The Dorm Lawn, Friday Morning

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There was snow. Ino didn't have any classes today.

Together this meant that, clearly, it was a day to play in the snow. And this time she was properly bundled up and wearing the hat and scarf Annette had given her for Christmas. At the moment Ino was entertaining herself by making snowballs and stockpiling them.

The first person she saw was totally getting a snowball lobbed at them.

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[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael didn't catch Earth germs, ever, and his body temperature was higher than the human norm. Thus, he scoffed at puny Earth snow and hadn't bothered to wrap up warm.

A perfect target, no?

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Ino spotted him and grinned. Totally a perfect target.

And look! There went a snowball flying at him!

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

He wasn't paying attention and caught it full in the face.

This may have been the first time he'd ever seen actual snow.

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... Score!

Ino burst into giggles and lobbed another at him just to see what he’d do.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Yes, she was getting sick. It really didn't matter right now because SNOW! Annett saw it blanketing the ground when she looked out her bedroom window this morning. She'd just double up on the NyQuil later.

So, hands shoved in her coat pockets, she was wandering outside, looking for the perfect place to make snow angels.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky had been astonished to look out his window upon getting up to see that snow was blanketing everything he saw. Having grown up in California and spending the last 3 years in space, he had never even seen it before. He had heard it was quite fun, but didn't really understand what the point of it was. Fluffy cold white stuff was only good when it was mixed with grape flavoring. Yes. Thankfully, he had thought to get and pack some warm clothing before coming here, and now decided to bundle up, cautiously step outside, and explore.

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And there would be Ino gleefully lobbing a snowball at Annette with a cheerful, "Morning!"

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Well, he could explore a snowball right?

Ino gleefully lobbed one at him.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Splutter, turned out to be the answer. Followed by scrape snow off his face and shoulder, look around for the culprit, grin, and lob it right back at her.

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She danced to the side, the snowball just grazing her arm. "Morning!" She all but chirped, while sending another one at him.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky didn't even realize the snowball was headed toward him before it impacted, of course catching him right in the face. He indignantly brushed it off and looked around.

"Hey! Who threw that?" he demanded grumpily.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Oooomf!" The snowball smacked her in the forehead.

Oh. This was so on! She recognized that Morning! and Annette ducked quickly behind a bush.

"Good morning to you, Ino!" she said and bent to her knees, getting together some quickly made snowballs.

"How are you?" Peeking over the bush, she lobbed one towards Ino, hoping for smacking-success!

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Ino's laughter rang out and she lobbed another at him. This was so much fun!

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"This morning?" Ino asked, as Annette's snowball hit her on the shoulder sending her into a round of giggles, "Absolutely fantastic!" She flung another snowball at Annette.

Yeah, yeah, Ino wasn't trying very hard to dodge. What was the fun in that?

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no fair!" he returned, laughing and gathering up another snowball. "And morning to you too."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Her snowball just barely brushed her shoulder and Annette lobbed two more, quickly at Ino. "Me too!" Even though she felt like the beginning of death.

"I rule at snowball fights! I think you should know that!" Giggling, Annette bent over and started making a pile of them, willing to get anyone who came by. This so reminded her of her field trip and the snowball fight with Mr. Phale and Tori and so many others. Oooh, that had been so much fun!

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"All's fair in love and war!" Ino told him, beaming, "And this is totally a day for a snowball war!"

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"I've got ninja training!" Ino said, dodging one snowball and the other hitting her solidly on the arm. "That gives me an edge!" She let fly with another, ducking behind a bush.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"You want a war, Ino?" he told her, ducking down, "you got one. And I cheat."

As he proved by charging her with two double-handfuls of snow.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I've got... snowball training!" She laughed. "There are rules of... engagement here!" Ino's snowball plopped on Annette's head and it ran cold and wet down the back of her coat. "Oooh!"

Scooping up an armful of snowballs, Annette moved from behind her bush and slowly began to creep forward, throwing one at a time where she thought Ino was hiding.

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Her answering shriek was mingled with her laughter, as she danced back but still giving him a chance to get her, "Don't you dare!"

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"Nuh huh!" Ino said, inching along behind her bush, trying to avoid Annette's snowballs, "There's no rules in war!"

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Try and stop me", he challenged, joining the laughter, and then caught up to her and put snow down her neck. But not too much - the rest just got dropped on her.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

This time, Sky saw it coming and tried to throw up a force field, but it was too fast; instead he rather clumsily dodged (taking the hit on his shoulder instead) and looked at Ino, scowling a little.

"Stop that," he said. "Is this all snow is good for? Throwing at people?"

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"It's totally a lot of fun," Ino told him grinning, lobbing another his way, "you should try it."