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~♥THIRTY-THREE♥~

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[Masaomi, back from his mission steps up out of the tunnels... tired. He's quite tired, as is Linda (who is resting her pokeball which is clipped onto his vest. He has on the ninja flak vest he borrow from Shikamaru forever ago and also looks a bit beat up. Some of his sleeves are torn as are his pants. He has some cuts, some bruises, and some burns, not all of them healed but some of them healing. He also has one of his collapseable batons in his hand. Aside from this, his muscle build up is more obvious but-

But something different about the image - despite all that and the rain and the injuries, he's laughing once he looks up at the sky. Stronger. Stronger. He already feels it. Well, no time like the present, despite his tired he's going out to accomplish a few things. First is actually to go pick up something to drink from the grocery and pick something up from the item shop (feel free to run into him at either of those) and head over to Mikado's apartment. It's an important day, after all, and he did not want to blow him off for it. Besides, if he heads there now, he might make it as the guy is coming back to school and he might run into him before then.

After that, well, he'll spend his day with Mikado until that night (though anyone can run into him before then). This'll last until about 8PM, when he's going to be going to hang out just inside the battle dome for a reason which might obvious to a lot of people. (and no, he still has not changed his clothes, even if he might have cleaned up the more obvious injuries). And after whatever comes of that, he's going to go back to his apartment to meet up with his roommate and anyone he didn't run into through the rest of the day before finally popping open the journal.]

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Masaomi Kida has returned!! I hope you all didn't miss me too dearly!! [Okay so he's tried and running on caffeine by now, but he's still grinning ear to ear] Some rain out there today, and man is it wet- [he resists saying "ladies I hope you didn't get too wet if you saw me today" but it's hard. He laughs to himself at that joke despite not saying] You can tell the sky's telling us something though, riiight? We're approaching spring, a time of love and lust and all between! So sound off!! Whooooo's got a special someone? Who's got a crush? You can trust me, I'm a Love Machine.

[Laughing at this, once more]

So ladies... and gentlemen. Don't speak up all at once.

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A samurai named Jack... aaaah, that's just wrong.

Why is that wrong? His name isn't any stranger than half of the other names here.

[...Of course, she wouldn't get it. Actually, he wonders if she even has a frame of reference Okay, he looks to Linda, and then to her face]

Okay, so, let's see the name "Sokka" - it would be unusual to hear someone from the Fire Nation having that name, right?

[Katara smiles a little wryly at that, thinking of Sokka's time with Master Piandao.]

Definitely.

Okay, so... picture it like this - samurai are a special type of warrior from my nation, Japan. Like old school, our warrior-elite used to be called those. You've heard some Japanese names right, Mikado? Shikamaru, Masaomi, Anri, Saki... Aoba. [And he lists this off on his fingers]

Jack is a western name. From over in Europe. So telling me there is a samurai named Jack is like telling you there's a Fire Nation warrior named Sokka.

Oh. [She turns that over in her mind before nodding.] Yeah, that would be weird. I see what you mean.

See, totally weird. Now if we had Hideyoshi or Nobunaga here, I'd want to shake their hands. Oh, or Date Masamune!

...I'm guessing those are famous samurai?

Preeetty much. All from the Sengoku era- back when Japan was split up into dozens of warring states. Nobunaga and Hideyoshi unified the nation. I'm not a fan of history I can't see with my own eyes, but it's hard not to like the stories you hear about them.

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[She smiles a little - unifying the nation, huh? Probably just... conquering it. But it's evidently an important story to him.]

Those must be some stories.

I'll say! There's a not of drama and romance involved. Intrigue! I'm no otaku or anything, but between that, the Romance of Three Kingdoms, Dazai's works, ...Though I guess those don't relate as heavily. [eh laughs] Maaah, it's hard not to appreciate Eastern literature.

[....He's actually saying this outloud. Comfortably. He doesn't recognize it, but he's rarely talked about this with people]

[...she has no idea what an 'otaku' is.

Also, she's never heard him speak this admiringly of... anything that wasn't a "pretty" girl before.]

You'll have to tell me some sometime.

Tell? Oh no, Katara- you've gotta read these to appreciate them.

[But he. Could. Try to tell them.

Linda, meanwhile, is a bit flabbergasted]

[But reading involves sitting down an she is not much for that. Except if it's for studying and, wow, she really just doesn't have the time for this at all.]

...you're sure about that?

Positive! Abridging this stuff when it comes to knowing the original would be like abridging Shakespeare or Dickens or any other conventional classic. Or those Arab poems I've been finding in the library, criminal!

[In fact, he points a finger at her, wigglingly, taking this way more seriously than Linda thinks he should. He's being semi-sarcastic, but the passion is clearly there]

...Although.

[And then a smirk comes up on his lips. Okay. He just thought of something brilliant just now]

[...wow, he visits the library?

Oh no, what is that look.]

Yeees?

[She draws the word out with mild suspicion.]

Nothing~ Just an idea for later

[Wink at her.

Linda sighs. Gosh you were so cool when you were fighting why you gotta be like this!!]

[Katara frowns.]

That. Is not fair.

Oh? Why not?

[He leans in. smirking]

[Sigh, Linda, your trainer--

Katara touches his shoulder and shoves him away.]

Because! You can't just go and say something and then refuse to tell me what it is.

Oh, oh, are you using the "Law Concerning Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs" on me?

[And he rocks from side to side here, allowing himself to be shoved back]

The what?

[She thinks nothing of him returning to the proper distance in response to her shove. That's as it should be.]

Freedom of information laws. Disclosure? Transparency...?

[He shrugs. Admittedly, in a tribe that might not even be a concern]

...I've never heard of them.

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