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IC Inbox - Asgard Eventide

An old, brick edifice stands in front of the burnt-down ruins of a home in the hillside. Mountains rear up in all directions, covered in lush, green vegetation. Nobody comes this way anymore, but you have the sense that anything placed in the mailbox attached to this old structure will be found by someone, the only living person for whom this place still has any meaning.

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Yeah, forget about the sharing thing. It'll give you bad ideas, and she won't say yes. She doesn't sound like the sharing type at all. And if you're saying maybe, the answer is no. No she doesn't. I'll try and let it slip over lunch with her in the next couple days. So she knows.

[Plop down goes the Ramen. She picks at it and cocks her head.]

But that's the easy part. I just don't want her thinking you're trying with her because we didn't work out... even if you were always sort of sweet on her. Why haven't you just asked her?

I ain't gonna share her. I wouldn't-- I wouldn't expect her to...

I'll talk to her.

[In fact, he has every intention of telling her as soon as he's done talking to Sam.

For now, he's staring at his ramen, and gingerly picking up the chopsticks he needs to eat them with.]

I thought about her a lot, after what we talked about. You know, bein' friends and... doing that stuff. I guess I thought it'd never happen. Same reason I ain't asked her. She used to punch me if I asked her out on a date.

She might punch you again, you know... but that doesn't mean she's said no.

[Slurp. Chew. Keep in mind you're talking to a half-succubus here, a terrible succubus at that. Her understanding of relationships isn't exactly good or normal.

Swallow.]

Why don't you just start with the basics? If you're going to ask her, you should at least try to be romantic, Naruto. What does she like? Flowers maybe?

Eh... I guess? She punched me an' Sai for endin' up in hospital?

[He shrugs, and eats some of his own ramen, pausing at the thought of what she likes. Damnit, if only Ino was here. She'd know what kind of flowers Sakura liked.]

Guess I could... get some flowers? I think she likes sweets too?

Don't go too far overboard with it... but maybe some flowers would be good. Her name is Sakura after all. Maybe check the park or a flower shop and see if they have some cherry blossoms or something like that?

I mean, the goal is that you want her to feel special.

[wtf does her name being Sakura have to do with flowers? Will Naruto ever figure it out? Find out on the next episode of--]

OH! 'Cause they're pink!

Hey...

Yeah.

Special. Right.

[Hm. She doesn't like ramen as much as he does... maybe they could go out for something to eat after he asks her.]

... Sakura is a name for cherry blossoms in my world. I don't know if it is in your world too. [She snickered a little.]

If you try to take her to a ramen place [Yes, it is like she's reading your mind on this one.] I will punch you too. Try the theater, in Freyr.

.... Oh yeah. [He can't remember if he knows that because she's saying it now or because he knew that in the first place. Not that it matters.]

Er.

The theatre? Really? Ain't that boring though? You just sit and watch some people doing some stuff?

...
...
...

[Slurp. Chew. Swallow. Line-face.]

Naruto? You're as bad as Eridan is at this, you know that?

[He's swallowing much quicker after that.]

What?!

No I ain't! She won't like that!

You heard me. He gets away with it because we flirt better when we're shouting at each other.

[She sighed.]

Call it a hunch. She will. Girls like to be made to feel like they're special. Well, so do boys usually, but in different ways. Take her somewhere nice, somewhere she might not go every day.

Eh.

[He hates being compared to other people... Especially if it's not someone cool. (You know, like the Fourth Hokage or something)]

Don't think she's ever been to Stride?

[The Stride? Her head cocked at that and she scratched her chin. Ok, that wasn't such a terrible choice. Roxy did try to keep it comfortable, and maybe they needed something that wasn't so obviously a 'date date'.]

Add a nice dinner, and it might work. It's certainly relaxing there.

Could probably get us free drinks too!

[Maybe he'd been keeping it to himself ~~somehow~~ that he'd scored a job there.]

Where should we go for dinner?

[If she ever learns the awkward, she's gonna smack you boy.]

Wait, you work there?

Do not take her to Stride. That's like going out on a date in my lab, Naruto. Jeeze.

[HOW WAS THAT AWKWARD???????]

Er. Yep.

Wait, you just said it was a good place t'go!

[How was it NOT?!?]

It is, but if you work there, you just look cheap! I only ever got away with looking cheap with Emppu because he didn't give a shit about anything, Naruto. Even Genevieve didn't want to go to some place I got for free most days!

[SHE UNDERSTOOD. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG.]

Cheap?

But-- if we get drinks for free at Stride we can get more food.

[Another sigh.]

Wait a couple dates before you pull that trick. When you're asking her out the first time, you're trying to impress her. Get her attention. Later on, you can do stuff like that to get away with nicer things than you can usually afford.

Oh.

[Impressing her. Crap. How was he supposed to do something like that?

Just the thought makes his spine bend whilst he slumps.]

You think she's special, right? stop looking like this is scaling some mountain. Do something to make her know you want her. Not anyone else, not me. Her. Do that, and if she's got the slightest glimmer, it might just work.

Well. 'Course I do.

[Only now you've got him thinking about it like that, he doesn't know if there's anything he could do to make her realise.

~~Thankfully, he has a weird way with words.~~]

I guess-- we could go get her favourite food?

Favorite food? Yeah, that's the right idea. Do something that you know she'll like. You guys have worked together for a while, haven't you?

Yeah.

Right.

We were in the academy together-- and then when we graduated we were on the same team. Y'know, with Sasuke?

Think about all the stuff she used to do to make herself feel better on her own when a day wasn't going her way. Then, do stuff like that. It's a lot easier than you think if you already know her that well.

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