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The Roof; Sunday Evening.

Cal had never seen anything like this sky before in his life; he'd be damned if he didn't appreciate it. From the height of the dormitory's rooftop, the view was even better, and it also added a bit of consolation in the theory that, perhaps, if anything did erupt, he was at a bit of a high ground, even if he was pretty sure lava could manage to do quite a bit of damage to the base of a building. Maybe they were far away enough that it wouldn't matter, anyway.

But, God, it was gorgeous. It certainly did wonders to pull Cal out of the reverie that had been holding him back all day about his father. About how the last time he'd seen Milton was when they broke the news about Cal's...condition, how he'd never said a word to him after that, because he'd run away and, by the time he got back, his father had died. He'd called Tessie, but the ensuing conversation was short, awkward, and left him overly thoughtful. Sitting on the roof now with a cigarette between his lips as he took in the electricity in the air, though, he started to feel a little better.

[[ it's a roof; of course it's open =D ]]

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She had told Chad-san that she was not interested seeing the volcano. That had, however, only applied when it wasn't so... active.

Hinata stepped out onto the roof, nodding silently to the other people already there.

Cal lifted a hand in greeting. "Welcome to the great big enjoy the insanely pretty active volcano party," he offered.

That got a soft laugh and a smile. "It's n-not surprising that others have the s-same idea," Hinata said, "c-considering what the sky looks like tonight."

"Yeah..."Cal sighed a little as his eyes trained back on the spectacle. "I really should have expected that, I guess."

The rueful tone in his voice suggested very much that he hadn't thought of it at all.

"Y-You didn't?" There was a surprised lilt in her voice. "B-But..." Where else would people be on an evening like this one?

"...Yeah, I know," Cal, grinning kind of sheepishly, rolled his eyes. "I wasn't thinking at all. Too used to be alone; I sometimes forget how many people there are here."

"T-Then expect the unexpected, p-perhaps?" Hinata said lightly. "I-If you assume o-one thing then e-expect the other to happen?"

"Which seems like not too bad of a rule to live by in general around here," Cal added with a light smile. "One of these days, I'll learn..."

Of course, Cal understood the irony in his words, not that he expected anyone else to. Expect the unexpected might not be a bad epithet to go along with him as a whole, really.

"K-Kurenai-sensei says that it's a g-good way of thinking n-no matter what," Hinata told him, glancing up at the sky as she did so. "B-Because then you can b-be surprised and p-pleased when things work out the way y-you planned, but also if they d-don't then you're n-not caught so badly o-off-guard."

"Good advice," Cal agreed with a nod. "Common sense, really. Hard to be prepared for everything, though. Somethings are just...way too out of left field to ever really predict..."

"L-Like islands moving?" she asked, amused.

Yeah. Exactly. He was totally thinking of islands moving. Cal cleared his throat a little.

"Yeah. Exactly."

Hinata glanced sideways at him, wondering just a bit. "T-Though I suppose that d-depends on individual experience," Hinata said, "I w-wonder if there's a student h-here that's from a place w-where islands can move."

It was a possibility after all.

"I wouldn't be surprised," Cal agreed with a slight nod. "And he's probably standing there wondering what everyone thinks is so damn impressive about a moving island."

"A-And keeps wondering that until the n-next thing comes a-along and he's surprised and o-others aren't?" Hinata shook her head slightly, amused.

"Or not even the next thing. 'Wha...what is this falling from the sky, you guys, oh my God!' 'Joe, that's rain. It's totally normal.'"

She laughed. "P-Perhaps that too. Or s-someone from an u-underground w-world, seeing the s-sun for the first time."

"That...would be quite a trip. Although, you know," Cal's grin grew a little more, "these guys I lived with in California? Good example on how pot can really mess you up. Get enough of that stuff in them, and, let me tell you, they'd start claiming that they were seeing the sun for the first time."

Her brow furrowed slightly. "P-Pot? A drug?"

Cal nodded. "Yup. Marijuana. A relatively low-scale drug, made from cannabis leaves." He held up his cigarette. "You usually smoke it, like a cigarette, but I was actually clean back then. I wasn't even smoking these."

"W-What made you start?" she asked, then blushed and looked down. It wasn't any of her business, not at all, but the question had slipped out and she hoped he wouldn't take offend...

Cal gave a light smile back; that was definitely not a question that he liked answering, or even one that was easy to answer, but the way Hinata seemed to kind of regret asking it made him feel a little better about it. He shrugged a little. "They remind me of someone I used to know," he offered, which he felt covered it without revealing too much.

That covered it enough for her. Really, there were many ninja with worse quirks than that.

"B-Back home," she said, "there's a jounin that s-smokes only when things are going g-good. If t-things go wrong, and h-he's got to be serious, then he d-doesn't smoke at all."

"Now, see," Cal said softly, still with that light, thoughtful sort of smile, "I'm the opposite. I smoke when I need to sober myself up, if things start getting too good and I need to be serious again."

"T-Things get t-too good?" she glanced at him. That didn't make much sense to her...

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