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[mendo]

// 桂 (kei)

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XIMILIA

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[blackfire]

She.

[mendo]

Ah.

It should have been Ita-chan. My bad.

[ u n f a z e d ]

[blackfire]

Please do not get attached to my crow. I cannot summon them on the station.

[mendo]

I wouldn't ask you to.

There's no need for you to track me on the ship after all.

[blackfire]

You are treating my summon like a pet.

I am communicating that I cannot facilitate this attachment on the Ximilia due to the restrictions on our jutsu.

Furthermore, I do not need a crow to track you. It simply makes it easier.

[mendo]

More a companion than a pet.
I'm not going to become attached, so you have nothing to worry about.

And I'm aware. You don't have to state the obvious.

[blackfire]

（ he may not be good at picking up on sarcasm and humour, but he is aware that shikamaru's tone has shifted — inasmuch as tone can shift via text.

so there is a long moment. then: ）

If what I have said or done has given you cause to believe I doubt your competency, I apologize.

I am... not accustomed to being openly allied with shinobi from Konoha.

[mendo]

This is new to me too.

[...]

You're going to have to learn, so relax a little.

[blackfire]

I expect I'll find learning less difficult than relaxing.

（ humour......... ）

[mendo]

You seem pretty fine relaxing around your wife.

[blackfire]

Did you expect differently from a spy?

[mendo]

It's a little freaky.

[blackfire]

I've had considerable practice.

[mendo]

Then all that's left now is for you to practice it outside of espionage.

[blackfire]

They say when you die, you take your personality to the grave.

I'm not sure that manner of change is possible for me now.

[mendo]

You aren't dead here though, are you?

[blackfire]

I'm not a reanimation, if that's what you're asking.

But I do recall that I struck my deal with the orb from the afterlife.

[mendo]

Do you breathe?
Can you bleed?
Does your heartbeat?

1/2

[blackfire]

If you haven't spent enough time around me by now to have those answers, perhaps I should be questioning your competency.

[blackfire]

（ processing... processing...

wait. ）

Or are you trying to prove a point?

[mendo]

[ well done, itachi. ]

If you need to breathe and eat and you can feel pain, then I'm pretty sure you're alive.

You may be dead back home, but that no longer seems to be the case here. So, going back to what we were discussing earlier, I believe change is still possible for you, if you're sincere about it anyway.

[blackfire]

And the change you are suggesting is that I learn to relax?

（ of all the things shikamaru could have suggested, that one? really? ）

[mendo]

It's a start.

[blackfire]

Hm.

Until later, Shikamaru.

（ no thank u goodbye. ）