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Fourth Floor Common Room, Thursday Night

Reno was in a pretty good mood tonight, really. And so he decided that tonight was going to be the night that he named his ferret.

He just... still had no clue how to go about doing so.

That was why Reno and ferret were both plopped down on the couch in the fourth floor common room, flipping through channels on the television set. While Reno doubted that there was a program on the TV that was specifically geared toward ferret-naming, perhaps inspiration could strike at any moment.

In the meantime, there was a murder mystery on the TV. And a baby ferret trying to bury the remote under the couch cushions.

[Open, as common rooms tend to be!]

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Hinata, really, just had slipped down to the common room for a tea, but she smiled when she saw Reno-san. She hadn't seen him in awhile.

"Reno-san," she greeted with a smile and bob of her head. "Good e-evening."

It was not, precisely, evening any more but good night sounded too final.

Reno grinned up and nodded his hello when he became aware of Hinata's presence in the common room.

"Yo, Hina! Been a while, girl. How's life in Fandom High been treatin' you so far?"

The ferret had buried the remote! It was the best ferret ever, and had to show his victory by doing a bit of a bouncy war-dance. Bouncebouncebou-HAY A PERSON. HI PERSON.

He was honking his hello. He liked people!

There was an answer to his question, really. It was just lost in the blinking at the ferret honking at her.

"N-New friend?" she asked, wandering over to the couch and remembering that radio had said something about that. "A-And I've b-been well. A kitten h-has claimed o-ownership of me."

Yep! The ferret was Reno's new friend! It was everyone's new friend? Play? Play? Playplayplay? Oh, hey! Part of the remote was sticking out! He had to go bury it, brb!

"Yeah, wound up with him on Tuesday, yo. Wasn't really expectin' to ever end up with a pet, but now that I got one, it ain't so bad. Haven't named it yet, though. Your cat got a name?"

"It's v-very energetic," she said, watching the ferret and grinning a bit. "And y-yes. Her n-name is 'Yei', it m-means 'flourishing'."

"Sounds like a good name for a cat to me, yo," Reno replied with a nod as he reached to retrieve the ferret before it could wedge itself too thoroughly into the cushions. "Still got no clue what to name the ferret. The thing's totally nuts, and I suck at namin' things."

"Y-You could n-name it after s-something that i-it likes?" she suggested.

Reno looked at the ferret skeptically for a moment.

"Honking? Digging? Stealin' anything I got layin' around? Biting?"

The list could continue for a while.

"Eating?"

"F-Flicker? I t-think some p-people call it t-that, a r-remote control," she suggested, trying not to flush. "F-For how a-attached it s-seemed to the remote c-control."

Reno considered.

"Flicker the ferret."

Huh.

"Kinda got a bit of alliteration goin' on there, don't it?"

Honk!

"A b-bit," she agreed, with a soft laugh. "B-But it s-seems energetic e-enough for him."

"Energetic ain't even the beginning of it," Reno laughed. "This little guy is absolutely nuts, yo."

Reno set the ferret back down on the couch and proceeded to wave a hand at it. This prompted another war dance, which consisted of about two hops, a bounce, and then an unceremonious flop onto its backside.

"Though somethin' that's got somethin' to do with the energy he's got ain't a bad idea, is it?"

Awwww.

"I t-think the f-ferret is sweet," she said. "A-And s-something with e-energy is, at l-least, a g-good place to s-start for a n-name, perhaps."

"Keepin' energy in mind, then," Reno replied, pleased to have some sort of starting point for naming the ferret, at least. "Thanks, Hina. Been stuck for ideas since he came home. Kinda wanna do this right, or whatever. Never had a pet before, yo."

Ever. Wasn't planning on it.

But awww. Ferret.

"Y-You're welcome?" she said, almost hesitantly. "A-Are you e-enjoying having a pet? Y-You look like it."

"Kinda grows on you, don't it?" Reno poked the ferret a couple of times, earning a roll-over-bite combo, and then laughed and scratched him on the back playfully. "Can't say I don't like it. Just never really thought I was gonna be the pet type in the first place, yo."

"W-What changed?" she asked curiously, then flushed. "I-If you d-don't mind s-saying, I m-mean."

[And I'm crashing for the night. ^^;;;; SP okay?]

Edited 2008-07-04 05:33 (UTC)

"I happen to have a girlfriend who insists I do things that're actually good for me," Reno laughed. "Didn't even know we were headin' to get me a pet until we were in Alexandria, wanderin' lost. I never would'a gone out to get one on my own. Too much can go South, you know?"

[SP is awesome!]

She nodded. "B-But at the s-same time, m-maybe because it c-can all go w-wrong, it's g-good to... d-do whatever. B-Because you m-might not g-get another c-chance."

Reno went quiet for a moment, thoughtfully watching the ferret snuffle about.

"Kinda never thought of it like that," Reno confessed. "I mean, was always too worried about what'd happen if I had to take off and couldn't come back. But... people got it covered, here, don't they?"

Another pause.

"I mean, Rikku said she'd take care of him if I, uh. Couldn't."

"H-Here's a good place f-for it," she agreed, just watching the ferret.

"W-We're taught it b-back home to b-both live and d-do our jobs. T-Treat it like, h-here, peope go w-work at a s-shop and come b-back at n-night, no issues, k-keep going about their d-daily lives. It's l-like that b-back home, only a l-lot of the t-time people d-don't come back from t-their 'job'."

"I guess dangerous times don't stop nobody else from livin'," he mused, reaching to give the ferret another playful sort of scratch on the shoulders. "Probably should give it a try."

There was a pause, there, while he mulled it over some more.

"Back where you come from, you ever get anyone tellin' you that you shouldn't, anyhow? That gettin' attached to some--thing. To somethin' is a liability, or unfair to the somethin' you're gettin' attached to, or whatever?"

"Some," she said quietly. "B-But that's g-generally from t-those who've l-lost everything. F-For most of u-us, getting a-attached to people, or a-animals, is w-why we keep c-coming back. If t-there's nothing to l-live for, then w-what's the p-point?"

Lost everything. Like Tseng, who couldn't save Zack and couldn't save Aerith and who sent most of the Turk ranks on a mission that went horribly, terribly wrong.

And who hated the fact that Reno had found himself a girlfriend, and would lose his shit if he found out that Reno had added a pet to the mix.

"There ain't no point," the redhead found himself saying. "Wake up, do your job, keep breathin', but there ain't no real reason to it. You're just livin' because you haven't up and died, yet."

Been there.

Glad to be out.

"A-And that's why we're t-told to make f-friends, to c-care about our p-precious p-people," she said. "So t-that if we g-get knocked d-down, we'll f-fight to get b-back up."

Reno nodded.

"Ain't had much of a reason to do that, either. Until I came here, anyhow. Making amends and comin' home to someone are two real different things."

This was something of an eye-opener, really.

"Guess I shouldn't take what others have to say on me gettin' close to people too personally. They can keep goin' for their own reasons, I'll keep goin' for mine, yo."

[I must flee for work! I'll be back again later on into the evening. Continual SP?]

"I'm l-learning," she said, glancing down and wondering what her father would say if he could hear her. "To g-get back up o-on my own, w-when other p-people say I s-should s-stay down b-because I'm not a-as strong as t-they are. But... someone... t-taught me that y-you only g-get stronger b-by d-doing things b-because y-you want to do them. N-Not b-because someone else s-says you s-should. If y-your heart isn't in it t-then you'll f-fail quicker t-than if you r-really care. Y-You can, in the e-end, only a-accomplish things f-for your o-own reasons."

[Definitely with the continual SP!]

Reno just smiled.

Somehow, it was easier to smile when you were talking about how it was important to live life in order to go on living.

Fandom made things twisted and crazy like that.

"You're a tough kid, Hina. Don't ever let nobody tell you otherwise. And if they do? Give 'em a good, hard kick in the nuts. Because I said so, yo."

The Ferret honked its agreement. Whatever they were talking about? It was so totally true! Truuuuuue. Totally.

"I d-don't think w-with s-some people, that I'd b-be able to," she said, offering her hand to the ferret.

Alice raised an eyebrow, clearly amused by the small fidgety creature.

"Dare I ask which of you adopted the other?"

Reno grinned over at Alice, reaching to pick up the ferret so that it could honk a proper hello.

Honk!

"I think it was a mutual kinda agreement, arranged by a matchmaker in hot green shorts. Kinda grows on you, though."

It did. Like a fungus. A cute one.

"How you doin', Alice?"

All right, honks deserved a proper hello back, so Alice was curtsying to the ferret.

"I'm well, thank you," she said. "I'm particularly glad I didn't bring Dinah with me, as I'm not certain how she and your new friend would get along."

That earned something of a chuckle. A chuckle and a raspberry.

"Knowin' this little nibshit, he'd probably just attempt to play. Uh. Playin' kinda includes chewing on. And honkin'. I dunno. Maybe he'd try to bury her. He's kinda loopy, zoto."

"Perhaps she'd like to play," Alice mused. "Or perhaps one of them would attempt to devour the other, which makes for somewhat difficult play. Hello, there."

She held her hand out for the ferret to sniff, or possibly honk or chew at, whichever he'd like.

The ferret was going to go for a combination of all three. A sniff-honk-chew, if you will. With a bit of omnomnom-warbling as well. Because that's just how this ferret rolled.

"Would be interestin', if nothin' else," Reno smirked. "And if it goes sour, at least we'd be around to step in and keep 'em from eatin' one another, yo."

That was because this ferret was adorable. Adorable creatures did not need to bother being logical.

"Then we shall have to introduce them, at some point," Alice said, clearly enjoying the nibbling and honking. "Although I'm at a disadvantage, I fear. I don't know your friend's proper name at all."

"That'd kinda make two of us," Reno mused, smirking at the ferret as it showed Alice's fingers who was boss here. Rar! "Only got him on Tuesday, and I ain't never kept a pet before. So I got this ferret, and I wanna name him right, yo. I just... don't know what would be the right name for somethin' so... spunky?"

Spunky was not quite the word he was looking for. The word he was looking for was something like retarded, hyperactive, troublesome, and adorable, all rolled into one.

Reperoubleable.

... Or something.

"Names are important," she nodded. "Just ask Turtle. She calls herself Alice now and again. I'm gracious enough to share, there's enough Alice to go 'round. Have you narrowed it down at all? Perhaps you'll discover one when you least expect it. You'll be wandering along and smack! The perfect name will strike you in the face."

She was resisting the urge to honk back at the ferret.

Reno had been resisting the urge to honk back at the ferret since Tuesday. He understood.

"Hinata already suggested his name have somethin' to do with how energetic he is. But that's just puttin' my brain in places like, 'stupid, finger-chewin' nibshit,' and that ain't really a name," Reno mused.

See, he was thoughtful like that. "But 'energetic' is some kinda start, anyhow. Maybe I'll just pick a bunch'a energy-type words, and see if somethin' comes outta that."

"It can be a nickname," Alice mused. "Though I think it's a bit vulgar for a nickname, personally. He seems very excited, to me. And energetic. Perhaps try saying some names to him and see which he responds to. There's no reason he shouldn't be allowed to choose a name."

And then, because she couldn't resist any longer, Alice honked.

She never did say that she was normal.

"You," Reno mused, "just made yourself a friend for life, yo."

The ferret certainly agreed! She could speak ferret so clearly she was the best thing ever and he was gonna have to prance and warble and honk and then wiggle free of Reno's hands so that it could chew harder and honk again and what was he doing?

Oh yeah! Burying the remote! Lookit, a remote!

"I've always wanted to befriend a ferret," Alice beamed. "Who knew it was so simple?"

She held out her hand, to see if she could tug lightly on the remote. Perhaps the ferret enjoyed a vigorous game of tug-of-war?

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