[That quiet, but not awkward, silence comes to him again. He watches her, still feeling a little fond at the notion. He really does think the best way to heal a society is to start with the children in it.
Not a completely perfect or singular method, but a decent one.]
That may be so, but what you've already done is commendable. I'm sure they appreciate you.
( she just!! loves her work!! so much!! gosh. how lucky she is, to be able to make that difference. her driving force has always been the desire not to have children grow up the way naruto and sasuke did, alone and wounded so deeply by it that by the time they were grown the healing was harder. it's too early to know if she's really making that difference or not, but... she has hope. even if she can't get back to konoha, ino is still there.
but that's a dark path, and leads to darker thoughts, so she just shakes her head. with the plasma properly dehydrated, now it's down to whatever it is he's doing with his strange little hand-held computer. )
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Not a completely perfect or singular method, but a decent one.]
That may be so, but what you've already done is commendable. I'm sure they appreciate you.
[The kids.]
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( she just!! loves her work!! so much!! gosh. how lucky she is, to be able to make that difference. her driving force has always been the desire not to have children grow up the way naruto and sasuke did, alone and wounded so deeply by it that by the time they were grown the healing was harder. it's too early to know if she's really making that difference or not, but... she has hope. even if she can't get back to konoha, ino is still there.
but that's a dark path, and leads to darker thoughts, so she just shakes her head. with the plasma properly dehydrated, now it's down to whatever it is he's doing with his strange little hand-held computer. )
Anyway! What next?