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

Look! More tables and chairs and food! It was like a miracle!

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"Ninja born and raised," she shook her head, "and that description sounds like our ANBU, they handle the worst of it. Most the rest of us wear colour and everything."

"Is it as dangerous as I've heard?" she smiled. "Or is that a glamorisation as well?"

"Oh no," she said, smiling but her eyes were suddenly serious, "it's dangerous."

Alice hesitated before lowering her voice. "Is it exciting?"

She'd had no formal training, but the blade gleaming in her hand ... how could it not be?

Ino leaned forward and said just one word.

"Always."

Alice grinned, her eyes dancing. "I should hope so. There's an elegance to violence. I had never imagined it would be like that. Did you know they took my blade away?"

"The school?" Ino wrinkled her nose. "Yeah, they do that. Any sort of weapon they take. Got all my wire, and my gun too. You can get them if you're leaving the school grounds, but nothing's allowed on here." Which was severely totally lame in her opinion. She grinned a little. "They can't take away my hands and feet though." A beat. "What did you imagine it'd be like?"

Alice considered that. "Gruesome, and horrifying, and necessary, but something solemn and serious. Perhaps frightening. Not something you might delight in. I hadn't realize blood spatters could be something to wear with ... perhaps it's wrong to say 'pride.' It doesn't feel as though it should be."

"I don't think it's wrong," she offered with a shrug, "I mean, sure, a lot of people around here will tell you that it's wrong and if you kill something then you're supposed to feel bad about it. I don't see the point, really, in feeling bad."

"Guilt can do terrible things to people," she said solemnly. She ought to know, after all; it had been largely grief and guilt mixing with shock to shatter her mind. "I don't suppose it's any of their business, is it? I'm not exactly running up and down the streets carving the arms off children. Their morality doesn't apply to my reality."

"They'll try to make it apply," Ino said, shrugging. "Just ignore it. I do. It's not like that at home."

Yeah. Cable-san and Deadpool and the others weren't having much luck hammering that particular point of morality home.

"I'll keep that in mind," Alice smiled. "I try not to pay much mind to people and their idle chat. I get unusual looks. I've been told I'm strange. But normality is so boring when you can have adventures."

"I like idle chat," she admitted, "all the better to have people misjudge what you're capable of. Though, that's a problem too, when they find out and it blows up in your face."

Ino shrugged. "It pretty much comes down to doing what you want, yeah? And forming your own opinions."

"Taking care of yourself," Alice nodded. "By any means necessary."

Bleeding Wonderland dry had cured her, and cured it. She wasn't sorry for a moment of it.

"And not letting everyone else tell you what to think. They aren't you to begin with, how should they know?"

"Because of standards, or whatever, I don't know. They don't know but they think they do." Ino shrugged and offered a smile. "Just smile, and go on. They can talk, but they can't make you change the way you think."

A beat.

"I think I'll like you though."

Alice smiled back, a genuine smile that reached her eyes. "I think I shall like you as well," she confessed. "And I suppose so long as we're dismissing outdated morality, I should well enjoy the view, shouldn't I?"

"The view," Ino said almost gravely, before she laughed and tossed her head back, "should always be enjoyed. No matter what it is."

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