[Yeah. Those feelings do make it more awkward. But he's so genuine about the apology... she flips the feed over to video, so that he can see she's smiling.]
Well... all right. If it makes you feel better, I accept your apology. And... I hope you'll accept mine. [The smile slides off her face, into regret.] Whether or not it was the Malnosso behind it, that still hurt you.
[All the more because of his feelings for her, really. Dangling something like that in front of him, giving him a taste....]
[Seeing her reply and no longer looking angry at him, it makes him smile a bit in return. He knows it had really upset her, but here she was trying to help him feel a little better about it too. Sakura-chan is really great.
He switches the video on too.]
If I ever see one of those guys, I think I'm gonna punch them!
I'll be right there with you on that one! [Easy ground, common
ground, and a thought that sometimes keeps her going. Finding one of these
guys, one of the ones actually responsible for all this misery, and
pummeling them until they couldn't see straight.]
[voice -> video]
Well... all right. If it makes you feel better, I accept your apology. And... I hope you'll accept mine. [The smile slides off her face, into regret.] Whether or not it was the Malnosso behind it, that still hurt you.
[All the more because of his feelings for her, really. Dangling something like that in front of him, giving him a taste....]
[video]
He switches the video on too.]
If I ever see one of those guys, I think I'm gonna punch them!
Re: [video]
I'll be right there with you on that one! [Easy ground, common ground, and a thought that sometimes keeps her going. Finding one of these guys, one of the ones actually responsible for all this misery, and pummeling them until they couldn't see straight.]
[video]
[Some good old fashion Team 7 pummeling.]
...So we're okay right, Sakura-chan?
[video]
[Which doesn't make it any easier to look at him and remember what it felt like to have him kissing her so tenderly.]
[video]
[He doesn't know what he would do if she wasn't talking to him.]
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[They need to keep up that connection, no matter if things get awkward. If they don't have team to lean on, what do they have at all?]
We should spar sometime soon.
[Something simple, straightforward, and most importantly, in person. The journals really do take something away.]
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We should! Maybe later in the week? We could go to the battledome together.
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Sure! Maybe we can program it to something really weird -- there's all kinds of possibilities. [It'll be a fun adventure to see what it can do.]
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Get us used to crazy new situations, that's right. [She can get up some enthusiasm for that!]
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Not now, not ever!
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Thanks Sakura-chan, I feel loads better now! [So happy they can put this incident behind them.]
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[Far, far behind them. Never to be remembered or given any weight
or repeated while drunkever again.]Thanks to you too, Naruto. So do I!