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Ino, and Weechee who was still crazy-adorable, were up nice and early to get the table for prom ticket sales set up. With king and queen voting even. There was, because this was Ino, various sorts of chocolates set out too.

And a small sign that said ‘free hug (if you want it) with ticket purchase’, because far be it for Ino to pass up a chance to get random hugs. Shush. Besides, she was just a sophomore. If it wasn't for Ichigo, she wouldn't even be able to go, geez. Somehow that totally counted as a valid reason for a hug.

Or something! She didn't really need a reason after all!

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"Yeah, it was a clean break," Dinah admitted. "I might be able to take the bandages off tomorrow." Which would still leave her with two black, bloodshot eyes, but at least there was make-up for that. "Hi, Weechee," Dinah couldn't resist picking him up, and laughing. "I met Leto's little 'assignment' on Tuesday. I'm supposed to babysit this afternoon. And I don't know if you're lucky or not to miss the zombies." She tilted her head and looked considering. "I mean, we're all mostly okay now, but it was kinda traumatic at the time."

"Awwwwwww. Well, they're pretty sweet, I think. You'll have fun! Wendy gets to take him tomorrow afternoon on. I'm going to miss him." That got a bit of a shrug. "I don't know if I would've been any help," Ino replied. "I doubt I'd have taken it seriously."

"I mean, I think only once since I've been here has someone actually died?" she said, considering that. "So I'd have probably guessed that it'd wear off, or something." It was Fandom, things wore off.

"You're kidding?" Dinah boggled a bit, then said, "You're not kidding. Wow. I'm ... kinda impressed. Sheesh." She hugged Weechee, who squealed and hugged her back. "I was fighting, mostly. And helping set fire to things. And being totally worried about all my zombie friends." She shook her head. "What's the worst, the real worst, that's happened since you got here?"

It really was an impressive track record, considering what all happened on the island.

Ino thought about that. "I think being sick with the plague was the worst, physically," she said slowly, "that's the one where someone actually died, and several other people were in the hospital for, like, a week after still recovering. But being trapped in the past for seven months was kinda worse. It was only a week for everyone who stayed here, but for me, seven months passed and I was, after the first week, all alone in Paris, a century ago." One eye slid shut in a quick wink. "Guess who speaks rather out-dated French now?" And a bit of Italian too. "That was harder mentally, I think, coming back and having to readjust."

"Sound like it," Dinah said soberly, considering that. "How'd you get by? Did you find a job somewhere? And how did they fix it?" So people had died on the island; it wasn't a sure thing that no one ever would. And getting stuck for half a year in the past didn't sound like a picnic either.

"They got a message through," she said, "telling us to head to this place, where we'd be frozen or something 'til our real time came 'round again. So I guess I really spent a century asleep?" Something like that.

She hitched one shoulder. "No job, officially anyway," Ino admitted, "but I put a lot of my training to use. Not so much with the legal side of things. First week I spent making sure a few others had, like, weapons and some cash, then we parted." She was pretty sure Romeo still had the gun she'd gotten him.

Ino had been a terribly effective pick-pocket/cat-burglar.

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"Right, ninja." That would *always* get you work, no matter what the century, which was good to think about. "Ohhhh, weiiird. So you're really a hundred and something?" Dinah bounced the wokling on her hip to make it squee, then grinned. "I'm glad you got rescued, though, even though it took a while."

"Ha!" She rolled her eyes cheerfully at that. "I mean, yes, ninja. And I guess you could say I'm that old, but I'd really rather not be. Fifteen is totally good enough for me, and if I add my spare seven months, I'm totally sixteen."

A beat.

"Though that messes with my birthday, definitely."

Dinah snickered. "When is your birthday normally?"

"September 23rd!" she said, making a face. "One day after one of my teammates back home, Dad jokes that it was a race or something, to see who'd get born first."

"Sooo, you'd be turning 16 on the same day I turn 17, if we counted those seven months," Dinah realized with a grin. "And ha! Which teammate is that?"

Ino laughed. "That's a bit confusing to explain though, if it were anywhere but here! And Shikamaru, he's clever but super lazy if he doesn't have to be anything else."

"Which, obviously, meant that it's my job to bully him into things."

"Of course. Boys can be such slackers," Dinah said, grinning. Well most of the ones she knew were workaholics. But poking the rest was always fun. She hugged Weechee again, and said, "Okay, hug from you now? Or group hug?"

"Well," she said, "we're pretty evenly matched in 'getting on each other's nerves'." Ino wasn't exactly 'easy-going' really.

A beat.

"Group hug!" As she bounced around the table for the hug.

"Woooo!" Dinah laughed as she hugged Ino and the wokling at the same time, squeezing hard. "I kinda needed this. Long week."

Weechee squealed and laughed. Ino laughed too, hugging Dinah tight. "I figured people might," she admitted, looking a bit sheepish. "So hugs it was. Though I admit, I like getting hugs anyway."

"Me too," Dinah agreed, then tickled Weechee's tummy before carefully setting him on the ground. "Cool. So yeah, I guess I'll see you at the dance? You're going with-- oh, I always forget his name, but Chad talks about him. Ich... guy?"

"Totally! It's Ichigo," she said, grinning tolerantly as Weechee toddled to cling to her legs. "If you ever feel like making him spaz comment on how his name means strawberries. Yes, we're going--which is a good thing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go!"

"Right, Sophomore," Dinah remembered. "Cooool. Then I'll see you there." She shook her head. "Come over and say hi."

"I will," she promised, picking Weechee up to dance him around to her side of the table. "See you tomorrow!"

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