The Gym, Sunday Early Morning

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Ino, despite her best attempts, was still drowsy and half-asleep from the sleepover at Lana's when she slipped into the gym and started her stretches. She blinked, somewhat bemused, she'd beaten Liir. Ha.

She let herself dwell on that rather than anything that might be waiting for her to wear in her room--at least she could console herself with the fact that, no matter what he picked, she'd picked it out to buy, so it couldn't be that bad.

Right, then. No fretting allowed.

Well. Minimal flailing was permitted, seriously.

[Ino is here for Liir, but totally open for any of your Gym-ish or Ino-ish needs.]

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He trotted in a few minutes later, looking just a bit sheepish as he dropped his bag and started in on his warm up.

"Sorry. I was up a bit late last night."

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"I beat you here," she said impishly, grinning.

That fact amused her way too much. Uh huh.

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"That you did."

He gave her a sideways look as he stretched.

"Did you sleep?"

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"A bit," she said evasively. "Why?"

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"If you'd rather help me out a bit with the broom project instead of practice today, we could," he mentioned, as she seemed a bit sleepy.

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Ino blinked at him for a moment. "A broom project?" That might have been a good bit of glee there, yes. "Flying?"

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He shook his head.

"Actually, I've done some work on a practice stick and I want to see if it responds appropriately to you.

"It won't fly yet. I'm still working on that. We can go flying after, if you'd like."

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Ino did some blushing there. "I've, uh, yeah... got something else planned for later this morning." A beat. "But testing works!"

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He raised a single eyebrow.

"I see."

Then he walked back over to the quiver that held his broom and pulled out the somewhat smaller practice stick he'd packed along with it. He walked back and held it out to her.

"Take it."

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"You see?" she said, blushing worse now and taking the stick from him.

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His eyes were on the stick as he nodded.

"I have taken to listening to the radio," he said absently.

"Do you think you could channel a bit of chakra to your hands?"

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"...what did radio say?" Ino asked warily, making a note to listen to radio before going to Michael's.

She closed her eyes, feeling the need to do this properly, and concentrated on pulling up her chakra to her hands.

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The stick jumped, just a little, and Liir grinned.

"I did have it right!"

He was too pleased to remember she'd asked something else. He'd get back to it.

"All right, all right," he said thoughtfully. "Could you channel a little more? Increase it gradually..."

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The stick jumping made her tighten her hands around it, and she had to smile at the triumph in his voice.

Ino brought more chakra to her hands, slowly increasing the amount as she went.

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It wiggled a little and Liir shifted his weight back and forth with a faint bit of glee.

"One last thing."

He held out his hand.

"May I have it for a moment?"

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She offered it to him, letting her concentration and her chakra lapse.

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He took it and pulled it away from her.

"Can you call up your chakra and focus on the broom? Not much, just a little."

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"Like, from a distance?" Ino asked, frowning slightly.

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He shook his head.

"Sorry, sorry. No, just focus it into your hands like you were and think about the broom."

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She eyed him from a moment, before shrugging. Alright then. Ino concentrated her chakra to her hands and thought about the broom.

Er.

Not dirty. Yeah.

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It twitched again.

Liir, completely unabashed, lept in the air and gave a 'whoop!' like the loon he often mentioned he was.

"Perfect! Ha ha ha ha! It worked!"

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She blinked at him, amused.

"It twitches?"

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He waved that off.

"It responds to you. That was what I needed, that is what took so long to work out. I was bashing my head in practically trying to figure out how you'd be able to direct the thing, how you'd be able to make it fly, and if I'd be able to let it respond from a distance. The moving was hard enough, of course, of course but it's the first step to flying.

"But most importantly," he said, grinning his head off, "I've got it responding to you! You, with no magic you!"

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"I have plenty of magic on my own," Ino said mildly offended, though grinning, and she knew what he meant. "Though not the sort you're talking about, of course. Will it require chakra all the time, do you think?"

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"It won't be powered by it, if that's what you're wondering," he said with a shake of his head. "It will be the means of control and movement, how you'll tell it what to do."