fandom_clinic | FTEC -- Monday [December 20]

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FTEC -- Monday [December 20]

This week, it was true that she was a little more relaxed than she had been the week before and Ino had managed the walk without Zack trailing around with her like a puppy--though she'd kissed him that morning and promised to call anyway--which was good. And her hands still worked, which was even better.

… And Ino was possibly going to be paranoid about that for a good while. Which would be why she was practicing diagnostic jutsu on herself today, specifically her hands, which was a curious thing because it required her hands to work in order to use the jutsu, but truly, logic was having little place in her making sure that things were well and in order.

The practice was good for her anyway, she told herself virtuously. And if she screwed up, nothing would happen because all these jutsu did was take readings and note abnormalities.

It was a little harder to work them in the twinkling of Christmas lights, as Fandom had decided they didn't need real lights today, but Ino was determined and persevered.

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Where Ino is.

Never let it be said that Reno couldn't find his Rookies if he had half a mind to. Rikku had mentioned to him that something had been off about Ino in class last week, and so he was going to take it upon himself to check up on her.

See? He cared.

"Yo, Rookie," he quirked a little grin as he stepped into the clinic. "Not takin' off for the vacation?"

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She glanced up, green lines glowing around her hands, and it was obvious from the abstracted look in her eyes that most of her attention wasn't quite on him, or on anything around her that he was going to be able to see, for the moment.

"Not yet," she said, almost absently. While she carefully began the work of dismantling the jutsu and the lines started to recede.

Reno watched those glowing lines, noting how the green glow of it all was so reminiscent of mako.

Man, he could live a long time and never see mako again, and he'd be alright with that.

"Oooh, so you do have plans, huh?"

It might have glowed the same way, but it was very different in effect from mako. The glow flickered and slid inside of her hands, fading out as she shook her head, shaking away the remnants of the readouts, and focusing on him.

"Zack and I were thinkin' of visiting my parents for a bit. Nothin' major."

"Hey, better'n nothin'," Reno noted. "I still ain't figured out what I'm doin' this break. I heard talk of plans of movin' to Junon, back home, but then, Rikku's been talkin' about doin' on runs for fiends in Spira, too."

See how truly torn he was? Decisions were difficult!

"How did you hold up the other week, by the way?"

Reno was nothing if not forward.

She narrowed her eyes, fingers clenching as she tensed up.

"It was a week," she said, very flatly.

It had to be Rikku who'd said something. Reno the chicobo would not have noticed anything weird at all.

Well, no. Reno the chicobo had been more interested at blowing raspberries at people. Pbbth!

"That good, huh?" His eyes took in the clench of her hand, and then flicked back up to meet her own. "You weren't on the island."

He'd noticed that much, too.

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Only if needed.

Ino would've shuffled her way into the room had her steps not been so light. As it was, she was moving reluctantly.

And, once they were both in, she was going to... avoid sitting on the cot like it had the plague and seat herself in the only seat in the room.

Then she was going to study her hands.

Yup.

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Hey, she could have the seat, he could lean up against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. It balanced out nicely like that.

"What's up, Rookie?"

Once again, there he went, cutting straight to the chase. Reno was well-versed in tact, but he only broke it out when he figured it would actually do him any good.

Ino wondered if she could get away with just... letting the silence grow.

But she was fairly certain that Reno would say something to break it. Maybe. Or else he'd let her nerves do that and Ino just... wasn't up to that sort of game right now. Not when she still slept not so much curled up by Zack but clinging to him like a lifeline and she spent hours inspecting her hands to make sure they still worked and...

"The Crescent Unit decided that the best way to get to Zack," she said, not mumbling but her voice was quite quiet, "was to go after me."

Something in Reno's jaw twitched at that, just barely perceptible as a little tic near his temple.

They'd never gone after Aerith. Reality was spiralling onward without him in a way that he could no longer hope to predict. That scared him a little, but he'd never let that show.

"You piss 'em off?"

Neutral. So, so neutral.

Those hands of hers clenched tight in her lap.

"Killed a few of them a while back."

Made her fair game.

Didn't that make it her fault, in some way?

Reno's response to that was just a small nod.

Yeah, he could guess where that had gone.

"You're still alive," he noted, because that seemed to be the inexplicable part. It had nothing to do with his opinion of the rookie, and he hoped that his tone implied as much. But he was also familiar with the Crescent. They'd put SOLDIER through enough trouble. Anything less didn't stand much of a chance, himself included.

And her voice was sliding back into an expressionless monotone. It was easier, really, to distance herself that way.

"Wanted Zack," she said, keeping things short. "Wanted information. Needed me alive for that."

And even then, she'd barely been alive when Zack had found her.

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