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Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

Ino had everything she need to dye A.J.'s hair neatly laid out by the sinks. Even the bleach. He so deserved this, and wasn't she nice for picking out such a pretty shade when it could've been much, much worse?

"Got introduced to you by a friend," she sang, and tried not to dance too much, "you were cute and all that, baby you set the trend." Man, she was never going to be able to get this song out of her head.

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Ino wrinkled her nose slightly. "Don't think I'd care that much for it then. I don't like the idea of losing control of myself." Pause. "That way." She felt it had to be clarified.

She grinned and fetched him a towel. Ino didn't want to get the bleach, or the dye, anywhere it wasn't supposed to go.

"Do you think," she asked, "the school would have it on a list of holiday's for the incoming students? If there actually was a list, I mean."

A.J. quirked an eyebrow, but, somehow, he was doubting she meant what he was thinking she might have meant. And if she was? Damn that Kabuto...

"I actually think," he said, realizing that focusing on that would be a better idea, and he took off his sweater because he wouldn't want to get dye on that, "that's a very good idea. They should include other holidays, too, that people from different places celebrate, too, because I don't know any of those, but would like to, especially since our holidays are so, y'know, prominent."

Ino'd actually been thinking about all the effort it took to learn Shintenshin, and it's related mind tricks. From the stories she'd heard about her Dad when he was drunk... anyway. Although there was some experimenting she'd been doing with Kabuto... she hadn't meant that.

"That'd be a fantasic idea!" She enthused. "Beauty and I were talking about it today," Ino told him, "and about how Christmas was a surprise to us. 'Cause she doesn't celebrate it as much as you guys do and it doesn't even exist in my world."

A.J.'s mouth shifted a little at the mention of Beauty, and he wondered if Ino had mentioned the hair thing to her. He didn't ask, though, ~~since it was still going, la~~. "I'm sure you guys aren't the one ones, either. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more that don't than those that do. I mean, I always feel like I'm in the minority, because I come from such an utterly normal place. Ten years in the past, but still about the same thing."

"And it's kinda, you know, more fun to know about these things in time to prepare for them." Ino made a face, "I've still got a few more presents to get, and one of them's definitely going to be way late." She tugged gently on his hair, "But that just means you get to help all of us out by explaining it to us, and we definitely appreciate it."

"I suck at explaining them," A.J. warned her. "Case in point? I've still got all my presents to get, and I've been celebrating the holiday since as long as I can remember."

"But you still know about it, and that's what's important." She said, getting the bleach ready, "You know that every December you'll need to get presents for people."

"And, every December, I procrastinate on it until the last minute," A.J. grinned, but the grin soon slipped away as he warned her, "Be careful with it. Please? If you fuck this up, I don't think I could get over it."

Ino eyed him, before nodding, "I'll be careful, don't worry." She smiled reassuringly at him, "They cover this sort of thing in the girl's classes at the Academy, you know? I know what I'm doing." It was just that she'd never ever do it to her own hair.

There was a confused pause.

"At the Ninja Academy?"

"Well, yeah." Ino started carefully applying the bleach, "For going undercover and stuff. All the girl's learned how to cook, and sew, and styling so we'd fit in no matter where we went."

Another long silence as A.J. continued to try to forget that his hair was being bleached right now.

"Dude, if I went to Ninja Academy, and they were all, 'okay, you get to learn how to cook and sew and do hair,' I'd be pissed."

"You wouldn’t have had to," Ino said absently, concentrating on his hair, "You're a boy."

"Which seems even more ridiculous," A.J. muttered, but he was carefully guarding his criticism. You weren't as close to someone like Beauty without learning a thing or two about how your social ideas were not always the popular social ideas of wherever the person you were talking to.

Ino's eyebrows raised slightly, "Far more boys graduate to become ninja than girls." Her voice was mild, "It's to help prepare those that don't make the cut for a more normal life. It's not easy being both a girl and a ninja, you know. Of the nine in my group that made the final cut, only three of us are girls."

"Probably because they're wasting time teaching you to sew instead of...uh, whatever they teach to be a ninja..."

"They're important skills," Ino told him frowning at the back of his head, "and not just for domestic things. With chakra wrapped around a bit of unassuming thread it'd be easy to kill someone without them being suspicious. Boys for power, girls for skill. As we get older the gap tends to shrink in the differences in what we can do."

"Well, at the same time, shouldn't a boy learn it, too? If it's that helpful? I just think it's...well, silly to segregate who learns what based on sex."

"It's shown the best results for keeping more ninja alive though," Ino pointed out, "I don't think that's silly. They train us at what we're good at and as we grow we expand into our specialties."

"So are there exceptions? Do they consider what you're good at before they pick whatever program you go through, and statistically it's divided like that?"

"I guess there might be?" She concentrated on the bleaching for a moment, "My class wasn't like that though. And Sakura, Hinata, and I really are all better at control than power skills."

"Then I shouldn't have to worry about you messing up, right." A.J. gave a small, undisturbing nod before a grin broke onto his face. "Although, for someone who's so apparently good at control skills, you sure weren't good at controlling yourself to prevent getting blue in your hair."

... if she hadn't been bleaching his hair Ino so would've hit him for that.

"It's a different sort of control," she said instead, "about using our chakra effectively."

"And what's chakra? Completely un-ninja type here, so bear with me."

"It's... spiritual energy." She explained, "All living things have it, but what makes a ninja special is that we can use it for techniques."

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