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When it comes to gym battles...which is more your style? Getting the damn thing over with as fast as possible by exploiting their weakness? Or drawing it out by not taking advantage of their typing handicap?

[Kuzuryuu, your team is hardly the pinnacle of typing diversity you really don't have much room to talk about type handicaps here. You beat Chuck because you were over-leveled, let's not kid ourselves here.]

...This isn't meant to be some deep analytical bullshit of your character or anything like that. I just got my Storm badge and that got me thinking. [...] It...seemed like a good conversation starter.

[He...tried? God, is he ever making an attempt at socializing. It's just not a very good one. Especially with this long pause he seems to have gotten himself stuck in now. Did he forget what he was going to say? No, he just kind of got off-script from how he'd initially planned this post to go and now he's not sure how to end it.]

Look, just... oh what the hell, fuck it. [He sighs in frustration, snapping back to his usual, irritable self. He was trying not to be obvious about the contest thing but FUCK IT.] The name's Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu. That's western order but let's keep it to family names, yeah? [Do not be fooled by the question mark at the end of that sentence. It is not a question; it's a statement, and his tone makes that abundantly clear. You are not on the (very short) list of people who are allowed to call him Fuyuhiko.] If we've never talked before, let's do it now. It doesn't even have to be about what I said before. The topic doesn't matter; I don't fucking care what it is, as long as it's not something stupid. Don't waste my goddamn time.

[WELL THAT SURE WENT DOWNHILL FASTER THAN A ROLLER SKATER ON CYCLING ROAD. People will be absolutely lining up to talk to you, Kuzuryuu. Well done. You will most assuredly beat Nanami now.]

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Oh hey! You again!

[The cute guy with the bad attitude. Hey there.]

Are you really that desperate for people to talk to? That's kinda surprising.

[Tenten. Honey. No. This is not the kind of person you want to tease.]

[You again. Dammit, he's already talked to you and it was annoying. WHY THIS.]

Fuck off, I'm not desperate. It's a competition, otherwise I wouldn't fucking bother with something like this.

[YOU DON'T COUNT TOWARDS HIS TOTAL. HE CAN BE AS RUDE AS HE WANTS. HA HA.]

[Wow. Way to be an asshole.]

Glad to see your attitude's just how you are, and not just 'cause you're at prom.

What're you competing for?

[Asshole is his middle name, tbh.]

What can I say? What you see is what you get. [KUZURYUU, THAT IS NOT TRUE AND EVEN YOU KNOW IT.]

One of my classmates got all pissed off when I told her I wasn't talking to people outside of our school. So whoever talks to the most new people over the course of the month wins and gets one demand of the loser. Anything they want.

[And bragging rights but even he realizes this is a really stupid thing to brag about...]

What you see is...

[She snickers at first, shoulder shaking a little as she bites back a full laugh.]

Hate to break it to you, but you definitely don't look like as much of a pain in the ass as you act!!

[And then she starts actually laughing. Gomen.]

[...are you seriously laughing at him right now, Tenten? You sure are, aren't you?]

[Yup.]

I didn't mean it literally, shithead! [But hell if he's going to explain that he actually meant "if you expected my personality to change just because of my surroundings, you're really fucking dumb".] And you're one to talk about pains in the ass!!

[WHY ARE YOU STILL TALKING TO HIM. WHY.]

[Maybe he was just in a bad mood at prom. Maybe he's normally a nice person outside of that!

Obviously not. She actually covers her mouth with both hands to try (with limited success) stifling her laughter. Even though the yelling is just kind of making her laugh more.]

I'm not the one making a public broadcast begging for people to talk to, then being rude to them! [she points out through her giggles.]

[He is a nice person!! It's just buried waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay deep down inside under a whole bunch of bullshit and bad attitude.]

Right! Instead, you're the one who doesn't know the meaning of the words "fuck off!"

[It is buried far too deep. Far too deep. Clearly that means it doesn't exist.]

I don't think I've ever met anyone who yells just as much as you do. We're just having a friendly conversation, aren't we?

[Wow, no, it exists. You just gotta do a little digging...ymmv on whether or not the digging is worth it though.]

Y...You have a strange definition of "friendly conversation."

[Oh hey, he stopped yelling. For now. Bets on how long that lasts.]

Intensity doesn't bother me. It's a good thing!!

[Tenten this isn't just intensity and you know it.]

But you were asking about the badges, right? I've got all of them in both regions, so if you wanna know anything, I guess I'm kind of an expert.

[You are not an expert either, you just steamrolled every Gym you came across.]

[Tenten, this is absolutely not the same thing as intensity. He's just loud. And angry.]

...there aren't any others like that Whitney chick, are there?

[The grimace that's suddenly made its way onto his face probably makes it obvious EXACTLY what he means by "like that Whitney chick". It has absolutely nothing to do with her battle prowess. Not that she didn't ut up a good fight but DEAR LORD THE AFTERMATH...]

[She will learn.

But hey! Look at that. They're practically having a conversation.]

Nah, she's the worst. That Miltank of hers is pretty brutal, huh? Whose badges've you got?

That was not the worst thing about that battle. But...yeah, I guess.

[Let's just...drop the subject of Whitney.]

Aside from her though, I've got Falkner's and Chuck's. [Totally going in order here, what are you talking about.]

I know what you mean, believe me. I got thrown out of her Gym after that battle.

[Dropping subjects, what's that like? She just doesn't know.

But she hums and tilts her head as she nods, tapping a finger against her lips.]

So you've got Rock Smash and Fly for HMs, right? You've got to go up against Bugsy in Azalea if you wanna be able to use Rock Smash outside've battle, though. Or Janine in Kanto. Sounds like you're making your way through Johto first, huh?

[IT'S LIKE THIS RIGHT HERE. DROPPING IT. TA DA. NO MORE WHITNEY.]

Yeah, I think that's the plan. Whenever our classmates stop passing the fuck out and let us move on from this fucking island, that is.

[WHAT. INCREDIBLE.]

Ooh. When you say classmates... you mean people you went to school with? Or like, teammates or squadmates or something?

School.

[Though, really, after what they went through on the island...something like teammates is honestly probably a better word for them...]

[They never got around to going to many classes after all...]

Aren't you kinda old to still have classmates?

[Tenten what. That's rude. It's only a second, and then she lets out another 'Oh!'.]

Oh, wait, you're from one of those places where you're in school forever. Like, until you're twenty or something. Right?

Well you don't have to keep going till you're 20, it's optional after a certain point but, yeah, I am.

You're...not?

[Where is that?]

Jeez, you're practically an old man by then. Who'd wanna be in school that long?

But anyway, nah, I graduated the Academy when I was twelve. The ninja academy, that is! I'm still a Genin, like, the next level up, but I'm not a schoolkid anymore. I'm a full ninja.

Most of us finish school around twelve.

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