The Grounds around the Stables, Friday Morning

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The ground was still wet from the rain earlier, but Ino was out bright and early to fuss with her garden area. After double-checking that all the little markers were in place, and fixing the ones that had moved—how?—she rocked back on her heels and considered the ground. Hmmm.

It was the perfect time to start digging up the ground and making it so she could plant her seedlings. Yes, she’d promised Karal that she’d have him help, but Ino didn’t see why she couldn’t, you know, start.

There’d still be plenty of work to do after all. With a grin, and a bounce in her step, Ino went and fetched her gardening shovel, then set to work cheerfully.

[Open, yes. I’ll be slow due to that whole working thing, but should be mostly around.]

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack waved as he wandered past.

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She caught the wave out of the corner of her eye and grinned at him. "Hi, Jack!"

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"Howdy! HOw's things?" he asked, wondering what all she's doing.

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She shrugged a bit. "Glad to be, you know, normal-aged again even if little me had fun."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I like me better when I'm me-shaped," he said with a nod.

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi and Porthos were coming back from their morning walk when Hoshi spotted Ino. She smiled and kept walking, but Porthos went nuts when he saw all that dirt. He tugged on the leash until Hoshi gave up and started walking towards the garden.

"Hey Ino. What's going on here?" asked Hoshi, keeping a firm grip on Porthos.

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Ino eyed Porthos, then her dirt dubiously but grinned at Hoshi. "Working on my garden!" she chirped. "Did I tell you? Principal Washburn said I could plant one."

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

"Oh, great!" said Hoshi, smiling. "I bet it will look wonderful, knowing how you are with plants."

Porthos, meanwhile, sniffed around the ground until he found a spot that he liked, then started digging.

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“Well,” she said, looking pleased. “I hope it’ll work out the way I want it to. Sometimes with plants though… they’ve got their own minds.”

Porthos got another long, level look. “I don’t mind him digging up the ground right now, since I’m rather doing it myself,” with a shovel though, “but his life will be in grave danger if he tries that on my flowers later.”

Half kidding. Half not. With a smile though.

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"Silly puppy," said Hoshi, scooping up Porthos. "No time to start like the present, I guess. Digging is bad, Porthos. No digging."

Porthos just licked Hoshi's face, then turned his puppy dog eyes on Ino.

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She snickered, setting her shovel aside and stretching. “Don’t know how effective that’s going to be,” Ino said, wrinkling her nose cheerfully before telling Porthos. “And Tether’s got a cuter stare than you do, sweetie, so don’t even try it.”

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"See, Porthos, not everyone falls for your cute look," giggled Hoshi. "Are you going to be staying over the summer to work on your garden?"

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“He’s cute,” Ino conceded. “But I’m afraid Tether beats him out easily in my affection.” Mostly because Tether belonged to Cable-san, and so… yeah. She grinned. “As far as I know I’ll be around all summer,” Ino said. “Don’t have anything planned either way, so yeah, probably a lot of time will be spent on the garden. What about you? Going or staying?”

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"Cable runs that weird store in town, doesn't he?" asked Hoshi. She remembered him briefly stopping by her cot when she was sick last November, but didn't know anything else about him.

"I haven't decided yet," said Hoshi. "I haven't heard back from my parents yet, but things were pretty weird when I went home for winter break and I'm not sure if I could last there for the whole summer."

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Ino made a bit of a face at that. “Wellspring Arms isn’t weird,” she said, looking slightly put-out. “I work there!” Which, clearly, made it a good place to be. “And Cable-san is awesome.” She was so very biased.

“Weird how?” That sounded interesting. “Bad weird, I’m guessing?”

[And fleeing for home now, be back in an hour!]

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well hello there fellow ninja."

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She snickered, grinning at him. "Hi, you! Have you grown out of pirate pyjamas yet? Because that's seriously a total conflict of interest there."

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Billy laughed. "Yes I have. Not sure where those came from, I never had pirate pajamas when I was a kid."

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"Wish fulfilment, maybe?" Ino laughed.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Eh, maybe whatever deity that controls the Fandom Weird saw, hmm, kid with an eyepatch and fake leg? Must be a pirate."

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She snickered. "Then it totally needs to get better at guessing."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"No kidding. Unless it was meant to be a joke."

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"And we'll never be able to tell that," she nodded. "Who knows what the island would find funny. I mean, really. We'd never tell a mistake from a joke."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Heh. One weekend we all got amnesia and I thought I was a pirate. Very strange. What're you up to by the way?"

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"I was here for that weekend," Ino grinned. "Kabuto and I decided I was a lawyer-type model."

She beamed at the question. "Working on digging up the ground for my garden," she said lightly.