might get someone to heat it," River replied. "But I wouldn't advice falling off. Tell me about home?" The mix of thoughts and words always gave her a more complete impression.

"I don't plan to do it again." Ino said, laughing. "Home? Home is, well, it's like feudal Japan, only with TV and things. My family owns a flowershop, and both Dad and I are ninja. So I guess I've got two jobs." She thought about her team, and running missions. Ino shrugged, "I don't know what else to say, really." She wasn't going to go into her family techniques after Master Skywalker had warned her.

"Flowers and fighting. Should keep you busy." If Ino didn't want to tell her about the secrets of her family, River wasn't going to ask, but that didn't mean she wouldn't listen to her mind.

[Bedtime for me, woe!]

"Yeah, and looking after my team." Ino tilted her head, "Boys can never take care of themselves. Even when they say they can." A surge of anger at being left behind threatened and Ino beat it down with a firm mental stomp. That was over with. "It's want I want to do though, so I'm happy." Mostly.

She wondered how she was going to keep up with training though, if she couldn't work on Shintenshin. Ino needed the practise, but with Yondaime-sama not answering her phone call... she frowned. Maybe Kabuto would let her?

Probably not. Ino doubted he'd let her take over his mind.

[Good night~!]

"Take over his mind?" River raised an eyebrow, giving up pretending she wasn't able to hear what went on in Ino's mind. Still, certain things needed clarification and context, especially if the person was unfamiliar to her.

Ino twitched at that, but her answering look was steady. "Possession." She said simply, letting her mind briefly range over how it worked, "It's a family technique used for reconnaissance and assassination." How better to kill someone than from inside their own body? "I don't use it for fun." Ino said firmly, "Only when I'm ordered to, in training, or my life is in danger." Though Master Skywalker had said not to use it even then, while at Fandom.

River knew how people sometimes reacted to have her in their head, and she was only able to listed. Possession was another thing. Instinctively her guard went up, even if she wasn't sure the barriers around her mind was enough to protect from something like that. And Ino did not seem threatening.

"I can see why Anakin said that," she replied quietly.

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