Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[bigdamnprincipal]

Oh look, there were tables and chairs over here too, away from all the informational stuff. Enjoy the food!

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP. This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here and there is more room for mingling here.]

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Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

That got a smile. "Y-you're only one," she pointed out, "it's easier one-on-one."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't mean you're not being social, though. So you can be social, and not feel too uncomfortable. Hopefully."

He gave her a rather sheepish smile.

"I'm terribly awkward, though."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Not social enough for him though.

She offered him a rueful smile of her own. "I'm n-not so graceful," with words, "either." She was, however, a ninja and moved like one if you saw past her hesitant demeanour.

"I," a pause there, "d-do have manners though, forgive me. I'm Hyuuga Hinata."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Liir Thropp," and he was quite proud that he got the name out all at once. He hadn't managed it earlier.

He held out a hand.

"I'm very close with... I don't suppose you know Ino, do you? What with--"

He pointed to the symbol around her neck.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She went to shake his hand, then brightened at his mention of Ino-san.

"A-ano, we went to school together, the same class," Hinata said, one hand drifting up to her neck, "I-I haven't seen her yet today though."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure she'll be around," he said, looking around himself. "She was excited about all the new people. And I saw her earlier. She was bouncing."

He smiled, genuinely.

"She's being a little sister for the moment, though. Making me wonder what she's up to."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"T-that sounds like Ino-san," Hinata agreed, then paused. "Little sister? Like how the school assigns?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shook his head.

"No. We just found one another."

He quirked his lips.

"I'm sure you'll like people, find people," he said. "If I could do it, anyone can."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I-I hope so," she said, glancing down.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

A moment later, there was a brownie put directly in the way of her line of vision.

"Here. Have this."

Because he wasn't anything like good at comforting people with anything but food. Luckily, his food was generally fantastic. Was it a bit of a cop out? Yes. Did it very often work? Yes.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

...

People here kept feeding her. Hinata thought of all the dessert that Cassandra had foisted off on her earlier, and knew that there wasn't any polite was to...

How did you say 'I've already had more dessert today than in the last two years of my life' and say it politely?

She smiled, a bit ruefully. "T-thank you," Hinata said, "are y-you eating as well?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he said with a nod. "Well, as well as I ever do."

He was filling out some, along with the added inches of height, but he was still largely lithe of frame. The broad shoulders had yet to actually assert themselves, but there were signs that they would despite his usual slouch.

"Mostly, I cook. Because it's easier to hand over a brownie than figure out something to say."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She had to agree with that.

"I-I like cooking," Hinata admitted, "but Father s-say's it's not proper for me to do it so often." When she could be training.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Is there not a lot of food in your family?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

...

...

She blinked at him, trying to figure out the way that he'd leapt to that conclusion. "W-what?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"We had to be very careful," he explained, "with rationing our food, back home. So I could only cook something interesting when we had the supplies and I couldn't play about with things too much since it would waste the supplies."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"O-oh," she said, "no, that wasn't--F-father doesn't like it because it's b-beneath our family, he says."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"People don't need to eat in your family?" he asked with a raised brow.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She blushed horribly, certain that this was all her fault that they were miscommunicating so badly.

"A-ano," she stammered, "n-no, j-just that i-it's u-unseemly for u-us to cook, in his o-opinion, when we h-have others to do it for u-us."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Ah."

It wasn't approving or disapproving. Just... a noncommittal noise.

"Are you nobility, then?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"N-not like that," she said, "b-but we're one of the oldest clans."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He considered that for a moment.

"Then your village holds different clans?"

...this was a very odd idea to him. He'd never asked Ino about the matter, but it wasn't anything like how things were at home.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She nodded. "M-many clans. The A-Aburame, the Hyuuga, the Inuzuka, we've got more than m-most villages."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"The Vinkus works a little like that," he said thoughtfully. "Though generally a village will only hold one clan. There might be many different families, but not more than one clan. Of course, there are marriages between clans, carefully orchestrated, but that's for the most well-placed members."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She flushed a bit. "M-most marriages for the w-well-placed members are within the clan. T-to keep the bloodline p-pure."

And the blood limit strong.