The Gym, Sunday Early Morning

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Ino managed to arrive before Liir, which was a feat in and of itself, and so she decided that since there wasn't any point in her just sitting around she did a few quick stretches then got to work on her taijutsu--hand-to-hand fighting.

It felt good. She was going to have to do this more often.

[Ino is waiting for Liir, yes yes. But also open for all your Ino or gymish needs.]

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"A dance," he said, but most of his concentration was on breaking down the pieces and learning each one and how they flowed into one another. One to the other. One to the other.

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Ino could be silent; really.

It just took a bit of effort, at least around Liir. He generally made her feel like chattering. Out of respect for his obvious concentration though she bit her tongue and simply worked on showing him how the moves all fit together.

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"You can talk," he said, noticing the silence. "I've worked with distractions before."

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The look he got in response to that was equal parts amused and exasperated. Because, really, that was sorta insulting. A distraction...

"A distraction?" she said, obviously teasing, "Is that all I am to you?"

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"If I told you the answer to that," he said with a grin, "you'd be distracted."

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"I'm easily distracted," she said lightly, even though it was only true on the surface of things.

When she didn't want to be nothing could distract her. Determination was something Ino had in spades.

"Which, you know, really isn't helping your case."

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"I have a case? I'm just going between stances."

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"If I had a notebook with me I'd be crumpling a bit of paper to throw at you right now," Ino said loftily.

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"I'm supposed to distract you with honesty?"

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She eyed him. "Depends, I guess, on how this 'honesty' was said."

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"Words usually work well."

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Her eyebrows raised slightly. "There's many different ways to say the same thing," Ino said, "and some of those ways could be more distracting than others."

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"There are," he said with a smile.

Then he let that sit for a moment before saying.

"You're the only person I feel safe being ridiculous with."

He had faith in nothing, at the end of the day. Everyone dies. And everyone leaves. And he couldn't see enough of himself to have faith in it.

But the way he saw it, Ino would at least be honest with him about when their association would end.

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She blinked, processing that and was... touched, almost, that he felt like that even if it sounded a bit ridiculous, but it wasn't really and...

"The only one?" she looked at him, "Not even your Andrew?"

And, again, his narrative if she could read it would probably give Ino fits. Seriously.

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He shook his head.

He felt safe being happy with Andrew, loving Andrew, being loved by Andrew. Different.

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Ino looked down, a smile gracing her face.

"I'll work hard to make sure you continue to feel safe then," she said after a few moments, "I'll do my best."

Pause.

"And my best is very good." Loftily.

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"So I've noticed."

Smirk.

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"Oh good," she said, "because it'd be depressing to think you hadn't."